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A56171	Hidden workes of darkenes brought to publike light, or, A necessary introdvction to the history of the Archbishop of Canterbvrie's triall discovering to the world the severall secret dangerous plots, practices, proceedings of the Pope and his confederates, both at home and in forraigne parts, to undermine the Protestant religion, usher the whole body of popery into our church, and reduce all our realms to their ancient vassalage to the Sea of Rome, by insensible steps and degrees : from the first marriage treaty with Spain, anno 1617, till this present : together with the true originals of the late Scottish troubles, Irish rebellion and English civill warres: manifested by sundry ... papers, found among Secretary Windebankes, master Thomas Windebankes, the lord Cottingtons and Arch-bishop of Canterburies writings, and some late intercepted letters from forraigne parts / by William Prynne ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1645 (1645)	Wing P3973; ESTC R7996	362,172	332

a Deputy Lieutenant in D●●onshire and is a Colonell of a thousand trained Souldiers of that Country and is Vice-Warden of the S●●●neries and that he is suspected to be popish Recusant and that he hath not received the Communion in many yeeres last past Sir Thomas Brudenell Knight is certified to be a Commissioner of the peace and a deputy Lieutenant in Northamptonshire and that he is a suspected Recusant Sir Thomas Somerset is certified to be a Commissioner of Oyer and Termi●et in Glocestershire and that he is reported to be a Popish Recusant Sir Gilbert Ireland Knight and Richard Sherborne and Iohn ●leming Esquires are certified to be Commissioners of the peace in Lancashire and that they are suspected to be Popish Recusants Sir Francis Stoners Knight is certified to be a Justice of the peace or a Deputy Lieutenant or both in Oxfordshire and to be a Popish Recusant Sir An●hony Browne Knight is certified to be a Commissioner of the peace in the County of Norfolke and that he is reported to be a popish Recusant Sir Francis Howard Knight is certified to be a Iustice of the peace and Custos Rotulorum in Surre● and is suspected to be ill affected in Religion Sir William Powell Knight is certified to be a Iustice of the peace in Staffordshire and to be a Non-communicant and that his Wife commeth not to Church Sir Francis Lacon Knight is certified to be a Iustice of the peace in Shropshire and that he is suspected to be a popish Recusant Sir Lewis ●ewkner Knight is certified to be a Commissioner of the peace in Middlesex and that he and his Wife are justly suspected to be popish Recusants Sir William Awbercy Knight is certified to be a Commissioner of the peace in Breck● nockeshire and that he is reported to be a popish Recusant William Ie●●son Esquire is certified to be a Commissioner of the peace in Newcastle upon Tyne and that he is suspected to be popish and backwasd in Religion Sir Iohn Gage and Sir Iohn Shelley Baronets and Iohn Thecher Esquire are certified to be Commissioners of the Sewers in the County of Sussex and to be knowne Papists Sir Henry Carvell is certified to be a Captaine of a Foot-band in the County of Norfalke and to be a Commissioner of Sewers and that he is reported to be a popish Recusant Sir Thomas Wiseman Knight sonne of Sir Thomas Wiseman Knight that is a Iustice of peace is certified to be a Captaine of a Foot-band in Essex and to be a professed Papist Sir Thomas Gerard Knight is certified to be a Captaine of a Company of the Freehold-band in Lancashire and that he is suspected to be a popish Recusant Sir Iohn Philpot Knight is certified to be a Captaine of a foot Company in Hampshire and that he and his wife and his Children are Papists Sir Thomas Russell Knight is one of the Deputy Lieutenants and a Iustice of the peace within the County of VVorcester and is justly suspected to be a Papist The names of all such Persons as are cercified to be in places of charge or trust in their severall Counties and that have Wives Children or Servants that are popish Recusants or Non-communicants or that are suspected so to be SIr Henry Bedding field Knight is certified to ●e a Commissioner of the peace and Deputy Lieutenant in Norfolke and Captaine of the Lances there and that his Wife and children are reported to be popish Recusants Sir VVilliam VVrey Knight is certified to be a Deputy Lieutenant in Cornwall and that his wife is a Recusant Sir Iohn Conway Knight is certified to be a Commissioner of the peace and one of the Deputy Lieutenants in Flintshire and that his wife is held to be a popish Recusant Sir Charles Iones Knight and William Iones Esquire are certified to be Commissioners of the peace and two Deputy Lieutenants in Monmouthshire and that their wives are popish recusants Sir Ralph Conyers Knight is certified to be a Commissioner of the peace and a Deputy Lieutenant in the Bishoprick of Durham and that his wife is generally reported to be a popish recusant Sir Thomas Lamplough Knight is certified to be a Commissioner of the peace in Cumberland and that his wife is a recusant Sir Thomas Savage Knight and Baronet is certified to ●e a Commissioner of the peace in Cheshire and that his wife is suspected to be a recusant and by common same is reported that the said Sir Thomas Savage is a Deputy Lieutenant there and that he is suspected to be a Non-communicant and his children are suspected to be recusants Sir William Mossey Knight is certified to be a Commissioner of the peace in Cheshire and that his wife is a recosant Sir Hugh Biston Knight is certified to be a Commissioner of the peace in Cheshire and that his daughter and hei●e apparant is a recu●ant Sir Thomas Riddall Knight is certified to be a Commissioner of the peace in the Bishoprick of Durham and that his wife is a popish recusant Master Thomas Petre Esqu-brother of the Lord Petre is certified to be a Commissioner of the peace in Essex and that his wife and family are suspected to be recusants Sir Mar●aduke Wyvell Knight and Baronet is certified to be a Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer and lately made one of his Majesties Counsell in the North and that his wife is a popish recusant convicted Sir Iohn Townshend Knight is certified to be a Commissioner of the peace in the County of Hereford and that his wife is reported to be a Papist Sir William Norris Knight is certified to be a Justice of the peace in Lancashire and that he hath a daughter that is a recusant and that he hath two sonnes that doe serve under the Arch-dutchesse Iames Anderson Esquire is certified to be a Iustice of the peace in Lancashire and that his wife and his eldest sonne and Heire apparent are recusants Edward Morgan and George Wilbourne Esquires are certified to be Commissioners of the peace in Munmouthshire and that their wives are recusants Sir Phillip Knevit Baronet is certified to be a Iustice of the peace in Norfolke● and that his wife is a recusant Sir Iohn Tasbrough Knight and Anthony Hubbard Esquire are certified to be Commissioners of the peace in Norfolke and that their wives are reported to be recusants and Master Hubbards children are popishly educated Sir William Selby Knight and Cutbert Heron Esquire are certified to be commissioners of the peace in Northumberland and that their wives are recusants Sir Richard Tichborne Knight is certified to be a commissioner of the peace in Hampshire and that his wife is of the popish religion Sir Iohn Hall Knight is certified to be a commissioner of the peace in Hampshire and that his wife and her daughter are Papists Sir George Perkins Knight Robert Pearpoint and Fulke Cartwright Esquires are certified to be commissioners of the peace in the county of Nottingham and that their wives are thought to be

give good Characters of our d●votion to the King and State of vvhose benignity we have all reason to give testimonies and to endeavour to produce Arguments for the prosecution and increase of it Now for 〈◊〉 best expedition of this businesse which is the chiefe circumstance that importeth in it we have thought fit to recommend it to your nominations of such persons as shall in your opinions be agreed for the ablest and best disposed in every severall County not only to solicite but to collect such voluntary Contributions as every bodies consciences and duty shall proffer And we shall desire you to give us an account of what acceptation it finds with his friends wch we cannot but expect very succesfull and answerable to the forwardnesse we meete with here about London for which we shall offer up our prayers to God Walter Mountague Ken. Digby The Copy of the Letter sent by those assembled in London to every shire THe inclosed advices and Motives being so ample as you will perceive by perusing them it will not be needfull that we enlarge our selves upon any particulars concerning the conduct of the businesse which they direct the way in This therefore serveth only to convey them to you as we are intreated by those that have met here and we have undertaken to do and desire you to repaire Immediatly unto those persons to whom they be directed and to deliver the same unto them Note in the name of all the Noblemen and Gentry together with our selves assembled here in London by the Queenes commandement to set forward the worke And we pray you assure them in the most effications manner you can ingageing all our credits for the truth thereof that it is the sence of us all both Ecclesiasticall and Lay Persons Note that besides the discharging of their and our duties to God and the King it mainely importeth the good of Catholiques to have their businesse take good successe Therefore intreat them to deale actively and efficatio●sly and speedily according to their advices and motives We are so well perswaded of their devotion to put forward so pious a worke that we doubt not but they will be as well satisfied in the needfulnesse of the thing and be as ready to imploy themselves in it receiving the assurance thereof and perswasions thereunto onely from our hands as if they came by all the most formall waies that can be imagined which in a businesse of this nature cannot be expected And although the advices and motives be directed only ●o Lay-Gentlemen yet we desire you and have answered for you that you will imploy your selves and all those that depend on you sincerely to solicite and dispose all their mindes that you have relation unto as powerfull as you can to contribute cheerfully and bountifully upon this occasion which is the first that ever we laboured in of this kind so we hope in God it will be the last there being no probability of so pressing and urgent a necessity to occur any more Yours c. London April 1639. The names of the Collectors for gathering the Recusants money Bedfordshire Master Church Sir Robert Charnock Mr. Robert Hewet Barkshire Mr. Anthony Inglefield Mr. Tirrill Buckinghamshire Mr. Robert Dormer Sir Edward Manfield Mr. Throgmorton Mr. Bring●urst Cambridgshire Mr. Henry Huddleston Mr. Charles Paryed Mr. Barker Cheshire Mr. Bidulph of Bidulph Sir William Massey Mr. William Stanley Mr. Iames Poole Cornwall Mr. Victor Mr. Burlacy Mr. Trevelion Cumberland Sir Fran. Howard Mr. Ioseph Porter Darbyshire Sir Fran. Willoughby Mr. Avery of Hastop Mr. Poole of Spinckill Devonshire Sir Edward Carey Mr. Berry Mr. Anth. Gifford Doctor Chichester Dorsetshire Mr. Geo. Penny the elder Mr. Geo. Arundell Mr. Webbe of Lanford Mr. Wells of Purbeck ●urham Sir Ralph Coniers Master George Collingweed Mr. Edward Smith Essex Mr. Willam Peters Mr. Thomas Wright Mr. Rich. White Glocestershire Hertfordshire Sir Iohn VVinter Mr. VVakeman Mr. Benidict Hall Mr. Atkinson Huntingtonshire Mr. Price of Washingley Sir Thomas Shell●y Mr. Thomas Cotton Herefordshire Master William Bodenham Sir Iohn Wigmore Mr. William Moore of Burrop Master Iohn Harpe Hampshire Master Iohn Arundell Mr. George Penny the yonger Mr. William Owen Kent Master Benjamin Wyborne Master Clement Finch Master Pettite Lancashire Master Bradshawe Sir Cicill Crayford Sir William Gerrard Mr. Molineaux of the Wood Master Townly of Townley Anderton of Lostock Leceistershire Sir Fran. Englefield Mr. Golding Lincolnshire Master Anthony Mounson Sir Iohn Thimbleby Mr. Robert Constable London and Middlesex Master Cape Master Thomas R●x Master Becket Master Richard Betham Mr. Edw. Harp Mr. Morgan Master Io. Chapperly Doctor Kirton Norfolke Master Everard Mr. Charles Walgrave Sir Henry Bedingfield Mr. William Paston Northamtonshire Sir William Saunders Mr. Io. Poulton Nottinghamshire Master Thomas Smith the elder Master Thomas Smith the younger Northumberland Sir William Fenwicke Master Haggerston Mr. Withrington Sir Edward Ratleif Oxfordshire Sir Richard Farmer of Kiddington Mr. William Stone Mr. Ralph Sheldon Rutlandshire Master Nicholas Cripp● Mr. William Andrewes Mr. Alcock Mr. Iames Digby Shropshire Sir Basill Brooke Master Plowden Master Iohn Harrington Somersetshire Master R●ino Mr Iohn Ewnis the elder Staffordshire Master Brooke of Lapley Mr. Stanford of Perry-hall Mr. Phillip Draycot Surrey Master Edward Cotton Sir Richard Weston Suffex Sir Iohn Shelly Sir Iohn Carroll Suffolke Sir Francis Monnocke Sir Roger Martin Sir Edward Sylyard Mr. Thomas Beddingfield of Beddingfield Warwickshire Master Antho. Dormer Master Thomas Morgan Mr. VVilliam Sheldon Mr. Richard Middlemoore Wiltshire Master VVilliam Arundell the Lord Baltimore Mr. Edw. Stilling Worce●tershire Master VVilliam Abingdon Master VVilliam Sheldon Westmerland Master Anthony Ducket Master Iohn Leyborne Master Fleming East Riding The Lord Dunbarre Master Brigham Master Longdaill Yorkshire West Riding Baronet Vavesar Baronet Gascoigne Mr. Thomas VVaterton Mr. Philip Hiuegate North Riding Master Craythorne the younger the Lord Fairfax Master Anthony Menn●ll Master Lawrence Sar● Brecknock Master Winter Master Bevan Master Maddocke Carnarvon Master Lewis Carmarden Master Towley Cardigan Master Lewis Glamorgan Master Turbervile the younger Denbigh Master Richard Floyd Master Crew Flintshire Sir Iohn Connoway Master Pennat Monmouth Sir Charles Somerset Master Morgan of Lantarnam Master Morgan of Itton Mountgomery Me●ioneth Sir Piercie Harbert Pembrookshire Master Towley of Arnostill Radnorshire Master Thomas Crowther The Reallity of is Collection will yet more clearly appeare to all the VVorld by the Queens owne Confession in a Message sent by her to the House of Commons to excuse her activity therein together with her entertainment of a Nuncio from the Pope Seignior Rossett being then Nuncio whom she promised to dispatch out of the Kingdom with all convenient speed In which Message Recorded in the Commons Iournall we have a clearer acknowledgement likewise of many premised particulars prefaced with a specious Court-Complement and many faire promises since not very punctually performed to Court the Commons into a good opinion of her Majesties reall affections and

This Petition it seems was not presented whereupon Master Read writ thus 〈◊〉 Master Tho. Windebanke SIR SInce this opportunity of setting our businesse on foot is 〈◊〉 there is no more to be done but to hope that it will not be called upon till the Kings returne in the 〈…〉 it is a great comfort to my Uncle to see the continuance of his Majesties 〈…〉 him c NOTE Sir Yours c. Ro Read Paris 23. Aug. 1641 After this Secretary Windebanks Lady and his Sonne arrived in France and lived in Paris but his Sonne returning shortly after 〈…〉 to Court he writ thus to him concerning the English Fugitives not Parliament proofe here and the generall favour there indulged to him TOM c. Since your departure hence the Cardinall hath been moved by Monseiur de ●eneterre at the solicitation of Master Foster that The English now here and fled hither to avoid the storme in England might be freed from that law of confiscation of their Estates in case they come to dys here which we and other strangers are liable unto here and hath left it to those of the Nation to settle by what me●●es themselves shall thinke best NOTE assuring that the King shall grant it in any ample manner a●dwithall the advantagious and firme conditions that can be desired This is a very gre●s priviledge to the Nation and hath been granted with so much cheerfulnesse and expression of resentment of our condition that I wish her Majesty will be pleased in those letters which shee will vouchsafe to honour me to the King her ●rother to take notice of it and to acknowledge it and if her Majesty shall likewise please in a word or two to Monseiur de Seneterre to give him thanks for his readinesse in it and to honour me with the Commission of delivering it I shall hold it a very great favour and it will be a powerfull motive to him to 〈◊〉 his good Offices to the Nation which I assure you are very much to be valued considering his interest in the Cardinall What else her Majesty shall please to adde to him concerning my selfe NOTE I most humbly subm●t to her wisdome and goodness If you shall have delivered my letters to her Majesty before these come to your hands you may take some occasion to wait upon her Majesty againe and with presentation of my most humble services so acquaint her Majesty herewith YOURS c. Francis VVind●banke Paris 8. November 1641. TOM c. Before his departure I made meanes to M●●seiur de Chavig●y for Monseiur Seneterre is not yet returned to be presented to the King and to deliver her Majesties letters NOTE he seemed to entertaine the motion with extraordinary readiness and desire to ●●rve the Queen and to doe me that honour c. But I doe make account to take some time to wait upon the Queen here at Saint Germanes and deliver the letter into her owne hands This you may make knowne to her Majesty there when occasion shall be presented YOURS c. FRAN. WINDEBANKE Paris 31. January 1642. Many such passages I find in Secretary Windebanks and Reads letters to his Sonne at Court over-tedious to recite conveied hither for the most part under the Earle of Leicesters and Burlamachies cover and some others but by these forementioned you may discerne what favour and respect this Secretary hath found both abroad and at home for his releasing protecting Priests Jesuits Papists and by whose commands he justifies he did it who have bin very indulgent to him for it if those Letters under his owne hand may be credited And thus much for the releasing onely of Priests and Jesuits charged in Parliament on this Secretary whose correspondency with Rome and the Popes N●●e●oes you shall heare of further ere long How many letters of grace were granted to the most noted Recusants to stay all prosecutions and proceedings against them before and after their Inditements you may read in my Royall Popish Favourite where many of them are recorded and in Master Glins report 1 Dec. 1640. in the Commons Journall who reported to the Commons House from the Committee concerning Secretary Windebanke that there were 64 Letters of grace to stay prosecution against Papists directed to severall Officers and Iudges short entries whereof were made in the Signet-Office and that his house was the place of resort for Priests and Iesuits Many of these letters of grace and discharges of Priests were gained upon petitions to the King or Queene presented to them by this Secretary in whose Trunks they have since been found Among others I find a petition of the Lord Viscount Mountgarret now one of the principal Rebels in Ireland and of his Ladies with a draught of a letter of grace inclosed therin for the discharge of all proceedings against them upon an inditement for Recusancy found against them both at Coventry with other petitions of Recusants as namely of Master Richard Foster Master Tankred and others for the abatement of their compositions made with the King for Recusancy in the North where the compositions of the Lord Viscount Dunbarr Master Anthony Metcalfe and William Green had formerly been abated Besides those Recusants who compounded at low rates in the North as you have seen got them abated lower afterwards and obtained speciall protections from the Commissioners against all future prosecutions of which I shall give you but one president at large in the case of Sir Henry Merry ●OM DERBY WHereas Sir Henry Merry of Barton in the Country of Derby Knight being a convicted Recusant hath personally appeared before his Majesties Commissioners authorized to compound for the forfeitures of the lands and goods of Recusants convicted within this and other Counties at the Mannour of Saint Mary neare the wals of Yorke the 15. day of August instant and hath made composition for an annuall rent to be paid unto his Majesty for all his Mannours Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with the appurtenances within the severall Counties of Derby and Leicester and for all arrerages due for the same and therefore by his Majesties instructions is no further to be disquieted or troubled with vexatio●s informations upon any lawes made against Recusants for his Recusancy onely so long as he shall duly pay unto his Majesty the rent so compounded for therefore his Majesties said Commissioners by force of the said composition aforesaid doe herby require you to take notice of the composition aforesaid and of his Majesties pleasure in that behalfe Dated at the Mannour aforesaid the said 15. day of August 1634. per Warrant Commissionar Cha. Radcliffe Clericus Commiss To the Sheriffs of the County of Derby and Leicester and to his Majesties Commissioners of inquiry of lands and goods of Recusants convicted within these Count●es to all other his Majesties Officers and Ministers whom the premses may concerne and to every of them For staying proceedings upon inditements I shall give you but