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A58828	A narrative of the wicked plots carried on by Seignior Gondamore for advancing the popish religion and Spanish faction heartily recommended to all Protestants by Rich. Dugdale, Gent.	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.; Lerma, Francisco de Sandoval y Rojas, Duque de, 1552-1625.; Gondomar, Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, Conde de, 1567-1626.; Dugdale, Richard.	1679 (1679)	Wing S2086; Wing D2472_CANCELLED; ESTC R22577	21,050	21

because the English seek it who will grant any thing rather than break off and besides they have no Patience to temporise and disemble in this or any other Design as the French long since have well observed for their necessities will give them neither time nor rest nor hope elsewhere to be supplyed As for their King I cannot search into his heart I must believe others that presume to know his mind hear his words and read his writings and these relate what I have delivered But for the rest of the People as the number of those that are truly religious are ever the least for the most part of least account so is it there where if an equal Opposition be made betwixt their truly Religious and Ours the remainder will be the greatest number and will stand indifferent and fall to the greatest Side where there is most hope of Gain and Glory for those two are the Gods of the Magnitude and of the Multitude Now these see apparently no certain Supplies for their wants but from us Yes quoth the Duke for even now you said the General-State loathing the Match would redeem the fear thereof with half their Estates It is therefore but calling a Parliament and the Business were soon effected A Parliament quoth the Embassador nay therein lies one of the Principle-Services I have done in working such a Dislike between the King and the Lower-House by the Endeavour of that Honourable-Earl and Admirable-Engine a sure Servant to us and the Cause whilst he lives as the King will never endure a Parliament again but rather suffer absolute want than receive conditional releif from his Subjects the Matter was so curiously carried the last Parliament that is in the Powder-PLOT the Fact effected should have been imputed to the Puritans the greatest Zelots of the CALVINIAN-Sect so the Propositions which damn up the Proceedings of this Parliament howsoever they were invented by Roman Catholicks and by them invented to disturb that Session yet were propounded in favour of the Puritans as if they had been hammored in their Forge which very Name and Shadow the King hates it being a sufficient Aspersion to disgrace any Person to say he is such and a sufficient Bar to stop any Suit and utterly to cross it to say it smels of or enclines to that Party moreover there are so many about him which blow this Coal fearing their own States If a Parliament should enquire into their Actions they use all their Art and Industry to withstand such a Council perswading the King he may rule by his absolute Prerogative without a Parliament and thus furnish himself by a Mariage with us and by other Domestick Projects without Subsidies when leaving off Subsidies and Taxes have been the only use Princes have made of such and whereas some Free-minds among them resembling our Nobility who prefer the Priviledg of Subjects against Sovereign Invasion call for the Course of the common-Common-Law a Law proper to their Nation there is other time Servers cry the Laws down and up the Prerogative whereby they pray upon the Subjects by their Suites and Exactions mulct the State and keep it poor procure themselves much Suspioion amongst the Better and Judicious Sort and hate amongst the oppressed Commons And yet if there should be a Parliament such a course is taken as they shall never chuse their Sheire Knights and Burgesses freely who make the better-half of the Body thereof for these being to be elected by most Voices of the Free-Holders in the Country where such Elections are to be made are carried which way the Great Persons who have Lands in these Countries please who by their Letters command their Tennants Followers and Friends to nominate such as adhere to them and for the most of them are our Faction and respect their own benefit and gain rather than their Countries-Good yea the Country People themselves will every one stand for the Great-Man their Lord or Neighbour or Master whithout regard of his Honesty Wisdom and Religion That which they aim at as I am assured by faithful Intelligence is to please their Landlords and to renew their Lease in which regard they will betray their Country and Religion too and Elect any Man that may most profit their Particular Therefore it is unlikely there should be a Parliament and impossible the Kings Debts should be paid his Wants sufficiently repaired and left himself ful-handed by such a Course and indeed as it is generally thought by any other course than with a Marriage with us for which Cause whatsoever Project we list to attempt enters safely at the door whilst their Policy lyes asleep and will not see the danger I have made tryal of these Particulars and found few Exceptions in these general Rules Thereby I and their own wants together have kept them from furnishing their Navy which being the Wall of their Island and once the strongest in Christendom lies now at road unarm'd and fit for ruine If ever we doubted their strength by Sea now we need not there are but few ships or men able to look abroad or to live in a storm much less in a Sea fight This I effected by buzing in their Ears The furnishing a Navy bred suspition in my Master and so would avert his mind from this Match the hope of which rather than they would loose they would almost loose their hope of Heaven Secondly All their Voyages to the East Indies I permitted rather with a colourable resistance than a serious because I see them not helpful but hurtful to the State in general carrying out Gold and Silver bringing home Spice Silks Feathers and such like Toyes an insensible wasting the Common Stock of Coyn and Bullion whilst it fills the Custom House and some Private Houses who thereby are unable to keep this Discomodity on foot by Bribes especially So many Great Persons being Venturers and Sharers in the Gain besides this wasteth the Mariners not one of ten returning which I am glad to hear for they are the Men we stand in fear of as for the West-Indian Voyages I withstood them in earnest because they began to inhabit there and to fortifie themselves and may in time there perhaps raise another England to withstand a New Spain in America As this Old England opposeth our State and clouds the glorious extent thereof in Europe Besides there they trade for Commodities without wast of their Treasure and often return Gold for Knives Glasses or the like Trifles without such loss of their Mariners as in other places the refore I crost whatsoever intendments were projected for Virginia or Burmoudos because they may be hereafter really helpful unto them as now they serve for Dreyns to unload their Populous State which else would overthrow his own Banks by continuance of Peace and turn head upon it self or make a Body fit for any Rebellion And so far I prevayled therein as I caused most of the Recusants who were to go thither to

A NARRATIVE OF THE WICKED PLOTS Carried On by SEIGNIOR GONDAMORE For ADVANCING the Popish Religion AND Spanish Faction Heartily Recommended to all PROTESTANTS By Rich. Dugdale Gent. Ephes v. 11 12. Have no Fellowship with the unfruitful Works of Darkness but rather reprove them For it is a shame even to speak of those Things which are done of them in secret LONDON Printed by T. B. and are to be sold by Robert Clavel at the Peacock in St. Paul's Church-yard 1679. THE PREFACE Courteous Reader THIS following Narrative has run all the hazards and risks of Fortune it breathed for a long time in the obscure Shadow of a Country and Loyal DIVINES Study after the death of that Worthy and Eminent person a Relation to the Great E. of Strafford it fell into the ●ands of One of his Younger Sons who being a Man of Business and a da●ty Frequenter of Westminster-Hall that Great Mart and Exchange of Law This lay hundled up among some bundles of insigni●icant and Worthless Papers till it pleased God to confine this Gentleman to his Chamber by a Distemper which though it was so severe as to deny him to Act abroad yet it did not so at home Under this Imprisonment for Restraint is such to Active Spirits He reviewed His long neglected Writings and being unwilling like the Rable of the Town to condemn and exceute upon a bare Presumption of Guilt He calls all to a single Scrutiny and Examination The Multitude here as in the World proved Trash and Refuse only this Manuscript like Moses among the Reeds was preserved alive because it was of a very fair and beautiful Countenance Perils and Manifold Sorts of Death attend Writings as well as their Authors and Gods Providence is as legible in the extraordinary Preservation of useful and profitable BOOKS as in Raising up and Protecting PERSONS of invincible Resolution and Courage to be the publcik Instruments of the Churches and Kingdoms Deliverance Of this advantageous Nature and Consideration I take these following Sheets to be for herein are evidently discoursed and unridled the Designs of the Spanish Match the Strategems of the comprehensive Statesman Gondamore and of his faithful Adherents the JESUITES for the Introduction of his Masters Religion and Empire into these Nations together the Negotiations betwixt Spain and Great Britain were in King James Raign the unaccountable State-Secrets and Mysteries These exercised and distressed the Combin'd Heads and Wits of our Great Council raised the Fears and Jealousies of the People and prepared them to entertain those groundless Suggestions which afterward both gave Rise and Support to our late Civil Wars The Designs of the Catholick Bishop and Monarck in all these Treaties of Mariage were to enslave us to a False and Foppish Religion and a Tyrannical Government and though Pretences of Commerce and Friendship swom at the Top yet these were the great Motives which lay at the Bottom To compass these Perjuries and the Violation of the Mariage-Oath with an Heretical Prince would be a Sacred and Meritorious Action and if the Antichristian Beast could be drawn in as the Giant did the Cattle into his Den backward and by the Tayl 't is no matter how much Reason and Morality is affronted nay His Holiness out of the Plenitude of his Power will Indulge his faithfullest Adherents to renounce even in extremis at the very point of Death Some Essential and Reproachful Articles of their Faith as the Lawfulness of Deposing Kings and Soveraign Princes that the whole System may with the less Suspition be glibly swallowed down and entertained The Dimensions of Hercules were exactly calculated by the measure of his Foot and the Magnitude of a Limb may discover to the Intelligent the true Bulk of a Sumetrical and well built Body and the horrid Lies and Immoralities Rapines and Murders Assassinations and Massacres approved of in This small Pamphlet for the Effecting of the Romish DESIGN may sufficiently Instruct such of the villanous and pernicious Nature of the whole as have cast out the Two Devils of Prejudice and of a blind and implicite Faith in that Arch-Fanatick of Europe and Divider of Kingdoms for he it is and for this Lesson I must acknowledg my self intirely indebted to this Paper who sows the Tares of Division betwixt the Gown-men of this Nation Sets the Lawyer to quarrel the Divine The Two Temples to deprecate the Church and Westminster-Hall to envy the Princely and Magnificent Structure of the Abby Read This DISCOVERY with Seriousness and I am confident it will prove very Instructive in many Important Particulars 'T was its Misfortune to lie so long in obscurity and so was it too to breath first of all in an Air infected with the Stench of such an infinite Number of puny insect and Imperfect Libels Here is nothing in this but what is Masculine the Argument is weighty the Style passant and expressive the Discovery of the Popish DESIGNS in that Juncto of Affairs clear and palpable and that it may be serviceable in this to the Publick-weal is the Only Design and hearty Wish of Him Who is Reader A hearty Well-willer to the Wellfare and Prosperity of this NATION RICHARD DUGDALE A NARRATIVE OF THE Popish Strategems Carried On by Seigniour GONDAMORE THE SPANISH EMBASSADOR c. HIS Catholick Majesty having given Commandment that presently upon the Return of Seigniour GONDAMORE the Leiger Embassador from ENGLAND a special meeting of the Principal States of Spain who were of his Councel together with the Presidents of the Council of Castile of Aragon of Italy of Portugal of the Indies of the Treasure of War and especially of the Holy Inquisition should be held at Monson in Arragon the Duke of Lerma being appointed President who should make Declaration of his Majesties pleasure take an Account of the Embassadors Service and consult touching the STATE and RELIGION respectively to give satisfaction to his Holiness's Nuntio who was desired to make one in this Assembly concerning Overtures of Peace and Amity with the English and other Catholick Princes which might engender Suspicion and Jealousie betwixt the Pope and his Majesty if the Mystery were not unfolded and the ground of those Counsels discovered aforehand This made all men expect the Embassadors Return with a kind of Longing that they might behold the Issue of this Meeting and see what good for the Catholick Cause the Embassadors Employment had effected in England answerable to the general opinion received of his Wisdom and what further project would be set on foot to become matter for publick Discourse At length he Arrived and had present notice given him from his Majesty That before he came to Court he should give up his Account to this Assembly which Command he gladly received as an earnest of his acceptable Service and gave Thanks that for his Honour he might publish himself in so judicious a presence He came first upon the day appointed to the Councel Chamber not long after

hath howsoever gotten he may keep and hold what he can from any other King or Commander by any Stratagem of War or pretence of Peace he may take for it is theirs only by Usurpation except they hold of him from whom all Civil Power is derived as Ecclesiastical from his Holiness what the Ignorant call Treason if it be on his behalf is Truth if against him it is Treason And thus all our Peace our War our Treaties Marriages or whatsoever Intendment else of Ours Aimes at this Principal End to get the whole Possession of the World and to reduce all to Unite under our Temporal Head that our King may truly be what he is stiled the Catholick and Universal King As Faith therefore is Universal and the Truth Universal yet so as they be under our Head the Pope whose Seat is and must necessarily be at Rome where St. Peter sate so must all men be Subject to Our and Their Catholick King whose Particular Seat is here in Spain he is Universal every where and almost made Natural so that by a Key of Gold by Intelligence or by way of Confession my Master is able to unlock the Secrets of every Prince and to withdraw their Subjects Allegiance as if they knew Themselves more my Masters Subjects in Truth than Theirs whom Their Birth hath taught to miscall Soveraigns we see this in France and in England and especially where all at once they learn to obey the Church of Rome as their Mother to acknowledge the Catholick King as their Father and to hate their Own King as an Heretick and Usurper So we see Religion and the State coupled together laugh and weep flourish and fade and participate of eithers Fortunes as growing upon one Stock of Policy I speak this the more boldly in this Presence because I speak here before none but Natives Persons who are Partakers both in Themselves and Issues of the Triumphs above all those of Antient Rome and therefore such as besides their Oaths it concerns to be secret neither need we refrain this Freedom of Speech from the Nuntio his Presence because besides that he is a Spaniard by Birth He is also a JESUITE by Profession an Order raised by the Providence of Gods VICAR to accomplish this Monarchy the better All of Them being Appropriate thereunto and as Publick Agents and Privy Councellors to this end wherein the Wisdom of the State is to be beheld with Admiration that as in Temporal War it imploys or at least trusts none but Natives in Castile Portugal and Arragon So in Spirituals it imploys none but JESUITES and so imploys them that they are generally reputed how remote soever they are from us how much soever obliged to Others still to be Ours and still to be of the Spanish Faction though they be Polonians English French and residing in the Countrys or Courts The Penitent therefore and all with whom they deal and converse in their Spiritual Traffique must needs be so too and so our Catholick King must needs have an Invisible Kingdom and an unknown number of Subjects in all Dominions who will shew themselves and their Faith by their works of Disobedience whensoever we shall have occasion to use their Jesuitical Vertue and Policy This therefore being the principal end of all our Counsels according to those Holy Directions of that late Pious King PHILIP the Second to his Son succeeding to advance the Catholick Roman Religion and the Catholick Spanish Dominion together We are now met by His Majesties Command to take an account of you Seignior GONDAMORE who have been Embassador for England to see what good you have effected there towards the advancement of this work and what further projects shall be thought fit to be set on foot to this end and this breifly is the occasion of our meeting Then the Embassador who attended bare-headed all the time with alow Obeysance began thus This laudable Custome of our King in bringing all Officers to such an account where a Review is taken of good and bad services upon the Determination of their Imployments resembles those Roman Triumphs appointed for the Souldiers and as in them it provoked to Courage So in us it stirs up to diligence our Master converseth by his Agents with all the World yet with none of more Regard than the ENGLISH where matter of such diversity is presented through the several Humours of the States and those of our Religion and Faction that no Instruction can be sufficient for such Negotiations but much must be left in trust to the Discretion Judgment and Diligence of the Incumbent I speak this not for my own Glory I having been restrained and therefore deserved meanly but to forwarn on the behalf of others that there may be more Scope allowed them to deal in as occasion shall require Breifly this Rule delivered by His Excellency was the Card and Compass by which I sayled to make profit of all Humours and by all means to advance the State of the Romish Faith and Spanish Faction together upon all advantages of Oaths and the breach of them for this is an old Observation and a true one that for Piety to Rome his Holiness did not only give but bless us in the Conquest of the New World and thus in our pious Observance we hope still to be Conquerors of the Old and to this end whereas His Excellency in his excellent Discourse seems to extend our outward Forces and private Aims only against Hereticks and to restrain them with true Amity with these of the Romish Religion this I affirm that since there can be no security but such Princes though now Romish Catholicks may turn Hereticks hereafter my Aimes have ever been to make profit of all and to make my Mr. Master of all who is a faithful and constant Son of his Mother ROME and to this end I beheld the Endeavours of our Kings of happy memory how they have atcheived Kingdoms and Conquests by this Policy rather than by open Hostility and that without difference as well from their Allies and Kinsfolks men of the same Religion and Profession such as were those of Naples France and Navar though I do not mention Portugal now united to us nor Savoy that hardly fly'd from us as of an Adverse and Heretical Faith neither is this Rule left off as the present Kingdom of France the State of Venice the Low Countries and Bohemia now all labouring for Life under our PLOTS apparently manifest this way therefore I bent my Engines in ENGLAND as your Honours shall particularly hear I shall not need to repeat a Catalogue of the Services I have here done because this State hath been acquainted with many of them heretofore by Entercourse of Letters and Messengers these only I will speak of that I have of late done since the return of the Lord Roos from hence and may seem most directly to tend to those ends formerly propounded by his Excellency that is the Advancement of

the Spanish State and Romish Religion together First it is well observed by the Wisedom of our State that the King of England who is otherwise one of the most accomplish'd Princes that ever Reigned extreemly hunts after Peace and so affects the true name of a Peace-maker as that for it he will do or suffer any thing and withall they have beheld the general bounty and munisicence of his Mind and necessity of the State so exhausted as it is unable to supply his desires who seeks to have that he may give to others upon these advantages they have given out directions and instructions both to me and others and I have observed them as far as I was able And for this purpose whereas there was a Marriage propounded betwixt them and us how soever I suppose our State too devout to deal with Hereticks in this kind in earnest yet I made that a Cover for much Intelligence and a means to obtain what I desired whilst the State of England longed after the Marriage hoping thereby though vainly to setle Peace and fill the Exchecquer Here the Aroh-Bishop of Toledo Inquisitor-General stept up and interrupted Gondamore saying that Marriage was not to be thought on first for Religions sake lest they should endanger the Soul of the Young Lady and the rest of her Company might become Hereticks Secondly for the State least by giving so large a Portion to Hereticks they should enrich and enable themselves for War and impoverish and weaken the Catholicks To the first Objection the Popes N●●●io answered that his Holiness for the Catholick Cause would dispence with the Marriage and urged these following Reasons First that there was Valuable Danger in the hazarding of One for the gaining of Many perhaps of all Secondly that it was no hazard since Women especially Young Ones are too obstinate to be removed from their Opinions and abler to win Solomon to their Opinions than Solomon to work them to his Faith Thirdly it was great advantage to match with such from whom they might break at pleasure having the Catholick Cause for a Colour and besides if need were to be at liberty in all respects since there was no Faith to be kept with Hereticks and if his Holiness may dispence with the Murder of such and dispose of their Crowns as what good Catholick doubts but he may much more he may and will he in their Marriages to prevent the Leprosy-Seed of Heresy and to setle Catholick-Blood in the Chair of State to the second Objection the Embassador himself answered saying that though the English generally loathed the Match and would as he thought buy it off with half their Estates hating the Nation of Spain and their Religion as appears by an uproar and assault a day or two before his Departure from London by the Apprentices being greedy to vent their own Spleen in doing him or any of his a mischeif yet two sorts of People unmeasureably desired the Match might proceed First the begging and beggarly Courtiers that they might have to furnish their Wants Secondly The Romish Catholicks who hoped thereby at least for a Moderation of Fines and Laws perhaps a Toleration and perhaps a total Restauration of their Religion in England in which regard quoth he I have known some Zealous Persons protest that if all their Friends and half their Estates could procure the Service of our Lady if she came to be married with the Prince they would use the means faithfully to ●ight under her Colours when they might safely do it and if it came to Portion they would under-hand contribute largly of their Estates to the Spanish Collector and make up half the Portion of themselves perhaps more So by this Marriage it might be so wrought that the State should be rather robb'd and weakened which is our Aim than strengthened as the English vainly hope besides in a small time they should work so far in the Body of the State by buying Offices and the like either by Sea or Land of Justice Civil or Ecclesiastical in Church or State all being for Money exposed to Sale that with the Help of Jesuites they would undermine with meer wit without Gunpowder and leave the King but a few Subjects whose Faith he might rely upon while they were of a Faith adverse to his For what Catholick-Body that is sound at the Heart can abide a Corrupt and Heretical Head or Ruler With that the Duke Medina des Rio Setto President of the Council of War and of the Council of State rose up and said His Predecessors had felt the Force and Wit of the English in 88. and he had cause to doubt the Catholicks themselves that were English and fully Jesuited upon any Foreign Nation would rather take part with their own King though an Heretick than with his Catholick-Majesty a Stranger The Embassador desired him to be of another mind since First for their Persons generally their Bodies by long disuse for Arms were disabled and their Minds effeminated by Peace and Luxury far from what they were in 88. when they were flesht in our Blood and made haughty in Customary Conquests and for the affection of those whom they call R●cusants quoth he I know the bitterness of their inveterate malice and have seen so far into their Natures as I dare say they will be for Spain against all the world yea quoth he I assure your Honours I could not imagine so basely of their King and State as I have heard them speak nay their Rage hath so perverted their Judgments that what I my self have seen and heard from their King beyond Admiration even to Astonishment they have sleighted misreported scorned and perverted to his disgrace and my rejoycing magnifying in the mean time our defect for grace Here the Duke Pastrane President of the Counsel for Italy steps up and said he had lately read a Book of one Cambdens called his Annals wherein writing of a Treaty of a Marriage long since between English Elizabeth and the French Duke of Andiou He there observes that the Marriage was not seriously intended on either side but Politickly pretended by both States counterchangeably that each might effect their own ends there the English had the better and I have some cause to doubt since they can dissemble as well as we that they have their Aimes under hand as well as we and intend the Match as little as we do and this quoth he I believe the rather because the King as he is wise to consult and consider so he is a constant Master of his word and hath written and given strong Reasons against Matches made with Persons of contrary Religion which Reasons no other Man can answer And therefore doubtless he will not go from nor counsel his Son to forsake those Rules laid down so deliberately Your Excellency mistakes quoth the Embassador the advantage was then on the Side of the English because the French Men sought the Match now it must be upon ours

seen in the Earl of Argyle who sometime was Captain for the King and Church against the Marquess Huntley and now fights under our Banner at Bruxels leaving the Crosses of St. George and St. Andrew for the Staff of St. James Neither do our hopes end here for we daily expect more Revolters at least such a disunion as will never admit solid Reconcilement but will send some to us and some to Amsterdam for the King a wise and vigilant Prince labouring for a perfect union betwixt both the Kingdoms which he seeth cannot be effected where the least Ceremony of Religion is continued divers sharp and bitter brawls from thence arising whilest some striving for Honour more than for Truth prefers their own way and will before the general peace of the Church and the Edification of Souls He I say seeks to work an uniformity betwixt both Churches and to this end made a Journey into Scotland but with no such success as he expected for divers of ours attended the Train and stirred up Humours and Factions and cast in scruples and doubts to hinder and cross the proceeding yea those that seem most averse to us and averse to our Opinions by their Disobedience and Example helped forward our Plots and these are encouraged by a Faction and heady multitude by a false and irresolute Clergy many false Brethren being amongst the Bishops and by the prodigal Nobility who maintain these stirrs in the Church that thereby they may keep the Church-livings in their hands which they have most Sacrelegiously seized upon in the time of the first Deformation and which they fear would be returned by the Clergy if they could be brought to Peace and agreement for if they have seen the King very bountiful in this kind having lately increased their Pensions and settled the Clergy a competent maintenance and besides out of his own means which in that Kingdom is none of the greatest having brought in and restored whole Bishopricks to the Church which were before in Lay-mens hands a great part of the Nobilities Estates consisting of Spiritual Lands which makes them cherish the Puritanical Faction who will be content to be Trencher-fed with Scraps and Crums and Contributions and Arbitrary Benevolences from the L●i●rds and Lords and Ladies and their adherents and followers But quoth the Inquisitor-general now if this Act of the King wherein he is most earnest and constant should so prevail as it should effect a perfect union both in Church and Commonweal I tell you it would in my Conceipt be a great blow to us if by a general meeting a General Peace should be concluded and all their forces bent against Rome and we see their politick King aimes at this True quoth Gundamore but he takes his mark amiss howsoever he understands the People and their inclination better than any man and better knows how to temper their passions and affections for besides that he is hindred there in Scotland underhand by some for the reasons before recited and by other great Ones of ours who are in great places and Authority amongst them he is likewise deluded in this point by his own Clergy at home in England who pretend to be most forward in the cause for they considering if a general Uniformity were wrought what an Inundation would follow whilst all or most of theirs as they fear would flock hither for preferment as men pressing to the Sun for Light and heat and so their own should be unprovided these therefore I say howsoever they bear the King in hand or underhand against it and stand for all Ceremonies to be obtruded with a kind of absolute necessity upon them when the other will not be almost drawn to receive any when if an abatement were made doubtless they might be drawn to insert in the midst but there is no hopes of this with them where neither Part deals seriously but only for the present to satisfy the King and so there is no fear on our side that affections and opinions so diverse will ever be reconciled and made one The B. of St. Andrews stands almost alone in the cause and pulls upon himself the labour the loss and the envy of all with little proficiency whilst the adverse Faction have as sure Friends and as good Intelligence about the King as he hath and the same Post that perhaps brings a Packet from the King to him brings another from their Abettors to them acquainting them with the whole Proceedings and Counsels and preparing them aforehand for opposition this I know for Truth and this I rejoyce in as concerning much the Catholick Good But quoth the Nuntio are there none of the Heretical Preachers busie about this match methinks their fingers should itch to be writing and their Tongues burn to be Prating of this business especially the Puritanical Sort howsoever the most temperate and indifferent carry themselves The truth is my Lord quoth the Embassador that privately what they can and publickly what they dare both in England and Scotland all for the most part except such as are of our Faith oppose this match to the utmost by Prayers Counsels Speeches and wishes but if one be found longer tongued then his Fellows we have still means to charm their sausiness to silence them and expell them the Court to disgrace them and cross their Preferment with the Imputation of pragmatick Puritanism for instance I will relate this one particular a Doctor of theirs and a Chaplain in Ordinary to the King gave many reasons in a Letter against this Marriage and propounded a way how to supply the Kings wants otherways which I understanding so wrought under●●●nd That the Doctor was committed and hardly escaped the danger of his presumptuous Admonition though the State knew his Intent honest and his Reasons good wherein we on the other side both here and with the Arch-Duke have Books penned and Pictures printed directly against their King and State for the which their Embassadors have sought satisfaction of us in vain not being able to stay the Print or so much as to touch the Hem of the Authors Garment But we have an Evasion which Heretioks miss our Clergy being freed from the Temporal Sword and so not included in our Treaties and Conditions of Peace but at liberty to give any Heretical Prince the slip when they list whereas theirs are lyable to accompt and hazard and are mussed for barking when ours may both bark and bite too the Counsel-Table and the Star-Chamber do so terrifie them as they dare not riot but run at the Stirrop with excellent Command and come in at the least rebuke They call their preaching in many Places standing up but they crouch and dare not stand up behaving themselves like Sitters silent creeping upon their Bellies lick the Dust which our Priests shake from their beautiful feet Now quoth the Duke of Lerma satisfy me about our own Clergy how they fare for there were here Petitions made to the King in