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A66162	A defence of the Missionaries arts wherein the charge of disloyalty, rebellions, plots, and treasons, asserted page 76 of that book, are fully proved against the members of the Church of Rome, in a brief account of the several plots contrived, and rebellions raised by the papists against the lives and dignities of sovereign princes since the Reformation / by the authour of the Missionaries arts.	Wake, William, 1657-1737.; Hickes, George, 1642-1715.	1689 (1689)	Wing W238; ESTC R7525	76,682	108

Parliament Army and kept a constant correspondence with their Brethren who for the same end served under the King. The next year many of these Missioners were in consultation with those in the King's Army to whom they shewed their Bulls and Licenses for taking part with the Parliament about the best methods to advance their Cause and having concluded that there was no way so effectual as to dispatch the King some were sent to Paris to consult the Faculty of Sorbonne about it who return'd this Answer That it is lawfull for Roman Catholicks to work Changes in Governments for the Mother Church's advancement and chiefly in an Heretical Kingdom and so they might lawfully make away the King which Sentence was confirmed to the same Persons by the Pope and his Council upon their going to Rome to have his Holiness's Resolution in the Point And now those of them who had before followed the King after his flight from Oxford agreed to desert the Royal Cause and as one of them inform us to ingratiate themselves with the Enemy by acting some notorious piece of Treachery and Father Carr who went by the name of Quarter-Master Laurence declared that he could with a safer Conscience join with and fight for the Round-heads than the Cavaliers in prosecution of which Resolve they dispersed themselves into all the Garisons of the King's Party to endeavour the Revolt of the Soldiers to the Parliament in which they succeeded as they had projected my Authour being one of those who seduced the Wallingford Horse from their Obedience and in Scotland the Lord Sinclare a pretended Presbyterian but a real Papist commanded a Regiment of his own Religion and it being a Maxim receiv'd among them That the surest way to promote the Catholick Cause was to weaken the Royal Party and advance the other they bent all their Endeavours to expedite and accelerate the King's Death and His Majesty having in the Treaty of the Isle of Wight consented to pass five strict Bills against Popery the Jesuites in France at a general meeting there presently resolved to take off his Head and this His Majesty had notice of by an Express from thence but two days before his removal from the Isle of Wight This Year Mr. Cressy published the Reasons of his leaving the Church of England and turning Romanist wherein obviating the Objection so often made against the Romanists about their rebellious Principles and Practices he sets down a Declaration which he affirms that they were all ready to subscribe and which differs but little from our Oath of Allegiance But here we may see what Credit can be given to the representations of their Doctrines which their Writers study to make as favourable as possible For though Mr. Cressy thought himself a good Representer in this point yet his Superiours were of another mind and therefore that Edition was soon bought up and in the next the Profession of Obedience quite left out and that this was not an omission of the Printer but the action of his Superiours we are assured by an honourable Person from Mr. Cressy's own mouth and we shall find in a little time that the same form hath been condembed by the Pope himself But the ensuing year as it was dolefull to the English Nation so it brought great disturbances to the most potent Princes of Europe in France the Parisians rose in Arms shot at the Lord Chancellour Sequier and wounded his Daughter barricadoed the Streets and forced the King to set the Counsellour Broussell and other factious Persons at Liberty And at the Treaty at Osnebrugh when by several Articles of the Peace the possession of Church Lands were assured to the Protestant Princes the Pope displeased with it took upon him to make void the Peace by a special Bull declaring all those Articles unjust and of no Force and commanding the Princes concerned to observe his Bull in which he renews his Claim to the superiority over Princes and particularly the Emperour not only by the Bull in general but by asserting that the Electours of the Empire were established by the Authority of the Bishop of Rome But to come to their Contrivances in England where when several Papists had subscribed to some Propositions importing the unlawfulness of murthering Princes and breaking Faith with Hereticks and that the Pope hath no power to absolve Subjects from their Allegiance the very same with the Declaration published the year before by Mr. Cressy this Action was condemned at Rome where by a Congregation it was decreed unlawfull And now in prosecution of the Pope and Sorbon's Sentence the last year that excellent prince King Charles the Martyr was by their contrivances brought to the Block which though they were willing to disown now yet at that time they were very sollicitous to let the World know that they were the promoters of it the Friars of Dunkirk expressed great resentment that the Jesuites would engross to themselves the Glory of that Work whereas they had laboured as diligently and succesfully as any and in several other places the Friars were very jealous lest that Order should rob them of their part of the Honour And the Benedictines were not a little carefull to secure their Land in England from the Jesuites for they thought their return sure upon the King's Death so that the Nuns contended vigorously among themselves who should be Abbesses in their own Countrey At the time of His Majesty's Execution Mr. Henry Spotswood riding casually that way saw a Priest on Horseback in the Habit of a Trouper with whom he was well acquainted flourishing his Sword over his Head in triumph as others did he told Mr. Spotswood that there were at least forty Priests and Jesuites present in the same equipage among whom was Preston who afterwards commanded a Troup of Horse under Cromwell Father Sibthorp in a Letter to Father Metcalfe owns that the Jesuites were contrivers of this murther and that Sarabras was present rejoycing at it one of the Priests flourishing his Sword cryed Now our greatest Enemy is cut off When the News of this Tragedy came to Roan they affirmed that they had often warned hi● Majesty that if he did not establish the Romish Religion in England they should be forced to take such courses as would tend to his Destruction and now they had kept their words with him And in Paris a Lady having been perverted from the Reformed Church by a Jesuite upon hearing her Ghostly Father affirm that now the Catholicks were rid of their greatest Enemy by whose Death their Cause was much advanced and therefore she had no reason to lament left that bloudy and rebellious Church and continues a Protestant ever since But though as Secretary Morris affirms there are almost convincing evidences that the Papists Irreligion was chiefly guilty of the murther of that excellent Prince yet we are beholden to the

written above this year but such was the Iniquity of the Times that they would not bear much less permit its then Publication however it s hoped 't is not too late the World in this point to satisfie the only Scope Design and End of this Discourse Advertisement of BOOKS Printed for and Sold by Richard Wilde at the Map of the World in St. Paul's Church-yard THE Child's Monitor against Popery written to preserve the Child of a Noble-man from being seduc'd by his Popish Parents now made publick to prevent others being drawn aside from the Protestant Religion By the Author of the Country Parsons Advice to his Parishioners Price 1. d. The Countrey Parson his Admonition to his Parishioners in Two Parts persuading them to continue in the Protestant Religion with Directions how to behave themselves when any one comes to seduce them from the Protestant Religion By the Authour of The plain Man's Reply to Catholick Missionaries in Two Parts Very fit to be given by Ministers and others to such as shall want such helps Price 2. d. The plain Man's Devotion in Two Parts being a Method of daily Devotion 24to A Defence of the plain Man's Reply to Catholick Missionaries 24to Mr. King Chancellor of St. Patrick's Dublin his full Answer to Peter Manby Dean of London-Derry his pretended Motives to embrace the Romish Religion clearly proving his Considerations were frivolous and groundless and that he had no just cause to leave the Communion of the Church of England 1687. The Missionaries Arts to gain Proselytes discovered worthy the perusal of all Protestants 4to A Defence of the Missionaries Arts being a brief History of the Romanists Plots Insurrections and Treasons carried on to extirpate the Protestant Religion and other evil Designs for the last 600 years wherein is fully proved that the Papists have far exceeded any that can be laid to the Protestant's Charge notwithstanding their false pretences of being free from Disloyalty and Rebellion By the Authour of The Missionaries Arts. 4to 1689. A plain Defence of the Protestant Religion fitted to the meanest Capacity being an Answer to 125 ensnaring Questions often put by the Papists to pervert Protestants from their Holy Religion By the Authour of The Missionaries Arts in 8vo Mr. Shaw's New Syncritical Grammar teaching English Youth the Latine Tongue according to the Rules in the Oxford Grammar 1687. Manuductio in Aedem Palladis quâ utilissima Methodus Authores bonos legendi indigitatur sive Tractatus utilissimus de Usu Authoris By Thomas Horne M. A. formerly chief School master of Tunbridge afterwards of Aeton School near Windsor This Book is highly approved of and recommended by the learned School-Masters to their Scholars for their Instructions not only in Reading good and usefull Authours but also for their Imitation of those excellent Authours recommended by this ingenious Authour who may well be esteemed a competent Judge of good Latine having by the consent of all Composed this Book so Elegantly that it 's admired by most Price 1s 6d 1687. All the Works of that famous Historian Salust containing the History of the Conspiracy and War of Catiline undertaken against the Government of the Senate of Rome 2dly The War which Jugurth many years maintained against that State with all his Historical Fragments Two Epistles to Caesar concerning the Institution of a Common-wealth and one against Cicero with Annotations with the Life of Salust This excellent Book written by so faithfull an Historian will certainly gratifie the Curious being written with greater fidelity than others and the Style of it being adapted to the present Idiom of Speech and the Orations worded in a Style not much inferiour to the sublime Originals 1687. The Academy of Sciences being a short and easie Introduction to the Knowledge of the Liberal Arts and Sciences with the Names of those famous Authours that have written on every particular Science a Book highly usefull for the end it proposes By D. A. Doctor of Physick 1687. Observations in Chirurgery Anatomy with a Refutation of Mistakes and Errours in Anatomy and Chirurgery Written chiefly for the benefit of Tyroes Students in Chirurgery By James Young Chirurgion 1687. Plutarch's Morals 3d. Vol. Translated from the Greek by sev Hands Wit Revived or A new way of Divertisement in Questions and Answers By Asdryasdust Tossoffacan The Vanity of the Creature By an eminent Hand Octavo Guy Miege's English Grammar 8vo Sir John Tl●yer's Touchstone of Medicines 8vo 1687. The complete Planter and Siderist or choice Collections for propagating all manner of Fruit Trees and making Sider The Art of Pruning Fruit Trees 8vo 1685. Guy Miege's present State of Denmark 8vo A New Three-fold Grammar for the English-man to learn French and Italian For the French-man to learn English and Italian For the Italian to learn French and English. 8vo 1688. Montaign's Essays the third and last Volume 8vo The Gentlewoman's Companion for Cookery and Behaviour Ovid's Epistles Englished by the Wits of the Age with the Addititions of three new Epistles and seven Cuts 8vo Dyer's Works 12mo Dr. Burnet against Varillas 12mo Cornelius Tacitus in 24to Juvenal Pertius 24to Mr. Petit of the Rights of Parliament 8vo Sir John Pettus of the Constitution A Brief Account of the several Plots Contriv'd and Rebellions Rais'd by the Papists against the Lives and Dignities of Sovereign Princes since the Reformation IN the year 1520. about three years after Luther began to preach was that almost universal Rebellion in Spain against the Emperour Charles the Fifth which lasted four years Three years after the Earl of Desmond entred into a Conspiracy against our King Henry the Eighth and had procur'd a promise of assistance from King Francis the First of France the Articles of which Agreement are yet extant whereby it appears that the Design was to make the Duke of Suffolk then in France King but King Francis being taken Prisoner at the Battel of Pavia the year following and the Duke of Suffolk slain the Design fell The next year the Irish rebell'd and murther'd many of the English Inhabitants But Ten years after the Pope drew up his Bull against K. Henry though he did not publish it till 1538. wherein he asserts his Authority over Kings to plant and destroy as he sees good and then proceeds with the Advice of his Cardinals to summon the King and all his Adherents to appear before him at Rome on a day appointed threatening them with the greater Excommunication in case of Non-appearance and declaring Him and his Posterity incapable of any Honours Possessions or even of being Witnesses absolves all his Subjects from their Oaths of Fidelity and commands them upon pain of Excommunication not to obey him or his Officers enjoyning all Christians to have no Commerce with him all Ecclesiasticks to leave the Land and all Dukes Marquesses c. under the same penalty to drive him out of his

Kingdom declares all Leagues made with him by any Princes void exhorting them to endeavour his Ruine with their whole power bestowing all the Goods of his Adherents upon such as would seize them commanding all Bishops to declare the King and his Followers Excommunicate and denouncing the same Censures against whosoever should hinder the publication of this Bull. This piece of prodigious Impudence and Vanity would not satisfie the Pope but he immediately set his Instruments to work to prosecute the design of his thundering Bull so that the beginning of the next year this Letter was written from Paris to one Fryar Forrest Brother WE behold how the King is changed from a Christian to an Heretick and how he hath robb'd Christ's Vicar of his Rights and Privileges by placing himself in his Holiness's Seat there as Supreme over the Catholick Church within the Realm It was the late damn'd Assembly of Lords and Commons furthered his Pride otherwise he could not nor durst not assume it to himself We have thought of these passages and do agree That there is no way to break this Tyrant's Neck but one Puff him up in his Pride and let our Friends say unto him That it is beneath so mighty a Monarch as he to advise with Parliaments but to act all in Person and that it behooveth his Majesty to be chief Actor himself If he assumes this it will take off great Blemishes from the Nation which the Church holds them guilty of and doe our Business For then the People it being contrary to their Laws will fall from him also the Catholick Party of his Council will be too strong for the Hereticks and then the Common sort will be the abler to declare his Tyranny This is to be contriv'd with the Church's Members and cautiously because it is observed that the Parliaments of England have hindred the Church in most of the Kings Reigns otherwise She had held her Party better than She does now You have our Convent's hearty Prayers for your Guide From St. Francis at Paris Primo Id. Jan. 1536. Thomas Powell This Letter was found two years after among Father Forrest's Papers together with an account of vast Summes which he had expended for the Church of Rome and her Designs But this Design not being sufficient the Pope offered England to James the Fifth King of Scots and presented him with a Cap and consecrated Sword. When that Offer of what was none of his succeeded not according to his Desires the same Pope Paul the 3d. by his Bull of the year following absolv'd in general all Subjects from their Oaths of Allegiance unto Heretical Kings Princes and States as they be Enemies unto the Holy See of St. Peter all Men from the tye of their Heretical Wives Wives from their Heretical Husbands c. which was accompanied with a Rebellion in Lincolnshire under the Conduct of one Mackarel a Monk to the number of Twenty thousand against whom the King prepar'd to march in Person but their first Fury being over they embraced the King's Pardon and returned home But this Commotion was succeeded by another more dangerous led by the Lord Lumley several Knights and Gentlemen with most of the Clergy this Army in the North consisted of 40000 Men well Armed who call'd themselves the Holy Pilgrimage and the Pilgrimage of Grace they had the Five Wounds of our Lord the Chalice and the Host painted in their Standard and the Name of Jesus upon their Sleeves their whole pretence was for Religion in their March they took Pontefract Castle but were at length appeas'd But soon after the same Persons raised another Insurrection in which several Monks came armed into the Field as Souldiers who were taken and with the Ring-leaders of the Rebellion Executed Two years after if not the next year to the last Rebellion for some place it in the year 1538. the Marquess of Exceter the Lord Montacute and his Brother Sir Edward Nevill and others enter'd into a Conspiracy to depose the King and advance Reynold Pool then Dean of Exceter and afterwards Cardinal to the Throne for which the Marquess Lord Montacute and Sir Edward Nevill were Beheaded upon Tower-Hill In the year 1546. Pope Paul the Third not content with his shewing his pretended Authority over Kings in the two Bulls mention'd before published another in favour of the Jesuits whereby he exempts them and their Goods from the Power of any but himself and commands all Princes to swear not to molest the Society or invade their Privileges and pronounces an Anathema against all who will not obey the Bull. Two years after this King Edward the Sixth being settled in the Throne one Body a Commissioner pulling down Images by the King's Order was stabbed by a Priest and a Rebellion was rais'd in Cornwall Humphrey Arundell Governour of the Mount with other Gentlemen gathering together Ten thousand Men besieged Exceter and reduc'd it to very great Extremity declaring they would have Popery and the Six Articles restor'd They fought four several Battels with the King's Forces but at last were entirely Routed and their Leaders Executed Yet the next year in Norfolk they Rebell'd again and when the King sent them his Pardon they refus'd it after which they took the City of Norwich and fir'd it beat the Marquess of Northampton and were very near Defeating the Earl of Warwick whose Cannon they took and refus'd the King's Pardon a second time but were at length Defeated and so were another Party who took Arms upon the same Account that year in Yorkshire There were other Insurrections in this King's time which I will not at present mention only observe what is confess'd by a late noted Authour of the Romish Church That these Risings of the Laity in such numbers for their former way of Religion would not have been had not their Clergy justified it unto them After this we find that Pope Paul the Fourth following the steps of his thundering Name-sake when the Dyet of the Germans at Ausburgh made an Edict for full Liberty of Conscience whereby the Protestants were maintain'd in the Possession of their Church Revenues fell into a furious rage publickly threatening the Emperour and King of the Romans That he would make them repent it protesting that if he did not recall the Edict he would proceed against them with as severe Censures as he intended to use against the Protestants telling all the Ambassadors in his Court That he was above all Princes that he expected not that they should treat with him as with their Equal that he could alter and take away Kingdoms as he thought good And one day at Dinner in the presence of many Persons of the highest Quality he affirmed That he would subject all Princes under his Foot. No wonder then that the same Spirit of Opposition to Princes actuate the Members of the Church

amplitudinem aliorum terrorem colligant at rustliculum unum ad Regem supprimendum sufficere Histor. Jesuit p. 260 261. Fowlis's Hist. p. 471 472. 1611. Histor. Jesuit p. 219 c. 1613. Fowl. p. 348. 1614. See his Speech at large in his Diverses O●●vres Paris 1633. fol. ‖ Fow. p 52. His Defens Fidei Catholicae See Brutum Fulmen p. 205. c. Frankl Annal. p. 6 7. Nani's History of Venice p. 33 34. 1615. Ib. p. 58 59. Anno 1616. 1617. Nani's History of Venice p. 65 99. 1618. Hist. Jesuit p. 297 299. * Nani p. 121 122. * Consp of the Span. agt. the State of Venice p 15 16. Lon. 1675. 8vo † Nani p. 124. ‖ Hist. Jesuit p 300 301. 1619. * Nani p. 151. 1620. † Id. p. 159. * Burne●'s Trav. p. 81. 1622. Wilson's Hist. of Great Brit. p. 203. 1625. Fowlis p. 476. Mister Pret. 60 61. Sen. Quid si essetis Romae P. Coto Mut●retur nobiscum coelo animus sentiremus ut Romae 1626. * See Baiting of the Pope's Bull in init ad haereat lingua vestra faucibus vestris priusquam authoritatem B. Petri eâ jurisjurandi formulâ imminutam detis † Jesuits Reasons unreasonable p. 116. 1627. Rushworth's Collect. part 1. p. 427. 1628. Nani's History of Venice p. 283. 1629. Idem p. 3●2 Foxes Firebrands pt 2. p. 72 73. 1620. † Hunting of the Rom. Fox p. 216 217. 1632. Nani's History of Venice p. 310 c. Anno 1633. Bp. Bedell Long 's History of Plots p. 100. 1640. See whole Account published under this Title The Designs of the Papists Lond. 1678. 4to See it in Frankland's Annals p. 865 866. Non diffidimus quia sicut occasione unius Foeminae Authoritas Sedis Apostolicae in Regno Augliae suppressa fuit sic nunc per tot Heroicas Foeminas brevi modò restituenda sit 1641. See the History of the Irish Rebellion fol. Nani's Hist. p. 493. Nani's Hist. p. 495 c. 1642. Id. p. 535. † Long 's Hist. of Plots p. 64. * Nos divlnam Clementiam indesinenter orantes ut adversariorum conatus in nihilum redigat c. See it at large in the Append to the Hist. of the Irish Rebel p. 59. † Nani's Hist. p. 515. 1643. Hist of the Irish Remon Pres. p. 1644. † Disputatio Apolog. de jure Reg. Hibern pro Cath. Hibern advers Heret Anglos p. 65. cited by Walsh in the History of the Irish Remonstrance p. 736 737. in these words Ordines Regni optimo jure poterant ac debebant omni dominio Hiberniae priva●e tales Reges postquam facti sunt Haeretici atque Tyranni Hoc enim jus potestas in omni Regno Republica est Jam si consensui Regui in hac re accederet Author●tas Apostolica quis nisi Hareticus vel Stultus au lebit negare quod hic affirmamus Doctores Theologi Juris utriusque periti passim docent rationes probant exempla suadent 1645. Anno 1607. ●d Clarendon against Cressy p 246. * Bp. Bramhali's Letters to A. P. Vsher ap Vsher's Life Letters p. 611. 1609. Id. p. 612. Anno 1647. * Vindic. of the sincerity of the Prot. Relig. p. 59. * Mutatus Polemo p. 4 5. I● p. 6. 18. 26. 32. Vindic. of the sincer of the Prot. Relig. p. 65. Cressey 's Exomolog p. 72. Paris 1647. 8vo Ld. Clarendon against Cressey p. 76 77. 1648. Priorato's Hist. of France p. 11 c. Lond. 1676. fol. * Declaratio SS Dom. nostri Innoc. divinâ Providentiâ Papae 10. nullitatis articulorum nuperae paci● Germaniae Religioni Gatholicae Sedi Apostolicae quomodo libet praejudicialium See it in Hoornbeck Disputat ad Bull. Inn. 10. † Numerus septem Electorum Imperii Apostolicâ Authoritate praefinitus Hist of the Irish Remon p. 523 524. * Vindic. of the Sincer. of the Prot. Relig. p. 66 67. Foxes Firebrands part 2. p. 86. Vindication of the Prot. Rel. p. 65. Id. p. ●8 66. In his Letter to Dr. du Moulin Aug. 9. 1673. Idem p. 64. Ib. p. 61 c. Id. p. 60. See the Excommunication in the Appendix to the Hist. of the Irish Rem p. 34. Wals●'s Letters in the Pref. 1649. Hist of the Irish Remon p. 609. Priorat●'s Hist. of France p. 49 c. 1650. Id. p. 117 c. See it at large a●d the Duke's Answer to it Hist. of the Irish Remonst Ap. p. 65. † Hist. of the Irish Rebell p. 261. Id. p. 276. 1651. Vindic. of the Prot. Relig. p. 69. Priorato's Hist. of France p. 245 285 308 333. 1652. Lon●'s Hist. of Plots p. 15 16. Vindic. of the Prot. Relig. p. 67 c. Jesuites Reasons unreasonable p. 103 104. Hist. of Irish Rebellion p. 241. Priorato's Hist. of France p. 358 c. 1654. St. Amour's Annals p. 448. 1655. Baily's Life of Fi●her p. 260 261. London 1655. 8vo 1658. Hist. of the Irish Remonst p. 740. * The same who had betrayed Rat●mines to Jones 1659. Hist. of the Irish Remon p. 610. † Long 's Hist. of Plots p. 87 88. 1662. Jesuites Reasons unreasonable p. 112 c Id. p. 127. Hist of the Irish Remon p. 16 17 18. Where see the Letters and p. 513 514. † Id. p. 43. * p. 52. † p. 54. ‖ p. 49. * p. 60. † p. 91. ‖ p. 102. ‖ p. 84. † p. 116. 1664. 1665. ‖ p. 531. * p. 617 c. ‖ p. 620 629. Anno † p. 624 c. 1666. * p. 633. † p. 634. * Ld. Clarend against Cr●ss●y p. 247 248. Hist. of the Irish Remonst p. 647 c. † p. 657. * p 666. * Id. Pref. p. 3 4. Idem p. 763. * p. 675. p. 746. 1674. Walsh's Letters p. 54. Anno 1679. 1682. News from France p. 37. Lond. 1682. 4to Walsh's Letters in the Pref. 1687. 1686. Popery Anat. p. 14. Lond. 1636. 4to Advertisement of two other Books writ by the Authour of this Book 1. THE Missionaries Arts discovered or an Account of their Ways of Insiruation their Artifices and several Methods of which they serve themselves in making Convert to the Church of Rome With a Letter to A 〈◊〉 2. A Plain Defence of the Protestant Religion fitted to the meanest Capacity being a full Answer to the Popish Net for the Fishers of M●n that was writ by two Converts wherein is evidently made appear that their Departure fr●m the Protestant Religion was without Cause or Reason Fit to be read by all Protestants