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A67878	A true narrative of the Popish-plot against King Charles I and the Protestant religion as it was discovered by Andreas ab Habernfeld to Sir William Boswel Ambassador at the Hague, and by him transmitted to Archbishop Laud, who communicated it to the King : the whole discoovery being found amongst the Archbishops papers, when a prisoner in the Tower, by Mr. Prynn (who was ordered to search them by a committee of the then Parliament) on Wednesday, May 31, 1643 : with some historical remarks on the Jesuits, and A vindication of the Protestant dissenters from disloyalty : also, A compleat history of the Papists late Presbyterian plot discovered by Mr. Dangerfield, wherein an account is given of some late transactions of Sir Robert Peyton.	Habervešl z Habernfeldu, Ondřej.; Boswell, William, Sir, d. 1649.; Laud, William, 1573-1645.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1680 (1680)	Wing T2805; Wing H164; ESTC R21657	37,577	41

Received October 14. 1640. The Narration of the great Treason concerning which he promised to Sir William Boswell to discover against the King and State Historical Remarks ON THE JESUITS WHoever shall Compare the before-recited PLOT against King Charles the First of Glorious Memory with that against His most Sacred Majesty now Reigning shall find them so like in all the Parts and Circumstances that never were two Brothers more the Design the same the Contrivance the same the Working and Machination all moving upon the same Wheels of KING-killing and State-destruction and in reference to Condition Quality Religion and Motive the Conspirators the very same From whence it follows that there is no such Improbability of the Late discovered PLOT as the Papists would have us believe An ill Name is half a Conviction Quo semel est imbuta recens naturam expellas furcalicet are the Jesuits Morals Plot Contrivance and Cruelty are so much the Essential Attributes of Jesuitism as if like so many Romulusses and Remusses they had suckt the Milk of Wolves rather than of Christian Mothers that when you hear of Plots and Designs against Kings and Princes you may be assur'd what sort of Cyclops were the Forgers of such Conspiracies Neither is this bare Allegation but Matter of Fact there being nothing more frequently taught nor more frequently practis'd than the rebellious Principles of the Jesuits and their Adherents How abominably the Reigns of several of our Princes here in England has been pester'd with this Generation of Vipers and Blood-suckers the Penal Statutes of the Kingdom and the utter Expulsion of the Popish Priests and Jesuits out of the Nation are convincing Evidences And as to their Behaviour in other Countries take this following Account First then it is a Maxim most true and undoubted That a Vacuum in Nature may be as soon allow'd as that there is any Court of King of Prince where these Jesuits do not swarm and abound if they can but creep in at the least Creviss To come to particulars we will begin with Portugal a Kingdom altogether acknowledging the Papal Jurisdiction In the Year 1578. the Jesuits perswaded Sebastian King of that Kingdom to undertake that Fatal Expedition into Africa to the end that by his ruin they might transfer the Kingdom to the Dominion of the Spaniard The Success answer'd their Expectation for Sebastian being cut off together with his Son and the greatest part of the Portugal Nobility presently Philip King of Spain prepares to invade Portugal with two powerful Armies But well knowing how little Right he had on his side and how much he should be censur'd as well in Italy as in Portugal for such an Action he began to make it a Point of Conscience and referr'd his Scruples to be discuss'd by the Jesuits and Franciscans in the Colledge of Alcana de Henares and of them he desires to know Whether if it were apparent that he had a Right to the Crown of Portugal by the Death of Henry he were not oblig'd in Conscience to submit himself to some Tribunal that should adjudge the Kingdom to him Secondly Whether if the Portugals should refuse to admit him for their King before the difference were decided between the Competitors he might not by force of Arms Invest himself in the Kingdom by his own Authority To which the Jesuits and Pranciscans made answer That Philip was bound by no tye of Conscience to subject himself to the Will of another but might act as he saw fitting by his own Authority Which flattering Sentence of those irreligious Cusuists being approved by Philip he presently began the War In the heat of which War the Jesuits were they that would have betray'd the chiefest of the Azores Islands to the Spaniards which so incens'd the People that some would have had them try'd for their lives others would have had them and their Colledge burnt together In France Joane Albret Queen of Navarr was poysoned with a pair of Perfumed Gloves at the procurement of the Jesuits for being the Patroness of those of the Reformed Religion That Rebellious League of the Guizes against Henry the Third of France was carried on and promoted by the Jesuits both at Paris and other places Insomuch that when the League got strength and began to appear the Jesuits making a wrong use of their Power of Confessing and Absolving would Absolve none that professed themselves obedient Subjects to the King This unfortunate Prince was not only harrass'd and tormented by this Villanous and Jesuitical League not only driven out of his chief City but at length at the Instigation of the Jesuits stabb'd and murder'd by a Dominican Monk by them procur'd The Murder was also applauded by Pope Sixtus the Fifth in a long Oration spoke in a full Consistory of Cardinals in these words That a Monk saith he should kill the unfortunate King of France in the midst of his Army was a rare noble and memorable Act. And a little further This Act saith he was done by the Providence of God design'd by the Inspiration of the Holy Ghost a far greater Act than that of Judith who slew Holofernes Expressions rather becoming the Mouth of a Devil than of a Vicar of Christ. After him Henry the Fourth was first attempted by Barrier exhorted and confirm'd in the lawfulness of the Fact by Varada the Jesuit and others of the same Gang. Secondly by John Castell at the Instigation of Gueret and Guignard both Jesuits And Francis Verona the Jesuit publisht an Apology in vindication and justification of the Fact And lastly murder'd out-right by Francis Ravaillac a great Disciple of the Jesuits And for no worse Pranks than these they were banished out of France by Decree of Parliament As Corrupters of Youth Disturbers of the public Peace and Enemies to the King and Kingdom Truly very honourable Characters for those that pretend to be of the Society of Jesus The Venetians expell'd them upon this occasion The Senate observing that the Ecclesiastics especially the Jesuits began to engross Lands and Houses of their Territories under the pretence of Legacies to the great damage of the Public Income thought it convenient to put a stop to this Jesuitical Engrossment and provide by Law that Ecclesiastical Persons should not possess all the Temporal Estates in their Territories to themselves but give leave for others to share with them it being positively against the Constitution of their Order and the Institution of Christ their Founder The Jesuits took this in great dudgeon and wrote to Pope Paul the Fifth about it The Venetians being summon'd to answer would not relinquish their Right Protesting withal that they had the Supreme Jurisdiction in their own Territories and consequently to make Laws and that the Pope had nothing to do with them in those Matters Upon which Answer the Pope thunders out his Excommunication The Duke and Senate by public Decree condemn the Excommunication as unjust and invalid which done they call the

to the Conspirators There is in that very House a publick Chappel wherein an ordinary Jesuit Consecrates and dwells there In the said Chappel Masses are daily celebrated by the Jesuits and it serves for the Baptizing of the Children of the House and of some of the Conspirators Those who assemble in the forenamed House come frequently in Coaches or on Horse-back in Lay-mens Habit and with a great Train wherewith they are disguised that they may not be known yet they are Jesuits and conjured members of the Society 15. All the Papists of England contribute to this Assembly lest any thing should be wanting to promote the undertaken Design Out of whose Treasury a Widow owner of the Houses wherein Secretary W. now dwelleth dead above three Years since bestowed forty Thousand English Pounds so likewise others contributed above their abilities so as the business may be promoted unto its desired end 16. Besides the foresaid Houses there are Conventicles also kept in other more secret places of which they dare not confide even among themselves for fear lest they should be discovered First every of them are called to certain Inns one not knowing of the other hence they are severally led by Spies to the place where they ought to meet otherwise ignorant where they ought to assemble lest peradventure they should be surprised at unawares 17. The Countess of A a strenuous She-Champion of the Popish Religion bends all her Nerves to the Universal Reformation whatsoever she hears at the King's Court that is done secretly or openly in words or deeds she presently imparts to the Pope's Legat with whom she meets thrice a day Sometimes in A House now at the Court then at Tarthal He scarce sucks such things by the Claw The Earl himself called now about three years since this year ought to go to Rome without doubt to consult there of serious things concerning the Design At Greenwich at the Earls cost a Feminine School is maintained which otherwise is a Monastery of Nuns for the young Girls therein are sent forth hither and thither into Foreign Monasteries beyond the Seas Mr. P of the King's Bed-Chamber most addicted to the Popish Religion is a bitter enemy of the King he reveals all his greatest Secrets to the Pope's Legat although he very rarely meets with him yet his Wife meets him so much the oftner who being informed by her Husband conveys secrets to the Legat. In all his actions he is nothing inferiour to Sir Toby Matthew it cannot be uttered how diligently he watcheth on the business His Sons are secretly instructed in the Popish Religion openly they profess the Reformed The eldest is now to receive his Fathers Office under the King which shall be A Cardinal's Hat is provided for the other if the Design shall succeed well Above three Years past the said Mr. P was to be sent away by the King to Marocco but he was prohibited by the Society lest the business should suffer delay thereby He is a Patron of the Jesuits for whom for the exercise of Religion he provides Chappels both at home and abroad Secretary W a most fierce Papist is the most unfaithful to the King of all men who not only betrays and reveals even the King 's greatest secrets but likewise communicates Counsels by which the Design may be best advanced He at least thrice every Week converseth with the Legat in Nocturnal Conventicles and reveals those things which he thinks fit to be known for which end he hired a House near to the Legats House whom he often resorts to through the Garden door for by this vicinity the meeting is facilitated The said Secretary is bribed with Gifts to the Party of that conjured Society by whom he is sustained that he may the more seriously execute his Office He sent his Son expresly to Rome who was to insinuate himself into the Roman Pontif. Sir D Sir W Mr. M the younger who hath been at Rome my Lord S a Cousen of the Earl of A the Countess of N the Dutchess of B and many others who have sworn into this Conspiracy are all most vigilant in the Design Some of these are inticed with the hope of Court others of Political Offices Others attend to the sixteen Cardinals Caps that are vacant which are therefore detained idle for some years that they may impose a vain hope on those who expect them The President of the aforesaid Society was my Lord Gage a Jesuit Priest dead above three years since He had a Palace adorned with lascivious Pictures which counterfeited Profaneness in the House but with them was palliated a Monastery wherein forty Nuns were maintained hid in so great a Palace It is situated in Queen-street which the Statue of a Golden Queen adorns The secular Jesuits have bought all this Street and have design'd it into a Quadrangle where a Jesuitical College is built in private with this hope that it might be openly finished as soon as the universal reformation was begun The Pope's Legat useth a threefold Character or Cipher one of which he communicates with all Nuncioes another with Cardinal Barbarini only with a third he covers some greater secrets to be communicated Whatsoever things he either receiveth from the Society or other Spies those he packs up together in one bundle dedicated under this Inscription To Monsieur Stravio Arch-deacon of Cambray From whom at last they are promoted to Rome These things being thus ordered if every thing be laid to the Ballance it will satisfie in special all the Articles propounded WHEREIN 1. THe Conspiracy against the King and Lord Arch-Bishop is detected and the means whereby ruin is threatned to both demonstrated 2. The eminent dangers of both Kingdoms are rehearsed 3. The rise and progress of that Scottish Fire is related 4. Means whereby these Scottish Troubles may be appeased are suggested For after the Scots shall know by whom and to what end their minds are incensed they will speedily look to themselves neither will they suffer the Forces of both parts to be subdued lest a middle party interpose which seeks the ruin of both 5. With what Sword the King's Throat is assaulted even when these stirs shall be ended Cuneus his Confession and a visible Demonstration sheweth 6. The place of the Assembly in the House of Captain Read is nominated 7. The day of the eight days dispatch by Read and the Legat is prescribed 8. How the names of the Conspirators may be known 9. Where this whole Congregation may be circumvented 10. Some of the Principal unfaithful ones of the King's Party are notified by name many of whose names occur not yet their habitations are known their names may be easily extorted from Read If these things be warily proceeded in the strength of the whole business will be brought to light so the arrow being foreseen the danger shall be avoided which that it may prosperously succeed the Omnipotent Creator grant The arch-Arch-Bishops Indorsement with his own hand