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B06285 A true relation of the Popish-plot against King Charles I and the Protestant religion. Boswell, William, Sir, d. 1649.; Laud, William, 1573-1645.; Habervešl z Habernfeldu, Ondřej. 1679 (1679) Wing T3016; ESTC R185710 31,948 37

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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 affaulted even when these stirs shall be ended Cuneus his Confession and a visible Demonstration sheweth 6. The place of the Affembly 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 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-destraction 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 discoverd PLOT as the Papists would have us believe An ill Name is half a Conviction Quo semel est imbuta recens natur am expellas furcalicet are the Jesuits Merals 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 Plot 's 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 frequantly 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 or 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 night 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 Franciscans 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