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A94821	The intrigues of the French King, and others, for extirpating the Protestant religion, by them called the Northern Heresie, and establishing popery in England, Scotland, Ireland, &c. Managed by letters from Mr. Coleman to the French King's confessor, the Pope's inter-nuncio, Card. Norfolk, &c.	Treby, George, Sir, 1644?-1700.; Coleman, Edward, d. 1678.	1689 (1689)	Wing T2103A; ESTC R230435	110,318	130

Day This I do chiefly resent because I suppose he might have had some particular Commission from you and had not Opportunity to make me partaker of it The Secretary of Monsieur Rouvigny has inform'd me of your good Correspondence with his Master which must needs render you Suspected to the Spanish Ambassador but I shall expect according to your Promise the Issue of my Kinsman's Negotiation What Measures the Spanish Ambassador has taken with the Parliament a little time will discover but unless the Spanish Ambassador ingages the Duke upon the account of the Catholicks the King of Spain will not find his account The Duke I suppose has gain'd no small Credit with the Parliament It is reasonable to think so if Common Report may be allowed for Truth What must that produce any Advantage to the Catholicks Does not the Duke expect to be Re-enstall'd Was not that promis'd by those of Prorogation Are there any Appearances of these Expectations from the Parliament We are here inform'd That the Parliament designs to give Money for the Fleet upon Condition the King will reduce the Number of the French Men of War to the account which they formerly kept with Queen Elizabeth The King here has of late been ill dispos'd and subject to a little Vertigo He has laid a Tax upon the men of the Roab which will furnish a vast Sum without any burthen to the People and he has given out Commissions for great Leavies for the next Campaign I shall not over-charge you with News you are better inform'd from other hands Your Town will shortly be the Scene of News and then I hope you will make me Partaker of the Transactions In the mean time I am SIR Your most Obedient Servant L. S. THe Letters next following were written by Sir William Throgmorton to Mr. Coleman And his general manner of Writing was this he wrote a Letter with ink concerning some ordinary trivial matter as about Persons taking Coach to Travel about the fashion of wearing Crape c. writing the lines at a pretty broad distance leaving a space between for interlining In this space and upon the remaining blank of the Paper he wrote with Juice of Lemmon the Secret Matter which now is here printed The use of such Writing was that if the Letters were intercepted or miscarried nothing would appear to the Casual Reader but the frivolous Matter writ in Ink but when they came to the hands of his Correspondent he heated them at a fire and that made the Lemmon Juice appear and become legible But it falls out in this way that if the Writer do not strictly watch he will sometimes write dry the juice which was in the Pen being spent Also by unwary holding too near the fire the Paper is liable to be singed By such accidents there happen to be several Obliterations and Blanks and Breaks in these Letters which interrupts the Current of the Discourse in some places and thereby part of this Evidence is lost Paris 1. December MR. Pompone return'd me my Paper again yesterday Lect. pro Rege and told me that the French King had seen it and was extreamly satisfied with it that nothing pleas'd him more than the assurance I thereby gave him of my Confidence that the Duke was resolved to continue his kind purposes to him that he desire me that I would assure the Duke that nothing should turn him from this towards him and that he should not rejoyce in any thing more than to be able to help him to be or to see him by any means cheif Factor for our Company for that he very well knew that nothing but that could secure his own Stake there what therefore his Sentiments of Lord Arlington were we might guess and how gladly we Would see him dispos'd of as we desire but that he thought his medling in it would rather hinder than advance our design however that he was willing to receive directions in it from the Duke and that he should alwayes be ready to joyn and work with him in any design he should judge for the good of that common Trade That as for the Dissolution of the Parliament to be he he judged it an admirable nay necessary work but that the time being yet pretty far off and that Spain the Emperour and Holland having chosen the King for the Umpire of the Differences between them and him he thinks he may stay a little in that point till he hears from the King upon his Umpirage and sees what course he intends to take for it but that he absolutely relied upon the Duke for the choosing of proper Sides-men in that business for that he put his only confidence in him for it he told me moreover that the French King would gladly have writ to the Duke but for fear of accidents which might turn it to both their disadvantages but that as he absolutely believed the account I gave him of the Company and Trade and the Dukes great affection to him though I had no Order from the Duke for it because he very well knew how I was concern'd for him for he hoped the Duke would put the same confidence in this that I told him from his part that all this was very fine and head but that for all that to delay working for the dissolution of the Parliament might be dangerous and that therefore I desired him to move the French King to consider of it again that for my part he saw I was an unimployed person in it and had no other design but their good as they were common Traders but that by what insight I had in the Trade I thought they ought to lose no time and so hazard little accidents for so great a good for that at this rate of third hand talking they would never understand one another or effect any thing though they did me great honour to offer me so much trust upon my private credit that yet by that means and general Talk they would never be able to carry on the Trade roundly We parted then with this after a long discourse and many arguments that he would again propose the thing to the French King and that he thought my reasons were so convincing and kind to them that he doubted not but the French King would either himself or order him to write and that in four or five dayes I should hear from him Pray direct your Letter to Mr. Mer at the Corner of the street of St. Benet in the Fobourgh of St. German at Paris and _____ in the bottom and give me sum for you _____ I cannot doubt that I could of my friend here and some others make half an O try you what you can there in case the French King should be backward in that point and that that ingredient should be requisite to carry on the work _____ I spoke with Mounsieur Pompone again of whom I had almost the same story I gave you in my former but that

at the Frontiers of that State. Some other passages concerning England directly contrary to truth have been assured with great confidence and accordingly believed The Pope hath lately distributed some small Pensions to the Cardinals of the last promotion not sufficiently provided for by his Predecessor The C. of Norfolk hath as I hear for his share 1600 Crowns part whereof is to expire at the end of 6 Years according to the stile of Pensions given upon Benefices in Spain and Portugal This help is thought by those who know his Condition to have but small proportion with his necessities But in this interressed Country and thrifty Pontificat any little Provision of this kind is thought considerable I wish you all happiness and remain Your most humble Servant 29 May. Sir MY last was of April 17. which I hope got safe to your hands it was to acquaint you with the miscarriage of the Duke's Letter to the Pope recommended long since to Mr. Caun But the Pope remaining sufficiently satisfied by Card. Norfolk that the Letter of the Duke was brought to Paris and given to his Nuncios hands and addrest to Card. Norfolk resolved without expecting the duplicat or such another Letter concerning which I wrote in my last to direct a Brief to the Duke which will be carried by Mr. Thomas Howard Card. Norfolk doth not doubt but the Duke will reply thereupon and hopes in the mean time that the expected duplicat will meet with better success than the Letter last sent June 5. Now the Brief directed to the Duke is in Card. Norfolk's hands nothing finer or more full of that kind could be expected Mr. _____ in few days doth depart with it he carries also for the Duke and Dutchess two pair of Beads from the Pope with most ample Indulgences It was desired here that some English Priest should be with the Pope's Nuncio at Nimegen Mr. Godden was named by Card. Norfolk but he desiring to be excused I think Mr. Caun will go My service to our Friend in Fleetstreet June 25. Noise of peace is heard here from all places we hope shortly to have it publickly proclamed by singing of a Te Deum I thank you for your Postscript which is concerning Mr. Platt who is now so impertinent as to declare that he was always a Protestant in his heart _____ expects with great impatience an Order to recal him and certainly Mr. Platt doth deserve it July 9. The hope you give that Mr. Platt will be recalled is very welcome to the Duke of Florence There is great need of it for the Inquisition hath already begun to stir in it Card. Cibo hath made complaint of it to the Resident of Florence as I have signified more particularly to Lord Arundell I long for your next which because it promiseth much which straitness of time made you omit in the last July 10. My last which was by the last Post acquainted you that the Letter of the Duke of York to the Pope was received the good man in reading it could not abstain from Tears Card. Norfolk doth _____ answer will shortly be sent though upon the matter it hath been done anticipatedly greater tenderness with expression of kindness and esteem could not be expected as you are desired to signify July 16. What hath come to your mind concerning a Match with the Prince of Florence and our Lady Anne deserves better reffections then I am able for the present to make of it setting aside the interest which might move the Duke of Florence to desire it I am verily perswaded that the great respect he hath for the Duke of York would set a great weight upon his Inclination to carry him towards it I had yesterday a Letter from the Duke of Florence who continues his pressing earnestness for compassing the business which hath been so often mentioned I doubt it may linger a great while if such a reason be expected as may satisfy the Enemies of Religion I think it might suffice to alledge that Mr. Platt is very unwelcome to the Duke of Florence July 30. The Court here will not be well pleas'd till the new difficulties which obstruct the peace at Nimegen be removed July 24. Mr. Gr. is your servant this day he hath a brief of the Pope in answer to the letter of the Duke Aug. 6. These must acknowledge the receipt of yours June 28. and July 1. The Postscript in one of them was very welcome for the satisfactory matter it gave me for a Letter to the Duke of Florence after two weeks silence to the point he is so much concerned for The same Post did also bring me a Letter from Lord Arundell to the same effect which I shall thank for shortly Card. Norfolk hath writ to the King and sent a Letter from the Queen of Sweden desiring him to take her into his protection at the Treaty in Nimegen Reasons to prove the Justice of her pretences are sent to Mr. Cook. Card. Norfolk would be well pleased if Mr. Coleman would promote this Interest with the Duke Aug. 13. I have had thanks this week from the Duke of Florence for the account gave him the last of what was contained in Letters from Lord Arundell and Mr. Coleman about Mr. Platt Aug. 20. We have had this week three from you one of them gave hopes of a Letter from the Lord Arundell I am indebted to our friend in Fleetstreet for two Letters Sept. 11. A Brief was sent last year dated about the month of May and carried from hence by an Irish Bishop Card. Norfolk would know if it were delivered to the Queen the answer was late expected Card Barbarin is in pain to know whether a Picture which he sent to her R. H. hath been received Nov. 20. Yours of October 5 and 8. found me in the Country with Mr. Gra. to morrow we return to Rome I am sorry that my Letter of September 11. as to that part which was in Cypher after the trouble it had given you proved at length not intelligible That which Card. Norfolk would know if delivered to the Queen was a Brief sent to her from the Pope last year about the month of May and given by Card. Norfolk to an Irish Bishop who not passing by England delivered it to the Lady Nov. 28. The Confidence with which Mr. Coleman ends his Letter to the Prince doth much please But that delivered by Mr. Caun in naming to Dutchess Lauderdale the Correspondent of Card. Norfolk is wondered at I hope Mr. Coleman will on this accident judge it necessary to proceed with more caution and send a false name to write to him Card. Norfolk hath had some answer from Portugal but no resolution Englands Competitor is not Card. D'estre but Rospilias to whose Uncle the Prince and Princess of Portugal owe their Marriage Dec. 18. We are told the Duke of Modena intends a journey to London Card. Norfolk will to his power second the demand which Card. Barberin

is to make in behalf of Prince Rinaldo he saith that concern was never touched by the Duke or Dutchess in any Letter to him nor did the Dutchess of Modena when she was here seem to relish it much Jan. 1. 1678. The Letter of the Duke to the Pope about the Marriage of his Daughter to the P. of Orange hath been delivered I confess the Pope remains satisfied that the Duke was in no fault but in his intended answer vvill not touch that point The business of the Prince Rinaldo I fear is not yet ripe Octob. 1. 1678. Intercepted This Week's Post brought but one from you under date of Aug. 23. it vvas almost overtaken by an Express dispatcht from Nimegen by the Pope's Nuncio vvho yesterday morning brought the vvelcom Nevvs of a Peace made betvveen France and Spain His Holiness vvent yesterday afternoon to St. Marie Major to thank God for that publick benefit and Te Deum like to be Sug There were several Letters writ to Mr. Coleman by the late Earl of Berkshire under the borrowed name of Rice The names of principal men and matters are therein expressed in words of Cabal or Cypher which there was not any key found to open and explain But at the Committee of Lords there was the following key made but made by Conjecture onely and therefore it is not warranted for certain But the Reader may use this or his own sense and Conjecture upon the 4 or 5 of the Letters here exhibited March the 7th 1674 / 5 William Rice Lady D. York Lady Arlington Lady D. York Lady Great men Lord Treasurer Lady The King Lady The Treasury Lady to be passively neutral c. D. York to be passive in the matter of dissolving Parl. Lady The Protestant party Lady Parl. and Protestant party Lady Buckingham and Shaftesbury Lady Lord Treasurer and L. Lady Duke of Monmouth Lady The Duke Octob. 20. 1674. Lady The Nonconformist Interest Without Date Lady Shaftesburys letter to Carlisle Lady The Duke Lady The Parl. Protestant Religion or Protestant Relig. Property Lady The King Lady Romish Religion Lady Lord Treasurer Lady Court dissimulation or undermining Lady D. Buckingham Lady The French King Lady A Session of Parliament Lady A New Parliament Lady The Popish Cause Lady The Parliament Men September 10. 1674. SIR I Have received yours dated August the 28th and if your Lady pleaseth with Confidence to retaine me in her Cause as you say she will she may rest most secure to be both Faithfully and Uncorruptibly served according to the old English Oath of an Attorney without Fear Favour or Affection from hence therefore I resolve not to stir upon no other bodies Call nor Fees untill I have her special Command to come up to Westminster and full Instructions how to move when I am there which must be your part to see done and prepared in the mean time because I would think a little thereupon between this and then since the impertinentest of officiousnesses is to pretend to be wiser in other folks concerns than they are themselves yet give leave to say that I doubt very much words will not be kept with her by those whom chiefly she doth depend on not to shrink in the day of Battle when bullets begin to fly thick and near and though my Brother Attorney of Dorchest and his whole packed jury saving two of the number who are my Cousin Germains originally are Cowards let not that comfort you at all for if you remember after Clinias was driven into the water he fought like a lyon besides the ills which they have already done to speak the plain truth cannot be safe but by attempting greater wherein the Ladies Neece if good care be not early taken will have a considerable portion I would you saw as I doe because of my Ladies former displeasure towards me which makes them lie at something an opener Garde with me in this particular then they doe perhaps with others of the same profession what postings and meetings there are up and down the Country about this matter to the exaltation of the Neece usque ad Coelum and to the crying down of the Aunt nay and to such an insolence is the little Atturny grown that when applications are made unto him from the Center of all these lines as you well observe and the man for whose sake I first fell into disgrace with the Lady to admit them into his Counsels and interests the urchin still answers quod cùm impiis non vult Conversatio and that he intends to doe his work not by such assistances sed solum ex pondere causae wherefore if any Champarty masculine or feminine of that kind could be proved in open Court it were not amiss but when the thing comes to the touch you 'l see that it will not abide the tryall nor bear water The giving of mony then is all I can apprehend to be dangerous in this Case with a Condition to exclude the Aunt out of the entaile because upon those terms no separate proviso can serve her turn onely conduce towards the invalidating the testimony of her witnesses and Friends I desire to here onely that you have gotten this note safe into your hands shew it unto my Lady at seasonable opportunities and ever esteem me without welt or guard Your faithfullest Friend and Servant William Rice October 20. 1674. I Have Received yours dated the 13th of this month these come to you by a secure hand else I would not venture to write out of paraboles The new Parliament is that which the Dorsetshire Attorney and all his Clients have now in chace Consultations are on foot how to frame addresses for it within the compass of the Law. Tell our Lady from me that she hath but one point seriously to intend which is to make herself and not be denyed the Commission mediatrix of the Peace which France as well as Spain are more inclined towards than ever because of the unruliness of the German Confederates for should either the Duke of Buckingham or my Lord of Arlington get that Employment from her nay any one besides there is an end of her storie By reason if the new Parliament cannot be obtained to have their own Creatures trusted with this mediation is the onely hope they have left I mean the wife of Shaftsbury could they and their adherents be authours of the general peace upon the nick of this Conjuncture I am afraid France will not stick so close to the Lady as perchance she believeth they would since to my knowledg they are actually in treatie at present with those two persons whom I last named to this very purpose therefore you see in this cause I do not juggle nor regard either peculiar Interests or friendship for the Duke of Buckingham till he be at the brink of death will never be right to our Cause more both because he doth think the Lady underhand hath used him hardly in the matter

another way of doing his Master's Business well enough without it which is by a Dissolution of the Parliament upon which I know he mightily depends and concludes That if that comes to be Dissolv'd it will be as much as he need care for proceeding perhaps upon the same manner of Discourse which we did this time Twelve months But with submission to his better Judgment I do think that our case is extremely much alter'd from what it was then in relation to a Dissolution for then the Body of our Governing Ministers all but the Earl of Arlington were entirely united to the Duke and would have govern'd his way if they had been free from all fear and controul as they would have been if the Parliament had been remov'd But they having since that time engag'd in quite different Counsels and Embark'd themselves and Interests upon other Bottoms having declar'd themselves against Popery c. to Dissolve the Parliament simply and without any other step made will be to leave them to govern what way they list which we have reason to suspect will be to the prejudice of France and Catholicks because their late Declarations and Actions have demonstrated to us that they take that for the most Popular way for themselves and the likeliest to keep them in Absolute Power whereas should the Duke get above them after the Tricks they have serv'd him they are not sure he will totally forget the usage he has had at their hands Therefore it imports us now to advance our Interest a little farther by some such Project as I have nam'd before we Dissolve the Parliament or else perhaps we shall but change Masters a Parliament for Ministers and continue still in the same Slavery and Bondage as before But one such step as I have propos'd being well made we may safely see them Dissolv'd and not fear the Ministers but shall be establish'd and stand firm without any Opposition for every body will then come over to us and worship the Rising Sun. I have here given you the History of Three Years as short as I could though I am afraid it will seem very long and troublesom to your R. among the Multitude of the Affairs you are engag'd in I have also shewn you the present State of our Case which may by God's Providence and good Conduct be made of such Advantage to God's Church that for my part I can scarce believe my self awake or the thing real when I think of a Prince in such an Age as we live in converted to such a degree of Zeal and Piety as not to regard any thing in the World in comparison of God Almighty's Glory the Salvation of his own Soul and the Conversion of our poor Kingdom which has a long time been oppress'd and miserably harass'd by Heresie and Schism I doubt not but your R. will consider our case and take it to heart and afford us what help you can both with the King of Heaven by your Holy Prayers and with his M. C. M. by that great Credit which you most justly have with him and if ever his Ma's Affairs or your own can ever want the Service of so inconsiderable a Creature as my self you shall never find any body readier to obey your Commands or faithfuller in the execution of them to the best of his Power than Your most Humble and most Obedient Servant 29 Sept. 1675. Father le Chese his Answer From Paris October 23. 1675. SIR THE Letter which you gave your self the trouble to write to me Lec ' pro Reg. came to my hands but the last night I read it with great satisfaction and I assure you that its Length did not make it seem tedious I should be very glad on my part to assist in seconding your good Intentions I will consider of the means to effect it And when I am better informed than I am as yet I will give you an Account to the end I may hold Intelligence with you as you did with my Predecessor I desire you to believe that I will never fail as to my good will for the Service of your Master whom I honour as much as he deserves and that it is with great truth that I am Your most humble and most obedient Servant D. L. C. A Second Letter from Coleman to Father Le Chese SIR I Sent your Reverence a tedious long Letter on our 29th of September to inform you of the progress of Affairs for these two or three years last past I having now again the opportunity of a very sure hand to convey this by I have sent you a Cypher because our Parliament now drawing on I may possibly have occasion to send you something which you may be willing enough to know and may be necessary for us that you should when we may want the conveniency of a Messenger When any thing occurs of more Concern other than which may not be fit to be trusted even to a Cypher alone I will to make such a thing more secure write in Lemmon between the Lines of a Letter which shall have nothing in it visible but what I care not who sees but dried by a warm fire shall discover what is written so that if the Letter comes to your hands and upon drying it any thing appears more han did before you may be sure no body has seen it by the way I will not trouble you with that way of writing but upon special occasions and then I will give you a hint to direct you to look for it by concluding my visible Letter with something of Fire or burning by which mark you may please to know that there is something underneath and how my Letter is to be used to find it out We have here a mighty Work upon our hands no less than the Conversion of three Kingdoms and by that perhaps the subduing of a Pestilent Heresie which has domineered over great part of this Northern World a long time there were never such hopes of Success since the Death of Queen Mary as now in our dayes When God has given us a Prince who is become may I say a Miracle zealous of being the Author and Instrument of so glorious a Work but the opposition we are sure to meet with is also like to be great so that it imports us to get all the Aid and Assistance we can for the Harvest is great and the Labourers but few That which we rely upon most next to God Almighty's Providence and the favour of my Master the Duke is the mighty Mind of his most Christian Majesty whose generous Soul inclines him to great Undertakings which being managed by your Reverence's exemplary Piety and Prudence will certainly make him look upon this as most sutable to himself and best becoming his Power and Thoughts so that I hope you will pardon me if I be very troublesome to you upon this occasion from whom I expect the greatest help we can hope for I must