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A55316	The politician discovered, or, Considerations of the late pretensions that France claims to England and Ireland, and her designs and plots in order thereunto in two serious discourses / by a true Protestant and well-wisher of his countrey.	Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.	1681 (1681)	Wing P2767; ESTC R23435	23,653	54

Cabinet Councellors could not die quietly till he revealed this horrible Project to some of the English Nobility Such a Right as this with such other the French Kings are put in Remembrance of in their Coronation Oath Such another Claim they lay to Scotland in Right of Francis the Second who married Mary Steward Queen of Scotland and though she had no issue by him yet 't is a Maxime with them That the Crown can lose none of the Rights it once had and that no Alienation can be made from it but it still Reinters By a Sequel of the same Maxime they go on and say That Ecclesia est si●u● Minor That no Alienation can be made from the Church no more than from Minors But Ireland belong'd to the Church of Rome to which the Natives gave themselves up long ago now the French King is Eldest Son of the Church and her Heir Nay it 's said that his good Old Mother either sold or gave him that Kingdom when she could make nothing of it her self and may he not then claim it upon as good and better Grounds than Spain took and kept Navarr from its Lawful King being an Heretick of which that Wise Granam deprived him by no other Right then by that by which she pretends to disposess Heretick Kings It was by that Right she sent her Nuncio to display the Banner of Rebellion in Ireland in 41 and another Nuncio in or about 78 to raise the same Tragedy Was it not by this Transport or making over of Ireland to her most Christian Son that the Titular Bishop Talbot undertook with others in Seventy three to prepare a Sea-Port Town in Ireland by Bribe or Stratagem to Receive a French Army and to have Irish enough secretly enlisted in a readiness to meet them when they Attempted first to Kill the English Agent who came to disclose their Designs and prevailed with Secretary Perridge and others to Post after him Swearing That if they met Everard he would never come to England to tell Tales as even Sir Edward Hungerford who chanc'd to meet them remembers When upon another sham Accusation they thought they had procured his Mouth to be for ever stopt in the Tower then I say they went on still with their Design in Favour of France and some others unknown to the former who since deserted their Camps disclosed that the said Talbot and others were in 78 carrying on the same Treachery as securely as before And some even in this very Month came from Ireland and Accused as is said before the Council those very Persons with other Titular French Agents as Plunkett Molony c. of which some were as it is known in great Favour and Correspondency with the French Court. But supposed the French had with the Papists conceived such a Design on England or Ireland yet you say the Possibility of putting it into Execution will still hinder it and make it Abortive That the Landing of any Forreigner would be the Uniting of all our Divided Parties together against them that they would be met with as Vnaminous a Resolution as when they were thought to have Landed at Purbeck Island last Year And besides that we would Clap up all Papists in such a Juncture that they are disarmed And even the French themselves are sensible of this therefore their Fleet and Back is Turned from us toward Italy and Germany Though it is not my Design to dispute much about the possibility of an Attempt which I wish might be for ever impossible yet for conscience sake and to remove our Countreymens too much security I say that neither you nor any man can know all the Papists French and other disaffected prae-ingaged Innovators and Pensioners in England who Protheus like can shape themselves to all Figures therefore how can you secure them all how can you disarm them totally And can you Answer for the Sentiments and Interest of all the different Parties in England and specially in Ireland which side they would incline In Ireland where to one Protestant there are three Papists can you vouch they 'll sooner joyn with an English Heretick than with a French Catholick So many Ignorant Blind Zealots so many Priest-ridden Furies so many outed of their Estates on former Delinquencies so many Thousands of Frenchified Officers and Cashiered Soldiers and Tories straggling there shall they think you sooner joyn with English against whom they have a blind Antipathy than with those whom they look upon as damned Miscreants Tyrants Vsurpers of their Countrey and Religion than with the French Romanists whom they would welcome as Saviours and Restorers of their All Nay as they think they lost all by the English they 'd venture all they have viz. their Lives for the French or other Foreigner Neither can we be aware of all the Arms they may have hid they may have Conveyed to them secretly of all the Arms their fury could make use of in an uproar What Store of Arms needed they for the Massacre of the Danes or for the Massacre of the Protestants in Ireland And can't their Holy Father enjoyn again on such an Occasion a Third Massacre to be prepetrated to the full Honour of the Holy Trinity in Three Persons In a word what need we so much Dispute Touching the Impossibility of an Invasion to render our selves more secure when our own Histories do convince us how often to our Cost such a thing hath been done which we could not prevent when for our sins God would suffer it to be by some Art we could not foresee till done And not to mention our General Conquests can we forget that same in King Iohn's Time those other Landings of Spaniards and Italians in Ireland in Queen Elizabeth's Time at the Invitation of the Pope and Papists But you 'll say we were then less Powerful we were then more divided we have stopped those Gapps and it may be too they have refined their Pollicies and Ways of Attacking to the height of your Preparedness and what ever our Power is now I am sure the French were never more formidable and more fit to struggle with us And our secret Divisions are near as great as our open ones were then a little Spark from abroad would perhaps make it break out into a Flame and our secret Enemies are no less dangerous than open ones These can be known and met withal but those cannot and would be ready at a Watch-word to follow on the back of us arising as it were out of an Ambuscado Yet all this dear Countreymen is said to caution and not to dishearten us and to Unite and prepare us as Fencers do shew the several Passes that can be made upon us for to be ready to parry 'em if need require My Design is not to dishearten but to awaken and unite to shew that this is the Greatest Plot of all viz. to work our Disunion which makes all others successful For I do not presume to say That