FOXES AND FIREBRANDS: OR, A SPECIMEN OF THE DANGER and HARMONY of POPERY and SEPARATION.  
Wherein is proved from undeniable Matter of Fact and Reason, that Separation from the Church of England is, in the judgement of Papists, and by sad experience, found the most compendious way to introduce Popery, and to ruin the Protestant Religion.  
Tantum Religio potuit suadere Malorum.  
The Second Edition. In Two Parts.  
Dublin Printed by Joseph Ray for a Society of Stationers, and are to be sold by the Booksellers of Dublin, 1682.   

TO THE READER.  
Christian Reader,  
HAving about the year 1678. set forth in Print the two Examinations of Faithful Commin and Thomas Heath, not with a design to exasperate or provoke any party in Religion, but partly to lay open the Plots and Contrivances of the Romish Emissaries to dash Protestants amongst themselves, and cunningly undermine that Reformation by divisions, which they were not able to subvert by a more open assault. It pleased the Learned Dr. Henry Nalson to publish these Examinations, together with few judicious Remarks and Collections of his own, under the Title of Foxes and Firebrands; and dedicate it to Mr. Baxter and Mr. Jenkins, the two great Pillars of our present Separations: And finding that the First Part was so kindly received by the World, that the Impressions were so suddenly bought up, and thereby an encouragement given to proceed, in adding some more materials, in order to a Second Part, as upon the same subject. I have therefore for thy information caused the First Part to be Reprinted, and a Second added to it, that so the History of these Jesuitical divisions might be more complete and absolute. The Collections in this Second Part are most of them either out of the Memorials of that great Minister of State the Lord Cecil, or from the testimonies of persons that are still living, and also able to attest the truth of what is here related: I am not conscious to myself of any injury that I have done either to Religion in general, or the true sincere Professors of it, since neither the Reputation of the one, nor the Interest of the other are concerned in the evil designs of those parties that have a form of Godliness, but deny the power of it in their practices. I may perhaps have disobliged the two extreme Factions in Religion, (the Papist and the Puritan) by exposing their Combinations for the ruin of that Protestant Faith which is by Law happily established and settled among us: And if I have done so, it is because I tell them the truth, and lay the scene of things nakedly before them; and I hope the Reader will look upon it as an argument of my candour and sincerity, that I do not study to gratify any party in Religion, but have rather invited their prejudices upon myself, by saying these things that are disobliging to them both.  
The truth is, my chief aim and design in the whole affair is, to have our dissenting Brethren disabused, and to pull away the scales from their eyes, which obstructs their prospect into the danger of their separations, to let them know that the first feuds of their divisions were sown by the Priests and Jesuits, that whilst they are carrying on the same designs of Schism and Separation, they are introducing Popery, though they do not think of it; and making a way for the admission of that mystery of Iniquity into the Churches of Great-Britain, which cost their forefather's so much Blood to cast out.  
If they did seriously consider of these things, I am confident they would return to the bosom of the Church, and no longer endanger the safety of the Protestant Religion, by aspersing Episcopacy, and libelling the Government of the Church of England, and continuing the course of that Separation which was begun by the Papists, cherished by the Separatists, and will in the end tend to the utter ruin both of the Conformists and the Nonconformists, which hath already brought one good King to the Block, and was again like to shake the Crown and Sceptre of a second. Almighty God make us alwise to foresee, and to prevent our danger.  
R. W.   

To Mr. Richard Baxter, Mr. William Jenkins, etc.  
SIRS,  
WIse and Good Men are always wont to look at, and consider the consequences and ends of things; where our divisions and separations will terminate, is but too obvious; things cannot long stand in this posture, our vain jangling will come to the Umpirage either of the sharpened Sword of the Law, or the terrible Law of the Sword; the one is grievous, the other intolerable, upon which Party soever it shall fall; for the ill influences of Religious Quarrels are such upon the Civil Government, as will oblige that for Self-preservation, to prevent the last by the use of the first, and by timely severities to obviate future miseries.  
I have yet seen nothing offered by Dissenters which will not necessarily increase, rather than cure our Divisions; and above all, that Toleration which is so warmly pleaded for by those Nonconformists, who pretend to give an old Answer to a new Sermon of Dr. Stillingfleet's, is certainly the most intolerable. It is a Door which will let in infinite Divisions, and Subdivisions, Errors and Heresies, and by giving people liberty to go either to Church or Conventicle, will give the lazy, profane, and Atheistical liberty to go to neither, to the great dishonour of God, and the inevitable decay of Christian Religion; it will infallibly give the Papists all the advantage these following Papers discover; they desire to introduce Popery, upon the ruin of Protestant Religion; it will oblige the Supreme Magistrate to act against his own, and the public Conscience of Christianity, and to establish Iniquity by a Law. For such are the Doctrines and Practices of some Dissenters, in the judgement of all but themselves, and of all Dissenters, in what they oppose one another.  
I know not how they come now to unite so close against the Episcopal Party; for I know their Breaches are incurable, and the time was when Presbytery was as much Babylon to Independents, as Episcopacy was to the Presbyterians, and so of the other Sects and Schisms, which makes some people apply that of the Psalmist to this Confederation, Psal. 83. against the Church of England.  
For my own particular, I know but one Remedy for these growing Evils, and that is, to permit the Sovereignty to lodge where God Almighty has placed it, and to submit to it for Conscience sake. I think the Authors of the Political Catechism allow his Majesty's Power to be of God; He is the Minister of God for our good. Now who is to be judge of the goodness and fitness of laws, Religious, Moral, or Political? either the Prince or the people: If the people, then is not the King Supreme, contrary to St. Peter, 1 Ep. 2. cap. 13. If the King be the Umpire in the case, every private Conscience is bound to submit to the public Conscience, which is the Law of the Nation; which the King, with the advice, and by the consent of the wisdom of the Nation, has judged, and therefore established for the public good. So that the Contest of Dissenters appears to be for Empire and Sovereignty, and who shall be the Supreme Judge of the Goodness and Expediency of Laws; 
Answer to Dr. Stillingfleet's Sermon.  and they do very ill to quarrel at clergymen's Coaches and Liveries, who themselves are grasping at Crowns and Sceptres. And if any or many private men shall not judge these Laws so good as those they would have imposed, they ought to submit, and study to be quiet, and not make the greater Duty of Mercy and Peace of the Church submit to the Sacrifice of what, may be, is but Opinion, and still sub Judice.  
I have a Theme before me too copious for an Epistle, and shall therefore, that I may not transgress the bounds of one, dismiss the other. I only offer these following discoveries of the Danger to which Protestant Religion and these Nations are exposed by obstinate Separation, to your cool and retired thoughts, and hope you are too good men and Christians to esteem me  
Your Enemy, because I tell you the Truth. Philirenes.   

ERRATA.  
PAge 34. line 24. for her, read his. p. 39 l. 1. for Cecil, read Civil. p. 69. l. 6. for Coronensis read Connorensis. p. 80. l. 14. for their read you. p. 129. l. 26. for Lord, read Letter.   

FOXES AND FIREBRANDS, etc.  
THat the Papists have ever since the Reformation of Religion in Europe, 
The restless design of Papists to regain England to Rome.  been most invincibly industrious in these Kingdoms, to bring the Church of England to ruin, and a total subversion, there cannot remain the least doubt or scruple. For, besides apparent matter of undeniable Fact, during the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth, King James, and King Charles the First, and our present Gracious Sovereign (whom God long preserve) there are these Reasons which have, and do animate them in the repeated prosecution of that desperate Enterprise.  
First, A vain Enthusiastic Opinion, 
The Reasons moving them vigorously to prosecute their wicked Design.  which in this last Century they have generally embraced, That there shall be a Fifth Monarchy of their Church: For the erecting of which, they embroil their Brains, 
1. An Enthusiastic Belief of the Fifth Monarchy of the Church of Rome.  and the whole Christian World, wrist the Prophecies of the Scripture, and the pretended Writings of the Sibyls, to countenance this beloved Chimaera: Now they look upon the English Nation become Heretic, and revolted from the Faith, as too potent and considerable in this part of the World, to permit them to hope for any success, till that Church and State be either so broken, as to be disabled to oppose them, or be reduced to the Roman Faith and Obedience.  
Secondly, 
2. The Church of England the only Bulwark of the Protestant Religion. and their most potent Enemy.  They look upon the Church of England therefore, as the only Bastion, or Bulwark of the Protestant Religion and Interest, from whence there have sprung so many, and such a constant succession of able Champions for Truth, and so long as that Church continues, are like to do, as will eternally baffle all the Arguments and Reasons they have hitherto, or can produce to support their tottering Cause; and in all probability will in time so expose them, as to convince the World of the Apostasy of Rome from the ancient Primitive Christianity; and induce them to knock off the shackles of blind Obedience, which their Ignorance and the Romish Artifice have fastened upon the hands of all Princes and People under the Papal Jurisdiction, and, whatever some people may imagine, 
* This is apparent, because they raise them themselves.  there is nothing formidable to Rome in these little Sects of Separatists, who being by their own Eternally sub-dividing Principles, like the Sheaf of Arrows in the Apologue unbound, will be broken without any great difficulty: but the Church of England being a Body compact, firm, and well put together, and wearing so much of the Primitive Purity and Antiquity, both in Doctrine and Discipline, is the Gordian knot, which, till by the Sword of Pope Alexander they can untie, they can never hope to conquer the World by that of Peter, and therefore that Church is the constant mark of their Hate and Envy, and to undermine her Foundations, they set themselves and all their Engines to work with all possible Diligence and Application.  
I remember to have heard a pretty odd Relation, 
An Instance of a Pope's Charity to the English Heretics.  which came from a Person of Quality of this Nation, who was at Rome in the time of our late Troubles: This Noble Person having demanded liberty to have an Audience of his Holiness, obtained it, and was treated with great Civility and Respect; After the Formalities of the Visit were over, the Pope enquired what News from England? to which the Gentleman replied with great testimonies of Compassion, and gave him a short recital of the Tragical Adventures of the Civil War; at which the Pope fell into such an indecent laughter, that the English Gentleman smartly reparteeed, Sir, Certainly this is a Scene for Pity, not for Laughter: Well, young man, said the old Pope, having gravely composed himself, you say true, and I take your reproof in good part, but, added he, I cannot forbear this testimony of Joy, when I consider that God is about to convince you of your Errors by these severe Methods; and by their own hands to destroy one of the best dressed Heresies that ever appeared in the World since that of the Arians.  
Thirdly, 
3. Secular Interest, Ambition, and Honour.  the Romish Clergy look upon themselves to be extremely injured in point of Interest, and that they are unjustly and violently dispossessed of all the Dignities and Revenues of the Bishoprics, Cathedrals, Abbeys, Monasteries, and other religious Houses, and these Promotions, Dignities and Revenues are from time to time conferred by the Pope upon titular Bishops, Deans, etc. who de jure pretend a Right to them, and hope de facto to possess them so soon as they can by any Arts or Ways reduce these Nations to the Obedience of the See of Rome. Nay, the Pope himself has the Vanity or Impudence to be tickled with the sweet imagination of Sovereignty, and to pretend from the Resignation of King John to Pandulphus his Legate, a Title to the Imperial Crown of these Realms.  
Now ambitious men animated by these Hopes, and professing as matter of Faith, that they are free from all the Obligations of Duty and Allegiance to Heretical Princes and Usurpers, as they term ours; and, at least in pretence, being inflamed with an ardent Zeal for the conversion or confusion of us poor Heretics; and having always the dazzling beams and lustre of Interest and secular Advantage in their eyes, together with the hopes of Heaven, as the merits of such Industry to blear the eyes of others, I say, such men and such principles must of necessity lay them under the constant and restless temptations, of attempting all things to regain their earthly, and gain a heavenly glory into the bargain: Nor can it be supposed that they will stick at the violation of any Laws, Divine or Humane, by Treasons, Perjuries, Wars, or Bloodshed, which they think so far from sinful, that they esteem them meritorious and acceptable Services to God, being done in order to the Salvation of Sinners, and the Exaltation of their Church.  
Now the ways and methods by which they propose to effect these, 
The methods Papists use to convert Heretics.  as they think and style them, glorious Undertake, are these:  
First, 
1. To divide Protestants amongst. themselves.  Since they are hopeless to convince or persuade by force of Arguments, they endeavour to divide Protestants among themselves; and this they have done ever since the Reformation, by raising Sects and Separations from our Church in matters of Doctrine and Practice; and again subdividing these into lesser Parties and Fractions, under pretence of greater advances to Purity, and a thorough Reformation, and as this Principle may proceed to, no doubt they will pursue it in infinitum.  
Thus I have been credibly informed, that a St. Omers Jesuit declared that they were twenty years hammering out the Sect of the Quakers; and whoever considers the Positions of those People, will easily be induced to believe them forged upon a Popish Anvil. They refuse all Oaths, a neat covert for Priests and Jesuits to evade the Tests of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, and avoid the punishment which follows their discovery; the despise the Scriptures, so do Papists; they contemn our Sacraments, especially the Eucharist, so do Papists; they do above all things vilify the Ministers, so do Papists; and in many other Doctrines they bear a great Analogy and Conformity one with the other. The opinion of a Fifth Monarchy looks extremely like another Spawn of the Jesuits, and had that prevailed, as it once was in a fair way to do, that would have done their business; and indeed was the last Sect I think started among us, as if designed for their purpose; for it would have been an easy translation of that Monarchy to the Papal Throne, till Christ should come in person to have exercised it himself: and I find a remarkable hint of this in Dr. Oats' Narrative and Depositions, Parag. 34. where the Jesuits, and one Green, with eight other Fifth Monarchy men, club together for the firing of the City of London.  
And indeed herein the Papists have been most industrious, and it is but just to fear they are so still, to animate those Separations they have created, with Principles of Hatred and Animosity against the Church of England, as will admit of no reconciliation, nor any lower terms of Satisfaction than her utter Ruin and entire Subversion; and they move every stone, that not one stone must be left upon another in that glorious building: for this purpose they have endeavoured to persuade the people into an hatred of the Governors of the Church, by telling them of their near approaches to Popery: against which, and the Pope himself, to cover the Artifice, it is no matter how bitterly they inveigh, so long as by this Stratagem they divide men from the Church. Thus have they drawn off the people from the love of the stated and authorized public Prayers and Service of the Church, by introducing, practising and commending that Novel-way of Praying Extempore, to which Gavan the Jesuit was so enured, that he could not at his Execution forbear running into an Enthusiastic Fit of it. This has been a Key which has opened the doors of many lips to blaspheme God and Religion, to utter vain, idle, impertinent, seditious, heretical, and impious Harangues, the very froth of Fancy, and the scum of Effrontery, which yet they have dedicated to God Almighty, and though it was really a Sacrifice of Fools, have fathered it upon the Spirit of Wisdom: and of this the Papists have made no small advantage to proselyte people from ours to the Romish Communion; and yet they first recommended this Engine to the people, they have opposed it too, and exalted it above the Common Prayers, as more Spiritual and prevailing, branding those with all the titles of Infamy, and which has succeeded to their wish, and is now generally taken up as a great truth by all Dissenters, that the Liturgy is nothing but the Mass-Book in English, and the very dregs of Popery, Idolatry and Superstition.  
Secondly, 
2dly, Having divided us, to destroy us by those Divisions.  Having thus successfully divided us, and inflamed Dissenters with a Zeal so hot against the Church of England, as is fit upon all occasions both to take and give fire, they endeavour to blow up those Sparks into a Flame: they persuade Dissenters Episcopacy is guilty of most intolerable Ambition, Pride, Avatice and Tyranny, they press them to maintain their liberty of Conscience against the Antichristian Yoke of Ceremonies, and to pull down Babylon: and take hold of all occasions to run them into open Hostilities and Rebellion against the Civil, as well as the Ecclesiastical Power and Government; and all this in hopes to destroy us with our own Weapons, that then they may erect their Church Triumphant upon the Ruins of ours, which they have rendered truly Militant.  
— En! quo discordia, Cives  
Perduxit miseros.  
The sincere and tender love I have for my Dear and Native Country, the compassion I have for the wounds of a Bleeding Church and Nation, and the great Honour and Esteem I have for the Protestant Religion, as professed and practised in the Church of England, which I have not embraced out of the compliances of Education, but the Force and Conviction of Reason grounded upon deliberate Debates, and a near Examination, oblige me to contribute all I can to rectify the misunderstandings which have occasioned our unhappy breaches and divisions; nor could I think of any expedient more conducive to the attaining my design, than the exposing to the open view of the World the Artifices of these our inveterate enemies, wherewith they have given us so many both secret and open wounds, as have once already proved almost mortal and incurable, for the poison of Asps is under their lips, and they shoot sharp and envenomed Arrows, which wound at a distance, and kill by degrees: and if we give them opportunity to redouble their blows, they will in all humane apprehension lay us weltering in our own and one another's blood, without the assistance of any other Massacre than what we execute upon ourselves.  
And now in regard that Generals are rarely so forcible or convictive, though never so true, as particular matters of Fact; 
These Practices proved by particular Instances, and matter of unquestionable Fact.  in hopes of doing a charitable office to those who have been hurried down this Popish Flood of Calumnies with which the Romish Dragon has persecuted our Church, and driven her into the wilderness, I will prove the truth of my Charge by such undeniable matter of Fact, as shall leave no excuse for non-conviction to any persons to whose hands these Papers shall come; except such who have resolved not to acknowledge any conviction; and who, by a resolute persisting in a seeming Infidelity, properly called a wilful Obstinacy, justly render themselves suspected, if not evidently guilty of a confederacy, and downright combination with the Papists to introduce Popery and Tyranny upon the ruins both of Church and State.  
I will begin then with a remarkable Narrative of a Dominican Friar, 
A notable relation of a Dominican Friar, who pretended himself a Puritan in Qu. Elizabeth's time.  being an Extract out of the Memorials of the Lord Cecil, an Eminent Statesman in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, from whose Papers it was transmitred to the Reverend Bishop Usher, some time Lord Primate of Ireland; whose Name, so Venerable even to many Dissenters, may possibly influence them to sober considerations of the danger to which they expose the Protestant Religion by their separation, whilst thereby they give opportunity to these Ravening Wolves in Sheep's Clothing to enter in among them, and scatter those Souls from Christ's Fold, who otherwise would be one Flock under that one great Bishop and Shepherd of Souls. The Papers of the Lord Primate coming to the hands of Sir James Ware Knight, late one of his Majesty's Privy Council in Ireland, 
Observe how early the Papists began to act Nonconformists, who then were called Puritans, from their pretending to a purer reformation, as presently you will find this Friar do.  his Son Robert Ware Esq has obliged the Public by the communication of them.  
In the year 1567., being the ninth year of the Reign of Queen Eliz. one Faithful Commin, a Friar of the Order of St. Dominick, a person generally reputed a zealous Protestant, and much admired and followed by the people for his seeming Piety, but more particularly for inveighing in his Pulpit most bitterly against Pius Quintus then Pope, was accused by John Clerkson Chaplain to the A. B. of Cant. Nicholas Draper, and Mary Dean, who being sworn upon the Holy Evangelists before her Majesty and the Lords of the Council, deposed, that the said Faithful Commin was no true Protestant, but a false Impostor, a Sour of Sedition among her Majesty's Loyal Subjects; upon which, the fifth of April being Monday, the said Faithful Commin was brought before the Queen's Majesty, and the Honourable Lords of the Privy Council, and there examined by his Grace Matthew Parker, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, as followeth;  L. Archbishop. 
Faithful Commin, of what Profession art thou?  Fa. Com. 
Of Christ's Order.  L. Archbishop. 
What Order is that?  Fa. Com. 

* The very same Answer which all unordain'd Speakers, who are Preachers at large, and run before they are sent. made at this day.  A Preacher of the Holy Gospel.  L. Archbishop. 
What Gospel is that you call the Holy Gospel?  Fa. Com. 
The Gospel of Jesus Christ.  L. A. B. 
Under what Power do you own to hold that Gospel?  Fa. Com. 
Under Christ and his Saints.  L. A. B. 
Do you acknowledge any other Power save Christ to be on Earth?  Fa. Com. 
Yes, I do.  L. A. B. 
What Power is that?  Fa. Comm. 
The Holy Catholic Church.  L. A. B. 
Do you not acknowledge a Defender of the Holy Catholic Faith?  Fa. Comm. 

* Papists and Dissenters both disown Supremacy, or equivocate and dissemble about it.  God is the only Desender.  
Hereupon the Archbishop addressing himself to Her Majesty, said, Your Gracious Majesty may perceive that either this man hath been instructed what to say, or otherwise he must be by his Answers a man of Craft; to which the Queen replied, I suppose so, my Lord.  
Then Commin was ordered to withdraw, and her Majesty and the Council were some time debating how to proceed in this Affair: After which, John Clerkson, the Archbishop's Chaplain was called in before the Board; the Queen demanded his Name, which he told her: then she further enquired, whether he was acquainted with Faithful Commin? to which he answered, he was; the Queen asked him how long he had known him? to which he replied, about a year or more.  Queen. 
What have you to say against Faithful Commin, that he is suspected to be an Impostor?  J. Clerkson. 
Three things.  Queen. 
What be they?  J. C. 
First, Let him prove his Ordination since he fell from the Church of Rome, Secondly, Why he never cometh to the Prayers of the now established Church of England, but starteth up, and Preacheth to the people, 
† The exact mode of most Dissenters, who will come to our Churches.  not coming into the Church till the Prayers be finished. Thirdly, Let him prove that ever he received the Sacrament according to the Church of England, from any of our Orthodox Clergymen.  
Her Majesty and the Council having considered of these three Points, sent for the said Faithful Commin to come in again, who appearing, the Archbishop demanded of him,  A. B. 
Were you ever ordained?  Fa. Com. 
Yes, I was ordained.  A. B. 
By whom?  Fa. Com. 
By the Cardinal: (meaning Paul.)  A. B. 
Had you no other Certificate under any of the Bishop's hands since the Reformation?  Fa. Com. 
Not any.  A. B. 
Wherefore would you dare to Preach, having not got a 
* Observe the reason and necessity of all Preachers having Licence to Preach, and of settled Parochial Congregations: as also the great care the Church of England takes to keep Papists from creeping in disguised among us; and the opportunity Separation gives them to come among Dissenting Congregations.  Licence of Permission under some of our Bishop's hands? How shall we be assured that you are not of the Romish Church?  Fa. Com. 
There are several have heard my Prayers and Sermons, and can testify 
† they that rail most bitterly against Rome and the Pope, may be Papists notwithstanding.  that I have spoken against Rome and her Pope, as much as any of the Clergy have since they have fallen from her; I wonder therefore why I should be suspected?  A. B. 
By your answer, Mr. Commin, I perceive you would have any one Preach, so that he speak but against the Pope in his Sermons.  F. C. 
Not every one, but he whose Function it is, and he who hath the 
† Look here, a Friar in Masquerade of a Dissenting Protestant, one of the first Pretenders to this extraordinary gift of the Spirit.  Spirit.  A. B. 
What Spirit is this you mean?  F. C. 
The Spirit of Grace and Truth.  A. B. 

** A Question worthy of the most deliberate Consideration of all Pretenders to the Spirit, and all those who follow them; for if they cannot by the fruits of the Spirit, mentioned Gal. 6. prove it the Spirit of Truth, or if it produces the fruits of the Flesh there mentioned, Hatred, Variance, Emulations, Wrath, Strife, Seditions, Heresies, it must be the Spirit of Error. Let Separatists look well to it, for it concerns their Souls and Bodies, and those of many thousands, who if they be not in that way of Truth, are in the broad way that leads to destruction.  But is this Spirit that is in you, either the Spirit of Grace or Truth that doth not comply with the Orders of the Church, lately purged and cleansed from Schism and Idolatry?  F. C. 
Therefore I endeavour to make it 
* The pretence of all Dissenters for their Separation.  purer, as far as God permits.  A. B. 
How do you endeavour to make the Church purer, when you neither communicate with her in Sacrament or in Prayer?  F. C. 
Yes, I endeavour it, when I pray to God that he would open the eyes of men to see their Errors, and several have joined with me when I have prayed among them; and I have both given and taken the body of Christ, to those of 
† The very exact Language of Dissenters, and the Original of tender Consciences, a Popish pretence.  tender Consciences, who have assembled with me in the fear of the Lord.  A. B. 
By your words than you have a Congregation that follows you.  F. C. 
I have.  A. B. 
Of what Parish, and in what Diocese?  F. C. 

(a) The first Independent Congregation in England gathered by a Popish Dominican Friar.  Neither of any certain Parish, nor in any certain Diocese.  A. B. 
Where then, I pray?  F. C. 
Even in the wide World, among the Flock of Christ scattered over the whole Earth.  Queen. 
Your Diocese is very large, Mr. Commin.  
Then being commanded to withdraw, the other two Witnesses were called into the Council Chamber, and examined as follows.  Queen. 
Mr. Draper, What have you to say to this Faithful Commin?  Draper. 
He came to my House at the Maidenhead in Maidstone, with several of his followers, where he bespoke a joint of Mutton and two Hens for Dinner, hearing that my Profession was a Cook; I showing him a Room for him and the Company that came with him, perceiving several to come and inquire for this Mr. Commin: but by chance going up the Stairs, I heard one 
(b) These passionate and taking ways are no demonstrations of a true Protestant, though joined with Extempore Prayer.  groan and weep, which caused me to lift up the Latch; at first I was startled, and stood in a maze, but enquiring of one of his Followers, what ailed the man? He replied, Do you not see we be all at Prayers? The Maid wondering where I was, came to seek me, and found me among them, and can testify the same.  The Queen. 
Are you Mr. Draper's Maid?  Maid. 
Yes, may it please your Grace.  Queen. 
What is your Name;  Maid. 
My Name is Mary Dean.  Queen. 
Did you see this Faithful Commin that was here now before Us, praying to the people?  Maid. 
I saw him, and thought he was distracted when I heard him pray: but the people said 
* See here the Extempore Prayer of a Popish Dominican Friar fathered upon the Spirit of God, and the people deluded by this pretence to the Spirit.  he was an heavenly man, and that it was God's Spirit made him weep for the sins of the World.  Queen. 
How long continued they at Prayers, do you know, Mr. Draper?  Draper. 
May it please your Grace, 
(c) Exactly like our pretenders to the Spirit in the late times, who made long Prayers, and devoured Widows houses.  about two hours.  Queen. 
What did they after they had prayed?  Draper. 
Some went from the house, and about ten, or thereabouts, stayed to eat what they had bespoken, and paid me to the utmost penny.  
Then the Queen commanded to call in Faithful Commin, to whom she thus spoke. Mr. Commin, If you will receive Orders, and become of the Church of England, you may; otherwise you must not be permitted to Pray and Preach among my Subjects: and though you have, as appears by several other Witnesses, preached against the Pope, yet you have 
(d) Observe, the Queen thought unordained and unlicensed Preaching an Usurpation. Let Dissenters answer this, and clear themselves, for he that usurpeth over the Magistrate, resisteth the Ordinance of God, and they that refist shall receive Damnation.  usurped over the Power both of Church and State, in doing contrary to the Order that We, our Council and Parliament have unanimously agreed on, by and with the consent of the whole Clergy of my Realm.  Fa. Com. 
Give me time to consider and I shall give your Grace a further Answer in a short space.  Queen. 
Is there any will be bound for your appearance? otherwise you must be kept a 
(e) Was this Tyranny in Queen Elizabeth, or a wise and just Defence of the Protestant Religion?  close Prisoner; for we have other Examinations to take, and Questions to demand.  F. C. 
I have three who will answer for my appearance.  
Than one: Richard Bland, Brother to the said Commin by the Mothers-side, and two others, gave Bond for his appearance upon the 12th. day of April. Upon which day, Commin with his Bail came and appeared before her Majesty and the Council: but the Spanish Ambassador being that day to have his Public Audience of the Queen, the further Examination of the said Commin was put off till the next day.  
But Commin coming from the Council to his Followers, told them that Her Majesty and the Council had acquitted him; and that he was warned of God to go beyond the Seas to instruct the Protestants there, and that e'er long he would return to his Flock with better success. 
* Of which he was a good confirmation, being a Papist; and one would think this were enough to banish this Popish Idol, Extempore Prayer, out of England.  He told them that Spiritual Prayer was the chief testimony of a true Protestant, and 
(a) A Papist Author of that common slander against the Common Prayer.  that the set form of Prayer in England was but the Mass translated. So after he had with a multitude of tears, like a Crocodile, first prayed an Extempore Prayer, the better to pray upon these poor deluded people, he took his leave of them, telling them he had not one farthing to support him in his journey, yet being God's Cause, he would undertake it out of Charity, 
An holy Cheat.  and he was assured that the Lord would raise him up friends where ever he traveled. This Speech set most of the people a weeping, especially the Women, who requested their Husbands to contribute towards his necessities: and it was made appear, after his escape out of England, that they collected for him 30 l. 
(b) It is by some supposed that this Practice is continued to this day.  besides what the compassionate Sex bestowed upon him, unknown to their Husbands.  
The next day, April 13. Her Majesty and the Council being assembled, and several others attending to hear this Examination, but no Faithful Commin appearing, Bland, and the other two who were his Bail, were sent for: they coming before the Board, and being demanded where Commin was, and the reason why he did not appear; made answer, that they had performed as much as they undertook, which was, that he should appear the day before; 
A cunning Evasion to save both the Friar and their money.  that if they had received any further directions from Her Majesty and the Honourable Board, to have brought him as that present day, they would have obeyed the Commands: but in regard the party accused was only spoken to to appear, they supposed themselves discharged by his first appearance, and not bound for his second; with which nicety they drew their necks out of the Collar, and Commin got an opportunity to make his escape.  
Her Majesty, sensible of this Affront, which was the greater in regard it was to be a Public Hearing, caused diligent search to be immediately made all over London and Kent; but all in vain, for he went away that very Evening, and was not heard of till some months after. However, by this search they found out most of his Followers, who were examined before Her Majesty's Council, and said, in their 
(c) Let their Opinions of men be what they will, it is impossible for Dissenters who hear unlicensed Preachers, to distinguish a true Protestant from a disguised Papist.  Opinions, they had never seen so zealous and heavenly a man as he seemed to be; from their Examinations the Council also came to discover the particular sums of Money, of which this Religious Juggler hath cheated these deluded people.  
There was no farther account of Commin till on the fourteenth of September one John Baker, Master of a Ship called the Swan of London, arriving at Portsmouth, said he had seen the said Faithful Commin in the Low Countries: Her Majesty being informed thereof, sent for Baker to the Council Board, who there gave them this relation.  
That he had seen the said Faithful Commin in the Low Countries, and, that coming to unlade some Goods at Amsterdam, one Martin van Daval a Merchant of that City, hearing him talk of the said Commin, told him that this Faithful Commin had been lately at Rome, and that the Pope Pius Quintus had put him in Prison, but that Commin writing to the Pope that he had something of importance to communicate to him; the Pope sent for him the next day, and as soon as he saw him, said, Sir, I have heard how you have set forth me and my Predecessors among your Heretics of England, by reviling my person, and railing at my Church: to whom Commin replied, I confess my lips have uttered that which my heart never thought, but your Holiness little thinks I have done you a most considerable Service, notwithstanding I have spoken so much against you; to which the Pope returned, How, in the Name of Jesus, Mary, and of all his Saints, hast thou done so? Sir, said Commin, I Preached against set Forms of Prayer, and I called the English Prayers English Mass; and have persuaded several to pray spiritually and Extempore; and this hath so much taken with the people, that the Church of England is become as odious to that sort of people, whom I instructed, as Mass is to the Church of England; 
(d) It is to be hoped he will be a lying Prophet, who was a false one, and that this Relation will contribute to the removing that stumbling Block.  and this will be a stumbling Block to that Church while it is a Church; upon which the Pope commended him, and gave him a Reward of 2000 Ducats for his good Service.  
Her Majesty and the Council thanking Mr. Baker for his information, ordered him to withdraw; and upon this the Queen writ over to her Agents beyond Sea, if possible to have Commin taken and sent over into England; but the thing taking Air, and it being the common Discourse how the Pope had rewarded this Imposter, some of his Friends gave him advertisement of his danger, which made him quit the Low Coontreys, and seek a safe retreat in the Romish Territories.  
However, this produced that 
(e) This gave occasion to the Act for 12 d. per Sunday for missing Divine Service.  Act for preventing Popery and other Sects, which enjoined all people from ten years old and upwards, not having a lawful Impediment, to repair every Sunday to hear Divine Service, under the penalty of forfeiting twelve pence for every such default.  
What is observable in this Narrative, is the original of Separate Congregations, of Extempore Prayer, the vilifying the public Church-Service, styling it English Mass, the pretences to the Spirit, the denying the King's Supremacy, despising lawful Ordination, and Licenses to Preach in stated Parochial Congregations, the juggling people out of their Money and their Loyalty, are all Arrows that originally came out of the Romish Quiver: and that there can be no doubt, but ever since this man's success, the Pope and College de propaganda fide, the Jesuits and Priests have been industrious to improve this Advantage, and to stock us with disguised Emissaries, who increase our Differences, and exasperate all the Separations against the Church of England, in hopes by our Divisions to destroy both.  
But that in the mouth of two Witnesses Truth may be justified, I will present the Reader with an exact Counter part of the same Romish Indenture, whereby they have all bound themselves to work the ruin of the Church of England by this method of raising, fomenting, supporting, and exasperating Divisions and Separations among us.  

The following Narrative is a true Copy taken out of the Registry of the Episcopal See of Rochester, in that Book which gins Anno 2 & 3 Phil. & Mar. and continued to 15 Eliz.  
IN the year 1568, 
A strange Discovery of a Jesuit counterfeiting a Protestant, to sow Division, and raise Sects.  being the 11th. of Queen Elizabeth, one Thomas Heth, Brother of Nicholas Heth, Bishop of Rochester, in the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, came to the Dean of Rochester, and pretending to be a poor Minister, made Application to him, to present him to the Bishop, in order to some Preferment. The Dean thought it fit to hear the said Thomas Heth Preach in the Cathedral Church before he would interest himself in his behalf to the Bishop. Accordingly he appointed him to Preach upon the 21th. of November, where he took his Text, Acts 12. ver. 6. Peter therefore was kept in Prison, but Prayers were made without ceasing of the Church to God for him. But so it happened, that while he was Preaching, casually by pulling out his Handkerchief, a Letter dropped into the bottom of the Pulpit, directed to him by the name of Thomas Finne, from one Samuel Malt a notorious English Jesuit, then at Madrid in Spain.  
This Letter being found in the Pulpit by Richard Fisher, Sexton of the Cathedral, he carried it immediately to the Dean, who upon perusal, went presently with it to the Reverend Father in God, Edmond Gest, than Bishop of that See, who upon the reading of it, instantly caused the said Heth to be apprehended, and the next day being Monday, Novemb. 22. brought him to Examination.  Bishop. 
Mr. Heth, how long have you Preached in England?  Heth. 
About six years and more.  Bishop. 
Were you of any certain Order formerly, before this late Reformation of the Church of England?  Heth. 
Yes, I was.  Bish. 
What was that?  Heth. 
It was the Order of Jesus.  Bish. 
Are you not still of that Order, and have you not now and then some correspondence with that Order?  Heth. 
The Ministry will venture to instruct one another; but your Lordship seethe how I have retired myself from those whom you call Jesuits.  Bish. 
We suppose, Mr. Heth, you have not totally forsaken their Tenants, though you have their Persons.  Heth. 
Wherein may I be suspected not to forsake their Tenants as well as their Company?  Bish. 
There is great suspicion that you are not of the Church of England, by the words which you spoke yesterday in your Sermon.  Heth. 
What words were those, my Lord?  Bish. 
You said, that it was not those Prayers of the Church of England as are now established, that brought Peter out of Prison, but 
* Observe the Design of the Papists from the beginning of the Reformation to bring the Prayers and Church into contempt, not being spiritual Prayers, and how well the Dissenters have copied this Original.  spiritual Prayers.  Heth. 
And were they not spiritual Prayers that availed him? And where have we 
(a) The Language exactly of Separatists.  Scripture for any set Form in the Church?  Bish. 

(b) A good answer to both Papists and Dissenters. Quare whether the Directory were warranted by express Scripture.  If there be no Scripture for any set Form in the Church of England, much less for any set Forms among your Fraternities; for what we have established is out of the written word of God. 
(c) Diversity and Variety of public Prayers taken from a Popish Pattern, no where warranted in Scripture.  But as for your Popish Orders, viz. Augustine's, Dominicans, Franciscans, Jesuits, etc. you all differ in the Prayers of the Mass one from another; where then is your Scripture for so many Varieties of Prayers and Masses.  Heth. 
They have Antiqiuty on their side, and for the alteration of Prayers, every Fraternity and Convent hath power among themselves, as is most fit, for that Congregation assembled.  Bish. 
Now seeing you have begun to talk of Antiquity, pray, Mr. Heth tell me, 
(d) The Jesult entrapped by his own Plea.  Were all the Orders of the Church of Rome ordained at once? No surely, for some Orders are ancienter than others, by reason they have been allowed by several Popes: But as for yours, that Order was but of late days established, therefore you have little or no Antiquity to plead.  Heth. 
My Lord, You see I am fallen from that Society, which I perceive by your passages in examining me so strictly, you suspect me to be one of them still: I confess, 
(e) Observe, that the Jesuits are enemies to Episcopacy, and for a purer, or in the language of Dissenters, a thorough Reformation.  I am not so totally of the Episcopal Party of England, 
(f) A Jesuit pretends to refine, but intends to destroy, and it is evident, that whoever do so, do their work.  because I have laboured to refine the Protestants, and to take off all smacks of Ceremonies that in the least do tend to the Romish Faith.  Bish. 
Hath our Gracious Queen, by her Learned Council, and Assembly of Divines, who several times sat for the Reformation of Religion, now declared and confirmed by Her Highness' High Court of Parliament established the Forms and Manners thereof, 
(g) An unanswerable Question to all Dissenters who are no more but private persons.  what hath any particular man to meddle any further?  Heth. 

(h) From the good will of such Pretenders, whether Papists or Dissenters, Good Lord deliver us. For we know by woeful Experience, the fire of Reformation pretends to refine, but being overhot, does consume.  It was but my good will in endeavouring to make it purer.  Bish. 
You are a pure Steer, I must needs say, in pretending that you are reform: yet let me ask you one Question, Mr. Heth, Had not you of late any Letters from any of your Society?  Heth. 
I might have had Letters, must I therefore be of their Order still, because they writ to dissuade a man from his Principles? No sure, my Lord.  Bish. 
Your Society write, Mr. Heth, not to dissuade you, but that you may dissuade others; However, tell me, Did you ever know or hear of a man called Samuel Malt?  Heth. 
I have heard of such a man.  Bish. 
Yes, and you know him full well.  Heth. 
It may be so, my Lord.  Bish. 
Mr. Dean, Show Mr. Heth the Letter, and let him tell whether he knows the hand-writing; and call in Richard Fisher to come into the Court.  Richard Fisher. 
Here, my Lord.  Bish. 
How came you by this Letter?  R. F. 
I found it yesterday after Evensong, in the Pulpit.  Bish. 
You know it if you see it, is this the same?  R. F. 
The very same.  
The Letter was, as follows.  
Brother,  
THe Council of our Fraternity have thought fit to send you David George, Theodorus Sartor, and John Huts, their Collections, which you may distribute wherever you may see it may be for your purpose, according to the people's inclinations. These mixtures with your own, will not only a little puzzle the Understandings of the Auditors, but make yourself famous: We suppose your wants are not considerable at present, by what we have heard, how your Flock do admire you every day more and more. Be not overzealous in your proceed in the beginning; but gradually win on them as you visit them, and according as you find their inclinations bend to your Design, let us hear how you have proceeded, for it will satisfy your Brethren much, and enable them the better to instruct you for the future. Hallingham, Coleman, and Benson have set 
(i) The Original of the Sects in Germany among the Protestants, from the Jesuits.  a Faction among the Germane Heretics, so that several who have turned from us, have now denied their Baptism, which we hope will soon turn the scale, and bring them back to their old Principles. This we have certified to the Council and Cardinals, 
(k) The Reader is desired seriously to observe, that the Jesuits, Pope and Cardinals have laid this down as a Maxim, that Divisions and Separations are the most effectual way to introduce Popery, and ruin the Protestant Religion.  That there is no other way to prevent people from turning Heretics, and for the recalling of others back again to the Mother Church, than by the Diversities of Doctrines. We all wish you to prosper.  
Madrid Octob. 26. 1568. Sam. Malt.  Bish. 
Look here, Mr. Heth, here is a Letter, and it is to be supposed to drop from you when you Preached yesterday, for none stood in the Pulpit but yourself.  Heth. 
Let me see the Letter once more, Mr. Dean; See, my Lord, this Letter is directed to another man, named Thomas Finne, but my name is Thomas Heth.  B. 
You are not the first man that hath altered your Name: How long have you been in Town?  H. 
About three weeks,  B. 
To what intent came you hither?  H. 
Upon two accounts, my Lord; first, to visit my friends, for my Brother Nicholas was Bishop of this See formerly; Secondly, to be preferred; for the Dean promised to recommend me to your Lordship.  B. 
Mr. Dean, Did you promise to prefer Mr. Heth?  Dean. 
I did, my Lord, and upon that account I permitted him to Preach before you; but this Paper hath altered my intentions.  
After this Examination, it was resolved to send to Mr. Heth's Lodgings at the Queen's Arms in Rochester, where, upon search in one of his Boots were found his Beads, and several Papers, among which was a Licence from the Fraternity of the Jesuits, and a Bull dated the first of Pius Quintus, to Preach what Doctrine that Society pleased for the dividing of Protestants, particularly naming the English Protestants by the name of Heretics. In his Trunk were several Books for denying 
(l) The Papists Authors of the Sect of Anabaptists.  Baptism to Infants; with several other horrid Blasphemies: which being brought before the whole Assembly then present, the Bishop adjourned the Court, appointing another day for further Examination, till they had acquainted her Majesty and her Honourable Council with these passages, and sent for further Instructions how to proceed in this Affair. In the mean time Heth was committed a close Prisoner, and manacled, till Order came from the Board.  
On the 25th. of November, being Thursday, the Bishop called a Court, and sent for Heth, who coming before him, a great number being assembled to hear the Matter, the Bishop spoke as followeth.  
Mr. Thomas Heth, It is visible how you have not only deluded several poor Souls, but also abused her Majesty, and the Ministry of this Kingdom, by your Romish and Jesuitical Policy, purposely to sow Sedition in the Church of Christ: it is well known, that though your Society have taken the Name of Jesus, by terming themselves Jesuits, yet you have denied Christanity, which is Christ: for several have been called by the Name of Jesus, but none by Christ, from which all true Believers term themselves Christians: By this means you endeavour to bring the people back to your Popish Zeal again: 
(m) Those who still continue these Separations which the Jesuits first begun, are desired in the Name and Fear of God, to consider whether they are not guilty of the same Abuses. A Prediction that Separatists shall, when they see how they have been abused by the Jesuits, unite with the Church of England to extirpate Popery, which they have endeavoured to re-establish, by overthrowing the Protestant Religion by their own Divisions.  But you will be mistaken, for that sort of people whom you endeavour through a blind pretended Zeal to withdraw from the Church, will be at last your Bane, and hate your Society, so that at the end, when ye shall think ye have accomplished your evil designs, and fall upon the Church of Christ, those very people, whom ye have after these Satanical Delusions beguiled, will not so much, through Love, join with Christ to overthrow your Evil Intentions, as through perfect hatred to your wicked Policies.  
To several men's knowledge, as we have since enquired after thy Actions, thy Hostess and her Husband have declared, that thou hast spoken against thine own Order; yet thou by thy outward Purity hast defiled thine own Calling, under pretence of purifying the Church of England. What canst thou therefore say for thyself, that thou mayest not be made a public Example to all Spectators for thy wicked Schismatical Sedition sown within these Her Majesty's Dominions: Wilt thou openly declare before God and the World thy wicked and evil intentions, which caused thee to run into these Schisms, and reform thy course of life which now thou livest in; and not only myself, but the whole Court here assembled will endeavour to get thy Pardon, and provide for thy future maintenance.  
H. My Lord, I know not what I might have done, had I not been so publicly examined, 
* Shame the true reason why some persist in their Opinions, and not Conscience or Religion.  but seeing my Vocation is so publicly known, I shall not acknowledge myself to be guilty of any Misdemeanour; for I have fought a good Fight for Christ, whose Cause I have taken in hand. 
† A true, but dear Experiment, to which the Church of England may write a sad Probatum.  This Experiment I tried among my Countrymen, that the World may see that all those who term themselves Protestant's, are not of the Church of England, though they speak against Rome.  
The Bishop hearing him speak so obstinately, said, Behold, my Brethren, a Jesuits Confession! how he hath declared he had set up a certain Form of Religion, purposely to withdraw you from the Church of England. These things will be among us while we are a Church; 
(a) A thing soberly to be considered by Dissenters.  but woe be to those Deluders, or to those who will be deluded by them: We have a good Law, and the Light of the Holy Gospel now flourishing among us, which hath for these many years passed been absconded; 
(b) A necessary Caution to all such as value their Souls, Bodies, or Estates, the Peace of the Public, or the Protestant Religion.  therefore, my Brethren, consider the condition of your Souls; 
(c) Cedro digna! an Aphorism of undoubted Truth.  If you start aside once from your Principles, having the right way so plainly set before you, ye will not only run into Popish Slavery again, but be in peril of a total confusion of Soul and Body; 
(d) Which without the Assistance of Separatists, is humanely speaking, impossible.  and if Rome get once her Foot upon these Dominions again, not only yourselves and your Children, but your Princes and Nobles shall become Slaves to her Idolatry.  
After this, Heth was remanded to Prison, and for three days brought to the Marketplace at Rochester, where he stood by the High-Cross with a Paper before his Breast, in which were written his Crimes, than he was Pillored, and on the last day his Ears were cut off, his Nose slit, and his Forehead branded with the Letter R. and he was condemned to endure perpetual Imprisonment: but it lasted not long, for a few months after he died suddenly, not without the suspicion of having poisoned himself.  
From this Narrative we may observe, 
Observations to be deduced from this Narrative.  that the chief Rise and Original of our unhappy Divisions and Separations is to be fetched from the devilish Policy of the Papists counterfeiting a design to advance the Reformation of the Protestant Religion to a greater Purity; that the Pope, Cardinals and Jesuits have been always instrumental in raising these Divisions and Separations, and that they judge this the most effectual way to introduce Popery; that they hate out Bishops and Prayers, and delude innocent and unwary people into a dislike and hatred of them; that there is no way to discover them, but by their sowing these Seeds of Separation and Sedition; and that therefore it is the Interest of all true Protestants to unite with the Church of England, and thereby give that deadly blow to the Romanists, which the Bishop here seems prophetically to foretell, and to quit these Separations, which otherwise will hazard the ruin of the Protestant Religion, by the Introduction of Popery.  
Thus have the Romanists dealt with us, and persuaded many to break down the Walls of our Church, to make room for the Wooden Horse of Reformation, whose Belly is charged with more Sects, Opinions and Divisions than that which conquered Troy was with crafty Greeks.  
All the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James they were busy in preparing the materials, and undermining the Foundations of the Church of England; but in the Reign of King Charles the First, thinking themselves strong enough, by the assistance of the Factious, they had raised to effect their designs, they gave Fire to the Train, and with the pretended fears of Popery and Tyranny they first set Scotland, next Ireland, and then England, into the flames of a most horrid, cruel, and unnatural War, which they managed by the strength and power of Dissenters from the Church of England.  
To confirm the Truth of this, I will give the Reader an account, which I find in Mr. Rushworth's Historical Collections, 
Rush. Hist. Col. pag. 970, 971.  a Book much valued among Dissenters, who tells us of a Proposition made to the King of Spain, and discovered about the time that the Spanish Armada came upon the Coast of England in the year 1639. where among other passages, discoursing of an Enterprise upon Scotland, which was then in an high Ferment of the Covenanters against the King, Bishops, and Common-Prayer; the Proposer thus argues, that there could be no Fleet set out so strong as to attempt them by Sea, except all the Kingdom contribute to it, which, says he, Cannot be done except all the States join; of which, we of the Confederacy shall be the greater Part, and so the Enemy shall forthwith be forced either to give Liberty of Conscience to the Catholics, or put themselves in danger of losing all.  
Observe first, The Scots had no enemies but the King, or, as they pretended, his evil Counsellors, particularly Canterbury and Stafford, who all run the same Fate which the Papists in Habnerfield's discovery of their Plot had contrived for them.  
Secondly, Liberty of Conscience was the ground of the Quarrel.  
Thirdly, They of the Confederacy were the greatest part of the States, but it is evident the Covenanters were the greatest part of the States (for they had turned out the Bishops) at that time; and if there be sense in the Words, or truth in the Relation, it gives a remarkable glimpse of Light into this dark Vault, and imports a secret confederacy against the King and Church of England, between the Papists and Covenanters, and that that formidable Armada was designed for the assistance of the Covenanters: and the next page gives not only a greater Light, but a clear vindication of the King from any such compliances with the Papists, as were suggested, and made the foundation of the War. As for the King of Great Britain, adds he, If he will not give Liberty of Conscience, he shall be reduced to it with no little damage. Now who were they that pressed for this Liberty of Conscience, and did reduce these Nations to it, all people know. And a little after, he urges this design from the danger, if the King of England being Confederate with all the Heretics of Holland and Germany, Enemies of God and Spain, should be able to carry on his Pretensions and Title to the Crown of France, add to this, that there is no improbality that they who would treat with France and Richelieu, as was proved the Covenanters did by a Letter written by the Lord Lowdon to the French King, would make no difficulty to do the same to the Spaniard, than the most Potent Monarch of Europe, and which confirms the Opinion, I do not remember the Scots made any complaint of this great Fleet as designed against them.  
But that which makes the thing plain, is the discovery which was made to Sir William Boswell, by Andrea's ab Habnerfield, which was communicated first by Sir William to my Lord of Canterbury, and by him transmitted to the King then at York, Novemb. 1640. The whole is printed by itself, 
Rush. Hist. Col. pag. 1314.  and in Rushworth's Collections, and is too long here to insert, but the principal parts and matter of the Plot was this, That there was a design on Foot by the Papists against the Life of the King and the Archbishop. That to effect this the Scottish Commotions were raised, and fomented by the Jesuits, that they exasperated the English Dissenters by the severity used against Pryn, Burton, and Bastwick, and the Scots by the Fears of Popery upon the Imposition of the Common-Prayer Book; that Cuneus or Cou, the Pope's Legate, and Chamberlain a Scot, Chaplain and Almoner to Cardinal Richelieu, were the great Negotiators of this Conspiracy, and that the design was to embroil these Nations in a Civil War. The Troubles came on so fast, as may well be supposed, precipitated for fear of a further prosecution of this discovery, that the Archbishop lost his Head for refusing a Cardinal's Hat, and opposing the Scottish Covenanters; and the King this, because he would not give away the Crown, and pull down the Mitre by granting Toleration. And however the following Distractions and Rebellion stifled the further prosecution and discovery of this Plot, yet the Tragical Event justified the Truth of the Discovery.  
What the consequences of these Proceed would have been if Providence had permitted those Usurping Powers to come to any firm Establishment, God only knows; but a Tyranny in the Church like that of the Papacy is most suitable and natural to the-Tyrannical and Arbitrary Government of Rebels, Regicides, and Usurpers. But God miraculously restoring our Gracious Sovereign King Charles the Second to his Throne, and the Church of England to her pristine Splendour, we were in a State of Tranquillity till of late years.  
But the Papists envious of our Happiness, began or rather continued to leaven the disaffected party of men in Church and State against both; and how far they had driven on their designs for a second Revolution, few people can be strangers; the old Stories were revived, and new ones minted, to raise fears and jealousies of Tyranny and Popery, to set us altogether by the Ears. The Scots were animated to a Rebellion, and did actually break out into a formed Rebellion: the Dissenters were busy every where to calumniate the Bishops and Church as Popishly affected, the Lawn Sleeves were threatened, and the Episcopal Party branded with all the names of Ignominy; so that the rich and wise Citizens of the great Metropolis of London knew scarcely whether their greatest danger was from Papists or fanatics, Wealth being always a Crime in Popular Tumults and Insurrections; Sedition was as commonly talked, and as hot as Coffee was drank; and in a word, from the Court to the Cottage none could escape the imputation of Popishly affected, who durst write or speak in vindication of the Church of England, or against Dissenters.  
And that all this was but a Branch of the late horrid Popish Plot against his Majesty's Life, the Government by Law established, and the Protestant Religion, I offer the Testimony of Dr. Oats the first and principal Discoverer; who all along charges the Papists, the disguised Priests and Jesuits with managing the intemperate heat of Separatists against the Government; and we cannot without bringing a manifest and dangerous disreputation upon the rest of his Evidence, but believe him, when upon his Oath he assures us, that the Jesuits creep in among Dissenters under the disguise of Nonconforming Ministers, to divide and exasperate, to raise, and blow up Animosities and Calumnies into actual Rebellion against the Civil Government, under a pretence of their dislike of the Ecclesiastical.  
Thus in his Printed Narrative, Paragraph 1. He informs us that Richard Strange Provincial, John Keins, Basil Langworth, John Fenwick, and Harcourt, Jesuits, did write a treasonable Letter to one Father Suiman an Irish Jesuit, at Madrid in Spain, in which was contained the plotting and contriving a Rebellion in Scotland of the Presbyterians, against the Episcopal Government: In order to which, they had employed Matthew Wright, William Morgan, and one Mr. Ireland, to go and Preach under the Notions of Presbyterians, and give the disaffected Scots a true understanding of their sad Estate and Condition in which they were, by reason of Episcopal Tyranny exercised over them; and withal to tell them they had now a fair opportunity to vindicate their Liberty and Religion; and that it could be done no other way but by the Sword.  
Paragraph. 18. That the Fathers of the Society in Ireland were very vigilant to prepare the people to rise for the defence of their Liberty and Religion, and to recover their Estates.  
Paragraph 35. That the Jesuits by order of the Provincial, were to send new Messengers into Scotland, to promote the Commotions there, and to inform the people of the great Tyranny they lay under by reason of their being denied Liberty of Conscience; and that not being to be procured but by the Sword, they must take that course to purchase their Liberty.  
Paragraph 43. That two new Messengers were sent into Scotland on the 5th. of August 1678. one by the name of Father Moor, the other of Sanders, alias Brown, with instructions to carry themselves like Nonconformist Ministers, and to Preach to the disaffected Scots, the necessity of taking up the Sword for defence of Liberty of Conscience; these the Deponent saw dispatched.  
Paragraph 50. The Deponent, Dr. Oats, saw a Letter from Father Ireland, August the 7th. 1678. where, among other things, he intimates the joy he had, that the disaffected Scots would not lay aside their endeavours for, and after Liberty and Religion, and that the Catholics of Scotland had promised to use the utmost of their Interest to keep up the Commotions there.  
Here let me be permitted to make a little break to confirm this Evidence by a remarkable Passage which fell out the last year in the tragical end of the Lord Forresler. This Lord was the person that after the defeat of the Rebels at Bothwel-Bridge, took occasion, upon the Indulgence granted by His Majesty, to erect a House within two miles of Edinburgh, for a public Conventicle of Non-conformists, and for his building this Synagogue, went for a zealous man among them; but so it happened, that not long after he was barbarously murdered by a Woman Relation, with whom he had incestuously lived many years: After his death a Dispensation was found in his Closet from the Pope to marry her, which it seems he delaying to do, she took his Life as the price and reparation of her abused Honour; 
Raviliac Redivivus.  which plainly shows that these Supporters of the Nonconformists may be, and are secret Papists.  
But to proceed, Paragraph 51. Among other mysterious Phrases relating to the Plot, John Keins told the Deponent, that the Provincial had taken great care of keeping alive the differences between the disaffected Scots and Duke Lauderdale, that Mum and Chocolate should be put down, and the Order of the Magpies should be turned to their primitive Institution and Habit. By Mum and Chocolate, meaning the Protestant Peers, and by Magpies, the Bishops.  
And for a clear vindication of the Bishops and Episcopal Clergy of the Church of England, from the unjust imputation of being Popishly affected, the common brand which Nonconformists burn upon their Reputation, Paragraph 72. He informs us, that the Pope had issued out a Bull, in which he disposes of the Bishoprics and other Dignities in England, as follows.  

Arch-Bishops.  
Canterbury, Cardinal Howard.  
York, Perrot, Superior of the Secular Priests.   

Bishops.  
London, Corker, Precedent of the Benedictine Monks.  
Winchester, White, alias White-bread, Provincial of the Jesuits.  
Durham, Strange, late Provincial of the Jesuits.  
Salisbury, Dr. God-den.  
Norwich, Napper, a Franciscan Friar.  
Fly, Vincent, Provincial of the Dominican Monks.  
Exeter, Wolf, one of the Sorbon.  
Peterborough, Gifford, a Dominican Friar.  
Lincoln, Sir John Warner Baronet, a Jesuit.  
Chichester, Morgan, a Jesuit.  
Bath & Wells, Dr. Armstrong, a Franciscan Friar.  
Carlisle, Wilmot, alias Quarterman, a Secular Priest.  
Chester, Thimbleby, a Secular Priest.  
Hereford, Sir Thomas Preston Baronet, a Jesuit.  
Bristol, Mundson, a Dominican.  
Oxford, Williams, Rector of Watton, a Town in Flanders, a Jesuit.  
St. david's, Belson, a Secular Priest.  
St. Asaph, Jones, a Secular.  
Bangor, Joseph David Keimash, a Dominican Friar.   

Abbots.  
Westminster, Dr. Sheldon, a Benedictine Monk.  
Zion House, Skinner, a Benedictine Monk.   

Deans.  
Canterbury, Belton, a Sorbonist.  
St. Paul's, Leybourn, a Secular, Secretary to Cardinal Howard.  
Windsor, Howard, with twelve Benedictine Canons.  
Chichester, Morgan, a Secular.  
Winton, Dr. Watkinson, Precedent of the English College at Lisbon.   
With many other Dignities of the Church, disposed of to Foreigners in that Bull.  
Paragraph 74. That twelve Scotch Jesuits were sent into Scotland, to keep up the Commotions in Scotland, and that they had instructions given them to carry themselves like Nonconformist Ministers among the Presbyterian Scots.  
And Pag. 67 of the Narrative, numb. 7. One means, he says, they were to use to bring in Popery, was by seditious Preachers and Catechists set up, sent out, maintained, and directed what to Preach in their own, or other private or public Conventicles and Field meetings.  
Now, as in reason we cannot believe the Papists are less solicitous for their Affairs in England, than in Scotland and Ireland; so we cannot but conclude from this evident matter of Fact, that they have been as industrious among the English Nonconformists to sow dividing Principles, and animate them against the Government and Governors both in Church and State.  
And that this may not pass for a bare supposition, without ground, I I have heard Mr. Prance affirm, that both Gavan and Whitebread used to Preach frequently in Conventicles in Southwark and other places: and I am able to prove, Whitebread, alias White, the Provincial of the Jesuits, who was executed for the Plot, did not many months before the Discovery, and his Apprehension Preach in a Conventicle as a Nonconformist, at Spaldwick within five miles of Huntingdon; and that he had several times done the like before, as was attested by several of the Congregation, before divers Gentlemen in the County of Huntingdon; and if the shame of Dissenters did not smother the further discovery of this Truth, for fear of the just reproach and infamy it would bring upon them among the miss-led people, I doubt not but we should find these Friars and Jesuits, in disguise of Nonconformists, and by false Names, as frequent in the Pulpits of Separatists, as their ordinary Teachers.  
And indeed nothing is more feasible or easy; for it is no more than for a Jesuit to bring a counterfeit Letter of Recommendation from some known Nonconformist either out of the Town, if he designs to travel and Preach in the countries', as an Itinerant, or out of the Country, if he will Preach in the Town, or a Certificate that he has Preached in such or such Congregations, with their Approbation, which he is sure to have, if he inveigh against Popery, Bishops, Ceremonies, Common Prayer, and for Liberty of Conscience, and the business is done, and without further Examination he is admitted into their Pulpits, and shall pass for a zealous Protestant, and an heavenly man in the opinion of the undiscerning Auditors, as Father Commin, and Father Heth have done, and many others before.  
Whereas the Church of England takes care that none be admitted to the Charge of Souls without all the Caution imaginable against Popery; they must take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, have Testimonials from Persons that know them, of their Ability and foundness of Judgement, they must show their Letters of Ordination, before they are admitted to Preach in an unknown Congregation, and have a Licence from the Bishop of the Diocese before they can regularly Preach in a Congregation whereinto they are by Law instituted and inducted.  
The natural Inferences which follow from this unquestionable matter of Fact, here faithfully related, and offered to the serious consideration of all sober People, of what persuasion soever, are these.  

First, That the Pope and Papists have ever since the Protestant Reformation endeavoured to raise up Sects and Differences in Opinion amongst Protestants, by sending their disguised Emissaries among the zealous and well-meaning people, to seduce them into Separation and Schism.  
Secondly, That they look upon these practices as most effectual means to bring the people back to the Romish Religion, and to introduce Popery among us.  
Thirdly, That for this purpose they have been all along industrious in this course, by depraving the Government of Episcopacy as Tyrannical, the Established Prayers as Popish, by extolling Extempore Prayers as Spiritual, by encouraging an unlicensed Ministry, by preaching up Liberty of Conscience, and that it is to be obtained and maintained at any rate; and it is worth observation, that Coleman dates the Aera of all the misfortunes like to happen to Catholics, from the fatal rescinding of the late Toleration: therein agreeing exactly with Dissenters, who were no less Querulous for the stopping of that door, though from him nothing can be more evident, than that the Jesuits designed to bring in Popery at it, which they could not do, being openly excluded from the benefit of it, but by pretending to be Dissenters.  
Fourthly, It is most manifest, that all our late horrid Civil Wars, Rapines, Bloodshed, and the execrable and solemn Murder of his late Majesty, and the banishment of our present Sovereign, were affected according to the fore-contrivance of the Papists, by the assistance which Dissenters gave them, and the opportunities they had to preach them into Rebellion, under the pretence of a thorough Reformation; that all the late Commotions and Rebellions in Scotland sprung from the same Counsel and Conduct: and that the Papists will never out of the hopes of effecting our ruin, nor without the same opportunities they have hitherto had, so long as our Divisions are kept up and maintained, which give them the advantage of dashing us one against another.  
Fifthly, That therefore obstinate Dissenters are before God, and according to the judgement of the strongest Reason built upon plain matter of undeniable Fact, guilty of all the real danger of Popery prevailing again in these Nations by the ruin of the Protestant Religion.  
Sixthly, That the Church of England in Doctrine and Discipline is the greatest enemy the Papists have, according to their own declared sense and judgement, and consequently wholly innocent of any such designs and compliances, or approaches to the Church of Rome, as Father Du Moulin, and other Brainsick or worse people endeavour to fix upon her: and that it is impossible to give a clearer demonstration of the innocence of the Bishops and Clergy of England, than Dr. Oats has in the 72 Paragraph of his Narrative before recited, concerning the Pope's Bull or Breve, bestowing all the considerable Promotions and Dignities in England upon Papists there mentioned, which could not be done without turning out the present Bishops and Dignitaries of the Church: And there cannot be a more demonstrative argument that he esteems them Heretics and Enemies: for there is no doubt but if the Pope had any hopes of their compliance with Popery, he would not only have consented to their continuance in those promotions, but have promised high Rewards and Encouragements to them.  
Seventhly, That therefore it is the joint Interest both of Prince and People of these Nations to support and defend the Church of England as now by Law established; those of her Communion being by a tract of Experience of equal date with the Reformation, found to be both in Principles and Practise the most peaceable and Loyal Subjects, and foundest Protestant's, of unshaken Allegiance and unblemished Loyalty, the ablest Champions against Popery, and the only bulwark of the Protestant Religion, as is but too evident by the constant endeavours of the Papists, both by their own power, and the assistance of Dissenters to undermine and overthrow it.   
To conclude, as I have here impartially related matter of Fact, and drawn necessary inferences from it, without animosity or bitterness of language, so I hope good men will, without prejudice or partiality weigh it in an equal balance, and make that charitable use of it for which it was intended, that it may be a means by discovering the source and original of our Divisions and Distractions, our Fears and Apprehensions, and thereby give us the opportunity to break the snares of our Enemies, to which, nothing can so effectually contribute, as our uniting in the Protestant Religion of the Church of England.  
God of his infinite mercy, who maketh men to be of one mind in an House, who is the Author of Peace, and the Lover of Concord, who breaketh the Snares of the Ungodly, turneth their Wisemen backward, and their Counsels into Foolishness; grant that in this our day, we may see, and know, and follow the things that make for our Peace, that so our Divisions may not be our ruin, that the Enemies of our Country and Religion may not triumph over us, but that by our Union with the Established Government in Church and State, we may defeat the designs of our Enemies, and disappoint their expectations. God long preserve the Life of our Dread Sovereign, and defend this Church, the most true Apostolic of any Church upon the face of the Earth.  
The End of the First Part.    

THE SECOND PART OF FOXES AND FIREBRANDS, Or a SPECIMEN Of the Danger and Harmony of POPERY and SEPARATION; WHEREIN Is proved from undeniable matter of Fact and Reason, that Separation from the Church of England is, in the Judgement of Papists, and by sad Experience, found the most compendious way to introduce Popery, and to ruin the Protestant Religion.  
Tantum Religio potuit suadere Malorum.  
DUBLIN, Printed by Jos. Ray for a Society of Stationers. and are to be Sold by the Booksellers of Dublin. MDCLXXXII   

To the Most Reverend the Archbishops; The Right Reverend the Bishops, and the rest of the Reverend Divines of the Reformed Church of IRELAND.  
Reverend Fathers,  
THe Publisher of these Collections of this Treatise, knows none so proper to whom he may dedicate it as yourselves; for as You are those Venerable Persons that intent the Spiritual Good of this Kingdom, and whose Function doth oblige you to watch for the good of Souls, so he doubts not but any the meanest Present will be candidly accepted of, that tends to the promoting of so glorious a design. It hath been the unhappiness of these Kingdoms ever since the Reformation to meet with brisk oppositions in point of Religion, not only from professed Enemies, but disguised Friends; and the Churches of England and Ireland had no sooner shaken off that Idolatry and Superstition that overspread and deformed the face of primitive Apostolical Religion; but like the woman in the Revelations, 
Cap. 12.  she was persecuted by the Dragon, who raised up all his Arts and Stratagems to devour that child of the Reformation which had cost her so many throws and agonies. The Papists on one hand, and the Puritans on the other, did endeavour to sully and bespatter the glory of her Reformation, the one taxing it with Innovation, and the other with Superstition, and too near an approach to those superstitious Rites and Ceremonies which she had reform: what justice there is in either of the accusations, the world is sufficiently sensible of by the many learned Volumes that have defended both her Doctrine and her Discipline, in opposition to them both; and I presume that every unprejudiced Reader will cast the balance on the Church's side, and conclude that there is more of spite and malice than truth in the imputation: For it cannot be imagined that the Churches of England and Ireland should be guilty of Novelties in point of Doctrine, when they did so loudly tax the Church of Rome with Innovations, and pretended them as one great justifiable ground of their separation from it, and to symbolise with that Church in superstitious Rites and Ceremonies, is in effect to say, that they were resolved to maintain what they had abjured, and act contrary to all the declarations that they had published to the World in their own defence. But it will appear farther from this discourse, that these objections were suggested to our dissenters from the Papists, who have frequently acted and preached in the habits of dissenters, and though they pretend to be more zealous against Popery than others, yet they are not ashamed to whet their swords at the forges of the Philistines, and make use of their arts and assistance for the ruin of the Church: I wish they would but seriously reflect upon these things, and consider that by insisting in the paths that the Papists have chalked them out, they are advancing the interest of Popery, and will in time do their work as successfully as if they had laid their heads together to subvert the Government both in Church and State: That they may not any more be seduced by such kind of artifices, is not only the design of these Papers, but the hearty Prayers of  
Your most Humble Servant, R. W.   

Foxes and Firebrands, etc.  
The Second Part.  
THat the Reader may have a clearer insight into the following discourse, and understand how little the Doctrine of depriving or resisting Princes was countenanced by the first Reformers, it may not be inconvenient to entertain him with the pious and Loyal speech of the great Pillar of the Reformation, Archbishop Cranmer, whereby it will appear how averse he was either to the Jesuitical Doctrines of deposing Princes for disowning the Pope's Authority, or the late Fanatical pretences of taking Arms against the King, where ho neglects his duty, or stands not to the promises and Covenants that he makes at his Coronation. The Speech is as followeth:  

MOST DREAD AND ROYAL SOVEREIGN.  
THe promises your Highness hath made here at your Coronation to forsake the Devil and all his works, are not to be taken in the Bishop of Rome's sense, when you commit any thing distasteful to that See, to hit your Majesty in the teeth; as Pope Paul the Third, late Bishop of Rome sent to your Royal Father, saying, didst thou not promise, at our permission of thy Coronation, to forsake the Devil and all his works, and dost thou turn to Heresy? For the breach of this thy promise, knowest thou not that 'tis in our power to dispose of the Sword and Sceptre to whom we please. We your Majesty's Clergy do humbly conceive that this promise reacheth not at your Highness' Sword spiritual or temporal, or in the least at your Highness swaying the Sceptre of this your Dominion, as you and your Predecessors have had them from God; neither could your Ancestors lawfully resign up their Crowns to the Bishops of Rome, or to his Legates, according to their ancient Oaths then taken upon that Ceremony.  
The Bishops of Canterbury for the most part have Crowned your Predecessors, and Anointed them Kings of this Land; yet it was not in their power to receive or reject them, neither did it give them authority to prescribe them conditions to take or to leave their Crowns, although the Bishops of Rome would encroach upon your Predecessors, by his Bishop's Act and Oil, that in the end they might possess those Bishops with an Interest to dispose of their Crowns at their pleasure. But the wiser sort will look to their Claws, and clip them.  
The Solemn Rites of Coronation have their ends and utility, yet neither direct force or necessity; they be good admonitions to put Kings in mind of their duty to God, but no increasement of their Dignity. For they be God's Anointed, not in respect of the Oil which the Bishop useth, but in consideration of their Power which is ordained, of the Sword which is authorized, of their Persons which are elected by God, and endued with the gifts of his Spirit, for the better ruling and guiding of the people. The Oil, if added, is but a Ceremony; if it be wanting, that King is yet a perfect Monarch notwithstanding, and God's Anointed, as well as if he was In-oiled. Now for the Person or Bishop that doth Anoint a King, it is proper to be done by the chiefest; but if they cannot, or will not, any Bishop may perform this Ceremony.  
To condition with Monarches upon these Ceremonies, the Bishop of Rome (or other Bishops owning his Supremacy) hath no authority, but he may faithfully declare what God requires at the hands of Kings and Rulers, that is Religion and Virtue. Therefore not from the Bishop of Rome, but as a Messenger from my Saviour Jesus Christ, I shall most humbly admonish your Royal Majesty what things your Highness is to perform. Your Majesty is God's Vicegerent, and Christ's Vicar within your own Dominions, and to see with your Predecessor Josiah God truly worshipped, and Idolatry destroyed, the Tyranny of the Bishops of Rome banished from your Subject, and Images removed. These acts be signs of a second Josiah, who reform the Word of God in his days. You are to reward Virtue, to revenge Sin, to justify the Innocent, to relieve the Poor, to procure Peace, to repress Violence, and to execute Justice throughout your Realms, for Precedents on those Kings who performed not these things. The old Law shows how the Lord revenged his quarrel, and on those Kings who fulfilled these things, he poured forth his Blessings in abundance. For example it is written of Josiah in the Book of the Kings thus, Like unto him there was no King before him, that turned to the Lord with all his heart, according to-all the Law of Moses, neither after him arose there any like him. This was to that Prince a perpetual fame of dignity, to remain to the end of days.  
Being bound by my Function to lay these things before your Royal Highness, the one as a reward, if you fulfil; the other as a judgement from God, if you neglect them. Yet I openly declare before the Living God, and before these Nobles of the Land, that I have no Commission to denounce your Majesty deprived, if your Highness miss in part, or in whole of these performances; much less to draw up Indentures between God and your Majesty, or to say you forfeit your Crown with a clause, for the Bishop of Rome, as have been by your Majesty's Predecessors, King John, and his Son Henry of this Land. The Almighty God of his mercy, let the light of his countenance shine upon your Majesty, grant you a prosperous and happy Reign, defend you, and save you; and let your Subjects say, Amen.  
God save the King.   
After his Majesty's Coronation, and the death of King Henry the 8th. several of the foreign Protestant Clergy wrote to his Son King Edward, and to that Honourable Council (whom his wise Father had carefully nominated for to instruct and advise that hopeful Prince) amongst whom Mr. John Calvin was one, as appears by his Letters to Archbishop Cranmer, yet extant, and Printed amongst others of his Epinies, in which he offers his service to assist that King in the Reformation of the Church of England; but King Edward and his Council refused his proffer.  
The parties instrumental for dissuading of this Prince from these offertures of calvin's, and the reasons why he was not admitted to be one in this Assembly were not known, until about the 9th. year of his siler Queen Elizabeth her Reign; about which time Sir Henry Sidney some time Lord Deputy of Ireland, and one of her Majssties' Honourable Privy-Council, having then the liberty to view the Papers of State within her Majesty's secret Closet, he happened to find a Letter directed to the Bishops of Winchester, and of Rochester, 
These two Bishops were Gardner and Ponett.  dated from Delft, which he in a manuscript of his own afterwards, in the custody of the most learned Dr. James Usher, late Primate of Armagh, which was after transcribed by Sir James Ware, and is now entered in a manuscript of that Knights, number xliiii. Running in this manner following:  

Memorandum taken out of Sir Henry Sidney his Book, called the Romish Policies, numb. 6. pag. 37. in fol. a manuscript, with Archbishop Usher.  
Her Royal Highness giving me the freedom to search the affairs of State ever since her Royal Fathers denying the Jurisdiction of the See of Rome, 
Sir Henry Sidney's words amongst other of his discourses within this Book.  amongst others of this sort, I found a Letter directed to the Bishops of Winchester and Rochester; part of the Contents being for my purpose, be these, as they were translated out of the Low-Dutch.  
Edward (Son of Henry the Heretic King of England) by his crafty and politic Council hath absolutely brought in Heresy, which if not by art or other endeavours speedily overthrown, and made infamous, all other foreign Heretics will unite with your new Heresies now amongst yourselves lately planted, and so have Bishops as you have; and it is the opinion of our learned men now at Trent, that the Schisms in England by Edward's Council established, will reclaim all the foreign Sects unto their Discipline, and thereby be one body united. For Calvin, Bullinger and others have wrote unto Edward to offer their service to assist and unite, also to make Edward and his Heirs their chief Defender, and so have Bishops as well as England; which if it come to pass that Heretic Bishops be so near, and spread abroad, Rome and the Clergy utterly falls. You must therefore make these offertures of theirs odious to Edward and his Council. Receive N. S. and E. L. from Rotterdam, their lessons are taught them, take you their parts, if checked by the other Heretics; for these be for Rebaptising, and not for Infant-Baptism: Their Doctrine is for a future Monarchy upon earth after death, which will please the ordinary kind well, and dash the other that rageth now amongst you. Reverend Fathers, it is left to you to assist, and to those you know are sure to the Mother-Church. From Delft the 4th. I'd of May, Anno Christi, 1549.  
D. G.   
Her Highness one day discoursing of matters in this kind, 
Queen Eliz. opinion at the sight of this Letter.  I told her of this Paper, at the sight whereof she was startled; the Letter being amongst her Sister's papers, which caused her to express these very words. I had rather than a years Revenue, that my Brother Edward and his Council had seen this Letter; nay rather than twice my Revenue I had seen it sooner, and so caused me to lay it where I found it. 
The Councils opinion.  The Council upon her Highness' discourse concluded that Calvin would have established Episcopacy beyond Seas, had he been consulted herein, and that the hindrance of this offerture caused much animosity between Reformers. Having no more of Sir Henry's words of this nature in this Memorandum, we shall go forward in the Memorials of other learned men of this kind.  
You have seen already our Narrative of Faithful Coming and Tho. Heth, formerly mentioned in the Book entitled Foxes and Firebrands; Printed at London, anno 1680. and also the Life and Death of George Browne, with the Confession of Philip Corwine; which Confession was formerly written by John Garvey, some time Primate of all Ireland, which we have already put out to public view. We shall therefore also lay before you the Confessions of two great Penitents, viz. the one of Samuel Mason, some time bred up with the Jesuits at Paris; the other of Malachias Malone a Carmalite Friar; who were converted to the Protestant Church of England, the former being converted an. 1566, the latter, an. 1584. the former being a memorial of that Learned Statesman Sir Henry Sidney, as also written by John Garvey; the latter a memorial of that Eminent Statesman, the Lord William Cecil, as follows.  
Samuel Mason his Conversion to the Protestant Church of England now established by her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth, our Gracious Sovereign Lady of England, France and Ireland; together with his Speech in the Cathedral of Christ-Church, Dublin, June the 6th. 1566. and also his Narrative presented to Sir Henry Sidney on the 25th. of August following, being made before him, being then Lord Deputy, the Archbishop, Mayor and aldermans of the City of Dublin, formerly written by John Garvey, Primate of Armagh, and Dean of the said Cathedral.  

It is usual upon Confession to show some sorrow for sins committed, 
The Converts Speech.  and also to promise an amendment for the future. But that sorrow without a performance is the committing of Sin afresh, besides the committing of the sin of lying, when the party performeth it not: These sorts of sorrows and promises be odious both to God and Man. But my Confession is not Auricular, as I publicly here declare it, therefore I hope to be the more credited; and it would redound to my disgrace from henceforth, to dissemble either with God or Man: So that I shall not make a rash vow, that I will not return to my evil ways, yet with Prayer I shall seek my God for his assistance, lest I be led into temptation, reserving within myself this saying in my mind: Teach me, O Lord, to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto Godly wisdom.  
It was not want driven me hither, for had I complied at Paris, where I abode about eight years, I might have been entertained; yet my frailties were such, I here openly declare, for two years and upwards, before I departed from thence, I dissembled with the Society called the Society of Jesus. But spending my time partly in learning the Language of that Kingdom; and also by searching the Records and Libraries of the Universities there, I found out variety to dissuade me from that impious way of living. Therefore I have come hither to acknowledge both mine ignorance and perverseness when I was of a contrary opinion for to embrace the truth, which I have for a long time scandalised and rejected, hoping all here present will be pleased, as Christians, to take this my Recantation for a real and true one. So the Lord of his mercy recall Sinners to his Church duly from henceforth. Amen.   
After this Recantation of Mr. Masons, Sir Henry Sidney then Lord Deputy took him for one of his Chaplains, after which Adam Loftus after Primate of Armagh, upon the resignation of Hugh Corwine Archbishop of this See; Adam our Primate resigning up the Primacy to succeed Hugh Corwine in this Diocese, he preferred this Convert to the Parish of Finglas, two miles distant from this City of Dublin.  
After the Recantation of this Convert upon the Feast of St. Bartholomew, soon after his Conversion, he presented Sir Henry Sidney with this Narrative following.  
The covetousness of the Bishop of Rome for these several hundred of years past have increased more than ordinary: 
The Converts Narrative after his Speech given to Sir Henry Sidney then Lord Deputy of Ireland.  First their covetousness caused them to forget God, by neglecting his Will and Commandments. Secondly, it hath caused them to accept of the earthly pleasures of this world, which Satan offered to our Saviour, but Christ rejected his offerture by rebuking him, and shown that he cared not for the riches therein; by his saying, My Kingdom is not of this World, hath not only caused the Bishops of Rome to assume to themselves the Titles due to Emperors, Kings and Princes; but above all, to assume the name of God to them and their Successors, which, in a word, is Blasphemy. At Paris, during my stay there, I improved myself by searching the Records, and viewing the Books in that University; amongst which, I lighted upon the Clergy of Liege, their Apology to Pope Paschal the Second, as touching the Oath of Allegiance, which he had granted against the then Emperor, Henry the Fourth. The substance of this Clergies Apology being thus translated out of French.  
Who can justly blame a Bishop for favouring his Lord's party, 
The Clergy of Leighs, their apology against Pope Puschal the Second, circa ann. 1105, or near that time.  to whom he oweth Allegiance, and hath promised by Oath to observe it. No man doubts but that Perjury is a grievous offence; God only sweareth and repenteth not, because wisdom keeps the commandment of God's Oath. But for us who often repent that we have sworn, we are forbidden to swear. If a man swears, God enjoins him to perform his Oath unto the Lord, which is not unknown to those that rend the Kingdom and the Priesthood by a new Schism, and with their upstart Traditions promise to absolve from all sins; such as incur the crime of Perjury towards their Sovereign, never reading what God said to Zedekias, (by the mouth of Ezekiel the Prophet) who had committed Perjury against his Sovereign Nebuchadonozor; He that hath broken the Covenant, shall he escape? Which St. Hierome expounds thus. Hence we may learn, that we ought to keep touch even with our enemies, and not consider with whom, but by whom we have sworn.  
Considering on this Apology, my soul was smitten within me, and such a terror seized on my Conscience, that I said within my soul, surely that if Paschal was thus reproved by this Clergy so long since, how wicked are his Successors grown by this time.  
At this time, 
Pope Pius the 4th. his contrivance against the Protestants of England, anno 1560.  viz. anno 1560 a strict Bull issued out of Pope Pius the 4th. commanding all the Learned of the several Orders of that Church to find out proofs and reasons for persuading of Subjects to break their Oaths of Allegiance with their Kings and Princes; and to gloss this device the better, he dispensed with several of the learnedst of the Franciscans, Dominicans, and of the Society of Jesus, to Preach amongst the Protestants of England; nay with some of them, to marry, saying that the Marriage of England established by the Queen and her Clergy was no Marriage, but plain Heresy. All these so dispensed were to give monthly intelligence; if from France, to the chief Cities there; if from Spain, or from other Territories, to those places; and for fear any of these should be dissuaded from their Orders, others were sent to discover them, if they found their inclinations so bending, before they came to be fully resolved to turn; this, one Andrew Mr. Gibbons a Scotch Friar assured me, who was sent for this purpose, and betrayed one John Gyles, who was then a recanting at the City of Gloucester; but Gyles ingeniously confessing all the contrivance, and desiring proof might be brought who was his accuser. Andrew Mr. Gibbons was summoned to appear, and to proceed, but Andrew suspecting that himself was catched, straight seemed to go, but pretending to go into his Lodging for some papers to give the Bailiffs of Gloucester, went out the backway, and so took Horse, and fled into France, and came to Paris; what became of John Glyes, I did not inquire. 
How the Penitents thoughts were when he searched after these writings first, and how he altered his opinion after   
Still being desirous to search after all Indulgences, Absolutions and Dispensations for Oaths, Allegiance, and for Rebellions, to strengthen the Church of Rome, supposing thereby to have made myself a Fortune, and to be esteemed well of by the Clergy and Laity of Rome. I for the most part made it my purpose to collect all things of this nature, these being some of my Collections.  
Paul the Third granted an Indulgence for Harlots to use their bodies with any men, 
Paul the 3d. his Indulgence for Whoring and Adultery for money.  and to trade in this Sin, as I found by his Bull in the third year of his Papacy, granted upon the pretence that the flesh being so unruly a member, could not be mortified, although several Laws had been made against those evil sins; yet the Sin was to be excused with those who could not consist in the state of Chastity, provided the man gave a certain fee to the spiritual See, and that the woman paid a yearly Revenue also, and entered her name in the Registry to pay her fees accordingly, which was to be gathered weekly; this was pretended to go for the redemption of Slaves and Prisoners of the Roman Religion, either with Turk or Heretic. Every House or Stews appointed for this purpose, to have an Iron-Trunk or Box fastened in the Wall of these Stews, wherein the party thus inclined, was, before he could be permitted to take his pleasure to put in his sum through a slit in the said Box: And three Testees were to wait on these Houses weekly, to take out what sums there were thrown in, whereof one third part was for the House, the Whores were to have another third part, and the See of Rome another third part; at this time it being calculated that the Registry contained in Paul the Thirds days, 45000 Harlots that paid him Tribute, and that by Pius Quintus his Papacy it increased to the number of 64360 Harlots, paying him weekly Tribute; and all those who went to any secret Whore, were to be excommunicated, if they were so catched, until he had paid sevenfold the rate of the Whore's permitted, which was seven Julies' so permitted.  
An Indulgence was granted by this Pope for to kill any that followed Luther's opinion, 
The Pope's Pardon for killing a Lutheran.  a thousand years' pardon for his Sins, besides the honour to be enroled by the name of Rome's faithful Soldier.  

This Pope Paul by his Bull entered at Paris runs, 
Pope Paul's Indulgence to Rebels. etc.  Englished thus; Whereas we find the Heretics now concord in the Administration of the Sacrament of the body of Jesus, We grant full remission of Sins to those our Sons of our Mother Church that shall stop or hinder their union amongst Heretics.  
We also absolve all Subjects from their Oaths of Allegiance unto their Heretic Kings, Princes, or States, as they be enemies unto the holy See of St. Peter: All men from their tye of Matrimony with Heretic Wives, or Wives from their Heretical Husbands: Also all Children from their Parental obedience either to an Heretic Father or Mother. Also We absolve all Parents not giving to their Heretic Children their Benediction or Portion, either to give their Estate to the next Catholics of the Mother Church akin to the Family, or to give or to dispose of it to any other persons use.  
Paul the Third, the Servant of the Servants of Jesus Christ, and to Fernesius our Trusty and Faithful Son and Champion for the Holy See of St. Peter; the Blessings of the Holy Trinity attend on the Person of our Wellbeloved Son Fernesius, of St. Peter, of St. Paul, of the Mother of God: The Benediction of the holy Host of Heaven, of the Arch-Angels, Angels, Saints, Patriarches, Prophets, Apostles, and holy Martyrs assist thee, and those fight under thee, in our holy Cause: 
Paul the 3d. his Indulgence granted to Fernesius, who went to fight against the Protestants in Germany.  We grant to thee our Son and Faithful Soldier Fernesius, a true and plenary Pardon for all thy sins committed, or to be committed by thee, or any other fight under thee, fight for the holy Cause of St. Peter our Predecessor of this See of Rome. We will and command the Arch-Angels, and Angels, to carry into Heaven the Souls of those our Soldiers that shall be slain in Battle for our Holy See of Rome (fight in so just a cause) immediately upon their Expiration not suffering or enduring the least pain of Purgatory. Also an Absolution of sins of one hundred years, to all the Children of those dying, or being slain in this our holy Cause, against the Heretics and Enemies of our Holy See of St. Peter's, 4th. I'd June, in the third year of our Pontif.  
Paulus Tertius.   
Julius the Third continued the Council of Trent; 
Beneventum that Archbishop upholds so doing.  and we find in the Universities of Paris a piece of a Letter of this Julius written to Casa the Archbishop of Beneventum; wherein he returns him thanks, and absolves this Bishop, for a Book written by this Casa defending the sin of Sodomy: Which I do hearty lament that I took not a Copy thereof, but can assure that I saw that Letter, and the Books name specified therein, for Toleration, and defence of Sodomy.  
The Jesuits of Paris their opinion was to the Council of Trent in the year 1559. 
How the Jesuits to ingratiate themselves with the Pope, and to misled the Commonalty, make him and his acts above God and the holy Scriptures.  (just at my coming thither) that the Pope and the Council were above all that is called God, and of greater force than the Scripture was; for which opinion one Veratus returned this Society thanks from the Council; and so it was upon the Jesuits opinion voted in that Council, that their Acts and the Popes were beyond the Law, the Prophets and the Scriptures.  
The Messenger between the Council of Trent and the Jesuits of Paris, 
Ludovick de Freak, the Council of Trents Messenger between them and the Jesuits of France, who brought them these Instructions to destroy the Church of England from Beneventum the Archbishop, named Casa.  was Ludovick de Freak, formerly a Priest in England, who brought with him up to Paris, from the Council, several kind of Indulgences and Instructions for that Society to undertake, and grant, and teach: Part of the Instructions were thus, to take notice of the confessions of the people of France, especially of the Nobles and Gentry; and in case they suspect any thing detrimental to the Holy See of Rome, then to confer with three or more Confessors of the suspicion, and so to take memorandums of certain questions to be asked of the party so suspected the next time.  
Also to converse with the Noblest, and to discourse variously until they find which way he is inclinable most, and to please them accordingly in their discourse; and in case any of you be, or chance to be any of their Confessors, ye are to take memorandums of things doubtful and suspicious, and at the next Confession to urge them to those parties then confessing, by which any three or more are to consult, and give the See of Rome and her Councils intelligence more or less, that the Mother-Church might be informed, and all evil prevented that is or shall be intended against her.  
You are to associate with all strangers Heretical, 
This Dispensation of the Pope hath beguiled many wise men in England.  as well as Christian Catholic; if Heretical, to be civil, and not to discover your profession; and for the better procurement of these designs designed, or to be accomplished, ye may with leave of any three of the Society be permitted to wear what dress or habit you think convenient, provided the Society hear from the party so dispensed. Any of you thus dispensed with, may go with the Heretic to any of their heretical Meetings permitted by Acts or Contracts of Peace between Princes: by this contrivance ye may both inform the Mother-Church, and in case any of you be employed to assist her to go into any of the heretical Villages or Territories, you will be the more able to serve the holy See of St. Peter, and keep yourselves from suspicion.  
In case any of ye be thus employed, 
The Pope's Dispensation with Impostors to Preach all Doctrines in England, to confound that Church.  ye are dispensed with either to go with Heretics to their Churches, or as you see convenient. If you own yourselves Clergymen, then to Preach, but with caution, till ye be well acquainted with those Heretics you converse with, and then by degrees add to your Doctrine by Ceremonies, or otherwise, as you find them inclinable. If ye be known by any of the Lay Catholics, you are to pacify them by saying secret Mass unto them, or by acquainting other Priests (who are not able to undertake this work) with your intentions, who doth generally say Mass unto them. If the Lay men be of any Parts, or of Wit, you may dispense with them also, reserving the same provisoes, and thereby he may acquire an Estate, and be the more able to serve the Mother-Church.  
In case they scruple in taking of Oaths, you are to dispense with them, assuring them that they are to be kept no longer than the Mother-Church sees it convenient. 
The Pope's manner of dispensing with Oaths, a good memorandum for Protestant Juries to recollect, and to consider.  Or if they scruple to swear on the Evangelist, you are to say unto them, that the Translation on which they swear, his Holiness the Pope hath annulled, and thereby it is become Heretical, and all as one as upon an ordinary Story-Book.  
In case in strange Countries, ye be known by Merchants or others trading or travelling thither, for to strengthen your designs the more for your intention, you are dispensed with to Marry after their manner, and then ye safely may make answer, that Heretical Marriage is no Marriage, for your Dispensation mollifies it so, that at the worst it is but a Venial Sin, and may be forgiven.  
Ye are not to Preach all after one method, 
The Pope's contrivance to demolish the Protestant Church of England.  but to observe the place wherein you come. If Lutheranism be prevalent, then Preach Calvanism; if Calvanism, than Lutheranism; if in England, then either of these, or John Husses opinions, Anabaptism, or any that are contrary to the Holy See of St. Peter, by which your Function will not be suspected, and yet you may still act on the interest of the Mother-Church; there being as the Council are agreed on, no better way to demolish that Church of Heresy, but by mixtures of Doctrines, and by adding of Ceremonies, more than be at present permitted.  
Some of you who undertook to be of this sort of the heretical Episcopal Society, 
This Dispensation shows how the Pope for his purpose dispenceth even with the Protestant Church of England itself for her gain.  bring it as near to the Mother-Church as you can; for then the Lutheran Party, the Calvinists, the Anabaptists, and other Heretics will be averse thereunto, and thereby make that Episcopal Heresy odious to all these, and be a means to reduce all in time to the Mother-Church.  
You are further (during the time you take these shapes on you) to observe thus much of the rules of the Mother-Church; 
This Dispensation shows that the Pope and his Emissaries be the Factions between the King, Parliament and Subjects.  the Mother-Church disowneth the Regal Power to be her Superior, especially the Heretical Powers Regal, or otherwise. Upon this ye are to take these measures: You must bemoan your Followers and Auditors, saying, Are not we persecuted for righteousness sake? What Flesh and Blood can endure this! We be more zealous against the Pope than they, and yet we be persecuted. By these means your cotrivances will light on those ye lead along, and not on yourselves. This will advantage you much; hang you or burn you they dare not; but their perpetual acts against the party that follow you, will take off the late severities they lay on us, in saying, We burned the Heretics their Ancestors, and so at last bring that odium upon that Heretical Church in England, which they have thrown on us. And as you will be more admired by the people, so the Heretics will asperse that Heretical King and his Church as little differing from us. These Instructions I am commanded to recommend unto you, as being approved by his Holiness Julius the Third, your Supreme Father, and his wholesome Council to be handled and performed to the utmost of your Powers, Wealth, Parts, Learning and Capacities for the good of the Mother-Church. Dated the fourth Ide of November, 1551.  
Beneventum.  
Upon these consultations I was amazed to behold these and other the contrivances that hath been contrived against the Church of England ever since King Henry her Royal Highness Father fell from the See of Rome, 
How the Converts contrary design turned to his Conversion.  but yet duly taking memorandums of these things for my curiosities sake, at first then designing to have practised these instructions at last seriously pondering upon these devices, and upon several others of this kind (which would contain a large volume to set them out to public view,) I pretended to come over hither to practise the same; and to colour my feigned intention, I said I took these memorandums for my instructions, and so left Paris in the month of April, anno 1566. and landed at Dover the month following; from whence I came to this Kingdom, where since I have satisfied the Archbishop and the rest of my Brethren the Clergy, by my last confession publicly in this City of Dublin: Yet for further assurance of my confidence in the Protestant Faith of England now established by her Highness and her Parliament of this Nation. I Samuel Mason being strucken in years, not knowing how soon it may please the Almighty God to take me from hence, as also to take off all evil Calumnies, Aspersions and Suspicions of me Samuel Mason, as if I should die in the Roman Church. I do humbly lay this my Narrative before your Lordship, as Chief under her Highness in these her Dominions of Ireland, for a true and signal testimony of my fidelity to her Highness her Government both in Church and State. Dated at Dublin the 24th. day of August, 1566.  
Samuel Mason.  
I was the more desirous to keep this Memorial of this Convert, 
John Garvey his design for preserving of this memorandum.  by reason the Speech (for the declaring of her Conversion) was spoke in my Cathedral: I being but the year before by her Royal Highness preferred to that Deanery, as appears by her Majesty's special Letter now on Record, and also I have inserted this amongst others of my Diaries to remain hereafter with other of the memorandums concerning this Deanery, desiring my Successors to follow the same for the public benefit of their Successors, and to be produced as time shall serve for their several occasions most opportunely and fit.  
The Convert continued not fully two years in his Parsonship or Parish before he died, 
The Converts death and burial.  myself preaching his Funeral Sermon, where several with sorrowful tears lamented the loss of so true a Penitent, choosing this Text suitable for his Conversion: Blessed are they that die in the Lord, etc. whom all must suppose did, as appears by his hearty Recantation and declaration aforesaid: He was buried in his Parish at Finglas, two miles distant from Dublin, on the Feast of St. Bartholomew, Ann. Dom. 1568.  
In the year of our Lord 1584. Sir John Perrot, than Lord Deputy of Ireland, taking his Progress into the Province of Connaught, there came to his Lordship a Friar Carmelite named Malachias Malone, by some called O Malone, (Brother unto Mr. William Eughter) who had been of that Order about 36 years, even from the beginning of King Edward the Sixth's Reign; this Malachias, and Sir John, then having had great conference together in private. After which, this Friar (in the face of a whole Congregation than met together in St. Stephen's Church of galway) renounced the Pope's Supremacy, and also the Popish Religion.  
At this Recantation he first entered into the Church in his Friars Weeds, 
The Friar's actions and speech upon his Conversion.  saying to the Congregation these words, Peccavi contra Deum Creatorem meum, contra Reginam, & contra Leges Regnorum ejus. Then taking off his Friar's Weeds, he said, Away with these Cloaks of Sin, I will  myself with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Now, good people, bear witness, from henceforth I conform myself to the Religion established in these her Majesty's Dominions, by her Majesty and her Parliaments of England and Ireland.  
At this time several of the Roman Catholic Friars and Jesuits lurking about that City of galway, 
Sir John Perrott's care of Malachias.  had a design against this Convert, which coming to Sir John's ears, he would not permit him to remain in that Province, but caused special care to be taken of him, and so brought him before to Dublin, where he was carefully looked after, and lay amongst my Lord Deputies Servants; the said Lord allowing unto him a certain allowance for his maintenance during his Government in that her Majesty's Realm of Ireland.  
Sir John being this year absent from Dublin three months and odd days, returned thither with this Friar upon the 11th. of October following, and so gave her Majesty and the Lords of the Council here an account of this his Progress; amongst the rest, this of Malachias was also.  
Upon St. Simon and Jude's Feast, being the 28th. of October, and in the same month of his return to Dublin, Sir John, the Archbishop of Dublin, Lord Chancellor, the Primate of Armagh, the chief Judges and others of her Majesty's Council assembled in the Castle of Dublin. This said Malachias (as appears by their Letters unto the Lords here of her Majesty's Council) having acquainted Sir John and that Council of several matters and discoveries which he had to reveal unto them, he was called for to appear before them, at which time he declared how he had been a grievous Traitor to God, and to her Majesty, and there declared this declaration in writing following; having got Mr. Fenton to write the same, that the Lord Deputy and Council might read it the easier.  

I Malachias o Malone, born at Bullintobber in the County of Mayo, 
The Friar's Confession before the Lord Deputy and Council of Ireland.  Anno Christi 1522. in the year of our Lord 1548. upon the Assumption of our Blessed Lady I received the Order of Mount Carmel, generally called Friars Carmelites, and became a Member of that Order of the Convent of Ballinsmale in the said County, continuing therein for the space of 12 years before I departed from thence. Afterwards in the year 1561. I journied towards Cecil in Spain, in the company of Tho. Lynch, Garrott Fitz-Gerald of my own Order; also in the company of my Cousin James Malone, John Bourke, Philip Corwine, and of Thady o Bryan, who in the City of Sevell took on them the Order of St. Francis. I tarried at that City about two years, and from thence journied into France, then coming into the City of Paris, I met with several of my Countrey-folks, who civility used me; At that time I was employed by Ludovic Freak, one of the Order of Jesus, for to carry over certain papers of Instructions unto Shane o Neale, then stirring in the Province of Ulster, which I safely delivered unto him from Father Freak. The Contents thereof were, to set up his Title, which his Ancestors claimed in that Province, and not to make any conditions with the English, unless it were upon great advantage, or in great extremity; for France and Scotland should both assist him, when he had raised up that Country.  
After I had received these Instructions, he produced the Bishop of Rome's Bull of Indulgence, and liberty unto all those who undertook to secure and assist that Mother-Church of Rome: The Contents be as these:  

PIUS the Servant of the Servants of God, 
Pius Quintus his Bull for Anathematising Protestants, that the Undertakers for the advancement of Rome might not scruple any thing when they are indulged.  etc. Whereas we have found and daily find Heresies increasing in several Colonies, Principalities, Realms and countries' subject to the sacred See of St. Peter our Predecessor, and they falling from, and deserting our Jurisdiction with their blasphemous and railing writings against Us, our Ceremonies, and Apostolic Jurisdictions and Privileges granted unto Us and our sucessors from God, and formerly generally acknowledged by Emperors, Kings and Princes to be Ours, and our Predecessors due and right.  
We therefore in the Name of the holy Trinity, of the Blessed Mother of God, the Virgin Mary; of St. Peter, of St. Paul; in the name of the holy Host of Heaven, of the Arch-Angels and Angels, of the holy Apostles, Saints, and blessed Martyrs, do Anathematise all Heretics lying, trading or travelling in or amongst the same, wheresoever dispersed over the face of the whole Earth. We further will and authorise the Wise and learned of our ecclesiastics, expert in divine Science, to labour, endeavour and devise all manner of devices to be devised, to abate, assuage, and confound those Heresies repugnant to our sacred Laws, that thereby these Heretics might be either recalled to confess their Errors, and acknowledge our Jurisdiction of the See of Rome, or that a total infamy may be brought upon them and their posterities by a perpetual discord and contention amongst themselves, by which means they may either speedily perish by God's wrath, or continue in eternal difference, to the reproach of Jew, Turk, Heathen, nay, to the Devils themselves. Given at Rome the 6th. I'd of May, Primo Pontif.  
Pius Quintus.   
The Copy of this Bull of Indulgence and Commission was translated unto me into English by a learned Penman named John Warham Nephew to William Warham some time Archbishop of Canterbury. After that I had got a Copy of this Bull, Mr. Freak and I discoursed concerning the same, because I thought it impossible to overthrow the Protestants, unless it were by force of Arms; but he replied that it was easy-to do it otherwise, 
Rome's several sorts of Dispensations for to ruin the Church of England.  by telling me that this Bull dispensed with the Devisor for devising of new Tenants, Doctrines and Covenants; nay, that it dispensed to marry after an Heretical Law; provided that the device intended was to promote the advancement of Rome, and that Marriage, as they performed it, was no Marriage, but a venial sin: Then I made answer, In case these men be taken with this kind of life, and so totally fall from Rome, what will you do then?  
He told me after this manner, 
How Rome gets all her Intelligence and Knowledge, secrets of Kings, and their Councils.  to the best of my remembrance, that those who undertook to serve the Mother-Church, entered their names in the chief Convents of their several Orders, and that in their Commissions they have several names, three or four, in case they be discovered, and that when they have intelligence, they may fly to another place, and still keep correspondence with the Convents.  
I demanded of him which fort had the granting of these Licences.  
He told me that Pope Pius had granted a Commission to the Wisest and most Learned sort of the Orders of St. Dominick, St. Francis, 
A demonstration which of these Orders generally be by the Pope Indulged to put false Doctrines amongst us Protestants.  and of his own Order, of the Society of Jesus, to keep a general correspondence, every quarter at least, with the Convents of these Orders, which testimonies were to be shown upon these general Assemblies, as signal demonstrations of their fidelity to the Church of Rome. I told him that it was worth my journey coming out of Ireland for to travel, because I had learned much experience, and should be cunning for the future.  
To this he said, 
How Popish Zeal is revenged on the Protestant.  you see how we be by the Heretics put to our shifts every day more than other; therefore we must try our skill to be even with them.  
I demanded of him, what could it avail the Church of Rome to set up so many Heresies, seeing that the Devisers dare not openly acknowledge the Church of Rome's Supremacy, but be forced to rail at the Pope, and at her.  
He replied, 
A pretty Cheat for disguised Papists to rail at Rome, and yet be of the Church of Rome.  when they rail at Rome, and their hearts be contrary, it is no sin; they may mean Rome, and name it, as it was in the ancient Roman days; and also the word Pope, for that word in Latin Papa, is as much as to say, a Bishop; so that he may mean one of their Heretic Bishops, and that these mental rail advanced the See of Rome, and furthered their designs in several respects.  

(a) This shows how Rome by her Phanaticism hindereth uniformity in the Church of England.  First, as it made Heresies and Schisms amongst Heretics, so it hindered uniformity in the Church of England.  

(b) The Papists all plead they can turn Protestants, by reason there are so many sorts of them.  Secondly, that it was a great advantage for preventing Roman Catholics to turn away from their Principles.  

(c) Let Dissenters observe this, and how the Papists came to cast the late Plot, begun Anno 1678. upon them.  And lastly, when ever the Church of Rome shall have a design to destroy Heresy, she will never want intelligence, having one or more of these wise men amongst these several sorts of Heretics.  
Then I asked, how shall we be able to know her Majesty's secrets, and the intents of the Church of England?  
He said, 
A warning for Protestants not to match with Papists, or to keep Popish Servants.  We have also dispensed with that, and several of that Church have either a Roman Catholic Wife, or the Wife a Roman Catholic Husband, or they, if both Heretics, perhaps keep Roman Catholic Servants, which are bound to obey the Mother-Church when ever commanded.  
I entreated Mr. Freak to give me a Copy of the Heads of the directions that were given unto those who were licenced to perform what this Bull had permitted; which was thus: 
Observe how in Cromwell's days Marriages were altered for this purpose.  They were permitted to marry upon two accounts; First, because they might not be suspected; Secondly, Heretical Marriage is no Marriage, if their Matrimonial Ceremonies be contrary to the Romish Orders.  
Several of these so licenced are to take divers Callings according to their inclinations, 
Thus Rome taught Dissension in the late usurped times.  yet to Preach and Expound; and in case they be asked upon what grounds they came by this Science, they must reply by the Spirit of God, by revelation, and by searching of the Scriptures.  
In case they be asked upon what grounds they take upon them to Preach, 
In the usurped days they generally called it Teaching, and not Preaching.  they must reply, We Preach not, but Teach.  
But in case they ask, and say, Why do ye then Teach itself? 
Let Statesmen consider of this Jesuitical fetch for Teaching.  ye must reply, because the Sons of the Prophets did Teach; so did Jehoshaphat and his Princes, likewise did the Disciples before Christ's Resurrection, also the Scribes and Pharisees, and divers of the Church of Corinth, and these were not Churchmen.  
If they say by this means every man may Preach that listeth, 
A further Jefuitical fetch to adorn the Schisms of Rome.  you must reply, I could wish we were all Preachers and Prophets, because Moses wished all the Lords people were Prophets.  
If we should make but one or two divisions amongst the English Heretics, 
Jesuitical Policies not to permit the Popish Laity to read Scripture.  it were all in vain, and our labour lost; and this the Council of Trent a little before its dissolution left to our Society to handle, who from Paris, Rome, and from several places of Italy corresponded with each other, and concluded that Rome herself had not continued in that splendour as she hath done hitherto, in case her Popes and Council had not brought in novelties to please people's fancies, by which means it confounded the capacities of the Laity and common sort, as they were not permitted to read or search the Scriptures. 
How they have deluded the Protestant Laity by misconstruing the Scripture, knowing they be permitred to read them.  But by reason that the Heretics of England, and other Provinces permitted them to read, it was necessary before they were well grounded in their Principles, to preach variety unto them, to some the Doctrine of ; to some, that Children should not be baptised till they come to Age; too others, a Monarchy of earthly happiness after this temporal life; too others, that the righteousness of man dependeth not upon the Faith of Christ, but upon charity and affliction; and that any gifted man may either give or receive the Sacrament. All these and several such like observations as shall daily spring forth, must ye undertake to perform outwardly with great fervency, for thereby ye will not be suspected or discovered; for that one method being duly observed, will absolve ye, and hid your designs designed.  
Then receiving these Instructions, I lest Paris, 
What he delivered to Shane O Neal from Father Freak whilst he was a Papist.  and journied, and came to Calais, from thence I sailed into Scotland, and so came for Ireland, where I gave the Papers delivered unto me by Father Freak unto Shane O Neale, which was in the year of Christ 1564.  
Judgements falling upon the Head of Shane O Neal for his Treachery and Rebellion against our Sovereign Lady the Queen. 
How he came to be Converted.  I said within myself, God doth not prosper these unjust means, yet continuing still in my profession of the Order of Mount Carmel, I perceived always the Roman Catholics projects to fail them, which smote my Conscience very often, so that I resolved to repent, that I might lay my bones in the Grave in peace, with hopes of a joyful Resurrection, when I and all mankind shall come before our Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ, before whose Tribunal all must appear, and receive according to their works, and Faith in him alone.  
Witness my hand this 28th. of October, Anno Dom. 1584. Malachias Malone.   
The Original of this was sent to her Majesty and Council from Sir John Perrot Knight, than Lord Deputy of Ireland, and that Council, as a signal assurance of this Convert's Reformation to the Protestant Church of England now established.  
Although we should have placed these following Memorials before the Conversion of Mason or Malone, yet happening to cast an eye thereon, being entered amongst my Father's Manuscripts, and given unto him from John King some time Dean of Tuum, I have here set them forth, that the Reader may see how sensible the Lord Cicell was of the Romish Conspiracies against the Church of England and her Majesty.  
Worthy Sir,  
You can assure her Highness of my care and charge which I undertook at my departing from her Grace and the Honourable Privy Council: I assure you I do not miss-spend my little time, it being so precious, as you and others can testify by my former Intelligences sent by the hands of Captain Russel, of which I was assured came safe to the Council. I intended to have presented this enclosed with my own hands to her Grace, but her lost message to me hath been the occasion of sending it sooner upon two accounts; it being a matter of sudden prevention, and likewise having so sure a hand, and the conveniency of Mr. Edward Maxwells and others of our English Factors here going from hence, and guarded by her Grace's Ship called the Swallow, I shall make all the speed I can possible, and with God's help see your Worship as cheerful as ever, though I am somewhat altered by this last Voyage. God preserve your undertake both at home and abroad, for the public good of her gracious Majesty, and welfare of the Nation.  
Your assured Servant, E. Dennum. Venice, April 13th. 1564.  
A list of several consultations amongst the Cardinals, Bishops, and others of the several Orders of Rome now a contriving and conspiring against her gracious Majesty, and the established Church of England.  
Pius having consulted with the Clergy of Italy, and assembling them together, it was by general consent voted, that the immunity of the Romish Church and her Jurisdiction is required to be defended by all her Princes, as the principal Church of God.  
And to encourage the same, the Council hath voted that Pius should bestow her Grace's Realm on that Prince who shall attempt to conquer it.  
There was a Council ordered by way of a Committee, who contain three of the Cardinals, two of the Archbishops, six of the Bishops, and as many of the late Order of the Jesuits, who daily increase, and come into great favour with the Pope of late: These do present weekly methods, ways and contrivances for the Church of Rome, which hold the great Council for the week following in employment how to order all things for the advancement of the Romish Faith. Some of these contrivances coming to my hands by the help of the Silver key, be as follow:  
1. The people of England being much averted from their Mother-Church of Rome, they have thought fit, sounding out their inclinations how the common sort are taken with the Liturgy in English, for to offer her Grace to confirm it, with some things altered therein, provided that her Grace and the Council do acknowledge the same from Rome and her Coucil; which if it be denied, as we suppose it will, than these are to asperse the Liturgy of England by all ways and conspiracies imaginable.  
2. A Licence or Dispensation to be granted to any of the Romish Orders to Preach, speak, or write against the now established Church of England, amongst other Protesters against Rome, purposely to make England odious to them, and that they may retain their assistances promised them in case of any Prince's invasion, and the parties so licenced and indulged (dispensed with) to be seemingly as one of them, and not to be either taxed, checked, or excommunicated for so doing; and further, for the better assurance of the party so licenced and indulged, the party to change his name lest he be discovered, and to keep a quarternal correspondence with any of the Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots, Priors, or others of the chief Monasteries, Abbeys, etc. At which quarternal correspondence shall not only give the Pope intelligence of Heretical conspiracy, but be a full assurance of their fidelity to Rome.  
This proposal was much debated in the Council, which caused some of the Council to say, how shall we prevent it, in case any of the parties so licenced flinch from us, and receive a good reward, and fall off from our correspondency.  
3. It was then ordered that there should be several appointed for to watch the parties so licenced and indulged, and to give intelligence to Rome of their behaviour, which parties are sworn not to divulge to any of those so licenced or indulged what they be, or from whence they came, but to be strange, and to come in as one of their Converts, so that the party shall be cautious how and which way he bendeth.  
It was afterwards debated how it should be ordered in case any of the Heretical Ministry of England should become as they who had these Licences, and what should be done in that case.  
4. It was then answered by the Bishop of men's, that that was the thing they aimed at, and that they desired no more than separation amongst the Heretics of England, and by so doing, in case any animosity be amongst them, the Church established by the Heretic Queen, (as they so termed her Grace) there would be the less to oppose the Mother-Church of Rome,  opportunity served: This reason of the Bishop pacified the whole Council.  
5. It was granted not only Indulgence and Pardon to the party that should assault her Grace either private or in public; or to any Cook, Brewer, Baker, Physician, Vintner, Grocer, Chirurgeon, or any other Calling whatsoever, that should or did make her away out of this World, a Pardon, but an absolute Remission of Sins to the Heirs of that party's Family sprang from him, and a perpetual Annuity to them for ever; and the said Heir to be never beholding to any of the Fathers for pardon, be they of what Order soever, unless it pleased himself, and to be one of those Privy-Council whosoever Reigned, successively.  
6. It was ordered for the better assurance of further intelligence to the See of Rome, to give Licences to any that shall swear to that Supremacy due Obedience and Allegiance to her Powers to dispense with Sacraments, Baptism, Marriages, and other Ceremonies of our now established Church in England, that the parties so obliged may possess and enjoy any Office or Employment either Ecclesiastical, Military or Civil, and to take such Oaths as shall be imposed upon them, provided that the said Oaths be taken with a reserve for to serve the Mother-Church of Rome  opportunity serveth, and thereby, in so doing, the Act in Council was passed it was no sin, but meritorious, until occasion served to the contrary; and that when it was so served for Rome's advantage, the party was absolved from his Oath.  
7. It was also ordered that all the Romish Orders, as well Regular as Secular, to cherish all the Adherents of the Mother-Church of Rome whenever occasion serveth, to be in readiness at the times that shall be appointed, and to contribute according to their capacities what in them lieth for the promotion of the Romish Cause.  
8. It is ordered that the Romish Party shall propose a Match for the Queen of the Catholic Princes for to further or promote the Romish Faith.  
9 It is ordered upon pain of Excommunication, and of a perpetual Curse to light on the Families and Posterities of all those of the Mother-Church of Rome, who will not promote or assist by means of Money, or otherwise, Marry Queen of Scotland's pretence to the Crown of England.  
10. It is also ordered that every Romish Catholic within England and Ireland, or any of England's Territories, to contribute to those Romish Bishops, Parish Priests, etc. that are privately, or shall be by Rome set over them, to pay all the Church duties, as if they were in possession, upon pain of Excommunication of them and their Posterity.  
11. It is ordered that the See of Rome do dispense with all parties of the Roman Faith to swear against all Heretics of England as elsewhere, and that not to be a crime, or an offence against the soul of the party, the Accuser taking the Oath, with an intention to promote or advance the Roman Catholic Faith.  
The Original being kept private in her Majesty's secret Closet amongst other Papers of secrecy at that time not to be published, having a Correspondent at that time in Italy to send her Majesty Intelligence of foreign conspiracies and contrivances.  
This same noble Peer mentions in the same Book of his Memorials this relation, which is also suitable for our purpose.  
In the month of June, 
A Relation of a Puritan Preacher permitted by the Jesuits to Preach dissension at Norwich.  Anno 1584. was Francis Throgmorton seized on in London, and several Treasons were laid to his charge; although he was a Papist, yet he was a great friend to one Samuel Harper, who several times Preached after a Puritannical manner in the Town of Norwich: This great conversation of his with this pretended Minister, caused great suspicions to arise in that Town amongst the Inhabitants, there being more than ordinary betwixt these two.  
It chanced that one Richard Cade an Inhabitant of the same Town being present then at London, 
How it came to be discovered.  and at the Trials of Edward Arden and John Summervile, who were both condemned but the year before for Conspiracy and Treason against the Queen's Majesty; at which Trial he heard Edward Arden confess that this Throgmorton was engaged in the same Conspiracy. Now this Mr. Cade being well acquainted with Throgmorton, informed the Lord Mayor of London of what he had heard, who upon this Information apprehended Throgmorton; but treasonable Papers being found then in his Pocket, verified Mr. Cade's Evidence. Amongst the Papers was found a Letter dated at Norwich the second of June from the  Richard Harper, 
By Harper's Enquiry it is plain that the Plot of 1588. was then a hatching.  with these expressions: Let us know how our Friends from Spain and yours in London do correspond, and whether that King continues his purpose, that the Engagers may be satisfied, and have notice.  
Upon these words expressed, Mr. Cade advised that his Chambers both at Norwich and in London might be searched, and that Samuel Harper may be seized on, which was approved of, and so ordered; but Samuel Harper by some notice having warning, fled not above three hours before the Pursuivant could come to Norwich, yet several Papers of Treason were found in this Throgmorton's Chamber, 
The treasonable Papers that were found in Throgmorton's Chamber.  amongst which there were Licences and Pardons from the Jesuits Convent at Sevill. The undertakers were to be of what Trade or Calling soever they pleased, to teach what Doctrine, to be of what Opinion or Religion soever, provided that they assembled quarterly together, and keep a monthly correspondence with that Convent. Papers to the same effect from that Societies Convents at Paris and at Rome were found dated from thence, 
How the Jesuits styled the D. of N.  touching the D. of N. who was only styled by the name of Thomas Howard, Gent. our very good Friend. Had these Papers been extant at his Trial, they would have satisfied her Highness and her Council very much; yet being discovered at this present, they give us great insight how Rome contrived the Wars of Scotland, and so many Traitors against her Highness, and that Queen Mary of Scotland was correspondent with them. The Originals her Highness is loath to have published for several reasons best known to her Majesty.  
This Francis Thogmorton being condemned for High Treason, was drawn from Newgate unto Tyburn, where he was hanged, bowelled, and quartered on the 10th. of July following; 
Observe how the Pope licences Jesuits and Friars to Preach in a Dissenters Habit to make a faction with Protestants.  before his Execution he confessed that there were in England above a dozen that he knew who were permitted to Preach by the Jesuits Licences, purposely to breed a Faction in these Dominions; but by reason that he was condemned, and to be hanged, he thought he was not bound to discover their names. This account I have from the Sheriffs, certified from the Records of Guild-Hall, where he was Tried, and received his Sentence. Many more things of this nature may we bring during this gracious Queen's days; but we shall abbreviate, and draw nearer to her Successor King James of happy memory.  
Pope Clement the 8th. consulting with his Emissaries how this King had married into a Protestant Monarchy, 
Pope Clement the 8ths. project to hinder King James his succession to Queen Elizabeth.  set all his Engines at work to defraud this Monarch of the succession after Queen Elizabeth; for about the year 1601. this Pope sent his Breves (as they call them) into England, warning all the Clergy and Laity that professed the Roman Faith, not to admit after the Queen's death any Prince how near soever in Blood to the King of England, unless he should bind himself by Oath to promote the Catholic Roman Religion to the utmost of his power. To promote this their wicked conspiracy, at the same time came into Scotland two factious and wicked spirited Jesuits, viz. John Hamilton and Edmond Hay, the first especially, for that he was known to have been a chief Instrument of the Seditions raised in the City of Paris in the time of the league. King James having intelligence of their repairing into his Dominion, set forth a Proclamation inhibiting their resort under the pain of Treason: In which Proclamation, to make them the more odious, these two were compared to Bothwell and Gowry, his Majesty declaring at that present that he would judge no otherwise of their Receptors, than of those that did treasonably pursue his own life; yet notwithstanding this King's Proclamation, they found holes to lurk in amongst those of their own Religion in the Northern parts, and by this means kept in the Country, till after some years that John Hamilton was apprehended and carried to the Tower of London, where he died before he came to Trial. Still they continued their projects against this King, and his Title to England, knowing they had lost all hope of gaining his affection, or obtaining any promise of the toleration of their Religion when he should come to that Crown. Thereupon they fell to treat of a Marriage betwixt the Lady Arabella, and Robert Prince of Savoy; and that not succeeding then, they proposed a Match betwixt the said Lady and a Grandchild of the Earl of hartford's, judging by this conjunction many would befriend them to the excluding of this King from the succession of the Crown of England; but the Queen's Majesty, who truly favoured the Right of this Monarch, though she would not openly profess so much, dashed all these Jesuitical projects, and so caused an eye to be kept upon the Lady Arabella, as also upon all who resorted unto her, by whose Majestic wisdom this high Monarch came peaceably, and was invited by an unanimous consent of her Majesty's Privy-Council to his Crown of England, as may appear by that Councils proceed after the Queen's death, by their Letter subscribed by that Council then in being, which Bishop Spotswood specifies in his History of the Church and State of Scotland, pag. 473.  
This King was scarcely settled in his Throne to settle the affairs of his Realm of England when this Papal Society contrived to have executed a quick dispatch of King and State, as appears by their bloody contrivance of the Gunpowder Plot, which being already set at large to public view, the Narrative we refer to the Reader, and so omit it. Many more Jesuitical Plots of this nature we could bring in during this King's days contrived, as that of Gundymores, and others, but shall lay them aside, and treat of matters of this nature contrived during the Reign of his Son Charles the First of happy Memory.  
We have already mentioned the Papal contrivance for a Match for the Lady Arabella, 
How the Papists thought by the late Kings Marrying of Qu. Mary to bring in the French Kings Forces into Ireland to invade that Nation, and so to claim a Title to that Crown.  as a means to defraud the Kings of Scotland's Right to the Crown of England, the Papists rejoicing at the conjunction of England and France by the Marriage of Charles the First, and Queen Mary of France, hoping thereby to raise such another claim to the Crown of Egland as France did in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by that Match of Mary Queen of Scots; they contrived a way to set Ireland in an uproar; for King Charles the First was no sooner settled in his Throne when Ireland was full of the rumour of Lewis the 13ths' preparations and intentions for the invading of the same, as appears as well by the Records of the Council, if doubted, as also by Sir James Ware's Memorials. The noise of these preparations caused the Lord Henry Faulkland then Lord Deputy of this Nation, to advise with the Privy-Council what course to take for to oppose these French intentions. They upon consultation in this affair set forth a Proclamation that the chief of the Kingdom should meet at Dublin, and then to demand a general Contribution of the Inhabitants for to raise and maintain Forces to oppose that King. The Castle of Dublin being first appointed for that Assembly, St. Patrick's Church in Dublin was afterwards ordered for this Assembly to meet at.  
The Papists were upon high terms, 
The Papists would not assist their King but upon terms.  and would not contribute towards the safety of this Nation, unless the Lord Deputy and Council would grant them a toleration for their Religion, and also leave to build themselves Churches, and pretended Religious Houses as many as they listed, and where they pleased in all Cities and Corporate Towns.  
These their proposals put a stop to these proceed for the present, so that this Assembly was for the present dismissed, it being about Michaelmass Term, anno 1626. And another day was nominated for them to meet again, until they had acquainted his late Majesty with their demands; yet in the interim James Usher late Primate of Ardmagh assembled all our Protestant Bishops together, and so prevented these Popish demands by this their protestation, as follows. 
The Protestant Clergy of the Church of Ireland, their protestation against these Popish terms   
The Religion of the Papists is Superstitious and Idolatrous: Their Faith and Doctrine Enormous and Heretical: Their Church, in respect of both, Apostatical. To give them therefore a toleration, or to consent that they may freely exercise their Religion, and profess their Faith and Doctrine, is a grievous sin, and that in two respects.  
For first, it is to make ourselves accessary not only to their Superstitions, Idolatries, Heresies, and in a word, to all the abominations of Popery, but also (which is a consequent of the former) to the perdition of the seduced people, which perish in the deluge of the Catholic Apostasy.  
For the second, to grant them toleration in respect of any Money to be given, or Contribution to be made by them, is to set Religion to sale, and with it the Souls of people, whom Christ our Saviour hath redeemed with his most precious Blood. And as it is a great sin, so also a matter of most dangerous consequence; the consideration whereof we commend to the Wise and Judicious, beseeching the Great God of Truth to make them who are in Authority, zealous of God's Glory, and of the advancement of true Religion, zealous, resolute and courageous against all Popery and Idolatry, Amen.  
Signed.  

Ja. Armachanus.  
Anto. Midensis.  
Ro. Dunensis & Coronensis.  
Richard Cork Cloyn & Roscensis.  
Tho. Killmorensis & Ardahensis.  
Mich. Waterfordensis & Lismorensis.  
Mal. Cassilensis.  
Tho Fernensis & Laughlanensis.  
George Derensis.  
Andr. Aladensis.  
Theo. Dromorensis.  
Franc. Limiricksensis.   
This being conferred and agreed upon the 26th. Novemb. Anno 1626.  
Upon the 23d. of April following Doctor George Downham then Bishop of Derry (the next Assembly being then to meet) in the midst of his Sermon in Christ-Church, 
Anno 1627. Dr. Downham then Bishop of Derry, his protestation against these terms in Christ-Church in Dublin.  took occasion to speak something to this purpose, saying, that many amongst us for gain and outward respects were ready to consent to a toleration of a false Religion, which if they did, they were guilty of putting to sale not only the souls of Papists, but their own souls also. This is not my opinion (said he) only, but the opinion of the Archbishops, Bishops, and of the Protestant Clergy of his Majesty's whole Kingdom, which I think fit to publish. He had no sooner uttered these words, when all the Protestants then in that Church cried out aloud, Amen, Amen. Then making a respite till the people had done crying out, Amen. I spoke nothing to hinder the King's Service; for we all of the Clergy desire not only the sole Army of 5500 men (that being the number) may be maintained, but also a far greater Army, besides the Trained-Bands, and could wish that his Majesty would reserve to himself the most of those particular Graces of late offered and granted to the dishonour of God, and to himself, the prejudice and impeachment of true Religion, and what was wanting might be supplied by the Country, to which he exhorted all true Christians and faithful Subjects. The people upon this cried unanimously, Our Lives and Fortunes be at his Majesty's command, for the good of the Protestant Faith of England.  
The next day the late Lord Primate, 
Primate Usher his words against the same toleration.  Usher, Preached before the same Auditory, and took these words for his Text, Love not the World, nor the things that are in the World: Which words he applied according to those times. These two Sermons so prevailed with the Protestants, so strengthened their resolutions, that they proposed so largely towards a maintenance for an Army to oppose the French King, that these Popish Proposals (which we have already mentioned) fell, and the Papists much ashamed and discontented; then the Lord Deputy and Council dismissed this Assembly.  
There is one material thing to be observed by the Reader, 
The Lord faulkland's Lady known to be a Papist.  that this Lord faulkland's Lady was a great Heiress to an Estate in England, which caused her Husband to seek all means the more to please her, she being a fickle minded woman in her judgement. The Papists of this Kingdom depended much on this Ladies being of their own Religion, although outwardly, whether out of compliance to her Lord, or by the advice of Popish Policies she went to Church, but going out of this Kingdom into England, she returned unto her Popish inclinations, which then was a signal testimony of her Religion all along.  
These Jesuitical projects were not sufficient to satisfy a Romish appetite; 
A Riot committed by the Popish Clergy, anno 1629  seeing that these devices could take no effect, the Jesuits and Friars of Dublin, out of spleen, began to Preach Sedition unto the Papist Inhabitants within that Metropolis; continuing after this method for certain days, it came at last to Lancelot Buckley, alias Bulkley his ears, then Archbishop of the same See, who went and related what he had heard touching this seditious Doctrine, and desired of Adam Loftus Lord Viscount Elye, and Richard Earl of Cork, than Lords Justices of the Nation, to send a file of Musqueteers, and a Warrant to seize on these Malefactors; but coming to the Friar Carmelites-House then in Cookstreet in Dublin, where these Friars were infusing of Rebellion into several of the then Popish Aldermen and Citizens of this City, they arose unanimously joining to confront the Archbishop and his attendance in a very high nature, by wounding some of the Soldiers, and those who assisted the Archbishop, that not being sufficient, they went to assault the Bishop's person, who for safety was fain to run through the Streets of Dublin and cry for help, and so obtained safeguard by running into a House, or otherwise he had been in danger of his life. This Riot of the Friars was committed about Christmas, 1629.  
The Lords Justices upon this committed the Popish Aldermen and others of the Citizens; amongst which of the Aldermen one Mr. Jyans was one. On the ninth of January the Lord's Justices and Council gave his Majesty and the Lords of the Council of England an account of these disasters, which coming to those Lords hands, they returned this answer.  
By your Letters dated the ninth of January, 
The Lords of the Council of England to the Lords of the Council in Ireland, Jan. 31. 1629.  we understand how the seditious Riot moved by the Friars and their Adherents at Dublin, hath by your good order and resolution been happily suppressed; and we doubt not, but by this occasion you will consider how much it concerneth the good Government of that Kingdom, to prevent in time the first growing of such evils: for where such people be permitted to swarm, they will soon grow licentious, and endure no Government but their own, which cannot otherwise be restored than by a due and seasonable execution of the Law, and of such directions as from time to time have been sent from his Majesty and this Board. Now it redoundeth much to the Honour of his Majesty, that the World shall take notice of the ability and good-service of his Ministers there, which in person he hath been pleased openly in Council, and in most gracious manner, to approve and commend, whereby you may be sufficiently encouraged to go on with like resolution and moderation till the work be fully done, as well in the City, as in other places of your Kingdom; the carriage whereof we must leave to your good discretions, whose particular knowledge of the present state of things can guide you better, when and where to carry a soft or harder hand; only this we hold necessary to put you in mind of, that you continue in that good agreement amongst yourselves for this and other services, which your Letters do express, and for which we commend you much, that the good Servants of the King and State may find encouragement equally from you all, and the illaffected may find no support or countenance from any, nor any other contrivances used, but by general advice, for avoiding of further evils shall be allowed, and such Magistrates and Officers, if any shall be discovered, that openly or underhand favour such disorders, or do not their duties in suppressing them, and committing the offenders, you shall do well to take all fit and safe advantages, by the punishment or displacing of a few, to make the rest more cautious. This we writ, not as misliking the fair course you have taken, but to express the concurrency of our judgements with yours, and to assure you of our assistance in all such occasions wherein, for your future proceed we have advised. And his Majesty requireth you accordingly to take order, first, that the house wherein Seminary Friars appeared in their habits, and wherein the Reverend Archbishop and the Mayor of Dublin received the first affront, be speedily demolished, and be the mark of terror to the resisters of Authority, and that the rest of the Houses erected or employed there, or elsewhere, to the use of suspicious Societies, be converted to Houses of Correction, and to set the people on work, or to other public uses, for the advancement of Justice, good Arts or Trades; and further, that you find out the Lands, Leases or Revenues applied to their uses, and dispose thereof according to the Law, and that you certify also the places and institutions of all such Monasteries, Priories, Nunneries, and other Religious Houses, and the names of all such persons as have put themselves to be Brothers and Sisters therein, especially such as are of note, to the end such evil Plants be not permitted to take root any where in that Kingdom, which we require you to take care of.  
As for the supply of Munition, which you have reason to desire, we have taken effectual order that you shall receive it with all convenient speed, and so bid you hearty farewell.  

Lord Keeper.  
Lord Treasurer.  
Lord Precedent.  
Lord Privy-Seal.  
Lord High Chamberlain.  
Earl of Suffolk.  
Earl of Dorset.  
Earl of Salisbury.  
Earl of Kelly.  
Lord Viscount Dorchester.  
Lord Newbergh.  
Mr. Vice Chamberlain.  
Mr. Secretary Cook.  
Sir William Alexander.   
His Majesty beholding and considering how rebellious his Popish Subjects have hitherto been, 
The Papists design to take off the Earl of strafford's Head.  as we have already expressed even from the first entrance into his Throne, some few years after sent over Thomas Lord Wentworth (afterwards Created Earl of Strafford) to Govern his Kingdom of Ireland, who executed that place to that Kingdom's advantage by civilising the Inhabitants, and bringing them to an English Station, as to this day appears by those English Plantations by him ordered in the Counties of Longford, Wicklow, and other places. These acts or good deeds of his pleased not some people's fancies, especially not the sancies of the Irish Natives of the Popish Religion during this Nóble-mans' Government. He obtained a Grant of four Subsidies for the maintenance of an Army, which was irksome to the ancient Natives of that Land: He being recalled about the year 1640. was not long in England before he was Indicted of High-Treason, his Enemies at that time casting all aspersions imaginable to make him odious to most men; amongst which aspersions they gave out as if he were inclined to Popery, but his actions during his Government in Ireland shows yet to the contrary: He was beheaded in the Month of May 1641. then his Enemies having removed so great a Pillar of State as this Nobleman was, began to show their teeth; for upon the 23d. of October following, by their Popish Rebellion they testified what they aimed at.  
And the better to accomplish their design for the Plot of 1641. one White wrote this Letter following to a Popish Peer of Ireland, that the City of Dublin might be at that appointed time under a Popish Jurisdiction.  
A Letter to a Popish Peer of Ireland, how he may secure the City of Dublin against the Protestants, at the prefixed time appointed and plotted by the Irish Papists to rebel in the year 1641. found with other papers at the taking of Droghedah after the Rout of Remines.  
My Lord,  
IF you can procure a Patent for the City of Dublin to make their Mayor's Lord Mayors as well as London, 
This Letter directed to the Lord Viscount G.  their policy will be to offer the Catholic Aldermen to become free of the same, none being so proper to consult herein as Alderman Jyans, who must declare to the Table of Aldermen the great affection your Lordship hath for that City, and also tell them how you are going over, and shall tell His Majesty how much they be his faithful Subjects; and in case they would accept of your Lordship, you would honour their City to become their first Lord Mayer, and so procure them Letters Patents for that Dignity, and that it may remain upon Record how a Noble Peer of the Realm became the first Lord Mayor thereof. This being broken unto them, and his Majesty's Letters procured for the passing of this Patent, the work is in a manner perfected. We be in a fair way ere long to assuage Heresy and her Episcopacy; for Exetor's Book hath done more for the Catholics than they could have done themselves; he having written that Episcopacy in Office and Jurisdiction is absolutely (Jure Divino) which was the old quarrel between our Bishops and King Henry the 8th. (during his Heresy) then disputed upon, which Book doth not a little trouble our Adversaries, who declare this Tenent of Exetor's to be contrary to the Laws of this Land. You will see a great Oak fall speedily, which formerly shaded poor Ireland's Glory. All is like to prosper here, so I hope with you there. You shall have no more from me till we meet at London, which I hope will be shortly.  
Your Lordship's Humble and True Servant at call, T. White. London, Feb. 12. 1639.  
Copia vera ab Originale.  fuit cum Hen. Midensis Episcopo.  
In the year 1640. 
See Mr. Prynne's demonstration, showing how the Papists contrived the late King's Murder, and the then Rebellions in Scotland and England. George Con a Scotchman being then the Pope's Nuntio. Prynne's Rome's Masterpiece, pa. 18.  Sir William Boswell being then Agent for his Majesty at the Hague, having intelligence of a Plot then advising by the Jesuits and the Church of Rome to take off his Majesty, in case he would not tolerate their Religion, wrote this discovery unto William Laud then Archbishop of Canterbury, who immediately shown the same to his Majesty. The Papists upon this account, and also remembering the overthrow he gave to Fisher the Jesuit, thought they could not accomplish their evil design unless they took away this Pillar of the Church also; then under a dissenting disguise they cast aspersions on this holy Father, knowing nothing could make him more odious to the Commonalty than to say that he was a Papist, or endeavoured to bring in Popery; thus continuing in the gall of bitterness until he was cut off also.  
Rome having accomplished her desires thus far, now gins to aim at a higher strain: His Majesty being about this time in great distress, wanting Moneys and other necessaries to support him against Romish and Puritanical policies, made his application to those Subjects whom he knew he might confide in, who served him faithfully to the uttermost of their abilities; yet several Judas' sprinkled amongst them betrayed them with their kisses; for it is well known, as we shall afterwards make it appear from sufficient Authors, how Rome ordered her affairs underhand. For to propagate this Plot of hers, she divides her Emissaries thus: She sprinkles some of her Tribe amongst the faithful of the Church of England, and suffers them openly to declare themselves Protestant's, yet with Oaths and Protestations to pretend to serve their King. Then with the dissenting party she Jesuitically disguises herself into a Puritanical dress to serve the adverse party, hereby the better to find out the intentions of Kings and Princes, and so to play her Game accordingly, by which means they brought the Head of that glorious Kingly Martyr to the Block.  
To prove that Rome was the chief Instrument to draw the Subject into this horrible Engagement, we will begin to bring that Reverend person Dr. Du Moulyn for one of our Authors, who in his vindication of the sincerity of the Protestant Religion writes thus:  
When the business of the late bad times are once ripe for an History, 
How Rome contrived the late King's death. See Dr. Dumoulyn. pag. 58, 59  and Time, the bringer of Truth, hath discovered the mysteries of Iniquity, and the depths of Satan, which have wrought so much ruin and mischief, it will be found that the late Rebellion was raised and fostered by the arts of the Court of Rome, that Jesuits professed themselves Independent, as not depending on the Church of England; and Fifth Monarchy men, that they might pull down the English Monarchy, and that in the Committees for the destruction of the King and the Church, they had their Spies and their Agents. The Roman Priest and Confessor is known, who when he saw the fatal stroke given to our holy King, and Martyr, flourished with his Sword, and said Now the greatest enemy that we have in the World is gone. To confirm what this Reverend Divine hath written, we entreat the Readers to cast their eyes on these words, which Mr. Henry Fowls specifies in his History of the wicked Plots and conspiracies of our pretended Saints, pag. 14. His words being thus:  
When the late King was murdered, 
Prynne's brief necessary vindication, pag. 45.  Mr. Henry Spotswood, riding casually that way just as his Head was cut off, espied the Queen's Confessor there on Horseback, in the habit of a Trooper, drawing forth his Sword, and flourishing it over his own head in triumph (as others then did): At which Mr. Spotswood being much amazed, and being familiarly acquainted with the Confessor, 
Another testimony showing how Rome contrived the death of the late King.  road up to him, and said; O Father! I little thought to have found you here, or any of your Profession, at such a sad spectacle: To which he answered, that there were at least forty or more Priests and Jesuits there present on Horseback, besides himself. The resultancy of this Story is home and pat; and for the truth of it, I refer you to Mr. Prynne.  
Other Authors could we cite, but to rational men knowing these two be sufficient proofs for our vindication, we shall proceed no further for a testimony; yet we shall desire the Reader to consider how so soon as these Priests and Jesuits had perfected this evil fact, to take off the malignity of it from themselves, they hit it in the teeth of the dissenting Party to this day; therefore as a warning to the dissenting Party, we shall desire them to consider how they were gulled and brought into this ignominy: The Papists in a dissenting disguise first set these people a madding, and after slipped their own necks out of the halter, reserving those halters at last to hang those whom they had seduced, by which they suppose themselves not guilty of the Fact, by reason none of them who were executed for the same declared to be a Papist.  
Amongst these Priests and Jesuits then present at that bloody work, there were two of the late Queen's Confessors, one of whom went under the name of Captain Tho Preston, and had a Command of a Troop of Horse under Oliver the Usurper. This said Impostor came over into Ireland, and lay for a time at Alderman John Preston's House in Skinner row in Dublin, his Troop of Horse at that time being quartered at Athy, a Town distant about 27 miles from that City, to disguise his Jesuitical policy; and that he might not be suspected, he Married (or at least kept a Wench as his Wife,) for you have already heard how they esteem the Marriage of the Church of England Heretical; by which device of theirs they say 'tis no Marriage, but a venial sin. This pretended Captain, upon the Restauration of our now gracious King Charles the Second, laid down his Arms, and declared what he was, saying, that he would fall to his old Calling; and being asked what that Calling was, he made answer that he was the Queen's Confessor, and was not ashamed to own it. Several of the City of Dublin have heard this, and can testify the same.  
Sir John Temple, and Doctor Borlace in their Books touching the relation of the Irish Rebellion begun anno 1641. make mention of a Friar who cruelly tied or caused to be tied several Protestants back to back, and so to be fling over Portadowne-Bridge in Ireland. 
A relation of a Popish Impostor, by Order a Friar, and he took upon him a Military Employment, and changed his Name to advance the Church of Rome.  This Friar about the time that Oliver Cromwell came over into Ireland, went disguised into England, at which time he received one Wards Wife, by whom he had several Bastards, pretending she was his Wise. Cromwell going back for England, this Friar (by what means is not known) became very gracious and conversant with that Usurper, and then went under the name of Captain Holland; upon this intimacy and acquaintance Oliver Cromwell made use of this Impostor, and gave him a large allowance per annum to give him Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, for he would pay upon Post-days above forty shillings and more for Letters directed to him by the name of Captain Holland; yet it chanced that upon a certain Speech which Oliver made anno 1654. to this effect, viz. that there was nothing done in England either of State or Ecclesiastical matters, but that it was carried on by the Jesuits, and that Rome knew things before they were passed in England, and so bade his then Parliament to look into this affair; search being made, and things inquired into, some of these Impostors were discovered, amongst the rest this pretended Captain Holland, and the Crimes which we have already mentioned laid to his charge, yet Oliver Cromwell protected him, and would not permit the Witnesses to prosecute any further. This Holland died within two years after, and left Thurla, Oliver's Secretary, his Executor, to oversee what he had left for the use of his Whore and Bastards, which being found to be about 2500 l. Oliver seized on the sum, and said, The Rogue got it under me, let his Whore and Bastards shift for themselves. And thus illgotten Riches perished.  
Doctor Ramsey a Scotch man, and one of his Majesty's Physicians of Scotland, had two Sons, 
A relation of one Ramsey a Jesuit, who went under the name of Captain Right, and an Officer under Oliver Cromwell.  one Ramsey a Captain in Oliver Cromwell's Army, who went under the name of Captain Right; the other Son, Tho. Ramsey, who lately practised Physic here in Ireland. As touching the former, he was a Jesuit, and went under that name, purposely to hid his Function, and also to accomplish his Romish policies, that he (with others of his Popish Crew) might hit it in the teeth of those whom these sorts had miss-led, and say that it was Protestants, and not Papists, that murdered their King, and fought against him. It chanced one day that this Jesuit riding in the head of his Troop, that his Father Doctor Ramsey beheld him, and being between fear and doubt whether it was his Son or no, he enquired of one of his Troopers whom he was? they returned answer, that it was one Captain Right; but his Father having heard how he had taken a Jesuits Function upon him beyond Seas, and not suspecting that he had been in the Kingdom, went secretly to Cromwell, and related the Story to him how he had a Jesuit an Officer in his Army, and that his name was Ramsey, though he went under the name of Captain Right. Upon this description of his Fathers Oliver grants a Warrant, and had him apprehended: His Quarters being searched where he lay, there was found Papers of correspondence with that Society. All this being proved, this Jesuitical Captain was dismounted, to be mounted a step or two higher, and so sent to Heaven in a String.  
As for the other Brother, 
A confession of Doctor Tho. Ramsey, the other Ramseys Brother, and how he reform.  Doctor Tho. Ramsey, he had been a great Traveller, and a great Scholar, well versed in Physic, and an Excellent Linguist, yet a rank Papist. Some say a Jesuit, as his Brother was, others say he was only a Lay Brother of that Society, which sort are permitted to Marry, the better to propagate their Romish Plots and contrivances. This Thomas was, as I take it, twice Married, his last Wife yet living; he was of a wild and wand'ring spirit, very witty, and always merry, especially in his cups; in which (to his company) he would disclose several of his mad Pranks. Amongst which, this was one: He being, as we have already mentioned, a great Linguist, went to Oxford, where he pretended to be a Jew, and there he taught the Hebrew Tongue to several of the Scholars, but being suspected to have been an Impostor, they thought to have catechised him; but he being ware of that, left that University, and went to Cambridge, where he was tract, and from thence went to London. He lurking disguisedly in this City, Mr. Prynne having heard of several of his mad Pranks, offered five Pounds to any man that could bring Ramsey unto him; the Doctor having intelligence of this design of Mr. Prynnes, he one day puts on an outlandish dress on him, and over it an old rugged Parson's Gown; then coming to Mr. Prynne's House, he enquired for him, and coming into his presence, he spoke the Italian Language, also the Germane, and Latin, pretending unto him that he was a poor Bohemian Priest, and had been a Slave in Turkey, but was happily redeemed by an English Turkey Merchant; then telling of his wants, and how desirous he was to go to his own Country, in case he could not be preferred in England: Mr. Prynne began to take compassion on him, and told him that he would procure gatherings for him, and for the present gave him five Pounds to buy him Apparel, and bid this poor Bohemian Priest not to be a stranger to his House. After that he had played this cheat with Mr. Prynne, he wrote within few days after a Letter to him to this purpose, that he had heard some say that he would give five Pounds to see him; nay further, that he had given Ramsey himself five Pounds; and so wrote according to what we have already mentioned.  
He several times owned how he was in Cromwell's days employed by the Pope, and by the Jesuits, to advance their affairs as well in England as in Ireland; also how he had Preached sometimes in an Independent shape, other times in an Anabaptist and Quakers shape, and had the Pope's Bull for what he did. This Doctor about three years since, viz. about the year of our Lord 1678 or 1679 died at Derry, yet for some months before his death reform to the Protestant Faith of England. It being thought that he was poisoned secretly amongst the Jesuits, they envying of him for his reforming to our Church; for he being a jovial companion, cared not what company he went in. Sir William Stewart Knight, one of his Majesty's Privy-Council, can give a further account of this Doctor; who, as I hear, hath some Papers of his Confessions and Reforming, which had they come to my hands, I had for the public good here inserted; but for want of them, what we have already mentioned, can be attested by Sir Henry Pierce Baronet, his Sons William and Henry Pierce Esquires, and Justices of Peace of the County of Westmeath, and Mr. Mark Pierce of the same, Gent. to whom he told these like Stories of himself, and many more, he living at Tristernaugh Town in the said County with them, near a quarter of a year, and being then their Physician.  
Several of his Majesty's Subjects of Ireland being in London upon the death of Oliver Cromwell the Usurper, 
Peter Talbot the late Titular Archbisho of Dublin very intimate with Cromwell.  who were more desirous to see his Funeral Solemnities, than to see him officiate in his Tyrannical Government, obtained leave to be at a Friend's House at Westminster to behold the Celebration thereof. John King, than Dean of Tuam, a faithful Subject of his Majesties, showed to several of the Spectators, saying, there goes Peter Talbot amongst the Mourners in deep Mourning; which had not these Spectators seen, they would scarcely have believed that it had been he. At that time it being the fashion for Mourners not to cast off their Mourning Cloaks so soon as they do now a days, he was seen by several to walk in the same Habit, with his Cloak folded under his arm for some months after this Funeral, walking in the Piazza in Covent-Garden, and other of the Streets of the City of London.  
Upon General Monk's rising in England to bring in our now Gracious Sovereign King Charles the Second into his Throne, this said Peter Talbot went in company with the then General Lambert, riding to oppose the Duke of Albemarls designs: For these his good seats, the Pope made him Titular Archbishop of Dublin; Dean King's Wife, Mrs. Sarah King can testify this for a true Narrative, if examined, and is yet living.  
Since his Majesty's happy Restauration, 
Hoc factum circa ann. 1670 aut 71.  there came a certain Peer out of England into Ireland, who there bore sway; and it is well known to the Inhabitants of the City of Dublin, that this mighty Peer lent a Suit of Arras Hang, and the best of his Plate, to the above Peter Talbot, to adorn that Titular Bishop's Mass-House, and Altar. This Sir F. B. a Knight, and Alderman of the said City, and several others of the Citizens can testify, 
Satan gins to transform himself into an Angel of Light to destroy the Church of England.  if demanded, besides the words which the said Peer spoke at the time he lent these Adornments, which were thus, or to this effect: That he hoped to hear high Mass within six months in the Cathedral of Christ-Church in Dublin. Doubtless these were signal demonstrations or forerunners of the late Popish Conspiracy anno 1678.  
Samuel Pullen Doctor of Divinity coming into Ireland before the late Irish Rebellion, 
A notable Story of a Jesuit, who pretended to be a Shoemaker, and to Preach by Inspiration.  he became first Chancellor of Cashel, and Dean of Clonfert; the Irish Rebellion anno 1641 bursting out, the Papists (about those parts of Ireland) murdered several of the Protestants, and Protestant Ministers; this Samuel being at that time in danger, was preserved by Providence by a Jesuit named James Saul, alias sal, who (before that Rebellion) had received from the Dean several favours, which caused James Saul to preserve the Dean from being murdered for the space of three months, until he could be conducted into English Quarters.  
After this escape the Dean sailed into England, where he became Chaplain to the then Earl of Oxford, where he tarried for divers years. It chanced (during the Deans stay there, and in the time of Usurpation, when several Meetings were permitted,) that the Earls Countess was dissuaded from her Principles, for to go to hear those sort of Preachers, amongst whom there was a Shoemaker much admired by his Auditory, which occasioned the Countess to extol him unto the Dean, for a pious and heavenly gifted man, and often urged the Dean to go and hear him; who, upon several entreaties, as also to comply with the Countess, the Dean went with her to this Meeting. At his coming thither, he observed the Shoemaker, and found by his words, that those speeches of his went beyond his Last, and that he was a man of Parts. Yet although years had changed this Impostors Physiognomy, as also being altered by his Beard, the Dean recollected with himself that he had seen this Shoemaker before. At last, the Sermon being ended, the Countess (his great Admirer) invited him home to Dinner; after which the Dean and he fell into a Disputation, who finding this Shoemaker had skill in the Hebrew, Greek and Latin Tongues, demanded of him how he came by that Science? The Shoemaker replied, by the holy Spirit. But (to conclude) the Dean told him, he knew to the contrary, and that he had reason to know it; thereupon gave him thanks for preserving of his life in Ireland, and said you are Mr. sal; and as you saved mine, I shall save yours. The Dean then speaking unto my Lord, and to his Countess, said, this man saved my life in Ireland in the tumultuous days of the Irish Rebellion, therefore I shall make bold to engage to this my friend, that your Lordship and my Lady shall do him no harm, provided that he departed thence from that Shire, and not delude the common people there any longer. This pretended Shoemaker being thus discovered, his Trade could no longer abscond his Jesuitical Function, and so he craved a certain time for to departed thence; saying, Pray let me not go in a hurry, lest I be suspected; which desire of his was easily granted. In the interim he pretended to the rest of his followers to be warned by the Spirit to go and teach elsewhere, which did not a little trouble them, especially the poor silly Women, who could not hold from dropping of tears for the departure of so heavenly a man. After this warning he left Oxfordshire within three weeks. The Countess upon this was recalled to the Church of England, to the great admiration of the rest of this Impostors Followers, who enquiring the reasons of this sudden change, were all likewise ashamed that they had been thus deluded. This said Samuel Pullen was (since his Majesty's happy Restauration, by the means of his Grace the Duke of Ormond) preferred to the Archbishopric of Tuam in Ireland; several have heard that Right Reverend Father relate this passage in his life time, and some are yet living to testify the truth of it: Witness Dean Pearse for one, who hath heard something to this purpose.  
Mr. John Crook, some time Bookseller in St. Paul's Churchyard at the Ship in London, and since Stationer and Printer to his most Serene Majesty in Dublin, told this Story following unto Sir James Ware, Knight, now deceased.  
Anno 1656. the Reverend Divine Doctor Henry Hammond being one day in the next Shop to this said John Crookes, and there reading the Works of S. Ambrose, a Red-coat casually came in and looked over this Divines shoulder, and there read the Latin as perfect as himself, which caused the Doctor to admire that a Red-coat should attain to that Learning; then speaking unto him, he demanded how he came to that Science? the Red-coat replied, by the holy Spirit; the Doctor hereupon replied, I will try thee further, and so called for a Greek Author, which the Read coat not only read, but construed: The Doctor to try him further, called for the Hebrew-Bible, and so for several other Books, in which this Read-coat was very expert: At last the Doctor recollecting with himself, called for a Welch-Bible, and said, if thou be'st inspired, read me this Book, and construe it; but the Read-coat being at last catched, replied, I have given thee satisfaction enough, I will not satisfy thee further, for thou wilt not believe though an Angel came from Heaven. The Doctor smelling out this deceit, caused the Apprentice to go for a Constable, who being brought to the Shop, the Doctor told the Constable he had something to say against this Red-coat, and bade him bring him before Oliver Cromwell, then called the Lord Protector. The Red-coat being brought to White Hall, and examined, he, after a rustic manner, Quaker-like, thou'd and thee'd Oliver; but being suspected, it was demanded where he quartered, it being found out, at the Devil Tavern. The Doctor entreated his Chamber might be searched, which was accordingly searched, where they found an old Chest filled partly with his wearing Apparel, as also with several Papers, and seditious Popish Books; amongst which, there being a pair of Boots, and Papers stuffed in one of them, they found a Parchment Bull of Licence to this Impostor, granted under several names, to assume what Function or Calling he pleased. These being brought before Oliver, for what reasons it is unknown, yet the Red-coat escaped, bringing several proofs of what great service he had done, and the greatest affliction was laid on him was Banishment, and what proceeded further we know not.  
When Oliver Cromwell routed the Irish Priests and their Clergy out of Ireland, 
Father Nowland the Dominican of galway his ingenious Confession of himself to William Muschamp Esq how he played the part of an Independent in Cromwell's days.  one Father Nolan, alias Nowland, a Dominican Friar of galway fled beyond Sea, who afterwards in some space of time came into England, and landing at Plymouth in a poor mean habit, straggling in that Town till he had got a service. This Nowland chanced to come to one Mr. Hugh's his House, who was in those days a great Independent Minister, and Preacher in that Town. This Minister hired Nowland, who at first was under-servant to the Gardener, and in little time became chief Gardner himself. Mr. hugh's, according to the usual custom of Dissenters, had his weekly Meetings upon week days; where at his House the Elders and several of his Flock would assemble to Pray, and to Expound. It was observed that Nowland was very diligent, and would turn to the Texts of Scripture very readily, which Mr. hugh's perceiving, encouraged Nowland, and in a short time took him from Gardning, and made him his Butler. Nowland being thus highly preferred, strove all he could to please his Master, and observing that his Master would sit up late at his Study, which Study was a little beyond the Buttery, and that his Master was always to pass by the Buttery-door to go thither, he had ordered the matter thus; One night hearing his Master locking of his Study-door, Nowland fell to his Prayers, and had put out the Candle, which Mr. hugh's hearing, he put out his Candle also, and laid his ear to the square hole that was cut in the Buttery-door, where he continued whilst Nowland was at his Prayers; after which he secretly went to his Chamber, considering with himself, that this poor ignorant man (as he thought) must needs be inspired. But upon the next Meeting day, Mr. Hugh's discoursing with the Elders, and chief of his Followers of this passage, they all assented that Nowland should Pray. But Nowland pretended, alas, he knew not how to Pray, poor man, not he; but it being consented amongst the Brethren that he must Pray, and that if God had endued him with such a Gift, he sinned if he did not make use of it. Upon which entreaty Nowland Prayed, acting the gestures, posture and tone as well as the best of themselves, to their great admiration; for which all the Metres gave Nowland a sum of Money to buy him handsome Apparel for those days: Nowland coming every day more into favour than formerly he was; he begun to show his Master some observations that he had made upon the Scripture, which so pleased the Elders, and the people, that Nowland became an Expositor of the Scripture, and so Expounded upon certain days amongst the Metres, and was no longer Butler, but ordered to sit at Mr. Hugh's his Table. Thus Nowland continued in esteem amongst the Independants at Plymouth until the Restauration of our Gracious Sovereign K. Charles the Second; then pretending for a while he would go and see his Relations in Ireland, and let them see how God had provided for him, and that he would return again in a short time. Upon this promise, taking of his leave, he departed thence, and came into Ireland, where he hath hitherto continued. This Narrative the said Nowland himself confessed un William Muschamp Esq now one of his Majesty's Commissioners for the farming of his Revenues there, who can certify that this Nowland made his brags how he served the Independants at Plymouth.  
There is yet in Ireland a Clergyman of the Church of Rome, 
Mr. Andrew Catherwood his Narrative of one Jackson a pretended Saint, yet a Romanist.  one Jackson by name, who has Preached (as we are informed by our Author) for these several years past, viz. ann. 1668, 1669, and 1670. within and about the Counnty and City of Limerick, amongst the Nonconformists in those parts. This Fox when he began to Preach at Limerick, received from those Nonconformists at one time about fourscore Cobbs for a Sermon then Preached unto them; after which he invited an acquaintance of his, Mr. Andrew Catherwood, to a Treat, at which time he spent about twenty shillings of this sum, the said Mr. Catherwood assuring us, who heard him declare these words, that this said Jackson was the first that ever brought him to a Bawdy-house within that City.  
The said Mr. Andrew Catherwood doth likewise affirm that this Jackson would often pretend that he had received Letters from Francis Marsh then Bishop of Limerick, and would frame these Letters as if they had weekly come from him, saying, that that Bishop would fain have him to Preach in his Cathedral, but it was against his Conscience so to Preach; therefore he had rather Preach to his Flock for Charity, than to the Bishop for Gain. This he framed to cologue with his Followers, and would show these pretended Letters of his to please them.  
Mr. Catherwood also affirmeth that this Jackson would say Mass disguised to the common sort in that County upon weekdays; and although he feigned this outward Godliness amongst the Dissenters at Limerick, that he came up to Dublin, and there Preached amongst our Ministers in our Churches; and after, to cologue with the Dissenters in that City, he pretended to them to fall from the Church of England, and Preached in the Meetings; where (as he the said Jackson confessed to Mr. Catherwood) he got about 13 l. Sterl. collected by the Meeting-houses in Dublin.  
This Jackson was born at Abberdeen in Scotland; he is a great Scholar, and a Traveller, for he hath traveled into France, Italy, Germany and Spain. In Spain he taught a School, as being Usher under a public Schoolmaster there; he still wandreth about this Kingdom of Ireland, and was lately seen in the County of Mayo: The than Bishop of Limrick, Fran. Marsh, now Archbishop of Dublin, we suppose may have heard of this Impostors pranks already mentioned, during the time that his Grace was Bishop of Limrick; which, if testified, would strengthen this Mr. Catherwoods' Evidence, who declared this above Narrative unto us, whose names hereafter follow, Robert Beware Esq John Madden Student in Physic of Trinity-college in Dublin, and before Pearse Welch, being upon the 25th. of Feb. 1681.  
Thus far have we laid before you the practices of Rome, devised to divide the Protestant Church of England; therefore the dispensations allowed by her Popes and Clergy be many and large (as appears by what you have already heard) purposely to drive on, and set forward her impious Plots; she therefore dispenses with her Adherents to take the shape, yea, even of a member of the Church of England, not out of love thereunto, but to accomplish her intended purposes. For example-sake, there was a certain Knight, Sir E. L. well known over his Majesty's Dominions of England, Scotland and Ireland, who came into this his Majesty's Kingdom of Ireland anno 1670, or thereabouts.  
It is not unknown unto the Inhabitants and Citizens of Dublin, that in the year following 1671, upon the one and twentieth of May there happened a surious fire in his Majesty's Castle of Dublin; during which flames the Lord John Butler (afterwards created Earl of Gowran, third Son to his Grace James Duke of Ormond, now Lord Lieutenant of the Nation) took great care and pains to extinguish the same; which had it been trusted unto the said Knight, we question whether half the Buildings now there extant would have been seen this day: For this Knight, under the pretence of saving the rest of the Buildings within that Castle, would have blown up the great Hall belonging to this Palace. To execute this project the quicker, he caused a Barrel of Gunpowder to be placed in the middle of that Hall, and so to have dropped a train of Powder, and to set fire to the same. But this brave spirited Lord coming in at that instant, and enquiring why that Barrel was there placed, and having heard the project, he most courageously (although the flames were over his head) lifted up the Barrel of Gunpowder, and carried it out on his shoulders, saying, I approve not of this project.  
When this Fire happened, as is generally reported by several of the Citizens of Dublin, that night the water of the City was stopped, so that the Castle-pipe had no water but what they were fain to bring in from the Millpond in the Stable-yard without the Castle-walls.  
It hath been generally reported that this Knight went secretly to Mass at this time, but whether he did or no, it was observed that he would walk before the than Lord Lieutenant amongst the Gentry to Church, with his Bible publicly under his arm to be seen. This posture disguised his Religion, which since is discovered, although at Church he would seem very zealous, turning to the Texts of Scripture as fast as they were quoted by the Minister.  
There is a Learned Doctor, 
Doctor Sall's testimony concerning this Knight.  some years now past, who turned unto the Church of England, Andrew Shall by name, formerly an Ecclesiastic of the Church of Rome, who hath affirmed how he had heard formerly, when the Lord J. B. went Ambassador into France, that this Sir E. L. went with that Lord; and that the French King being taken with the Knight's humours, he and that King covenanted together after this manner.  
This Knight was to give intelligence to the French King, 
The Covenants between the French King and this Knight.  acting underhand for him, making this Proviso for himself, that in case he should be discovered, and thereby incur the King of England's displeasure, if he fled into France, he should be there succoured, and the French King there to provide a place for him.  
Several others besides this Divine have heard the same, besides what the Letters of News have mentioned to this effect. For the perfecting of this Covenant, it is visible and known how he hath been accused to be one of the Conspirators in the late Popish Plot anno 1678, for which he was clapped up; but afterwards being released upon Bail, he fled into France, where he is not only succoured to this day, but likewise provided for, and there preferred to be an Abbot in Paris, where several of his Majesty's Subjects have seen him ranting with his Coach and Horses.  
Whilst this Knight tarried in Ireland to find out the affairs of the Metropolis of this Kingdom, 
How this Knight thrust out Sir William Davies to bring in himself Recorder of this City.  he cajoled several of the Aldermen and Citizens of Dublin, by breeding animosities between them and the Recorder, Sir William Davies, purposely to make place for himself, and to expulse Sir William. This Knight being ambitious, not only to know the modes and manners of the City, but also to change the ancient Rules and customs according to his fancy. To further this his purpose, he made the Lord Berkley to procure the Recorders Place, which Place he once taking possession of, he began to change the old Rules and Customs aforesaid, which bred much clashing amongst the Aldermen and Commons of the City; but he then having the ear of the Lord Berkley, bore all afore him, hectoring after this manner.  
Several of the Aldermen being discontented with these actions of his, 
His first pranks after he became Recorder.  complained, but all to no purpose; for which complaint of theirs, by this Knights means, and by the new stamp which he had raised to assist him, these Aldermen whose names follow were expulsed, and razed out of the roll of Aldermen; Alderman Richard Tigh, Daniel Hutchinson, Lewis Desminieres, Enoch Reader, Mark Quin, Joshua Allen, and Francis Bruster, the two last Aldermen being since Knighted.  
In lieu of these then expulsed Aldermen for to make up a Table of his own gang and creatures, 
This Recorders new Aldermen.  by reason they voted to his will and pleasure, this Gentleman preferred William Gresingham, Nathanael Philpot, and one Brooks, who has been since one of the Informers of the late Popish Plot; Peter Ward, who hath been since Lord Mayor of Dublin; and others were offered at the same time to be made Aldermen also, but refused. The Government of this City continuing under this tuition of their new Recorder and change of Aldermen, until the Government of this Nation was changed, to make way for the Right Honourable Arthur Earl of Essex.  
This Honourable Peer was scarce fettled in the Lieutenancy when the grievances of these mutations (which we have already mentioned) came before his Lordship and this Honourable Board, 
The Earl of Essex and the Privy-Council their verdict in this matter; the seven Aldermen restored, and the three degraded.  showing before them the former passages and enormities committed by this Knight, and his Adherents: These Grievances took up ten or eleven hours' debate upon hearing the same. Then after some days considerations between this Noble Peer and the Privy Council, they appointed a day for the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs and Aldermen to hear their Judgement and Opinion: At which time it was ordered Sir Ellis to be expulsed, and Sir William to be restored; the seven aforesaid Aldermen to take their places as formerly, and the other three new ones to be degraded. Upon this Order the Knight being thus deprived of his prey, fled to seek it elsewhere, being too well known in this City for to tarry longer, and so departed hence into England.  
Whereas you have read already how it was the Jesuits, and other the Emissaries of Rome, who contrived the cutting off the two Pillars of our Church and State, the better for their evil purposes to contrive a way for to murder our late Gracious Sovereign and Godly Martyr Charles the First. And also whereas you have had a relation of the Papal Conspiracies, and of the correspondence between the Papists of Ireland, and of France, for the invading of Ireland; so likewise we humbly lay before you the Papal contrivances of their Brethren and Popish Fathers in England at the same time working against his Sacred Majesty, and the welfare of the Church and State of England, as shall here appear by a copy of a Letter written from a Jesuit to his Correspondent at Brussels, as follows.  
A Copy of a Letter from a Jesuit.  
LEt not the damp of astonishment seize upon your ardent and zealous Soul in apprehending the sudden and unexpected calling of a Parliament: We have not opposed, but rather furthered it; so that we hope as much in this Parliament, as ever we feared any in Queen Elizabeth's days.  
You must know the Council is engaged to assist the King by way of Prerogative, in case the Parliamentary way should fail. You shall see this Parliament will resemble the Pelican, which takes a pleasure to dig out with her beak her own bowels.  
The Election of Knights and Burgesses have been in such confusion of apparent Faction, as that which we were wont to procure heretofore with much art and industry, (when the Spanish Match was in Treaty) now breaks out naturally as a Botch or Boil, and spits and spews out its own rancour and venom.  
You remember how that famous and immortal Statesman the Count of Gondomar fed King James his fancy, and rocked him asleep with the soft sweet sound of Peace, to keep up the Spanish Treaty. Likewise we were much bound to some Statesmen of our own Country, for gaining time by procuring those most advantageous cessations of Arms in the Palatinate, and advancing the Honour and Integrity of the Spanish Nation, and vilifying the Hollanders; remonstrating to King James, that that State was most ungrateful both to his Predecessor Queen Elizabeth, and his Sacred Majesty; that the States were more obnoxious than the Turk, and perpetually injured his Majesty's loving Subjects in the East-Indies, and likewise they have usurped from his Majesty the Regality and unvaluable profit of the Narrow Seas in fishing upon the English Coast, etc.  
This great Statesman had but one principal means to further their great and good designs, which was to set on King James, that none but the Puritan Faction, which plotted nothing but Anarchy, and his confusion, were averse to this most happy Union. We steered on the same course, and have made great use of this Anarchical Election, and have prejudicated and anticipated the Great one, that none but the King's Enemies, and his, are chosen of this Parliament, etc.  
We have now many strings to our Bow, and have strongly fortified our Faction, and have added two Bulwarks more: For when King James lived (you know) he was very violent against Arminianism, and interrupted (with his pestilent Wit, and deep Learning) our strong designs in Holland, and was a great friend to that old Rebel and Heretic the Prince of Orange.  
Now we have planted that Sovereign Drug Arminianism, which we hope will purge the Protestants from their Heresy; and it flourisheth, and bears fruit in due season.  
The materials which build up our Bulwark, are the Projectors and Beggars of all Ranks and Qualities: Howsoever, both these Factions cooperate to destroy the Parliament, and to introduce a new species and form of Government, which is Oligarchy.  
Those serve as direct Mediums and Instruments to our end, which is the universal Catholic Monarchy. Our foundation must be Mutation, and Mutation will cause a Relaxation, which will serve as so many violent Diseases, as the Stone, Gout, etc. to the speedy distraction of our perpetual and insufferable anguish of body, which is worse than death itself.  
We proceed now by Council and mature deliberation, how and when to work upon the Duke's jealousy and revenge; and in this we give the Honour to those which merit it, which are the Church Catholics.  
There is another matter of consequence which we take much into our consideration and tender care, which is to stave off Puritans, that they hang not in the Duke's ears, they are impudent subtle people.  
And it is to be feared lest they should negotiate a Reconciliation between the Duke and the Parliament at Oxford and Westminster; but now we assure ourselves we have so handled the matter, that both Duke and Parliament are irreconcilable.  
For the better prevention of the Puritans, the Arminians have already locked up the Duke's ears; and we have those of our own Religion, which stand continually at the Duke's Chamber to see who goes in and out: We cannot be too circumspect and careful in this regard. I cannot choose but laugh to see how some of our own Coat have accoutred themselves, you would scarce know them if you saw them: And 'tis admirable, how in speech and gesture they act the Puritans. The Cambridge Scholars, to their woeful experience, shall see we can act the Puritans a little better than they have done the Jesuits: They have abused our Sacred Patron, Saint Ignatius, in jest; but we will make them smart for it in earnest. I hope you will excuse my merry digression; for I confess unto you, I am at this time transported with joy to see how happily all instruments and means, as well great as less, cooperate unto our purposes. But to return unto the main Fabric; our Foundation is Arminianism, the Arminians and Projectors, as it appears in the premises, affect mutation. This we second, and enforce by probable arguments. In the first place we take into consideration the King's Honour, and present necessity; and we show how the King may free himself of his Ward, as Lewis the Eleventh did. And for his great splendour and lustre, he may raise a vast Revenue, and not be beholden to his Subjects, which is by way of imposition of Excise: Then our Church Catholics proceed to show the means how to settle this Excise, which must be by a Mercenary Army of Horse and Foot. For the Horse, we have made that sure, they shall be Foreigners, and Germans, who will eat up the King's Revenues, and spoil the Country wheresoever they come, though they should be well paid; what havoc will they make then, when they get no pay, or are not duly paid? They will do more mischief than we hope the Army will do.  
We are provident and careful that this Mercenary Army of two thousand Horse, and twenty thousand Foot, shall be taken on, and in pay, before the Excise be settled. In forming the Excise, the Country is most likely to rise: If the Mercenary Army subjugate the Country, than the Soldiers and Projectors shall be paid out of the confiscations; if the Country be too hard for the Soldiers, than they must consequently mutiny, which is equally advantageous unto us. Our superlative design is, to work the Protestants as well as the Catholics to welcome in a Conqueror, and that is by this means: We hope instantly to dissolve Trade, and hinder the building of Shipping, in devising probable designs, and putting on the State upon Expeditions, as that of Cadiz was, in taking away the Merchant's Ships, so that they may not easily catch, and light upon the West-India Fleet, etc.  

This Account was sent unto the Lord Deputy Falkland from some Members of his Majesty's Council of England, viz. from Suffolk, Salisbury, Morton, and the Bishop of Durbam; together with this Epistle following.  
My Lord,  
KNowing that his Sacred Majesty and his Privy-Council assembled for the calling of this Parliament, have formerly given you the reasons and urgent necessities for the same, we omit it; but by this late discovery here enclosed, we are jealous that most of the Members herein chosen be of a factious crew, and so you will find by the Copy of the discovery at Clarkenwell, there being taken amongst an Assembly of Recusants divers Jesuits, amongst whom several treasonable Papers were found, this being one amongst the rest; in which you may perceive the Papists great spleen to his Grace the Duke, also the treasonable Conspiracies against his Majesty Foreign and Domestic; notwithstanding the discovery hereof, for divers reasons we have not set this enclosed to public view, his Grace and some others having acquainted his Majesty that they will undertake to find out the bottom of this mystery, and thereby politicly have advised his Majesty to permit the sitting of this Parliament, from the seventeenth of this instant, the better to find out their inclinations, and how they be affected according to this discovery.  
We are sensible now Ireland was in some danger of an Invasion by the French Papists, and that the Papists of Ireland and they have correspondence together. The Jesuits be not only a subtle Society, but also an audacious sort of people fearing no punishment, no, not the Halter itself; 
The D. B. his advice how to banish Friars and Jesuits out of these Dominions.  so that we are at a nonplus how to devise a means to banish these Wasps from His Majesty's Dominions; his Grace the Duke propounded in Council the other day, no punishment fit for the driving out of these sorts of , than gelding them, and gave very good reasons for it; one of them was shame ever after to show their faces; the other was, being gelded, they could not execute their Priestly Function according to the Ecclesiastic laws, wanting their members. Your Clergy of Ireland in opposing the Popish offertures made unto his Majesty, (which your Lordship unto us have signified) have not only through God's Blessing protected that Dominion, 
The Bishops and Clergy of Ireland commended for not tolerating of Popery.  but also saved His Majesty and this Nation from future Broils. Thus concluding, We bid your Lordship hearty farewell:  
Your Lordship's Humble Servants, 

Suffolk,  
Salisbury,  
Morton,  
Durham   White-Hall, March 2. 1627.   
The better to confirm the Letter directed to the Rector aforesaid, this Letter is also entered and Printed amongst Mr. John Rushworth's Historical Collections, pag. 474. Nothing excepting (to be discerned in our Copy) saving in the conclusion of the Letter, these words, Join Prayers with us, imploring the Blessed Virgin, and all the Host of Angels and holy Martyrs to intercede for us. Thus hoping to see Count Tylley and Marques Spynola here about July come a twelvemonth, I rest: In the mean time we pray for an happy success in Germany, and the Low-Countries.  
Your Loving Friend, etc.  
This conclusion is wanting in Rushworth's Collections in the Letter to the Rector aforesaid.  
When the Original of this Jesuitical Lord was seized on amongst other Papers, it was supposed to have been written by one Winter a Jesuit, and Nephew to the same Winter, who was executed for the Gunpowder-Treason in King James his days, now about 77 years since.  
This Parliament sat upon the day appointed, being upon the 17th. of March 1627. Sir John Finch the Queen's Attorney then being chosen Speaker of the House of Commons; at which Assembly his late Gracious Majesty saluted both the Lords and other Members thus:  

My Lords and Gentlemen,  
THese times are for Action, 
The King's Speech.  for Action, I say, not for words, therefore I shall use but a few; and (as Kings are said to be exemplary to their Subjects, so) I would wish you would imitate me in this, and use as few, falling upon speedy consultation. No man is, I conceive, such a stranger to the common necessity, as to expostulate the cause of this meeting, and not to think supply to be the end of it; and as this necessity is the product and consequent of your advice, so the true Religion, the Laws and Liberties of this State, and just defence of our Friends and Allies, being so considerably concerned, will be, I hope, arguments enough to persuade to supply; for if it be, as most true it is, both my duty and yours to preserve this Church and Commonwealth, this exigent time certainly requires it.  
In this time of common danger, I have taken the most ancient, speedy, and best way for supply, by calling you together. If (which God forbidden) in not contributing what may answer the quality of my occasions, you do not your duties, it shall suffice I have done mine; in the conscience whereof I shall rest content, and take some other course, for which God hath impowered me, to save that which the folly of particular men might hazard to lose.  
Take not this as a menace, (for I scorn to threaten my inferiors) but as an admonition from him who is tied, both by nature and duty, to provide for your preservations; and I hope, though I thus speak, your demeanours will be such as shall oblige me in thankfulness to meet you oftener; than which, nothing shall be more pleasing to me.  
Remembering the distractions of our last meeting, you may suppose I have no confidence of good success at this time; but be assured I shall freely forget and forgive what is past, hoping you will follow that sacred advice lately inculcated, To maintain the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace.   
This Speech of his Gracious Majesty to the moderate Members was acceptable; to the Factious or Puritanical sort, an amazement; and to the Papal sort so affected, a terror, or guilt of conscience, making them look asquint upon themselves; and were it not for shame, they would have run on their old course with violence, which the Jesuits had plotted, as the Letter taken at Clarkenwell aforesaid specifieth; yet to smother their private future intentions, they concorded with the moderate sort to grant his Majesty some Subsidies.  
The Court of Rome by their Emissaries sprinkled here, having intelligence of the seizure of these Papers, (to slip their necks out of the Halter) consulted with those whom they had made sure, as appeareth by the Letter, in these words; We have not opposed it (meaning the calling of this Parliament) but rather furthered it; so that we hope as much in this Parliament, as ever we feared any in Queen Elizabeth's days. 
How the Jesuits laid their contrivance on the Church of England.  Then smelling how the Duke had discovered their Romish Policies, they began the better to gloss their intentions, to lay before the House several grievances touching Religion, aspersing at that time Neale the then Bishop of Winchester, and Laud then Bishop of Bath and Wells, to be the two Supporters of Arminianism; whereas the Letter showeth it was their own act and contrivance. Also in this Grievance they lay all their mischief by them devised upon the Duke of Buckingham, saying he was the cause of these vexations. Therefore for the better satisfaction of the Reader, 
Vide pag. 113, & 114.  we shall lay before you the heads of these Grievances then presented in Parliament, as William Sanderson in his History of the Reign of King Charles the First sets them down.  

The Grievances being thus.  
1. THe danger, and innovation, and alteration in Religion. This occasioned by, 1st, The great esteem and favours many Professors of the Romish Religion receive at Court. 2dly, Their public resort to Mass at Denmark-House, contrary to his Majesty's answer to the Parliaments Petition at Oxford. 3dly, The Letter for stay of proceed against them. Lastly, the daily growth of the Arminian Faction favoured and protected by Nele Bishop of Winchester, and Laud Bishop of Bath and Wells, whilst the Orthodox parts are silenced or discountenanced.  
2. The danger of Innovation, and alteration in Government occasioned by the billeting of Soldiers, by the Commission for procuring one thousand Germane Horse and Riders, as for the defence of the Kingdom, by a standing Commission granted to the Duke to be General at Land in times of Peace.  
3. Disasters of our designs, as the expedition to the Isle of the, and that lately to Rochel, wherein the English have purchased their dishonour with the waist of a million of treasure.  
4. The want of Ammunition, occasioned by the late selling away of thirty six last of Powder.  
5. The decay of Trade by the loss of three hundred Ships taken by the Dunkyrkers and Pirates within these three last years.  
6. The not guarding the Narrow-Seas, whereby his Majesty hath almost lost his Regality.   
Of all which evil and dangers, the principal cause is the Duke of Buckingham his excessive power, and abuse of that power. And therefore they humbly submit it to his Majesty's wisdom, whether it can be safe for himself, or his Kingdom, that so great power both by Sea and Land, as rests in him, should be trusted in the hands of any one Subject whatsoever.  
These Jesuitical contrivances not being able to dissuade the late King from his tender affections unto the Duke, 
How the Jesuits contrived the Duke of Buckingham's death.  but rather encouraged his Grace more, which the Jesuits perceiving, they contrived his death; whereupon the 23d. of August following he was stabbed by one John Felton, who in his examination being asked why he killed the Duke, he replied, I shall be brief, I killed him for the cause of God and my Country. Yet that the Reader may the better compare the Letter directed to the Father Rector at Brussels, and also the heads of the grievances before mentioned, with the Confession of John Felton, we here lay before him, as the same Author sets it at large; in these words.  
And after some discourse, 
Feltons' Confession. See Sanders, pag. 122, 123.  Sir (said he) I shall be brief, I killed him for the cause of God and my Country. Nay, said the other, there may be hope of his life, the Chirurgeon said so. It is impossible, (he replied) I had the force of forty men, assisted by him that guided my hand. And being interrogated to several questions, he made these answers: That he was named John Felton, heretofore Lieutenant to a Foot-Company under Sir James Ramsey. That he had endeavoured for a Commission to be Captain in this Expedition, and failed therein, but without any regret upon the Duke, (from whom he had found respect) nor for any private interest whatsoever; that the late Remonstrance of Parliament published the Duke so odious, that he appeared to him deserving death, which no Justice durst execute. That it was not many days since he resolved to kill him; but finding the Duke so closely attended, that it should be his business to pass a Volunteer, and do it in this Voyage. Somewhat he said of a Sermon at St. Faith's Church under Paul's, where the Preacher spoke in justification of every man in a good cause to be Judge and Executioner of Sin, which he interpreted to be him. That passing out at the Postern-Gate upon Tower-Hill, he espied that fatal Knife in a Cutler's Glass-case, which he bought for sixteen pence. It was the point end of a tough Blade stuck into a cross Haft; the whole length, handle and all, not twelve inches, fastened to his right pocket; and from that time he resolved therewith to stab him. That some days after he followed the Train to Portsmouth, and coming by a Cross erected in the Highway, he sharpened the point thereof upon the Stone, believing it more proper in Justice to advantage his design, than for the Idolatrous intent it was first erected. That he found continual trouble and disquiet in mind until he should perform this Fact, and came to Town but that morning. That no Soul living was accessary with him by any ways or means of the Duke's execution. That he was assured his Fact was justified, and he the Redeemer of the people's sufferings, under the power of the Duke's Usurpations, etc. And his Paper tacked in the Crown of his Hat, seemed to satisfy his Conscience that he was thereof well pleased.  
This unhappy Murder caused great distractions, especially in State-affairs; so that the House of Parliament and his Majesty differed very much in settling the Customs and other matters, which in conclusion was the chief Instrument or cause of this Parliaments dissolution.  
Anno 1652. There chanced to come unto Colonel Richard Laurence, than Governor of Waterford under Oliver Cromwell, one Nugent, who seemed to be a fair conditioned man, and so was hired by the Colonel to work in his Garden; but knowing the Colonels temper and Principles in Religion, he strove to please him all he could, not missing Prayers in the Family or Meetings  appointed. Thus he continued with the Colonel for several years: At last it chanced that Justice John Cook, who was executed for the late King's Murder, took a great liking to this Nugent, and begged of the Colonel for to let him go over with him into England, which the Colonel easily granted to oblige Justice Cook. Nugent staying for a while with Justice Cook, returned into Ireland, and came to his old Master Colonel Laurence, where he remained for a while, and upon the King's happy Restauration this Nugent became the Popish Confessor and Priest at Leislepp some 6 or 7 miles distant from Dublin, and hath seen the Colonel several times since, and laughs at him to this day when he sees him, considering how he had played the Dissembler with him, as if he had been one of the Colonels Fraternity, which is of the Anabaptists. Thus it is evident how Dissenters have been mightily gulled since the years 1640, and 1641. especially by the Church of Rome, purposely to make Separation in the Church of England. This the Colonel himself cannot deny; for he told the Author this Story on the 28th. day of March 1682. besides to others yet living in the City of Dublin, who can testify this Narrative for a truth.  
Hitherto we have showed how the Papists have acted under the disguised habits of Presbyterians and Independants, with a design to ruin the Church of England: It will not be now unseasonable to show further how they have assembled themselves among the Quakers, and Preached in their Meeting-Houses, with a design of enlarging and continuing the divisions of Protestants: To which purpose I shall subjoin a passage out of a small Pamphlet published by Mr. Prynne, called The Quakers unmasked. Which runs thus:  

The Information of George Cowlishaw of the City of Bristol aforesaid Ironmonger, taken the 22th. day of January, 1654.  
WHo informeth on his Oath, that in the Month of September by'r last, this Informant had some discourse in Bristol with one Coppinger, an Irishman, formerly a Schoolfellow of his, that came purposely thither for his passage into Ireland; who told this Informant, that he he had lived in Rome and Italy eight or nine years, and had taken upon him the Order of a Friar of the Franciscan Company: And he told this Informant, that he had been at London lately for some months; and whilst he was there, he had been at all the Churches and Meetings public and private that he could hear of, and that none came so near him as the Quakers: And being at a Meeting of the Quakers, he there met with two of his acquaintance in Rome, (the which two persons were of the same Franciscan Order and Company) that were now become chief Speakers amongst the Quakers, and he himself had spoke among the Quakers in London about thirty times, and was well approved of amongst them. And this Informant further saith, that the said Mr. Coppinger asked him what kinds of opinions in Religion there were in Bristol? And this Informant told him that there were several opinions and judgements: and not naming any opinions of the Quakers; the said Mr. Coppinger asked him whether there had been any Quakers in Bristol? And the Informant answered him, No. Whereupon the said Mr. Coppinger told him the said Informant two or three times, that if he did love his Religion and his Soul, he should not hear them: Whereupon this Informant told him, that he thought none of them would come to Bristol: Who expressly replied, that if this Informant would give him five Pounds, he would make it five hundred Pounds, if some Quakers did not come to Bristol within three weeks or a month then following. And on the morrow following the said Coppinger departed this City for Ireland, his native place, and about eighteen days after there came to this City [Most likely his two fellow Franciscan Friars , who have there done much hurt, and gained many disciples, some whereof disturbed two of the Ministers publicly in the Church, and assaulted and reviled one of them in the Streets very lately] two persons that bear the name of Quakers.   
This is a true Copy of the original Information taken upon Oath at Bristol, as aforesaid, the 22th. of January last: From whence the Reader and whole Nation may take notice, especially those in present Power, who should prevent such dangerous growing mischiefs with greatest care, not connive at them any longer.  
1. 
See Cromwell's Speech in the Painted Chamber, Sept. 4.1654, p. 16, 17.  That there are multitudes of Romish Emissaries and Vermin now residing and wand'ring up and down freely amongst us, to seduce and divide the people, by setting up new Sects, and Separate Congregations in all places, and broaching new Notions and Opinions of all sorts, or old Heresies or Blasphemies; not saying Masses, praying to Saints and Images, or crying up the Pope's Supremacy, etc. as heretofore.  
2. That they are the chief Speakers and Rulers in most Separate Congregations, and particularly amongst the Quakers, amongst whom the Franciscan Friars act their parts as well as the Jesuits.  
3. That they have their several Missions and Directions into all parts from their Generals and Superiors, of their respective Orders, residing commonly in London, (
* Cromwell's Speech, p. 16, 17.  where they have a Consistory and Council sitting, that rules all the affairs of the things of England,) besides fixed Officers in every Diocese) and are all fore-acquainted both with the places and times of their several Missions; seeing Coppinger could so certainly predict the time of their Mission, and coming to Bristol, where they have done much harm, and assaulted and disturbed the Ministers both in public and private.  
4. 
See Thomas Campanella de Monarchia Hispanica, c. 25.27.  That the Popes and these his Emissaries chief endeavours are to draw the people from our Churches, public Congregations, Ordinances, Ministers, and Religion, and to divide and tumble us into as many Sects and Separate Conventicles as they have Popish Orders; and thereby into as many civil Parties and Factions as possibly they can, to ruin us thereby, Matth. 12.25, 27.  
5. That by this their new Stratagem and Liberty, they have (under the disguises of being Quakers, Seekers, Anabaptists, Independents, Ranters, Dippers, Anti-Trinitarians, Antiscripturists, and the like) gained more Proselytes and Disciples, and done more harm in eight or nine years' space to the Church and Realm of England, more prejudice, dishonour and scandal to our Religion and Ministers, than ever they did by saying Mass, or Preaching, Printing, or any point of the grossest Popery in 80 years' time heretofore. And if not speedily, diligently, restrained, repressed, will soon utterly overturn both our Church, Religion, Ministry, and State too in conclusion, having already brought them to sad confusions and distractions.  
Now that which gives great cause of suspicion, 
See Regula Fratrum minorum sub Francisco Militantium. Ven. 1500.  that these Quakers are either disguised Franciscan Friars, or their seduced Disciples and Emissaries, is  
1. Their rambling about from place to place by two and two together to vent and spread their Errors; as the Franciscan Friars use by the 
† See Regula Fratrum minorum sub Francisco Militantium, Ven. 1500.  Rules of their Orders are bound to do, and the Queens Franciscans did here of late.  
2. Their use of vile and coarse Array, and condemning not only all Pride and Luxury, but lawful decency in Apparel in themselves and their Proselytes, in imitation of the 
* See Surius & Ribadeniera, in vita & Regula Fratrum Minorum Sancti Francisci.  Franciscans.  
3. Their persuading people to desert their lawful Callings and Employments, to embrace a kind of idle, monkish, lazy life, and ramble about from place to place to vent their pretended Visions, Revelations, Prophecies, Messages, and New Lights; a practice usual with Franciscan Friars, and St. Francis their Founder.  
4. Their rude and uncivil behaviour in refusing to salute, or show any reverential respect, honour, or humble deportment towards Magistrates, or other persons of what quality soever, either in words or gestures, (of which the rude Cynical Franciscans are most guilty of all other Popish Orders) contrary to express Scripture Precepts and Precedents. Exod. 20.12. Deutr. 5.19. Matth. 15.4. Ephes. 6.2, 5. Rom. 13.1, 2, 7. Hebr. 12.9. 1 Pet. 2.13, 14, 17, 18. (an observable Text against them) Tit. 3.1, 2. 1 Tim. 6. v. 1, 2, 3. (a notable Text) Ephes. 5.33. Gen. 18.2, 3. c. 19 1, 2. c. 23.7. c. 24. v. 31. c. 27.19. c. 33.3, 4, 6, 7. c. 37.9, 10. c. 41.43. c. 42.6. c. 43.26, 28, 29. c. 48.12. c. 49.8. Exod. 11.8. Ruth 2.10. 1 Sam. 20.41. c. 24.8. c. 25. v. 23, 24, 25, 41. c. 28.14. 2 Sam. 9.8. c. 14.22, 23. 1 King. 1.16, 23, 31, 47. c. 2.19. 2 King. 2.15. c. 4.26, 27, 37. 1 Chron. 21.21. Est. 3.2. which compared with Matth. 10.12. c. 5.4. Mar. 9.15. Lu. 1.40. Acts 18.22. c. 21.7. c. 25.13. 1 Cor. 16.21. 2 Cor. 13.13. Phil. 4.21, 22. Col. 4.10, 12, 15, 18. Rom. 16.15.7, 9 to 17. 2 Thes. 3.17. may teach these rude Quakers and their Disciples far better manners and civility, both in their gestures, behaviours, and words, than now they exercise.  
5. Their Doctrines, that the Saints are perfectly holy in this life, and do not sin, being able to stand perfect in their own power: That they are as equally holy, just, good and free from sin as Christ and God himself: maintained by 
* The perfect Pharisee, p. 1, 2, 11, 14.  Fox, Naylor affirmed of St. Francis, the Father of the Franciscans, and justified by them in their Writings: as you may read in Surius & Ribadeniera in the Life of St. Francis, and the blasphemous Book Conformitatum Beati Francisci ad vitam Jesu Christi, l. 3. cum addition. Heir. Bucchii. Bon. 1590. first writ by Bartholemaeus de Pisa, and approved by a General Chapter of the Franciscans held at Assize Aug. 2. 1389. and ratified by their Popes. Antonini Chronicon. Tit. 24. c. 1, 2. Vincentius Belvacensis. Speculum Hist. lib. 3. c. 97. and Mornay his Mystery of Iniquity. London. 1612. p. 347, 348.  
It is the observation of many learned intelligent 
(a) And of G. Emmot a late reclaimed Quaker in his Northern Blast.  Protestants, who have pried into the Opinions and Practices of all our late New Sects, That in their Books, Writings, Speaking, Preachments, 
(b) Witness Extreme Unction, used by many Separate Congregations, and their recusancy to hear our Ministers, or come to our public Ordinances, and the like.  Practices, are interlarded, and mixed with some Jesuitical and Popish Tenants, Opinions, Ceremonies & Practices; by which we may as visibly discover a Jesuit, a Popish Priest or Friar in them, as we may a Lion by his paw. And nothing (in my judgement, more clearly detects the Popish Friars, Priests, and Jesuits, to be the principal inventors, erectors of, Actors, Rulers, Speakers amongst our Quakers, and other New Sects; then their pretended, 
(c) See G. Emmot his Northern Blast, with Gilpin's book, both relenting Quakers.  extraordinary sudden extravagant Agonies, Trances, Quakings, Shaking, Raptures, Visions, Apparitions, Conflicts with Satan, Revelations, Illuminations, Instructions in new divine Mysteries and Seraphical Divinity, whereof they pretend they were wholly ignorant before, being illiterate persons; their intimate familiarity and immediate communion with God and Jesus Christ, in, and after their agonies and ecstasies; their extraordinaay Callings Missions, Messages to such and such particular orders, fects, places, persons; their sudden speaking, understanding of several Languages which they pretend they never learned, but got by inspiration: all which are the very same in form and substance with those ridiculous lying Enthusiasms, Impostures, Cheats, Agonies, 
(d) See Wierus de Praestigiis Daemonum. l. 1. c. 10. & 17. in Jo Gerson de Probatione Spirituum.  Revelations, Visions, Raptures, Illuminations, Inspirations, Apparitions, etc. of Popish Saints, Friars, Priests, Jesuits, Nuns, recorded in the lying Legends and Lives of their Romish canonised SAINTS, by Capgrave, Surius, Lippomanes, Ribadeniera, Mafeus', and other of their fraternity, especially in the Lives of St. Francis, Ignatius Loyola (the Founders of the Franciscans and Jesuits Orders, the principal Actors, Speakers amongst the Quakers, and other late Enthusiasts, if fully examined) and of St. Dominick, for Men: and of St. Katherine of Sienna, and St. 
(e) Imitated by some women Quakers.  Bridget of Sweden, for Women. Out of this St. Bridgets Life and Revelations, printed in Folio at Nuremberg, Ann. 1524. most of our Male and Female Quakers extravagant new Revelations and Impostures are extracted, as those who will but compare them may at first discern. And though they conceal their Jesuitism and grossest points of Popery from their Disciples at first, baiting their hooks only with pleasing Novelties, shows of superlative Sanctity, and 
(f) See G. Emmot his Northern Blast p. 1.13, 14. The perfect Pharisee, p. 9.10, 11, 14, 29, 35, etc.  invectives against our Ministers, Ordinances, Church, Tithes, Government, and the like; that so they may more easily catch the silly people; yet they discover their Jesuitical Positions and Popish Doctrines, more openly by degrees; at last, (as Evangelical Perfection, Justification by our own inherent Righteousness and Holiness, etc. crying them up for new Gospel Light amongst the ignorant vulgar; and crying down our Protestant Ministers, Ordinances, Sacraments, the Articles of our Creed, Church Liturgies, Gods Ten Commandments, the Lords Prayer, our Churches, and sometimes the Letter of the old and new Testament as Popish and 
(g) The Jesuits, Popish Priests and Friars condemned our Ministers heretofore as unlawful Ministers because they derived not their Ordination from the Church of Rome: now they turn the scales, and affirm them to be no lawful Ministers, but Antichristian and Popish upon this false pretext, That they derive their Ordination and Ministry from the Pope and Church of Rome.  Antichristian: as the Friars and Jesuits did heretofore in their Books and Discourses in their very Language. And it is evident by some late instances that they are Anti-magistratical as well as Anti-ministerial. Yea that these 
(h) See John Gilpin's and others 〈…〉 conce●●●●● the Quakers in the North.  Quakers use enchanted Potions, Bracelets, Ribbons, Sorcery and Witchcraft, to intoxicate their Novices and draw them to their party; As Simon Magus bewitched the people of Samaria with his Sorceries, Act. 6.9, 11. and other seducing false Teachers, bewitched the foolish Galatians, that they should not obey the truth, 
Gal. 3.1.  which Enchantments, Sorceries, Charms, Fascinations and Exorcisms are very frequent amongst Popes, and Popish Priests, Menks, Friars, Jesuits, as you may read at large in Joannes Wierus de Praestigiis Daemonum & Incantationibus. Basilae. 1568. especially l. 2. c. 7. l. 5. c. 2, 3, etc. Platina, Benno, Cardinalis, Baleus, and others in the Lives of Pope Silvester 2. Benedict 9 John 20 and 21. and other Popes, who were all most infamous Magicians, Sorcerers, and Enchanters, by which black art they got the Papacy. And Deal Rio his Disquisitio Magie, and John Jee his Foot out of the Snare, London, 1624. will prove the Jesuits and Priests in England are still accustomed to them, to win and seduce their Proselytes. Whence we find this Scripture expression concerning Romish Babylon Rev. 18.23. By thy SORCERIES were ALL THE NATIONS DECEIVED.  
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