THE politics OF malcontents, showing The GRAND INFLUENCE THE JESUITS Have in all their DESPERATE UNDERTAKINGS.  
LONDON, Printed for John Kidgell, and are to be sold by Richard Janeway. 1684.   

THE politics OF malcontents, showing The GRAND INFLUENCE THE JESUITS Have in all their DESPERATE UNDERTAKINGS. I. When there happens any difference between Princes, they must be encouraged therein, and if need be assistance is covertly to be promised to them, and when they are sufficiently engaged then the best advantage is to be made of them.  
ANno 1607. Pope Paul the Fifth and the State of Venice were at great difference, and being embroiled, the Spaniard( by the contrivance of our Sacred College) the better to advance their own interest, and to make profit of those divisions, underhand cast oil into the Fire, though openly they made show to extinguish it; for on the one side, they encouraged the Venetians to maintain their rights; and on the other, they commanded the Governors of Naples and Milan to serve the Pope with all their power.  
But it's no prudence to stand so near a great person as to be oppressed with his ruin; nor so far off but when his ruin comes, a wise man may be able time enough to rise upon some part of his ruins; when a Tempest overthrows a great three every one tears off a branch; therefore you must like the Crab keep the door of the Oyster; make what advantage you can when opportunity serves, and you must not be nice in taking advantages; Interest is that which leads the World in a string; imitate the Hawk which flies high, yet will descend to catch its's Prey, whereas the Lark in its flight doth nothing but sing.  
II. He●●ti●al Kings ●nd Princes a●e to be made aw●y, That by Pois●n is most safe and secure from discovery; Agathocles w●s po●son●d with a Tooth-pick; Joan Albreta Queen of navarre was to be poisoned with a perfumed pair of Gloves; and the Prince of Conde with a Pomander; You may compose your Dose of such Ingredients, as shall have their effects at what tim● y●u please.  
There are ●ive hun●red and t●ir●ty Methods of poisoning found out, you may take out of the Inventory such as as are most fit for present use.  
There may be some difficulty to get admission into the presence of a great Person; but opportunities must be taken and contrivances used; when there was a design to kill William Prince of Orange, Anno 1584. Balthasar Gerrard was employed by our Holy Conclave to that purpose, who brought a Seal( which we had the Art to get for him) from Count Mansfield to be delivered to the Prince which gave him admission, and gained him Credit with the Prince and an Advantage to assassinate him, which he did.  
The Dominican friar, feigning ●o have Lette●s of great concern to be delivered unto King Henry the Third of France, was brought into his presence, and kindly received, he delivered his Letters; as the King was reading them, he thrust a poisoned knife into his bowels, of which wound he dyed within few hours after.  
If you design th● Assassination of any gre●t Person, you may employ some Instrument to effect it, and then give notice to him of the Assassination intented against him, and by whom; as Varade Rector of the Jesuits College in Clermount gave notice to Henry the Fourth of France, That Peter Barier intended to assassinate his Majesty( though the said Barier was to that purpose employed by him) by this means you will gain credit and confidence from and admission to the Prince, and so you may easily effect your designs.  
After you have committed the Fact, retire and put yourselves into a disguise; and immediately go to the place where the Assassination was committed, and make a great bussel as any in the throng to find out the Assassin, as James Michel the Scot did when he had discharged his Pistol at the Person of the Arch-bishop of St. Andrew, Anno 1668; and be sure you charge your Enemies with the Fact; this will render them odious, and make yourselves famous.  
As it ought to be your care that Heretical Painces be humbled, so you must be watchful that no catholic Prince doth too much taper up, and agrandize himself; for then is the Papal Interest most safe, when the Forces and Strength of Princes are not greatly unequal; for his Holiness then by declaring on either side will assuredly keep all in Peace, and may drive on his own Interest out of that quarter, where the wind blows fairest for his advantage; you know it hath been the wisdom of our holy Conclave, That when any Prince grows great and potent to pluck off his Feathers, setting up some Neighbouring Princes to be his Enemies, and using all means and methods which may induce him to supplicate his Holiness for aid and mediation.  
You must have a watchful Eye over France, our Congregation of propagating the Faith is not well pleased with the French Kings designs; his purchase of Cassal hath created some Jealousies in our Supreme Council, That his purposes are not very Evangelical.  
Our Missionaries gave us to understand, That the most Christian King intends the next Campane to carry Rome to Paris; and make his Holiness instead of Christ's Vicar a French Curate; therefore you must have Briarius's hands to oppose his Designs, as well as Argus's Eyes to penetrate his Councils, otherwise without the help of Galilaeus's Prospective, we can foresee that his Holiness will be brought from his porphyry Chair to the Stool of Repentance; for there is an old prophesy lately found in the Vatican.  Cum cantat Gallus, flebit Petrus. 
III. Where a King or Prince is illustrious for his eminent virtues and goodness, and no Faults or Crimes can be charged on him, it will be prudence to charge the Government; you must do as a well experienced Captain with a Fort( who not battering the Walls) undermine the Foundation, being sure that the batlements and walls will all fall at once, without any hazard to himself; the foundation of a State is Power, riches and reputation, you must undermine these, and then you effect your ends.  
IV. Heretical Kingdoms are to be ruffled and put into disorder, for they are enrolled in the Popes black Book for destruction; burning and firing of houses in great Cities and Towns are the most hopeful ways and best Expedients.  
Your attempts upon London in 1666 by Fireballs was a glorious Act, but it was ineffectual to the main design; therefore that great City, being the Magazine for Power and Strength of the Nation, must by all your arts be first attacked, that being reduced all will be our own, for the whole Nation will follow the Fate of London.  
The Plague is a severe judgement of God, but the heretics worse; for so many heretics, so many Plagues; the Plague only infects the Body, but heresy, like the Italian, kills Body and Soul; therefore what his Holiness cannot do by the Sword of the Spirit; you( being the janissaries of the Church militant) must effect by your Arts; proceed in Gods name in this apostolic work; you may put on Saint Peters breast plate of righteousness, but you must know that in all Saint Pauls armoury, there is no back-piece; you must therefore be resolved to carry on your designs with a high hand, let the Laws of God or the Land say what they will to the contrary.  
I have hinted these things unto you, that you may be invigorated and impowred to proceed courageously, and remember that after you have raised the storm, you must resolve not to cease the Tempest, till you have blown up the Government in Church and State, Root and Branch.  
V. Liberty of Conscience is the best Expedient to advance the catholic Interest; for under that Spiritual shield you may preserve yourselves; therefore it will be convenient to proclaim Spiritual Liberty, and to reduce Religion in England, and in other Heretical Kingdoms into so many Atoms, that nothing may unite them in a solid Body to oppose our designs; but if any interest as a mighty stream shall happen to run across, you must cut it into several channels and small rivulets to make it fordable for the ascent of the triple Crown,  
VI. Liberty of Conscience in the Church will assuredly introduce arbitrary power in the State; for Liberty being once indulged, the Religion of the Country will presently be dwindled into Factions and Parties, and every Faction being in a State of hostility against the other, the Prince for the security of the public Peace will be enforced to keep up an Army; therefore after you have framed new Phainomena's of Religion in the one, you may with good success compose new Schemes of Justice, and new Rules of Government according to the Institutes of Tyranny in the other; and when a Nation is weakened by Factions and enfeebled by vicious habits, they are then sufficiently prepared, and made capable to be oppressed, and a corrupt State is only proper for a Tyrant to rise in.  
VII. The agrandizing of a City and the Suburbs of it are of great conveniency to advance the catholic Designs, for there they may lodge their own party( without the least suspicion) to drive on any design; however a great City is the fittest Engine to turn an old Monarchy into a new Commonwealth; therefore our sacred Conclave hath conceived( of which you may make good use) that it's more safe for a State to have three great Cities in it of equal power, that in case one should rebel the other two might balance, and give Law to the third.  
VIII. If any King or Prince shall be obstinate and not give Obedience to the Pope( by whom Kings reign) then it will be meritorious to bring him into hatred with other Princes, evil Reports must be given out of him, he must be declared a Heretiek, deprived of his sceptre and his Subjects encouraged to arm against him, if these devices will not do, then he must be done away by poison or otherwise.  
Therefore Conradus claiming the sovereignty of Sicily, which did much displease the Pope, his Holiness to be revenged of him, defamed the said conrad, accused him of heresy, laid murder to his charge, burdened him with the death, and poisoning of his own Brother, thereby to make him odious to the World; and having murdered his reputation, gave away his Kingdom of Sicily to Henry of England; you see how dextrous his Holiness was in that excellent Science of Calumny, it makes us think that the valentine( the best modern critic of Polity) drew that arrow( of audacter caluminare) out of his Holinesses's Quiver.  
And Pope Alexander the Third did like himself, who having conceived a displeasure against Frederick Barbarosa Emperor of Germany, persuaded him to undertake a War against the Turk, which he did; and being employed in that War for the good of Christendom, his holiness signified by his Letters unto the Sultan, that he could have no peace while the Emperor lived, and therefore advised to kill him, and to that purpose sent him the Emperors Picture, and from time to time gave notice to the Sultan of the Emperors quarters, by which means he was surprised, but the Sultan being no friend to his Holiness acquainted his Imperial Majesty with all things, and gave him his Picture and Letters which he had received from the Pope, and being set at liberty he assembled the Princes of Germany, and there shewed them the Popes Letters and the Picture, which he had sent to the Sultan: but the holy Father to excuse himself, ordered three Fellows to swear, That the Emperor had employed three Persons to assassinate him; so that according to his Holinesses politics, if any person shall charge you with a Crime, you may safely recriminate him with another; whether it be true or false it matters not it will express a Gallantry in you, and it will abate the malignity of the accusation; howsoever it's a good piece of prudence always to be provided with some cunning Strategem, either to baffle your Enemies, or to secure yourself and own Interest.  
IX. Conspiracies and Works of Darkness must be communicated only by word of mouth, and that singly, for nothing is more dangerous and fatal to great Undertakings, than to commit them to Paper, or to communicate them to many.  
The Dukes of Exeter, of Holland and others conspiring to seize upon Henry the Fourth of England, and to restore Richard the Second, who was lately deposed; the Conspirators did draw up Articles between them for their more faithful carrying on the Design; but the Duke of York discovering of a Paper( wherein the said Articles were written) in the Duke of Exeter's bosom seized upon it, and discovered the whole Conspiracy to King Henry the Fourth; which was the ruin and confusion of the Conspirators; if the Paper had not been discovered in all probability Henry the Fourth had been seized on, and Richard the Second restored to his Crown and Dignity.  
Severus the Emperor being to make War against Niger, Emperor of the East, he conceived it not safe for him to depart from Rome till he had contracted a Friendship with Albinus a Britain( a gallant person) which he did: then Severus marched with his Army into the East against Niger, the Roman Senate having a great affection for Albinus, many of the Senators writ to him to come to Rome, and to take possession of it in Severus's absence, and that they would adhere to him: Severus having effected his business in the East returns to Rome, falls out with Albinus, and in Gallia gives battle and defeats him, his Cabinet was taken, wherein were many secret Letters to him from the Senate and other Noble Persons in favour of him, and disfavour of Severus: this did so incense Severus that it cost many of them their heads, the loss of their Estates, and the ruin of themselves and Families.  
The Letter which was to be delivered to the Lord Mountagle, instead of blowing up the Parliament, blew up all the hopes and designs of the catholics in England: and how fatal the Letters were which were sent by the Duke of Guise( our great Friend) unto the King of Spain( during the holy League and by Henry the Third of France intercepted) we need not tell you, therefore you must be close in your Enterprises, apprehensive of all advantages, and speedy in execution; for all designs, if once made known, they are like mines discovered of no use: secrecy and celerity are the two wheels on which all great Actions move: you must manage your designs so, that they may like white powder( as it is said) do execution without report: The Fish may be taken with the bait, without discovery of the hook.  
X. Seeds of Emulation and dissension must be sowed amongst Princes, that after the example of those Brethren which sprung out of the Serpents Teeth, they may destroy one another; therefore Sejanus( to make dissension the Ladder to climb up to the Empire) set variance betwixt Brusus and Nero, to the end that the one should take occasion to destroy the other: and the Duke of Guise, when he designed to set the Crown of France upon his own head, living King Henry the Third, proffered the Kingdom of France to the King of navarre next Heir to that Crown, not out of any kindness to him, but to breed such distrust and jealousies betwixt the two Kings; that the one might let slip no occasion that might prove the destruction and overthrow of the other, and so the Duke might the better drive on his own designs and purposes to obtain that Crown. And you must take notice that all Wars raised between catholic Princes are by us contrived to be but as decoys to draw Heretical Princes into ruin and destruction, and are by us used as delusory mediums drawn before their Eyes, that we may more securely advance the designs of our Supreme Council: You must make it your work to set Friends at Jars, Allies at Variance, and Confederates at dissension.  
XI. It will be a great Instance of prudence to wind yourselves into Ambassadors and the Chief Ministers of State: you may represent in what disguise you please the particular State of affairs abroad, which you may make to appear white, when they are black; clear, when cloudy; and e contra, as most subservient to your ends: these notices being prudently communicated, many times beget differences between Princes, howsoever they will create Jealousies.  
By Orders of our Supreme Council, Twelve jesuits( the most considerable for their happy conduct of affairs) were sent into Holland to acquaint the Dutch, That the Prince of Orange designed to make himself King of the United Provinces, which did so influence and alarm the Hogan Mogans( for they dread nothing more than a King) that they forthwith begged Peace of his most Christian Majesty, which was granted to them; and thereby the Alliance of the Confederates was broken, and such a Feud was raised between the Prince and the States, and such jealousies amongst all the Confederates, that he thought himself happy, that upon any Terms he could obtain Peace, which assuredly would have endangered the Empire, if the most Christian King by the segacity and contrivance of our sacred Consistory. had not been disappointed in his purposes: therefore you may observe of what admirable consequence these Arts are of, if managed with prudence: it matters not whether your Information be true or false: it will have the same effect, if you take your measures right.  
The Holy Father of Rome doth many times to good purpose disseminate differences between the marquis of brandenburg, the Landsgrave of H●ssen, the Duke of Saxony the Duke of Brunswick, the Count Palatine of the Rhine and other Princes and States in Europe, and being full of fears and jealousies amongst themselves, they rarely can effect any thing against the Papal Interest, for their weakness is his Strength, and where his Holiness cannot establish his own power, he endeavours to give disturbance and disquiet to all others.  
XII. Enthusiastical Raptures and Pretences of Divine Inspirations are of great use to advance interest and carry on designs.  
Pope coelestine being chosen Pope( but a simplo Person) Boniface contrives a Tube by which in the night he did sand a voice into his Chamber, signifying to his Holiness, That he was an Angel sent from Heaven, and had command to order him to leave the Popedom, and retire to such an iceland, and there live in his solitude the remainder of his Life, which at first disturbed his Holiness; but hearing the voice and command three times he consulted with some of the Cardinals, which had a desire to be rid of him, and to have Boniface Pope, they  told him it could be no delusion, hearing it three times, but a Message from Heaven, and therefore advised him to give over his charge and obey the command, which he did; and Boniface was afterwards elected Pope, and called Boniface the Eight.  
Mahomets Falling Sickness was of great use to him, for he pretended those fits were nothing but heavenly Raptures, in which he conversed with the Angel Gabriel; his pigeon, which he taught to feed at his Ear, he gave out to be the Holy Ghost( by whom he was instructed in the Law which he was to publish) made his Alcoron Oraculer, the Holy Pretences of the Maid of Orleans beat the English out of France, and those devout Raptures of Kemitius King of Scotland regained him his Kingdom from the Picts.  
When you have concluded of any mischievous Design, for a blind to the people, you must appoint a day of humiliation to inquire of God, what is to be done.  
Pious Frauds are of excellent use to promote any Design, a holy and religious pretence will authenticate the most hellish enterprise; and it will make you smile to observe how the people will be taken with the gaiety of a godly pretence.  
Therefore that prosperous cheat, the pretention to Holiness and Divine Inspirations must be carefully preserved; and all successful wickedness must be referred to the impulses of the Spirit, Return of Prayer, or Calls of Providence; the People are ductile, and easily drawn to any design, when they think Heaven is in the Plot, and God is one Party thereof; therefore, 
— Quoties vis fallere Plebem,  
Finge Deum—   
Nothing did more insinuate the Laws of King Minos into the Cretans, than the pretence of his Dialogue with Jupiter; and the Holy Father St. Ignatius our glorious Founder left a Journal or Writing, how things passed between the Holy Ghost and Himself, and the Visions are there set down wherewith he was inspired, when he made his Constitutions, which have inworthyed them to all Posterity; this religious Simplicity and holy Reverence of Heaven in the minds of the people must be nourished; for it is the first Step to facilitate and promote mischievous Designs.  
XIII. It will be prudence to use all endeavours to insinuate yourselves into the Priests, and to make so many of them as you can to your Party, and to serve ends, they will be of great use; for no heresy, Schism or Rebellion can spread or get footing in a Nation but by them; for these are the Men which are best able to drive on any design, they have a great influence upon the People, and what they say or do it passes for Oracular, and is thought worthy to be followed, they rule over the Conscience which is the Rudder that steers the actions and thoughts of men, and they can turn it as the wind blows for their advantage, they can make the beast with many heads conceive according to the colour of those rods they use to cast before them.  
Therefore they who have the Priests on their side may easily draw the rest of the people after them; there hath been rarely any distemper in a State, which hath not been derived from, or advanced by, them: when Isabel Queen of Edward the Second of England had raised an Army against the King her Husband, the Bishop of Hereford( the better to countenance the business) preached before her and her Army, and took his Text out of the 2 Kings chap. 24. My Head acheth; who concluded, that an aching and sick Head of a Kingdom was of necessity to be taken off, and not otherwise to be cured; you see what an excellent gift the cogging of a die is, to make the word speak what they please; though this was a rotten Doctrine, yet being well gilded and varnished, it served to abuse the credulity of the people, and to justify the Iniquity of the action; there is no mask becomes innovation or rebellion so well as religion: this sanctifies the most pernicious designs; let the enterprise be as black as Hell, if it be influenced by a Euminary of the Church, with the help of a spiritual fucus, it will seem to the optics of the vulgar as white as innocency; all the floods of misery have been much swelled by their Holy-water: The times under Dioclesian were Pagan, under Constantine Christian, under Constantius Arrian, under Julian Apostate, under Jovinian Christian again: And all these changes and alterations from the influence of the Priests; there cannot be better Trumpets in the World to raise up Rebellion or Sedition than they; the preaching friars and Monks were the Chief Incendiaries of the Catalonians to their revolt, Hernado de Auralos, and Juan de Padilla in the Spanish Civil Wars against Charles the Fifth employed some Friars to rail against the Government in their Pulpits, and so to stir up the people to war, which according to expectation took fire in Toledo.  
Therefore you may observe of what grand concern it is to have the Priests our Friends; what cometh from the Pulpit, the people look upon as Oracles of Heaven, when many times they are nothing but the delusion of Impostors; therefore you must employ your care to engage such as are hopeful and well affencted to us and our enterprise.  
XIV. It will be discretion sometimes to keep touch in small matters, the better to deceive in matters of great concern: therefore the Duke of Guise, when he intended a Rebellion against Henry the Third of France and to set the Crown on his own Head advised all his Friends and Kinsmen, That they should show their Obedience in small things, and in matters of no moment to the French King, that they might be trusted in matters of more weight and profit, to the furtherance of his and their designs: It will be no advantage to be over honest, you may observe just men grow lean and poor by their Integrity: and such as enrich themselves with public spoils, and eat out the very bowels of a Nation wax fat.  
XV. Great persons must not be touched, if they be, they must be made sure from taking revenge.  
Therefore Alexander did justly in putting Philotas to death, because if he had pardonned him, it would have enabled him to have attempted new Treasons against him, when it would not have been in his power to pardon them; where a man of courage is accused and imprisoned, it's more dangerous to absolve him, than to condemn him, and nothing is more dangerous than to bring a great courage to the place of Execution, and then grant him his Pardon; for he will always remember the affront and forget the pardon: Henry the Fourth of France being advised to banish Marshal Byron, said well, That a Firebrand casts more flamme and smoke without a Chimney than within it, Dion being banished Syracuse by Dionitius Junior, and Cariolanus from Rome, they made most bloody Wars against their own Country; but dead men make no War; Carminiola Captain General of the Venetians army, having defeated the Duke of Milan's Forces, they finding that he was but could in the prosecution of the War; they thought it not prudence to cashier him; for then they might lose what they had gotten, but conceived the safer course was to put him to death, which they did: The Carthaginians( Amilcar their General having concluded a Peace with Agathocles the Syracusan, which did much displease them) did forbear publicly to condemn him, whilst he was in command; yet they passed their Sentence against him in the Senate) and sealed it up in their Urn, not to be made known till he returned to a private condition: It is an Oracle of Truth, That the middle course in Cases of Extremity is always dangerous.  
XVI. If you design the Ruin of any great Person that stands in your way, you must whisper amongst the Populacy some approbious accusation against him, as it were privately, by this seeming Suppression, men impatient of Secrecy will more eagerly divulge it, and the danger will appear the greater by an affencted silence, the Calumnies and suspicions must be so contrived, that they may force the party to some course in his own defence, and by securing himself increase the public fears, and then he may safely be destroyed.  
XVII When a People are disposed to Faction, force Unites them, whereas if they be left to themselves, they will fall into civil dissensions: This is manifest in the late distempers of England.  
XVIII. After you are perfectly instructed by what means an Heritical State hath attained unto Grandeur across their Councils and Designs in the use of those means, and you will assuredly bring destruction to it.  
If a State doth support its Credit by the general Reputation of its Riches, as the Spaniard by his Wealth from the Indies, let it be shew'd that it's poor and needy, and let it's Wealth be Intercepted; are there wise Governours and Magistrates placed in the Dominions to contain the Subjects in Obedience, and Neighbours in fear? sand Fire-Brands, and Authors of Sedition amongst the Subjects of that State.  
XIX. Nothing doth more advance Interest then the shadow of Religion, but the Reality of it doth many times hurt; therefore you must be able to make use of Religion to serve your ends, and to lay it aside, as need shall require; never intend any good beyond appearance; you may pretend Affection to Religion, not thereby to Contract a Friendship with Heaven; but that you may more easily carry on designs, you must use Religion for a Styrup to get into the saddle, and so upon the back of Honour, not as Jacobs Ladder to Climb up to Heaven by; enjoy you the Temporal Blessings and Advantages of Religion, let others expect a Crown and the Land of Promise.  
The Glory of the See of Rome grew up by the Popes taking upon them the Honour to be Vindices Canonum; the strict Preservers of the ancient Discipline of the Church, which took extremely well with the People, till in the end from being chief Labourers in the Vineyard, the became Landlords, which was the Honour aimed at; and at last obtained by Boniface, whom Phocas made head of the Church; and it may be truly said, that they have as great command now, under the pretence of Religion, as ever they had formerly by force of Arms, so truly was it said by Prosper of Acquitaine.  
Roma Caput Mundi quicquid non possidet armis,  
Religione tenet—.  
XX. When any unwarrantable Action is in design, for the better affecting of it, the People must be made, and fit Instruments prepared; the Duke of Mayen at Paris had never contained the rabble in their devotion to him, had he not used the Help and Furtherance of Martal Campan, Nally, Rowland and Bassy the Priests, Instruments of his fury and Misleaders of the Ignorant and Seditious Multitude; the People are the Anvil whereon all sorts of Hammers strike, itis a work of no difficulty to persuade them to any thing( especially if it be hallowed and influenced by a Holy Star) you may like Orpheus draw the brutish Vulgar( most capable of Sedition) to Dance after whatsoever they are tuned unto) especially if they be skrewed up to the hopes of preferments; they never see behind the Curtain.  
A deep contrivance agrees not with the impatience of the Vulgar, to whom speedy undertakings seem always most heroic; slow yet sure practices, are interpnted by them as the motion of false and base spirits; but nothing prevails with them more then the hope of gain; if you shall be Obliged to disburse Money to them, you must use it as Anglers do their Fish to catch more, It will be the test of Prudence to deal with the Instruments of your designs, as men do by their Candles, burn them to the Snuff, and then having lighted another, tread that under foot, and after you have effected your ends, you must forget the bosom which warmed you.  
XXI. Give a fair Compliance to the times wherein you live; Jenita est omnis homo; to pass a dangerous Wood safely, itis lawful to put on such skins as the beasts have which haunt those Woods, if the Hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the Hill; you need not boggle at the taking of any Oath, or going to Church, or receiving the Sacrament; Church Papists and catholics in Mascorade may highly contribute to the catholic Interest.  
You must learn to swallow down Oaths with as much celerity as Lazarello de Tormes could a Saucidge; if you will bring your designs into a safe harbour, you must swear as the Tide serves; streatch your conscience rather than loose your Interest; ●mitate the old marquis of Winchester, rather bow then break; Perjury and Hypocrisy are the only Clymax by which men ascend to Grandeur; The graecian Lysander was in the right, when he said that Oaths were invented to deceive men, as false play Children; and it was a good rule of the Priscillians.  

Jura, Perjura, secretum prodere noli:   

Swear and forswear,  
But from discovering your Designs forbear.   
You must always be provided with some running Subterfuge and Evasion to elude any thing which may invade your Interest, or impeach your Reputation and Credit.  
Get to be always of the prevailing Faction; a zealous Professor of the Opinions in fashion; disguise all your Actions with a Religious Dress; put on the white rob of Innocency, to conceal the blackness of your Attempts; your words must be put in a spiritual Quirpo, and Protheus like assume that shape which is most in Grace, and of most profitable conducement to your ends: you may imitate the Cat in the Epologue, who being transformed into a Gentlewoman, when a Mouse came by made at it. and catched it, so let your Garb and Dress be never so fine and religious in appearance, if any prey comes in your way you know what you have to do.  
XXII. Make use of Libels, false Reports, and Acusations, which are always Proemial to destruction and ruin, for they are excellent Weapons in the hands of a cunning Artist to carry on designs, blot the Dignity of any person( who thereby is rendered Contemtable and Odious) Destruction will easily follow; by this Art the Abbots and friars( the best of men) in Henry the eights Reign were ruined in England; the Templars in the time of Philip the Fair of France were destroyed, and their order suppressed; if the person which is to be Supplanted cannot be attacked with down right battery by reason of his grandeur or Integrity, if you cannot take the main Fort, try if you can possess yourselves of the out Works, raise some prejudice against his Discretion or other parts, and if you can bring him into Contempt you have done your work; thus they dealt with Socrates amongst the ancients, when they could not Suppress his Reputation hired Aristophanes a comic Poet to personate him on the Stage and by insinuation of those interludes insensibly conveyed first a contempt then a hatred of him in the hearts of the People.  
When Ziba had a purpose to Undermine Mephiboseth in his estate; he first practised upon his famed in a false Accusation. 2. Sam. 16.3.  
You must be dextrous in this Science, it may be of excellent Use; Cyril the Patriarch of Constantinople was by calumny( our old friend) turned out of his place, and almost by our Arts ruined.  
The Arians accused Eustatius Bishop of Antioch of adultery, and Athanatius Bishop of Alexandria of many other Crimes, to make them Odious; and you know how the Honour and Reputation of many Eminent Persons during the late troubles in England, with this Admirable engine of calumny were battered, therefore it is great Wisdom to be Skilful in raising of Slanders, and bold to Prosecute them; for howsoever the wound may be cured; the Scar will still remain.  
XXIII. When any unjust Action is undertaken and others come into assistances the better to secure them to your party, you must enjoin them the performance of some Notorious and villainous Act; that thereby they may be excluded from all hopes of Pardon.  
And we must tell you this maxim hath been well observed and practised by Antiquity, for there were certain african Souldiers who being revolted from the Service of Carthage and making War against it, and fearing least the Souldiers should be reconciled to Carthage, by the advice of Anthanitus their General( to prevent all hopes of reconciliation and for their common safety) Gaser a great Captain of the Carthaginians and their prisoner was put to death; that by such a Course every one being engaged in the action; they might understand there was no other hopes left then in Victory alone; Those who assisted Agathocles of Syracuse in his tyranny and in those Murders and spoils of his fellow Citizens had no other hope of defence then the support of Agathocles himself, who had been partaker with them in their villainies and Cruelties committed; and indeed the best security that Desperate men can deliver to each other is to perform some such Actions as are equally unpardonable to all; there is no better way to make others Adhere to your fortunes, then by winding their Concernments upon the same bottom.  
XXIV. When a person is questioned for any notorious villainy, which he hath committed, itis a safe Principle to counterfeit Madness, or else to give the better countenance to the Action; to pretend Conscience, or that it was done to propagate the Faith.  
And therefore John de Isle did like a politician who making an Attempt upon Henry the Great of France at Pontneif with a dagger to have assassinated him, and being Apprehended and brought before the President Janim to be Examined, he  told the President that he was King of all the world; and said that Henry the great was an Usurper, and had taken the Crown from him, and would chastise him for his Temerity, the good King thinking that he was sufficiently punished by his folly commanded he should only be kept in Prison; and Raviliac who Assassinated that great King pretended that he killed him in Ordine ad Spiritualia, and that he himself for that Act should receive a Crown of Martyrdom.  
XXV. At all marts of business you must have your Factors though they do not seem openly to trade; Secret espiels in all places are necessary; an Ephemerides will be of great use to know how the orbs of the Court move; and that you may receive happy Influences from them, you may have intelligence by the assisting Angells which give them motion.  
XXVI. After you have infused principles of Faction and Sedition into the People, then you must try how forward they will be for Action; for which purpose nothing will be more convenient than the Agitation of Tumults; and the better to raise them you must have fit and adapted Instruments you must tell them, if they be not Zealous the worse party will have the better of the good party, and to secure and keep the myrmidons at your Devotion, they must now and anon too, be alarmed with false Rumours, strange Plots, and designs; they will not only believe such stories but fear the events; you must yet out nothing but Persecution Persecution, O the cruelty of the Bishops! O the Superstition and Wickedness of the clergy! and all this against the cause of God, the souls of the true Saints, the peace of the Directory and the happiness of the Elect the true Children of God.  
But if there be any that shall take distaste at the Tumults and that they ought to be suppressed you must tell them, that they must not discourage their friends.  
Therefore by your arts Tumults must be raised; for raising of Tumults and Disorders are of excellent use to bring confusion to a Nation, and by Consequence destruction to it.  
It was truly observed by Tasso, 

Quando sia di si grand moti il fine,  
Non fabriche di Regin, ma ruin,   

Those rabble factious tumults never mend  
A Nation, but its ruin doth portend.    
Thus the Venetians by the advice and contrivance of our Sacred conclave Anno 1648. Procured their great Enemy Ibraim to be deposed and his eldest Son Mahomet to be set up in his stead; this Art of theirs cost the Prince Visier his life, and had almost cost the Grand signor his Empire, the Bassa of Aleppo revolted, and all Asia fell off, had not the generous Bassa of Damascus notably met the approaching fate, with singular wisdom and Conduct; and the Missionaries of our Order did make such Tumults in Lublin, Jerostane and in all Poland that they had procured the ruin of that kingdom and we think England hath great reason to Remember us.  
We cannot but Remind you of one excellent Stratagem we had to give trouble to Rochel in France, that when we could not reduce it to the Obedience of the catholic Church; we Counterfeited the common Seal of that city, wherewith we signed our Letters( in which were contained several things destructive to the interest of France) which being intercepted by notice from us, and delivered to the French King, procured great displeasure from that King to Rochel, who immediately invested it with his Army, and brought much misery and callamitie to it; how dextrous and Active we have been in contriving and executing disorders and troubles( to propagate the Faith) Swethland, France, the Conspiracies in England the tragical end of many Nobles in Germany, the troubles in Venice, Tumults in Moscovia, distressed Hungary oppressed Styria, Carinthia &c. can abundantly witness: you must therefore inject such an infection into the Vulgar, that it may rise into the boils of sedition and so impostumate into a Rebellion: consider the ingenious and dextrous contrivance of our holy Conclave, when we raised such disorders in England; that in eleven years there were seaventeen Models of Government and the people there were so Zealously factions, as if they had been so by Predestination.  
The Tub thumpers and custin dusters in the late Distempers there, when the Popes bellows to enkindle Flames, and the lungs of the Vatican to breath out Sedition, and being agitated by our Emissaries did highly promote the catholic interest, You must therefore make it your study to impregnate the fancy of the zealots with Enthusiasticall Conceptions, ecstatical raptures and with a holy Flatus, this will make their imaginations turgent and so apt to long to execute any design that the Lord shall put into your Hearts.  
What a glorious thing was it to see Thomas Anello a poor Fisher-man to rule in Naples? and Spain in the time of Charles the Fifth, to be Governed by Bodadilla a Cloth-worker at Medina deal Campo, and by Vellaria a Skinner in Salamanca? 
Was it not wonderful that Nol cronwell should he made Protector of England.  Was it not admirable that John of Leyden a tailor should be declared King of the Universe? these were the offals and rubbish of mankind, and the by-casts of fortune, yet raised to that Meridian of glory by the Sagacity and Artifice of our sacred college.  
27. Sow what differences you can between great Persons, by that means they may be drawn into Faction to Espouse a bad quarrel to work their Malice; or their private injuries will break out into Hostility to the disturbance of the public, as the Venanides and Car●vaiales two Noble Families in Castile did; the difference between the Duke of Matalone( Chief of the Carasses) and Prince of Sanza, had almost endangered the Kingdom of Naples; and upon what reason the Earl of Essex Headed a Rebellious Army in the late Troubles of England, itis well known.  
28. Giving out of News sometimes may to good purpose be Practised; therefore you must have a Mint to coin such News as may be currant and Serviceable to your Ends; and careful to dispierce it, for many times false News to drive on designs; may be as useful as false Prophets were in the Kingdom of Israel.  
Papers and Books must be carefully Spread abroad against Popery; Arminianism, Arbitrary Power, grievances and in disfavor of the Government in Church and State; nothing will prevail more with the many for they will believe any thing they see in Print.  
How Doctor Laytons Book called Sions Plea, wherein he called the then Queen of England, the Daughter of heath a Canaanite and Idolatress, did gain upon the People we need not tell you.  
There were others then which did admirable service to his Holiness, by the Books they Published, therefore you must be always provided with some Factious and Seditious piece to set forth; as occasion shall require, and then you must have an answer ready to it; one may cry it up, another decry it,( the better to make a Noise and buoy up Schism, or Faction) nay the same Person may be Pro and Con if they please, as father Parsons( with good success) many times was; this will amuse People, and distill principles of Faction and Sedition into them, and so prepare them for a Rebellion; you must be another Peter the hermit, to blow the Trumpet to a holy War, it will be Meritorious to be a leader in the Spiritual Camp; therefore let it be your Study and care to toll the People into Sedition and Faction, and so to their slavery and destruction, as the Py'd Piper did the Children and Rats of Hamel; England is a great Animal, it will never die except it destroys itself; Sedition and Schism are the best Engines to effect it.  
When you come into any heretic Country, the first things which you must be sure to gain, are liberty of Conscience, and liberty of the Press; by the first you have an Opportunity to blow Fears and Jealousies into the Peoples Heads, and to Collect several distinct Clans, and holy Clubs, to the disturbance of the public Peace; by this means you may settle an humour in the People of railing against the maladministration of affairs; of Vilifying the supreme Powers, and may so Spirit them, that they will be like the neapolitan Courser in Boccalin, always ready to cast his Rider; or like Giotto's Ass, still smelling after new Governments.  
By the second you have the means of playing the Ambodexters, one while taking part with the Conformists, another while Vindicating the Dissenters.  
29. Dangerous Enterprises, the more they are thought on, the less hope they give of good success, and therefore Conspiracies not suddenly executed, are for the most part discovered and laid aside.  
30. It will be great prudence to reduce Heretical Churches to the obedience and Subjection of that of Rome, the best mediums to effect it, must be to deface the glory of them with calumnies, telling the People that the Doctrine thereof is Heretical, the Ceremonies are the Liveries of Antichrist, Patches of Popery, Episcopacy, and the Service-Book( where they have them) the two Plague-sores of the Church, the Clergy idle, caconical ignorant, and drunken Common-Prayer-Book-men; this will take well with the People, for in the late Troubles in England, when the Psudo Zealots planted the Artillery of their depraving tongues against that Church, you know what good success they had, they converted their Churches, in many places, into Stables, and the Fonts were the Wells where they watered their Horses, the Pulpits were the Pantries where they hung up their Meat, and the Communion Tables the Dressers upon which they jointed it.  
The Revenues of the Church must be taken from it,( so the glory of the Church will be rendered contemptible by its Poverty) and the Clergy must be put to Pensions; by that means none shall get preferment but those who will hold forth what their Pay-master shall think fit, and by their Preachments gain Proselytes to any who shall get uppermost; this beyond Archymedes Engine will advance the catholic interest.  
You must be careful to hinder and prevent catechizing( for nothing can be more destructive to our interest) as it hath been happily neglected or laid aside for some years, to the great benefit of the catholic Church; you must mount your Batteries against Episcopacy( which is the only Screen against Schism) and the Bishops which are the Pillars of the Church, must be pulled down as rotten and useless Posts. You know it was a declared Maxim of King James of England, No Bishop, no King; so if you ruin the first, destruction will presently attend the latter. Howsoever, be sure to take away their Votes in the House of Peers, and then you may deal with them as highway-men do with those they intend to Rob, first Gag them, and then take away what they have, but these things must be acted covertly; it's no prudence to declare the design at first; a plausible pretence is half a Conquest.  
And to deal truly with you, there cannot be a better way to destroy the Church of England than to convert the British Monarchy into an Amsterdam Common-wealth; his Holiness never had such an Harvest( as in the late distempers in England) when it was so, the spiritual Seeds-men did then disseminate such principles that they sprouted and came up so prodigiously( as like the Souldiers of Cadmus) they were past all resistance, and yet none know how they took root; the Church of England( which is the only fortress against the Papal Interest) by your arts must be branched out, and Cantonized into as many Minute parties and Sects of Religion as may be; this once effected, it will be hard in few Years to tell which is the Church of England, neither party being Subordinate to one another, and the Religionaries being so Sedulous to gain proselytes, and the affections not only of the common People, but of the Gentry and Great Ones, that it highly please us to consider what will be the result and consequence; therefore be sure to cry up Liberty of Conscience( if Unity and Uniformity be established we are all undone) Petition for a Toleration of it( Petitioning being the Saints Birth-right) if you be any ways denied it, or have not a speedy remedy you must take the cure into your own hands; but be sure you be-spatter those of the Clergy which will not join with you to advance the glory of the catholic Church, and render them contemptible to the People( this done, that which they shall Preach will be slighted) for these are the Spectacles which give them a sight and knowledge of the Truth; therefore if you will commit a Rape upon the Body of the Church, you must first put out the Lights, as others have done upon the like occasion at their Meetings.  
Howsoever Liberty and Toleration( the Idol of the People, but indeed the Popes Mouse-trap to catch the simplo, being set up) the catholic Religion will undiscernably get footing amongst them; and many of them seeing the Madness and Iniquity of their own Factions and Sects, will hate them, and run from them as far as they can, and so be catholics before they know where they are.  
And all the Factions being in a state of Hostility amongst themselves, and labouring to supplant each the other( as without doubt they will) the State will be thereby much enweakened, and any catholic Prince may attempt on it: But remember, if you cannot establish the catholic Religion, that you hinder all others by your Arts from settling.  
31. When the People by your Sagacity and Contrivance are multiplied into Parties and Factions( the better to Distemper and Disorder the Nation) you must attempt to set up that Glorious Idol( the great Diana) of Reformation; or else you must by your Artifice cause something to be imposed upon them which may be ungrateful to them; as the English Service-Book was to our good Brethren in Scotland: Every Sect, like Tinder, will be ready to fire at the first touch; one Faction is the best Engine to suppress another: The Presbyterians( which are a great Party) if wisely managed may be employed to reduce all the other( with Promise of Establishment of their Religion)( though without any intent of Performance) which being effected, the other Sectaries must be Countenanced and made use of to give a check to the Prevailing Party, they will be true to the Interest, and faithful to the Service, and nothing can be more acceptable to them than to be Revenged of those who have been their greatest Persecutors. You see how the Church, with a Feather from the same Wing, may be Wounded; and a Coal from the Altar may make a Combustion in the Church and State.  
32. The better to Seduce the People( which are as Tools to the mechanic) and to drive on your Designs, you must compose yourselves to all Popular Courses; you must testify a great Zeal for Religion, Caress the People, some must be cajoled with fair and splendid hopes, others whom you may adjudge fit for business, and whose Slavery may be bought with Profit( when the catholic Interest shall be established) are to be preferred to such an such Places; and to all you must use proper Attractives( specious in words, and voided of any Reality) by those Glorious Pageants the catholic Interest will be Ascendant, and the Yoke of Slavery will be bound to the Peoples Necks the stronger.  
To gather Hands and Subscriptions is a good way to make your Party the more unanimous, and to draw many well-meaning People to be your Disciples; thereby you may see, as in a Political Glass, the strength of your own Party; then you may clamour for Justice, and to have that effected which you had in Projection, as it hath with good success been Practised.  
And we must tell you, that the catholic Religion can never be established in England upon a firm Basis, except you first introduce there an Arbitrary Power, which may be effected by this Medium; there are three States in the Parliament of England: First, Lords Spiritual, which are the Bishops; Secondly, Lords Temporal; Thirdly, the Commons of England; if you can by your Arts servile the Bishops( as the Non-conforming Brethren have a good mind to it) then as the King and two States excluded the third State, so the King and the Lords may exclude the Commons; this done, the King and one State are remaining, he may at pleasure dismiss the Lords, and so make himself absolute; for be assured, as long as the three States continue in the Parliament, Popery can never receive any growth in that Kingdom.  
You see what an excellent thing it is to be well seen in this art of Statecraft; the knack of Petitioning may with good advantage be practised in many cases, for from the contrivance of three or four Privado's, like a Multiplying-glass you may produce many thousands, which will give a great Countenance to many designs.  
The People if well inspired may be taught by their Petitions to speak or desire any thing. It will be prudence in you, if there be a Petition on foot, for any thing which may be prejudicial to your interest to frame a Counter Petition, as they did in England in 1642. when some Petitioned the Parliament there for peace; the Godly Party presently drew a Petition against it, and the better to encourage the Subscribers, gave the poorer sort of them twelve pence apiece, which was prudently contrived by our Sacred Council; what good effects it had England can tell you.  
33. To strengthen your own Party, and to weaken the Address, you must work off as many as you can from them to your own side; which may be effected by proffering greater advancement and noble Rewards to them which shall adhere unto you.  
The Emperour Charles the Fifth, being desirous to alienate the affection of Pope lo the Tenth, from Francis the First of France, obtained his ends by promising Cardinal Julio de Medicis a yearly Pension of 10000 Ducats to be paid to him out of the archbishopric of Toledo; and by giving Alexander de Medicis a Pension of the like value in the Kingdom of Naples.  
The marquis of Mantoa being General of the Venetian Army against Lewis Duke of Millan, was drawn off from their Service with greater offers and a larger Pension than he had of the Venetians.  
Therefore if persons of the greatest Quality have been content to be catched with the Golden Hook, never despair to win and change the affection of meaner persons, especially such as are ambitious of Preferments, greedy of Rewards, or have taken occasion of discontent, there is nothing so hard but that pernicious metal Gold will penetrate. You know what excellent effects it had at New-Castle, which was contrived by T. C. the Cardinal's Secretary; this is the best Lure to invite those who seek after Prey. This made pygmalion King of Tyre, kill his Brother-in-law Sicheus; for this Achilles sold the Corps of valiant Hector; and this though upon an Asses back, will take the strongest City in Europe.  
Destruction surer comes, and rattles louder out of a Mine of Gold than one of Powder.  
34. The Brethren of the Congregations, if you take your measures rightly, may be prevailed with to concur in any action with you.  
For John Calvin confirmed his Presbyterian Discipline in the same year that Ignatius Loyola, the first glorious Founder of the Jesuits, was chosen the first General, viz. 1541. and just a hundred years after 1641. did the Calvenistical proselytes( being agitated by our Missionaries from the sacred Conclave) make and create that confusion and calamity in the Church and Kingdom of England, as you all well know. And as these Orders took their rise together, so they have gone hand in hand in many things ever since; we agree in killing and deposing of Kings; they are all against the King's having any power in Spirituals, and many of them against their having any in Temporals; and they give as blind an obedience to their rabbis and Teachers as we give to his Holiness.  
Therefore to make them your own, and to execute your designs the better, you must vomit out Flames and sulphur against the Pope, declaim against Popery and Bishops; cry up Liberty of Conscience, and decry Idolatry and Superstition; you must insinuate to them, that their Religion and Laws are in danger, and Arbitrary Power with a strong hand is coming to enslave them; you must feed them with strange fears and jealousies strongly fomented and agitated by unheard of Plots, set on foot to destroy Religion and the Nation.  
And the better to encourage them, you must tell them, that now is the time to retrieve the good old Case; and if the Scots and Picts warred for a few Dogs, Charles Duke of Burgundy and the swissers for a Cart-load of Sheep-skins, how much are they concerned stoutly to stand for their Covenant. Insinuate to them that they are obliged to renounce their Baptism before their Covenant, these are excellent topics, and will be music and Charms to their enchanted ears. By this means we shall gain as many proselytes as the Devil in the Northern Coasts doth Subjects, by making them invulnerable; and then you may infuse and distil what Doctrines or Principles you shall think fit, into those holy and inspired Vessels.  
35. You must study to deboach the People, teach them to contemn God, vilify the supreme Magistrate, and to hate all Religion and Justice( as you have made a fair progress to your eternal Glory) then they are capable( as soft Wax) of any impression; you may gradually infuse the principles of the catholic Religion into them, that which they refused to close with in the gross, they may receive by retail; and be assured when an Instrument is distuned, you may set it to any Key; proceed in this holy work, we dare promise you the Popes blessing. catholics must be now in the predicament of action, for they have been too long in the Category of passion; if the People will not be seduced by the Canon Law, they must be reduced by the Law of the Cannon, therefore you must, like the Statute of Apollo, have a Lance in one hand, and a Harp in the other, that is, courage to awe on the one side, and sweetness to oblige on the other; th● World is but a frame of Engines, whereunto you must be the Wheel.  
36. If any Kingdom( whose Subjects are Heretical) shall descend or come unto a catholic Prince, the heretics there are to be rooted out; and all Laws or Edicts made in favour of their Religion, must be nulled and rescinded, as reproaches and scandals to the catholic Church; therefore Ferdinand Arch-duke of Austria did like a great and worthy Prince, when on the Eighth of December 1609. by his Edict he commanded all the Churches and Houses of the heretics in his Dominions to be destroyed and blown up with Powder; the dead Bodies of heretics to be digged up and burnt, which, to his great renown, was accordingly executed. But it will not be safe to banish or suppress all Sects at once, that may exasperate and unite them all against you; but it's to be done gradually, beginning first with the Quakers( who are like a Taylors Goose, hot, but heavy) then with the Anabaptists( which are the very Scavengers of Schism;) after them, with the independents, and then with the Presbyters; thus you may safely act, for all these Sects do perfectly hate one another, and each will be pleased at the banishment or destruction of those they hate; and the remaining Party( the other Sects being banished or destroyed) will not be considerable in power to give any great trouble or make resistance; thus our sacred college in Moravia, Anno 1622. first began to banish the Anabaptists, then the Calvenists, then they thrust out the Lutherans; howsoever remember that your Laws against heretics be writ in blood not in Milk; and those heretics which are obstinate and will not submit to the catholic Church, let them wear the sand Benito; 
The sand Benito is a yellow Garment, with a Red-cross before and behind, painted full of Devils Faces; a thing of the greatest reproach and dishonour that may be.  you must be severe in the discipline, otherwise they will never be reduced.  
37. The catholic Religion, if it cannot be introduced into Heretical Kingdoms or Dominions by the means and arts abovesaid, it must be established by an Army, Fire and Sword.  
Scilicet Haereticos ferro, flammaque petendos  
Stat Capitolini sententia fixa Tonantis.  
It will be a great Instance of your wisdom and care of the catholic interest, to have a considerable body of an Army in pay to execute your designs, as the Jesuits by their dextrous management have had in Hungary, Bohemia, Poland, and other parts; you may be sure, that when you shall break out into action( the Kingdom and Dominions being debauched, as above directed) all the Bravo's, Hectors, Atheists, Debauches, Hadlanders, and Need-mites will join with you in hopes to better their condition, which must needs be a great Party.  
The better to strengthen yourselves and Party, it will be prudence, as the Congregators did in Scotland, to Associate and enter into a Covenant, that whosoever should molest, trouble, or hurt any of their Members, the fact should be reputed heinous against the whole body of them all; by this device you will get to your Party many persons who are indebted, and malcontents, which will make use of this Doctrine by way of Protection. That your interest may be the more strengthened in the Country, you must give Offices and Employments of trust to all those of your own Party, or which are discontented with the present Government; by this trick you may twist your obligations so close together, that you may make good use of it afterwards, as it was dexterously contrived in the late Troubles 1641. in England; therefore it's observable how careful we have been to reduce Heretical Kingdoms and States( for the good of their Souls) to the catholic Faith.  
38. When the People have suffered and been oppressed by maladministration of some chief Favourites and councillors to the Prince, it hath been the practise amongst Princes to preserve themselves from popular displeasure, to deliver them into the hands of the People( to be made Monuments of Justice) as the Authors of all their Calamities and Miseries. Thus Tiberius dealt with his Favourite Sejanus, Henry King of Sweden, with George Preston, and Nero, with Tigellinus. But in case any great Minister of State( who is looked upon by the People to be the source of all their Misery and Infelicity) shall be impeached by your Instruments of which you must always be provided) you must insinuate into the Prince, that it's not safe to suffer such a person to be ravished from him, if he doth he will never have any to serve or advice him, or to stand up for his interest; such or the like insinuations must be used, which may work upon the Prince, if he doth not give a compliance to his People, it may beget a discontent in them, if not, a rapture: what advantage his, Holiness will make by fishing in troubled Waters, your own experience can tell you.  
39. When any action is designed or committed, which may be fatal or destructive to the public, some Holy Brother, or other persons of eminence must be employed( which have power with the People) to excuse, or cry it up; or at least, to put such a good colour and varnish upon it, that the People may not be distempered at it.  
The Duke of Buckingham, and the learned Dean Richard show defended and justified in Guild-hall, London, and at Paul's across, the unlawful and tyrannical Usurpation of Richard the Third. The Duke of Burgundy, who unjustly murdered the Duke of Orleans, fearing he might justly purchase the displeasure of the French King, and the hatred of France, employed John petty a famous Divine, not only to excuse, but also commend and allow the execution thereof in many public Sermons.  
Nay, let the Enterprise be never so pernicious or monstrous, it will find some Advocates to defend it. Did not his Holiness Pope Sextus the Fifth, commend the murder of Henry the Third of France, and that it was an action well-pleasing to God, and that the friar was set on work by divine Inspiration. Did not Milton and Goodwin commend the murder of the late King Charles the First of England? And the Parisan Massacre, Anno 1572. wanted not Defendants; therefore dwindle not away your time in petty hazards; lay nothing at stake but Kingdoms and Principalities, and such as may add glory to the Vatican; to do otherwise is but Phrygian like to play an after Game; the gallantry of that Spaniard was excellent, Hagase el Milagro Yhagato Mohoma, Let us have our desires, though the Devil or Turk be our Instruments or Assistants.  
We do therefore earnestly commend unto your care, that when you have grand villainy in designs, that your Instruments to effect it, be such as have been trained up in the School of Iniquity, and well practised in Wickedness; otherwise, if they be not fitly qualified, to propound any notorious action to them; it will be a Mormo to fright them, whereas to one that is through paced in wickedness, it will seem and be embraced as a meritorious act; for people are first to be well instructed in the Elements of villainy, before they be Graduates and commence in Iniquity: they must be taught to digest Mites before they will swallow Camels; therefore it was well designed to propound to D. the killing of S. before the Assassination of King Charles the Second of England; for by doing the one he had been well prepared for the acting of the other; and in case he had refused to commit the Assassination; then you might safely have discovered the Murder, for the Criminal after the villainy done for ever is your Slave or Sacrifice, but dishonest and base minded men, such as have cheated the State, are the fittest persons to be confided in, and to Associate with in danger.  
40. If you have any thing in projection, which may raise any fumes of jealousy in the heads of the People, it will be prudence in you to make solemn Vows and Protestations to them of the candour and integrity of your actions( let your intentions be what they will) there are many good natured people who will believe you: you must learn to guild over your actions with holy Professions and good words, as Pyhsitians do their Pills, that they may be swallowed the better; you must not be like the People of Quinbaja, and other parts of Peru, which have their heads in their Breasts; for then your tongues would be too near your Hearts; you must be sure to keep them at a distance.  
Imitate the prudent Fox who professed he came only to hear the Cock sing, but when by his craft he had once got hold of him the case was altered.  
41. If public presures or affronts be done unto you, itis safer to dissemble your displeasure then to sally into passion; by the first you may obtain your ends: but by the last you will assuredly be disappointed; Study the buckler as well as the Sword, so you will be as good at suffering as at acting; but be not indebted unto any man in injury: make present payment if possible, and with full interest, if you be not powerful enough to contract the might of his Power; its prudence to use all industry to gain his favour, this will remove all suspicions and jealousies and give you means to work your ends upon him.  
Caesar Borgia did his business better by lulling Vitelluz a sleep, then to hazard all with the Chance of Fortune; though Lewis the 11th. of France did perfectly hate Charles Duke of burgundy, yet he held a good Correspondency with him and carried fair, but employed others privately to work his ruin.  
42. Its not safe to Communicate your designs or secrets to any but to the greatest confident, for if they which are concerned will give, your designs are certainly betrayed, therefore give no Faith to the promises of any Man; for believe us, one Perch of Performance is worth the whole Land of Promise; and if any Person shall come to the knowledge of your designs from whom there is fear of discovery, he is to be done to Death; Charles the ninth of France caused a Gentleman, a great favourite of his Brother the Duke of Anjou, to be assassinated because the King perceived that he had a suspicion of the intended Massacre of the Hugonots; therefore trust none without the Sacrament for secrecy( which is sufficient tie upon the Souls of such Persons as have any sense of Honour or taste of Heaven) but in Case any Persons shall be Questioned as Conspirators in the Plot; and shall therefore be Sentenced to Death( let them be never so guilty) they must at their Execution profess their Innocency to the People: call God and Angels to testify their integrity; and that they are as Innocent as the Child New Born. And this is to be acted with the greatest Asseveration and Protestations imaginable, and to that purpose certain formularies may be drawn up, and all this may be done or said by them without the least Colour of Sin, if you grant them their Pardon before hand, for their so saying and doing: this will add much to the catholic interest; for some of the People will think they die Martyrs, and others thereupon may become proselytes to the catholic Church; Howsoever many of them will conceive they die unjustly by reason of their Protestations which they make, and Pious ejaculations which they sand up to Heaven.  
43. Its imprudence to stand upon niceties or the Punctilio's of honour, but by any means you must attain your ends; therefore Augustus Caesar( whose Ambition was the Empire) generously entred into the Camp of Lepidus( who had the guard of Rome) and seized upon his Person, deprived him of all his Honours, and confined him to the City, though he was his Confederate and Triumvirate; it was no blemish to Caesars Honour, because it was in order to his Grandeur, for all remorse and Impediments which have not the way to the main design are to be removed; Agathocles being Praetor of Syracuse, and intending to make himself Prince thereof, assembled the People together, and the Senate of Syracuse, as if he had something to advice with them belonging to the Common Wealth; upon a sign given caused his Souldiers to kill the Senators and the Richest of the People, and so gained the principality of that City to himself; it was an act of great Glory, and will triumph in the Annals of the World; if Alexander had boggled at invading other mens Kingdoms, he had never wept for the scarcity of Worlds.  
You must not stand upon those trifling things Conscience and Honour; there is nothing more unhappy or unprosperous to great undertakings than a Coy and squeamish Conscience: aclowledge no honesty or Religion but what is Subservient to your designs; the more execrable villainies you act, it will pass amongst the rabble for Extraordinary Zeal; and you will be looked upon as a singular worthy, whom God had raised up to support the cause: your Conscience like Fortunatus purse must be full of Gold and Self-ends; if you will have your name swell and look Big in the Rolls of famed, you must be bold and daring; in the middle course there is no glory nor safety, a fortunate wickedness is a virtue; and a sin robbed with Success deserves a triumph.  
The foundation of Rome was Rapine, the superstructures Ambition; and the Walls of it were Cemented with Blood: and shall the Church there be less glorious having so many blessed means? the most crimson and Scarlet sins( being acted in ordine ad Spiritualia) add beauty and lustre to it, and will be looked upon in the ethics of that Church as Cardinal virtues; therefore take all opportunities to advance your designs; and where you do not find opportunities your wisdom must make them; make no criticism between just and unjust, they are but the Needle work of Idle Brains; he that is in the high way to Honour, is never out of the road to Justice, and you know, Qui aver le profit, aver le honour; Caesar himself in order to a Crown slighted those oaths by which he had obliged his obedience to the Roman Senate; and those who Massacred 70000 Protestants in France on Saint Bartholomews Day though they were Guests invited, received the Popes thanks, and were rewarded with many of his Spiritual graces: The first steps to power are always the most difficult, but when that is once entred on, there will not be wanting means and instruments to increase and establish it.  
44. All Children( which possible) are to be Spirited, and sent into Seminaries beyond Seas; so careful hath his Holiness been, that there are five colleges erected for the Instructions of the English. 1. At douai. 2. At Rome, erected by Pope Gregory. The 3. At Valladolet in Spain, erected by King Philip the Second. 4. At louvain in Brabant. 5. At rheims in Campaine, by the Duke of Guise. When they are perfectly Instructed in their Arts, then they are to be sent back into their own country to give Intelligence of the Affairs there, and to gain Proselytes to their Church, and to turmoil the State as they see Occasion.  
45. It's our Glory as well as our Duty to advance the catholic Interest; you must insinuate yourselves into the Courts of Princes, under them get some Office or Employment; if you cannot by your Arts effect that, then you must place yourselves in the Service of some great Persons, as Grooms, Butlers, or Coach-men, or get to be Teachers in some Separate Congregations( as there are many of our Society amongst them) you must appear great zealots and Professors; you must Learn the knack of Canting, be well studied in the Mummery of the Quaker, the Gibberidge of the Anabaptist, and in the seeming Sanctity of the Independent; you must cock your Eyes, put on a Mortified Countenance, and whine to the well-affected People with abundance of has, Oh's, and O's; you must tell them, that what you declare unto them, is agreeable to Gods Secret Will, but touch not upon the Revealed, for the most prime Saint understands that well.  
And we must tell you the Tone, Whining, Gesticulations, and a Countenance with a Religious wry look like a Persian Alphabet, will more influence the Rabble, than the Learning of St. Paul, or the Eloquence of Apollo.  
And the better to advance your Designs, you must now and then appear to be transported into Fits of quaking and tremblings, into raptures, ecstasies, and abreptions of Mind, as that good Man, mayor Weier did in his Field Conventicles in Scotland, the Illuminated Brethren will presently believe that you have the income of the Spirit, which will be an excellent Magnetism to make a strong Verticity in them to the point of any Design.  
46. You must insinuate yourselves into the Richest People, and especially into Women, who are easily seduced, and then their Husbands and Children must be Ruled by them, and if there be occasion, they will serve you to their very Bodkins and Thimbles, as you have had Experience in the late Troubles in England: You must fix yourselves in the most Opulent and Rich Towns and Cities; for you may observe the Prudence of the Whigs in Scotland( our fellow-labourers) who have with much discretion Planted themselves in Fife and the West of Scotland( as the Non-Conforming Ministers have done in London) where many Rich Traders and Heritors Live: But for the High-Lands, and other poor Countries in Scotland and England, their Souls are not worth the whistling or owning for want of Silver and Gold: When you have gotten a Reputation, for your Godliness and Zeal every Family will think itself Sanctified with your Spiritual Conversation, and will requited you with white and yellow Blessings.  
47. Set up as many Teachers as you can, the greater the Number of them, the more Proselytes they will gain; Court the Rabble, and you will never want Disciples, and they being once inspired, you may Command them upon any Design, as Ericus( Ventosi Pile●) King of Swedland, did the Winds, by turning off his Cap. By this means you may much advance the apostolic See by giving Intelligence to the superiors, for the managing and betraying of all Designs, as they please. And remember that you ruin those you cannot Proselyte.  
But in case all fail, then you must be able to work upon some Trade, of which there are upwards of 3000 in and about London, which are looked upon as fanatics, but in reality they are jesuits and Priests; nay, some part of their Congregations are Romanists, though the rest know it not, which are taken to be Godly and Holy Professors: You know Father Brown the Jesuit, who Preached seven Years to the Whigs in Scotland, was looked upon as a Godly and Zealous Man, yet he declared at his Death, that he had Preached to them at their Field Conventicles, as down-right Popery as ever he Preached in Rome.  
48. Be continually designing, something may happen by chance beyond expectation; the Ape little thought by putting on his Masters Cap, to Cure him of a pleurisy: Domitian, rather than destroy nothing, would kill Flies; it's better to play small Game, than set out; when there are many malcontents in a State, some Accident or other may be every day expected; but put it amongst the memoirs of your Cabinet, that what you cannot do by fair Compliance, you must effect by the Sword; therefore the Resolution of Pope Julius the Second was admirable, who being displeased with Lewis the 12 of France, and Marching out with an Army against the French, took St. Peter's Keys and hurled them into the River tiber, saying, since St. Peter's Keys will not quiet mine Enemies, I'll try what St. Paul's Sword will do: For though Wise Actions are begotten under Mercury, yet in case of Opposition, they must be brought forth by assistance of Mars.  
Let Interest be the carded by which you steer, and the apostolic See the Harbour to which your Designs do arrive.  
It's a good piece of Prudence to steer your Designs according as the Wind sits for most Advantage: Thus Aeneas silvius wrote many things before he was Pope, which, when he had once obtained the Triple Crown, he censured as dangerous, saying, pus Condemned that which Aeneas thought good.  
49. Pensioners about Great Persons must be made, for they are the fittest Instruments to facilitate or promote any Design; without them we are little better than a bide without Wings: If we manage our Designs dexterously, all Places of Trust and Dignities may be disposed of according to our pleasures, and conferred upon such Persons as will best serve the catholic Interest; Pillulae Aureae are the best physic, for they ever work safely, and will remove all Obstructions; therefore it must be your care to have a good Fund and Bank of Money to Reward Persons for secret Services, and to recompense all Informers, Spies, Agents, and Intelligencers to betray their nearest Friends and Relations; remember that Intelligence is the right Eye of Prudence.  
50. Faith is not to be kept with heretics, for in every Contract there must be actus contra actum, or quid pro quo; and as heretics have no Faith to give, so no Faith is to be kept with them; if therefore any Protestants upon some Promises to them made, turn Papists, you need not perform with them, but they are to be  told that they might well content themselves, and thank his Holiness that their Souls were brought into a safe Religion: And heretics are no otherwise to be dealt with, than we deal with Children or Mad-men, give them fair Promises( till we get the Sword or Knife out of their Hands) without any regard of Performance. You know Queen Mary, when she was like to be laid aside for her Religion, what great Matters she Promised the Suffolk Men, if they would Arm in Favour of her, which they did, but being ascended the Throne, she never kept her Faith with them, but there were more of that country Suffered for their Religion, and were undone, than of any other County in England.  
And O. cromwell never kept any Oath or Protestation, when it was for his Advantage to break them; it's for Merchants to keep their Word and Promise, not for you, who must make it your chief End to propagate the Faith.  
51. If you have committed any dis-ingenious or villainous Act( though in order to propagate the Faith) if it be decried, the better to clear yourselves, and preserve your Reputation, you may safely charge some heretic or schismatic with the Fact( you know the cuckoo lays her Brood in other Birds Nests.) Therefore Creswell and Curtis; jesuits who were Active and great Instruments of the Massacre in Paris, observing that the Fact was abominable and abhorred by many, they very ingeniously laid it to the Charge of Queen Elizabeth of England, and the Calvenists there.  
The Powder Plot( which was the work of Darkness) coming to light, the jesuits very discreetly cast the whole Design and Contrivance of that Plot upon Cecil, the then Secretary of State, and it was managed with that Art, and had such a handsome Gloss and fine Paint put upon it, that at this day some look upon it as a Political Scare-crow, and others do not believe that there was any such Plot.  
When Francis the Second of France dyed, the Emissaries of our supreme Council gave out( contrary to the Opinion of the Physitians) that he was poisoned by the Hugonots, which was done to render them odious, and that they might the better drive on their own Designs.  
We must tell you, that you have Acted beyond a Prodigy, in casting the Infamy of the last Plot of killing the King, and subverting the Church and State of England, upon the Presbyterians there, who( by reason of their former Acting) in the judgement of some Persons do not stand very clear, but do conceive that they have cast the scandal upon the jesuits, that they might be looked upon as great Patrons and asserters of the public Liberty, and so come into Play again themselves, that they might Act the same things, by other Arts and Methods.  
52. If any Discontent happen between an Heretical King and People, it must be your care and study to boil it up to that height, that it may easily turn into a Rebellion. Zeal is the Flint, and Ambition the Steel, out of which the sparks thereof do first kindle; when they begin to Arm, mix yourselves with the Souldiers on both sides, so you may by your Arts continue the War as long as you please, and commit what Spoils and Plunders you shall think fit; you may betray Towns and Castles, ruin Churches( to propagate the Gospel, as it hath been formerly done) and destroy heretics and schismatics, as the jesuits did in Moravia, Bohemia, Austria, Styria, Hungaria, and Poland, to their great Commendations. But be sure you destroy and spoil the Universities( which are the Seminaries of heresy) as the Holy Fathers the jesuits did Caroline Academy near Prague, and one at Vienna sometime before; you must encourage the young Souldiers in Christs Army Royal, to Fight the Lords battle, and to be forward to show their Zeal to the Good Old Cause, and their Countries welfare; you must declare unto them the Plots and Contrivances of their Adversaries to have introduced Popery and Tyranny into the Kingdom.  
But howsoever let the Good Old Cause be the general Doctrine, Fight manfully, the Exhortation, kill the Heir, and take Possession, the use and application of all: Make the heretics believe they do God good Service in destroying one another: This Holy rhetoric and Gospel encouragements are beyond the Influence of a Teles-man, and the best philtre for a Rebellion.  
You must appoint your General in this Spiritual Warfare, and the better to carry on the work of the Lord, we do advice you to Consecrate him, as we usually do such Persons as are by us Ordered, for the Murdering or Assassination of a King or Prince, the Formulary whereof is as followeth: Go on, thou Elect Son of God, take here the Sword of Gideon, the Sword of Jeptha, the Sword of Samson, the Sword of David, the Sword of the Maccabees; go on, thou Blessed of the Lord, be of good Courage, and the Lord strengthen your Army.  
This done, you must cry up the Interest of the King or Prince, and declare what a great and Glorious King you will make him; but when you have Foraged the Nation, enriched yourselves, and impoverished all, then you must so order your Affairs, that the People may prevail; then the King or Prince, contrary to all your Vows, Protestations, and Covenants( which you have made) must be called Coram nobis, his Power and Revenue must be dwindled to nothing, his best Friends and Adherents must be Ruined; but if the People will have a King, let him be like Sancho Panco, who was made governor of the iceland Barataria, but had no Authority or Power; you may suffer him to wear a Sword by his side, because he is a Gentleman, but not upon any occasion whatsoever to draw it, hang a Lock at his Hilt, but keep you the Keys.  
Thus our Brethren in Scotland( being influenced by Missinaries from our Holy Conclave) took all Power of Arms into their own Hands, because, as they rightly declared, the Kings Castles and Strengths are the Keys of the Realm, and they knew no Reason to the contrary but that they might keep their own Keys; therefore though you give him the Name of King, yet take all Authority to yourselves.  
If at any time the Prince hath Occasion for Moneys to support the Honour and Interest of the Nation, deal with him, as others do with their Children, giving them Gold in a Box, which they must not finger, only please themselves with its ratlings; by this means the People may make themselves a Negative Vote in Peace and War, which may be of good Advantage to us.  
But if you do give Money, let it be upon some grand Consideration, that the Prince may part with ten times more of his Royal Power and Rights of the Crown than the Money is worth; by this Art, you will so clip and pare the Prerogative, that in a short time he will be a Ludovicus Nihil, a John Sans terre, or at the best, a Duke of Venice: For the Prerogative and Liberty of the Subjects are like unto two Buckets in a Well, as one goes up, the other comes down.  
It will be Prudence in you to imitate the crafty friar, who desired to his Dinner only the Liver of a Capon, and a Roasted pigs Head, knowing full well, that if he got those, he would not want his part of the big and Capon too.  
If the Laws of the Land be not extensive enough for to serve your purposes, you must piece them our with Arbitrary Ordinances and Marshal Law( as they did in the late Troubles in England) which was then grown to that height, that the Council of War, General and Judge Advocate of the Army did usually sand forth Instructions to stay Suits, and release Judgments at Law, or else to attend the Council of War wheresoever they sat, or to show cause to the contrary; and they were obeied, when the Ordinances and Commands of the Judges were neglected and slighted.  
But all this you must Act under pretence of Conscience, Christian Liberty; and for the establishing of Property in your Goods and Estates, good and holy pretences will justify the worst Actions, therefore it will be requisite to put a fair Complexion on all your Enterprizes; some Holy and Evangelical Doctrines must be thought on which may serve as an Umbrella to all your Designs: It's a great Advantage to be a good Hocus Pocus and Spiritual juggler.  
But in case you cannot effect your Designs, then let some Neighbouring catholic Prince be called into the Assistance of the Weaker side, and so both Parties will become a Prey to him, and by that means the Roman Religion may be established. The Phoenicians and Boeotians having Wars between them, the Boeotians being disabled, pr●yed in Aid of Philip of Macedon, who came with his Army, washed the country of the Phoenicians, and reduced them to Servitude, and gained to himself the whole country of the Boeotians; this may be to good purpose Practised: It's not tanti to the Vatican, who is supreme, so he be for the catholic Interest; as for the 〈◇〉, or Common People, they will choose rather the present State with Security, than to recover the old with Danger; you may with a little rhetoric persuade them to be quiet, telling them they are designed to defend the Capitol.  
53. If any Person be a great Favourite to a Prince or People, if he be not a Friend to the catholic Interest, he must be taken down, and removed out of the way under pretence of some Honourable Employment; then by your Segacity you may either cast him from his present Honour, or else he may be made less Potent, or some Friend to the Sacred college placed in his room; therefore Augustus Caesar Acted like himself, when he persuaded M. Anthony's absence from Rome, to go into Egypt, it was to bring him into Contempt, and Usher in his ruin. And nothing did more contribute to the Dignity and Grandeur of Agathocles in Syracuse, than when by his Arts Sesostratus was removed from thence, who was the greatest Obstruction of his Designs. The Prudence and Sagacity of Francis Stozza was very commendable( and in many cases to good purpose may be practised by you) who being desirous to remove Troilus and Peter Brunorus, two Eminent Commanders, from the Service of Alphonso King of Naples, framed a Letter, in the end whereof he willed, that without delay they should put in execution the Consultation which had passed betwixt them; which he conveyed in such manner, that it fell into the Hands of the King, who understanding the Contents of it, sent them thereupon as Prisoners to Catalogne: By this means he deprived himself of two Excellent Commanders, and gave his Enemy that contentment which he looked for.  
54. If there be a heretic Prince who hath Faithful and Prudent Servants about him, by your Insinuations and Arts they must be brought into disfavour, and so removed, by this means you will assuredly bring ruin and Destruction to that Prince.  
The Emperour Valentinian having caused Aetius his Faithful Servant to be Executed, he was himself in a short time after slain by Maximus, a Roman Patrician, whose Treacherous Attempts, during the Life of Aetius, were so over awed, that they durst never offer so much as once to show themselves. And King Richard's Banishing of Mowbray upon the difference between him and Bullingbrook, was his own Deposing.  
55. Change and Alteration in Government must be made gradually, you must cunningly temporize, and suffer the People insensibly and by degrees to drop into Slavery, and not Oppress them all at once, as Julius Caesar did; they must be bound by Benefits, or by severity made sure from Offending.  
And the only Course to make Greatness stand firmly, is to receive extraordinary Power under a Title not offensive; therefore O. cronwell, that great Mustapha of Sedition( though an eminent promoter of the Triple Crown, and our great Friend) would not receive a Crown himself, or admit of the Name of King( for that would have disobliged his own Party) but the specious Name of Protector to please the Rabble.  
And the better to secure yourselves from Factions and Conspiracies, you must rather fear those to whom you have done over great Favours, than those you have much injured; for these want Opportunity, the other do not; and the Ambition of Command is always as much or more than the desire of Revenge: But never trust any you have injured, for a Lion is a Lion, though he shrinks up his paws.  
56. Count it better to be Successful than Just. Rome's Second Founder, Camillus Scipio, that great Scourge of Carthage, was Disgraced, and M. Cariolanus Banished, only because their Worth and virtue had lifted them above the Ordinary pitch of Subjects.  
There are not two more Fortunate Properties, than to have somewhat of the Fool, and not too much of the Honest. Remember Count Gundamore, how he managed the catholic Interest with King James of England. If you be truly just, Living amongst so many Men which are unjust, you will assuredly be Ruined.  
It's a great Instance of Wisdom, and sometimes the best Expedient to promote Designs, to Act the Part of a Fool, by that means you lye out of the reach of jealousy, and none will suspect you; be sure to keep Formality above board, but your Prudence under deck; make not yourselves a Body of Crystal for others to look through you; but be like a Coffer with a double bottom, when others look into it, being opened, they see not what is within it on the sudden and at once: Never open yourselves but with an half light, and for Advantage; Giges Ring was his Wisdom, whereby he understood others, and was reserved himself. If my Shirt, said Metellus, knew my Mind, I would burn it. Before I  told you of this, I was Emperour; but now you are, said Charles the Fifth, when he discovered his Designs upon the seventeen Provinces, to his Friend the Duke of Luxenburgh.  
If you have employed any Person in a Mischievous Design, if he doth not effect it according to your desires, or there is fear that he will Discover it, your safest Course will be to give him a Baccado. You must not perplex yourselves with any Niceties of Conscience; if it be to propagate the Faith, it's Just; and a Noble Action is its own Herald: Therefore if you will have the right Knack of doing business, you must ease yourselves of those two grand Remoraes to all Honourable Undertakings▪ Religion and Conscience. Hold nothing Impious or Wicked which is for the Advantage of your Designs. We must Commend the Generosity and heroic Genius of the Noble Parthians, who acknowledged no Honesty or Religion, but what was for their Private Interest. Father Richard Walpool, a Jesuit, employed Squire, Anno 1595. to poison Queen Elizabeth of England: But for some Months hearing no News of the Queens Death, Walpool supposing that Squire had doubled with him; thereupon, to be Revenged of him, he sent an English-man to inform the Queen of the Conspiracy of Squire to poison her( though Squire was very Active to effect it, and had pursued his Instructions) Squire was thereupon seized, and Consessed the whole matter, for which he was Executed. This was looked upon by the Sacred college as a Prudent and Righteous Act in Walpool, and he had their Reward and Commendations.  
57. Predictions and Prophesies are of Admirable Use to deceive the People, and serve Ends; therefore such Predictions must be framed as may accommodate Designs, and please Vulgar Fancies, and yourselves must be the Oracles: The People are to be made believe( as you may put any thing into their Creed) that Heaven is of the Plot, and concerned in the enterprise for their good. Thus Lysander, projecting the change of Government of Sparta, would engage the Gods in the Design, and corrupted the Priests to forge Oracles for the same. Catiline, to inflame Lentulus to Burn Rome, fed his Ambitious Soul with some dark Oracle out of the Sybils Leaves: The Multitude will easily comport with that Design, which they believe had some Signature from Heaven, and is influenced from above: If Success doth attend but one Prediction, it will give Credit and Reputation to the rest, and make them all authentic. And sometimes the Vulgar, who are more Superstitious than Religious, will themselves either find or frame a Prediction for every great event.  
How patiently did the Citizens of London sustain their Losses, and the Burning of the Metropolis of England, when they red it was foretold so many Years before, and by consequence Predestinated?  
Therefore you must be well furnished with those or the like Tools upon all Occasions, for they are of singular use to manage any Design: How was Oliver cromwell influenced to ascend the Throne, when the Oracle ( Nostradamus) insinuated to them, 

Le Roydes Isles sera chase par force  
Misa son lieu qui de Roy ne aura sign:   

A King of Islands shall be banished, and  
An Upstart Jack by force shall Rule the Land.    
That Image of Wax, or Head of Earth, framed by Necromancy( in King Richard the seconds Reign) at Oxford, which at a time spake these words, 

Caput decidetur; Caput elevatur,  
Pedes elevabantur supra Caput.   

The Head shall be cut off, the Head shall be lifted up;  
The Feet shall be lifted above the Head.   Had wondrous effects; and be assured nothing is more capable of delusion than the Vulgar, if you know their Genius rightly, and Prudently to manage them. And you must know, that doubtful Oracles are always interpnted to the desires of the Interested Faction: That dubious Letter, Edwardum occidere Nobite timere bonum est; To kill Edward do not fear is a good thing, was so well understood by Sir Thomas Gourney, Sir John Maltravers, that the Murder of Edward the Second was Resolved.  
But whensoever you have designed any Notorious villainy, as the Assassinating of a Prince, or Firing of a great City, or the like, you may with good success fore-tell, that about such a day it will happen out, and come to pass; as F. Cammolet Prophesied when he had designed the Assassination of Henry the Great of France, that in a little time, the King will be slain. And the fore-telling of the Conflagration of London( when it was contrived by our Sacred Conclave) was well Acted; and be assured that the Jesuitologers can more certainly Prognosticate the Death of any Prince, &c. than any Astrologer; therefore you must apply yourselves to this Art, for it will make you considerable in the World, and Men will think that you are of the Privy Council to Heaven, and like Moses, had been with God in the Mount; howsoever you will be looked upon as Oracles, and the Rabble will bow to your Wisdom, and Sacred Spirit of prophesy. The fore-telling by his Holiness of the Victory gained by the Christians at the battle of Lepanto: And the defeat of the Scots Army at Preston, by James Michael, purchased them a very great Reputation, and their Memory will be Celebrated by Posterity for it.  
FINIS.