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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67878	A true narrative of the Popish-plot against King Charles I and the Protestant religion as it was discovered by Andreas ab Habernfeld to Sir William Boswel Ambassador at the Hague, and by him transmitted to Archbishop Laud, who communicated it to the King : the whole discoovery being found amongst the Archbishops papers, when a prisoner in the Tower, by Mr. Prynn (who was ordered to search them by a committee of the then Parliament) on Wednesday, May 31, 1643 : with some historical remarks on the Jesuits, and A vindication of the Protestant dissenters from disloyalty : also, A compleat history of the Papists late Presbyterian plot discovered by Mr. Dangerfield, wherein an account is given of some late transactions of Sir Robert Peyton.	Habervešl z Habernfeldu, Ondřej.; Boswell, William, Sir, d. 1649.; Laud, William, 1573-1645.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1680 (1680)	Wing T2805; Wing H164; ESTC R21657	37,577	41

that as considering the time it fell out most confoundedly unluckily that the Presbyteriaus should conceal this Plot from the Papists till so many good honest pious and loyal Priests of Baal and Sons of Belial were hang'd which would never have been done had there been the least Inkling given of the Meal-Tub in season But when the Names of the Persons came to be seen that were to be Actors in this Presbyterian Tragedy then to the Laughter of the whole World there never appear'd such a Dow-bak'd Plot out of a Meal-Tub since the Creation to bring so many Great Men plotting against their own prosperity and enjoyments so many wise and politie States-men by whom the Nation has been so long steer'd to be Plotters and Conspirers against their own Preservation These are Plots of such a strange Nature that if they could be thought reall they would occasion the unhinging of the whole Frame of Order and Government while it were impossible for Honour Probity and Reputation to remain upon the Earth Obedience and Allegiance to Government are grounded either upon Religion or Moral Vertue or if these two fail there is a necessity which obliges the ordinary fore-sight of Prudence Against these Ambition or Revenge are the only Combatants but neither Ambition nor Revenge can bear so great a sway in persons that understand the Intrigues of Policy or the more mysterious management of Prudence as to delude them into Plots and Conspiracies where there is no prospect of a secure Change The Presbyterians are a sort of people wary and deliberate Neither are their Tenents which had their rise and beginnings from men whom the Papists themselves confess to have been men of great Learning Eloquence and Exemplary Lives of that Crimson Constitution as to prompt them to lay the Foundations of their Hierarchy in Blood and Massacre or so deeply to wound the Reputation of the Protestant Religion by the clandestine Treachery and secret Contrivances of Disloyalty For as for that Design of the Huguenots under Francis the Second King of France of which the Prince of Conde and the Admiral Coligni were said to be Chief that was no Design against the Life or Person of the King but against the exorbitant Pride of the Guises Duke and Cardinal who were at the same time Papists and were themselves contriving to take away the Life of the young King and translate the Royal Dignity into their own Family Neither could the Civil Wars of France be said to be the Rebellion of the Hugonets But a War of the Queen Regents and the two Guises own weaving while they all strove to preserve their own Authority And the Queen Regent her self was the first that caus'd the Prince of Conde to take Arms as fearing the Guises would wrest the Government out of her hands by recommending to his Protection the young King Charles the Ninth her Son her Self and the Kingdom Nay they were so far from being Rebels to their King that they joyn'd with the Catholiques for the Recovery of Haure out of the hands of Queen Elizabeth who had been their Friend And though the Admiral and Danaelot were not at the Siege for fear of being tared by the Queen of Ingratitude yet they sent both their Forces and Friends Some indeed justly deserved to be blamed for the violence of their Conduct in the late Wars but it is a Question of which some make no doubt whether those Violences were not occasion'd by the Papists in Masquerade who well knew how to intermix themselves both in their Counsels and Actions whether they did not stand behind the Scene and prompt those Sons of Jehu Whether they did not pour Oyl upon those Flames For it appears that the Presbyterians if Names of distinction may be us'd among people of the same Religion were the first that relented as is evident by Votes of Addresses and their Treaty at the Isle of Wight not broke off by them but by One that was playing his own Game and meditating the destruction both of his Sovereign and them too Who having made his Exit they then considered what ill Phaetons they had been before and return'd the more skilful Phoebus the Reins of his Chariot again But that you may know that 't is an old Dog-trick of the Papists to play the Devils Incarnate and lay their most wicked Actions upon the Innocent I will repeat this short Story out of one of the choicest French Historians and a Catholique to boot The Queen Regent of France having long design'd the Destruction of the Protestants in France and of all the chief Heads of the reformed Religion and among the rest of Admiral Coligni the Life and Soul of the whole Party projects the Execution with the Assistance of the Duke of Anjou the Counts of Tavanes and Raix and the Chancellor Birague and easily drew in the young King whom they made believe that there was no safety so long as those persons were alive and the young Guises were as ready as she to revenge their Fathers Death As for the King of Navar they had so order'd it that he was to be marry'd at Paris at that time and that brought the Prince of Conde to the City But the Admiral more wary kept aloof till the King had begun the War with Spain in the Low Countries which the Admiral had so passionately desir'd and of which the King and Queen Regent had assur'd him the Management Then he came an end seeing the War begun and two of his own Favourites Noue and Genlis at the Head of some thousands in Flanders And these three Great Personages the King of Navarr the Prince of Conde and the Admiral Coligni brought such Trains after them as throng'd all Paris with the Flower of all the Protestant Nobility and Gentry of France Who being all thus within the Net Orders were given to make a general Slaughter of all without distinction excepting the King of Navarr and the Prince of Conde Hence proceeded that Horrible Massacre in the Year 1572. which lasted for seven Days together to the destruction of above 5000 persons of all Ages and Sexes and among these above 600 Persons of Quality After this Deluge of Blood and that the Queen had sent the Head of Coligny Embalm'd as a Present to the Pope the Queen Regent had contriv'd to lay the Load of all the committed Impiety upon the Guises who were Captains of the Massacre believing that the Monmor ancies would certainly seek to revenge the Admirals Death upon them So that while those two Factions ruin'd and destroy'd one another she might have all the Power in her own hands and rule according to her own Will But the Guises being aware of this Design and having the Catholique Nobility the Duke of Montpensier and the Parisians on their side caus'd the Queen to change her Note and thereupon she caus'd the King to write abroad That all was done to prevent the detestable Conspiracy of the Admiral and his