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A28290	An historical account of making the penal laws by the papists against the Protestants, and by the Protestants against the papists wherein the true ground and reason of making the laws is given, the papists most barbarous usuage [sic] of the Protestants here in England under a colour of law set forth, and the Reformation vindicated from the imputation of being cruel and bloody, unjustly cast upon it by those of the Romish Communion / by Samuel Blackerby ...	Blackerby, Samuel, d. 1714.	1689 (1689)	Wing B3069; ESTC R18715	230,149	164

continue your daily Plotting of so Tragical Stratagems against Recusants It is ordered that none of these Five knoweth who the other Four be for the better preventing the discovery of the rest if so any one by attempting and not performing should be apprehended It is also already agreed who shall first attempt it by shot and so who in order shall follow In accomplishing of it there is expected no other than assurance of Death yet it will willingly be embraced for the preventing of those general Calamities which by this your transcendent Authority and Grace with His Majesty are threatned unto us And indeed the difficulties herein are more easily to be digested since Two of the intended attempters are in that weak estate of Body that they cannot live above three or four Months The other Three are so distressed in themselves and their Friends as that their present griefs for being only Recusants do much dull all aprehensions of Death None is to be blamed in the true censuring of Matters for the undertaking hereof Nor are they to be blamed for it for we protest before God we have no other means left us in the World since it is manifest that you serve but as a Match to give Fire unto his Majesty to whom the worst that we wish is that he may be as great a Saint in Heaven as he is King on Earth for intending all mischiefs against the poor distressed Catholics Thus giving your Lordship this charitable admonition the which may perhaps be necessary hereafter for some others your inferiours at least in grace and favour if so they run on in their former inhumane and unchristian rage against us I cease putting you in mind For 't is true and Spiritual Resolution that where once True and Spiritual Resolution is there notwithstanding all dangers whatsoever the weak may take sufficient revenge of the great Your Lordships well admonishing Friends c. A. B. C. c. It may be your Lordship will take this but as some forged Letter of some Puritans thereby to incense you more against Recusants But we protest upon our Salvation it is not so Neither can any thing in humane likelihood prevent the effecting thereof but the change of your Course towards Recusants This Letter at the beginning affords fair seeming to detest the Gun-Powder-Plot as Watson did the Popish Treasons in Queen Elizabeths time and was hanged for Treason in the beginning of the Reign of King James but little credit is to be given to what they say if it be considered that the very design of it is to apoligize for Murther and that they therein assert that although they Murther Privy Counsellors yet the Murtherers may be good men nor are they to be blamed for it for it is a true and spiritual resolution What influence this Letter had the sequel will evince for the said Oath was immediately confirmed by Act of Parliament and the Papists injoyned to take it in the Circumstances and upon the Penalties in the Act for that purpose mentioned the sum and substance of which Act followeth it is Intitled An Act for the better discovering and repressing of Popish Recusants The Preamble of the Act runs thus 3. Jac. 1. c. 4. Rast Stat. f. 591. Papists must receive the Sacrament and take the Oath of Allegiance c. upon pecuniary mulcts if neglected FOrasmuch as it is found by daily Experience that many His Majesties Subjects that adhere in their hearts to the Popish Religion by the infection drawn from thence and by the Wicked and Divelish Councel of Iesuits Seminaries and other like Persons dangerous to the Church and State are so far perverted in the point of their Loyalty and due Allegiance to the Kings Majesty and the Crown of England as they are ready to entertain and Execute any Treasonable Conspiracies and Practices as evidently appears by that more then barbarous and horrible Attempt to have blown up with Gun-powder the King Queen Prince Lords and Commons in the House of Parliament Assembled tending to the utter Subversion of the whole State lately undertaken by the instigation of Iesuits and Seminaries and in Advancement of their Religion by their Schollars Taught and Instructed by them to that purpose which Attempt by the only goodness of Almighty God was discovered and defeated And where divers Persons Popishly affected do nevertheless the better to cover and hide their false Hearts and with the more safety to attend the opportunity to execute their mischievous Designs repair sometimes to Church to escape the Penalty of the Laws in that behalf provided Then for the better discovery of such Persons and their Evil affections to the Kings Majesty and to the State of the Realm to the end that being known their Evil Purposes might be the better prevented It was enacted that every Papist that Conforms shall Yearly receive the Sacrament upon twenty pounds Forfeiture upon the first Years neglect forty pounds the second sixty pounds the third and so forwards sixty pounds Yearly until he or she shall have received it That Papists their Children of Nine Years and Servants shall be once a Year presented at the general or Quarter Sessions Which presentments are to be recorded at the Sessions That the Iustices of Assize and Goal Delivery and Iustices of Peace shall hear and determine the Offence That Proclamation shall be made at the Assizes or Sessions for the Offender to render his body to the Sheriff Bayliff or Keeper of the Goal of the Liberty before the next Assizes or Sessions c. And if the Offender doth not he stands Convicted and forfeits twenty pounds a Month for every Month contained in the Indictment whereon he his Convicted That every Conviction shall be certified into the Exchequer that the King may refuse twenty pounds a Month and take two parts of the Papists Lands save their Mansion House That the Kings two parts shall not be Leased to Papists Noblemen and Noblewomen are excepted That the Oath of Allegiance shall be tendred to all Persons of the Age of Eighteen Years or above Convicted or Indicted for Recusancy for not going to Church for not receiving the Sacrament or that pass through any Country Shire or Liberty and unknown Who refuse taking this Oath incur a Premunire except Women covert who are to be Committed to the Common Goal without Bail or Mainprize till they take the Oath No Indictment or other Proceedings against the Papists shall be discharged or reversed for default of Form but Conformity discharges all Proceedings whatever Felony in any that go beyond Seas to serve any Forreign Prince c. or being there shall voluntarily serve such Prince not first having taken the Oath Felony in any Gentleman or Person of higher Degrée or any that is or hath born Office in Camp Army or Company of Souldiers to go beyond the Seas voluntarily to serve a Foreign Prince or shall voluntarily serve any Prince unless he first enters into Bond

ingaging him at the little River Gelt after very many of the said Leonard Dacre's Men were slain he left the Victory to the Lord Hunsdon and withdrew himself to the next part of Scotland from whence shortly after he Crossed the Seas into the Low Countries and dyed a poor Man at Lovain The Queen by publick Proclamation pardoned the Multitude whom he had excited to Rebellion The third Rebellion was in Ireland in the same Year beaded by the Botelers Cambd. Annals f. 137. The Reason of these Rebellions was Pope Pius Quintus his Bull. Camb. Annals fol. 145. Baker's Chro. fol. 34. Foulis li. 7. ca. 2. fol. 325. Collection f. 3. Pope Pius Quintus his Bull. Cambd. Annals fol. 146. Fowlis 331. And as the Papists gave Queen Elizabeth these disturbances here in England so they were not wanting in Embroiling of Ireland So ungrateful were they for all the favour and kindness that she had from time to time shewn them Edmond and Peter Boteler the Earl of Ormond's Brethren engaged themselves with the Bishop of Rome and the Spaniard for maintaining the Popish Religion and outing Queen Elizabeth of her Kingdom of Ireland But their Brother the Earl of Ormond quenched this Flame by perswading his Brethren to submit themselves who by that means saved their Lives And no wonder it is that the Papists thus Rebel against Queen Elizabeth when Pius Quintus Bishop of Rome who had from the time he came to the See been continually plotting against her had the year before by his Bull declaratory without any previous admonition or Citation excommunicated her and did afterwards cause the same to be openly published and set up upon the Gates of the Bishop of Londons Palace in these words A Sentence Declaratory of our Holy Lord Pope Pius Quintus against Elizabeth Queen of England and the Hereticks adhering unto her wherein also all her Subjects are declared to be absolved from the Oath of Allegiance and whatever other Duty they owe unto her And those that from henceforth shall obey her are involved in the same Curse or Anathema Pius Bishop Servant to God's Servants for a future Memorial of the matter He that raigneth on high to whom is given all Power in Heaven and in Earth hath Committed his one Holy Catholick and Apostolick Church out of which there is no Salvation to one alone upon Earth namely To Peter the Chief of the Apostles and to Peter's Successor the Bishop of Rome to be by him govern'd with plenary Authority Him alone hath he made Prince over all People and all Kingdoms to pluck up destroy scatter consume plant and build that he may preserve his faithful People knit together with the band of Charity in the Vnity of the Spirit and present them spotless and unblamable to their Saviour In discharge of which Function we who are by God's Goodness so called to the Government of the aforesaid Church do spare no pains labouring with all earnestness that unity and the Catholick Religion which the Author thereof hath for the tryal of his Childrens Faith and for our amendment suffered to be tossed with so great Afflictions might be preserved sincere But the number of the ungodly hath gotten such power that there is now no place in the whole world left which they have not assayed to corrupt with their most wicked Doctrines and amongst others Elizabeth the pretended Queen of England the Servant of Wickedness lendeth thereunto her helping hand with whom as in a Sanctuary the most pernicious persons have found a refuge This very Woman having seized on the Kingdom and monstrously usurped the place of Supream Head of the Church in all England and the chief Authority and Jurisdiction thereof hath again reduced the said Kingdom into a miserable and ruinous condition which was so lately reclaimed to the Catholick Faith and a thriving Condition For having by strong hand prohibited the exercise of the true Religion which Mary the lawful Queen of Famous Memory had by the help of this See restored after it had been formerly overthrown by Henry the Eighth a Revolter there-from and following and embracing the Errors of Hereticks she hath changed the Royal Council consisting of the English Nobility and filled it up with obscure Men being Hereticks suppressed the Embracers of the Catholick Faith Constituted lewd Preachers and Ministers of Impiety Abolished the Sacrifice of the Mass Prayers Fastings choice of Meats unmarried Life and the Catholick Rites and Ceremonies commanded Books to be read through the whole Realm containing manifest Heresie and appointed Impious Rites and Institutions by her self entertained and observed according to the Prescript of Calvin to be likewise observed by her Subjects presumed to eject Bishops Parsons of Churches and other Catholick Priests out of their Churches and Benefices and to bestow them and other Church Livings upon Hereticks and to determine of Church Causes prohibited the Prelates Clergy and People to acknowledge the Church of Rome or obey the Precepts or Canonical Sanctions thereof compelled most of them to condescend to her wicked Laws and to abjure the Authority and Obedience of the Bishop of Rome and to acknowledge her to be sole Lady in Temporal and Spiritual Matters and this by Oath imposed Penalties and Punishments upon those which obeyed not and exacted them of those which persevered in the Vnity of the Faith and their Obedience aforesaid cast the Catholick Prelates and Rectours of Churches into Prison where many of them being worn out with long languishing and sorrow miserably ended their Lives All which things being so manifest and notorious to all Nations and by the serious Testimony of very many so substantially proved that there is no place at all left for excuse defense or evasion We seeing that Impiety and Wicked Actions are multiplyed one upon another as also that the Persecution of the Faithful and Affliction for Religion groweth every day heavier and heavier through the instigation and by means of the said Elizabeth and since we understand her Heart to be so hardened and obdurate that she hath not only contemned the Godly Requests and Admonitions of Catholick Princes concerning her cure and Conversion but also hath not so much as suffered the N●ncio's of this See to cross the Seas for this purpose into England are constrained of necessity to betake our selves to the Weapons of Justice against her being heartily grieved and sorry that we are compelled thus to punish one to whose Ancestors the whole State of Christendom hath been so much beholden Being therefore supported with his Authority whose pleasure it was to place us tho' unable for so great a burthen in this Supream Throne of Justice we do out of the fulness of our Apostolick Power declare the aforesaid Elizabeth as being an Heretick and a favourer of Hereticks and her adherents in the matters aforesaid to have incurr'd the Sentence of Excommunication and to be cut off from the unity of the body of Christ And moreover we do