against the Laws and had their weekly Congregations then and in the years following to hurl us all into disorder and confusion * Id. ib. Hidd works p. 109 144 170 171 189 c. 1. pt Compl. Hist p. 443. 449. alibi Roy. fav p. 54. 55. Rom. m. peec p. 31. For we find Mr. Waddesworth did depose both in writing and vivâ vece at the Lords bar that one Henry alias Francis Smith alias Lloyd alias Rivers alias Simons who it seems was then a Provincial of the Jesuits and had in his younger days as Stukely the Priest related had a hand in the Gunpowder-Treason before the beginning of the Scotch wars did tell him in Norfolk where he met him that The Popish Religion was not to be brought in here by disputing or books of controversie but with an Army and with FIRE and sword * Mr. Pr. 1. pt Comp. Hist p. 449 450. And when according to this menacing determination of F. Smith the Jesuits had fomented a war betwixt England and Scotland †1639. it seems upon their solicitations * Id. in preface to vind of Fund 1. pt E. 3. a. b. E. 4. a. b. the King of Spain had provided a new Spanish Armado and land Army of old souldiers to invade the western and southern parts of England when the Forces and Ammunition were drawn into the Northern parts against the Scots which design was broken and detected by the Hollanders unexpected encounter of their Fleet on the English coasts and the pacification in Scotland which appear'd by the confession of an English-Pilot in that Navy on his death-bed mortally wounded in the first fight to an English Minister and others to whom he revealed it out of conscience as also by some Letters and other evidences and by a pamphlet made and printed by the Jesuits 1640. in which amongst other passages entered in the Parliament journal Novemb. 14. 1640. there was a particular prayer for the Holy Martyrs which suffered in the Fleet sent against the Hereticks of England 1639. with this note the Papists must fish in troubled waters To which purpose the Popes Nuncio with the secret Colledge of Jesuits then in Queen-street summon'd a convention of Jesuits having gotten secretly into private pay an Army of 7000. Papists upon which the Fathers of the Society were so confident of success that in their Jubilee 1640. which they solemniz'd in all places being the hundredth year from the first Erection of their Order by Ignatius as was noted above 1540. at Aquisgran or Aken in their publick Hall they had an Enterlude which they invited people to by Printed Tickets signifying the Triumph of the Popish Church of Rome by Pageants brought upon the Stage subduing all her enemies till that day by their means but in their jollity when two Armies came in one of the Jesuits and Papists another of the Protestants ready to encounter a Jesuiticall Actot in the habit of a masse Priest comes in also devining success to the Popish Army praying for it with an affected devotion and solemn invocation or rather prophanation of Gods name upon which the Popish Army of Actors as certain of the instant victory utter'd these words as their parts directed them with a loud and reitterated voice and shout PEREAT PEREAT QUISQUIS EST HOSTIS ECCLESIAE i. e. Lei him perish let him perish whoever is an enemy of the Church At the repeating of which words a great part of the Stage on which they acted together with the whole Popish Army not one Souldier or Captain excepted fell to the ground immediately while their feigned enemies personating the Protestants were left standing on the other part of the Stage which fell not at all with this sudden fall many of the Popish Army were bruised in peices with the beams of the Stage falling upon them who through pain and horror needed no Moniters to silence their outcries Others with broken limbs were carried to the Chyrurgeons and the rest confounded with shame crept away secretly under the veil to their lodging So this Ignatian-Play ended in a reall unexpected Tragedie and a reall rout of the whole pretended victorious Popish Army of the Jesuits * Id ibid ê specul sive jubilaeo Jesuiâ—ico p. 220. ad p. 224. And the Scottish War that year which they so much depended on through Gods mercy concluded in a blessed peace and union betwixt both Nations § 6. But the Irish Papists by their Plots and Instigations of the Jesuits who seconded their motions with encouragement of Arms and Monyes from abroad undertook the bloody Massacre of all the Protestants in Ireland and surprisal of all the Forts Castles Arms and Ammunitions therein On the 23. of Octob. 1641. being IGNATIUS DAY which they celebrate like the Jewish Rabbi's feast about this time of the year called Festum ignis or luminum the Feast of FIRE or of lights * Car. Sigon de rep Hebr. l. 3. c. 17. p. 637. the Founder and new Cannonâ—z'd Saint of the Jesuited Society for the great honour of their Patron and Order they being the chief Plotters of that horrid bloody Treason and Rebellion †Mr. Pr. pref to vind Fund Rights E. 4. b. which though happily discover'd the night before at Dublin and some few places else yet in other Parts of Ireland it took effect to the slaughter of 200000 innocents qua Protestants in a few months space Followed with a bloody War for sundry years to the loss of the lives of many thousands more there And afterwards by a direfull War here fomented by the Jesuits likewise * Id. ib. In Ireland they threatned to BURN and ruine Dâ—blin and all the Monuments of the English Government * Sr. Jo. Tem. pref to Hist of Irish Rebel At their rising in Vlster besides the barbarous murthers and cruelties there and elsewhere they did BURN spoyle and destroy the English Protestants †In Hist p. 22. And to instance only in one or two places in the Castle of Lisgool they consumed by FIRE an hundred and fifty men women and children and in the Castle of Tullah they BURNT and kill'd * Id. p. 91. at least an hundred Then here in England the Parliament did Decemb. 15. 1641. charge the Jesuits with a malicious and perniciouâ— design of subverting the fundamental Laws and principles of government it seems F. Philips Sr. Toby Mathew and Lord Gage had been very active and some design'd with Seignor Con to have took away King Charles I. by giving him a Spanish Fig as Andrews ab Habernfeld agent for Cardinal Barbarino Protector of the English and Scottish Jesuits discovered to Sir Will. Boswel the Kings Agent then at the Hague * Rooms Master piece Hence who ever were the Instruments about the cutting off King Charles I. on the 30. Jan. 1648. the Jesuits have been justly accounted by those who search'd the botome †Mr. Pryune in several pieces And
from the words of the Arch-Bishop of York then a Papist and Raynolds under the name of Rosaeus a Jesuit himself * Answ to the Papists Apology p. 23. 'T would be tedious upon the Evolution of the Annals during her long and happy Reign to give full Narratives of the several attempts were made by the Ignatians upon her person and government and therefore 't will be convenient at present only to suggest the heads of some § 3. Whence was the first Rebellion of Fitz-morris against the Queens government in Ireland but from the same Incendiaries who animated him to the second attempt * See Plots and Conspir collected Fran. Speed Camb. Stow. Hollingsh c. Namely the Spanish Mendoza the English Sanders and Allen stiffe Assertors of the Jesuits Principles Stanleys Conspiracy 1570. and that dissembling Treaty by Don John of Austria 1576. was from the same Forge After Fitz-Morris stirs San Josephus was sent into Ireland 1580. with 700. Spaniards and Italians upon the turbulent motions * L. Luc. Hist p. 496. 497. from Thuan. c. of F. Campian and Parsons alias Cowback and Jaspar Heywood who of all the Jesuits saith Sr. Hen. Baker came first into England unto whom upon his arrival his Father old Heywood said in a simple admiration Jesu Jasper who made thee a Jesuit The year after 1581. Campian was taken and executed for his Treason Yet in a short time after 1582. 1583. one Summeruil a Gentleman having read dangerous Books of divers Jesuits and convers'd with Hall attempted with a drawn Sword to have kill'd the Queen which was design'd also by William Parry Doctor of Law about 1584 who having read D. Alans book concerning excommunicated Princes acknowledged he was instigated to this Parricide by Benet Palm * Id. 498. and Hanibal Codreto Jesuits at Venice as afterwards by one Morgan in France About these times there was on Shipboard a very admirable discovery of the contents in the Scotish Jesuit Creighton's torn papers gathered together by Sr. Will. Wade which brought to light * Plots and conspir pr. 1642. p. 19. 23. That then to advance the Pope and Spaniard they had resolv'd 1 To deprive Q. Elizabeth 2 To disinherit K. James of England 3 To have the Q. of Scots marry some Popish Noble man of England whom 4 The Papists or Pseudo-Catholicks should choose Which choice 5 the Pope would confirm These were Ignatian projects but God disappointed them as he did the wicked attempts of the Savages with Priests who had suck'd in Jesuitical Doctrines to kill the Queen Elizabeth whom they thought also to have dispatch't by moving the French Embassadour of the Guisian Faction to have hired one Moody who proposed poison or a Bagg of Gunpowder but this was detected and the Ambassador sent home to learn better manners Then when all these fail'd the unwearied malicious Incendiaries set on moving their great Machine the Spanish Armado 1588. Of which we may see from Garnets acts the Jesuits were forerunners at least two years when the Gad-prickers stir'd up the Popes Bulls in defence of this vast and as they counted it invincible Navy * Speeds Hist p. 1178. Luc. Hist p. 498. 499. which contain'd 2843. great Oâ—dnance 28840. Marriners Souldiers and Slaves rowing in Galleys innumerable FIRE balls and Granadoes sunk taken and dispers'd through the singular goodness of God by the English Fleet with the loss of no more than an hundred men and one ship when this publick assault came to naught the Jesuits fall again to their old small games for about * Hosp Cambd. Speeds Stow. c. 1592. they had hired Patrick Collen an Irish Fryar to kill the Queen unto which murther Holt the Jesuit did perswade with this motive that 't was not disallow'd by the Laws whiles Pius V. Bull was out but that he should merit Gods favour and Heaven by it Much about this time the Queen did emit a Declaration against these Sicarii and Incendiaries back'd with excellent Reasons from their Clandestine snares and devices which yet was not so prevalent with Dr. Lopez the Portugez her Physitian to make him Loyal as 50000 Crowns in Rubies and Diamonds was to allure him to attempt the poisoning of her 1593. Neither was it the year after viz. 1594. so powerful with Williams and York who conspired against the Queen as F. Parsons Doleman and the instigation of the Jesuit Holt who also brought other Incendiaries into a combination to FIRE the Navy with wild-FIRE for which they were stretch'd at Tyburn 1595. But this did not yet scare Edward Squire a Deputy Purveyor for the Queens stable upon the motion of Walpole the Jesuit from essaying to poison the pummel of the Queens Sadle 1596. nor Tyrone from Rebellion against the Queen in Ireland Thuâ—n P. Metthew Meteran within a short time after to encourage whom the Jesuits had boasted by vertue of their League * they would clean extirpate Protestantism by the year 1600. but God check'd their confidence and frustrated their hopes Yet the Provincial Garnet and Creswel leguer Jesuit in Spain with Râ—bert Tesmond another of the society were conspiring with the King of Spain to send an Army to joyn with 5000 Foot and 2000. Horse they had Dormant in England of Papists to receive them 1601. 1602. But the great God blasted this as the rest of the Jesuits horrid practises against the Queen notwithstanding the determinations of their Colledge at Salamanca sent to embolden Tyroen in Ireland and the erection of their New Society at Thonon in Savoy 1602. whereto many Popish Kings and Nobles gave their names by pious frauds and force of Arms to convert or extirpate the Protestants under the Notion of Hereticks having by the Agencie of 50. disguised Jesuits in England listed as was said 25000. Popish souldiers about June that year to joyn with this new Assâ—ciation to carry on the forementioned design * Mr. Pr. pref vind from meterran l. 23. Spec Jef. p 100. Winter to entourage the Papists brought word of a million of crowns prepared by the Jesuits in Spain for the service and two Bulls †L Luc. Hist p. 405. were propounded from Clem. VIII viz. one to the Lords Spiritual another to the Lords Temporal that whether by a Natural or a violent death the Queen should be remov'd they would only promote a Papist to the Crown * Causab Epist ad Font. p. 186. The notices of these Machinations occasion another Declaration by the Queen against the Jesuits * p. 509. 15. Novemb. 1602. But about half a year after when she had reigned full 44. years and four moneths April 4. 1603. God was pleas'd to remove her out of the reach of these Furies § 4. And K. James in despight of the Popes Bulls comes to the Crown however there were those of the like Ingenie with the Jesuits who almost as soon as he had set his foot upon English ground
tormenti jeorum ascendet in saecula saeculorum and at the root of the Tree Arbor mala non potest ferre fructus bonos In these Colledges they counted then 15591. Fellows besides Novices Scholars and others of their Sect amounting to about 100000. To this Catalogue then * Mr. Prynn's Pref. to 2. part of vindic of Fund Libert B. 2. they annex'd no less than 15 secret Colledges and Nurseries where over and above the 4 Colledges of English Jesuits elsewhere in the Province of England 267 Fellows of that Society elsewhere and in Ireland 8 Colledges of Irish Jesuits elsewhere and in Scotland 2 Residencies of Scotish Jesuits what addition is made to the number in these 27 fertile years last past I have not yet seen § 3. The chief who Resides constantly at Rome and animates this great Ignatian Body is the F. Geneneral * Pater Generalis preter quem nullum agnoscunt superiorem L. Luc. Hist l. 1. c. 3. whose Commands are Paramount to all the rest who are they say a staff in his hand For his Council he is attended with a Select number of other Fathers who are for the most part Resident with him called Assistants †Hosp ex Maphaeo fol. 56. Jes Politicks or Adjutants-General four of which are constant Residentiaries with the General of the Ps. Cabal for the four parts of the World these are distinctly denominated from their several Charges relating to Italy Spain France Austria England c. each of which by his office is to inform the F. General or his Secretary of all the occurrences of State in those Provinces or Countries whereof he is Assistant which he doth by his Correspondents wither delegated Emissaries Visitors Regents or Residentiary Provincials in divers Kingdoms and Common-wealths under whom are Rectors of Colledges and Provosts of Houses all which have a despotick power over those in their respective Societies and are straitly enjoyn'd to write once every week to their Provincial and once in three moneths to the General or Congregation of Assistants as the Itinerant preachers and projecting Travellers are also obliged to do the Provincial once every week at least once a moneth to the General or Assistant whose Rescription is at least once in two moneths usually oftner § 4. In these mutual Letters the secrets are written in Characters and mystical terms often transcrib'd to remedy interception loss c. and some of those to the Colledges solemnly read therein and filed * Regul Jes de formula scriâ—endi These subordinate agents are in their several spheres perpetually shuffling up and down to inform themselves in the State Quality Nature and inclinations of Princes taking advantage of all opportunities to advertise the Adjutants general with whom they do respectively correspond of all such accidents they have espyed upon which discovery the Adjutants or Assistants that receive them forthwith disburden themselves to the F. General who thereupon calls the Council then this Court of Assistants do as it were Anatomize the Vniverse * Discovery of Jesuits Politicks in Add. to Mystery of Jesuitism examining comparing and ballancing the Interests concerns and Designs of all the Princes in Christendom Here deliberating thus of the fresh Intelligences received from their several Correspondents weekly collated 't is at last resolv'd the Affairs of such a Prince shall be promoted the designs of another disappointed as they conceive while thus standing by and looking on may make most for their own interest and advantage which they improve the more effectually in that the professed Fathers insinuate themselves to be Confessors to most of the Princes Noblemen and chief Ministers of State under the Papal Jurisdiction whereby they slide into their Secrets and Projects which other Princes by their Ambassadors and Intelligencers cannot find out at no dearer a Rate than Postage of Letters which yet amount 't is said at Rome to 70 80 yea sometimes an 100 Crowns of Gold to one Post or Courier Sect. 4. § 1. Further that we may discern how these Ignatians do wind themselves into the intrigues of States which they would fain have to stoop to their grand Monarchy for the promoting of which they are so highly inflamed ut ab Orbe turbando nullum se vel suum vel suorum periculum absterreri patiantur * Graseri Profat ad Plagas Regias that no hazard of themselves or theirs can deter them from troubling of the world 'T is to be remembred there be four sorts or degrees of them viz. § 2. 1. Secular Persons of both Sexes joyn'd to the company by a Resignation of themselves absolutely to the conduct of the professed Fathers in blind and implicit obedience to what they dictate These usually are Gentlemen and Merchants who immix themselves in Court and City business and as they can into Offices Bargains and Sales or active Gentlewomen and rich Widows who like a Plantation of the Indies bring in to the Society a vast reveneue of Gold and Silver There was indeed a notable upstart Congregation of Jesuitesses for some little time but those Dames growing over malepert were soon put down by the Bull of Pope Vrban VIII who to comprimize the difference in France * Jacob Revii Hist Pontif. when the Jesuits had erased S. German out of the Calendar and substituted their S. Ignatius which incensed others decreed that if they could not stand both together Ignatius should every Leap-year have the intercalar day to himself § 3. A 2d Sort is only of men but checquer'd as well with Priests as the Laity both in a secular way Hermophradites * Lucii Hist not yet tied to a Regular life but by a Recommendation of the Patres Professi creep into Pensions Abbies Benifices being under a Vow to put on their Habit when the F. General Commands and therefore are called Jesuits in voto of which Dequoys tamely feeding unsuspectedly in the Courts and Pallaces of great Princes to impose upon them very much use is made for intelligence especially when they scrue themselves in as Preachers or Counsellors Secretaries or under Secretaries of State yea though but in meaner services as Grooms Butlers Coachmen and the like in the houses of Statesmen and eminent Citizens these explorators or spies who speedily communicate intelligence to their Superiors for the disappointing and betraying of designs when they are least suspected the Jesuitical Monarchy makes much advantage of 'T is to be feared many of this sort are still in disguise amongst us as it seems a Protestant Person of Honor was told at Rome about 1652. by the Assistant of England resident there * Mr. Prynn's Preface to Vindic. of Fund 2. part that at that time there were above 1500. of their Society in England able to manage several Offices and to work in several trades they undertook the better to secure themselves from being discovered one who had been of the gang * Mutatus Polemo p. 10. 11.
the Pope and incurs his displeasure and him an Heretick who any way detects the Jesuits Arts and Stratagems or does not obey them in all things * id 534. Cave sis penna 'T is their Genius to despise Laws saith the Counseller there and in Hungarie Austria Styrria Carinthia c. where Noblemen have been banish'd their seats for not bowing to the Jesuits * id 535. who snarl at the Motion of Peace for Religion as a Dogg at a Stone other Papists saith he have suffer'd more in England and elsewhere for their sakes * id p. 525. And then remembers 3 Their Activity and treacherous dexterity in raising troubles witness saith he there lost Swethland afflicted France tempted Scotland conspiracies in England the tragical end of many Nobles in Germany the troubles in Venice tumults in Moscovie distress'd Hungary oppress'd Styria Carinthia Carniola c. To this purpose 't is argued in that noted Counsel given to the Nobles 1606. for the restoring of peace and ejecting the Jesuits who got strength from the Council of Trent that the putting in execution the Decrees of that Counâ—il was the Fountain of all the Troubles in Europe * id p. 547. Exotiearum Artium spiritum ferunt perferunt and the favouring of the Jesuits the corruption of the Polonian Clergy Upon such an account as this 't is we find another affirming that they at Cracow and Posnania were not more dangerous Jesuits in the Commonwealth than those little FOXES going to and fro as Itinerants through the Craggy Mountains tops of the Alps who bring forth and continually carry about the spirit of new-found ARTS * id p. 553. After this the Jesuits move new controversies in the Vniversity of Cracow 1622. when their Ignatius Xaverius were enroll'd among their Saints which converse most with infernall spirits * The Jesuits Provincial Proctor Val. Ruscow reprotests in June against the Vniversities Protestation unto which Reprotestation they Answer at large replying to their several Paragraphs in many particulars shewing that the Jesuits Reprotestation was a false Libel uttered with Crocodoline tears to no other purpose than as if they design'd to quench a fire by casting on Oil * Id. a. p. 556. ad p. 591. and that they would not be imposed upon by such Delusions to Celebrate their New Saints dayes which with other troubles occasion'd a complaint pressed with four Arguments 1626. unto the Parliament at Warsaw against the Jesuits pernicious Counsels and Practises which ran out also as far as Moscovie where these Ignatians upon Basils death created one Demetrius a Patron of theirs the Great Duke as if he had been Basils ligitimate Son whom they got the King of Powland to assist The Moscovites aware of the Cheat grant him a part of the Dukedom which when he came to possesse they saluted him as he was an Impostor and fell upon him yet he wanting no cunning got again out of Prison and for a time domineer'd but when he was Jovial at his Nuptials the Moscovites acost him in a surly manner and put him with his Polish attendants and many Jesuits to the Sword in his Palace * Id. 552. Hosp f. 202. b. But these tidings of Demetrius being thus slain and the troubles occasioning his death raised in Moscovie the Jesuitical faction in Poland did for some time solicitously labour to suppress and palliate lest the full discovery of the Truth should render their Arts more suspected by the Polanders who otherwise by reason of the Power and insolence of this same Jesuitical faction in the Court did some while grievously tumultuate § 6. We may imagine from what is related that the Jesuits are not less active in playing pranks elsewhere and we may hear they are turbulent even there where Religìo Medici is predominant for the Vniversity of Padua by their delegate Caesar Cremon do complain to the States of Venice of the Innovations and disturbances of the Jesuits under pretext of the Popes Bulls * f. â—78 Luc. Hist p. 631. 634. 1591. Insomuch that the students of Padua cry'd out foras Jesuistae away with the Jesuists which occasion'd the Senate of Venice to decree 23. Decemb. that same year that the Jesuits should read no Lectures unless among themselves and in nothing contradictory to the priviledges of the Vniversity * Id. 637. within a few years after viz. 1605. great Controversies by the Jesuits kindling are raised betwixt the Pope and the Venetians whom because they would not recede from their right upon the Jesuits accusation Paul Vth. excommunicates But May 6. 1606. The Duke Leonard Donat accounts the excommunication only brutum fulmen a beating of the Air without Authority and Law he and the Senate which consists of 180. Senators assert their own Supremacy within their own Jurisdiction decreeing the excommunication Null * p. 638. The Jesuits would in no wise as other Ecclesiasticks did conform to this determination of the State but opposed it and therefore are commanded to depart May 9th Whereupon they insinuate with silly women and get their moneys and so pass away privately by water about two of the clock in the night And to evidence how much the people of Venice detested their enormous practises when their Superior who last of all entred the Barque demanded Benediction of the Patriarchs Vicar the multitude cryed out in their Italian language Ande in mall hora Get ye gone with a Vengeance or in the Devils name But left instruments of founding Mettals and Coyning behind them which F. Possevive wrote from Ferrara were to make their Caps or Baretas and so caused laughter at his Apology Upon their removall they calumniated the Venetians calling the Common-wealth Lutheran and Tyrannical and causing all to succeed ill with the Venetian Ambassador in the Courts of Spain and Poland c. yet this did not affright the Senate who again decreed June 14. 1606. That whereas the Jesuits for the kindness and favors shew'd to them alas 't is their property rendred themselves most ungrateful and injurious to the Common-wealth and continued intolerably troublesome and insolent seeking all occasions to offend the Republick they should never more be received into any of the Venetian Territories nor should this Decree ever be revoked unless upon first having read the whole Process against them in full Senate the States should give suffrage for their Revocation And so unanimous were the Senators in this Decree that it pass'd nemine contradicente upon the scrutiny a part in so great a number there was not found any one dissenting In which also they were well fixed for August 18th They publish another Decree that none under their Jurisdiction should presume to entertain any Jesuits or send their Children to them sub paenà irremissibili under an unpardonable penalty of Proscription * p. 641. Afterwards when the Pope came to terms with the Venetians the Jesuits labour'd might and main to have