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A34573	Stafford's memoires, or, A brief and impartial account of the birth and quality, imprisonment, tryal, principles, declaration, comportment, devotion, last speech, and final end, of William, late lord viscount Stafford, beheaded upon Tower-hill on Wednesday the 29. of December 1681 hereunto is also annexed a short appendix concerning some passages in Stephen Colleges trial.	Corker, James Maurus, 1636-1715.	1681 (1681)	Wing C6306; ESTC R20377	92,206	80

and others clearly demonstrating the busie Designs and Activity of the Writers They pressed home the execrable Murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey charged upon the Papists as well by the Oaths of Captain Bedlow and Mr. Prance self-acknowledged Partners in the Assasination as also by a certain Letter sent from London to Tixall intimating the Murder of a Justice of Peace and communicated by Dugdale to divers Gentlemen in Stassordshire the third day after the Murder was committed They displayed to the full view the Sham-Plots and Counter-Contrivances whereby t is said the Papists would have suborned the Kings Evidence and turn'd all their Guilt upon His Majesty 's known and well-experienced Loyal Protestant Subjects They urg'd the firing the City the burning the Navy the calling in French-Armies Wild-Irish Spanish-Pilgrims c. asserted in the several Depositions and Narratives of Dr. Oats Captain Bedlow Mr. Dangerfield c. They recapitulated the several Tryals of Ireland Whitebread Langhorn c. And alledged the Votes of both Houses of Parliament declaring it a Plot. To strengthen all this they ript up the Cruelties of Queen Mary the French and Irish Massacres the Powder-Plot c. They anatomiz'd the wicked Principles from whence spring evil Practices of Murdering Lying Swearing Faith-breaking Equivocating c. imputed to the Papists as held by them lawful and matters of Faith In short nothing was omitted nothing neglected throughout the whole Process But every the least Circumstance enforced and advanced to its full proportion with such vigour of Wit and Industry as sitly corresponded to so great a Cause prosecuted by so high an Authority before so Illustrious Judges and August an Assembly When the Managers themselves had made these efforts to shew the Vniversal Conspiracy as they term'd it they produc'd six Witnesses to the same effect whereby to second and confirm what they had thus in general asserted Mr. Smith's Deposition THe first was Mr. Smith who deposed That going into France he became acquainted with Abbot Montague and one Father Bennet These persons to induce him to be a Catholick told him he should have an Imployment amongst them and that in a few years they would bring in their Religion into England right or wrong But this was not sufficiently prevalent with him to turn Papist yet he lived with them several years That at last he went into Italy where the Jesuits perswaded him to discourse with Cardinal Grimaldi the which he did That the Cardinal made much of him and he it was perverted him to the Romish Religion That upon occasion of shewing him a pair of Hangings this Cardinal told him He had great assurances the Popish Religion would prevail in England That there was but one in the way And that to accomplish their Designs they must take him out of the way That the Jesuits there also publickly preached and privately taught That the King of England being an Heretick whoever took him out of the way would do a meritorious act That after this he studied several years at Rome And that whilst he was in the Colledge he saw several of Coleman's Letters That being made a Priest he was sent into England with instructions to inform the Papists They were not obliged to obey the King but that they should endeavour to promote the Popish Religion That upon his arrival in England he was placed with one Mr. Jenison in the Bishoprick of Durham where his main Imployment was to root out the Jesuits as men ill-principled and to disswade the Papists from sending Moneys to Colledges beyond-seas That one Thomas Smith told him he received a Letter from the Lord Stafford wherein my Lord said He expected some sudden Change Dugdale's Deposition NExt to Mr. Smith was Stephen Dugdale who deposed That for about 15 or 16 years together he had been acquainted by several Letters and other means there was a Design carrying on for the bringing in of the Romish Religion That the Papists were to have Money and Arms ready against the King's Death for he said he heard nothing of killing the King till the year 78. That in October 78. my Lord Aston and others should go to dispose of certain Arms they received to the value of 30000 l. That the King of France was acquainted with all these Designs and that he would furnish the Papists with Men and afford them other Aid and Assistance if the King should die or be taken away That he saw a Letter writ to Mr. Evers for all the Jesuits Letters were returned to him wherein were these words This night Sir Edmundbury Godfrey is dispatch'd That he himself had contributed 500 l. for Arms c. to carry on the Design That about the year 78. there was an Indulgence published at all private Chappels wherein whosoever was active for killing the King should have a free Pardon of all their Sins That he was told at Meetings That the King being an Heretick it was lawful to kill him And that it was no more then to kill a Dog That he had heard That about the time the King should be killed several Parties should be provided with Arms and rise all on a sudden at an hours warning and so come in upon the Protestants and cut their Throats And if any did escape there should be an Army to cut them off in their Flight That he heard the Pope's daily In come was 24000 l. a day And that the same Pope as he thought had promised to contribute in the whole 1000 l. for the raising of Armies and carrying on the above mentioned Design Mr. Prance his Deposition THen Mr. Prance was produced who deposed That one Mr. Singleton a Priest told him He would make no more to stab forty Parliament Men then to eat his dinner which he was then at Dr. Oates his Deposition NExt Doctor Oates gave Evidence That in the year 76 he being then a Protestant and Chaplain in the Duke of Norfolk's Family One Mr. Kemish and one Mr. Singleton Priests advised him to hasten betimes to the Church of Rome for that the Protestant Religion was now upon its last leggs That hereupon having had before some suspicion of the designs of the Papists and growth of Popery to satisfie his curiosity he feigned himself a Convert was seemingly reconciled presently admitted by the Jesuits to do their business entrusted in their secrets and sent by them in April 77 with Treasonable Letters into Spain That e're he arrived at Validolid there were Letters got before him from England wherein was expressed That the King was dispatched which was a cause of great joy to the Fathers there But that this proved a mistake That during his abode in Spain he found the Ministers of that Court were very ready to advance Money which Money was returned into England And that the Provincial of the Jesuits of Castile had also advanced 10000 l. That soon after this he was present at a Sermon Preached

the last Words of a dying Protestant who might but would not live by a false accusation of himself or others may be credited The Papists were innocent of this Murder and the forenamed Witnesses Perjured in their Evidence As for what is objected about a Letter sent from London to Tixall c. It is answered supposing such a Letter was really sent and received That a Letter intimating the Murder of a Justice of the Peace might well be Writ from London on Saturday when Sir Edmundbury Godfrey was known to be missing and arrive at Tixall in Staffordshire by the common Post on Munday following And thereupon Dugdale might tell the news the self same day to divers Gentlemen at Tixall What of all this Where 's the Inference against the Papists Yet this is all some Gentlemen seemed to attest whilst others denyed and all can be necessarily deduced from the receipt of such a Letter But that this Justice of the Peace was Sir Edmundbury Godfrey and that the Papists had Murdred him is proved only by the Common tract of Dugdales peremptory Swearing without any rational motive of credibility Thus much of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey As for the Narratives and from them deduced Stories of Firing the City Burning the Navy Black-Bills Fire-Balls Sham-Plots Wild-Irish Spanish-Pilgrims with other the like innumerable Popperies and known contradictions to wise men though they make a dreadful sound amongst the Mobile yet carry along with them such an excess of Gross and Ridiculous Nonsence that to sober understandings they only serve to demonstrate the Perjury of the Witnesses and need no Confutation in Equitable Courts such as ours are no wise disposed per fas nefas without appearance of Justice to oppress the Innocent And whereas it is alledged as a main Argument of Popish Guilt That the two Houses of Parliament have declared it a Plot and several Persons in several Courts of Judicature have been Tryed Condemned and Executed for it The Papists answer with all due Submission to the Government in defence of Innocence That it is not Impossible nor altogether without President That a Lawful Authority proceeding Secundum allegata Probata should be abused and consequently drawn into a Mistake by the Malice and Perjury of Wicked Men. Those who make it their study and Trade to frame Artificial Lyes and have time assistance and all imaginable encouragement and opportunity for it may easily invent plausible Stories with more coherence then any hitherto devised such as may amuse and deceive the most just and prudent Persons especially in a conjuncture when a transporting Zeal to the Protestant and as Papists say a misconceived prejudice to the Catholick Religion influenceth the Nation Nor have all been Convicted who were Impeached and Tryed upon the Plot but as some have been Condemned so others Impeached upon the same Evidence and in the same Courts of Judicature have been acquitted the wickedness and forgery of the Witnesses detected and their Depositions rejected as unworthy of Credit It is further hoped the Wisdom Justice and Integrity of the State will at length discover the whole Imposture vindicate the Innocent and Punish the Injury herein done to God to the King to the Nation and to almost all Europe To the Instances given of Popish malice and Bloodiness from former examples viz. Queen Mary's Cruelties the Powder Plot the Irish Barbarisme the French Massacre c. committed by Profest Papists It is answered that by the same reason and to as good purpose the Trayterous Seditions and Outrages in Germany France Bohemia and Holland Authorized and Fomented by Calvin Swinglins Beza and other Reformers the late Bloody Wars in England the almost yesterday's Remonstrances and Practices in Scotland The even now actual Rebellion in Hungary raised and managed by Protestants for Protestanizm But above all that never to be paralelled Hellish Murder of the Lords Annointed Our glorious Soveraign Charles the first in cold Blood by outward form of Justice on pretence of Reformation might be imputed to the Protestant Religion For all these now mentioned Horrid Villanies were committed by Protestants Protestants who gloried in being more then ordinarily refined from Popish Errors and Superstitions If it be said as most justly it may the Church of England never taught such Practices the same say and protest the Papists in behalf of their Church But because meer recrimination is no justification on either side And for that a full decision of this heavy charge dependeth much on the right understanding of Roman Catholick Principles in matter of obedience to God and the King We shall treat of this Subject apart by it self when we come to examine the Principles of My Lords Faith and Religion Reflections upon the several above-cited Depositions of Smith Dugdale Oates and Jenison LAstly The above-cited Depositions respectively made by Smith Dugdale Oates and Jenison in proof of the Plot in general are liable also to divers remarkable Exceptions And the Papists stick not here to say they wonder how so many and gross Incongruities and Falshoods attested only by Infamous Men could pass for currunt Truths amongst Persons of Justice Worth and Prudence For instance Smith in his Deposition gives us to understand That being as yet a Protestant but troubled it seems with some doubts in matters of Religion he applyed himself for satisfaction to certain Priests in France They to settle his mind told him They would shortly bring in their Religion into England Right or Wrong a notable argument to convince a well-meaning Protestant But ne●●er this as you may well think nor all the Jesuits could say or do ●ould prevail with him so that he lived and studied with them several years a likely story remaining still a professed Protestant At length the Jesuits desponding as well they might of their own abilities herein sent him to be converted by Cardinal Grimaldi and he it was did the Feat which none of the Priests or Jesuits could compass The Cardinal to remove all Scruples from the tender Conscience of his new Convert and further to convince his Judgment in the truth of his Religion entertained him one day with this Learned and Pious discourse viz. That he had great assurances the Popish Religion would prevail in England and that there was but one in the way and that to accomplish their designs they must take him out of the way Thus the young Man being now well confirmed in his Faith was made a Priest and sent into England with Instructions to teach his Countrey-men They were not obliged to obey their King and that to Murder him was a Meritorious Act. But the misfortune was that arriving in England he quite mistook his Errand And though he continued firm in the belief of the Popish Doctrine and Principles yet made it his whole business to root out the Jesuits the Popes chief Emissaries and disswade Roman Catholicks from sending Moneys to Colledges beyond Seas Dugdale tells us All

to some Students against the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy wherein likewise the Kings Legitimacy was villified and abused and it was declared that his Religion entitled him to nothing but Sudden death and Destruction That returning into England in November following and bringing Letters for Mr. Strange he heard Mr. Keines say in Mr. Strange's Chamber he was mighty sorry for honest Will meaning the Ruffian that was to kill the King that he had missed in his enterprise Here Mr. Oates thought good to tell their Lordships That the Papists were not so Zealous for the destruction of the King till the King had refused Coleman the Dissolving of the long Parliament Then he went on to acquaint them That in December he departed from London to St. Omers loaded with Letters from Strange and others importing the hope they had the next year to effect their Design That being at St. Omers he saw Letters out of Ireland whereby he found that there the Talbots and other persons were very zealous in raising of Forces and resolved to let in the French King That in February several of St. Omers were imployed to several places in Germany and Flanders to fetch and carry correspondences That in March Pickering attempting to kill the King the Flint of his Gun was loose and the King escaped for which Pickering received a Discipline and the other viz. William Groves a Chiding That in April he returned to London And that there was then a Consult held first at the White-horse-Tavern and then afterwards adjourned into particular Clubs where the Confederates did resolve on the Death of the King And that Groves should have 500l for his pains And Pickering being a Religious man should have 30000 Masses That in June he saw more Letters and heard new Proposals wherein a Reward of 15000 l. was offered to Sir George Wakemen for poysoning the King That in July Mr. Strange very frankly told him how London was fired and how many of those concerned were seized and afterwards discharged by the Duke's Guards and Order Mr. Jennison's Deposition AFter Oates Mr. Jennison was called in who deposed That in frequent discourses with Mr. Ireland now Executed he heard him often say That it was necessary for the introducing of Catholick Religion that the Government should be changed And that it was an easie matter to Kill or Poyson the King That he answered God forbid That hereupon Ireland told him he would remit the Twenty pounds he owed him if he would go to Windsor to assist to take off the King But he expressed a great detestation of it Then Ireland desired him to name some Stout Couragious Irish-men proper for the Assasination which he did and Ireland approved of them That he heard one Mr. Thomas Jennison a Jesuit say If C. R. would not be R. C. he should not be long C. R. And that the said Jesuit added If the King were Excontmunicated or Deposed he was no longer King and it was no great Sin to take him off That about two months after the said Jesuit told him there was a Design on foot and that the Queen Duke of York the Lords in the Tower and greatest Papists in England were in It. That there was a new Army to be raised to bring in Catholick Religion And that He the said Jesuit would procure him from the Duke a Commission in it when the King was taken off That he being surprized hereat the Jesuit told him he should receive the Sacrament of Secrecy Mr. Dennis his Deposition THe last Witness was Mr. Dennis who deposed That he saw Dr. Oates in Spain where he seemed to be a man of much business and had a Bag of Money some of which he lent him That the Archbishop of Tuam told him in the presence of Dr. Oates That Mr. Plunket Primate of Ireland was resolved to bring the French Power into Ireland And that there were several Collections of Money made in Ireland to support the Plot. This is the sum of what the six Witnesses deposed to whose Depositions were annexed and produced in Court in order to the same end the sevcral Records of Attainder of Coleman Ireland Whitebread Langhorn c. That of Coleman was read at length and the others deposited on the Clerks Table to be made use of as occasion should serve The Papists Plea to the above-specified Allegations ¶ 2. THus far hath been as I may say Indicted Arraigned and Tryed the Plot in general My Lord Stafford as the Managers declared is not hitherto proved but only supposed a Party in the Conspiracy The Plot in general is directly charged upon the Papists in general and they must answer to the general Indictment wherefore though it be not my Design to defend Popery yet I think it very pertinent and necessary before we enter upon my Lord 's special Charge and Defension to insert here some of those many things the Papists in general often did and still do constantly alledge against the Premisses in vindication of their Innocence If in this I shall be accounted a Papist or Popishly affected it will only be amongst those who love not to see Truth contrary to their Interest not to do Justice though to an Adversary To proceed then The Papists plead That it is not the Clamour of the hainousness and horror of a Crime imputed but the Guilt and clear Couviction of a Crime proved that renders a man accountable to Justice and punishable by the Law That as Treason is the worst of Crimes so is the stain of Innocent Bloud shed by Perjury hard to be washed off That the bare positive Swearing of every person in every matter or manner hand over head is no sufficient Conviction of anothers Guilt for if so it would be in the Power of any six Knights of the Post to kill whomsoever they pleased though never so Innocent and for what they pleased though never so absurd or impossible by meer dint of Affidavit That false Accusations may be so laid as that the contrary cannot possibly be demonstrated by the Party accused seeing no mortal man can distinctly prove where he was and what he did said or heard every day and every hour of his whole Life Wherefore to make justly valid an Accusation against another the Laws of God and Man require First That the Accuser be a Credible Witness that is not tainted with notorious Crimes or Villanies for he that hath lost a sense of moral Honesty hath lost his right to moral Credit and may be indifferently presumed to Swear any thing Secondly That the Accusation be strengthened with probable Circumstances Circumstances which bring along with them some appearance of Truth distinct from the bare Accusation it self for otherwise where the Ballance is equal in point of repute between the Accuser and the Accused it is as presumptive that the one should be guilty of Perjury as the other of the Crimes charged upon him And herein the weaker

fortnights acquaintance and promise of Secrecy my Lord proposed unto him a way whereby as he said he might not only retrieve his credit with his Relations but also make himself an happy Man which way at last my Lord told him in direct terms was To take away the life of the King of England who was an Heretick and consequently a Rebel against God Almighty For circumstantial instances of this Turbervil Swore That he had during that fortnights acquaintance frequent access to my Lord at his Lodgings That when he took leave of him to come for England his Lordship was troubled with the Gout and had his Foot on a Stool That my Lord had appointed him to wait for him at Diepe in order to his coming over with him in a Yacht That accordingly Turbervil went to Diepe but that being there my Lord writ him word he had altered his resolution and would take his Journey by the way of Callice and that he should hasten to attend his Lordship at London That hereupon he came into England but soon after returned again into France because not being willing to undertake my Lord's proposals he was discountenanced by his Friends reduced to poverty And thought himself not safe even amongst his own Relations My Lord's Exceptions TO this deposition my Lord pleaded in his defence That Turbervil had Perjured himself in several parts of this and other his Depositions First Turbervil here Swears my Lord made a Proposal to him in direct terms To take away the Life of the King Now my Lord proved That since the discovery of the Plot The said Turbervil did absolutely Forswear any knowledge he ever had of any design or any Plot whatsoever against the King's Person Life or Government The Witnesses were these John Porter a Protestant attested That Turbervil told him several times He did verily believe neither the Lord Powis nor the rest of the Lords were in the Plot And the Witnesses that Swore against them he believed were all Perjured and could not believe any thing of it Porter Answered If there was such a thing He Turbervil having been beyond Seas must certainly know of it Turbervil reply'd As he hoped for Salvation he knew nothing of it neither directly nor indirectly against the Kings Sacred Person nor Subversion of the Government And he further added Although I am a little low at present and my Friends will not look upon me yet I hope God Almighty will never leave me so much as to let me Swear against Innocent Persons and Forswear and Damn my self Mr. Yalden a Protestant and Barrister at Law attested That he heard Turbervil say in an heat these words viz. God damn me now there is no Trade good but that of a Discoverer But the Devil take the Duke of York Monmouth Plot and all for I know nothing of it To Confront these Testimonies the Mannagers produced one Mr. Powel and Mr. Arnold who deposed That Turbervil told them He had much to say in relation to the Plot but did not name any particulars fearing he said he might be discouraged in it UPon these Testimonies of Mr. Porter and Mr. Yalden The Mannagers made these Observations First It is not probable that Turbervil designing to be a Discoverer should disable himself ever to be so by Swearing Horrid Oaths he knew nothing of the Plot. Secondly The Testimony of Porter and Yalden are opposed by the contrary Testimony of Powel and Arnold To which the Papists answer To the first It is not improbable but very likely that Turbervil as yet not fully resolved to make Shipwrack of his Conscience and Honesty did often protest He knew nothing of the Plot And if the positive attestation of two credible Witnesses may be admitted for good Evidence It is not bare probability but just and solid proof that he did so And by consequence his present Discoveries ought not to be regarded otherwise then as the new and gainful Inventions of a Perjured Man To the second The Testimony of Powel and Arnold hath no manner of weight against my Lord's Evidence but rather compleats the charge of Perjury against Turbervil For it is granted that Turbervil hath said and Swore both to Powel Arnold and the whole House of Parliament He knew much of the Plot. But this being directly contradictory to the dreadful Oaths here attested by Porter and Yalden and no wise denyed by Powel and Arnold It followeth by the Testimony of all the four Witnesses that Turbervil is guilty of Perjury SEcondly Turbervil Swears That during the Fortnights acquaintance with my Lord at Paris he had by means of the Priests frequent access to him at his Lodgings there Now my Lord's Gentleman and Page who both then constantly waited on him attested They never once saw Turbervil there And Turbervil himself acknowledged in Court He knew them not To qualify this Evidence Thomas Mort was called who deposed That he being at Paris and desirous to return into England Turbervil told him his Brother the Monk had introduced him into the savour of a Lord by which means they might both of them have the convenience of passage in a Yacht which staid for my Lord at Diep That hereupon they went to Diep but finding no Yacht there Turbervil told him If they went to Calis they might go over with my Lord from thence in the Yacht At last they light on a Fisher-Boat at Diep and so came over in it But that this forementioned Lord was my Lord Stafford or that he ever saw Turbervil in my Lord's Lodgings or Company at Paris or else-where he could not say UPon these Testimonies the Mannagers made this Observation v●z The Priests had such a transcendent Insluence over my Lord as might gain admittance for any whom they pleased not only into my Lord's House but also into my Lord's Heart without the privity or knowledge of his Servants Now it plainly appears by the attestation of Mort that Turbervil through his Brother the Monk's means was become my Lord's Favourite To which the Papists answer It is not proved either that the Priests had such a Transcendent Influence over my Lord's House and Heart or that Turbervil through their means became a Favourite Mort indeed tells us Turbervil told him His Brother the Monk had Introduced him into the Favour of a Lord And this Favour only to come over with him in a Yacht For the Truth of which also he had only Turbervil's word and the thing it self never performed Must we from hence infer my Lord had given his Heart to the Priests and they had Introduced Turbervil into it A strange Inference But let it be granted my Lord had a real Friendship and Kindness for the Monks what then How is it proved they imployed their Interest with him in Trayterous Designs Why Turbervil Swears it Thus one Forgery is made use of to support another and nothing but proofless Fictions to make all out Yet to

Christian Mysteries and Duties respectively necessary to Salvation 8. This Church thus Spread thus Guided thus visibly Continued in One Vniform Faith and Subordination of Government is that Self-same which is termed the Roman Catholick Church The Qualifications above-mentioned viz. Vnity Indeficiency Visibility Succession and Vniversality being applicable to no other Church or Assembly whatsoever 9. From the Testimony and Authority of This Church it is that We Receive and Believe the Scriptures to be God's Word And as She can assuredly tell Us This or That Book is God's Word so can she with the like Assurance tell us also the True Sense and Meaning of it in Controverted Points of Faith The same Spirit that Writ the Scripture Enlightning Her to Understand both It and all Matters Necessary to Salvation From These Grounds it Follows 10. All and only Divine Revelations deliver'd by God unto the Church and proposed by Her to be Believ'd as such are and ought to be esteem'd Articles of Faith and the contraty Opinions Heresie And 11. As an Obstinate Separation from the Vnity of the Church in known declared Matters of Faith is formal Heresie So a wilful Separation from the Visible Vnity of the same Church in Matters of Subordination and Government is formal Schism 12. The Church proposeth unto Us Matters of Faith First and chiefly By the Holy Scripture in Points plain and Intelligible in it Secondly By Definitions of General Councils in Points not sufficiently Explained in Scripture Thirdly By Apostolical Traditions deriv'd from Christ and his Apostles to all Succeeding Ages Fourthly By her Practice Worship and Ceremonies Confirming her Doctrines PARAGRAPH II. Of Spiritual and Temporal Authority 1. GEneral Councils which are the Church of God Representative have no Commission from Christ to Frame New Matters of Faith these being sole Divine Revelations but only to explain and ascertain unto us what antiently was and is received and retained as of Faith in the Church upon arising Debates and Controversies about them The Definitions of which General Councils in matters of Faith only and proposed in such oblige under pain of Heresie all the Faithful to a Submission of Judgment But 2. It is no Article of Faith to believe That General Councils cannot Err either in matters of Fact or Discipline alterable by circumstances of time and place or in matters of Speculation or Civil Policy depending on meer humane Judgment or Testimony Neither of these being Divine Revelations deposited in the Catholick Church in regard to which alone she hath the promised Assistance of the Holy Ghost Hence it is deduced 3. If a General Council much less a Papal Consistory should undertake to depose a King and absolve his Subjects from their Allegiance no Catholick as Catholick is bound to submit to such a Decree Hence also it followeth 4. The Subjects of the King of England lawfully may without the least breach of any Catholick Principle Renounce even upon Oath the Teaching Mantaining or Practising the Doctrine of deposing Kings Excommunicated for Heresie by any Authority whatsoever as Repugnant to the fundamental Laws of the Nation Injurious to Soveraign Power Destructive to the Peace and Government and by consequence in His Majesties Subjects Impious and Damnable Yet not properly Heretical taking the Word Heretical in that connatural genuine sense it is usually understood in the Catholik Church on account of which and other Expressions no wise appertaining to Loyalty it is that Catholicks of tender Consciences refuse the Oath commonly call d the Oath of Allegience 5. Catholicks believe That the Bishop of Rome is the Successor of St Peter Vicar of Jesns Christ upon Earth and Head of the whole Catholick Church which Church is therefore sitly stiled Roman Catholick being an universal Body united under one visible Head Nevertheless 6. It is no matter of Faith to believe That the Pope is in himself Infallible seperate from a General Council even in Expounding the Faith By consequence Papal Definitions or Decrees though ex Cathedra as they term them taken exclusively from a General Council or Vniversal Acceptance of the Church oblige none under Pain of Heresie to an interior Assent 7. Nor do Catholicks as Catholicks believe that the Pope hath any direct or indirect Authority over the Temporal Power and Jurisdiction of Princes Hence if the Pope should pretend to Absolve or Dispence with His Maiesties Subjects from their Allegiance upon account of Heresie or Schism such Dispensation would be vain and null and all Cathelick Subjects notwithstanding such Dispensation or Absolution would be still bound in Conscience to defend their King and Countrey at the hazard of their Lives and Fortunes even against the Pope himself in case he should invade the Nation 8. And as for Problematical Disputes or Errors of particular Divines in this or any other matter whatsoever the Catholick Church is no wise responsible for them Nor are Catholicks as Catholicks justly punishable on their Account But 9. As for the King Killing Doctrine or Murder of Princes Excommunicated for Heresie It is an Article of Faith in the Catholick Church and expresly declared in the General Council of Constance That such Doctrine is Damnable and Heretical being contrary to the known Laws of God and Nature 10. Personal Misdemeanors of what Nature soever ought not to be Imputed to the Catholick Church when not Justifyable 〈◊〉 the Tenents of her Faith and Doctrine For which Reason though the Stories of the Paris Massacre the Irish Cruelties Or Powder-Plot had been exactly true which yet for the most part are Notoriously mis-related nevertheless Catholicks as Catholicks ought not to Suffer for such Offences any more then the Eleven Apostles ought to have Suffered for Judas's Treachery It is an Article of the Catholick Faith to believe that no Power on Earth can License Men to Lye to Forswear and Perjure themselves to Massacre their Neighbours or destroy their Native Countrey on pretence of promoting the Catholick Cause or Religion Furthermore all Pardons and Dispensations granted or pretended to be granted in order to any such ends or Designs have no other validity or Effect then to add Sacriledge and Blasphemy to the above-mentioned Crimes 12. The Doctrine of Equivocation or Mental Reservation however wrongfully Imposed on the Catholick Religion is notwithstanding neither taught nor approved by the Church as any part of her Belief On the contrary Simplicity and Godly Sincerity are constantly recommended by her as truly Christian Vertues necessary to the Conservation of Justice Truth and Common Society PARAGRAPH III. Of some Particular controverted Points of Faith 1. EVery Catholick is obliged to believe that when a Sinner Repenteth him of his Sins from the bottom of his Heart and Acknowledgeth his Transgressions to God and his Ministers the Dispensers of the Mysteries of Christ