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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

Treason against the King Kingdom and Protestant Religion and to raise the Scotish Wars written in Latin Most Illustrious and Reverend Lord WE have willingly and cordially perceived that our offers have been acceptable both to his Royal Majesty and likewise to your Grace This is the only Index to us That the blessing of God is present with you whereby a spur is given that we should so much the more chearfully and freely utter and detest those things whereby the hazard of both your lives the subversion of the Realm and State both of England and Scotland the tumbling down of his Excellent Majesty from his Throne is intended Now lest the discourse should be enlarged with superfluous circumstances we will only premise some things which are meerly necessary to the business You may first of all know that this good man by whom the ensuing things are detected was born and bred in the Popish Religion who spent many years in Ecclesiastical dignities At length being found fit for the expedition of the present Design by the counsel and mandate of the Lord Cardinal Barbarini he was adjoyned to the assistance of Master Cuneus Con by whom he was found so diligent and sedulous in his Office that hope of great promotion was given to him Yet he led by the instinct of the good Spirit hath howsoever it be contemned sweet promises and having known the vanities of the Pontifician Religion of which he had sometime been a most severe defender having likewise noted the malice of those who fight under the Popish banner felt his Conscience to be burdened which burden that he might ease himself of he converted his mind to the Orthodox Religion Soon after that he might exonerate his Conscience he thought fit that a desperate Treason machinated against so many souls was to be revealed and that he should receive ease if he vented such things in the bosom of a friend which done he was seriously admonished by the said friend that he should shew an example of his conversion and charity and free so many innocent souls from imminent danger To whose monitions he willingly consented and delivered the following things to be put in writing out of which the Articles not long since tendered to your Grace may be clearly explicated and demonstrated 1. First of all that the hinge of the business may be rightly discerned it is to be known that all those factions with which Christendom is at this day shaken do arise from the Jesuitical Off-spring of Cham of which four Orders abound throughout the World Of the first Order are Ecclesiasticks whose Office it is to take care of things promoting Religion Of the second Order are Politicians whose Office it is by any means to shake trouble and reform the state of Kingdoms and Republicks Of the third Order are Seculars whose property it is to obtrude themselves into Offices with Kings and Princes to insinuate and immix themselves in Court businesses bargains and sales and to be busied in civil affairs Of the fourth Order are Intelligencers or Spies men of inferiour condition who submit themselves to the services of great men Princes Barons Noble-men Citizens to deceive or corrupt the minds of their masters 2. A Society of so many Orders the Kingdom of England nourisheth for scarce all Spain France and Italy can yield so great a multitude of Jesuits as London alone where are found more than 50 Scotish Jesuits There the said society hath elected to it self a Seat of iniquity and hath conspired against the King and the most faithful to the King especially the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and likewise against both Kingdoms 3. For it is more certain than certainty it self that the forenamed society hath determined to effect an universal reformation of the Kingdom of England and Scotland Therefore the determination of the end necessarily infers a determination of means to the end 4. Therefore to promote the undertaken Villany the said society dubbed it self with the Title of The Congregation of propagating the Faith which acknowledgeth the Pope of Rome the Head of the College and Cardinal Barbarini his substitute and Executor 5. The chief Patron of the society at London is the Popes Legat who takes care of the business into whose bosom these dregs of Traytors weekly deposite all their Intelligences Now the residence of this Legation was obtained at London in the name of the Roman Pontiff by whose mediation it might be lawful for Cardinal Barbarini to work so much the more easily and safely upon the King and Kingdom For none else could so freely circumvent the King as he who should be palliated with the Popes Authority 6. Master Cuneus did at that time enjoy the Office of the Popes Legat an Universal Instrument of the conjured society and a serious Promoter of the business whose secrets as likewise those of all other Intelligencers the present good man the Communicator of all these things did revive and expedite whither the business required Cuneus set upon the chief men of the Kingdom and left nothing unattempted by what means he might corrupt them all and incline them to the pontifician party he inticed many with various incitements yea he sought to delude the King himself with gifts of Pictures Antiquities idols and of other vanities brought from Rome which yet would prevail nothing with the King Having entred familiarity with the King he is often requested at Hampton Court likewise at London to undertake the Cause of the Palatine and that he would interpose his Authority and by his intercession perswade the Legat of Colen that the Palatine in the next Diet to treat of peace might be inserted into the Conditions which verily he promised but performed the contrary He writ indeed that he had been so desired by the King concerning such things yet he advised that they should not be consented to lest peradventure it might be said by the Spaniard that the Pope of Rome had patronized an heretical Prince In the mean time Cuneus smelling from the Archbishop most trusty to the King that the Kings mind was wholly pendulous or doubtful Resolved That he would move every stone and apply his forces that he might gain him to his party Certainly confiding that he had a means prepared For he had a command to offer a Cardinals Cap to the Lord Archbishop in the name of the Pope of Rome and that he should allure him also with higher promises that he might corrupt his sincere mind Yet a fitting occasion was never given whereby he might insinuate himself into the Lord Archbishop Free access was to be gained by the Earl and Countess of A likewise Secretary W The intercession of all which being neglected he did flie the company or familiarity of Cuneus worse than the plague He was likewise perswaded by others of no mean rank well known to him neither yet was he moved 7. Another also was assayed who hindred access to the detestable wickedness Secretary Cook he was a

most bitter hater of the Jesuits whom he intercepted from acces to the King he entertained many of them according to their deserts he diligently enquired into their factions by which means every incitement breathing a magnetical attractive power to the Popish party was ineffectual with him for nothing was so dear unto him that might incline him to wickedness Hereupon being made odious to the Patrons of the Conspiracy he was endangered to be discharged from his Office it was laboured for three years space and at last obtained Yet notwithstanding there remained on the Kings part a knot hard to be untied for the Lord Arch-Bishop by his constancy interposed himself as a most hard rock When Cuneus had understood from the Lord Arch-Bishops part that he had laboured in vain his malice and the whole Societies waxed boyling hot soon after ambushes began to be prepared wherewith the Lord Arch-Bishop together with the King should be taken Likewise a sentence is passed against the King for whose sake all this business is disposed because nothing is hoped from him which might seem to promote the Popish Religion but especially when he had opened his mind that he was of this opinion That every one might be saved in his own Religion so as he be an honest and pious man 8. To perpetrate the Treason undertaken the criminal Execution at Westminster caused by some Writings of Puritans gave occasion of the first Fire which thing was so much exasperated and exaggerated by the Papists to the Puritans that if it remained unrevenged it would be thought a blemish to their Religion The Flames of which Fire the Scotch Book of Prayers increases occasioned by it's alterations 9. In this heat a certain Scotish Earl called Maxfield if I mistake not was expedited to the Scots by the Popish Party with whom two other Scotish Earls Papists held correspondency He was to stir up the People to Commotion and rub over the injury afresh that he might enflame their minds precipitate them to Arms by which the hurtful disturber of the Scotish Liberty might be slain 10. By this one labour snares are prepared for the King for this purpose the present business was so ordered That very many of the English should adhere to the Scots That the King should remain inferiour in Arms who thereupon should be compelled to crave assistance from the Papists which yet he should not obtain unless he would descend unto conditions by which he should permit Universal liberty of the exercise of the Popish Religion for so the affairs of the Papists would succeed according to their desire To which consent if he should shew himself more difficult there should be a present remedy at hand The King is to be dispatched For an Indian Nut stuffed with most sharp Poyson is kept in the Society which Cuneus at that time shewed often to me in a boasting manner wherein a Poyson was prepared for the King after the Example of his Father 11. In this Scottish Commotion the Marquess of Hamilton often dispatched to the Scots in the Name of the King to interpose the Royal Authority whereby the heat of minds might be mittigated returned notwithstanding as often without fruit and without ending the Business His Chaplain at that time repaired to us who communicated some things secretly with Cuneus Being demanded of me in jest Whether also the Jews agreed with the Samaritans Cuneus thereunto answered Would to God all Ministers were such as he What you will may be hence conjectured 12. Things standing thus there arrived at London from Cardinal Richelieu Mr. Thomas Chamberlaine his Chaplain and Almoner a Scot by Nation who was to assist the College of the confederate Society and seriously to set forward the Business to leave nothing unattempted whereby the first heat might be exasperated For which service he was promised the reward of a Bishoprick He cohabited with the Society four Months space neither was it lawful for him first to depart until things succeeding according to his wish he might be able to return back again with good news 13. Sir Toby Matthew a Jesuited Priest of the Order of Politicians a most vigilant man of the chief heads to whom a Bed was never so dear that he would rest his head thereon refreshing his Body with sleep in a Chair for an hour or two neither day nor night spared his Machinations a Man principally noxious and himself the Plague of the King and Kingdom of England a most impudent man who flies to all Banquets and Feasts called or not called never quiet always in action and perpetual motion thrusting himself into all Conversations of Superiours he urgeth Conferences familiarly that he may fish out the minds of Men What ever he observeth thence which may bring any commodity or discommodity to the part of the Conspirators he communicates to the Pope's Legat the more secret things he himself writes to the Pope or to Cardinal Barbarini In sum he adjoins himself to any mans company no word can be spoken that he will not lay hold on and accommodate to his Party In the mean time whatever he hath fished out he reduceth into a Catalogue and every Summer carrieth it to the general Consistory of the Jesuits Politicks which secretly meets together in the Province of Wales where he is an acceptable guest There Counsels are secretly hammered which are most meet for the Convulsion of the Ecclesiastic and Politic Estate of both Kingdoms 14. Captain Read a Scot dwelling in Long-acre-street near the Angel Tavern a secular Jesuit who for his detestable office performed whereby he had perverted a certain Minister of the Church with secret incitements to the Popisn Religion with all his Family taking his Daughter to Wife for a recompence obtained a Rent or Impost upon Butter which the Country People are bound to render to him procured for him by some chief men of the Society who never want a spur whereby he may be constantly detained in his Office In his House the business of the whole Plot is concluded where the Society which hath conspired against the King the Lord Arch-Bishop and both Kingdoms meet together for the most part every day But on the day of the Carriers or Posts dispatch which is ordinarily Friday they meet in greater numbers for then all the Intelligencers assemble and confer in common what things every of them hath fished out that Week who that they may be without suspition send their secrets by Sir Toby Matthew or Read himself to the Pope's Legat he transmits the compacted Packet which he hath purchased from the Intelligencers to Rome With the same Read the Letters brought from Rome are deposired under fained Titles and Names and by him are delivered to all to whom they appertain For all and every of their Names are known to him Upon the very same occasion Letters also are brought hither under the covert of Father Philip he notwithstanding being ignorant of things from whom they are distributed

whole Body of their Clergy and to them declare how Affairs stood The elder sort take part with the Commonwealth and maintain the Argument against the Pope in writing among whom Paulus Venetus was most eminently Signal The Jesuits not enduring the kneeness of his Reasons hire two Ruffians and upon the fifth of October 1607. set them to assassinate Paulus Venetus who thinking they had done his work left him for dead and fled away This was something near Sir Edmundbury Godfreys Case The Senate hearing this by a new Law banish the Jesuits for ever out of their Territories and cut them off from all hope of ever returning And this was their Fortune in Venice In the year 1609. the Bohemians made a Complaint to the Emperour against the Jesuits for the same Encroachments of which the Venetians had accused them before desiring of Caesar that they might no longer be permitted to transfer and translate into their own possession such ample Patrimonies under pretence of Donations and Legacies as they did continually Of which when the Emperour took little notice they were by the Bohemian States themselves in the year 1618. utterly expelled out of that Nation for ever with these Characters 1. That they were lavish Wasters of the Public Peace and Tranquility of the Nation 2. That they endeavour'd to subject all Kingdoms and Nations to the Power of the Pope 3. That they did nothing but set the Magistrates together by the Ears 4. That they made particular Advantage of Confessions to the destruction of the people with many other Crimes of the same nature The same year they were expell'd out of Moravia for the same Reasons and the next year out of Hungaria for the same Causes In Silesia also a Decree was made That the Jesuits should not enter that Province upon pain of Death as being the onely means to preserve peace in the Nation As to other Villanies in Poland a Polonian Knight himself a Papist in an Oration by him made in a full Assembly of the Polonian Nobility declares That Cracow the most Famous City of Poland and Ornament of the Kingdom was so plagu'd by the Jesuits that several good men though Catholicks affirmed That they would rather live in the Woods among wild Beasts than abide in the City One time among the rest these Jesuits having brought their Conspiracy to perfection brake into the most ancient Monument of Antiquity in the City and to the great danger of the whole City set it on Fire as being granted to the Evangelics by Consent of the King and States of the Kingdom In Posnania another great City of the same Kingdom they set Fire on the Church belonging to those of the Augustan Confession and committed so many Insolencies without Controul that the Nobility refus'd to meet at the Dyet shortly after to be held at Warsaw resolving to repair further off to Lublin for the redress of these Misdemeanours Neither indeed was there any thing more grievously burdensom to that Kingdom than the Pride and Avarice of those Miscreants In Muscovy upon the Death of the Great Duke Basilowich the Jesuits set up one Demetrius against the lawful Heir who had made them large Promises if he obtain'd the Dukedom Thereupon by the help of these Jesuits the said Demetrius gets Aid from the King of Poland which was not onely the Occasion of a great War in Muscovy but had like to have cost them the Alteration of their Laws and loss of their ancient Customs and Priviledges had they not prevented it by a desperate Attempt upon the Impostor and put him to Death surrounded with Impostors and Jesuits The Transilvanians publicly and with one Consent laid all the Cause of their Miseries and Calamities upon the Subtilties and Contrivances of the Jesuits for which reason by a Public Decree of the States of that Province they were Ejected out of the limits of their Territories Nevertheless they secretly fomented the Ruin of that Country and were the reason that Sigismund Bathor involv'd himself in War and Trouble and at length died an inglorious and miserable Death By their Contrivance also Stephen Potski Prince of Transilvania opposing their Bloody Sect was put out of the way as they call it by Poyson in the year 1607. In Styria and Carinthia Provinces of Germany they never left till they had voided those Provinces of all the Inhabitants of the Reformed Religion In Holland they never left till they saw the Blood of William Prince of Orange spilt by the trayterous Hand of Balthasar Gerard a Burgundian and Disciple of their own The same Attempts did Peter de Tour and other Ruffians make upon the person of Maurice his Son a brave and Martial Prince and all at the Instigation of the Jesuits those Insatiable Sons of BLOOD and PERDITION A VINDICATION OF THE Dissenting Protestants From being Authors of the REBELLION against the late KING and Plotters of Treason against His MAJESTY now Reigning SEeing then no Corner of Europe has been free from the Plots and Conspiracies of these Jesuitical Fiends it would be a kind of Crime and sleepy Desertion of our own Safety to suffer our selves to be charm'd by the Delusions of insinuating Libels and Rumors of Presbyterian Plots to mistrust the Truth of the continu'd Jesuitical Contrivances against the Kingdom Neither can they be thought the best Subjects of England who are so willing to Gratifie the Popish Party by giving Credence to such idle Surmizes which they can have so little ground to believe The Jesuits have committed a great piece of Villany in this Nation they have attempted the Life of the King and have been Plotting to subvert the Established Religion of the Kingdom and now they would throw it upon the Presbyterians Which is a Fourbery so plain that common Sense and Policy may easily discover the full intent and meaning of it And therefore it is fairly to be hop'd that neither Presbyterians nor any other Protestant Dissenters will be so Unchristian-like Disloyal as to receive any Exasperation from these Calumnies but rather unite against the Common Enemy from whom they can expect no more Mercy than the severest Champion of Episcopacy can hope for But you will say the Presbyterians are not accus'd of any Design to bring in Popery but miraculously discover'd as the Authors of a Plot to set up the Classes of their own Ecclesiastical Government Well! if it were so they were the arrantest Bunglers of Plotters that ever plotted Mischief in this World For I do not find their Plot to be above a years standing And it was a Plot that was driven on out of pure Kindness to the Papists For the Presbyterians understanding that the Papists their Incarnate Enemies were under a Premunire as being accused of Treason and Conspiracy against the KING and Kingdom They therefore would needs enter into a Plot which they would so order as to be discover'd a Twelve-month after to ease the Papists of the Load they groan'd under So

Confederates againsh his Life and Royal Family Thereupon there was a Court of Justice erected wherein the Admiral was Condemn'd and after they had murder'd him Executed again in Effigies his Goods Confiscated and his Children degraded And the better to colour this two poor innocent Gentlemen that had escaped the Massacre were apprehended for saving their Lives Briquemaut and Arnaud de Covagnes as his Accomplices condemn'd to the same punishment and executed accordingly Thus what these did our late Plotters would have done We may then say to all Protestants in general Felices Agricole sua si bona norint Happy would they be would they but know their own strength Would they but make the right use of these wicked Contrivances of their Enemies and laying aside all froward Puuctilio's of private Opinions joyn unanimously against the common Adversary For if it be a Maxim falsly argu'd against that Peace and Diversity of Religions cannot be preserved in the same Nation as the Ambassadors of the Germane Princes urg'd to Charles the Ninth of France much more truly may it be said that little matters of difference between persons of the same Religion can be no impediment to their Union and Conformity But further to clear the Dissenting Protestants I shall here add a perfect Narration of the Management and Contrivance of the Jesuits to render the greater part of the principal Men in this Kingdom as well those of the Church of England as the Dissenters obnoxious to the Government thereby utterly to ruin them and the Protestant Religion which Design God of his infinite Goodness has been pleased to bring to Confusion and the Instruments thereof through the same Divine Providence we hope shortly to see brought to Condign Punishment A Compleat HISTORY OF THE LAST PLOT OF THE PAPISTS UPON THE Dissenting Protestants THe late PLOT of the Romish Priests and Jesuits for murdering His Majesty subverting the Government and Protestant Religion and introducing Popery being proved by undeniable Evidences and Circumstances the cunning Jesuits thought it their best way since peoples Eyes were too open to be made believe there was no PLOT to confess there was a Plot and to aggravate it too but withal to use their utmost skill to prove That this Plot was not a Popish-Plot as was generally believed but a pure Design of the Presbyterians and other Dissenters from the Protestant Church of England to ruin the Loyal Roman Chatholiques whilst indeed themselves were the Conspirators who whereas they gave out that the Papists intended by murdering the King c. to bring in Popery really intended by killing His Majesty to Introduce Presbytery and a Commonwealth and so at one Blow subvert the Government both in Church and State and then to set up a new one of their own under the Name of Conservators of the Liberties of England And for this purpose they had secretly given out Commissions for raising an Army the principal Officers whereof were such Persons who seemed to have the greatest share in the Peoples Affections This Design being agreed to by these Hellish Miscreants all possible Diligence was used to bring it to Execution and for this purpose they drew up the Scheme of a Government they intended to Impeach several of the truly Loyal Nobility and Gentry and the whole Body of Dissenting Protestants of conspiring This being done they began to form Letters of Intelligence concerning this Presbyterian Plot and also to provide themselves with Persons to Swear for the Truth of their Allegations To this end Mrs. Cellier a zealous Papist and Midwife to the Lady Powis and other Roman Catholic Ladies procures the Enlargement of one Wiltoughby aliàs Dangerfield aliàs Thomas aliàs Day who had been a Prisoner in Newgate about six Weeks and had been Convicted once at Salisbury Assizes where he was fined Five pounds and sentenced to stand Three several times in the Pillory which he did twice and then brake Prison and escaped and twice at the Old Bailey for uttering false Guineys where for the first Offence he was fined Fifty pounds and for the second he got His Majesties Pardon He was no sooner released from Newgate but he was Arrested and thrown into the Counter from whence by the means of Bannister and Scarlet she got him removed to the King's-Bench where after some fruitless attempts to get some Papers relating to Captain Bedlow from one Strode a Prisoner there he was furnished with Money by the five Lords in the Tower viz. the Lord Bellasis the Lord Powis the Lord Petre the Lord Arundel and the Lord Stafford Mrs. Cellier also giving him 5 l. to Compound all his Debts c. Before Mrs. Cellier would discharge him from Newgate she made tryal of his Wit by ordering him to draw up Articles according as she directed against Captain Richardson which he perform'd to her liking and confirm'd her in the Choice she had made of his being a fit person to carry on the Designed Plot. The general Esteem the Conspirators had of him is evident by the Trust they reposed in him for though they had several Others to carry on their New Plot yet he appears to have the chief Management of it Being now sufficiently provided with Instruments to execute their Damnable Designs this Dangerfield was recommended to His Majesty by a Great Person as one who was much concerned in a Plot of the Presbyterians against His Life and Government and that from time to time he would make discovery thereof Thus they endeavoured to insinuate into His Majesties Mind a belief of the Plot that he might not be surpriz'd at the Discovery they intended to make Another of the intended Actors in this Tragedy was Thomas Courtees once a Clerk to Sir William Bucknal one of the Excise Farmers then a Servant to Mr. Henry Nevil and after to a worthy Member of Parliament from whose Service he fell into a lewd course of life But being thought a Man fit for the Design in hand he was entertained for one of the Witnesses This Person was very industrious in promoting a Belief of this Presbyterian Plot for being well acquainted with Mrs. Bradley who keeps the House called Heaven in Old Palace-Yard and there being a Club of several honest Gentlemen kept at her House he desired her to bring him into their Company which she promised to endeavour Discoursing with her about the late Plot he told her that it would shortly appear to be a Plot of the Presbyterians and that they were privately giving out Commissions for raising an Army Whereupon she demanded who gave out the Commissions to which he replyed it was Mr. Blood and added further That if she would use her Interest with Mr. Blood to get a Commission for him though it were but for an Ensign he would give her 100 l. and told her also that he should get 5000 l. by it Mrs. Bradley told this to Mr. Blood who fearing the Consequence acquainted His Majesty therewith and from Him received Encouragement to