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A53900 A letter from the Jesuits in the Savoy to the Jesuits at S. Omers, giving an account of the affairs of England, taken from the priests in the Dover coach, together with 200 guineas R. P. 1688 (1688) Wing P101; ESTC R7611 1,699 1

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A Letter from the Jesuits in the Savoy to the Jesuits at S. Omers giving an Account of the Affairs of England taken from the Priests in the Dover Coach together with 200 Guineas OUR last gave you a full History of what we had done in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth King James King Charles I. and II. for the introducing our Holy Catholick Religion into England and tho our Powder Plot and our Fireing the City of London had not the success we proposed to ourselves yet our late Methods prosper daily so happily that we can now send you the glad Tydings of our perfecting the Grand Design The present Scheme and Model of this our Great Work shews it self in these Parts and Figures I. We have got a great Body of Protestants that cry up a Jus Divinum of our good King Passive Obedience Non-resistence c. so from them we can have no Opposition especially of Blows or Arms and as for their Paper-War we value it no more than Sugar-Plums or a Fart II. We have alwaies in readiness a Herd of Addressers and Flatterers who upon the first notice will thank us for what soever we think fit to declare tho Contradictions and Impossibilities III. We have at hand a Sett of Judges who declare our will and pleasure for Law besides two or three Couples of Bishops who open and hunt all the Game we start IV. We have erected an Ecclesiastical Court of Protestants who never stick to Suspend and Deprive all the Protestants we send them We have got into our Shop the universal Sale of all sorts of Offices and Employments which brings us in all the Money of the Land. V. We have put our Faithful Roman Catholicks into all Places of Trust Civil and Military in all the Three Kingdoms for which we have made them pay well And an Irish Army is coming over to purge the English Army We Closet and Cashier the Protestant Officers as fast as you supply us with Catholick ones from the several Parts of the World to which our Fathers have sent their Circular Letters We are Planting the Two Universities with Catholick Rectors and Seminaries In a word We are Catechising and Threatning all sorts of People both in Church State and Army to comply with our Designs we punish the Refusers and yet for all this we have a strong Party both in City and Country who write and talk up and down of our glorious intention to settle Liberty of Conscience But these our Abettors as Mr. Pen and his Enthusiastick Sectaries have a Mental Reservation in this Case for they mean only the Liberty of our Catholick Consciences to do whatsoever we please with the Laws the Religion the Estates and Lives of the Damnable Heretical Protestants Our Brother Pen and his Disciples have done us signal Services for under a Mask of Gravity of Purity of Manners and Liberty of Conscience they have intangled a great number of busie gadding Women and some dressing and visiting Gentlemen who snuff up the Jesuits Powder as fast as the Ladies swallow their French Sweet-Meats VI. We have pack'd and regulated all the Corporations to our hearts desire in order to have good Parliaments We daily model our English Army and the Militia for our purpose We have Money to bribe all the Protestant Knaves and Wit to cheat the Protestant Fools or in case at any time they prove stubborn we have power to force them for we have a K Judges Bishops L. Lieutenants Justices of the Peace P. Council and Army at our command so the Devil is in it if we miscarry Pray send us over all the Priests you can take together from all Parts of the World we shall want them all for we have not as yet 12000 in this Kingdom and we shall stand in need of above 30000 Regulars and Seculars Ireland and Scotland are our own as secure as England we suppose our Fathers there give you an Account of the Posture of Affairs in those Countries the Scoth and Irish are all Beasts of Burthen born for our Yoke Tyrconnel and Perth those Glorious Patrons of our Cheats and Designs have brought the Natives to Obey without Reserve and the English are already very easie Pads only if we curb them too hard and spur too often they 'll kick and unsaddle us fometimes and afterwards run over to the Dutch who according to our undoubted Advice just now come since we writ the foregoing Lines are preparing to unkennel us and all our Cubs so that we are now hasting to you pray provide us good Dormitories and good Cheer for we have fared very deliciously in England and hate to think of returning to out Cells again Adieu till we see you From our Colledge in the Savoy Septemb. 28 1688. Reverend Fathers your most Affectionate Brethren R. P. T. B. R. S. F. P. F. D.