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A56219	A true and perfect narrative of what was acted, spoken by Mr. Prynne, other formerly and freshly secluded members, the army-officers, and some now sitting in the lobby, house, elsewhere, the 7th. and 9th. of May last ... by William Prynne, Esq. ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P4112; ESTC R19484	104,478	113

motives of it were a vast sum of mony from the Dutch put into his private purse as some report or a desire to ecclipse the Honour power of the Prince of Orange their chief Protector and his Family to banish the late Kings Royal posterity and Adherents out of the Netherlands and leave them no subsistance nor being there amongst Protestants of our and their Religion to force them to seek new Quarters amongst Iesuites Papists and cast themselves wholy on their Charity on purpose to pervert them in their Religion and destroy both their Souls Bodies at once which is visible and irre●ragable they being all actually exiled thence by special Articles upon the peace with the Dutch What Protestant can think upon it but with horror as the highest Act of Impiety cruelty barbarisme injustice uncharitablenesse and malice ever yet recorded of any professors of Christianity in the Protestant Religion 2ly His quarrelling with the King of Spain in hopes to gain his Indian Mines and sending such a Fleet with so many thousand English Protestants and Souldiers thither upon the bare project of Gage a Iesuited professed Papist and Spainiolized Priest who had lived there sundry years under the Spanish King as a Priest all whose family and relations have been desperate popish enemies to our Religion King Kingdoms with the disasterous successe and fruits thereof to the expence of such vast sums of our own Treasure the loss of so manie thousand protestant Souldiers Mariners and undoing endangering of our other American plantations if rightly weighed was in truth rather a Spanish and Iesuitish plot to ruine us and our religion than to advance them as Mr. Prynne at first reputed them predicting the ill event before it happened 3ly His closing with France and the French-Cardinal Mazarine upon the breach with Spain of purpose to banish poor distressed K. Charles whom he drove out his 3 Protestant Kingdoms banished out of Holland deprived of all charitable supplies or hopes of relief from either for his necessarie subsistance and banish his Brother the Duke of York who had a command great repute in the French Army with all their Dependents out of France too that he might the more securely establish himself and his posterity in their hereditarie Kingly power dominions and leave them no place to hide their heads in the effect and chief end of that peace and that in pursuit of Cardinal Richelieus forementioned Instructions to ruine our Monarchy Kingdoms and work his infernal designs against us was such an inhumane unchristian policy as verie ill accords with our Saviours expresse precepts Mat. 5.44 c. Lu. 6.27 c. Rom. 12.20 21. But I say unto you love your Enemies Therefore if thy Enemie hunger feed him if he thirst give him drink Be not overcome of evil but overcome evil with goodnesse And a President hardlie paralleld Ala● how shall the memorable Heroick charity generosity pietie justice of our Norman Conqueror King William censured by this new Conqueror and his Army Saints as the worst of Tyrants in sundry Pamphlets and of his Sons William Rufus and Henry 1. towards Edgar Atheling Heir to the English Crown after the death of Edward the Confessor when hee took it from him by the Sword under pretext of King Edwards last Will and being next Heir to him in blood not as a Conquerour by war Who though after his Oath of Homage Fealty and Subjection to William twice set up as Heir to the Crown by the English Nobility in opposition to him twice routed by him in the Field driven into Scotland and quite left destitute of forces friends and supplyes to gain the Crown yet upon his repair to him in Normandy without any precedent Articles for his securitie Anno 1069. he not only pardoned his former insurrections but gave him a large gratuity entertained and lodged him in his own Court divers years allowing him a pound of Silver for his honourable maintenance everie day a great sum in that Age After which when he desired to go into Apulia to the holie wars Anno 1089. he furnished him with many Ships and 200 Souldiers whence he returning after the losse of Robert his chief Commander and best men though the Emperours of Greece and Germany whom he visited in his recesse thence honourably received and profered to entertain and maintain him in their Courts according to the greatnesse of his birth all his life time yet he contemning to their proffers out of a desire to enjoy his native Country returned into England where he was courteously entertained by William the Conqueror as before till his death After which Edgar fiding with Robert Duke of Normandy his eldest Son against William Rufus the younger he thereupon Anno 1091. deprived him of all the honours conferred on him by Robert and banished him out of Normandy into Scotland But afterwards upon the accord between the 2 Brothers touching the Crown and peace with Scotland he was reconciled to King Rufus and returned into England where he lived securely without the least restraint and was in so great favour with Rufus that in the year 1097. he sent him as General into Scotland with an Army to restore his Nephew Edgar Son of Malcomb who maried Edgars Sister to the Crown which his Uncle Dufnald had invaded after Malcombs death to expell Dufnald and make Edgar King Which having effected he returning again into England lived there quietly without the least danger or restraint all Rufus his reign and some years under King Henry the first betaking himself in his old Age to a retired private Country life and dyed in peace as our Historians then living record Oh that there were the like Charitie Ingenuity Christianitie Piety in the Saints of this Iron Age against whom these 3. first Norman Kings shall rise up and condemn in the day of judgment when Christ himself will pronounce this heavy sentence against them for all their pretended Saint ship Depart ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Divel and his Angels for I was an hungred and you gave me no meat I was thirsty and you gave me no drink no not out of my large hereditarie Revenues of three Kingdoms you have forcibly invaded against your Oaths I was a Stranger and you took me not in no not into my own Protestant Realm Court out of which you thrust me by violence neither would you permit those of Holland and France where I was a Stranger to take me in but inforced them to banish and cast me out after their former entertainment of me as a stranger I was naked but ye cloathed me not but stripped me and mine stark naked out of our Inheritances Wardrobes and all we had sick and in prison into which you cast both me and mine and you visited me not yea made it High Treason for any to do it or so much as to pray for me in this my distressed condition

Quodlibets printed 1602 and William Clerk a Secular Priest in his Answer to Father Parsons Libel 1604. p. 75. c. then best acquainted with the Iesuites designs against England of all others did in precise terms publish to the English Nation in these their printed Books a That Father Parsons the English Iesuite the most active professed enemie to our English Kingship Kings Realm Church Religion his Confederate Iesuitical Society did so long since give out and prophesied That they have it by Revelation and special command from God that their order and Society was miraculously instituted for this end to work a dismal change amongst us wherein all Laws Customes and Orders must be altered and all things turned upside down and that they being the only men who have the name Title and authority of Iesus by them it is that this marvelous change and alteration shall be wrought in such sort as from the beginning of the world was the like never heard of before to this present That this Iesuite Father Parsons in his Book Of the Reformation of all the States of England as he prescribes a Reformation of the Prince Court Counsellors Noblemen Bishops Prelates Pastors Universities Lawyers and Laws in all which he will have strange Metamorphoses so he will have the Court of Parliament it self brought to better order to effect all these dismal changes That the way whereby he they intended to bring about all these changes was to bring all England into an uprore for common Souldiers to examine their Soveraigns what Titles they hold by and by infusing this their Iesuitical principle into the Souldiers and people That every Pecope or Tartarian multitud● getting once the title and stile of a publick State or Helvetian Common wealth may alter change innovate the Course Inheritance and Succession of the Crown and Lands under them to make the Island a Iaponian Island of Iesuites and infeoff themselves by hook or crook in the whole imperial dominion of Great Britain putting all the whole Blood-Royal of England to the Formidon as but Heirs general in one Predicament For their better accomplishment whereof this William Watson subjoyns his own opinion in these words I verilie think that all the Puritans and Anabaptists will joyn with the Iesuites to effect these changes at length how far soever they seem to be and yet are in external profession of Religion there being at least half an hundred principles and odde Tricks concerning Government Authority Tyranny Popularity Conspiracy c. wherein they jump as just together as if both were made of one mould But when they shall thus joyn together he predicts That the Iesuites having more singular fine wits amongst them and manie learned men on their side whereas the Puritans and Anabaptis●s have none but grossum Caputs the Iesuites manie Gentiles Nobles and some Princes to side with them the Puritans but few of the first rare to have anie of the second and none of the last on their side By consequence if matters come to hammering between the Iesuites and Puritans the latter are sure to be ridden like Fools and come to wrack He superaddes to this That Father Parsons and his Companie have laid a plot as most consonant and fitting for their other Designments That the Common law of the Realm of England must be forsooth utterly abolished or else bear no greater sway in the Realm than the Civil law doth And the chief Reason is for that the State of the Crown and Kingdome by the Common laws is so strongly setled as whilst they continue the Iesuites see nor how they can work their wills Secondly the said good Father hath set down a Course how every man may shake off all Authority at their pleasures as if he would become a new Anabaptist or Iohn of Leydon to draw all the World into a Mutiny Rebellion and Combustion And the Stratagem is how the common People and Souldiers must be inveigled and seduced to conceit to themselves such a Liberty or Prerogative as that it may be lawfull for them when they think fit to place and displace Kings and Princes as men do their Tenants at will Hirelings or ordinary Servants Which Anabaptistical and abominable Doctrine proceeding from a turbulent Tribe of trayterous Puritans and other Hereticks this treacherous Iesuite would now foist into the Chatholick Church as a ground of his corrupt Divinitie Mr. Prynne having some year since diligently observed all these passages with sundrie others of this nature in those Secular Priest-books and comparing them with Campanella de Monarchia Hyspanica c. 25. 27. Cardinal Richlieues Instructions forecited having likewise read in the Iesuites own printed Books That they had no lesse than 931 Colleges and Seminaries of Iesuites erected in several parts of the World within the space of 120 years and no fewer than 15 Colleges and Seminaries in Provincia Anglicana in the English Province in the year 1640. wherein they had 267. Socii Societatis Fellows of their own Societie besides Novices and 4 Colleges more of English Iesuites beyond the Seas and no less than eight Colleges of Irish and several Residenciaries of Scotish Iesuites in Ireland Scotland and other places And being assured by the publick Speeches of Oliver Cromwell himself first to an Assemblie of Divines and others at Whitehall 1653. and after to his new modelled Parliament at Westminster September 4. 1654. published in print p. 16 17. That he knew verie well that Emissaries of the Iesuites never came over in such swarms as they have done since our late wars and changes were on foot and that divers Gentlemen can bear Witness with him That they have a Consistory and Counsel that rules all the Affairs of the things of England and had fixed in England in the Circuit of most Cathedrals of which he was able to produce the particular Instrument an Episcopal power with Archdeacons and other persons to pervert and seduce the people And being most certainlie informed That the Arch-Iesuite Sir Toby Mathew though banished by both Houses Sir Kenelme Digby a Jesuited papist whose Father had a chief hand in the old Gunpowder Treason and was himself particularlie imployed to Rome by the Queen to procure men and monies from the Pope against the Parliament where he expected to receive a Cardinals Cap Sir Iohn Winter a person excepted from pardon Mr. Walter Mountague two notorious Jesuited Papists who conspired with the Popes Nuncio and College of Jesuites in Longacre to destroy the King and alter the Government of the Kingdome if he refused to turn Roman Catholick and repeal all Laws against Romish Priests Iesuites Papists and for that very end raised the first Scotish wars and which is most observable that Orelly the Popes own Nuncio in Ireland who promoted the late horrid Irish Rebellion and massacre of the Protestants sate President in the General Counsel of the Popish Rebels there for