of all understanding men both here and in his Majesties Quarters Certainly I dare say with old Father a His second 〈◊〉 before King Edward the 〈◊〉 f. 36. Latymer That the Romish Hats never brought good into England heretofore and can they presage ought but much more evill â—o us now What good our last great Cardinall Poole of Noble extraction brought to this our Realme and Religion in Queen Maries dayes you may read in the Statute of 1 2 Phil. Mary ch 8. in Mr Iohn Fox his Acts and Monuments volum 3. and can we now expect any better fruits from this intended Cardinall of more Noble Parentage I feare me no Wherefore I can give no other sentence of him and all others designed to this Antichristian dignity or ambitious of it then b 〈◊〉 Father Latymer hath long since passed against them in the case of Henry Beaufort Bishop of Winchester made a Cardinall by the Pope in King Henry the â—ixt his reign He was made a Cardinall at Calys in France where our new Cardinall is now to be made and thither the Bishop of Rome sent him a Cardinals Hat Hee should have had a Tiburn-tippet an half-penny halter and all such proud Prelates And they doe well deserve it their only ayme and endeavour being to reduce reconcile and enslave our soules bodies estates Realms to the Antichristian vassallage of the Sea of Rome which is no lesse then c 〈…〉 High Treason by our Lawes For my own particular I have ever been a cordiall affecter endeavourer promoter of our publike Peace to the uttermost of my power shall ever God willing continue such but my owne Judgement Reason Conscience perswade me we shall never enjoy any reall solid lasting Peace one with another in any of our three Realmes whiles we negotiate a Peace or hold the least correspondency with the Sea of Rome which hath lately drenched and almost drowned us all in our owne blood metamorphosed all our Kingdoms into so many Acheldamaes after a long-enjoyed Peace and by new Letters Commissions to raise Irish Forces in Ireland and new Contributions Conspiâ—acies Designs against us in France Italy and other Popish Realmes during the overtures of a Treaty of Peace threatens us only with a continuall succession of warres It was a memorable Answer that Iehu made to Ioram King of Israel when he and Ahaziah King of Iudah went out against him 2 King 9. 21 22. And it came to passe when Ioram saw Iehu thâ—â— he said is it PEACE Iehu And he answered WHAT PEACE so long as the Whordoms of thy mother Iezebel and her witchcrafts are so many as long as we have any enchanting Iezebels domineering in our Councels and solliciting us to Court at least if not to commit open fornication with the whoore of Babylon as to many have done of late yeares alas what peace can we expect or what have we to doe with Peace Wee have all cause to consider what the Apostle writes 2 Cor. 6. 14 15 16 17. Be not unequally yoaked with Vnbeleevers for what fellowship hath righteousnesse with unrighteousnesse and what communion hath light with darknesse and what concord hath Christ with Belial or what part hath he that beleeveth with an Infidell or what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols Wherfore come out from among them and be ye separate saith the Lord and I will receive you yea I will be a father unto you and ye shall be my sonnes and daughters saith the Lord Almighty Doubtlesse we shall never enjoy any well-grounded Peace with God or one another till we utterly renounce and separate our selves wholly from all communion fellowship agreement concord with the idolatrous Antichristan Church of Rome and execute exemplary justice on all those who have been active instruments to reconcile seduce us to her of whom I can give no other Character nor issue of their Consultations then that of the Prophet Isay * Isa 〈…〉 They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity they hatch Cockatrice egs and weave the Spiders web he that cateth of their egs dieth and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper Their webs shall not become garments neither shall they cover themselves with their works their works are works of iniquity and the act of violence is in their hands Their feet run to evill and they make haste to shed innocent blood their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity wasting and destruction are in their paths the way of peace they know not and there is no Iudgement in their goings they have made thâ—m crooked paths whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace Therefore is Iudgement farre from us neither doth Iustice overtake us we wait for light but behold obscurity for brightnesse but we walk in darknesse We grope for the wall like the blinde and we grope as if we had no eyes we stumble at noon-day as in the night we are in desolate places as dead men We roare all like bears and mourn sore like doves we look for judgment but there is none for salvation but it is farre off from us As ever therfore we would enjoy peace or safety let us eternally renounce all Leagues Treaties correspondencies with these enemies of our peace these Authors of our forepast and present dangers warres desolations If all our former smarting experiences of their Treacheries Cruelties in Ireland in England with their many late Treacheries Designes upon us even since the late Overtures of this approaching Treaty of Peace will not now awaken us unanimously and effectually to provide secure our selves against them for all future Ages God in his justice may and will deliver us over one time or other to their sword power va alage and continue this warre among us somented by their Councells supplied by their Armes and Contributions till we be all consumed one of another and made a Prey to our forraigne Enemies which deplorable misery and Antichristian bondage the God only Wise of his infinite mercy make us all wise timely to prevent FINIS A Table to some principall Passages in this Necessary Introduction c. Note that the figures of the pages in the book from 206 to 253 are for the most part misprinted and that the references to them in this Table are as they should have been not as they are printed A. ABbot Archbishop of Canterbury his Remonstrance to King Iames against a toleration of Popery and the Spanish Match page 39 40. His Letter to his Suffragan Bishops for prosecuting Recusants p 78 79. Abbot Audomarus Ioannes his Letter to Secretary Windebank concerning the Papists fidelity to the King in the Scottish warres and other particulars p 194 195. Altars inserted into the Scottish Liturgy by Archbishop Laud p 160. Broken down and removed by the rude Souldiers raised against the Scots p 171 212. Alvey an Arminian Vicar of Newcastle an intelligencer against the Scots his Letter to Archbishop Laud p 188 189. Articles concerning the Spanish Match
Worship if they understand thereby the formes of Confession Prayers celebration of Baptisme and the Lords Supper c. were committed in the time to some few Ministers not exceeding the number of Seven as is cleare by the Psalme Booke that beares the number of the approvers Whereas this Booke of Common Prayer committed in the Assembly of Aberdene Anno 1616. to some three or foure that since are deceased hath been revived and approved by the Bishops Note The second reason is untrue that which they call the forme of Worship was never established by Act of Parliament The confession of Faith was in Anno 1567. ratiâ—â—ed and the same often repeated since But not tâ—e Booke of Prayeâ—s and Psalmes Thirdly Note That the Church of Scotland is a free and Independent Church none doth question And it is her own Pastors for that title 〈◊〉 antiquity was given to Bishops only that have judged this forme to be most for the good of the people As to the measure of Reformation they speake of it is weâ—l that they grant it to bee a measure for other whiles they thinke it absolute and perfect The fourth reason reflects upon themselves that have stood out so rebelliously against the Ceremonies concluded by the Church and ratified in Parliament And for the rest contained in this Book not received as yet in this Church that which is set downe in the preface might have sufficed to convict them They wiâ—l never bee able do what they can to prove the same or any thing in it to be either Supersâ—itious or Idolatrous yea we dare to say it is one of the most Orthodox and perfect Litturgies in the Christian Church Note For the fifth If they have taught the people that the forme contained in the old Psalme Bookes is the only forme of Worship they have taught falsly And it may be justly asked if this was the onely true forme why did not they themselves keep to it but did use other Prayers and other formes then are prescribed in the Booke both in Marriage Baptisme Celebration of the Lords Supper Visitation of the Sick c. As to the unwillingnesse of people so many as are led by them and carried by their Seditious and turbulent Sermons will perhaps run their wayes to their owne destruction But good and well-disposed people will still obey God the King and other powers subordinate to him By this Answer you may discerne what power the Scottish Bishops arrogated to themselves through Canterburies encouragement even more then to a generall Assembly September 4. 1637. The Archbishop writ this branch of a Letter to the Archbishop of Saint Andrews concerning the tumult in Edinburgâ— and new pressing of the Service Booke in answer of his Letter received from thence August 11 1637. as appeares by the Endorcement under his owne hand TOuching the tumult I can say no more than I have already And for the casting of any fault upon your Grace and the rest of your Brethren as if the thing were done precipitatly I think few men will believe that But that which is thought here is that though you took advice among your selves yet the whole body of the Councell was not acquainted with all your Determinations nor their advice taken nor their Power called in for assistance till it was too late And that after the thing was done you consulted apart and sent up to the King without calling a Councell or joyning the Lay-Lords with you whereas all was little enough in a businesse of this nature and so much opposed by some factious men gathered it seems purposâ—ly together at Edinburgh to disturbe this businesse And indeed my Lord you could not in this particular have ingag'd the Lay-Lords too far And if any Lord here spake too much when he thougâ—t the service might have bin received throughout all that Kingdome in one day I hope your Grace falls as much too short on the other side For I hope it will be setled in far lâ—sse time than 7. years And whereas you write that the fault is mâ—st in your Ministers I easily believe that to be true But then they should have bin dealt withall before hand and made plyable especially in Edenborow or els some others appointed in the roome of such as disliked And since your Grace is of opinion that a sharper course would do more good and that you would have taken such with Master Ramsey if my Lords had not alter'd your opinion His Majesty leaves you to take that course both with him and others as you shall finde fittest for his service and the Churches And for the Postscript I am sorry as well as you for Master Rollock and that is all I have to say of him So desiring God to blesse you through these troubles I leave you c. Will. Cant. Septemb. 4. 1637. On the 11. of September 1637 the Archbishop writ another Letter to the Lord of Trâ—quâ—â—re Part whereof câ—ncerning the Scottish Liturgy I have hâ—re inserted discovering how zeaâ—ous and active his little Grace was in it My very good Lord I Have received your Letters of Aug. 20. And am very glad to read in them that mine came safe to you by your servant For the businesse I had some little inkling given me by my â— Sterling about the stay of the service But till I read your Letter I did not believe it possible that way should be given to an Interdiction especially considering how strongly you had ever opposed it and withall how weak Note and uncounsellable at least in my judgement the thing it selfe was For they could not but fore-see that that course would adde a great deale of heartning and encouragement to the Puritan Party And therefore t is no wonder if such Lords and others as were ill-affected to the Lyturgy were easie in giving way to that Counsell which they could not but see would advance to their own ends But that my Lord of Rosse should give the advice and my L. of St Andrews follow it with such stifnesse may be a wonder to any man that knowes them and the businesse My Lord of St Andrews hath lately writtten to me that my Lord of Rosse was gone into his Diocesse But for my part I did not think that all the rest would have gone away and left the businesse For they cannot but think that the adverse part would make use of the present time to put further difficulties upon the work And therefore they should have been as carefull to uphold it my Lord of Rosse especially whose hand hath been as much in it as the most But since they are gone His Majesty takes it extremely well from my Lords of Edenborow Galloway and Dunblane that they stay and attend the businesse as well as they can But he hath expresly commanded me to give your Lordship thanks for staying with them Note and keeping them so well in heart For as the businesse is now foyled if you doe not
in Parliament have like Liberty and freedome to treat of these matters in such order as in their judgements shall seem fittest And that every Member of the said House hath like freedome from all impeachment imprisonment and molestation other then by censure of the House it selfe for or concerning any speaking reasoning or declaring of any matter or matters touching the Parliament or Parliament businesse And that if any of the said Members be complained of and questioned for any thing done or said in Parliament the same is to be shewed to the King by the advice and assent of all the Commons assembled in Parliament before the King give credence to any private information The King hereby discerning the Commons resolution against Popery and the Spanish Match chose rather to break off the Parliament then this Marriage Treaty And upon the sixth of Ianuary following dissolved the Parliament by proclaimation without a Session to the Commons great distast then pursued this Match more eagerly then before The chief remora whereof being at Rome to wit the Popes demurring to grantâ— Dispensation till all his and his Conclaves demands in favour of all our Roman Catholiques were condescended to by King Iames a Letter was thereupon sent from the King of Spaine to Rome to quicken the Pope and expedite the Dispensation what effects it produced at least in shew though not in substance will appeare by this passage of Francis now Lord Cottingtons Letter to Secretary Calvert from Madrid Iuly 7. 1622. g Our English Agent at Rome Master Gage writes from Rome so doth the Fryer that a late Letter come thither from this King hath put the businesse in such termes as they were hourly expecting the Fryars dispatch and I can assure you that here they speake loud when any danger is mentioned of the Popes deniall My Lord Digby hastens the businesse bravely and seems very impatient of any delay at all But these faire pomises were onely to circumvent King Iames who in the meane time to ingratiate himselfe with the Pope releaseth divers thousands of Popish Recusants out of prison The number of Priests and popish Recusants then enlarged out of duresse by King Iames throughout his Dominions if we may beleeve Gondomar's Letter from hence to the King of Spain or the Letter of Sirica Secretary to the Spanish King to Mr. Cottington dated at Madrid Julij 7. 1622. was no lesse then 4000. which the Spaniards professed to be a great demonstration of King James his sincere affection to confirme the correspondency and Amity between both Crownes but in the meane time we heare not of one of our Protestants released out of the Spanish or Romish Inquisition And that this inlargement of theirs might be more expeditious notorious and lesse chargeable to Recusants the King directed this ensuing Letter to the Lord Keeper Williams Bishop of Lincoln under the privy Signet to issue forth Writs for their release TRusty and Welbeloved We greet you well whereas we have given you a former warrant and direction for the making of two severall Writs for the inlargement of such Recusants as are in prison at this time either for matters of Recusancy in generall or for denying the taking the Oath of Supremacy according to the Statute by removing them from the generall Goales of this Kingdome to be bailed before the Iustices of our Bench finding by experience that this course will be very troublesome to the poorer sort of Recuâ—ants and very chargeable unto Us who out of our Princely clemenâ—y and by the mediation of forreigne Princes were desired to beare out the same We will and require you to make and issue forth two other Writs in nature and substance answerable with the former to be directed to our Justices of Assises enabling and requiring them and every of them to inlarge such Recusants as they shall find in their severall Goales upon such sureties and recognizance and other conditions as they were inlarged by the Iudges of our Bench. And this shall be your warrant so to doe Dated at Westminster July 25. 1622. Hereupon this Lord Keeper though a Bishop not onely issued out these Writs but likewise writ this Letter to the Judges AFter my hearty Commendations to you His Majestie having resolved out of deep reasons of State and in expectation of like correspondence from forreigne Princes to the professors of our Religion to grant some grace and conveniency to the imprisoned Papists of this Kingdome hath commanded me to passe some Writs under the broad Seale for that purpose requiring the Judges of every Circuit to inlarge the said prisoners according to the tenor and effect of the same I am to give you to understand for His Maâ—esty how His Majesties royall pleasure it that upon receipt of these Writs you shall make no nicenesse or difficulty to extend that his Princely favour to all such Papists as you shall find prisoners in the Goales of your Circuits for any Church recusancy whatsoever or refusing the Oath of Supremacy or dispersing Popish books or hearing saying of Masse or any other poyâ—t of recusancy which doth touch or concerne Religion onely and not matters of State which shall appeare into you to be totally civill and politicall And so I bid you heartily farewell Your loving friend Iohn Lincolne Westminster Colledge August 2. 1622. This enlarging of all Recusants with many Priests and Jesuits by colour of those Writs throughout all the Kings Dominions was deemed by King Iames and others a most prevailing meanes to induce the Pope to grant a Dispensation for this muchâ— desired Marriage without any further procrastination and to draw on the King of Spain to expedite and consummate it without more tergiversations But they on the contrary feeding King Iames onely with good words and promises protracted the Match and Dispensation under-hand with much art and policy all they might The Spaniard under pretext of this Treaty seizing all the Palatinate extirpating the Protestant Religion abroad and propagating popery multiplying the number of Roman Catholiques at home Whereupon the King to prevent all further excuses and accomplish the Match returnes his resolution to the Popes forecited Exceptions and Answers to the Articles concerning the Marriage in forme following Resolutions upon the Answers given by the Pope unto the severall Articles agreed on betwixt the late King of Spain and Us Found among the Lord Cottingtons papers concerning the Marriage of Our deare Son the Prince with the Infanta Donna Maria. TO the second Article We mervaile that there hath been so necessary a poynt omitted when the Articles were sent to Rome by the King of Spaine to procure the Dispensation that the forme agreed upon for the celebration of the Marriage and the Oath of fidelity for the Infanta's Servants were not also sent thither with the rest being as they were agreed on and so essentiall to the businesse We have now delivered Copies of them both to Gage to make such use
this very yeere even when the Parliament was sitting they were upon the point of gaining a publike Toleration of their Religion in Ireland where they plotted first openly to erect the same being furthest out of the Parliaments and peoples view and then to set it up openly by degrees neerer home This Toleration there by their powerfull Court-friends and purses was so farre resolved on and proceeded in that the Protestant Bishops of Ireland knew of no other meants to prevent it but by joyning in a publike Protestation against it the Copy occasion and manner whereof I shall here present you with as I found them in the Arch-bishop of Canterburies Study sent as it seemes to the then Arch-bishop out of Ireland The judgement of the Arch-bishops and Bishops of Ireland concerning a Toleration of the popish Religion by publike Protestation THE Religion of Papists is superstitious and idolarous their faith and doctrine erronious and hereticall their Church in respect of both Apostolicall to give them therefore a Toleration of Religion or to consent that they may freely exercise their Religion and professe their Faith and Doctrine is a grievous sinne and that in two respects First it is to make our selves accessary not only to their superstitious Idolatries Heresies and in a word to all the abominations of Popery but also which is a consequent of the former to the perdition of the seduced people which perish in the deluge of the Catholike Apostacy Secondly to grant them a Toleration in respect of any mony to be given or contribution to be made by them is to set Religion to sale and with it tho soules of the peoples whom Christ our Saviour hath redeemed with his blood And as it is a great sinne so it is a matter of most dangerous consequence the consideracion whereof we leave to the Wife and Judicious beseeching the Zealous God of Truth to make those who are in authority Zealous of God glory and of the advancement of true Religion zealous resolute and conragious against all popery superstition and idolatry There were likely to be granted unto the Papists in Ireland many priviledges and withall a Toleration for their Religion in the consideration of the payment of a great summe of money This Easter◠tearme 1626. there was a great meeting of all the chiefest of the whole Kingdome and the Arch-bishops and Bishops c. and it was likely to be concluded Doctor Dowman Bishop of London-derrey Aprill II. preached at Dublin before the Lord Deputy and the whole State his Text was Luke I. at the 79. In the midst of his Sermon he openly read this Protestation above written subscribed by the Arch-bishops and Bishops of Ireland and at the end he boldly said and let all the people say Amen And suddenly all the whole Church almost shooke with the sound that their Amen made c. the Lord Deputy called from the Bishop of Derry a copy both of his Sermon and Protestation to send to the King the learned and couragious Bishop gave this answer that there was nothing he either spake or read in the Pulpit but he would willingly justifie it before his Majesty and feared not who read or saw it So now by Gods mercy nothing may yet be done or will be till the Lord Deputy heare from the King The Bishop hereupon was sent for into England and after some attendance here returned back into Ireland where he dyed at his Bishoprick How bold the popish Titular Bishops were in Ireland and how they there ordained Masse-Priests by authority from the sea of Rome before this Protestation will appeare by these ensuing Letters of Orders conferred by Thomas Bishop of Meath which I found in the Arch-bishop of Canterburies Study thus indorced with his owne hand May 27. 1637. The forme of an Ordination by the Bishop of Meath in Ireland according to the forme of the Sea of Rome THOMAS Deiet Apostolica gratia Medensis Episcopus Universis singulis praesentes Nostras literas visuris salutem in eo qui est vera salus Notum facimus quod Nos Ordines in Cameris privatis Hereticae persecutionis metu celebrantes Dilectum Nobis Nolanum Feranan Dereusis diaecesios Diaconum ideoneum repertum and Sacrum Presbyteratus ordinem Sabatho sancto die 5. Aprilis Anne 1625. juxta 〈◊〉 Calendarij computum promovendum duximus et promouemus rite in Domino 〈◊〉 Messarum solemnia virtute dinissorialum sui Ordinarij Datum in loco Mansionis Nostrae die Anno praedictis Signed Thomas Medensis and sealed with his Episcopall Seale A Copy of the Certificate for the order of Priesthood This is a true Copy of that Copy of the Certificate which was this 27. of May 1635. sent in unto the Counsell-board Sir E. Nicholas How popery and Papists have since increased in that Kingdome notwithstanding this Protestation and what open Toleration of popish Bishops Priests Masse Monasteries Nunneries and a Colledge of Jesuits c. hath been in that Realme you shall heare anon in the continued seris of this Designe which transports me into France for a time from whence it had its second birth Not long after the Kings Match with France there was a designe in that Realme to extirpate the Protestants and surprize all their fortified Townes in that Kingdome whereof Rochell was the principall which being a maritane Towne furnished with a good Fleet of Ships able to make good their Harbour and furnish themselves with provisions and supplies from all their Protestant friends maugre all the Sea-forces of the French King thereupon the French Cardinall Richelieu and his confederates taking the advantage of their new interest in the King of England by reason of this marriage importuned him to lend his Brother of France the Vaunt-guard one of the Vessels of his royall Navy and seven Merchant-men of Warre to be imployed in his service by sea which the King condescending to sent the said Ships under the command of Captaine Pennington into France to be imployed as the French King and his Counsell should prescribe Who designing them for service against Rochell to surprize their Ships block up their Haven and intercept their trade and reliefe contrary to their expectation the Captaines Masters and Marriners of the Ships were so much discontented that they were designed against the Rochelers who were not onely their friends but the chiefe professors and maintāiners of the Protestant Religion in those parts and that they should be made the instruments of their ruine and draw the guilt of their innocent Protestant blood upon their soules that they all unanimously resolved they would rather dye sinke or be hanged up at the Masts of their Ships then stirre one jot or weigh anchor for such an unchristian detestable imployment Captaine Pennington their Admirall and the French used all the rhetorick and perswasions they could to alter this their heroick and most Christian resolution but they continued inflexible and would neither by allurements rewards nor threats be
passing their grants and other discharges is such that without your Majesty be further pleased to extend your mercy towards them your poore Petitioners although they have used the uttermost of their mean endeavours can reape no benefit of your Majesties gracious favour vouchsafed unto them They therefore most humbly beseech your Majesty to be pleased to referre the settlement and establishing of the said Fees to the Lord Treasurer and the Lord Cottington who calling unto them your Majesties Vice-Presidents of the North may direct such moderate fees and meanes to passe the said grants and other discharges as your Petitioners meane ability may be able to undergoe And your Petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray for your Majesties long and prosperous reigne over us But this Proclamation rather displeasing then satisfying it was thus seconded with the ensuing ogive more content By the KING A Proclamation declaring His Majesties Royall Pleasure and Command for putting the Lawes and Statutes made against Jesuits Priests and Popish Recusants in due execution WHereas We have found by experience that notwithstanding the strict and severe Lawes made and standing in force against Iesuits Priests and others having taken Orders by authority derived or pretended to be derived from the Sea of Rome and notwithstanding Our former restraints and prohibition by Proclamation and otherwise many of them have presumed to resort and remaine within this Our Realme and other parts of Our Dominions and there doe daily endeavour to withdraw and seduce Our Subjects from the true Religion of Almighty God and from there due Allegiance and Obedience towards Us their Liege Lord and that many of Our Subjects missed by them have adventured to receive harbour and maintaine them and thereby have incurred the danger of Our Lawes And therefore not finding that good effect which We did and might justly expect of any former course taken in that behalfe We have thought fit NOTE and doe hereby publish Our royall pleasure and Command that carefull and diligent search be made by all Our Officers and Ministers and by all others to whom it may appertaine for all Iesuits Priests and others having taken Orders by authority derived or pretended to be derived from the Sea of Rome and that wheresoever and whensoever they shall be found they be apprehended and committed to the common Goale of that County where they shall be found there to remaine without Baile or Mainprize untill by due course of Law they be tryed Quâ—re whether it were so doneâ— and proceeded with according to Law which We will shall be done with all convenient expedition And if upon their tryall and Conviction there shall be cause to respire the execution of any of them yet We are resolved not to let them lye in those common Goales much lesse to wander about at large but according to the example of former times to send them to the Cattle of Westbich or some other safe Prison where they shall remaine under strait and close custody and be wholly restrained from exercising their Functions or spreading their superstitious and dangerous Doctrine And We are also resolved whereof We doe hereby give notice to all whom it may concerne at their utmost perils That the Harbourers Receivers and Maintainers of Iesuits Priests and all such others as haue received or shall receive Orders as aforesaid shall be left to the due and ordinary course of Law And We doe further will and command that all Our Judges Justices and Ministers of Justice in their severall places not onely doe observe Our will and pleasure before expressed in all and every the premises but also doe put all other Out Lawes in due execution against Popish Recusants and that Our Judges of Assise at their returne out of their Circuits doe from time to time hereafter give a strict accompt of their proceedings therein unto Our Lord Keeper of the great Seale and Our Lord Keeper doe present the same unto Vs. And whereas We heretofore granted severall Commissions for Leasing and demising of the Lands of Recusants liable to their forfeitures with Instructions for the direction of Our Commissioners in that service NOTE We minding a due reformation of the manifold neglects and abuses of our inferiour officers and others whereby that part of our Revenue hath been extreamly lessened and those who were backward in Religion have been encouraged to persist in their obstinacy and blindnesse have caused those Commissions and Instructions to be revived and many parts altered for our better service and profit And We doe hereby declare the same to the intent that such as shall be willing to contract with Us or to further our service or advance our profit in that behalfe may attend our said Commissioners And whereas We are informed that divers have contracted for Leases of Recusants Lands who doe not sue out their Leases to our great hinderance our will and pleasure is That all such as have already contracted with our Commissioners for Leases of Recusants Lands shall passe them under our Seales before the end of Michaelmâ—â— Terme next and such as shall hereafter contract for any such Leases shall passe therâ— under our Seales before the end of the Terme then next following after such contracts made or else their Contracts to be utterly voyd And We doe straitly charge all our said Commissioners that they be carefull to advance our profit herein according to the true intent of our Commissions and Instructions and that they use all diligence to discover and avoid all abuses which may tend to the diminution of our profit or to the encrease of Popery and back-sliding from the true Religion established in the Church of England Given at Our Court at Southwicke the third day of August in the fourth yeere of Our reigne of Great Britaine France and Ireland A little before the next Session of Parliament and during the Session it selfe the King likewise issued out these successive Proclamations following against Doctor Smith Bishop of Calcedon By the KING A Proclamation for the apprehension of Richard Smith a Popish Priest stiled and calling himselfe the Bishop of Calcedon FOrasmuch as We certainly understand that Richard Smith an English man borne by profession a Popish Priest now is and for some yeeres past hath been in this Realme and here not onely 〈◊〉 our Subjects in their Religion but both also both by his writings in print and otherwise and by his 〈◊〉 practice perswade those our Subjects to whom he hath accesse from their Allegiance to Us their Liege Lord and usurpeth to himselfe Episcopall Jurisdiction from the Sea of Rome and exerciseth the same within this Kingdome and holdeth continuall Intelligence with our Enemies whereby according to the just Lawes of this Realme he hath committed the offence of high treason And yet neverthelesse divers of our Subjects seduced by him doe receive harbour and entertaine him contrary to our Lawes and have thereby incurred and doe incurre the penalty of those
Lawes which are capitall to the ostenders We therefore being justly provoked by the boldnesse of the said Smith doe hereby straitly command all out loving Subjects of whatsoever condition quality or degree that none of them directly or indirectly doe permit or suffer him to be concealed or harboured but that forthwith they arrest and apprehend his body and bring him before the next Justice of Peace to the place where he shall be apprehended whom We straitly command to commit him to prison without baile or mainprize and presently thereupon informe Vs or our Privy Counsell of his apprehension And We doe further declare hereby that if any person shall hereafter directly or indirectly harbour or conceale the said Smith or use or connive at any meanes whereby the said Smith may escape from being apprehended or 〈◊〉 it at then We shall extend the uttermost severity of our Lawes against every such offender And We further charge and command all and singular our Judges Justices of Peace Majors Sheriâ—fs Constables and all other our Officers Ministers and loving Subjects that if they shall find any person offending herein hereafter that then they and every of them proceed with all diligence and roundnesse not onely against the said Smith but also against all such as shall harbour conceale or connive at his concealment or shall not me their best endeavours for his discovery and apprehension according to the uttermost extent of our Lawes Given at Our Court at White-hall the 11. day of December in the fourth yeere of Our reigne of Great Britaine France and Ireland By the KING A second Proclamation for the aprrension of Richard Smith a Popish Priest stiled and calling himselfe the Bishop of Calcedon WHereas by our Proclamation bearing date the eleventh eay of December last past for the reasons in that our Proclamation expressed VVe did straitly command that none of our Subjects should harbour or conceale the said Smith but that forthwith they should arrest and apprehend his body and bring him before the next Justice of Peace to the place where he should be apprehended whom VVe thereby commanded to commit him to prison without baile or mainprize and presently to informe Us or our privy Counsell of his apprehension And VVe did thereby declare That if any person should then after directly or indirectly harbour or conceale the said Smith or use or connive at any meanes whereby the said Smith might escape from being apprehended or arrested that VVe should extend the uttermost feverity of our Lawes against every such offender as by our Proclamation at large appeareareth which our Proclamation hath not yet wrought that good effect which VVe expected the said Smith being still hidden and harboured by those who being insected and blinded with popish Superstition preferre their respects to him before their duty to Vs and the feare of Our high displeasure and the consequence thereof VVe therefore by the advice of our privy Counsell have thought sit by this our second Proclamation to renew our former command in that behalfe And to the end that none of our Subjects may hereafter excuse themselves by a pretended ignorance of the danger they shall fall into if they shall harbour or conceal him VVe doe hereby publish and declare that the said Smith is not onely a popish Priest and with a high presumption taketh upon him to exercise Ecclesiasticall Jurisdiction pretended to be derived from the Sea of Rome within this our Realme and endeuvoureth to seduce our Subjects from the true Religion established in the Church of England which by Gods assistance VVe shall ever constantly maintaine but doth also seditiously and traiterously hold correspondence with our enemies rending to the destruction of our State And therefore VVe doe now againe renew our former command for his apprehension Quâ—râ— what Priests or Hurlirers of them hath since suffered in this kind and doe hereby further signifie That whosoever shall lodge harbour or relieve the said Smith or any other Priest Jesuit or otherâ— having taken orders by authority pretended to be derived from the Sea of Rome shall incurre the danger of our Lawes made against the harbourers lodgers and relievers of Priests to the full extent thereof which by the Statutes of this our Realme is Felony And VVe doe further hereby declare which VVe shall really performe That whosoever shall discover the said Smith and cause him to be apprehended as asoresaid shall have a reward of one hundred pounds in mony to be presently paid unto him by Us and shall also have the benefit of all such penalties and forfeitures which shall or may accrue unto Us and be forfeited by that person in whose house the said Smith shall be found to have been harboured or concealed And VVe further charge and command hereby as by our former Proclamation VVe did all and singular our Judges Justices of Peace Majors Sherieffs Constables and all other our Officers Ministers and loving Subjects that if they shall find any person offending herein that then they and every of them proceed with all diligence and readinesse not onely against the said Smith but also against all such as shall harbour conceale or connive at his concealment or shall not use their best endeavours for his discovery and apprehension according to the uttermost extent of our Lawes Given at Our Court at White-hall the 24. day of March in the fourth yeere of Our reigne of Great Britaine France and Ireland These Proclamations against the Bishop of Calcedoâ— at the first view seem to carry and expresse abundance of royall zeale against Popery and to proceed onely 〈◊〉 some zealous Protestants of the Kings Councell out of a conscientious care of 〈◊〉 preservation of our established Religion and detestation of Smithâ— audatiousness to conferre orders and exercise Episcopall Jurisdiction within his Majesties Dominions by a Forreign authority from the Sea of Rome which is no lesse then high Treason by the Statutes of 23. Eliz. c. 1. But if our English popish Priests Monks and paâ—ties themselves who are able to give us best and truest information in this particular or this Bishops best friends in forraigne parts may be credited or the Primate of Armagh himselfe Doctor Vsher in one of his b 〈◊〉 17 16â—â— Letters to the now Arch-bishop of Canterbury these Proclamations against the Bishop of Calcedon were not procured at the motion of any Protestants or out of any love to our Religion or opposition to popery but at the earnest solicitation of the regular Priests and Munks in England and Ireland who violently opposed Doctor Smiths election and Episcopall Jurisdiction to which they would by no meanes submit pretending themselves exempted from it by their orders and writing bitterly against the having of any Bishop in England which would eclipse the Regulars power and extenâ—â—re their gaines c 〈…〉 Daniel a Iesu Horuran Lomelus Loâ—ly Nicholas Smith and others writing expresse books against his Episcopacy which were by Smith and his Pertisans
meanes censured by the Fâ—â—â—y of Paris Anno 1630. Vpon their opposition onely and by their means and power alone being then the stronger party and over-mastering the Bishops faction this Bishop of Câ—cedon was by these Proclamations and their popish Instruments forced to deserts the Realme and flee for succour into France to Cardinall Richelieu who curteously entertained him as you may read at large in N. le Maistre a Sorbon Priest his Instauratâ—â— antiqus Episcoporum Principatus printed at Paris 1639. Cum privilegio Regis approbatisne Doctorum and dedicated to the Cardinall himselfe lib. 3. c. 15. intituled Corolarium libri secunds ubi nonnulla de persecutione Episcoperum de illustrissimo ANTISTITE CALCEDONENSI where he largely justifies the Bishop of Calcedou against the regular Priests in England his opposers and persecuters who had expolled and banished him thence severely censuring them for this their persecution against him and persâ—ading his restuâ—tion and reception againe among them in this Realme Which mystery and devision of theirs occasioning these two Proclamationsâ— I thought fit to discover to prevent mistakes You have formerly heard the Complaint of the Commons in Parliament in their Remonstance and Petition to the King of the great liberty and encrease of popish Prelats Priests Monks Monasteries within the Kingdome of Ireland and the open profession of their Romish Religion there together with Bishop Lâ—uds peremptory deniall of it in his answer to that Remonstrance in the Kings owne name but no sooner was that Parliament dissolved in discontent but the verity of the Commons Complaint was sufficiently justified by this ensuing Proclamation of the Lord Deputy and Councell of that Realme found among the Bishops owne papers who could not be ignorant of it being thus indorsed with his owne hand A Proclamation Concerning the growth of Popery in Ireland By the Lord DEPVTY and COVNSELE Henry Falkland FOrasmuch as We cannot but take notice that the late intermission of legall proceedings against popish pretended or Titulary Arch-bishops Bishops Abbo Deanes Vicarsâ—generall Jesuits Fryars and others of that sort that derive their pretended authority and orders from the Sea of Rome hath bred such an extraordinary insolence and presumption in them as that they have dared here of late not onely to assemble themselves in publike places to celebrate their superstitious Services in all parts of this Kingdome but also have erected houses and buildings called publike Oratories Colledges Masse houses and Convents of Fryers NOTE Munks and Nunnes in the eye and open view of the State and elswhere and doe frequently exercise jurisdiction against his Majesties Subjects by authority derived from the Sea of Rome and by colour of teaching and keeping Schools in their pretended Monasteries and Colledges doe traine up the youth of this Kingdome in their superstitious Religion to the great derogation and contempt of his Majesties regall power and authority and great offence of many of his Majesties good Subjects contrary to the Lawes and Ecclesiasticall government of this Kingdome and the impoverishment of his Majesties Subjects in the same These are therefore to will and require and in his Majesties name straitly to charge and command all and all manner such pretended or Titulary Archbishops Bishops Deanes Vicars-generall Arch-deacons and others deriving any pretended authority power or jurisdiction from the Sea of Rome that they and every of them forbeare from henceforth to exercise any such power jurisdiction or authority within thâ—â— Kingdome and that all such Abbots Pryors Jesuits Fryars Munks Nunnes and others of that sort as aforesaid doe forthwith breake up their Convents and Assemblies in all houses of Fryars Colledges Monasteries and other places wheresoever they are or shall be Conventually or Collegiatly assembled together within this Kingdome and to relinquish the same and to disperse and seperate themselves And that all and every of the orders before named and other Priests whatsoever do from henceforth forbeare to preach teach or celebrate their Service in any Church Chappell or other publike Oratory or place or to teach any Schoole in any place or places whatsoever within this Kingdome And We doe further charge and command all and sigular the owners of such houses of Fryars Colledges Monasteries Schools Oratories Masse-houses and Numeries that they and every of them respectively in default of the persons before named their voluntary relinquishing of the said houses of Fryars Colledges monasteries Schooles oratories masse-houses and Numeries doe forthwith expell and thrust forth all and singular such Fryarsâ— Jesuits and other Monasticall persons out of the same and to convert the same to other more lawfull uses upon paine to have their said houses seized to his Majesties use and both the one and the other to be proceeded against for their unlawfull assemblies and maintainance of such unlawfull Conventieles and corrupt nurture of Children in the severest manner that by the Lawes and Statutes of this Kingdome and Ecclesiasticall Government of the same may be had or extended whereof they and every of them are to take notice and to yeeld due obedience thereunto as they and every of them will avoid his Majesties high indignation and the consequence thereof Given at his Majesties Castle of Dublin the 1. day of April 1629. Adam Lofius Canc. T. Baltinglasse Wil. Parsons Ia. Armachantus R. Dillon Rich. Bâ—lton Hen. Valentia Anth. Midensis Dud. Norton Moore Hen. Doewra Ad. Loftus By this Proclamation the whole passage in the Commons Remonstance touching the encrease of Popery in Ireland is confessed to be true and farre more then is therein expressed How little effect this Proclamation produced in Ireland will appeare by this enâ— suing Letter of Doctor William Bedley Bishop of Kilmore and Ardivagh about the 〈◊〉 of the Church in his Drocesse and the Papists in Ireland to Bishop Land thus superscribed To the right reverend Father in God William Lord Bishop of London my honourable good Lord deliver these Right reverend Father my honourable good Lord SInce my comming to this place which was a little before Michaelmas till which time the setling the State of the Colledge and my Lord Primates visitation deferred my Consecration I have not been unmingfull of your â—ordships commands to advertise you as my experience should informe of the estate of this Church which I shall now the better doe because I have been about my Diocesses and can set down out of my knowledge and view what I shall relate and shortly to speake much ill matter in a few words it is very miserable every way The Cathedrall Church of Ardagh one of the most ancient in Ireland and said to be built by Saint Patrick together with the Bishops house there downe to the ground the Church here built but without Bell or Steeple Font or Chalice The parish Churches all in a manner ruined or unroofed and unrepaired the people saving a few British Planters here and there which are not the tenth part of the remnant obstinate Recusants
may be this our protestation and appeale unto the See Apostolik and the God of peace and love long preserve your Reverend Lordships in safety Dated at Dublin May 3. in the yeere of our Lord 1632. Peter Caddell Doctor of Divinity Paul Harris pr. a a Dâ—â—e Deacon of the University of Dublin From which Protestation I shall observe these considerable particulars 1. First that the papists in Ireland had their own popish Arch-bishops Bishops and a Viâ—at Apostolicall residing then amongst them as the Title and body of this Protestation manifest Secondly that their Arch-bishop Flemming had a popish Clergy under him in his Province and did exceedingly tyrannize over them usurping jurisdiction even in temporall caâ—ses and over the Kings owne Courts among the Catholikes of Ireland Thirdly that the popish Bishops in Ireland did usually conferre orders and exercise all Episcopall jurisdiction there Fourthly NOTE that they had a speciall Cardinall at Rome Ludovisius given by the Pope unto the Irish as the onely patron and protector of the Irish Nation Fiftly That the secular Priests were exceedingly jealous least the Monks and regulars in Ireland should overtop Lord it and usurpe a Monarchy over them and thereupon appealed to the Pope against them and their Franciscan Arch-bishop Sixtly that they were growne extraordinary bold and insolemthere so as they openly published this their protestation and appeale in print both in Latin and English to all the world and avowed it under their hands subscribed to it Seventhly That they had then erected a popish University in Dublin it selfe of which Paul Harris professeth himselfe Deacon or Deane as Bishop Bedle stiles him even in print of which more hereafter in the Bishop of Kilmores letters This very yeere 1632 the Papists in Ireland upon a false suggession procured a discharge for paying 12. d. for their absence from Church every Sunday towards the maintainance of the army and put the greatest charge of it upon the Protestants to their great grievance as appeares by this passage of the Primate of Armagh his letter to Bishop Laâ—d who thus indorsed it March 1. 1632 Lord Primate of Armagh The generall grievance of the protestant party in Ireland My very good Lord IF you shall think it expedient that I may meet your Lordship this summer in Scotland to doe my service there unto his Majesty I shall have opportunity God willing more freely to deliver my mind unto you both touching this particular and the general grievance which the Protestant â—arty here hath taken upon the unhappy stop of the execution of the statuâ—e of 12. d. against Recusants grounded upon a most untrue suggestion made unto his Majesty that Writs were issued out for the levying of those monies before the time of the contribution granted by the Country for the maintainance of the army was expired after which the next newes here expected is that the Earle of Westmeath should bring over directions for the abridging of our Episcopall Iurisdiction that so the popish Bishops may keep their Courts more freely then we shall be permitted to doe quod dirum omen overâ—at a nobis Deâ—â— c. Your Lordships in all observance Ja. Aramachanus Dublin March 1. 1632 Hereupon the Protestants within the county of Cavan both Clergy and Laity being oppressed by laying the charge of the Souldiers upon them in ease of the papists and exceedingly injured by a popish Sheriffe a great enemy to the English Protestants by unequall assessements on them drew up this ensuing Petition and presented it to the Lords Justices and Counsell of Ireland whereby the power of and favoâ—rs shewed to the Papists there to the great grievance of the Protestants is fully laid open To the right Honourable the Lords Justices and Counsell The humble Petition of the Protestant Inhabitants both Clergy and Lâ—ity within the county of Cavan In all humble manner sheweth unto your Lordships WHereas your Lordships were pleased to send directions unto the Sheriffe of this Country bearing date the 12. of February last 1632. stilo Anglia c. for the levying of certaine summes of money towards the maintainance of the Army or contribution for the last three months ending the last day of March last and that your Lordships directions were grounded upon the signification of his Majesties pleasure which summes were plotted and collected by the Collectors without the consent of the Protestants in this County and partly by force by laying of souldiers upon the County by the Sub-Sheriffs warrant being a Recusant without any warrant from your Honours to that effect NOTE We doe humbly pray your Lordships that this money so collected and now paid in according to your Lordships directions it may not be prejudiciall unto us and our posterity and successors in time to come and that your Lordships will be pleased favourably to forbeare any further imposition of any such burden upon us untill your Lordships shall represent these humble Remonstrances unto his Majesty at whose hands we have full confidence out of his accustomed elemency to find reliefe 1. That whereas about foure yeers last past Sir Andrew Steward and Sir Arthur Tâ—rbosse deceased Knights and Baroneâ—s were appointed Agents to treat with his Majesty for the easing of this Province of Ulster of the burden of the Army which was then imposed the said Agents exceeding their authority did condescend with the Recusant Agents to the imposition of six score thousand pounds sterling upon this Kingdome to be paid within this Kingdome 2. That the said summe though heavily pressing the conformable Subjects especially the Plantators and poore Clergy was by them satisfied and payed according to his Majesties directions with hope that thereupon they should not be further charged with the like impositions 3. That since that time the undertakers and plantators have renewed their Patents paid great fines and doubled their rents to his Majesty to their great chargâ— especially in the deare yeeres that have been by the murren of Cattell and unseasonablenesse of the times 4. That the Country hath been and aâ—e still at excessive charges in building of Castles and Bawenes Goale-houses Shire-houses Bridges and High-wayes and now are called upon to re-edifie their Churches which are for the most part altogether râ—ined 5. That where the Plantators are lately by direction from his Majesty to be trained in Bands under Captaines and other Officers by Sir William Grahayme twice a yeer for which be receiveth due entertainment from them they conceive that not only they shall be able to serve his Majesty in his and their owne defence but to approve their â—idelities against any other if occasion of trouble should be 6. That if any be feared it seems hard that others no way doubted of NOTE should be in worse condition by reason of their dangerousnesse 7. That whereas your Lordships doe intimate a proffer made by a great number of Noble-men of this Kingdome to continue their contributions We humbly desire that it
in the North were very active which caused some combustions in the Court even among the Roman Catholicks and the businesse grew so high that some private advises were given to his Majestie concerning these particulars expressed in these three insuing Papers seised among Windebankes writings who was privie to all their counselsâ— as you shall heare anon Advises upon the present state of English Catholicks as well of the Queenes House as of his Majesties Dominions THe constant report approved by Father Philips the Queenes Confessor is Note That the Pope upon the Treaty of Marriage reserved to his owne or Delegates Iurisdiction the Queen of Englands whole family principally the institution and destitution of her Ecelesiastiques Testifie the confession of the Bishop of Menda who contrary to his opinion and certaine knowledge was forced to advance and defend joynt with the pretended Bishop of England the pernitious Paradox for the deposition of Princes saying to A. B. for his justification that although upon that subject hee had written against Baronius and Bellarmine for the contrary neverthelesse for the present his hands were bound Tesâ—ifie the unitie of maxims councels and daily practices which he held with the foresaid pretended Bishop Testifie the negotiations held at this present in Rome and England for the procuring of Excommunications and suspension against all those Catholiques Note Priests or others which shall stand for the Kings authoritie against that damnable doctrine brought already into his Majesties Kingdomes as their favourites boast and to bee executed by the Bishops agents particularly by Mr. Musket a Priest living in London Testifie the Popes Letters to the King of France now in the Catholiques hands wherein hee complaines to have beene abused Note in that contrary to the King of France his promise neither Toleration was granted in England nor the oath of Allegiance suspended All which duly considered directly tends to a manifest sedition and division of the Kings authoritie and state and that not in qualitie or proprietie of Religion but in particular manner and condition of dutie obedience and naturall Allegiance withdrawne from their true Prince and Soveraigne In remedy of which pernitious opinions and practises pleaseth his Majestie in imitation of his predecessors as well to continue the reall defence of his owne right and authority as the Pope doth his pretended and usurped which two wayes may easily bee done The first by lively pressing his naturall subjects to take the oath of Allegiance in as much as it concernes the abjuration of the Popes authoritie for the deposition of Princes as of late the State of France hath proceeded against the Jesuites without any respect to matter of Religion or Priesthood for the obligation of a Subject to his lawfull Prince being founded in the Law of Nations Nature and God the deniall thereof is crimen laesae Majestatis and so may bee ordained by act of Parliament or otherwise and so those who shall bee punished by death for refusing thereof cannot pretend cause of Religion the oath being propounded in forme as it is now stiled or the forme altered in substance onely reserved as prudent men shall define The second by constrayning all French servants to King or Queene to disavow or detest according to the late ordinances of State Parliaments Universities of France namely of Sorbon that damnable and erronious doctrine for the deposition of Princes against the Iesuites And that it may please his Majestie not to admit any Catholique servant which shall refuse either of the foresaid manners of oathes or detestations Besides that diligent search and punishment bee used against all Agents and Negotiators which in these Realmes advance the contrary errour to the prejudice of his Majesties authoritie and peace of his State For the reservation of the Queenes house to the Pope it is evident in all antiquity and now practised in all Christian Nations that the institution and destitution of Ecclesiastiques in regard of their persons and as members of the State depends of the Prince or of his Subjects by his consent although their spirituall faculties or internall jurisdiction may bee derived from a superiour Prelate Patriarck or Pope but all by equitie justice and Canon whereby the King of England propounding such his Subjects Ecclesiastiques as hee thinkes fit for the Queenes service cannot bee refused by the Pope or other untill they have shewed and proved sufficient cause of refuse Finally how dangerous prejudiciall and dishonorable such reservation is to the Kings authoritie Note State and posteritie upon what end or colour soever every man of smaller judgement cannot but see An Answer to the Principles pretended against his Majesties establishment of Ecclesiasticks in the Queenes house TWO be the Principles upon which the F. C. pretends the establishment of the Ecclesiasticks in the Queens home to belong unto the King of France The first is That the King of great Brittaine hath not power because as he saith He is an Heretike Which ground is false NOTE because the King of great Brittaine neither by Councell nationall not generall nor by any Act authentick or legall of Prelates having authority to doe the same hath been defined or declared such besides heresie deprives no man of his temporall right such as is the collation of temporall Beneâ—tees giving of domesticall charges and offices yea no Prelate of the Greeke Church living under the Turke can exercise his function but with civill dependance and approbation of that Prince The second Principle it That all established by the King of great Brittaine's authority are by him threatned to be forthwith by the Pope declared Apostates NOTE In answer whereof it is evident that such royall establishment is neither Heresie nor Apostacy and when the Pope should undertake such a matter he should grosly abuse his authority against the Commons and Common law of the Church yea Ecclesiasticks by the King will and may by Catholike lawes and right defend their establishment to be good as the contrary to be erroneous to wit to seek to deprive our King of his right and aâ—thority therein SUpposed that the King of great Brittaine for avoiding for greater inconvenienceâ— condescendeth to the reception of some French in the Queens house at the instance of the King of France or choyce of the Queen of England some conditions are necessarily to be observed First that albeit salvo jure proprâ—o Regis magnae Britanniae the choice be in the Queen of England yet the confirmation and approbation of all and every one be in the King of great Brittaine according to the last clause of the eleventh Article of the Treaty Secondly that concerning the French Bishops and Priests sent into England by the Popes authority two things are to be considered the first is the spirituals power Catholike Religion and Jurisdiction as well in the head as members the second is the exaltation of the Popes temporall power in prejudice of the Kings sovereigue authority
under pretext of Catholike Religion by obtruding as matter of faith the Popes power for deposition of Princes Howbeit then the King of great Brittaine permitteth the full exercise of Catholike Religion and spirituall power to the Queens Clergy and Catholike domestiques notwithstanding the laws and statutes made to the contrary in this Realme since Henry the eighth so is it necessary for the preservation of his soveraigne authority and peace of his State that he prevents the intrusion of the Popes temporall power under pretext of Religion in prejudice of his owne which he may in this concurrence most conveniently doe by using the same remedies against these French Ecclesiasticks and Domestiks which the State of France but particularly the Parliament and University of Paris assembled in their Colledge of Sorbon procured against the Jesuits this same yeere 1626. the one by arrest the 17 of March this yeer 1626. the other by censure of the first of Aprill 1626. in condemning the perâ—itious doctrine of Santarelli Jesuit for deposition of Princes â—s false erroneous new contrary to the Word of God derogating from the authority of Princes provoking to Factions Rebellions Seditions and murders of Princes and constraining sixteen principall Jesuits as Mercury relates to subscribe to the said arrest of the 17. of March 1626. with promise to subscribe to the censure of the Sorbon which should afterwards be made in which their subscription they dis-avowed and detested the foresaid damnable doctrine of Santarellus their compainon According to which may it please the King to compell all these Ecclesiastiques of the Queens house to subscribe to the foresaid arrest and censure disadvow and detest the foresaid new doctrine as new false erronious contrary to the Word of God and as their Parliament of Paris and Sorbon hath defined which if they refuse to doe it is most evident that it is not the preservation of the Queen in the Catholike Religion not the exercise of spirituall power and true piety that they intend but under this pretext an introduction of popish domination in prejudice of the Kings authority NOTE an insertion of venomous plants of â—actions and Seditions and why should they refuse the doctrine and practise of their own State whereby the King shaâ—l effectnate two principall works the one that his soveraigne authority with exclusion of the Popes pretended power in temporals intended in the Oath of Alleagiance shall be to his Subjects manifestly approved and consumed by the doctrine and practice of the State of Frâ—â—ce the other is that whereas the Pope by meanes of the Queenâ— house aymed at the establishment of his temporall power and greatnesse in this Kingdome as is manifest by the doctrine and practice of the Bishops and English Priests since the marriage and consequently made a Kingdome a part within this Realme NOTE by the subscription and disadvow of their Ecclesiasticks of this damnable doctrine the cleane contrary will follow that in example of the Queens house all English Catholiques will conforme themselves in doctrine and practice and in this point the King shall receive full duty and obedience of his Catholike Subjects and the Pope shall be content with his spirituall power limited as in France for the Queens house so long as it shall please the King to permit it That the Bishop of Mâ—rdes and all Bishops sent into England from the Pope have their Buls papaleâ— expresly prohibited by the lawes and rights of this Realme it is maniâ—est By these papers you may plainly discerne the dangerousnesse of these Romish Agents their high and bold attempts against his Majesties Preâ—ogative royall and the safety of his person and their policies by which presently upon the marriage 〈◊〉 endeavoured to set up the Popes both Ecclesiasticall and Temporall jurisdiction to oververtop the Kings How this controversie was ended I have no certaine intelligencâ— As â—or other Priests and Jesuits you have already seen what Proclamations were published against them between and during the two Sessions of Parliament in the yeerâ— 1628 by reason of the frequent complaints of the Commons and for the forenamed ends Vpon which Proclamations divers Priests and Jesuits were apprehended and some Râ—cusâ—nts indâ—â—ed by Officers and Justices of peace well affected to our Religiâ—n but how notwithstanding all these Proclamations royall promises Priests and Jesuits were released from time to time by warrants sometimes under his Majesties owne hand sometimes under the hands of his privy Counsell but most times by warants from Secretary Windebank alone and how Iohn Gray with other Messengers and â—oâ—e Harwood were reviled threaâ—ned to be whipt and committed to Prison by Windebanke for apprehending Priests and Iesuits according to their duty till they should 〈…〉 bond with sureties to him NEVER TO PERSECVTE PRIESTS OR POPISH RECVSANTS MORE with other particulars of this nature I have manifested at large in my Royall Popish Favourite to which I reserâ—e the Reader onely I shall give you a short touch of some Priests and Jesuits released after these Proclamations as likewise by whom and whence a 〈…〉 11. Aprilâ—s 6. Caroli there were 16 Priests released one of the Clinke by one Warrant â—â—â—ler his Majesties owne Signe Manâ—â—l at the Instance of the Queen notwithstanding aâ—y former order against such releases 26. Iulâ—y 6. Carols by like Warrant and Instance there were six Priests and Jesuits more released out of the same prison 18. November and 20 Iâ—nuary 7. Caroli two priests more were thance discharged by like Warrant 15. Iune 1632. and 18. Decemb. 1633. there were two priests more discharged out of the Clink by a Warrant of the Lords of the Counsell upon the 〈…〉 On the 15. of Iune 1632. Windebanke was made one of the principall Secretaries of State by Arch-bishop Laâ—d's procurement as appeares by this passage in his 〈…〉 Diary Iune 15. Master Francis Windebanke MY OLD FRIEND was sworâ—e Secretary of State which place I OBTAINED FOR HIM of my gracious Mâ—ster King CHARLES To what end this Instrument was advanced to this place of trust by Canterbury what good service he did the Priests Jesuits Nuncio Papists Pope and his Nuncioes therein will appeare in the sequel of this Narration No sooner was he setled in his place but within few moneths after he fals to release and protect Priests Iesuits Recusants more then any of his predecessors and all the Counsell besides becomming their speciall paâ—â—on insomuch that in the yeere 1634. he received this speciall letter of thanks from Father Ioseph for it written by the French Kings speciall command faithfully translated out of the originall indited in 〈◊〉 sound among his papers Most excellent Sir my Patron most Worshipfull I should be too much wanting to my duty NOTE if I did not render my most humble thanks to your Excellence having after so many other favours conferred upon our Mission received for a compleâ—â— height the singular proofe of your â—ffection in the delivery of our Fathers
some new evidences of it in due place What an Arch-Stickler and Incendiary the Arch-bishop was therein what methods instruments policies councells he used to foment and promote the same you may reade in the Articles exhibited against him in Parliament by the Scotish Commissioners and I shall here give you a summary account thereof out of such Authentick Letters Papers which Gods providence hath brought unto my hands The Arch-Bishop of Canterbury having made a very large successefull progresse in the introduction advance of many Popish Doctrines Superstitions Ceremonies Innovations in our Church of Engl by sundry secret policies and open violent persecutions reserved for their proper place and therefore omitted in this Introduction to his tryall had a designe to introduce the same not onely into Ireland where he was Dominus fac totum whiles he was Bishop of London having the Lord Deputie Councell Bishops and Clergie there at his owne becke and devotion as appeares by sundry Letters thence but likewise into the Church of Scotland where the Bishops and Court-Clergy were exceeding prone but the other Ministers and people very averse to entertain them Whereupon he was no sooner warme in his Arch-bishoprick but he begins to set on foote his designes upon the Church of Scotland to which end he first practised to bring certain new orders Ceremonies into his Majesties Chappell there to make that the only patterne by degrees to which all other Churches there should conforme as he made the * See the Cole from the Altar and Order of Councell Table concerning Saint Gregoriâ—s Kings Chapell here in Engl. the only rule and Canon which all Cathedralls Chapells and parish Churches were to bee regulated by To this end the drawes up certaine Articles concerning his Majesties Chapell in Scotland with a Letter to command Obedience to them A Coppie whereof I found in his study thus indorsed with his owne hand October 8. 1633. His Majesties Articles concerning His Chappell in Scotland And his Letter to Command Obedience Charles R. OUr expresse Will and pleasure is That the Deane of Our Chappell that now is and his Successors shall bee assistant to the Right Reverend Father in God the Arch-bishop of Saint Andrewes at the Coronation so often as it shall happen That the Booke of the forme of Our Coronation lately used be put in a little Box and layd into a Standard and committed to the care of the Deane of the Chappell successively That there be prayers twice a day with the Quire as well in Our absence as otherwise according to the English Lyturgie till some course bee taken for making one that may fit the customes and constitutions of that Church That the Deane of the Chappell locke carefully that all that receive the blissed Sacrament there receive it kneeling and that there be a Communion held in that Our Chappell the first Sunday of every moneth That the Deane of Our Chappell that now is and so successively come duly thither to prayers upon Sundayes and such Holy Dayes as that Church observes in his whites and preach so when ever he preacheth there And that he bee not absent from thence but upon necessary occasion of his Diocesse or otherwise according to the course of his preferment That these orders shall be Our warrant to the Deane of Our Chappell that the Lords of our Privie Councell the Lords of the Session the Advocate Clarkes Writers to the Sgnett and Members of Our Colledge of Iustice bee Commanded to receive the holy Communion once every yeare at the least in that Our Chappell Royall and kneeling for example sake to the Kingdome And we likewise command the Deane aforesaid to make report yearely to us how we are obeyed therein and by whom as also if any man shall refuse in what manner he doth so and why That the Copes which are * * Note consecrated to Our use be delivered to the Deane to be kept upon Inventory by him and in a Standard provided for that purpose and to be used at the Celebration of the Sacrament in Our Chappell Royall To these Orders we shall here after adde others if we find others more necessary for the regulating of the Service of God there At White-Hall the eight day of October 1633. Sic subscribitur STERLING Superscribed by His Majestie Charles R. REverend Father in God trusty and well beloved Councellour Wee Greet you well wee have thought good for better ordering of Divine Service to bee performed in Our Chappell Royall there to set down some Articles under our own hand to be observed therein which wee send you here inclosed And it is Our speciall pleasure that you see every thing carefully performed according as wee have directed by these our enclosed Articles And likewise that you certifie to the Lords of Our privie Councell If any of those appointed by Our former Letters to them to Communicate in Our Chappell Royall shall not accordingly performe the same to the effect such order may be taken by our Councell therein as by our said former Letters to them we did appoint wherein expecting your diligence and care We bid you Farewell From Our Court at White-Hall the 8th day of Octo. 1633. To set on this designe the better the Archbishop procured this warrant from the King to himselfe written with his own Secretaries hand Master Dell and I doubt not but procured since the Scottish troubles to helpe him at a dead lift if questioned to hold correspondency with the Bishop of Dunblane in Scotland he had caused the King to signe the former instructions for his Chapell there and now he will be sure ex post facto to get a warrant for it though dated foure dayes after them Charles R. CAnterbury I require you to hold a correspondency with the Bishop of Dunblane the present Deane of Our Chappell Royall in Edenburgh that so from time to time he may receive Our Directions by you for the ordering of such things as concerne Our service in the said Chappell October 12. 1633 After this the Arch-Bishop writ diverse Letters to Bishop Balentine to promote this designe of his as namely one dated Ian. 13. 1633. To let His Majesty receive a Note who those be that conformed and who not for I see His Majesty is resolved to goe on constantly Another May 6. 1633. informing him of his missing the Bishopricke of Edenburgh for his omission of prayers in the Chapell according to the English Lyturgy c and exhorting him to be carefull for the future Another in Iuly 1634. Wherin he tells this Bishop that his excuse for not reading prayers as aforesaid was not satisfactory to wit that the singing men could not come for debt for that the prayers might have beene read by his Lordships Chaplaine That he did well to acquaint the Lords with His Majesties resolution concerning the Communion there Another Octo. 4. 1634. To like purpose and concerning the payment of the Singing mens wages Another Ian. 12. 1634. Giving
him thankes for his Resolution about ordering the Kings Chappell and wearing his Whites c. and promising to speake to my Lord Traquair about Edward Helly Another Febr. 28. 1634. Containing Thankes from the King for the solemnitie of the late Communion and expressing his hopes that the other Bishops were in their Whites as well as he that the envy of the uulgar might not fall only on him That he had shewed His Majesty the paper of those of the Session as did not conforme at the Communion That he had done what he could for the Gentlemen of the Chappell but the times required patience c. On the 28. of Septemb. 1634. The Arch-Bishop caused the King to signe a common prayer Booke for the use of the Church of Scotland and gave order to the Bishops of Scotland to compile certaine Canons for the Government of the Church of Scotland which Lyturgie and Canons were to be imposed on that Church by Regall and Episcopall Authority without consent of Parliament or of a generall Assembly the Bishops of Scotland not long after gave him a particular account of their proceedings herein with thanks for his many favours to them and assistance of them in this ensuing Letter thus endorsed with his owne hand Recep Aprill 12. 1635. From my Lord of Saint Andrewes and other Bishops about the Scottish Liturgie and CANONS May it please Your Grace VVE have put our Brother the Bishop of Rosse to the paines of a wet journey for ayding the Lyturgie and Canons of the Church and as we have found Your Graces favour both to our Church in Generall and our selves in divers particulars for which we are Your Graces debters so we are to entreate the continuance thereof in this and our common affaires We all wish a full conformity in the Churches but Your Grace knoweth that this must be the worke of time We have made blessed bee God a further progresse then all have here expected in many yeares by His Majesties favour and Your Graces helpe and hope still to goe further if it shall please God to continue Your Grace in health and life for which we pray continually And so remitting all things to our Brothers relation we take Our leave Your Graces affectionate Brothers and Servants Saint Andrew Glasgow 10 B. of Moray Ad B. of Dublane Tho Brochine Dated 2. Aprill 1635. On May 19. 1635. The Archbishop writ a Letter of thankes to Bishop Balentine for his forwardnesse in this service informing him That the King was well pleased with the conformity at the last reception of the Sacrament That he was glad the Church businesse there was in so faire a way c. That His Majesty had given him the Bishopricke of Aberdeen and expected his Residence there and care of that University August 7. 1635. He writ to him that the King is well pleased with the solemnity of the Sacrament and that the Bishops were in forme That he expects that all that receive there doe it kneeling and in forme and that every one of the Session doe it once a yeare at least and that therefore he and his Successor make a list of the names which performe or not c. After this he writ a Letter into Scotland to the Archbishop of Saint Andrewes dated November 10th 1635. which I find thus indorsed with his owne hand A Copie of my Letters sent by the Kings command into Scotland concerning Church-businesse there to be agitated betweene my Lord of Saint Andrewes and the Earle of TRAQUARE My very good Lord S. in Christo. FOr the particulars entrusted by the Church to the Lord Bishop of Brehen and namely about the Abbacy of Lindores you must expect them from the Lord Bishop himselfe and from such relations as you will receive by my Lord and the Earle of Traquâ—re Note now at this time you shall receive nothing but that which is commanded me by the King and must be my part to act in the present and future businesse for the Church of Scotland My Lord for the present the King is resolved upon some great reasons of State which have prevailed with him not to meddle with the Abbacy of Lindores of any other of that nature as yet but to leave them in that State in which they now are till such time as he may consider the decrees and the Act or Acts of Parliament which concerne them And till he can finde a way to Order them better both for his owne profit and the contentment of his people there Assuring you in the meane time that both in this and all other businesse hee will be very carefull both of the credit and of the maintenance of the Church whereof if your selfe or any other Bishop or Clergie Men shall make doubt I am commanded to tell you that therein you will not onely doe His Majestie wrong but hurt your selves and the Church which you seeke to benefit And in this very particular you are to know and make knowne to others that it is not the dislike of any person or persons or of the thing it selfe that causes this present stay but reason of State only and the care which the King hath all proceedings may goe on according to Law As for the Bishopricks his Majestie will take their wants into as provident care as he can and hath setled Arbroth upon the Bishopricke of Brehen but in what forme I am not able to tell you as not being so well acquainted with the customes and constitutions of that Kingdome and therefore lest I should mistake in any circumstance I leave that wholly to the Bishops owne relation For all the businesse of that Church in future which must come to the Exchequer or any other publique audience or any other businesse that may reflect upon the Church or any thing that belongs to the Kings service in which Churchmen are trusted you are immutably to hould this Rule and that by his Majesties strict and most speciall Command Namely that your selfe or the Lord Rosse or both of you together doe privatly acquaint the Earle of Traquare with it before it be proposed in publike either at the Councell Table Note or the Exchequor or else where and the Earle hath assumed to the King in my presence that he will strictly observe and hold the same corespendency and course with you and further that he will very redily and faithfully doe all good Offices for the Church that come within his power according to all such Commands as he shall receive either immediatly from the King or otherwise by direction of his Majesty from my selfe Note and if at any time your Lordships and my L. Traquare shall upon any of the aforenamed businesse so differ in judgment that you cannot accord it among yourselves you are to let it rest and write up either to his Majesty or to my selfe to move his Majesty for further direction w ch once received you are all to obey That so this little unhapy
difference which lately arosâ— about Lindores may be laid a sleepe and that no other may hereafter rise up in the place of it to disturbe either the Kings or the Churches service or disorder any of your selves who are knowen to be such carâ—ull and direct servants to both And to the end this may go on with the better successe his Majesty precisely Commands that this mutuall relation betweene the Earle of Traquare and you Note be kept very secret and made knowne to no other person either Clergy or Lay for the divulging of these things cannot but breed jealousies amongst men and disservices in regard of the things themselves And therefore the King bids me tell you that he shall take it very ill at his hand who ever he be that shall not strictly observe these his directions This is all which I had in Command to deliver to you and I shall not mingle with it any particulars of my own therefore wishing you all health and happinesse and good speed in your great affaires I leave you to Gods blessed protection and rest Your Graces very loving freind and Brother W. Cant. On December 1. 1635. Canterbury writ this enâ—uing Letter to the Archbishop of Saint Andrewes concerning Fasts on the Lords day their Booke of Canons The Copy whereof I found in his Chamber at the Tower thus indorsed with his Secretaries hand A Copy of my Letters to the Lord Archbishop of Saint Aâ—drewes for the prohibiting of all Fasts on the Lords day throughout the Kingdome My very good Lord S. in Christo. I Have but one thing at this present to trouble you with but that hath much displeased the King and not without very just Cause For now while the King is setling that Church against all things that were defective in it and against the continuance of all unwarrantable customes â—nknowne to or opposed by the ancient Church of Christ the new Bishop of Aberdene hath given wâ—y to and allowed a publick Fast thorow out his Diocesse to be kept upon the Lords Day contrary to the rules of Christianity and all the antient Canons of the Church I was in good hope that Church had quite layed downe that ill Custome but since it appeares the now Bishop of Aberdene hath continued it and perhaps others may follow his example if this passe without a checke Therefore his Majesties expres will and command to your Grace is that you and my Lord of Glascowe take order with all the Bishopps in your severall Provinces respectively that no man presume to command or suffer any Fast to be upon that day or indeed any publicke Fast upon any other day without the speciall leave and command of the King to whose power it belongs and not to them And further his Majesties will and pleasure is that if the Canons be not allready printed as I presume they are not that you make a Canon purposely against this unworthy custome and see it printed with the reâ—t And that you write a short letter to the Bishop of Aberdene to let him understand how he hath over-shot himselfe which letter you may send together with these of mine if you so please This is all which for the present I have to trouble you with therefore leaving you to Gods blessed protection I rest Your Graces very loving freind and Brother W. Cant. And to justifie himselfe if questioned he procured this Warrant writ with his owne Secretaries hand Master Dell without any date at all to be signed by his Majesty I doubt since his late questioning thus endorsed with his owne hand Warrant for the Scotch Canons Charles R. CAnterbury I would have you and the Bishop of London peruse the Canons which are sent from the Bishops of Scotland and to your best skill see that they be wâ—ll sitted for Church-government and as neare as conveniently may be to the Canons of the Châ—rch of England And to that end you or either of you may alter what you shall finde fitting NOTE And this shall be your Warrant Aprill 20. 1636. the Archbishop writ this Letter to the Bishop of Dunblane concerning the Communion in the Chappell royall the Booke of Ordâ—nation and the Litâ—rgy the Copy whereof is indorsed with his owne hand I Have received other Letters from you by which I finde you have written to his Majesty about the Communion in the Chappell Royall concerning which the King holds his former resolution That he would be very glad there should be a full Communion at all solemne times as is appointed But because men doe not alwayes fitte themselves as they ought for that great aâ—d holy worke therefore his Majesty will be satisfied if every one that is required to Communicate there doe solemnly and conformably performe that action once a yeare at least And in conâ—ormity to this you are to signifie once a yeare NOTE unto his sacred Majesty who have communicated within the compasse of that yeare and who not And of this you must not saile By these last Letters of yours I find that you are consecrated God give you joy And whereas you desire a Coppy of our Booke of Ordination I have heere sâ—nt you one And I have acquainted his Majesty with the two great reasons that you give why the Booke which you had in K. Iames his time is short and insufficient As first that the order of Deacons is made but as a Lay Office at least as that Booke may be understood And secondly that in the admission to Priesthood the very essentiall words of conferring Orders are left out At which his Majesty was much troubled as he had great cause and concerning which he hath commanded me to write that either you doe admit of out booke of Ordination or else that you amend your owne in these two grosse over sights or any thing else if in more it be to be corrected and then see the Booke reprinted I pray faile not to acquaint my Lord of Saint Andrewes and my Lord Rosse with this expresse Command of his Majesty I received likewise from you at the same time certaine notes to be considered of that all or at least so many of them as his Majesty should approve might be made use of in your Liturgie which is now in printing And though my businesse hath of late laine very heavy upon me yet I presently acquainted his Majesty with what you had written After this I and Bishop Wren my Lord Treasurer being now otherwise busied by his Majesties appointment sate downe seriously and considered of them all and then I tendred them againe to the King without out animadversioâ—â— upon them and his Majesty had the patience to weigh and consider them all againe This done so many of them as his Majesty approved I have written into a service booke of ours sent you the book with his Majesties-hand to it to warrant all your alterations made therein So in the printing of your Liturgie you are to follow the
stick close to Gods and the Kings service in it it will certainly suffer more then is fit it should His Majesty likewise takes it exceeding well from your Lordship that you have dealt with the City of Edenborow for maintenance for such as shall take upon them to read the Lyturgy And takes it as well from the City it selfe from whom I have received a very faire and discreet Letter which I have shewed his Majesty and writ the City an Answer by this Returne and given them His Majesties thanks which indeed hee commanded mee to doe very heartily And in truth they deserve it especially as the times stand As for the Ministers of Edenborow I know the refusall of Mr Ramsay and Mr Rollock But that any other of them stuck at it or that any Bishops seeme not to be forward is more then I heard till now But for that of Mr Ramsey or any of the Bishops that would have somewhat amended if that should be yeelded unto now unlesse they should be able to give such reason against it Note as I know they cannot it would mightily dishonour the King who to my knowledge hath carefully lookt over and approved every word in this Lyturgy And I doubt it would utterly destroy the service it selfe For whilâ— one man out of a humour dislikes one thing and another another by that time every mans dislike were satisfied I doubt there would be but little left to serve God with Besides it is not improbable but that some men would bee as earnest to have the selfe same thing kept in which others would so fâ—ine thrust out what ere it bee And that may make it grow up into a formall contestation upon some particulars and quite distemper the service But whereas you write that some Bishops speake plainely that if their Opinions had been craved they would have advised the amending of some thing Truly for that and in that way I would withall my heart they had seene it And why my Lord of St Andrews and they which were trusted by the King did not discreetly acquaint every Bishop with it considering that every Bishop must be used in their severall Diocesses I know no reason and sure I am there was no prohibition upon them And since I heare from others that some exception is taken because there is more in that Lyturgy insome few particulars then is in the Lyturgy in England why did they not then admit the Lyturgy of England without more adoe But by their refusall of that and the dislike of this 't is more then manifest they would have neither perhaps none at all were they left to themselves But my Lord to your selfe only and in your eare a great favour you should doe mee if you will get my Lord of Galloway to set me down in briefe Propositions without any further discourse all the exceptions that are taken against the Lyturgy by Ramsey Rollock or any other and I could be content to know which the Bishops are which would have amended something had they been advised with and what that is which they would have so amended c. Will. Cant. Sept. 11. 1637. After this divers Treatises written against the Service-Book in Scotland were sent thence to the Arch-bishop foure whereof he received thence October 12. 1637. as appeares by their Indorsements with his own hand with which I shall not trouble the Reader the substance of all of them being long since printed From this time till about Iune 1638. the businesse of the Service-Book was carried on and pressed by the Arch-bishops meanes with sundry rigid and terrifying Proclamations which not prevailing what desperate counsels and resolutions were thereupon taken up and by whose advise these ensuing passages in some Iesuites Letters written from hence in French to their Superior and other Iesuits at Paris which Iesuits were more privie to our Counsels and designes then most of the Privie-Councell themselves as their Letters intimate will best informe us These Letters by some meanes or other came to Secretary Windebanks hands among whose papers I found the Originals themselves out of which I have translated these ensuing clauses One of the Letters was thus superscribed in French Au R. Pere P. Gasper Segnisâ—n SVPERIOR de la Maison professe de la COM. DE IESVS A PARIS it beares date the 28. of Iune 1638. wherein he writes thus in French out of which I have faithfully translated it My Reverend Father I have not been at London five dayes in all since I came from France else I had not failed to salute your Reverence c. I have treated with Father Provinciall touching a succession but he saith there is some body who hinders the Father Generall that he cannot at all resolve himselfe as yet to send one but as soon as he shall have resolved he hath one which he will design for this place but he speakes not one syllable who it is and I have not at all demanded it For my selfe I continue the design for Italy as soon as the time and season shall be proper but I know not whether I shall passe by Paris as I go c. I know not what to say of Mortimer the Superior of Scotland as knowing not whether he hath leave to goe or not nor yet their Procurer who resides in this Court for the Generall hath given no answer to the reply which Mortimer hath made The Country there is in a very ill posture and in evident danger to sever it selfe from this Crown Your most humble and obliged servant G. T. Iune 28. This Iesuite sent another Letter with this form writ in French without any superscription containing a full relation of the Scottish troubles and proceedings to another Iesuite as I suppose in which there is this memorable clause containing a resolution here taken to subdue the Scots by force the Counsellors names who gave this advice and the instruments to be used in this service to wit the Irish because they durst not trust the English Sir c. BY all these proceedings the King evidently seeth that they the Scots wil not submit themselvs to reason by fairnes or sweetnes and therefore he hath taken a resolution to tame them by force and to this purpose goeth about to raise an Army in Ireland not daring to trust himselfe with the English Note who already are much irritated against him by reason of the monies which he pretends to raise to maintain his Fleet the which they refuse down right to pay This Councell of raising an Army hath been suggested unto him by the Bishop of Canterb. and the President of Ireland Nota. the which are they alone that govern him for he hath never yet opened his mouth or spoken one soleword of it to his Councell of State but seeks very much to keep * * 〈◊〉 this Iesuite knowes all the plot and secrets of it though the Coâ—nsell 〈◊〉 not all close from them The which highly displeaseth all
these Lords and men hold this Councell of the Army for Ireland a most pernicious Councell But I know not what better he could take for it is most dangerous to raise it in England where all the world is discontent and for to raise an Army here it were to give them the sword in their hands to defend themselves for the part of the Puritans is so great and they have such a correspondence with the Scots Not◠that they begin already to break the Altars which the Bishops had erected and to accuse the Bishops of crimes and to demand the re-establishment of many silenced Ministers with a thousand other insolencies c. Your most humble and most obliged servant G. T. This 28. of Iune The same Iesuite writ another Letter in French of the same date with this superscription A Messieur Messieur La mach wherein after a pretty large relation of the Scottish affaires he hath this clause somewhat suteable to the former THey to wit the Scots will first of all have a free and full Parliament they will have a reformation of their own Church and likewise of the Church of England They will that the King resideth 6. months in their Country 〈◊〉 they will have the Arch-bishop of Canterbury as their prisoner they will banish Monsieur Con. which they call the Man of the Pope they demand the banishment of the Catholikes there this is that they demand The King hath never yet opened his mouth to his Counsell of these affaires neither hath hee consulted with any soule living hereupon Note but the Bishop of Canterbury and forasmuch as I can learne all their counsell tendeth to this that there must be an Army raised in Ireland to tame these Rebels the which Counsell men of State hold farre more dangerous and so it is feared that they may call the Palatine in for their King Your most humble and affectionate servant G T. This 28. of Iune There was another Letter of the same date writ to one Monsieur Ford at Paris by another Priest or Iesuite as I conceive but certainly a Papist wherein there are these Passages My Deare c. OVr Scots businesse troubles us shrewdly and growes worse and worse they will have a Parliament and the King for the consequence of it in this Kingdom will never permit it Not◠and so they have taken a resolution to leavie an Army in Ireland so to trouble them and subdue them which is held here by wise men to be a very desperate Counsell But the King counsels NONE BUT THE ARCHBISHOP AND THE DEPUTY of Ireland which disgusts all and makes men see more weaknesse in him then was ever imagined Other newes we have none Fitton the Agent for the secular Priests at Rome is here and was presented to the King by my Lord Arundel to whom he had sent from Italy many little toyes but now he knowes he is a Priest I pray you tell my deare Amiable I thank him heartily for his note and have seene his man Iaques Depuis who is a good cutter or graver in stone and continues Catholike honest and known to the Capucins Yours as you know W. Hoill This 28. Iune A Postscript This Letter to Iohn Foord is monstrable TO FATHER SVPERIOVR because you must give him one inclosed from me This very Postscript makes me beleeve both Hoill and Foord to be Iesuites How active and industrious both the English and Scottish Iesuites were in fomenting the Scottish Commotions Warres upon what termes and designs the Papists promised the King their assistance in those warres refusing to ayde him therein except he would grant them a freetoleration of their Religion yea resolving to poyson him with an Italian figge in case he condescended not to their demands and to seize upon the Princes person and traine him up in their Religion you may read at large in my * Pag. 8 9. 13. to 25. Romes Master-piece from the discovery of one who was sent from Rome by Cardinall Barbarino into England to assist Con the Popes Nuncio and privie to the whole Plot which he revealed out of conscience How forwards the Irish Papists were to assist the King and Prelates in this unnaturall warre against the Scots and what large contributions they gave towards the maintenance of the Warre by the instigation of Sir Toby Matthewes a lesuite who went over with the Lord Deputy Wentworth into Ireland for this purpose to animate and stirre up the Popish party there to this Pontificall and Prelaticall warre their Subsidies there granted in Parliament 1639. and the Prologue thereunto with the Rise and Progresse of the Irish Rebellion published by Authority of Parliament will sufficiently demonstrate to justifie the Iesuites forementioned Letters and intelligence to be no fancie but a reall verity How the Arch-bishop carried on this designe of the warre against the Scots in England I shall give you a brief account out of his own Sir Iohn Lambs and Secretary Windebankes Papers The 9. of September 1638. The Arch-bishop received from some great man in Scotland a paper thus indorsed with his own hand 1. That the Garrison◠ought to be kept at Barwick and Carlile First for Defence secondly for Nurceries 3. That the Affaires of Scotland ought not to be kept so reserved from the Councell of England And the paper begins thus That the Scottish have a great desire to ruine 102. a Character for the Arch-bishop you need not doubt it c. I beseech your Lordship not to overcharge your selfe by writing to me but at your best leisure c. After which he advised the keeping of Garrisons at Barwick and Carlile c. In December the Arch-bishop received this paper from Sir Iohn Burrowes thus in dorsed with the Bishops own hand Rece Decemb. 31. 1638. Sir Iohn Burrowes A briefe Note out of the Records what the King may doe for raising of men in case of a warre with Scotland Observations concerning warre with Scotland out of Records SUch Lords and others as had lands and livings upon the Borders were commanded to reside there with their retinue Those that had Castles neare the Borders were enjoyned to fortifie them The Lords of the Kingdome were summoned by writ to attend the Kings Army with Horse and Armour at a certaine time and place according to their service due to the King or to repaire to the Exchequer before that day there to make Fine for their said service So were all Widowes Dowagers of such Lords as were deceased So were all Bishops and Ecclesiasticall persons Proclamations were likewise made by the Sheriffs in every County that all men holding of the King by knights service or sergeancy should come to the Kings Army or make Fine as aforesaid with a strickt command that none should conceale their service under a great penalty Like Proclamations were made that all men having 40. l. land by the yeare should come to the Kings Army with Horse and Armour The Earle
Marshall made a Roll and entred the appearance of all such as came and tendred their service If any failed to come or to make Fine their Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels were distrayned by the Sheriffe upon summons out of the Exchequer If any pleaded that he had attended he was discharged upon certificate out of the Marshals Roll testifying that he had done his service If any being come did depart before the warre ended their Lands Tenements Goods and Chattles were seized untill they had made Fine or the King had pardoned their offence Commissions went out for levying of men in every County and bringing them to the Kings Army Like Commissions were made for mustering and arraying the Clergy throughout England Commissions were likewise issued to enquire and punish all Bayliffs and other Officers that for reward had suffered Souldiers to depart before they came to the Kings Army The King appointed certaine Captaines in such Counties as bordered upon Scotland to levie able men in those Counties and to bring them with their Horse and Armes to the Kings Army Those of the bordering shires were commanded to be ready at eight dayes warning to come unto the Kings Army well armed and Commissions were made for punishing such as refused Writs were sent into severall Counties for certifying the King what number of Horse and Foot every County could afford him in his warres of Scotland The Clergy of England furnished the King with a proportion of armed men The Ports were summoned to attend with their service of shipping The Constable of Dover Castle was commanded to guard the Ports lest any by comming in or going out there should bring danger to the Kingdome The Sheriffs of Counties were commanded by writ to make provisions of corne and victuals for the Kings Army and to cause them to be carried to the place appointed Writs also were sent to divers Townes of England and Ireland commanding all Merchants to bring provisions to the Kings Army Ships of the Subject were taken up for transporting those provisions to a place assigned Inhibitions were made that no victuals or other munition should be transported beyond the Seas during the warre Divers Subsidies and Fifteens granted to the King by the Subject towards the war Merchants strangers gave the King ayde of money towards the warres of Scotland and lent him divers summes Those of Wales furnished the King with a proportion of money toward the war The Lords and Clergy of Ireland were required to contribute toward the war The King suspended the paiment of his debts for a certaine time in regard of the great occasions he had to use money in the warres of Scotland Note that no particular Records were cited or produced to warrant the Premises In Ianuary he received another Paper from him which he thus indorseth with his owne hand Rece Ian. 29. what was fit to be done in point of danger from the Scots Sir Io. Burrowes When Warre was intended against Scotland three things were heretofore taken into speciall care First how to raise Horse and Foot Victuals Ammunition Money and other necessaries for that service Secondly how to secure the Seas and Sea coasts of the Kingdome from danger of forraigne attempts while the Kings forces were employed in those Northern parts Thirdly how to provide for the preservation of the peace of the kingdome within it selfe against riots mutinies and rebellions whereunto ill conditioned and desperate persons at such times are easily moved The first of these hath already in some speciall points been expressed For the second touching the guard of the Seas sufficient provision is made by the late course taken And for securing the Sea coasts 1. The Forts neare the Sea were fortified and furnished with men and munition 2. All persons that had possessions and estates in mariâ—ine Counties were commanded by Proclamation to reside there with their families and retinues 3. Beacons were erected in all fitting places 4. Certaine light Horse were appointed by the Country to watch along the Sea coasts to give advertisement if danger appeared 5. All able men of those Counties were commanded to be sufficiently armed and trained and put into Companies and Bands under certaine Leaders who were to be commanded by some one Generall appointed by the King Concerning the peace of the Kingdome 1. All conventicles and secret meetings were straightly forbidden by Proclamation and parties offending severely punished 2. All spreaders of Rumours and tale-bearers were by Proclamation commanded to be taken and imprisoned 3. All able men between 16 and 60 yeares of age in every shire were commanded to be sufficiently armed and trained and to obey such Generals as the King appointed 4. Such as were not able in body to beare Arms but had Estates were to maintaine at their charges such able men as were appointed in their roomes The very same day the Archbishop procures this ensuing warrant from the Councell Table to himselfe and the Archbishop of York to write letters to all the Bishops within their severall Diocesse to summon their Clergy before them to excite them to a liberall contribution against the Scots At White Hall the 29. of Ianuary 1638. IT was this day ordered by his Majesty sitting in Councell That the Lords Archbishops of Canterbury and York their Graces should be hereby required and commanded to write their letters to all the Lords Bishops in their severall Provinces respectively forthwith to convene before them all the Clergy of ability in their Diocesses and to incite them by such wayes and meanes as shall be thought best by their Lordships to ayd and assist his Majesty with their speedy and liberall contributions or otherwise for the defence of his Royall Person and of this Kingdome against the seditious attempts of some in Scotland And that the same bee sent to the Lord Treasurer of England with all diligence Tho. Coventry C. S. Guilliel London H. Manchester I. Lenox Lindâ—ey Arundel Surrey Dorset Pembroke Mongomery Holland Fra. Cottington H. Vane I. Coke Fran. Windebanke But doubting of the validity of this warrant for such a contribution he of late procured this warrant written with his owne hand antedated two dayes before the Councell Table Order to be signed by his Majesty to help him at a pinch Charles Rex CAnterbury I require you to write your Letters to your Brethren the Bishops 〈◊〉 for a contribution of the Clergie towards my affaires with my Scottish Subjects as was done in my Fathers time for the Palatinate And for your so doing this shall be your warrant Jan. 27. 1638. That this Warrant was since forged by him to which he procured the Kings hand is apparant not only by the freshnesse of the inke but by the very Letter he writ to the Bishops of his Province to set on this Contribution dated the last of Ianuary which mentions only the Lords Order but not one syllable of this Warrant of the King which if reall he would have recited in the
endeavours to remove all mis-understandings between the King and his people and to do all good offices between them * * See the Commons Iornall Feb. 3. 1640. Diuinall Occurrences of both Houses p. 31 32. A Message sent from the Queenes Majesty to the House of Commons by Master Comptroller Feb. 3. 1640. THat her Majesty hath been ready to use her best endeavours for the removing of all mis-understanding between the King and Kingdome That at the request of the Lords who Petitioned the King for a Parliament her Majesty at that time writ effectually to the King and sent a Gentleman expresly to perswade the King to the holding of a Parliament That She hath since bin most willing to do all good offices between the King and his people which is not unknowne to divers of the Lords and so * * Quere how well this Clause hath ever since bin performed shall ever continue to do as judging it the onely way of happinesse to the King her Selfe and Kingdome That all things be justly setled between the King and his people and all cause of mis-understanding taken away and removed That her Majesty having taken knowledge Note that having one sent to her from the Pope is distastefull to the Kingdom She is desirous to give satisfaction to the Parliament within convenient time she will remove him out of the Kingdome That understanding likewise that exception hath bin Note taken at the great resort to her Chappell at Denmarke House she will be carefull not to exceed that which is convenient and necessary forthe exercise of her Religion She further taketh notice That the Parliament is not satisfied with the manner of raising money for the assistance of the King in his journey to the North in the yeare 1639. at her entreaty from the Catholikes She was moved thereunto meerly out of her deare and tender affection to the King and the example of other His Majesties Subjects she seeing the like forwardnesse could not but expresse her forwardnes to the assistance of the King If any thing be illegall she was ignorant of the Law and was carried therein onely out of a great desire to be assisting to the King in so pressing an occasion but promiseth to be more cautious her after * * Her raising men monyes horse Armes Ammunâ—tion in forraine Parts to maintain a bloudy civill War in Ireland and England is a very reall performance of this promise not to do any thing but what may stand with the established Lawes of the Kingdome Her Majesty being desirous to employ her owne power to unite the King and people desireth the Parliament to looke forwards and passe by such mistakes and errours of her Servants as may be formerly and this your respect she promiseth shall be repayed with all the good offices she can do to the House which * They have done sowith a witnesse ever since you shall find with reall effects aâ— often as there shall be occasion How sincerely and cordially her Majesty hath performed all these her Princely promises to the Parliament Kingdome King and his people her Actions both at home and in Forraigne parts with our bloudy Warres and Massacâ—es since both in Ireland England and Scotland proclaime to all the World God deliver us all from such Court-holy-water such Popish Dissimulation which may seeme commendable in Romish Catholikes who hold * See Master Hen Mason of Equivocation Surins Concil Tom. 3. p. 860. Equivocation lawfull and that no faith is to be kept with Heretickes as they esteeme all Protestants But to returne to our Papists activity in the Scottish Watres to which this Message relates it is very well known that many if not most of the Captains Officers imployed in the last expedition were either professed Papists or persons Popishly affected how the Earle of Arundell the General of the Army against the Scotâ—â— together with his Lady family stand affected in Religion and what active 〈◊〉 they were to promote this Warre you may read at large in †Page 17 22 23 24-32 Romes Master-peece Their Contributions towards this Warre were so large and their assistance so chearefull that some of our Episcopall Preachers and * Mr. Whites First Cenâ—â—â—y of Randalous Malig. Priests p. 25. 29. Mr. Squire of Shoreditch London by name preached openly in his Pulpit That the Papists were the Kings best Subjects and better then Protestants for three reasons First their Loyalty Secondly THEIR LIBERALITY having like Arauna contributed like Kings to the King in his necessity Thirdly For their Patience adding that they were the good Samaritan who poured Oyle into the wounds of that man the King that was fallen among Theeves who wounded him Especially the Irish Papists And Audomarus Ioannes Abbot of Wurtzburge in Germany in a letter of his to Secretary Windebancke Dated 13. August 1639. endorsed with Windebanks owne hand writes that his Majesty had a sufficient tryall of the fidelity of his Catholike Subjects in this accident I shall insert the whole letter because it discovers Windebanks intimacy with this Abbot and other Papists whose letters inclosed under his own packet to prevent intercepting he usually dispersed to their Agents here Right Honourable THree Months agoe and more I wrot signifying to your Honour that after I came from London it being moâ—e then a quarter of a yeare before I could reach the wished place I did aime at to see the desolation of which and generally of all the parts I did passe through I was so disconsolated that all be it I oft thought to discharge my respective salutes to your honour yet present cares and occasions did ever prevent my intention Notwithstanding at last I did take the boldnesse to intreat that your Honour would let me know your commands in discharge of which your Honour God willing shall finde me most solicitous and carefull But least such my former letters hath miscaried as severall to Sir William Howard and other honourable friends has done I resumed the boldnesse to make a Briefe repetition of the same letting your honor know that I have found King Iames letter of happy memory which my Lord Hay then Embassador after his return to London moved his Majesty to write to Prince Godefrid then Bishop of Wurtzburge wherein his Majesty was pleased to give thanks to the Bishop for the favours done NOTEâ— as to himselfe Moreover his Majesty was pleased to take * notice of us his poore Subjects commending us to the Bishops noble charity I finde also Prince Godefrids answer to his Majesty wâ—it by occasion of Abbot Ogilby whom the Bishop did commend to his Majesty intreating that at his request the said Abbot Ogleby might have free passage to see his native Country out of the which he had beene 40. yeares and more The Prince who is now does truely honour his Majesty and respect his Subjects of the which my Lord Arundell about two yeare agoe being here
doe buy whole streets of houses in Paris Lordships in the Country and when they first came hither they were but poore beggers now they keep Coaches what houses have they built in the Covent-garden and what faire houses do they built in Lincoln In-fields And the City must lend money to build them in other mens name And to hide all the Papist will have the Paâ—liament to be held at Yorke and thereby to undoe this poore City The second Paper was as followeth Gentlemen and others that are Christians assist us for the truth of the Gospell that is like to be extinguished viz. The Popes Nuntio doth protest to make us all Roman Catholiques the Ambassador of the Anti-Christ Sir Iohn Winter whose kindred were of the Gunpouder Treason is his associate and doth trust to worke that treachery upon us Sir Kellam Dighigh a maintainer of that Society is going to Rome and the ship-money must defray him as the Queenes Mother and the froggs of Hell in Somerset House Finis Coronet opus For Wednesday next Besides these papers the Apprentices of London drew up and presented this ensuing Petition to the Lord Major and Aldermen of London which was sent to Secretary Windebanke and endorsed with his own hand To the Right Honourable the Lord Major and the Worshipfull Aldermen his Brethren The humble Petition of the Apprentices of London whose Names are under written in the behalf of themselves and others In all submissive manner sheweth THat it is well known unto this Honourable Court that there are many thousand Apprentices in this City with whom their Parents and friends have given some two hundred pounds some more some lesse sums of Money to Merchants or other Tradesmen in London who are bound for severall tearmes of yeares to be trained up in their severall Callings That at the end of their Apprentiship they might exercise their Trades according to the Custome and Charter of the City of London That by reason of the great number of Monopolies Patents and Impositions upon Commodities and Manufactures the Trade of the City is so burthened that to the Petitioners knowledge divers of their Masters are not able to live of their Trades to maintain themselves and their families That many Factors and others have been made free by Redemption together with the liberty that Forraigners use in this City contrary to the Custome and Lawes in that case Ordained and Provided whereby your Petitioners evidently perceive that they are deprived of all hope to live by their calling and that the freedome of this City will not be a benefit but a burthen to them unlesse some speedy course be taken for redresse Further sheweth That by the multitude of Papists Priest and Iesuits residing in and about this City many weak in Learning and young in understanding are subject by their subtill delusions to be drawn away to Romish Religion That many feares are upon us by reason of their audatious and insolent carriages and demeanor in speeches and their furnishing themselves with Armes threatning the ruine of this City which hath been famous for exercise of Trade and Religion May it therefore please this Honourable Court to take the Premisses into due and serious consideration and to be pleased to the future encouragement and lively-hood of the Petitioners who are the inferiour members of this City speedily to move the Kings most excellent Majesty that the evills and feares afore specified may be removed and others in your power may be redressed that so your Petitioners may with cheerfulnesse discharge their duties to Almighty God his Sacred Majesty and their respective Masters And your Petitioners shall be ever bound to pray About the yeer 1635. the Priests and Iesuits by means of Windebanke Canterbury Note and the Lord Treasurer of England procured Mr. Rooks the searcher of Dover to be extrajudicially removed from his place and two professed Popish Recusants Turbervile Morgan and Charls Powell to be thrust into it who held it for the use of Father Leander a Benedictine and Father Price Generall of that Order the former once Chamber-fellow to the Archb of Canterbury in St. Iohns in Oxford and sent over into England to helpe the reconciliation with Rome in which he was very active By meanes whereof the Priests or Jesuits Papists and their Agents had free Passage till this very Parliament in and out of the Realm without search or molestation conveyed their Intelligences to and from Rome and other places with greater security yea sent over divers Gentlemen and Gentlewomen to forraigne Monasteries Seminaries Nunneries without any obstacle dreaming hereupon of nothing else but an absolute triumph over the Protestants and a speedy extirpation of their Religion throughout all our three Kingdomes Whiles we ingaged in this civil war with Scotland by the Prelaticall and Popish parâ—y these Conspirators prepared a great Spanish Fleet to invade us and joyn with the Papists in England then in Arms most of our Captains and Commanders being professed Papists to cut all the Hereticks and Protestants throats while embroyled in a civil war and busied in murdring one another as I have * The Royall Popish Favourite p. 58 59. elswhere manifested But the admirable Providence of our ever gracious God secured us from their bloudy designs by stirring up the Hollanders miraculously to encounter and vanquish that puissant Fleet of Spaniards notwithstanding all the assistance and protection they received from us at which the * See the Breviate of his life p. 22. Archbishop of Canterbury and Spanish Faction were exceeding angry and discontented and by making a happy Accommodation betweene the King and our Brethren of Scotland Iune the 17. 1639. before the Spaniards arrivall on our coasts which was not till about the beginning of October But this Parliament was no sooner called but dissolved againe by the arch-Arch-Bishops and Papists solicitations and a new war resolved on with more vigour and violency then the former Hereupon Secretary Windebanke the great Agent for the Arch-Bishop Queen and Papists writing to his Sonne Tom Windâ—banke then at Paris negotiating the Palsgraves enlargement concerning the Scottish affaires gives this direction to him among others TOm Note c. If you see Doctor Smith the Bishop of Calâ—edon there who is a great confident of the Cardinull he may be a fit instrument to make some discovery of the intelligence the Scots hold there but this must be with great caution c. Your very loving Father Francis Windebanck Drury-lane 12. Decemb. 1639. It seems both the Secretary and his Son had some interest in and acquaintance with this Bishop else they would not make use of him for their Intelligencer These Wars and the Papist forwardnesse to assist his Majesty in them gave great incouragement as it seemes to Cardinall Barbarino to ingratiate himself further with his Majesty as this Clause of Mr. Iohn Graves his letter to the Archbishop endorsed with his own hand thus Recep March 27. 1640.
pain of perpetuall banishment and their Parents to lose their goods and estates As also to enquire and learne who they be that do live now at Doway and St. Omers under them and their Parents be brought in question which may easily be done with small charges sending two or three over into those parts who by degrees may know the speciall of them I omit their jugling with the Emperor King of France and Spain and other Potentates and with the Popes themselves as they have publiquely confest Secondly not to be tedious I come to the second point The reformation of some things in her Majesties Court Note is so necessary for the quietnesse of the State as nothing more and therefore labour to remove all impediments that may happen It is to be observed that a great part of the unquietnesse of this State comes from thence Note and of some persons about Her Majesty not fit to remain there For it is known Her Majesty doth nothing but as she is acquainted with which she after delivers to the King and he to the Councell and when there 's any crossing there arises Iarres and unquietnesse The actors of those are F. Phillips her Confessor the superior of the Capuchins This last in times past was one of the Knights of Saint Iohn of Ierusalem a most turbulent spirit Note and one sent by Cardinall Richlien to be a spye at this Court for the French Faction who labours by all means to breed dissentions For the French as I have read in Cardinall D'Ossats Epistles aime at nothing more then to make a schism betwixt the English and Scots that this state may be weakned not able to do them harm the more easily to conquer these kingdoms This unquiet spirit at all occasions hath accesse to Her Majesty and acquaints Her with all he thinkes fit for the French Faction and when he thinkes it a hard businesse then doth he entice Father Phillips to present it This man being of a quiet and meeke nature yet a great Favourite of Cardinall Richliens Doth acquaint her Majesty with the businesse Note and she the King and obtains by opportunity things which are not fit and convenient for the State Father Phillips is guided altogether by a Scottish Grey Fryar who by degrees hath intruded himselfe to be a Clerke of her Majesties Chappell and he goes by the name of Master Wilson but his true name is William Tompson a Doctor of Divinity and a most furious and unqviet spirit and by a nick-name was called Cackafugo shit fire He rules altogether Father Phillips insomuch as he fears him and dares not disobey him He rules all the busines which concernes the two Kingdoms and the most part of the matters for Rome By his perswasion Father Phillips hath plac'd many unfit persons about her Majesty He was the only Agent in promoting Sir Iohn Winter to be her Majesties Secretary he being most addicted to the Lord William Howards Daughter and so got into that place He was also the cause that Signior Georgio Conne late Agent of the Pope his brother was admitted to be extraordinary Servant to the Queen NOTE A man altogether unworthy of that place and a most scandalous person having at this present three wives alive as after shall be related Sundry Priests by his means to Father Phillips have been admitted to be the Queens extraordinary Servants Some by some supposed office or other as one Master Laborne George Gage brother to Colonell Gage beyond Seas in Flanders both Oratorian Priests the one of the French Faction very feditious the other of the Spanish for his brother is in the King of Spains service Both these under pretence of some service to the Qâ—een the one extraordinary Sewer as I believe and the other under the name of a Cup-bearer There is also one Penricke brother to him who is now left Resident at Rome this Penricke aâ—ias Iott-Signeur NOTE is sworne extraordinary Servant to her Majesty a sworne Spaniard and Intelligencer for Rome In respect his brother is Agent for her Majesty there being many otherwhich I cannot remember at this time One Francis Maitland alias Quasheâ— a Scottish Fryar Mendicant and hath an hundred Crowns yearly as her Majesties Pentioner a very fire-brand Intelligencer at Rome France Flanders and Spaine with Lyddington Colonell Sympis Chambers and Penricke at Paris All these and sundry others have Protections of the Queens Majesty who are all factious and turbulent spirits by Father Phillips means and this Wilsons instigation fit to be removed Father Phillipt his servant called Iohn Belfaur a Scot rules all the rest and guides Father Phillipt at his pleasure and obtains many things not lawfull It is not expedient at this present to remove Father Phillips from her Majesty it will irritate her greatly but remove all those that incense him he is a very good man and of a sweet disposition but easily perswaded by Sir Toby Matthewes Sir Iohn Winter Master Walter Montague who are of the Cabbinet Councell Thirdly NOTE concerning the Bishop of Canterbury It is most notorious hee hath bin the speciall cause of the troubles in Scotland and jarreâ— betwixt them and the English For when he went to the North with His Majesty he being of a high and lofty spirit remarking the government of the Church of Scotland began his Innovation by setting up of Altars Episcopall Robes and Organs which were not seene since the birth of King Iames more than eighty yeares before in that Kingdome with which they were much inâ—ensed Insomuch that when the common people upon a Sunday perceiving His Majesty to go on foot from His Pallace of Holy-Rood House to the Church at Edenborough and so to return and all His Nobles with Him My Lords Grace and the Bishop of Ely were seen to go in their Coach they exclaimed on them and sayd NOTE How dare you presume to go so when our Soveraigne goes on foot You are the Ragges and servants of the Pope That same time he did move his Majesty to make that Church a Cathedrall and appoint a Bishop where was never any before and so the people were more more stirred up At his returne from thence he moved His Majesty to erect a High Commission in all the Bishopricks of that Kingdome by vertue of a Proclamation which he extorted from His Majesty in August If I be not deceived some five years ago wherein was Ordered that here in England the Bishops Courts should have not Subordination to any other Courts no not to His Majesties owne Councell but should proceed without any dependency not so much as to use His Majesties Arms in their Seales but their owne and so deprive His Majesty of His Supremacy which was never done since the Raigne of King Henry the Eighth So soone as he had obtained that of His Majesty he in all haste sends this Proclamation to all the Bishops of Scotland who being blowne
by Bishop Bedles letters the Commons petition and other Evidences p 101 to 214 Cherished in Ireland of purpose by the Lord Deputy Wentworth to ballance the Protestants and make them serve his turnes in Parliament p 113 117 118 238. Their tâ—mult in Dubliu p 119 Divisions between the secular Priests and regular in Ireland and their titular Archbishop of Dublin p 106 to 110. The Deputâ—es project to pack a Parliament in Ireland and conquer that Nation and Kingdome by it p 114 to 119. The Protestants grieved and oppressed by the Papists there p 110 to 113 The Protestation of the Archbishops and Bishops there against a Toleration of Popery p. 83. The rise and progresse of the late Irish Rebellion and the chiefe Actors in it p 218 to 252. Discovered in grosse to the King and Windebank above a yeare before it brake out p 219 220 c. All the Irish in forraigne parts privy to and active in it especially their Priests and Friers p. 220 to 252. All the Papists in England privy and assistant to it p. 226 251. The Pope Cardinall Barbarino and Irish at Rome privy to it and much rejoyced at it p 230. c. 247. to 253. The Spaniards French and other popish States acquainted with it and assistant to it p 220. to 253. Above one hundred fifty two thousand Protestants murthered and destroyed the foure first months by the Rebels p. 226 242 243. The Pops Indulgance granted to the Rebels for extirpating the Heriticks and exhorting them to persevere in and accomplish that worke p. 251. Mr Henry Iermyn his plot and â—light p 212 213. His Letter to Windebank into France and power with the Queene p. 131. 134. Iudge Iones a character of him p. 220. L. Archbishop Laud privy to the Kings and Dukes voyage into Spain and a furtherer of that Match p 34 Writ letters to the Duke of Buckingham into France and was privy to that macth p 73 74. A procurer and countâ—nancer of Dr Manwarings and Sybthorpes Sermons in justification of Lones and arbitrary taxes imposed by the Kings prerogative without a parliament and accused in parliament for licensing them p 86 90. Accused by the Commons as a Favourer of Arminians and persons popishly affected Iun. 11. 1628. p 92. His saucy and scandalous false answer to the Commons Remonstrance p 93 94 95. Bishop Bedles and Vshers letters to him concerning the power and encrease of papists in Ireland p. 101 to 113. The Lord Deputy Wentworth his desperate dispatch to him concerning parliaments in Ireland p. 114. to 118. Windebanke made Secretary of State by him p. 122 123. Presents his humble service to him out of France p. 127. What opinion they had of him at Rome and Venice p. 143. Twice proffered seriously a Cardinals Cap p. 140. He advanced Bishop Montague an Arminian and one who held correspondency with the popes Nuncio p. 146 147. His Innovations in England and power in Ireland p. 148. His whole proceedings letters directions alterations Contributions c. concerning the late Scottish Lyturgy and Warres against the Scots p. 148 to 189. He fradulently ex post facto procureth and forgeth divers Warrants from the King written wiâ—h his owne and his Secretary Dells â—and touching the Scottish Canons Lyturgy Contributions and intelligence with the Scottish Bishops p. 149. 152 156 174. His many popish alterations and insertions for the introducing of Altars Transubstantion the sacrifice of the Masse Prayer to Saints and other Popish rites writ with his own hand and taken out of the Roman Missall and Pontificall made in the New Scottish Liturgy worthy observation p. 156 to 164. An Enemy to the Sabbath p. â—58 The Kings chiefe Councellor in the Scottish Warres by the Iesuites owne letters and adviseth him to subdue them by an Irish Army p. 170. 171. his Listing Assessing and conventing men before the Councell Table to lend to the Scotish Warres his and the Clergies large contributions towards these Waâ— with his letters to further the sâ—me p. 174. to 189. The Lord Conwayes and other letters to him concerning the Scotts affaires and Wars p. 172. 173. 174. 183. to 189. His tyranny injustice in the high Commission and intimacy with Father Leander and other Popish Priests and Recusants p. 205. to 209. 198. The Irish Rebells reported their Confederates in England had taken the Tower of London and rescued film from the Parliament p 226. His pride in Scotland and here page 205. 206. 207. Earle of Leicesters favours to Windebanke in France p. 130. 133. Father Leander Generall of the English Benedictiones Archbishop Laâ—ds Chamberfellow in Oxford and very intimate with him here sent over to reconcilâ— us to Rome p. 145. 206. 207. persecuted by the Iesuites p. 144. Livet a Papist proceedings against him stayed by royall command p. 140. Ludovicus a sancta Maria his Theologicall conclusions printed at Rome p. 145. his Lecherous and lewde behaviour in England Ibid. Cardinall Ludovisio protector of the Irish Nation p. 109. M. Marshall Law the Lord Conwayes advice about it p. 185. 186. Master Moore a chiefe Actor in the Irish Rebellion p. 227. to 237. Henry Mac Carter his full examination touching the Irish Rebellion p. 202. 203. 204. Masse endeavoured to be introduced by Archbishop Land in the Scottish Liâ—urgy into which he inserts divert things out of the Masse Roman Missall p. 158. to 163. Mac-Mohon's examinations touching the Irish Rebellion p. 237. to 241. Maguires examinations Confession touching the Irish Rebellion p 226. to 240. Nich Le Maistre his testimony concerning the designe of the French match p. 69. Sir Toby Mathew a dangerous active Iesuite p. 210. 211 The Popes Bull to him commending his last Nuncio Rossetti to his charge as to his Angell Gardian p. 201. 211. Siâ— Henry Merry a Recusant his protection p. 139. Master Middletons Letters to Archbishop Laud from Venice p. 142. 143. Bishop Mountaguâ— advanced by Laud an Arminian his intimacy with the Popes Nuncio his letter to Windebanke for a Licence to his sonne to goe to Rome and his entertainment there p. 146. 147. Master Walter Mountague his first voyage to Rowe his extraordinary entertainment in his passage thither there this intimacy with the Pope and Cardinalls promised and expected a Cardinals Cap his dangerousnesse Sir Kelime Digbies late letter to him and the Queenes intention to make him a Cardinall at this present could he procure his liberty p. 140. 141. 143. 210. 211. 212. 253. 254. His Letters to the Papists concerning a contribution against the Scotts p. 190. 191. his intimacy with Windebanke p. 131. 132 133. 134. N Nuncioes sent from the Pope into England see Câ—n Pauâ—ani Rossetti The Apprentices and People take notice of them p. 895. to 199. 208. to 282. O. Oath of King Iames to the Spanish Articles and in favour of Papists p. 43. to 47. of K. Charles to like purpose and not to endeavour to convert the Queen or withdraw her from or
hinder her in her Religion p. 46. 47. 71. of the privy Councell not to prosecute Papists p. 46. of English Priests to the Bishop of Calcedon p. 82. 83 Oblations Popisâ—i introduced by Bishop Laud pag. 159. Ordinntion A forme of it by a Popish Irish Bishop pag. 84. Owen Daniel and Sir Phelim Oneale chiefe actors in the Irish Rebellion having formerly raised a Regiment of Papists and carried them into Flanders for that purpose pag. 219. to 250. A Letter to Sir Phelim Oneale from Rome pag. 248. 249. O-Conner one of the Queene Mothers Priests his desperate speeches concerning a Plot Massacre to the Protestants in England c. to Anne Hussey pag. 225. P. Papists and popish Priests and Iesuites plots to usher Popery into our Realmes pag. 1. 2 4. c. Their dangerous increase in England Ireland and petitions against it p. 10. to 12 65. to 85. how protected favoured c. notwithstanding all pretended Proclamations against them by the King Queene Bishop Laud Windebanke and others pag. 12. 13. 25 29 45 to 48 to 150. 206. to 214. Their forwardnesse to promote the leane An. 1626. pag. 88. Their Assembly Collections and large contributions towards the Scottish Warres pag. 189. to 194. English and Irish Papists joynt Conspiracie in the Irish Rebellion and present Warres See Ireland King Iames King Charles Windebanke Laud Articles Gregorio Paâ—zani the Popes first English Nuntio his Arrivall and entertainment in England pag. 141. 143. 209 210. His intimacy with Windebanke and Letters of thankes to him from Rome for his daily favours whiles here pag. 141. 146. his intimacy with â—ishop Mountague and Letters in favour of his Sonne to Rome pag. 147. Stay of proceedings against the Lady Perkins for sending her daughter to bee a Nunne pag. 139. Penricke the Queenes last agent at Rome and his brother the Queenes servant an Intelligencer for Spaine and Rome pag. 205 c Father Philips the Queenes Confessor his Letter to Secretary Windebanke pag. 144 See p. 134. His dangerous Letters commitment by the Parliament and Articles there exhibited against him pag. 205. to 217. His dangerous positions pag. 119. 120 121. his danger about the Queenes person and her chiefe Councellour pag. 205. to 217. Sparsim Doctor Pocklington his Letter concerning the Clergies contribution against the Scotts c. pag. 179. 180. Pope Gregory the 15. his dispensation must be granted to compleat the Spanish Match p. 3. 4. 5. 13. 14. 15. 18. 19. his exceptions to and alterations of the Articles with Spaine p. 4. to 9. 14. 15. 18. 39. 40. The Articles he obtained from King Iames in favour of Papists ere hee would grant a dispensation p. 8. 14. 41. to 49. his letter to the Bishop of Conchen in Spaine to reduce King Charles and our Realmes to his obedience during his residence there his Letter to King Charles in Spaine to seduce him in his Religion p. 34. to 38. His Clogged dispensation and death p. 39. 49. King Iames Letter to him p. 26. 31. Pope Vrban the eight his election and new dispensation for the SPANISH Match pag. 50. 61. His dispensation with the French Match pag. 70. 71. His consolatory Bull to the English Catholikes p. 81. 82. He claimes an absolute Iurisdiction over the Queenes househould endeavoring thereby to usurpe a temporall Iurisdiction p. 119. to 123. 208 209 c. The Kings Letter to him in behalfe of the Duke of Loraigne and his affection to opinion of the King p. 142. 143. his Nuncioes sent into Eng. and entertained here see Conne Panzani Rossetti Nuntio and p. 209. to 212. His Bull to Sir Toby Mathew p. 201. 211. Privy and assistant to the Irish Rebellion p. 230. 247. to 553. his Bull and Indulgence to the Irish Rebells p. 253. The election of Pamphilio the now Pope his age and intentions and the Queenes sending Sir Kenelme Digby to him p. 252. to 255. Father Price Generall of the Benedictines his intimacy with Laud London Windebank procures the searchers place at Dover by their might and puts in Papists to be his Deputies there pag. 198. 206. 207. Q The Queenes marriage with the King designed to introduce Popery pag. 69. The Articles of her marriage and present effects of it in favour of Papists p. 70. to 74 83. to 198. The King bound by Oath not to endeavour her conversion to our Religion by any meanes but she not obliged not to seduce the King pag. 71. The Pope challengeth jurisdiction over her houshold p. 119. to 122. 208. The dangerous positions of her Priests Ibid Priests released by the K. and others at her instance p. 122. 123. 190. Her favours to and Letters of favour to the Queene and Officers of France in the behalfe of Secretary Windobanke and the many courtesies he and his receivd from her since his â—light p. 127 to 140. She sends Major Bret Sir Will. Hamilton Mr. Walter Mountague and others successively to Rome p. 140. 141 143 144 146. 204. to 214. Her calling of a generall Assembly of all the Romish Catholikes at London to assist the King against the Scotts her Letters to them for that purpose Message to the Parliament pag. 189. to 196. Dangerous Popish Incendiaries about her person pag. 204. to 218. Her contributions and assistance to English and Irish Papists and these unnaturall Wars p. 194. 151. The Queene-Mothers arrivall in England to further the Papists Designes and Massacre of the Protestants p. 189 225. The people murmure against her her desire of a gard and departure hence p. 195. to 198. 218. R Captaine Read a chiefe agent of the Iesuites an Actor in the Irish Rebellion escapes out of the Tower and since affirmed to be Knighted by the King p. 147. 25â— Robert Read Secretary and Nephew to Windebanke his Letters out of France to Master Thomas Windebanke pag. 125. to 139. Rebellion in Ireland See Ireland p. 218 to 251. Iudge Richardson his stay of proceedings against Recusants by command and Letter to Windebanke concerning the same pag. 139. 140. Cardinall Richelieu his favour to Windebanke Master Mountague and the English Fugitives at Paris p. â—30 131 132 138. His Spies and Activity here p. 204. to 217. Privie and assistant to the Irish Rebells pag. 232. 233. 234. Count Rossetti the Pope last Nuntio his arrivall in England and the Bull to Sir Toby Matthew concerning him pag. 210. 211. Complained of in Parliament promised to be sent away hence yet secretly detained here pag. 193. 214. Rochel lost by the meanes of our ships c. p. 84. 85. 86. S. Sabbath denied by the Arch-bishop and his creatures p. 158. Sacrifice of the Masse indeavoured to be introduced by Canterbury in the Scoâ—tish Liturgy p. 160. 161. 162. 163. Scottish Innovations Liturgy Warres Troubles occasioned by Canterbury fully related out of his owne Papers and Letters p. 148. to 196. Spanish Treaty concerning the Match Palatinate and all the passages concerning it and their jugling with us
first place His Letters were all of this forme two whereof I have signed with his own hand and thus endorsed A Copy of those Letters which by Warrant from the Lords I wrote to the severall Bishops within my Province c. in the businesse of Scotland My very good Lord. I Have received an Order from the Lords of his Majesties most Honorable Privie-Councell giving me notice of the great preparations made by some in Scotland both of Armes and all other necessaries for Warre And that this can have no other end then to invade or annoy this his Majesties Kingdome of England For his Majesty having a good while since most graciously yeelded to their demands for securing the Religion by Law established amongst them hath made it appeare to the World That it is not Religion Note but Sedition that stirres in them and fills them with this most irreligious disobedience which at last breaks forth into a high degree of Treason against their Lawfull Soveraign In this case of so great danger both to the State and Church of England your Lordship I doubt not and your Clergy under you will not only be vigilant against the close workings of any Pretenders in that kinde but very free also to your power and proportion of meanes left to the Church to contribute towards the raising of such an Army as Note by Gods blessing and his Majesties care may secure this Church and Kingdome from all intended violence And according to the Order sent unto me by the Lords a Copy whereof you shall herewith receive these are to pray your Lordship to give a good example in your own person And withall convenient speed to call your Clergy and the abler Schoole-Masters as well those which are in peculiars as others and excite them by your self or such Commissioners as you will answer for to contribute to this great and necessary service in which if they give not a good example they will be much to blame But you are to call no poore Curats nor Stipendaries but such as in other legall wayes of payment have been and are by Order of Law bound to pay The proportion I know not well how to prescribe to you but I hope they of your Clergy whom God hath blessed with better Estates then ordinary will give freely and thereby help the want of meanes in others And I hope also your Lordship will so order it as that every man will at the least give after the proportion of three shillings tenne pence in the pound of the valuation of his living Note or other preferment in the Kings Books And this I thought fit to let you further know That if any men have double Benefices or a Benefice and a Prebende or the like in divers Diocesses yet your Lordship must call upon them onely for such preferments as they have within your Diocesse and leave them to pay for any other which they hold to that Bishop in whose Diocesse their other preferments are As for the time your Lordship must use all the diligence you can and send up the moneys if it be possible by the first of May next And for your Indemnity the Lord Treasurer is commanded to give you such discharge by striking a Talley or Talleys upon your severall payments into the Exchequer as shall be fit to secure you without your charge And of this service you must not faile So to Gods blessed protection I leave you and rest Your Lordships very loving Friend and Brother W. Cant. Lambeth Ianuar. ult 1638. Your Lordships must further be pleased to send up a List of the names of Note such as refuse this service within your Diocesse but I hope none will put you to that trouble It is expected that your Lordship and every other Bishop expresse by it selfe and not in the generall sum of his Clergy that which himselfe gives On the eleventh of February 1638. he wrot this Letter to Sir Iohn Lamb his creture Deane of the Arches for a Contribution among the Doctors of the Law at Doctors Commons and elsewhere without Warrant the Originall whereof I found among Sir Iohn Lambes sequestred writings together with the first draught of it with the Archbishops owne hand-writing After my hearty Commendations c. I Have received a Warrant from the Lords of His Majesties most honourable Privie-Councell which requires me to write to all the Bishops in my Province to call their Clergy together and put them in minde of the great danger which this Kingdome is in by the Trayterous Conspiracies of some ill-affected in Scotland These seditious persons have begun and continued hitherto their foule Disloyalty under the pretence of Religion which by factious spirits in all times is made the cloak to cover and hide if it might be their designes But now it appeares clearely to the State that they daily strengthen themselves by Armes and Munition and other preparations for Warre And though his Majesty hath graciously condescended to more then they could justly aske in all things concerning their Religion and their Lawes yet they goe on still and are satisfied with nothing but their Rebellious Disobedience and have no lesse ayme then to invade or annoy England The Letters to the severall Bishops I have sent as I was commanded and I doubt not but they and the Clergy in generall will give very freely towards this great and necessary defence of the Kingdome And because this great and common danger cannot be kept off but by a common defence and for that the Reverend Judges and others of the Common-Law have bountifully expressed themselves already I am required to write to you also that you calling to you the rest of the Doctors of the Commons propose to them now while most of them are together this great and waighty businesse belonging as much to their defence as to other mens and let every man set downe what hee will give to this service When this is done I will acquaint his Majestie with it and yours and their forwardnesse herein And it is expected that you hasten this with all convenient speed So to Gods blessed protection I leave you and rest Your very loving friend W. Cant. Lambeth Feb. 11. 1638. You must send to such Chancellours and Officialls as are not at the Commons but at their severall Residencies And if you give them a good example here I doubt not but they will follow it You shall not need to call Sir H. Martin for his Majesty will send to him himselfe and looks for a greater summe then in an ordinary way Upon these Letters of the Archbishop the Bishops in each Diocesse summoned their Clergie before them exhorted them by publique speeches to a liberall contribution against the Scotish Rebels as they stiled them and Dr. Pierce Bishop of Bath and Wells among other Motives used this as a very effectuall one to excite his Clergy to an extraordinary liberality towards the maintenance of this War because it was
up with pride following the Archbishops footsteps began to erect a High-Commission Court in their Diocesses and called to it the Gentry and Nobles punishing them for trifling things and sining and confining them to the farthest part of the Kingdom from Galloway to Cathnes neare three hundred myles A cruelty never practised in Scotland before in any Age. Nay the became so insolent being made Privy Councellours by the Archbishops sollicitation of His Majesty Note And the Archbishop of Saint Andrews being made great Chancellor of that Kingdom never practised this three hundred years that in open Councell Table they gave the lye to the Peers of the Land Namely to the Earle of Argile which affront was done by one Sedeserfe now Bishop of Galloway and resident at this present in London where began the fire to appeare which before this was but smoake The Nobles Gentry and Commons made a league which they called a Covenant and combined together for the rooting out of Bishops and Conservation of their ancient Liberties upon which is ensued a million of miseries putting both the Kingdomes to excessive charges exhausting the Kings Coffers and oppressing the people I believe If my Lord Archbishop were meerly questioned it would be found he stirred up His Majesty to make up his Army two severall times Note which hath bin the occasion of the utter ruine of two Shires Northumberland and the Bishopricke of Duresme which losse will not be repaired in an hundred years These firebrands Bishops of Galloway and Rosse who are Clyents to Canterbury and altogether guided by him it is more than expedient that they and other Incendiaties were given to the Scotts Commissioners to betryed by their Parliament But I believe Rosse will flye to Ireland where His Majesty hath given him a Bishopricke And Galloway will be forced to hide himself in some Island and shake off his Robes or become a Pedler in Poland as his Father was before him One Sandall a Clerke of the Rolls told me he saw my Lord Sterling Secretary of Scotland Agent at Court for the Bishops viewing very narrowly the Rolls to see the originall Institutions of the High Commission which he would not have done had he not bin informed by my Lords Grace I may not omit to let you know how of his large liberality he hath given to those fire-brand ministers refuges in this Kingdome at sundry times large and prosuse charity which he would never have bestowed on the poore Clergy of his Diocesse I come to his Government wherein he hath bin like to a Camâ—lion of divers colours now punishing of Roman Priests but poore ones for the fattest he protected and cherished without all measure As Father * His ancient chamberfellow in St. Iohns in Oxford Leander Superior of the Benedictines Master Flanders and Master Price after Leanders death and Master Gascoyne and the whole Order of the Iesuits as hereafter shall be related The poore Recusants for going to heate Masse or only upon suspition were cruelly used by him but the chiefe he tenderly loved and feasted as Sir Kâ—nelme Digbie and others to what end you may conjecture Afterwards he tooke a fit to punish severely Anabaptists Familists and Brownists sometimes one sometimes another He followed the steps of Cardinall Wolsey and intended because he could not be Poâ—e at Rome to be a Patriarcke in these Kingdoms To which end 't is well known he did so credit and grace Father Leander aforesaid cherishing him above the rest giving him his eare at all times remaining here at London publikely till his death and after him Price NOTE and Gascoyne aforementioned At the comming of Father * His old Chamber-fellow in Oxford Leander he began to looke chearfully upon Recusantâ— then began he to erect Altars to take away the Communion Table to make all kneel when they tooke the Sacrament to be all uncovered at Divine service to stand up at the reading of the Gospell bow at the name of Iesus and to consecrate an ould Church a new as that of Saint Gylses with many other Arch-trikeâ— that he might be in the Popes and the Queenes favour and so continue in his Majesties good liking Then began he to use rigout against Puritan Ministers calling them into his high Commission some for Symony as Mr. Iohn Ward and others of Suffolk some for contradicting the Bishop of Norwich others for Heresy as one Doctor Everd Chaplin to the Earle of Holland Then began he to practise his Excommunications and aggravations against Sir Robert Willoughby Sonne in Law to the Bishop of Worcester and Mr. Hope a Scottish man Cup-bearer to his Majesty for contemning his Citations In the end such were his Actions that he is an Admiration to the whole world for Inconstancy At the last he became soe outragious as were never any of his Predecessors conventing before him the Bishop of Lincolne whose heavy hand and Dragon-like wrath hee felt many yeeres being in Prison in the Tower of London Soe was Bishop Goodman soundly whipt for refusing to subscribe to his Canons being laid in the Gate-house so that he became the wonder of this Age. Noe lesse wonderfull hath he beene in his Vatican at Lambith sitting in his Gracefull Throne compassed with Bishops Deanes Archdeacons Doctors Proctors Notaries and Registers guarded with a multitude of Tipstaves from all Prisons in and about London besides a hellish Guard of Promoters In his Tribunall sitting in his Corner-Cap Lawnè sleeves and Râ—tchet No Pope is so glorious on most festivall dayes as his Grace is on Thursdayes in tearme time T is a petious thing worthy of consideration to see what Injustice is don in that Court by his owne knowledge and what extortion and exaction is used by his Officers There is not a more corrupt Court in the world wherein Innocency is punished publique sinnes countenanced the greatnes of the extortions of that Court cannot be expressed some are a whole yeare before they can be heard at the last for a fatherly Benediction are remitted to Sir Iohn Lambe and Doctor Ducke I will instance in two parties The Lady Willoughby spent in suit in lesse then two yeares as shee related to me five hundred poundâ— and above and all tended that her Husband should weare a white sheete at the Church doore When God knowes her selfe deserved no lesse For Doctor Ryves assured me she was declared innocent by Bribery The other was Mr. Stapleton Nephew to the Earle of King stone who claimed a certaine Lady to be his Wife having married her before two witnesses and used the formall words of Matrimony And seene by the said witnesses lye together in naked bed yet by force of money he was divorced from her having spent in the suit in Charges only three hundred pounds In like sort Francis Conne brother to Signiour Georgio Conne now Cup-bearer extraordinary to her Majesty was convented at the high Commission for having maried one Mistresse Steward his Country