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A56199	Romes master-peece, or, The grand conspiracy of the Pope and his iesuited instruments, to extirpate the Protestant religion, re-establish popery, subvert lawes, liberties, peace, parliaments, by kindling a civill war in Scotland, and all His Majesties realmes, and to poyson the King himselfe in case hee comply not with them in these their execrable designes revealed out of conscience to Andreas ab Habernfeld, by an agent sent from Rome into England, by Cardinall Barbarino, as an assistant to con the Popes late nuncio, to prosecute this most execrable plot, (in which he persisted a principall actor severall yeares) who discovered it to Sir William Boswell His Majesties agent at the Hague, 6 Sept. 1640. he, under an oath of secrecie, to the Arch-bishop of Canterbury (among whose papers it was casually found by Master Pyrnne, May, 31. 1643) who communicated it to the King, as the greatest businesse that ever was put to him / published by authority of Parliament by William Prynne ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.; Habervešl z Habernfeldu, Ondřej.; Boswell, William, Sir, d. 1649.; Laud, William, 1573-1645.	1644 (1644)	Wing P4056; ESTC R7561	44,036	61

fairest buildings of Nobles Knights and Gentlemen the more commodiously to seduce them Thirdly that these Iesuits and conspirators hold weekely constant uninterrupted intelligence with the Pope and Romish Cardinals and have many spies or intelligence● of all sorts about the King Court City Noblemen Ladies Gentlemen of quality and in all quarters of the Kingdome to promote this their damnable Plot. Fourthly that the Pope for divers late yeeres hath had a known avowed Legat C●● by name openly residing even in London neere the Court of purpose to reduce the King and his Kingdoms to the obedience of the Church of Rome and the Queen at least another Legor at Rome trading with the Pope to facilitate the designe to wit one Hamilton a Scot who receives a pension out of the Exchequer granted to another Protestant of that name who payeth it over unto him to palliate the businesse from the peoples knowledge by which meanes there hath been a constant allowed Neg●tiation held between Rome and England without any open interruption 5. That the Popes Legate came over into England to effect this project and kept ●is residence here in London for the better prosecution thereof by the Kings own● privity and consent And whereas by the ancient Law and Custome of the Real●e ●et in force even in times of Popery no Legat whatsoever coming from Rome ought to ●rosse the Seas or land in England or any the Kings Dominions without the Kings own Petition calling and request to the Pope and before hee had taken a ●olemne Oath or Pr●te●station to bring and attempt nothing in word or deed to the prejudice of the Rights Priviledges Laws and Customs of the King and Realm This Legat for ought appears was here admitted without any such cautionary Oath which would have crossed the chiefe end of his legation which was to prejudice all men and our Religion too Yea whereas by the Statutes of the Realm it is made no lesse then high Treason for any Priests Iesuits or others receiving orders or Authority from the Pope of Rome to set footing in England or any the Kings Dominions to seduce any of his Subjects to Popery and Popish Recusants much lesse then Priests Jesuits Legats ought not to remain within ten miles of the City of London nor come yet into the King or Princes Courts the better to avoid such trayterous and most dangerous Conspirators Treasons and attempts as are daily divised and practised by them against the King and Common-weal Yet notwithstanding this Popes Legate and his confederates have not only kept redence for divers yeeres in or neer London and the Court and enjoyed free liberty without disturbance or any prosecution of the Lawes against them to seduce his Majesties Nobles Courtiers Servants Subjects every where to their griefe and prejudice but likewise had familiar accesse to and conference with the King himselfe under the name notion authority of the Popes Legat by all Arts Policies Argument to pervert and draw him with his three Kingdomes into a new subjection to the Sea of Rome as Cardinall Pool the last Popes Legat extant in England before this in Queen Maries raigne reconciled her and the Realm to Rome to their intolerable preiudice An act so inconsistent with the Laws of the Realm with his Majesties many ancient and late Remonstrances Oathes Protestations to maintaine the Protestant Religion without giving way to any back-sliding to Popery in such sort as it was maintained and professed in the purest times of Q. Elizabeth c. as may well amaze the world which ever lookes more at reall Actions then verball Protestations 6. That the Popish party Conspirators have lately usurped a soveraign power not only about the Lawes and Magistrates of the Realm which take no hold of Papists but by the Parliaments late care against them here but even over the King himself who either cannot or dares not for feare perchance of poysoning or other assassination oppose or banish these horrid Conspirators from his Dominions Court but hath a long time permitted them by vertue of his marriage articles to prosecute this plot without any publike opposition or dislike by whose powerfull authority and mediation all persons may easily divine Alas what shal become of the poore sheepe when the Shepheard himself not only neglects to chase and keep out these Romish wolves but permits them free accesse into and harbor in the sheepfold to assault if not devour not only his flock but Person too Either Saint Iohn was much mistaken in the Character of a good Shepheard and prescribing this injunction against such seducers If there come any unto you and bring not this doctrine receive him not into your house neither bid him God speed for he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evill de●ds And the Fathers the Canonists deceived in this Maxime Qui non prohibet malum quod potest jubet or else the premises cannot be tolerated or defended by any who professe themselves enemies or opposites to the Pope Priests or Church of Rome or true Defend●rs of the Protestant reformed Religion 7. That these conspirators are so potent as to remove from Court and publiqu● Offices all such as dare strenuously oppose their plots as the example of Secretary Cooke with other Officers lately removed in Ireland the Articles of Pacificatio● there lately made with the Rebels evidence and plant others of their owne party and confederacie both in his Majesties Court Privie Councell Closet Bedchamber if not Bed and about the Prince to corrupt them And how those that are th● invironed with so many industrious potent seducers of all sorts who have so many snares to intrap so many enticements to withdraw them both in their Beds Bed-chambers Closets Councels Courts where ever they goe or come should possibl● continue long untainted unseduced without an omnipotent protection of which none can be assured who permits or connives at such dangerous temptations is ● thing scarce credible in divine or humane reason if Adams Solomons and other Apostacies by such means be duly pondered He who sailes in the midst of dangerous rocks may justly feare and expect a wracke 8. That the late Scottish troubles wars were both plotted and raised by thes● Iesuiticall Conspirators of purpose to force the King to resort to them and thei● Popish party for aid of Men and Money against the Scots and by colour thereof to raise an Army of their owne to gaine the King into their power and then to wi● or force him to what conditions they pleased who must at leastwise promise the● an universal toleration of their Religion throughout his Dominions ere they woul● yeeld to assist him And in case they conquer or prevaile he must then come ful●ly over to their party or else be sent packing by them with a poysoned Fig to another world as his Father they say was its likely by their instruments or procurement they

ROMES MASTER-PEECE OR The Grand Conspiracy of the Pope and his Iesuited Instruments to extirpate the Protestant Religion re-establish Popery subvert Lawes Liberties Peace Parliaments by kindling a Civill War in Scotland and all his Majesties Realmes and to poyson the King himselfe in case hee comply not with them in these their execrable Designes Revealed out of Con●cience to Andreas ab Habernfeld by an Agent sent from Rome into England by Cardinall Barbarino as an Assistant to Con the Popes late Nuncio to prosecute this most Execrable Plot in which he persisted a principall Actor severall yeares who discovered it to Sir William Boswell his Majesties Agent at the Hague 6 Sept. 1640. He under an Oath of Secresie to the Arch-bishop of Canterbury among whose Papers it was casually found by Master Prynne May 31. 1643. who communicated it to the King As the greatest businesse that ever was put to him Published by Authority of Parliament By William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne Esquire 1 COR. 4. 5. The Lord will bring to light the hidden things of Darknesse and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts and then shall every man have praise of God It is Ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament concerning Printing this first day of August 1643. that this Book Intituled Romes Master-Peece be forthwith Printed by Michael Spark Senior Iohn White The second Edition Printed at London for Michael Sparke Senior 1644. TO The Right Honourable ROBERT Earle of WARWICK Baron of LEEZE AND LORD ADMIRALL of all the Parliaments Sea Forces Right Honourable YOur eminent zealous Sincerity and incomparable Activity both by Sea and Land in defence of our undermined endangered Protestant Religion Lawes Liberties Parliament Nation against the many late secret Plots and open Hostilities of Antichristian Romish Vipers who for sundry yeares together have desperately conspired and most vigorously prosecuted their utter extirpation and now almost accomplished this their infernall Designe unlesse Gods infinite mercy which hath never hitherto beene wanting to us in times of greatest extremity miraculously disappoint it hath induced me to dedicate this Master-p●ece of the Romanists and Jesuites Iniquity to your most Noble Patronage Wherein your Lordship may summarily behold the most horrid conspiracy against our Reformed Religion and the very life of the King our Soveraigne in case he comply not with them as now alas He doth overmuch in all things that ever was discovered to the world and clearly descry who have beene the reall originall Contrivers Fomenters of all those late bloody civill warres which have suddenly transformed our peaceable pleasant delectable Edens of England Ireland Scotland into most desolate rufull Acheldamaes yea Golgothaes to the just amazement of our selves and astonishme●t of all our Neighbour Nations who now more lament our present Infelicity then ever their envied our pristine Tranquility It was an admirable act of Divine Providence that a principall Actor in this Conspiracy sent from Rome to promote it should out of remorse of conscience prove the first Revealer of it to Sir William Boswell But it was a farre more wonderfull hand of God that after this Plot had been long concealed from publique knowledge by Canterbury who smothered it hee should unexpectedly rayse Me up from my forraigne Close Prison of Mount-Orgueil Castle in Jersey where Canterbury and his Confederates had intombed me sundry yeares as a dead man out of minde whom they remembred no more reputing me among the number of those that go down into the pit and as one quite cut off by their hands never likely to rise up again till the generall Resurrection and not only reduce me with Honour and Triumph to my Native Countrey restore me to my former liberty and Profession by the Parliaments impartiall Iustice and make my former and my fellow Sufferers unjust Censures the ruine of the S●archamber Highcommission and Prelates who censured us but likewise beyond all expectation send this Archprelate though the Kings chief Favourite a Prisoner to the Tower of London to which I was first of all committed by his malice and employ me to search his Papers there where he had formerly twice searched mine by his Instruments and therehy make Me both the Discoverer and Publisher of this second Gunpowder Plot to the world after a long concealment of it and that in a time most seasonable which otherwise in all probability had never come to light O the depth of the Riches both of the wisdome and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his Judgments and his wayes past finding out This adorable strange Providence of the God of Heaven who revealeth the deep and secret things and knoweth what is in the darknesse and makes known unto us the Kings matter as it should ascertaine us of his future Protection of our Church and State against these Romish Conspirators whose trayterous Designes hee hath formerly most admirably discovered and frustrated from time to time So it should adde much dignity and acceptation to this Discovory and enlarge our gratulations to God for it To his Blessing I shall in my Prayers recommend this Master-Piece together with your Lordships Person and all your Heroick Endeavours for our Religions our Republikes security and for ever remaine Your Lordships most affectionate Servant William Prynne SInce the first Publishing in Print of the ensuing Plot and Letters by Authority and Directions from the House of Commons which imployed me in this service I have been credibly informed by some Friends that many inoredulous over suspitious Malignants who think there is as much falshood dishonesty in others as in themselves have questioned the Truth of the ensuing Plot Letters Papers and confidently if not impudently averred them to be meere Fictions without any shadow proofe reason ground at all but their own malicious misbeliefe But to satisfie all the world in this Particular and these slanderous Infidels too if not ●rodigiously obstinate I doe here attest upon the faith and honour of a Christian First that I found all these ensuing Letters Papers in the Archbishop of Canterburies Chamber in the Tower of London under his own custody when I was unexpectedly employed by the Close Committee in that undesired service of searching it which the Archbishop himself his Servants the Gentlemen and Souldiers who then accompanied me with those who employed me can witnesse and have already oft attested Secondly that they were all Originals no● Copies under the severall hands and Seals of Sir William Boswell Knight the Kings own Leger Embassador at Hague in the N●therlands Andreas ab Habernfeld a Noble Bohemian Physitian to the Queen of Bohemia a man of known sincerity and untainted reputation The Archbishop of Canterbury who must be the sole forger of the Plot and Letters if fained and of the King himself As the Letters Papers themselves o●t viewed by divers of the Lords Commons and other persons of quality for their satisfaction all now remaining in the Custody of a

Committee of the House of Commons where any incredulous Thomas who dares trust his own senses may view them at his leasure will evidence to all who know their Hands or Seales Thirdly that the Archbishop himselfe and his Servants have confessed the verity reality of the Plot and Papers to divers who repaired to them for their own resolution therein and the Archbishop in his late Petition to the Lords in Parliament for restitution of these Papers hath againe fully acknowledged their reality Fourthly which puts all out of question had these Letters Papers been Forgeries or Impostures not reall verities his Majesty himselfe or the Oxford Mercury for him at least the Archbishop Sir William Boswell Andreas ab Habernfeld or some of their Instruments being all living and the Presses open would long ere this have detected this forgery and disclaimed these Papers and Letters in Print which neither of them have done in seven Months space whereas each of them on the contrary as I am informed have avouched these severall Letters Papers to be genuine and their own Finally it had been a strange over-sight yea madnesse in my self and a great dishonour to a most impolitique devise in the Parliament to publish forged Letters in these eminent living Persons names who want neither will meanes nor power immediately to detect refute and manifest such a grosse Imposture to all the world to the eternall infamy of the Publishers Let Malignants and Papists then with all others who have any sparks of Honesty or Policy remaining in them henceforth rest assured of the verity reality of this Plot these Papers though they have formerly doubted of them else let them perish in their groundlesse Infidelity who will neither believe the King the Archbishop Sir William Boswell nor Hab●rnfeld under their Hands and Seales nor yet the Parliament nor Discoverer of them by an admirable unexpected Divine Providence who abhorres all fictions frauds Impostures whatsoever and can doe nothing against the truth but for the truth I shall only adde this to the Premises that the multitude of his Majesties royall Letters of Grace and Discharges of Popish Recusants Priests Iesuits together with his Marriage-Articles Oathes Letter to the Pope and other evidences lately published in The Popish Royall Favourite the late horrid Rebellion in Ireland the Rebels seising of the Goods Estates and Persons of all the English Protestans there to the Kings use and their bloody massacre by blood-thirsty Papists For the exaltation of the holy Roman Catholike Church and the advancement of his Maiesties service c. And that by vertue of his Majesties speciall Commission under the Great Seale of Scotland and Letters of direction sent therewith for the effecting of this great Work which Commission together with the Arguments evidencing the reality thereof you may read at large in the Mystery of iniquity newly published pag. 34. to 42. his Majesties Articles of Pacification with those Rebels ratified under the Great Seale of England wherein he cals these bloody Rebels his Roman Catholike Subjects and good Subiects in some copies and gives them Authority to persecute his Protestant Subiects in Irelands with license to send such Agents to his Majesty from time to time as they shall think fit accepting a grant of thirty thousand eight hundred pound from them and making their base Irish money currant in England by a speciall Proclamation his sending for the Souldiers sent by the Parliament into Ireland to subdue the Rebels and for Irish Rebels too into England and that By his Maiesties speciall Commission and Authority as Mercurius Aulicus informs us twice together and administring an Oath to every Officer and Souldier that shall be transported To the utmost of his power and hazard of his life to fight against the Forces now under the conduct of the Earle of Essex and against all other Forces whatsoever that are or sha●l be raised under what pretence soever contrary to his Majesties Command or Authority in defence of our Protestant Religion Lawes Liberties All these particulars laid together will infallibly demonstrate the reality of this designe and how farre it hath prevailed even with the King himselfe whose heart and person now wholly captivated and stolne away from the Parliament and Kingdome by these Conspirators the good God rescue out of their Traytorly hands and restore unto us in d●e season which shall be the prayer of the Publishe● of this Plot William Prynne Errata COurteous Reader I pray correct these Presse-errours which during my absence at St. Albanes have through the Printers oversight escaped the Presse in this Edition Page 4. l. 1. r. suffer p. 7. l. 20. na●●ragio p. 9. l. 29. them and most p. 15. l. 6. quam p. 28. l. 3. not brooke l. 27. his zeale 1. 29. strong strang p. 29. l. 33. Chaplaine p. 31. l. 10. men these l. 15. yet come into the Kings p 34. l. 29. his destiny l. 40. reasonable l. 46. dele as p. 35. l 26. conspired In the Margin p. 22. l. 18. small r. female ROMES MASTER-PEECE IF there be any professing the Protestant Religion within the Kings Dominions or elsewhere who are yet so wilfully blinded as not to discern so so●tishly incredulous as not to believe any reall long-prosecuted conspiracy by former secret practises and the present warres to extirpate the Protestant Religion re-establish Popery and inthrall the people in all three Kingdomes notwithstanding all visible effects and transparent Demonstrations of it lively set forth in the late Declaration of the Lords and Commons concerning the Rise and Progresse of the Grand Rebellion with other Remonstrances of that nature most visibly appearing in the late Articles of Pacification made by his Majesties Authority and approbation with the Irish Rebels contrary to divers Acts of Parliament passed by the King this present Session Let them now advisedly fixe their Eyes Minds upon the ensuing Letters and Discoveries seised on by Master Prynne in the Archbishops Chamber in the Tower May 31. 1643. by Warrant from the Close Committee to search his Papers there being unexpectedly commanded on that service and then they must needs acknowledge it an indubitable verity Since Sir William Boswell the Archbishop himselfe if not his Majesty and those who revealed this Plot were perswaded of its reality upon the first Dis●overy before it brake forth openly in Ireland and England Who and what the Authour of this Discovery was who the chiefe active instruments in the Plot when and where they assembled in what vigorous manner they daily prosecuted it how effectually they proceeded in it how difficult it is to dissolve or counter-work it without speciall diligence the Relation it selfe will best discover Whose verity if any question these Reasons will inforce beliefe First That the Discoverer was a chiefe Actor in this Plot sent hither from Rome by Cardinall Barbarino to assist Con the Popes Legate in the pursute of it and privy to all the particulars therein discovered

are so conusant of it though it might not be examined when complaine● of in open Parliament by the Commons but the Assembly rather dissolved then 〈◊〉 death discussed and then the Prince yet young and well inclined to them already b● his education will soon be made an obedient son of the Church of Rome Thus th● Relator a chiefe actor in this pre-plotted Treason discovers And if his single test●mony though out of an wounded conscience will not be believed alone the ensuing circumstances will abundantly manifest the Scottish wars to be plotted and directed by them For Con the Popes Legate Hamilton the Queenes Agent mo●● of the Iesuites then about London Captain Read their Host the Lord Sterling Chamberlaine Cardinall Richelleiu his Agent with other chiefe actors in the plot● being all Scots and imploying of Maxfield and he two other active Popish Sco● Lards in raising these tumults the Earle of Arundel another principall member of this conspiracie being by their procurement made Generall of the firs● Army against the Scots and most of his Commanders Papists the Papists in a● counties of England upon the Queens Letters directed to them contributin● large summes of Money besides Men Armes and Horses to maintaine this wa● for which Master Squire of Shoreditch highly commended them in the Pulpi● as the Kings best Subjects See Master Whites first Century of scandalous Priest● P. 25 Sir Toby Matthew the most industrious conspirator in the packe makin● a voyage with the Lord Deputy into Ireland to stir up the Papists there to contr●bute Men Armes Money to subdue the Scottish Covenanters yea Marquesse Hamiltons own Chaplain imployed as the Kings Comissioner to appease these Scots holding correspondency with Con and resorting to him in private to impart the secrets of that businesse to him the generall discontent of the Papists and conspirators upon the first pacification of those troubles which they soon after infringed and by new large contributions raised a second Army against the Scots when the English Parliament refused to grant Subsidies to maintaine the war All these concurring circumstances compared with the relation will ratifie it without dispute that this war first sprung from these conspirators 9. That the subsequent present Rebellion in Ireland and wars in England originally issued from and were plotted by the same conspirators For the Scottish war producing this setled Parliament beyond the conspirators expectation which they foresaw would prove fatall to this their long agitated conspiracie if it continued undissolved thereupon some Popish Irish Commissioners comming over into England and confederating with the Dutchesse of Buckingham Captaine Read now a prisoner in the Tower and taken in the field in actuall rebellion in Ireland and other of these conspirators who afterwards departed secretly into Ireland they plotted an universall Rebellion surprisall and Massacre of all the Protestants in that Kingdome which though in part prevented by a timely discoverie which secured Dublin and some few places else yet it tooke generall effect in all other parts to the losse of above an hundred and fourtie thousand Protestants lives there massacred by them And finding themselves likely to be overcome there by the Parliaments Forces sent hence and from Scotland to relieve the Protestant party thereupon to worke a diversion they raised a civill bloody war against the Parliament here in England procuring the King after Endymion Porter a principall conspirator in the Plot had gained the custody of the great Seale of England to issue out divers Proclamations under the great Seale proclaming the Parliament themselves Traytors and Rebells yea to grant Commissions to Irish and English Papists contrary to his former proclamations to raise Popish forces both at home and in forraigne parts for his defence as his trustiest and most loyall Subjects to send Letters and Commissions of favour to the Irist Rebels and hinder all supplies from hence to the Protestant party And withall they procured the Queene by the Earle of Antrim● and Dutchesse of Buckinghams mediation to send Ammunition to the Irist Rebels and to attempt to raise an insurrection in Scotland too as the Declaration of the rise and progresse of the Rebellion in Ireland more largely discovers since which his Majesty hath condescended to Articles of Pacification with these Rebels contrary to an act of Parliament and both Houses consents wherein they are declared His Majesties GOOD Catholike Subiects of Ireland and no Rebels at all and hath sent for many thousands of them into England to massacre the Protestant English here and fight against the Parliament as they did in Ireland heretofore Seeing then all may clearely discerne the exact prosecution of this plot carried on in all these wars by the conspirators therein particularly nominated by the Queen and Popish partie in all three Kingdomes and by Papists in forraign parts who have largely contributed Men Money Armes Ammunition to accomplish this grand designe through the instigation of those conspirators in this plot who are gone beyond the Seas and have lately caused publike Proclamations to be made in Bridges and other parts of Flaunders in ●uly last as appeares by the Examination of Henry Maye since seconded by others That all people who will now give ANY MONEY TO MAINTAIN THE ROMAN CATHOLIKES IN ENGLAND should have it re-payd them againe in a yeeres time with many thanks the whole world must of necessity both see and acknowledge unlesse they will renounce their ownn eyes and reason that this conspiracy and plot is no feigned imposture but a most reall perspicuous agitated treachery now driven on almost to its perfection the full accomplishment whereof unlesse Heaven prevent it the Catholikes of England expect within the circuit of one yeere as the forenamed Proclamations intimate 10. That no setled peace was ever formerly intended nor can now be futurely expected in England or Ireland without an universall publike toleration at the least of Popery and a repeale and suspention of all Lawes against it this being the very condition in the plot which the King must condescend to ere the Papists would ingage themselves to assist him in these warres thus raised by them for this end and that none may doubt this verity the late most insolent bold demands of the Irish Rebels in the Treaty with them the most favourable Articles of Pacification granted to them the present suspention of all lawes against Priests and Recusants in all Counties under his Majesties power the uncontrolled multitudes of Masses in his Armies Quarters Wales the North and elsewhere the open boasts of Papists every where the introducing of thousands of Irish Rebels and other Fugitives to extirpate the Protestant Religion most really proclaime it And if the King after all their many yeeres restlesse labour plots costs paines and pretended fidelity to his cause against the Parliament should deny these Merit-mongers such a diminutive reward as this is the very least they will expect now they have him the Prince and Duke