Having ended this Conjuration they lead him before an Altar where they shew him in a Picture how the Angel took up Jaques Clement Jacobine presenting him before the Throne of God and saying Lord behold thy own Arm behold thy Revenge and the Executioner of thy Justice and all the Saints stand up and give him room All this being done no Man may speak with this Man but four Jesuits who when they come to him say That he appeareth to them as having some Divine Nature and God-head and that they are so strucken and moved with the brightness thereof that they kiss his Hands and his Feet accounting him no longer a Man and they make a shew as if they did half envy him his good Fortune and Glory which he possesseth already fetching a deep sigh and saying unto him I would that God had chosen me in this place for then I should be assured to go directly to Paradise and not into Purgatory To the Reader of the following Informations and Depositions LEt no Man flatter himself as if Rome were ashamed or had left off the exercise of those her Impious Frauds in our days because these Works of Darkness are not practised in the Face of the Sun or Men were grown more wise and vertuous in this Age than the former The following Paper not to speak of what is in every Mouth testifies That as they never want Encouragements so they can never want Instruments for the most horrid and cruel Assassinations of Kings and Nobles as well as inferior Persons who with them are of no better esteem than Dogs or most noisome Vermine when they oppose their infatiable Lusts which they call Religion or cover with pretences of Piety If any Man be offended with what I have smartly written and endeavoured to expose to publick scorn and hate of the Doctrines and Practices of the Jesuits abominable to God and Man as some Translations of that kind have bin denied publick License and Light as they well deserved had they aimed at any other end than that of publick Justice which allows the most detestable Practices to be spoken out in the audience of all the People If any be offended I say I would be bould to add one word to them which is this That all those Villanies of Cruelty Assassination and the Gunpowder Blow it self had it taken effect the poison of King James if true the Martyrdom of Charles the First the Massacre of Ireland the intended Poisoning or Assassination of his Majesty Charles the Second whom God preserve and with him the Massacre of hundreds of thousands of his Innocent Subjects illustrated by London Flames cannot be so justly laid by Man to them nor can nor will be so severely required by God at the last day at the hands of these Roman Missionaries and their Disciples the sworn Legionaries and Spies of the Popes and Court of Rome to whom they are obliged as Subjects by all Ties Sacred and Humane of Religion Love Gratitude Glory and hope of Salvation as to them who contrary to Oaths Law Justice and Interest of their Country admit harbour entertain plead for favour and shelter them and discourage the Informers and Prosecutors whom Zeal to publick Good hath pressed to discover and pursue them at the extreme peril of their Lives Let the Case be put for Spies sent into any Enemy's Country by any Prince if they came as Spies and so deserve Death much more those that know and receive them I'ts no less than a common Proverb Receivers make Thieves and in our case make Assassins Traitors Murderers Poisoners and Incendiaries Here the Doctor concludes with the protestation of his Innocency That he is ready to tender an Act of Parliament which will put all the good Laws of England into infallible Execution to the Glory of God Preservation of the King Kingdom Religion Laws and Liberties and that what-ever Laws are henceforth made without such Provisions as are necessary to their infallible Execution are but mockeries of God in his Concern and gross abuses of the Country in their Interests and Trust This Paper coming seasonably to my hand to prove by what particular Law our Modern Poisoners Assassins Incendiaries Plunderers Regicides c. are authorized with a good Conscience to attempt so many horrid Villanies and protest at their Death their Babe-like Innocency I thought it would be acceptable to the Reader to find it recorded here in the Sorbon Doctor 's own words as I found it printed in his Expostulation opposed to the Jesuits printed Thesis defended in their Claromontane College at Paris Valerian Flavigny hath these words in the Book and Page quoted in the Margent Perhaps this place might require me to draw hither many other Decrees and Statutes of the Inquisition such as those which may be read in many places of the approved Decretals or Book of the Secrets of the Inquisition published at Venice by Marcus Antonius Zalterius especially in the 472 675 676 namely That it is lawful for every Man by his own private or proper Authority to take captive strip also to kill Heretics That all Persons who are held bound to any Person whatsoever not excepting Kings in what kind of Obligation soever are then wholly freed from it when they to whom they are obliged fall into any manifest Heresy That Hereticks from the day they become Criminal lose all Right and and Power or Dominion of retaining or disposing of all their Goods That all help and benefit of Laws is denied them and that every legal Act is forbidden them He to whom an Heretick hath entrusted any thing is not obliged to restore his trust to him That a Catholick Wife is not obliged not to defraud her Husband because by the Husbands Heresy the Wife is free from that Duty and so on the other hand neither yet is the Bond of Matrimony thereby dissolved That all Vassals whatsoever are by the Letter of the Law of right freed from all Obligation though confirmed by the Religious Bond of an Oath by which they were engaged to their Lords Children are in their own disposal and freed from all Duty to their Parents so soon as they become Hereticks So testifies the Catholick Doctor of the Laws of the Roman Court of Inquisition Expostulatio adversus Thesin Claromontanam Valeriani de Flavigni Doctoris ac Socii Sorbonensis Sacrarum Hebraicarum Literarum Professoris Regii in Regio Franc. Collegio Professorum Regiorum Decani Pag. 9. Forsitan postularet iste locus ut plura alia Inquisitionis Decreta aut Statuta huc adveherem qualia sunt illa quae passim in Decretorio Inquisitorum approbato Venetiis apud Marcum Antonium Zalterium edito legi possunt ac presertim 472 675 676 videlicet Licere propria Authoritate Haereticos capere spoliare ac etiam interficere Omnes qui aliquo Obligationis genere aliquibus tenentur adstricti tunc liberari penitus cum illi quibus obligati erant in Haeresin
they might have a pretence to execute upon them their designed Massacre Dav. Nich. Blundell the Jesuits Catechist substituted into Mr. Oats his room for firing Wapping and the Suburbs on that side the River who did fire the Houses at Limehouse-hole the 18th of Septemb. 1678. twelve days after Mr. Oats had made Affidavit of it before Sir Edmond-Bury Godfry and given his Majesty notice of their purpose in his Information Harcourt and the other Jesuits who imployed Mr. Bedloe and viewed the Tower Bridg-houses and other on the River in order to the application of their Fire-Balls c. Stubs Gifford Molrain who set Eliz. Oxley to fire Mr. Birdans House The Jesuits and their Assistants who were to begin the Fire at the Temple and carry it down to the Savoy The Convent of the Benedictine Monks at the Savoy who were to carry the Fire on to Charing-Cross They who set on and helped M. Clark to fire her Master Mr. De-la Noys House near London-Bridg and the other Maid formerly imployed in the like Villany and the Boy at the Minories * Memorand This Martin de Hamet or Andrew Somers for both those Names were found in his Indenture was an Indenture-Covenant Servant to Claud Lant of the Parish of St. Leonard Shoreditch a French Fringe-maker and for better convenience to carry on the Fire and to get Arms to be used in the Massacre in case the French then aboard their Fleet had landed and the the King thereupon bin assassinated had taken a Lodging in Robin-Hoods Court in Shoe-lane with the then Turn-spit of one of the Inns of Court and firing his own Chamber locked up his Door and was taken going away with the Key and his Indentures in his Pocket and had entred himself in Captain Burton's Company of the Auxiliaries in Shoe-lane The like may be presumed of many more of these Incendiaries This Memorandum is more especially commended to the Officers of the Trained-Bands and Auxiliaries of London because a very wise Man and principal Counsellor to one of the German Princes hath in a Book he published in French affirmed That there are many such French Papists in the City of London who in time of danger would turn to their Enemies and fight against them and now only wait for the King's Death or other opportunity to finish what they begun and designed against their Houses and Lives by Fire and Massacre in the Year 1666. Dr. Tonge hath the Original Indenture and Witnesses to prove this whole Matter to be produced when called for by Authority See Instances of the like Fires Massacres and Robberies acted by Jesuits and other Papists in other Cities in time of Peace in the Doctor 's Demonstration of the Fire-Plot or the Jesuits Incendiaries at the end of that part The Assassins that assailed Justice Arnold Mr. Tomkins Mr. Baron and others may be here added when known Sir EDMOND-BURY GODFREY ANAGRAM I find Murder'd by Rogues Orrory True Justice by false Rogues Murder'd I find They seek in vain Heavens Righteous Eye to blind Dog'd by Furies in Murder Dog'd by Murderin ' Furies By Rogues Rome's Furies dog'd Murder'd you Die Your Name their shame shall live Immortally Dy'd by Rome's rude Finger Rome in Saints Blood still her rude Finger dyes Mother of Murders Lies Idolatries Me dy ' unburied Dog-Friars Whom Cruel Dogs devour unburied lie In Ditches emblems of Friars Cruelty Dun by Romes rigid fury Rome 's riged fury unbid Rome's rigid fury unbid on Murther flies And in Saints Blood her Scarlet double dyes Dy'd by Romes reveng'd fury Rome reveng'd by Fury's dy'd Rom ' dy'd by reveng'd Fury's †Revenge Revenge Furies do Furies call Thy Death is Romes death and thy Fall Romes fall E. T. EDWARD COLEMAN Anagram Lo a damned Crew Anonymus This Proto-Traytor and a damned Crew That follows Lo Heavens Vengeance doth pursue Oe mad and Cruel Whose Confession King Kingdom Life all three Might save dies mute Oe mad and Cruel he E. T. The Publishers Preface to the following Relation of the Mahometan Assassins and their Comparison with the Roman Courteous Reader BE pleased to take notice that this following History of the Mahometan Assassins and their Parallel with the Papal was most of it inserted in Dr. E. Tong 's Royal Martyr as Appendix thereunto For in the Treatise written partly about the Year 1672 and partly about the time of his Majesty's gracious Declaration for Indulgence he endeavoured to discover and prevent if possible in some measure the Horrid Plots ever since the Reformation and more especially in the Reign of our Royal Martyr Charles the First carried on against the Royal Family and still continued until this day for the ruine and destruction of our Religion and therewith of our Laws Liberties and Proprieties therein necessarily involved and charged the Roman Emissaries to have designed all along since the Reformation the Traiterous Parricide of our Protestant Princes and namely of King Charles the First as well as King James and Queen Elizabeth and therein endeavoured to fortify the Testimony of the Reverend Dr. Moulin against them in that particular discountenanced by many and so sedulously suppressed by others that when he endeavoured to promote an Edition of it about the time of the London Fire he found it very difficult to obtain a Copy whereby it might be reprinted And to the better awakening Publick Authority to such a Discovery and Prevention as he intended He judged it convenient to set out this Parallel of our Modern Papal with their Ancestors the more Ancient Mahometan Assassins The Mahometan cannot be denied the honour of the first-born of the Devil the Murderer from the beginning in this Tribe of Regicides though I find one of them envy him the Title and allow him only to be an Ape of the Pope and Jesuits But that these younger Brethren and Successors from Rome have far out-gone him in Principles and Practices cannot be denied as will be more clearly made out when Dr. Oates shall be at leasure to perfect his Narrative of what he hath collected of their Practices in this kind from their own Archieves by which it will appear to admiration most true what John prophesied of that bloody City That all the Blood of God's Martyrs is found in her who hath not only publickly struck at the Crowned Heads of all the Defenders of our Faith but incessantly persued and sought to intercept all our budding Hopes such as were those we conceived of Edward the Sixth and Prince Henry There thou wilt find that hardly any of our Royal Line hath hitherto escaped their Heads or bin unattempted by them if they came near the Succession or gave hopes of zeal for our Religion This Discourse now seasonably as I hope committed to the Press is in particular designed to stir up our Parliament to provide more strict and effectual Means for preventing the like Attempts for the future as in duty they are obliged and to propose to our Princes the
generous Example of the Noble Allon that they may diligently apply their Power and Authority to suppress extinguish and revenge this shame to Humanity Christianity Morality and Policy as well as Religion from the face of the Earth That Blessing and Success with which it pleased God to promote the Doctor 's weak Endeavours in this kind in his former Writings encourages him to proceed notwithstanding the Envy Malice and many other great Discouragements he finds himself hereby daily more and more exposed to His Royal Martyr was if not the only nor chief yet not the least Incentive to Mr. Oates's Adventure amongst them who in the presence of a Learned and Famous Divine did call God to witness That he went not into their Society to change his Religion but to discover if he could this detestable Plot of which he had some Hints from others and found more fully laid out and by Historical Observations on the Sufferings of Charles the First from the Romanists endeavoured to be made out and demonstrated to publick view in the Doctor 's said Book And as this was some motive to send him abroad so the Doctor 's Translation of the Jesuits Morals to be further dispersed and promoted by a Satyrical Index prepared for that purpose and intended to be published with the third and best part of those Morals not yet printed was a principal means whereby that happy Intelligencer got seasonable liberty to return and discover this Plot for they who had kept him so close during his abode in London in attendance on their Consultations in the Month of April and May that he by Providence only found Testimony of his being here did watch and keep him so strictly at their College at St. Omers till June 1678 that thereon they most confidently built their lately disproved Assertion That he never stirred thence So that he had no other hopes left him of escaping their hands than by deceiving their Malice and undertaking to poison or otherwise destroy the Author of those Books whose Name he concealed as unknown unto him nor did their impotent Malice which prompted them to such a barbarity suffer him to return to his Native Country on that Errand till they had loaden his Soul and Conscience with an Oath to poison or otherwise destroy him sealed with their abominable Sacrament of the Mass by which they thought themselves infallibly assured either to destroy the Doctor 's Life or his Soul God of his infinite Mercy to his Majesty these Churches and Kingdoms hath thus far preserved us If henceforth either by our own froward Contentions or negligent Spirits we frustrate the opportunity he hath opened for our escape and attend not after Gratitude to God Loyalty to our Prince and mutual Charity and Toleration the means of preserving and uniting God's Servants and his Majesty's true Lieges so many as are found amongst us in that Bond of Christ's Perfection and Strength and to such provision and execution of good Laws as may utterly exterminate and extinguish this cursed order of barbarous bloody Popish Regicides Assassins Spies and Incendiaries our second Error will be certainly worse than the first and we shall justly provoke God by tempting him through neglect of Means so unexpectedly offered us to give us up to that folly which is the immediate forerunner of a certain ruin which God of his unexpressable undeserved Mercy prevent Amen As for the Doctor he doth boldly protest Liberavi animam meam that he hath by constant attendance on Parliament according to his Station for many Years offered certain and infallible Means for the execution of all good Laws wisely contrived by our Ancestors for the Glory of God Honour and Safety of our King and Kingdom and defeated in a great part by negligence in their degenerate Posterity The Assassins WE have it from good Authority Mat. Paris p. 83. Hen. Spelman Glossarium Assasins saith a Modern Historian whose Authors are in the Margin as he quotes them that there was formerly a Sect amongst the Turks called Assasini whence we say to Assasinate They lived in the Mountains of Phaenicia towards Tyre Their Government and chiefest Laws were these Their Governor or Master was not Hereditary but Elective He under the notion of Humility as if he would be only the Servant of Servants refused all lofty Titles being only called The Old Man of the Mountains He was honoured and worshipped as Vicar of Mahomet and so their Father and Prophet They pretended to be such exact observers of their Turkish and Mahometan Laws that all others seemed but as meer Cheats or Nonconformists in respect of them They were led with that blind Obedience that they never questioned their Master's Commands were the Action never so dangerous difficult or wicked and they never left off till it was finished Any Prince whom they either hated or thought to be no Friend to them or their Party upon the least hint they would murder though they were sure to suffer for it Whosoever murdered a Prince that was not of their Religion they believed him to have the second Place next to Mahomet in Paradise For they also believe that the Old Man their Head and Prophet could also dispose of Paradise 'T is said that this Sect was long ago destroyed by the Tartars and whether any who call themselves Christians have espoused their Tenents I shall not say Thus far my Author Marcus Paulus Venetus in his first Book of the Eastern Regions Chap. 27. gives us this Relation of the Mahometan Cut-throats whom they called Assasins A Certain petty Lord of those Countries commonly called The Old Man of the Mountains a Mahometan joined unto him a number of Cut-throats whom they vulgarly called Assasins and by their untameable boldness killed whom he pleased so that in a short time he became a terror to all Now he brought that about by this Imposture There was in that Country a certain most pleasant Valley encompassed round with very high Mountains within which he planted a very great and pleasant Garden replenished with odoriferous Flowers sweet Fruits and other delightful Herbs He built also in that Garden certain extraordinary Palaces wonderfully adorned with Pictures and spared nothing that might be for ornament unto them Neither was there wanting to that Garden and those Palaces divers running Streams flowing with Water Hony Wine and Milk nor divers Instruments of Artificial Musick with mellodious Tunes and Songs Dancings Vaultings Wrestlings rich Garments and wonderful provision of all delightful Things not to stand in enumerating other carnal and fleshly Pleasures for so this modest Author passeth over all the other sensual Lusts rather than Pleasures wherewith the brutish Fancy of that Impostor Mahomet did accommodate both his Laws and Paradise it self unto his rude and barbarous Disciples All which certain young Men there placed by him did enjoy according as they best liked neither had they any other Imploiment than to live and enjoy that happy Life giving no
incidunt manifestam Haereticos à die commissi criminis amittere dominium omnium bonorum Haereticis omne Legum auxilium beneficium denegatum esse omnemque actum legitimum interdictum Eum apud quem Haereticus aliquid deposuit non teneri rem depositam Haeretico restituere Uxorem Catholicam è converso viro Haeretico debitum reddere non obligari quia per Haeresin viri ab hoc debito liberata est neque tamen dissolutum esse Matrimonii vinculum Quoscunque vasallos omni Obligatione etiam juramenti Religione munita quo dominis suis tenebantur adstricti ipso jure liberatos esse Filios Haereticorum effici sui juris quam primum eorum parentes incidunt in Haeresin And so on the other side Kings and Parents are not bound to them by parity of Law And here because my ingenious Romanist shall not object against this Testimony as he doth against the King's Evidence that we bring only Saying and Swearing against these monsters of Men and Opinions and no Reasons I will give him two Arguments to prove these Doctrines to be true and necessary Points of their Faith And the first Reason is Because the most Holy Popes and Infallible General Councils confirmed and established these Doctrines who confirmed and established their Faith of the real substantial Presence of the Body and Blood of Christ over and besides all its Graces Vertues Powers and Merits to the faithful Receiver by their incomprehensible Transubstantiation against as clear Light of Sense in this as of Morality utterly extinguished in that So that they who leave the Jesuits in the Doctrine of Poisoning and Murdering Kings cannot continue in the Communion of their Church-Mass by the Authority of Pope or Council Nor can the evasion help that it was ordered but not defined for if fallible in Practice which is directed by Judgment who can secure us that Judgment is Infallible where Practice is Heretical My second Argument is a Demonstration in which the infallible Pen of St. Paul gives the Major That all is the Churches and the Pope's Infallible Chair the Minor The Pope and those in his Communion is the only Church therefore all is theirs and we are beholden to them that they have not long since according to the Law of the Holy Inquisition seized all we have to be sure they owe us nothing to whom we owe our very Lives and therefore we as vainly expect they should owe or afford us one Grain of so pretious a Truth as an ingenuous confession of the present Plot which were to contribute greatly to our Delivery Life and Peace the Plague and Ruin of their Cause And here we may see what quarter we are to expect from all those supercilious Factions who Unchurch all Christians who symbolize not with them in all their Ceremonies and fiercely Excommunicate them as Lutherans do the Calvenists at this day That I may say nothing of our Opinionists who found Dominion in Grace and run from Rome in the Fool 's Circle till they overtake and out-go it Postscript or Marginal Note to Flavigni N.B. That Green Berry and Hill having so good Authority without Warrant from any General or other Superior Commissioned from the Pope by the legal Decree of the Holy Inquisition to kill what Hereticks they pleased for them to acknowledg themselves Guilty had bin to renounce their Holy Pope and Holy Inquisition which were to renounce God and Christ and leave the Church Headless and condemn Holy Garnet and all the Red-letter'd Saints who consecrated themselves by the Slaughter and Massacres they have made of more Protestants within this two hundred Years than are now any where alive and kill'd and burnt more in two Protestant King's Reigns than in all their Popish Predecessors and especially they had blasphemed their French and Irish Massacres and English London-Fire those renowned Proofs of Roman Zeal and Religion The Examination of John Lund of Iver in the County of Bucks taken upon Oath before me Henry Coventry Esq one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State this 2d day of January 1678. Who being duly Sworn and Examined saith THat upon Tuesday the last day of December last about six of the Clock of the same in the Evening this Examinant being abroad to look after some Wood-stealers he saw seven or eight Men on Horse-back coming from Iver-Heath towards Iver-Town and three or four of them parted and went the way toward Rickmansworth and the other four came down the Land near which this Examinant stood One of them having occasion to Untruss he alighted and another held his Horse and commanded the other two to go forward who as this Examinant supposeth were their Servants This Examinant saith That he was on the other side the Hedg and very nigh this Person who alighted and heard the one say to the other How are things like to go The other answered Well enough for as for that Inquisitive Dog Shaftsbury and that Dog Essex and another whose Name this Examinant did not perfectly hear but it was Holle or Alle or some such sound their Business should be done The one asked Which way The other answered One Mac who was a clever stout Fellow and had courage would do it in Womens Apparel The other asked again Are you sure he will do it Yes said he he will but if he will not there are a thousand will do it for the same Encouragement And this Examinant further saith That he heard one of the said Persons say to the other Do not fear nor be discouraged for we will send their Souls to the Devil for a New-years Gift And then they mounted and went forwards to a Place where the ways parted and two of them went towards Kingston and the other two towards Windsor One of these Persons who had this Discourse under the Hedg had a black Cap on his Head and the other a Hat all the Horses were dark coloured and two of the Persons had Waste-belts on and one of them had a laced Livery as near as this Examinant could perceive And further this Examinant saith not Taken before me this 2d day of January 1678. John Lund HENRY COVENTRY This Deposition of so fresh a Date is so full an evidence of that Diabolical Murdering Spirit still reigning in these Roman Emissaries and Conspirators that I shall not need to produce any other of that Cloud of Witnesses who with Sir Edmond-Bury Godfry's Blood continually cry to our King Lords and Commons for Vengeance not so much on the poor deluded Accessaries and Instruments acted as upon the Principals and Actors Jesuits Monks Friers and Priests whereof there is not one sent hither who hath not some Episcopal Jurisdiction and consequently who is not a sworn Enemy to our King Kingdoms and Religion If by the equity of Moses Law he who let a wild Ox go loose who had formerly goared others was to answer with the price of his own Life the mischief done by such