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A40040	The history of the wicked plots and conspiracies of our pretended saints representing the beginning, constitution, and designs of the Jesuite : with the conspiracies, rebellions, schisms, hypocrisie, perjury, sacriledge, seditions, and vilefying humour of some Presbyterians, proved by a series of authentick examples, as they have been acted in Great Brittain, from the beginning of that faction to this time / by Henry Foulis ...	Foulis, Henry, ca. 1635-1669.	1662 (1662)	Wing F1642; ESTC R4811	275,767	264

Middlesex who by Order had commanded those men to keep watch but sent one of them viz. Justice Long to the Tower This favour of the Commons so animated the people that they thought sedition was then lawful and those tumults a glory to the City because they shewed its strength And therefore many thousands of them run crowding to Westminster crying out No Bishops no Bishops and having thus ranted it in the morning they come again in the afternoon armed with swords and staves and other weapons and then they domineer to the purpose running up and down Westminster inquiring for the Bishops protesting they would pull them in pieces whereupon they were desired by the Marquess of Hertford to stay in the house all night the people vowing to watch their going out and to search every Coach with Torches it being then dark that they might not escape And when the Lords sent down to the Commons that an order might be taken with the tumult and care of the Bishops lives they would do nothing in the business laughing in their sleeves that they had thus brought that great City to worship them and Villainy Yet were the Bishops some way or other cunningly stoln out of the house to the great grief of the blood thirsty Rebels that they had thus lost their sacralegiously intended sacrifice Yet what they mist then they hoped to obtain the next day and therefore away they hurry again to Westminster having Sir Richard Wisman for their Captain And being thus spurr'd on they assault the Abby where the Archbishop of York was then but the doors being strongly lock'd and barr'd and good opposition made they gain'd nothing to boast of and Sir Richard's head was so broke with a tyle thrown from the Leads that he dyed of it nor did John Lilbourn one well known depart without the loss of some rebellious bloud being with some others pelted with stones to the purpose This repulse did something discourage them yet the next day they were coming again but at White-Hall were stopt by the Train-Band and forced to return back some of them being well cudgell'd which action was highly resented by the Parliament who therefore ordered that those who stopt the Londoners coming to Parliament should be found out and examined before a Committee which Order was a good New-years-gift to the seditious Schismaticks Such is the malice of Presbytery against Bishops as if they were all inspired with the same spirit of venome and hatred that he had who long ago cryed out Short red God red shea we the Byshop And accordingly was the Bishop with a hundred men murthered And not inferiour to the former was he in London when the Tumult was railing against the Reverend and Learned Bishop Morton some crying Pull him out of his Coach others acting so violently that the Bishop believed he should never have escaped alive if a leading man amongst the rabble had not cryed out Let him go and hang himself words wicked enough and vomitted with as much malice though by Providence they saved the good Bishop's life The chief men tamper'd withal by some of the factious Members to stirr up these Tumults were Alderman Pennington and Venne two King-Tryers and Manwaring nominated one of the Kings Judges and other such like Instruments they could not want Venne pleading to the people That the worser Party was like to have the better of the good Party and used to imploy his Wife as a Mercury to run about and stir up the people And it is an old Note that Sectaries used in the first place to tamper with such soft-hearted Creatures The truth on 't is the audaciousness of these men was intolerable being like one of their Predecessors Constantinus who is branded for a lover of Tumults and then confidently to glory in such villanies Yet had his Majesty but stript himself of so much mercy as to have eas'd the Nation of the Ring-leaders of these disorders by some meritorious exemplary punishment it may be the rest of the rabble would have learn'd better manners by the Precedent of such an execution But the Kings tenderness made them more audacious so that they never left murmuring and tumultuating till they had terrified the King from White-Hall where he could neither stay with safety nor honour having his power so much scorned that when he went into London the Rabble rung nothing in his ears but Priviledges of Parliament Priviledges of Parliament Alderman Fowke one that went under the notion of one of the Kings Judges as long as the Times were accordingly but they no sooner change but then he denyes and publickly clears himself this man made a worshipful Speech to the King taking upon him to vindicate the accused Members and to give his Majesty advice concerning Fears and Jealousies Nor was this all but that City also protects the accused Members and brings them again to the Parliament-House in the greatest triumph that their wit could imagine with Guns Trumpets flying colours and such like bravado's which was not only an absolute defying but contempt of his Majesty So that Hugh Peters that scandal to the Pulpit spake no false Doctrine when he affirm'd in Alhallows Church in Lumbardstreet That If ever this Kingdom was brought into slavery this City would be the cause of it These Tumults though confest by the Common-Council of London to be the great trouble and affrightment of his Majesties good Subjects and experience also proved it yet must they not be supprest though the Lords earnestly perswaded the Commons to it because as they affirm'd They must not discourage their Friends this being a time they must make use of their Friends Mr. Pym saying God forbid that the House of Commons should proceed in any way to dishearten people to obtain their just desires in such a way The favourablest construction of which words must be by Petition and yet this way was not then acted without Tumults it being then grown to a custom as their own Historian confesseth for a Petition to be backt by great multitudes to Westminster or White-Hall As that was from Kent which was brought to Westminster by about 5000. all a Horse-back and all this noyse was to thank the Lords for their acting so bravely against Bishops And with such like Presbyterian trash were most of their Papers stuft and in so plentiful a manner that if Visions had been then in frequent use that as the Priests formerly saw St. Peters Church in Rome full of Serpents so might England but London especially have been view'd cramb'd full of Devils But where the Albertus Magnus would be I know not And yet the simple people are easily drawn to fancy that Tumults are the only way to make a Nation happy though the ingenuous Tasso will assure them in the contrary Quando sia poi di sì gran moti il fine Non fabriche di Regni

prepare way for the rest Ignatius with Faber and Laynes go thither first whilst the rest distribute themselves into other places of Italy to gain Proselytes The Jesuites tell a story which you may believe as you please since many such tales you read in the life of Saint Francis Saint Benit and others whose legendary actions afford more thwacking stories then a Coffee-house And thus it was That near Rome Ignatius being praying in a Church saw God the Father desiring Jesus Christ to take Ignatius and his Sociates into his Protection to which he consented telling Loyola that he would assist him and his in their endeavours at Rome And from this accident he nominated as they say his Order the Society of Jesus or Jesuites Here Cardinal Contarenus favours Ignatius and his friends nor without reason since this Spanish Saint was so clear-sighted as to see Hozius his soul carryed into Heaven At Rome according to appointment his Companions met him who with himself were highly accused yet after a long tryal by the Popes command were released and suffered to prosecute their Order of livelihood For advancement of which they consult what Vows and Articles were to be observed if the Pope thought fit to confirm them the which after some advisements they agree of From Rome Fr. Xaver is sent into the Indies and what he did there you may see in Horatius Tursellinus In his absence Pope Paul III. famous in History for all manner of wickedness confirm'd Ignatius and his friends into a Society provided that their number should not be above 60. And to this Barth Guidicionius a godly man as the Jesuites confess was glad to give his consent though he had wrote a Book against having any more Orders in Religion The Order being thus constituted Ignatius was chosen General over them though as you may believe he was very modest earnestly declining so great Honour Yet for all this modesty he play'd his cards so well that he procured the former Order to be cancell'd and liberty given to augment the number of his Society to as many as he could though he utterly excluded all women-kind forgetting that Elizabeth Rosella was the chief help and support of his former beings Though many examples assure us that they are not altogether haters of that sex but this must be imputed more to their Man-hood than Order Yet a late Writer informs us of an Order of shee-Jesuites call'd Jesuitrices begun in Flanders by Mrs Ward and Mrs Twittie two English Gentlewomen The first by the Popes Indulgence in short time becoming Mother-General of 200. English Damsels whom she sent abroad to Preach as my Author tells us Ignatius at last having seen a great increase of his Order honoured with divers Colledges and Indowments took an occasion to dye of a Feaver and was many years after though with much ado Canonized for a Saint I might here relate some pretty stories of his Miracles confidently written by the Jesuites But because they are nothing to my purpose and I question much your believing them I shall leave you for satisfaction to other Authors CHAP. III. Some Observations of the Jesuites Political Constitution Temper and Actions especially relating to our late Troubles HAving thus seen the Original of the Jesuite it will not be amiss briefly to hint at their Temper and Activeness especially in relation to Politick designs Though by the By we may observe that he is not the same with the more ancient Order of the Jesuati begun some 300. years ago by St. John Columbine of Sene concerning which I referr you to Paolo Morigia one of the same Order Nor were they the same though mistaken at first to be so in Italy with the Theatins corrupted from the Chietins so called from Chieti of which place John Peter Carrafa afterwards Pope Paul IV. the head of this Order was Bishop In Portugal they are called los Apostoles in Arragon los Iniguistos but in other places Jesuites or those of the Society of Jesus A Title as many Catholicks themselves confess too high and general to be only applyed to this Order But seeing they have the confidence to make this name peculiar to themselves and Pope Pius VI. in his Letters in their behalf to Maximilian King of Hungary to the Archbishop of Ments to Albert Duke of Bavaria and others do appropriate this Name to them and so doth the Council of Trent and it is the Title by which they are best known I shall not stick to pleasure them so farr as to nominate them according to their own desires The Jesuites though at first they had but a small Foundation have since so industriously increased their number that they have above 60. Colledges in Italy and more in Spain in Germany and the Netherlands near the same number in Poland and Transilvania about 20. and in the East-Indies above 12. and in the West some 20. and many in France They are especially sworn to three things The first is Poverty the which they observe so gallantly that I must subscribe to that Noble German who profest That if he were to beg he would beg with the Jesuites Their second vow is Chastity which they keep with as much tenderness as the former as is obvious to any who is converst amongst them and for the farther testimony of this point I shall referr you to the writings of Peter Jarrigius one that was formerly a Jesuite himself and in high esteem amongst them in France but at Rochel imbraced the Calvinist perswasion anno 1647. and thence went to Leyden though afterwards viz. 1650. upon what account he knew best renounced the Reformed Religion and return'd to the Jesuites at Antwerp Their third vow is Obedience to the Pope and their General of which none in the World can be more observant so that by their punctual keeping of this they may somewhat mitigate the offence of their negligence in the two former And this is as one of themselves confesseth the chief honour of their Society How beneficial this Vow hath been to the Roman Catholick Cause may be easily imagined if a man may suppose as I know nothing to the contrary that many bloudy actions perpetrated in France England and other places hath been the result of this Obediential State-Vow Which binds this Order strictly to the Obedience of their General and to ackowledge him as in the place of Christ and that with all reverence and love doing and performing fully readily valiantly humbly without any reasonings or excusings those things which he shall command although they be difficult and against all sense and reason or your own judgement since your will is to be conformable to your Superiour where it doth not appear visibly sinful This last clause might seem to palliate very well this Article of Obedience to those who are not acquainted with their Writings and Actions but they who have any knowledge with their

restrain'd the punishment of their disorders against her Person and Authority the more liberty they took to offend To this Knox impudently answers That his patience in suffering abominations made him not guilty of any fault and if his tongue took liberty in Pulpit she might take it as she pleas'd since in the Pulpit he had no Superiour but God and that his gifts made him equal to any of her Peers And as for her weeping he said He could better sustain her tears than the trouble of his Cause or to betray the Common-wealth Nor durst the Queen question him for his sawcy replyes knowing the strength of his Faction which being uot unhid to Knox made him more Insolent as afterwards publickly to affirm That For her sins the Land must lament and that it was absolute Rebellion in her not to turn Protestant and compared her to Simon Magus thinking it impossible that her sins could be forgiven her Nor did others of his Fraternity hold their peace And having got thus sure footing nothing would satisfie them but to have all for which purpose at a General Assembly at Edenburgh they draw up a Petition of several Heads the first of which was That the Queen her self with all her Family should not only forsake Mass and Popish Idolatry but that all none excepted should be punished who transgrest this Article To this she answered being then at St. Johnstons That as she freely gave every one Liberty of Conscience so she hoped that her Subjects would not press her to do against her Conscience and that she did not only think that there was no impiety in the Mass but that her Religion was true and grounded upon the Word of God But this gave them no full satisfaction Henry Stewart Lord Darnley being now marryed to the Queen July 1565. and proclaimed King the Knoxian Lords fly to their Arms and so doth the King also but before his march hears Knox preach at Edenburgh at St. Giles Kirk where he rail'd against the present Government reflectively saying That for the sins of the People God gives them Boyes the King was about 21. years old and Women to rule over them After which the King marcheth against the Lords who fly into England yet through Intercession all was reconciled Not long after this the Queen was brought to Bed in Edenburgh Castle betwixt 9. 10. at night July 19. of a Son which was afterwards Christned at Sterling and call'd James who became at last the happy Uniter of the two Crowns At the latter end of the same year John Knox intending to visit his sons at Cambridge moved the Assembly to write to the English Bishops in favour of the Non-conformists then buzzing in England The which they do but in their wonted language railing against the Surplice Square-Caps Tippets and calling them Badges and Garments of Idolatry Romish Raggs vain Trifles telling them as if the serious Bishops need take advice from such Hair-brains That they may boldly oppose all such Authority which dare command such things brave language and anew way of begging to get curtesies by Some few weeks after this the King was most barbarously murder'd 9 th February but by whom and how because History will not tell us the truth at large I think it not convenient to relate by peice-meal Then was the Queen whether willing or constrained is nothing to me marryed to Bothwell against whom the Lords raise an Army and forced him to fly into Denmark where he was imprisoned and they also seize on the forsaken Queen whom they secure in the Island of Lochlevin where by threats and fear they forced her to resign tears trickling down her face abundantly her Interest in the Crown to her young Son few days above a year old who was Crowned few days after at Sterling July 29. And if you will believe a late Historian Knox and other Ministers were not satisfied with this Resignation of hers but would have her also deprived of life nor is this Treasonable cruelty contradictory to his fore-mentioned Principles Now could the Knoxians desire nothing more having their King young in his Cradle and so capable of what impression they pleas'd and their Queen in close Prison so that they appeared Lords and Masters Yet she presently escapes out of Prison gets some Forces fights Murray the Regent but being beat fled into England where Queen Elizabeth imprisoned her till she was to the astonishment of many beheaded 1586. after 18. years close Imprisonment The next year the Regent Murray was slain at Lithgow by one Hamilton And then Lenox the Kings Grand-father obtained that dignity against whom the Lord Hamilton in behalf of the Queen raiseth a Warr in which Lenox was slain at Sterling Then was the Earl of Marre chosen who not long after dyed of a Feavour After whom the Earl of Morton succeeded as Regent after which the Queens Party by degrees lost all Authority In this year did John Knox dye at Edenburgh Novemb. 27. one that as I am apt to believe all things considered gained more esteem amongst the people by the reverence of his long-beard reaching down to his middle than any real wisdom or discretion that could be appropriated to him And now comes Andrew Melvil burning from Geneva against Bishops denying the lawfulness of their Function labouring for the absolute Presbyterial Discipline according to the Geneva mode which rais'd some Tempests in the Church insomuch that some of the Presbytery forbad Mr. Patrick Adamson lately by the Regent presented and by the Chapter chosen to the See of St. Andrews to Exercise any part of his Jurisdiction till he had acknowledged and satisfied them After this Argyle and Athol not affecting the Regent go to the young King at Sterling complaining against Morton and desiring him to take the Rule upon himself And so the King doth at 12. years old and thus the Regency fell The young King being brought up in the Reformed way confirms the Religion in Parliament but not their Discipline he affecting the Episcopal Government and ever since he was ten years old as himself confesseth disliked the Presbyterian way And truly Experience gave him good reason for it But to make all sure a Negative Oath by way of a Confession of Faith wherein all the Romish Ceremonies and Doctrines were abjured was drawn up by Mr. John Craig and this the King himself took and this he reflected upon in the Conference at Hampton-Court Having thus tyed his Conscience as they thought his Body must be secured too and so at Ruthen they seize upon him and that with so much inhumanity and irreverence that he burst forth into tears for which he got nothing but this Answer from the Master of Glammis It is no matter for his tears better that Barns should weep then Bearded-men Upon this the Earl of Arran going to know the Kings condition was secured and his Brother sore

any of your Protestations and seeming kindnesses may thank himself for his own distruction not a man of you but like Pope Sixtus IV. if the Poet hit right Fraudisque dolique Magister Et sola tantum proditione potens A Master of frauds and deceits And only powerful in Treacherous feats So stubborn and perverse are these People in their Iniquities that the King Church must either submit to their whimsies or else neither shall have Peace For if ever the Common-Prayer-Book be imposed again against the Authority ofthese seditious Caterpillers they plainly tell the present King that there will inevitably follow sad Divisions and widening of the Breaches which your Majesty is endeavouring to heal And in their second Paper to his Majesty they thus swagger Should we lose the opportunity of our desired Reconciliation and Union It astonisheth us to fore-see what doleful effects our Divisions should produce which we will not so much as mention in particular lest we should be mis-understood And in another place they threaten the King with what great Calamities will fall upon the People in his Raign if Episcopacy be fully setled And in another of their Pamphlets talks of the Worlds running into Confusion yet a little after assures the Bishops how patiently they will undergo this Persecution for such is Obedience in the Opinion of these men But how improbable it is that these men should continue in this Resolution shall be left to experience though any man may imagine that their words were farr from their intentions when they shall hear the same People tell the very same Bishops that they must make loud complaint of their Persecutions in their Sermons Prayers and other Discourses To which purpose thus take their own words It is easie to fore-see how those expressions in mens Sermons or Prayers or familiar Conference which seem to any mis-understanding or suspicious or malicious Hearers to Intimate any sense of Sufferings will be carryed to the Ears of Rulers and represented as a Crime And Nature have planted in all men an Unwillingness to suffer and deny'd to all men a love of Calamity and necessitated men to feel when they are hurt and made the Tongue and Countenance the Index of our Sense These Effects will be unavoidable while such Impositions are continued And while a fear of sinning will not suffer men to swallow and digest them These are the expressions not of private but the publick and chief persons of their Faction not singly neither for not a word of these past but with the approbation and consent of their wisest Grandees which may be for ought I know a Representative of their whole Body Yet here you see the Foundations of another Warr laid if their desires be not satisfied and if this do not signifie their Obedience to be no longer than the King and Bishops comply with their humours I will submit to be chain'd for a punishment to Jenkin's or Calamy's Pulpit for a twelve-month to learn the meaning of the Covenanters Gibbridge When they expresly declare that unless the King satisfie their desires there shall be Divisions Breaches aoleful Effects great Calamities Confusions and that they for their parts shall not hold their peace I must take it for granted that they are willing nay resolv'd if they can get opportunity again to renew their Rebellion and all this wickedness to retrive that hellish Imp their Covenant burnt by the Hang-mans hand by publick Authority And those who will thus out-face King Church Law and Authority must be as farr from being good Subjects as Ravaillac was when he stab'd his Soveraign CHAP. V. I. The wicked Reproaches the Presbyterians cast upon the present Episcopal Church II. What small reason they have to desire Toleration from the King and Episcopal Party since they deny the same to them with their scandals upon the Church as Popish which are wiped off III. Their slanders upon the late King and his vindication from his own Enemies IV. Their endeavours to begger the Episcopal Church V. Their stories of Gods judgments retorted THere is a Tale of Bajazet the first that he had an Ethiope born in India about him and having upon a march one day his Tent pitch'd near an high Tree He call'd the Ethiope and said Dre Areb if thou lov'st me go up to the top of that Tree The Indian scambled up presently so the Emperour sent presently for some to hew down the Tree the poor Ethiop begging his life all the while and that his Counsellors would intercede for him but nothing prevailing the Ethiop pull'd down his Breeches and with his Excrements and Urine did so bewray the hewers that they gave over work and in the interim the Ethiop gets down telling the Turks Counsellors Would all such privy Counsellors as you were so bewray'd whose Counsell cannot do as much good as mine Excrements There is nothing in this story that I do entend to be applicatory but to one piece of policy of the Presbyterians who at this time when all means else fail them make it one of their best Asylum's and last refuge to bespatter and vilifie those whom they take for their enemies And in this art they are so dexterous as to charme the simple people into a belief of their words each of their Lecturers being as active for England as the spirit Rigilde in Scudery's Master-piece was for to perswade the Spaniards into Tumults and Uproars And they are not ignorant how credulous the vulgar are A poor German was easily perswaded that a fellow was burnt at Auspurg for a Cheat by placing snow before an hot furnace and there to remain till it was hardened with the heat and then to have sold it for salt A priest once made some people so firmly believe that the Storks were men of a farre Country but only in winter Transfigured That they did all seriously profess for the future to have a greater respect and honour for those Birds If many men of good literature are apt to credit the stories in Gononus Metaphrastes Surius Dauroultius Nider Marulus Cantipratanus Lippeloo Caesarius and such like Sacred Romancies we may well suppose the Faith of the unlearned to be more easily wrought upon This makes them at this time throw about their dirt to the purpose perswading the people that nothing but wickedness and Sathan rules and over-spreads the whole Land To which purpose thus they send their Mercuries about and old Hall of Kings-Norton rants bravely I do verily believe there hath been a greater flood of open profanesse in ten weeks past than in ten years before Which is a pretty information to the people of what mischief the Kings return hath brought upon the Kingdome And to this purpose also Crofton when he tells us of the Suppressing pious painful Preachers thrust out and prophane drunken deboist canonical Common-Prayer-Book men forced in wheresoever a Bishops power can reach And this