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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

things The same houre I went to Master Boswell the Kings Leger at the Hage who being tied with an oath of secrecie to me I communicated the businesse to him I admonished him to weigh these things by the ballance neither to defer but act that those who were in danger might be speedily succoured He as becomes an honest man mindfull of his duty and having nearer looked into the businesse refused not to obey the monitions moreover he forthwith caused that an expresse should be dispatched and sent word back again what a most acceptable oblation this had been to the King and your Grace for which we rejoyced from the heart and we judged that a safe and favourable Deity had interposed it selfe in this businesse whereby you might be preserved Now that the verity of the things related might be confirmed some principall heads of the conspiracy were purposely pret●rmitted that the knowledge of them might bee ext●rted from the circumvented society of the conspirators Now the things will be speedily and safely promoted into act if they be warily proceeded in at Bruxels By my advise that day should be observed wherin the Packet of Letters are dispatched which under the title of To Monsieur Strario Archdeacon of Cambray tied with one cover are delivered to the postmaster such a packet may be secretly brought back from him yet it will be unprofitable because all the inclosed Letters are written Characteristically Likewise another Packet comming weekly frō Rome which is brought under this subscription To the most illustrious Lord Count Rossetti Legat for the time these are not to be neglected to whom likewise Letters writ in the same Character are included That they may be understood Reade is to be consulted with The forenamed day of dispatch shal be expected In Reades house an accumulated congregation may be circumvented which succeeding it will be your Graces part to order the businesse The intestine enemy being at length detected by Gods grace all bitternesse of minde which is caused on either side may be abolished delivered to oblivion deleted and quieted the enemy be invaded on both parts thus the King and the Kings friend and both Kingdomes neere to danger shall be preserved delivered from imminent danger Your Grace likewise may have this injunction by you if you desire to have the best advise given you by others that you trust not overmuch to your Pursevant● for some of them live under the stipend of the popish party How many Rocks how many Scillaes how many displeased Charibdes appear before your Grace in what a dangerous sea the Cockbote of your Graces life next to shipwrack is t●ssed your selfe may judge the fore deck● of the Ship is speedily to be driven to the harbour All these things I whisper into your Graces eare for I know it bound with an oath of secresie therefore by open name I would by these presents become known to your Grace Hage 14. Sept. S. N. 1640. Your Graces most observant and most officious Andrew Habernfeld Andreas ab Habernfeld a Noble Bohemian Dr. of Physick to the Queen of Bohemia his indorsement hereon Illusstrisimo ac Reverendissimo Dom. Domino G●lielmo Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi Primati Metropolitano totius Regni Angliae Dom. meo The Archbishops indorsment with his own hand Rece Octob. 14. 1640. Andreas ab Harbenfed His Letters sent by Sir W. Boswell about the discovery of the treason I conceive by the English Latin herein that he m●st needs be an Englishman with a concealed and changed name And yet it may be this kind of Latin may relate to the Italian Or else he lived some good time in England The declaration of this treason I have by His Majesties speciall command sent to Sir W. Boswell that he may there see what proofe can be made of any particulars The generall Overture and Discovery of the Plot sent with Sir William Boswels first Letter The Kings Majesty and Lord Archbishop of Canterbury are to be secretly informed by Letters 1. THat the Kings Majesty and the Lord Archbishop are both of them in great danof their live● 2. That the whole Commonwealth i● by this means endangered unlesse the mischiefe be speedily prevented 3. That these Scottish troubles are raised to the end that under this pretext the King and Archbishop might be destroyed 4. That there is a meanes to be prescribed whereby both of them in this case may be preserved and this tumult speedily composed 5. That although these Scottish tumults be speedily cōposed yet that the King is endangered and that there are many waies by which destruction is plotted to the King L. Archbishop 6. That a certaine society hath conspired which attempts the death of the King and L. Archbishop and Convulssion of the whole Realme 7. That the same society every week deposits with the President of the society what intelligence every of them hath purchased in eight daies search and then confer all into one packet which is weekly sent to the Director of the businesse 8. That all the confederates in the said conspiracy may verily be named by the poll But because they may be made knowne by other meanes it is thought meet to defer it till hereafter 9. That there is a ready meanes whereby the villany may be discovered in one moment the chiefe conspirators circumvented and the primary members of the conju●ation apprehended in the very act 10. That very many about the King who are accounted most faithfull and intimate to whom likewise the more secret things are instrusted ARE TRAYTORS TO THE KING corrupted with a forraigne Pension who communicate all secrets of greater or lesser moment to a forraigne power These and other most secret things which shall be necessary to be known for the security of the King may be revealed if these things shall be acceptable to the Lord Archbishop In the mean time if his Royall Majesty and the L. Archbishop desire to consult well to themselvas they shall keep these things onely superficially communicated unto them most secretly under deep silence not communicating them so much as to those whom they judge most faithful to them before they shall receive by name in whom they may confide for else they are safe on no side Likewise they may be assured that whatsoever things are here proposed are no figments nor fables nor vaine dreams but such reall verities which may be demonstrated in every small tittle For those who thrust themselves into this businesse are such men who mind no gaine but the very zeal of Christian charity suffers them not to conceale these things yet both from his Majesty and the Lord Archbishop some small examplar of gratitude will be expected All these Premisses have been communicated under good faith and the Sacrament of an oath to Mr. Leger Embassadour of the King of Great Brittain at the Hague that he should not immediately trust or communicate these things to any mortall besides the King and the L.

Pericula Regno utrique imminentia recensentur 3. Exortus incendii illius Scotici progressus ennarratur 4. Media quibus tu●bae istae Scoticae sedari possint suggeruntur postquam enim resciverint Scoti à quibus in quem finemanimi ipsorum accendantur consulent sibi propere neque utriusque partis vires succumbere sinent ne medius sese interp●●at qui utramque quaerit 5. Quo ense Regis petatur jugulum etiam turbis istis sopitis Cun●i Confessio oculataque demonstratio do●et 6. Locus Congr●gationis in aedibus Capitanei Redae nominatur 7. Dies expeditionis octiduae per Redam Legatum injungitur 8. Q●o modo nomina conjuratorum innotescere possint 9. Ubi tota ista Congregatio possit circumveniri 10. Infideles nonnulli ab parte Regis praecipuorum de nomine notificantu● plures quorum nomina non occurrunt habitationes tamen notae sunt de nomine facile ab Reda extorqueri poterunt Si cau●è in his procedetur nervus totius negotii in apricum prodibit ita Sagitta piaevisa effugietur periculum quod ut succedat prospere Creator omnipotens faxit Most illustrious and Reverend Lord. WE have willingly and cordially perceived that our offers have been acceptable both to his Royall Majestie and likewise to your Grace This is the only Index to us That the blessing of God is present with you whereby a spur is given that wee should so much the more cheerfully and freely utter and detect those things whereby the hazard of both your lives the subversion of the Realme and State both of England and Scotland the tumbling down of his Excellent Majesty from his Throne is intended Now least the Discourse should be enlarged with superfluous circumstances we will onely premise some things which are meerly necessary to the businesse They may first of all know that this good man by whom the ensuing things are detected was borne and bred in the Popish Religion who spent many yeeres in Ecclesiasticall dignities At length being found fit for the expedition of the present Designe by the counsell and mandate of the Lord Cardinall Barbarino he was adjoyned to the assistance of Master Cuneus Cun by whom he was found so diligent and sedulous in his Office that hope of great promotion was given to him Yet he led by the instinct of the good Spirit hath howsoever it be contemned sweet promises having known the vanities of the Pontifician Religiō of which he had sometime been a most severe defender having likewise noted the malice of those who fight under the Popish banner felt his Conscience to be burdned which burden that he might ease himself of he converted his mind to the Orthodox Religion Soon after that he might exonerate his Conscience he thought ●it that a desperate Treason machinated against so many soules was to be revealed and that he should receive ease if he vented such things into the bosome of a friend which done he was seriously admonished by the said friend that he should shew an example of his conversion and charity and free so many innocent soules from imminent danger To whose monitions hee willingly consented and delivered the following things to be put in writing out of which the Articles not long since tendered to your Grace may be cleerly explicated and demonstrated 1 First of all that the hinge of the businesse may be rightly discerned it is to be known that all those factions with which all Christendome is at this day shaken do arise from the Iesuiticall off-spring of Cham of which four orders abound thorowout the world Of the first Order are Ecclesiasticks whose office it is to take care of things promoting Religion Of the second Order are Politicians whose office it is by any means to shake trouble reforme the state of Kingdomes and Republikes Of the third Order are Seculars whose property it is to obtr●de themselves into Offices with Kings and Princes to insinuate and immix themselves in Court businesses bargains and sales and to be busied in civill affairs Of the fourth Order are Intelligencers or spies men of inferiour condition who submit themselves to the services of great men Princes Barons Noblemen Citizens to deceive or corrupt the mindes of their masters 2. A Society of so many Orders the Kingdome of England nourisheth for scarce all Spain France and Italy can yeeld so great a multitude of Jesuites as London alone where are found more then 50 Scottish Jesuites There the said society hath elected to it selfe a seat of iniquity and hath c●nspired against the King and the most faithfull to the King especially the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and likewise against both kingdomes 3. For it is more certaine then certainty it self that the forenamed society hath determined to effect an universall reformation of the Kingdome of England and Scotland Therefore the determination of the end necessarily infers a determination of means to the end 4. Therefore to promote the undertaken Villany the said society dubbed it selfe with the Title of The Congregation of propagating the Faith which acknowledgeth the Pope of Rome the Head of the Colledge and Cardinall Barbarino his substitute and Executor 5. The chief Patron of the society at London is the Popes Legat who takes care of the businesse into whose bosome these dregs of Traytors weekly deposite all their Intelligences Now the residence of this Legation was obtained at London in the name of the Roman Ponti●e by whose mediation it might be lawfull for Cardinall Barbarino to work so much the more easily safely upon the King and kingdom For none else could so freely circumvent the King as he who should be palliated with the Popes Authority 6. Master Cuneus did at that time enjoy the Office of the Popes Legat an Vniversall Instrument of the conjured society and a serious Promoter of the businesse whose secrets as likewise those of all the other Intelligencers the present goodman the Communicator of all these things did receive and expedite whither the businesse required Cuneus set upon the chief men of the Kingdom and left nothing unattempted by what means he might corrupt them all and in●line them to the pontifician party he inticed many with various incitements yea he sought to delude the King himselfe with gifts of Pictures antiquities Idols and of other vanities brought from Rome which yet would preva●le nothing with the King Having entred familiarity with the King he is often requested at Hampton Court likewise at London to undertake the cause of the Palatine and that he would interpose his Authority and by his intercession perswade the Legat of Colen that the Palatine in the next Diet to treat of peace might be inserted into the Conditions which verily he promised but performed the contrary He writ indeed that he had been so desired by the King concerning such things yet he advised not that they should be consented

for his detestable office performed wherby he had perverted a certain Minister of the Church with secret incitements to the Popish religion with all his family taking his Daughter to Wife for a recompence obtained a rent or impost upon butter which the Country people are bound to render to him procured for him from the King by some chief men of the Society who never want a spur wherby he may be constantly detained in his Office In his house the businesse of the whole Plot is concluded where the Society which hath conspired against the King the Lord Archbishop both Kingdoms meet together for the most part every day but on the day of the Carrier● or Posts dispatch which is ordinarily Friday they meet in greater numbers for then all the Intelligencers assemble and confer in common what things every of them hath fished out that Week who that they may be without suspi●ion send their secrets by Toby Matthew or Read himselfe to the Popes Legat he transmits the compacted pacquet which he hath purchased from the Intelligencers to Rome With the same Read the Letters brought from Rome are deposited under faired Titles and Names who by him are delivered to al to whom they appertain For all and every of their Names are known to him Vpon the very same occasion Letters also are brought hither under the covert of Father Philip he notwithstanding being ignorant of things from whom they are distributed to the Conspirators There is in that very ●use a publik Chappell wherin an ordinary Jesuite con●ecrates and dwels there In the said Chappell Masses are daily celebrated by the Jesuites and it serves for the baptizing of the Children of the House and of some of the Conspirators Those who assemble in the forenamed house come frequently in Coaches or on Horse back in Lay-mens habit and with a great Train wherwith they are diguised that they may not be known yet they are Jesuites and conjured members of the Society All the Papists of ENGLAND contribute to this Assembly lest any thing should be wanting to promote the undertaken Designe Vpon whose treasury one Widdow owner of the Houses wherein Secretary Windebanke now dwelleth dead above three Yeares since bestowed fourty thousand English pounds so likewise others contribute above their abilities so as the businesse may be promoted unto its desired end 16. Besides the foresaid Houses there are Conventicles also kept in other more secret places of which verily they confide not even among themselves for fear lest they should be discovered First every of them are called to certain Innes one not knowing of the other hence they are severally led by Spies to the place where they ought to meet otherwise ignorant where they ought to assemble lest peradventure they should be surprised at unawares 17. The Countesse of Arundel a strenuous She-Champion of the Popish Religion bends all her Nerves to the Vniversall Reformation whatsoever she hears at the Kings Court that is done secretly or openly in words or deeds she presently imparts to the Popes Legat with whom she meets thrice a day sometimes in Arundel ● House now at the Court or at Tarthal He scarce sucks such things by the Claw The Earl himselfe called now about three years since this year ought to go to Rome without doubt to consult there of serious things concerning the Designe with gifts and speeches the Iesuites watch diligently to their Masses At Greenwich at the Earles costs a feminine School is maintained which otherwise is a Monastery of Nunnes for the young Girls therein are sent forth hither and thither into forraine Mon●steries beyond the Seas Master Porter of the Kings Bed-chamber most addicted to the Popish religion is a bitter enemy of the King he reveales all his greatest secrets to the Popes Legat although he very rarely meets with him yes his wife meets him so much the oftner who being informed by her husband conveyes secrets to the Lega● In all his actions he is nothing inferiour to Toby Matthew it cannot be uttered how diligently he watcheth on the businesse His sonnes are secretly instructed in the Popish Religion openly they professe the Reformed The eldest is now to receive his Fathers Office under the King which shall be A Cardinals hat is provided for the other if the Designe shall succeed well Above three yeares past the said Master Porter was to be sent away by the King to Maroco but he was prohibited by the Society lest the businesse should suffer delay thereby He is a Patron of the Iesuites for whom for the exercise of Religion he provides Chappels both at home and abroad Secretary Windebanke a most fierce Papist is the most unfaithfull to the King of all men who not onely betraies and reveales even the Kings greatest secrets but likewise communicates Counsels by which the designe may be best advanced He at least thrice every week converseth with the Legat in Nocturnal conventicles and reveales those things which he thinkes fit to be knowne for which end he hired a house neare to the Legates house whom he often resorts to through the Garden doore for by this vicinity the meeting is facilitated The said Secretary is bribed with gifts to the party of that coniured Society by whom he is sustained that he may the more seriously execute his Office He sent his Sonne expresly to Rome who ought to insinuate himselfe into the Roman Pontif. Sir Digby Sir Winter Master Mountague the younger who hath been at Rome my Lord Sterling a Cosen of the Earle of Arundels a Knight the Countesse of Newport the Dutchesse of Buckingham and many others who have sworne into this conspiracy are all most vigilant in the designe Some of those are inticed with the hope of Court others of Politicall Offices Others attend to the sixteene Cardinals Caps that are vacant which are therefore detained idle for some yeares that they may impose a vaine hope on th●se who expect them The President of the aforesaid Society was my Lord Gage a Iesuite Priest dead above three yeares since He had a Palace adorned with lascivious pictures which counterfeited prophanenesse in the house but with them was palliated a Monastery wherin forty Nunnes were maintained hid in so great a Palace It is situated in Queenes-street which the statue of a Golden Queene adornes The secular Iesuites have bought all this street and have reduced it into a guadrangle where a Iesuiticall Colledge is tacitly built with this hope that it might be openly finished as soone as the universall reformation was begunne The Popes Legat useth a threefold Character or Cipher One wherewith he communicates with all Nuncioes Another with Cardinall Barbaraino onely A third wherewith he covers some greater secrets to bee communicated What soever things he either receiveth from the Society or other spies those he packes up together in one bundle dedicated under