to this Some years after when I petitioned His Highness for Restoration upon the score of Innocence or else for common ordinary Justice and equity between any Master and Servant in three particulars 1. Arrears of Salarie 2. A Bene discessit and leave to take another Patron 3. Some reparation of detriment by occasion of his Service His Highness was graciously pleased with kind circumstances to give me his answer by my Lord Craven to this effect that his Lordship doubted not to see me suddainly made a Bishop if I submitted to the Bishops And I answered I had given His Highness Reasons in Paper why I could not because their Terms were indispensably to renounce my Innocence and Truth to secure and justify them if then said his Lordship you cannot and will not submit to the Bishops His Highness's last answer is that he can do nothing for you but as he is directed by the Bishops which was agreable to former answers of His Highness to me that he referd them matters to the Bishops and I heard it from others of different interests who well knew His Highness's mind in this matter That he would do nothing for me against the mind of the Bishops but if I could get the Bishops of my side he would be as kind as ever Sr. W. C. C. W. L. C. M. Neither would the Bishops give His Highness way to shew me Favour or do me Justice as above without such submission which they had not power enough to bring me to as I told them when I was lowest and so it continues still with me though the one be in His Grave the other gone off the Stage and Bishop Blanford of Worcester desired by the Duke to search my cause reported on my behalf in the matter of the reading Pew against my Diocesan but as to the concern of the greater Bishops he thought fit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So that I could not well and fully make use of a great Patronage within reach most necessary for me in my deserted condition for want of leave neither did His Highness recommend me to any other Patron and I was neglected by my own Church for which I had studyed and suffered all my days and my Principles allowed me not to joyn with other Protestants who more respected me for my Sufferrings and Integrity though differing ever from them for the wrongs of some mortal Governours of the church was no exception or prejudice to me against the good Laws and Government it self as I answered some of them that invited me neither was I to repair to my Living the Master-gin of my adversaries where old snares continued and my Cow was milked and submission was expected to unjust scandalous and-over ruled Censures and their watch and frown upon my Converse every where made it difficult to live or breath yet I was unwilling for the reason at first to cry out for help against my Fathers or to make their oppression known to the Nation for my relief and vindication Now I can discern no difference between being wounded by the hands of Papists as Principals or of Reverend Protestants if for no other cause but Protestancie as Instruments but that my Guard against Enemies in the shape of friends in Superioritie was more difficult and their Wounds pierced deeper by the Trachery and Indignity and that the Master is to be rever'd above the Servant nor how any other Clergie man in the same Circumstances should have escaped the same mysterious and unaccountable Danger and Trouble if he had been as proud and mad as to prefer his Duty and Fidelity to his Church and Country before his Worldly Interest and Advantage surely from the beginning of the Reformation it was not so New whether it be of publick Concern and Consequence to prevent the like discouragement to others from those who should rather encourage their Inferiors in such Fidelity I humbly leave it to the Government to Judge Now I perceived that you well knew of this design and storm against me about two yeres before the Duke understood it and I must say it to your Honour that none of my adversaries dealt more plainly with me in fore telling both my danger and its cause than you did whereby I suspect you could not be then ignorant of this Popish Plot in its first rise and management For I remember when upon Her late Highnesses Her Order to me in 1664. to watch and oppose the intollerable incroachments of the other Chappel at St. James I had amongst other instances to check them recommended D. M. in great distress and miserie to her Charitie and Protection with much acceptance then she being a zealous Protestant in her own inclination and he likewise under a good Charracter for Life and Birth which the Portugal Chaplains whom I was commanded to found had nothing to except against I did not find them so incens'd against him and me as I found you and your partie against us both before any other Good or Evil was known of him or objected against me For publiquely at Gentle-men-Waiters Table among other molestations you reproved me upon his score and were angry with him for changing his Religion and communicating with the French Church having then little or no English and that the French and we differed not only in Dicipline but in Doctrine and that you would keep him from your Sacrament at St. Jams's if he offer'd to come there And when I told you the Bishop of W. did countenance him and weekly relieved him with Her Highnesses Charity you assur'd me the Bishop was not for him which afterwards appeared true to some purpose and another time the same yere before a private Sacrament order'd Her Highness in Her closet by Her Confessor my Lord of Winton for the recovery of the Duke of Cambridge's health which seemed a strange use of a Protestant Sacrament to me when I desired to be in Charity with you and to know the true cause of your displeasure against me with a purpose to give you Christian satisfaction you answered that I had never done you any wrong but that I should be turned out of the Family for unsound Principles which I then desired to know what they were seeing I had been firm to the Church of England before the Restoration and had no reason to desert it since but you would not then assign what they were but you and your partie from that time daily set your selves to molest me and decry me and diminish my Salary as afore to diminish my Qualility against contract with consideration and to exclude me from Preaching and officiating at all before the Dutches at St. Jams's For besides her monthly Sacrament days wherein she remained at St. James's you know if you please when it was my turn to Preach she began to stay the other Sundays on which I was to Preach at home to hear me and not to goe to White-Hall and I remember when she found you were to Preach when
Elymas the Sorcerer OR A MEMORIAL Towards the DISCOVERY Of the Bottom of this Popish-PLOT And how far his R. HIGHNESS's Directors have been Faithful to his Honour and Interest or the Peace of the NATION Publish'd upon occasion of a Passage in the Late Dutchess of YORK's Declaration for changing her RELIGION BY THO JONES sometime Domestick and Naval Chaplain to his R. Highness the Duke of York Cur aliquid vidi Cur noxia Lumina feci 2 Cor. 12 9. My Strength is made perfect weakness LONDON Printed for H. Jones MDCLXXXII A Memorial towards the Discovery of the Original of this Popish-Plot c. MOnsieur Maimbourg in his History of Calvinisme very lately put out this present year 1682 in several Editions recites therein with great Catholick boast and hopes A Declaration of her late Highness the Dutchess of York of the Reasons and Motives she had to change her Religion I regarded one passage therein more upon my own experience than the credit of a Stranger which justified a suspition I endur'd long trouble for many years to adhere to out of fidelity to my Church and Country though severely lash'd with the Imputations of Pride and disobedience for it for which I am to bless The passage is this J'ay este particulierement fortement convaincue de la presence reele de Jesus-Christ au Saint Sacrement de l' Autel de l'infaillibilite de l' Eglise de la Confession de la priere pour les morts J'ay voulu conferer de ces marieres par maniere dentretien avec les deux plus habiles Evesques que nous ayons en Angleterre tous deux m'ont avoue ingenument qu'ily a bien des choses dans l'Eglise Romaine qu'il seroit a desirer que l' Eglise Anglicane eust toujours observees comme la Confession qu'on ne scauroit desavouer que â—ieu mesme n'ait commandee la priere pour les morts qui est une des plus authentiques les plus anciennes pratiques de la Religion Chrestienne que pour eux ils s'en servoient en particulier sans en faire une profession publique Comme je pressois un de ces Evesques sur les autres points de concroverse principalement sur la presence reele de Jesus Christ au Saint Sacrament de l' Autel il me repondit librement que s'il estoit Catholique il ne voudroit pas changer de Religion mais qu'ayant este eleve dans une Eglise dans laquelle il croyoit avoir tout ce qui estnecessaire au salus y ayant receu son Baptesme il ne croyoit pas la pouvoir quitter sans un grand scandale Tout ce discours neservit qu'a augmenter le desir ardent que j'avois de me rendre Catholique je sentis des peines interieures d'horribles inquietudes ensuite de la conversation que j'eus avec ces deux Evesques I was particularly and strongly convinced of the real presence of Jesus Christ in the Holy Sacrament of the Altar of the Infallibility of the Church Confession and Prayer for the Dead I was willing to conferr of these matters by way of Discourse with the Two most able Bishops that we have in England and both confest to me ingeniously That there are many things in the Church of Rome which it was to be wished that the Church of England had still observed as Confession which it could not be denied but that God had commanded it and Prayer for the Dead which is one of the most authentick and Antient Practices of the Christian Religion but as to themselves they made use thereof in private without making publick profession thereof As I pressed one of these Bishops upon the other points of Controversy and principally on the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Holy Sacrament of the Altar he answered me freely that were he a Catholick he would not change Religion but that having been educated in a Church in which he believed there was all that was necessary to Salvation and there having received his Baptisme he thought he could not quit it without great Scandal All this discourse served but to increase the Ardent desire which I had to become a Catholick and I felt inward Pains and horrible disquiets after the conversation I had with these Two Bishops The Author of the Apology in behalf of the Papists Printed in 1666 who well knew me and the cause of my sufferings dropt an Early Intimation of the like Import We dare with submission say Let a Publick Invitation be put up against any Party whatsoever Nay against the Reverend Bishops themselves and some malicious in his Lordships sense Informer or other will alledge that which may be far better to conceal There are but few to be found so forsaken of God and their own Reasons as are not able to discern and allow that Secret Enemies are far more dangerous to all Men and Communities than open and profesl'd and that Men hate to be betrayed worse than to be Destroyed They therefore that countenance or cover the Masquerade Enemies of the Church of England prove themselves to be of the same pernicious conspiracy the greater they are in Place and Power the greater is the danger to the Publick from them and their detection therefore the greater service and Glory Her late Highness expresses not what Bishops those Two were in Particular whom all sober Protestants must look on as the betrayers of her Soul and this Church It seems duty and fidelity to our Church and Nation to contribute Intelligence and Observations to detect them farther They are not in Reason Fathers who are condemned Persons in Law And the danger and scandal of their ill example is the less because they never shewed so much Learning and Integrity as to justifie before the world their new Perswasions by Pen or open Practice or Resignation A Papist or a Mahometan that is sincere and Resolute in the profession of his errour shews more Religon and vertue than the most Reverend two fac'd Renegado that 's false to his Faith and trust and Countrey for wordly Interest And Indeed he that is so false to himself will hardly be true to any other Therefore Campanella advises to chuse for confessor non qui te diligit sed qui diligit animam Suam such who loves his own Soul not thee To these Judas's amongst our Apostles is cheiflly owing the present misery and Redivision of these flourishing Kingdoms by new Fears and fewds and not a little perhaps to the Eternal Frailties of great ones that had rather be Pleas'd than Lovd How happy were it for the Nation if such carnal compliers for the sake of Grandeur were as hateful to our Princes as they are to God and the rest of Mankinde I have no better account to give to God and the World of the latter part of my life than some zeal and Adventures against such Betrayers which
be at the Morning Prayers at Seven a Clock VI. To have a care that others who are free observe the other hour of Prayer and to admonish them if they do not VII To dispense with the absence of either sort rarely on the Week days but not at all if in health on Sundays VIII Those who are refractory or uncounsellable to present a Schedule of their names to her Highness IX To Catechise and instruct the Pages and others who want instruction very constantly according to the Orders of the Church of England X. To have a particular eye of the Pages as well the Dukes as Dutchess to keep them steady in our Religion her Highness being inform'd that the Roman Priests find opportunity of discoursing with them and to find what you can of their private conferences XI To oblige all the Congregation to be constant at Evening-Prayer as well as Morning and if their due imployments will not permit them to attend an Hour to chuse an Hour convenient for them and in that oase to Read twice in the Afternoon as well as in the Morning Observations on these ORDERS 1. HER Highness was acquainted by my means of the Practices of the other Chappel upon Young and Sick and the weaker Sex in and about St. James's to obtain her countenance to support me in my Duty 2. The first Order tended to bring me and the Liturgy into contempt for on Seven in the Morning on Sundays all chose to go to the Morning Sermon at White hall and this was never us'd atter I was remov'd 3. The forth tended to enrage several in the Family against me 4. I did begin to Catechise but was discouraged in it by the Arts of the said Bishop The Introduction of Ferdinando De Macedo to the late Dutchess of York Anno. 1664. HIS Father Damiano Rangel De Macedo Provedor or Lord Justice of the Province of Beira Dezembargador or Privy Councellor to the King of Portugal and Chancellor or the Kingdom dyed about the Year 1656. Leaving Issue 1. Antonius de Silveira de Macedo 2. Ferdinandus Rangell de Macedo 3. Cosmo Rangel de Macedo 4. Donna Isabella de Moira 1. Antonius the Eldest was Admiral of their Brazil Armada in their War against the Dutch he sank himself and his Ship in a Sea-fight with Blake when over pour'd in their War with Cromwel 2. Ferdinandus now the Eldest a Monk 3. Cosmo 18. Year old now the Hoir At present a Student at Law Anno. 25. of his Age He will be Chancellor of the Kingdom of course by the Kings Favour to that Family for these 100. Years his Uncle at present is Chancellor in his slead and his Governour 4. Donna Isabella Married to Andraeas de Carveliosa a Privy Counsellor and Son to the President of the Kings Council Ferdinandus was brought up in the Schools of the Jesuits at Lisbone Commenc'd Batchelor at Law at the University of Coimbria became a Franciscan Recolet at 18 Years of Age continued 20. is now 43 Years Old He was Chaplain and Kinsman to the Portugal Ambassador SA here in Cromwels time for 3 Years For 3 Years Missionary in the East Indies whither he travail'd by Sea and Land having viewed the Holy Land in his Course Accused before the Cardinals for laying aside Images wherewith he saw the Heathens scandaliz'd a Preacher in Rome for divers years Preached several times before Allexander and Vrban Popes He was Guardian of the great Monastry of Pisae in Italy Missionary in Fandors for 3 Years and Missionary in Languedoc in Frunce He conceal'd as yet his Relation to the Queen he e in England as Clerk of her Closet and how he Preach'd against Invocation of Saints upon St. Ulsulas 's day and was sent to Rome with Letters and suspecting the Contents became a Protestant in France where he declared he was taken upon the King of France his Edict against Apostates and sentenc'd to death by the Parliament of Tholous upon his Appeal delivered because no Subject of France He was Imprisoned and chain'd Arms Legs and Neck by the P. of Conti but would not turn for fair or fowl means he is conveyed by a Party of 25 men towards Catalonia to be delivered to the Spanish Inquisiton Rescued by a Switzer Collonel on the way a Protestant and one that knew him Liv'd in Woods for a Quartor of a Year got over to England in November 1663. Liv'd in obscurity want and Sickness for half a year In the mean time solicited by the Queens Chaplain with large offers from the Queen and of Pardon from the Pope The Queens Confessor his Tutor Conjuring him to return in the name of St. Francis c. And that they Fasted and Prayed in the Queens Chappel for his recovery to their Church against all which he stood out living upon Bread and Water till his Case by good Providence to him came to be made known to the late Dutchess of York which was upon this occasion The Noble Lord B accompanying his Lady near her time at a Sacrament at St. James's on Easter day where I Preached and celebrated greatly enlarg'd the usual offering and Appointed me shortly after to Christen his second Son now his Eldest and Lord B. And ordered me by his Secretary Mr Aldridge Ten pound for the same Five pound to my self and the other Five pound by my hands to what poor I pleas'd concealing his Lordships Name Enquiring for a fit object and most remote from private Ends for so generous a Charity I was directed to a stranger at the Fox in Drury Lane that was believed to be a Gentleman and in great Want and Misery and with little English to make his case known who happened to be this Ferdinandus de Macedo I took this Examination of him or the most part thereof wherewith the Dutchess of York being acquainted was greatly pleas'd especially with the passage about a Fast in the Queens Chappel for she said she knew that they had a Fast in their Chappel about a Month before for a lost Sheep but could never find before who it was and she liberally relieved him by the hands of the Bishop of W. as did others by her Example and Ordered me to found the Priests of the other Chappel what Exceptions they had against him and I found they had none at last either against his Birth or Life but only his Revolt from them Then one was sent by her Highness to the Bishops to know in what manner he was to be received who returned sad and Blank with a Story there told that there was no great difference between the two Religions and that two Brothers had converted one another the Papist the Protestant and the Protestant the Papist which was the first time I did suspect Danger from the said Bishops which no Innocence or Favour of Duke or Dutchess could afterwards avert De Macedo is order'd to go for Oxford against his will under colour to be preserved from the threats of the Queens