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A33307	England's remembrancer a true and full narrative of those two never to be forgotten deliverances : one from the Spanish invasion in 88, the other from the hellish Powder Plot, November 5, 1605 : whereunto is added the like narrative of that signal judgment of God upon the papists by the fall of the house in Black-Fryers London upon their fifth of November, 1623 / collected for the information and benefit of each family by Sam. Clark.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1677 (1677)	Wing C4512; ESTC R24835	49,793	136

England's Remembrancer A True and Full NARRATIVE OF Those two never to be forgotten DELIVERANCES One From The Spanish Invasion in 88. The other from The Hellish Powder Plot November 5. 1605. Whereunto is added The like Narrative of that signal Judgment of God upon the Papists by the Fall of the House in Black-Fryers London upon their fifth of November 1623. Collected for the Information and Benefit of each Family by Sam. Clark formerly Pastor in Bennet Fink Behold the wicked travelleth with iniquity and hath conceived mischief and brought forth falshood He made a Pit and digged it and is fallen into the ditch which he made His mischief shall return upon his own head and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate Psal. 7. 14 15 16. LONDON Printed for J. Hancock and are to be sold at the three Bibles in Popes-Head Alley next to Cornhill 1677. TO THE HONOURABLE And his Much Honoured Friends EDWARD RVSSEL Esq Son to the Right Honourable Francis Earl of BEDFORD AND TO The Lady PENELOPE His prudent and pious Consort Sir Madam I Take the boldness to present you with these Narratives not for that they are new or supposing your selves to be strangers to them but as a Testimony of my Gratitude for those favours I have received from you The high Heavens may be seen in the lowest valleys So may a large heart in the least Gift But truly though the Gift be worthless yet so is not the matter contained in it which sets forth such eminent and signal deliverances as no Church or people in these latter Ages of the world have received And there must be a recognition of Gods mercies or else there will neither follow estimation nor retribution Hence Micah 6. 5. O my people saith God many hundreds of years after remember now what Balack King of Moab consulted and what Balaam the Son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal that ye may know the righteousness of the Lord. If there be not such a recognition of former deliverances we that should be as Temples of his praise shall be as graves of his benefits Our souls indeed are too like filthy Ponds wherein fish die soon and frogs live long Rotten stuff is remembred memorable mercies are forgotten whereas the soul should be as an holy Ark the memory as the pot of Manna preserving holy truths and special mercies as Aarons Rod fresh and flourishing Oh! let us imitate that man after Gods own heart If the Lord will be Davids Shepherd he will dwell in Gods house to all perpetuity Psalm 23. 1 6. If God deal bountifully with him he will sit down and bethink himself what to render for all his benefits Psalm 116. 7 12. A Christian counts all that he can do for God by way of retribution but a little of that much he could beteem him and thinks nothing more unbeseeming him than to bury the mercies of God in oblivion His two mites of Thankfulness and Obedience he daily presents and then cryes out as that poor Grecian did to the Emperour If I had a better present thou shouldest be sure of it What then may we judge of those persons in our daies who labour to extenuate yea annihilate these deliverances that would have no publick commemorations of them that study how to invalidate them and to blot out the remembrance of them To render good for evil is Divine Good for good is Humane Evil for evil is brutish But evil for good is Devillish Yet alas how ordinary an evil is this among us to abuse our deliverances to Gods dishonour But Do ye thus requite the Lord O foolish people and unwise Is not he thy Father he hath bought thee c. Deut. 32. 6. Should we not remember that good-turns aggravate unkindnesses and our offences are not a little encreased by our obligations Ingrateful persons are like the Snake in the Fable who said to the Country-man when he had shewed it kindness Summum praemium pro summo beneficio est ingratitudo Ingratitude is the greatest reward of the greatest benefit How many such Snakes have we amongst us that return evil for good and unkindness for kindness Is not this to fight against God with his own weapons as David did against Goliah as Jehu did against Jehoram and as Benhadad did against Ahab with that life that he had lately given him For the preventing whereof if it may be are these things published being almost worn out of remembrance more than the very names of them Besides though they may be found in larger Volumes yet are they not so fit for every Family And as I have presumed honourable and beloved to publish them under your protection so I doubt not but they will find the better entertainment for the same My earnest desire and prayer for you is that the God of Peace will fill you with all joy and peace by believeing multiplying his Blessings upon you and yours And that you would afford me a room in your Albe among those that Sir Madam From my Study in Thridneedle-Street Octob. 22. 1657. Love honour and serve you Sam. Clark THE Spanish Invasion A Commemoration of that wonderful and almost miraculous Deliverance afforded by God to this Nation from the Spanish Invasion Anno Christi 1588. THE year one thousand five hundred eighty eight was foretold by an Astronomer of Koningsberg above one hundred years before that it should prove a wonderful year and the German Chronologers presaged that it would be the Climacterical year of the World which was in some measure accomplished in that glorious and never to be forgotten Deliverance vouchsafed by God to us in England and in that fatal overthrow of the Spanish Navy A true Narrative whereof followes But that we may the better see what induced the Spaniard to make this hostile Invasion we must be informed both who were the inciters and by what arguments artifices they stirred him up thereunto The Inciters were the Pope and some traiterous English Fugitives who were entertained in Spain and at Rome The design was The Conquest of England which had been hindred for the space of ten years by reason of the Spanish Wars in Portugal The Arguments were that seeing God had blessed the King of Spain with admirable Blessings and Successes had given him in Portugal the East-Indies and very many rich Islands belonging to the same that he should therefore perform somewhat that might be acceptable to God the giver of so great and good things and most worthy the Power and Majesty of the Catholick King That the Church of God could not be more gloriously nor meritoriously propagated than by the Conquest of England extirpating Heresie and planting the Catholick Roman Religion there This War they said would be most just and necessary considering that the Queen of England was excommunicated and persisted contumacious against the Church of Rome That she supported the King of Spains Rebels in the Netherlands annoyed the Spaniards

was this STraverat innumeris Hispanus classibus aequor Regnis juncturus Sceptra Britanna suis. Tanti hujus rogitas quae motus causa superbos Impulit Ambitio vexat avaritia Quam bene te Ambitio mersit vanissima ventus Et tumidae tumidos Vos superastis aquae Quam bene Raptores Orbis totius Iberos Mersit inexhausti justa vorago Maris At tu cui venti cui totum militat Aequor Regina O mundi totius una decus Sic regnare Deo perge Ambitione remota Prodiga sic opibus perge jùvare pios Vt te Angli longum longum Anglis ipsa fruaris Quam dilecta bonis tam metuenda malis SPaines King with Navies great the Seas bestrew'd T' augment with English Crown his Spanish sway Ask ye what caus'd this proud attempt 't was lewd Ambition drove and Avarice led the way It 's well Ambitions windy puff lies drown'd By winds and swelling hearts by swelling waves It 's well those Spaniards who the Worlds vast round Devour'd devouring Sea most justly craves But thou O Queen for whom Winds Seas do war O thou the Glory of this Worlds wide Mass So reign to God still from Ambition far So still with bounteous aids the Good imbrace That Thou maist England long long England Thee enjoy Thou terror of all Bad Thou Good Mens joy The other is that made by Mr Samuel Ward of Ipswich OCtogesimus Octavus Mirabilis annus Clade Papistarum Faustus ubique piis IN Eighty eight Spain arm'd with potent might Against our peaceful Land came on to fight The Winds and Waves and Fire in one conspire To help the English frustrate Spains desire THE Gunpowder-Treason Being A REMEMBRANCER TO ENGLAND Of that ancient deliverance from that Horrid Plot hatched by the Bloody PAPISTS 1605. Tending to revive the Memory of the fifth of November to every Family in this Nation That all sorts may be stirred up to real thankfulness and transmit the same to their Posterities that their Children may know the reason why the fifth of November is celebrated that God may have glory and PAPISTS perpetual Infamy The Lord is known by the judgment that he executeth and the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands Higgaion Selah Psal. 9. 16. By SAMVEL CLARK formerly Pastor of Bennet Finck London LONDON Printed for J. Hancock at the three Bibles in Popes-Head Alley next to Cornhill 1676. TO THE READER Christian Reader LEt the remembrance of so signal a mercy and deliverance vouchsafed by God both to Church and State should be buried in Oblivion I have at the request of the Book seller presented thee here with a true and faithful Narrative of that grand work of darkness forged in Hell and by Satan suggested to some Popish Instruments who envying the peace and prosperity of our Church and progress of the Gospel had designed at one blow to overthrow both and that nothing might be wanting to complete that horried wickedness their purpose was to have charged it upon the Puritans thereby hoping to free themselves and their Religion from the imputation of so hainous a Crime Now that the memorial of a mercy of such publick and general concernment should not be forgotten we have the word of the eternal God to be our guide therein When the Lord had by his Angel destroyed the first-born of Egypt and spared Israel he instituted the feast of the Passover to continue the memorial thereof through their Generations Ex. 12. 11 12 14. and ver 26 27. saith Moses to them when your Children shall say unto you What mean you by this service ye shall say It is the Sacrifice of the Lords Passover who passed over the Houses of the Children of Israel when he smote the Egyptians and delivered our Houses And how careful good Mordecai was to continue the remembrance of that great deliverance of the people of God from destruction plotted and contrived by that wicked Haman appears Esth. 9. 20 c. where they did not only celebrate those present dayes of their deliverance with feasting and gladness but he together with the rest of the Jewes or dained and took upon them and their seed and upon all such as joined themselves unto them so as it should not fail that they would keep those daies in their appointed time every year and that those daies should be remembred and kept through their Generations every Family every Province and every City and that those daies of Purim should not fail from amongst the Jews nor the memorial of them perish from their seed c. And truly the remembrance of this great mercy hath the more need to be revived at this time when some noted persons amongst us begin to decry it and wholly to lay aside the observation of that day though enjoined by Act of Parliament and made conscience of by most of the godly people of the Nation I have also been induced the rather to make this brief Collection of the Story because though it be published by others yet it is in larger Volumes which are not every ones money whereas for a small matter every family may get and keep this by them for the benefit and satisfaction both of themselves and Children that so the Lord may not lose of his glory nor they for want of information fail of their duty I shall conclude with that of the Psalmist Psal. 107. 8. O that men would praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the Children of men which is the hearty desire of Thine for thy spiritual good SAM CLARK THE DELIVERANCE OF OUR CHURCH and STATE FROM THE Hellish Powder-Plot 1605. THE Plot was to undermine the Parliament-House and with Powder to blow up the King Prince Clergy Nobles Knights and Burgesses the very confluence of all the flower of Glory Piety Learning Prudence and Authority in the Land Fathers Sons Brothers Allies Friends Foes Papists and Protestants all at one blast Their intent when that irreligious atchievement had been performed was to surprize the remainder of the Kings Issue to alter Religion and Government and to bring in a Foreign Power Sir Edmond Baynam an attainted person who stiled himself Prince of the damned Crew was sent unto the Pope as he was a temporal Prince to acquaint him with the Gun-Powder-Plot and now to the Plot in self The Sessions of Parliament being dissolved July the 7th Anno Christi 1604. and Prorogued to the seventh of February following Catesby being at Lambeth sent for Thomas Winter who before had been imployed into Spain and acquainted him with the design of blowing up the Parliament-House who readily apprehending it said This indeed strikes at the root only these helps were wanting a House for residence and a skilful man to carry on the Mine But the first Catesby assured him was easie to be got and for the man he commended Guy Fawkes a sufficient Souldier and a forward Catholick Thus Robert Catesby John Wright Thomas Winter

he was made to believe by his Companions that he should be bountifully rewarded for that his good service to the Catholick Cause now perceiving that on the contrary his Death had been contrived by them he thereupon freely confessed all that he knew concerning that horrid Conspiracy which before all the tortures of the rack could not force him unto The truth of all this was attested by Mr William Perkins an eminent Christian and Citizen of London to Dr Gouge which Mr Perkins had it from the mouth of Mr Clement Cotton that made our English Concordance who also had it from the Relation of Mr Pickering himself The Names of those that were first in this Treason and laboured in the Mine were Robert Catesby Robert Winter Esquires Thomas Percy Thomas Winter John Wright Christopher Wright Guy Fawkes Gentlemen and Bates Catesbies man Persons made acquainted with it and Promoters of it were Sir Everard Digby Knight Ambrose Rookwood Francis Tresham Esquires John Grant Gentleman Robert Keyes This prodigious contrivance did not only stupifie the whole Kingdom with consternation and amazement but Foreign Princes at least seemed to wonder at it also and though for the propagation of the Catholick cause they might have Conscience enough to wish that it had taken effect yet they had policy enough to congratulate the discoverers and some of them to take off the asperity of the suspect sweetned their expressions with many rich gifts to our King and Queen The Parliament by reason of the hurry occasioned hereby met not till the ninth of November at which time Henry Lord Mordant and Edward Lord Sturton not coming to the Parliament according to their Writ of Summons were suspected as having knowledge of the Conspiracy and so was the Earl of Northumberland from some presumptions and all three were Committed to the Tower The two Barons after a while were redeemed by fine in Starchamber but the Earl continued a Prisoner there for many years after How the Parliament was affected for this great deliverance of the whole Kingdom from ruine and destruction will appear by the Act which they made to have the fifth of November for ever solemnized with Publick Thanksgiving wherein they imputed the discovery of the Treason to the inspiring the King with a divine spirit to interpret some dark Phrases of the Letter above and beyond all ordinary construction they attainted also the blood of those Traytors that were executed as also of those that were slain at Holbach-House or that died in Prison and the King being not unmindful of the Lord Monteagle the first discoverer of this Treason gave him and his Heirs for ever two hundred pounds a year in Fee-Farm Rents and 500l l a year besides during his life as a reward for his good service But now to the Act it self An Act for a Publick Thanksgiving to Almighty God every year on the fifth of November FOrasmuch as Almighty God hath in all Ages shewed his Power and Mercy in the miraculous and gracious deliverance of his Church and in the protection of Religious Kings and States and that no Nation of the Earth hath been blessed with greater benefits than this Kingdom now enjoyeth having the true and free profession of the Gospel under our most Sovereign Lord King James the most Great Learned and Religious King that ever reigned therein enriched with a most hopeful and plentiful Progeny proceeding out of his Royal Loyns promising the continuance of this happiness and profession to all Posterity the which many malignant and Devillish Papists Jesuits and Seminary Priests much envying and fearing conspired most horribly when the Kings most Excellent Majesty the Queen the Prince and all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons should have been Assembled in the Vpper House of Parliament upon the fifth day of November in the year of our Lord 1605. suddenly to have blown up the said House with Gunpowder an invention so inhumane barbarous and cruel as the like was never before heard of and was as some of the principal Conspirators confess purposely devised and concluded to be done in the said House that where sundry necessary and Religious Laws for preservation of the Church and State were made which they falsly and slanderously term cruel Laws enacted against them and their Religion both place and persons should be all destroyed and blown up at once which would have turned to the utter ruine of this whole Kingdom had it not pleased Almighty God by inspiring the Kings most Excellent Majesty with a divine spirit to interpret some dark phrases of a Letter shewed to his Majesty above and beyond all ordinary construction thereby miraculously discovering this hidden Treason not many hours before the appointed time for the Execution thereof Therefore the Kings most Excellent Majesty the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and all his Majesties faithful and loving Subjects do most justly acknowledge this great and infinite blessing to have proceeded meerly from Gods great mercy and to his most holy name do ascribe all Honour Glory and Praise And to the end this unfeigned thankfulness may never be forgotten but be had in a perpetual remembrance that all Ages to come may yield praises to his Divine Majesty for the same and have in memory this joyful day of deliverance Be it therefore enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and by the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That all and singular Ministers in every Cathedral and Parish Church or other usual place for Common-Prayer within this Realm of England and the Dominions of the same shall alwaies upon the fifth day of November say Morning Prayer and give unto Almighty God thanks for this most happy deliverance and that all and every person and persons inhabiting within this Realm of England and the Dominions of the same shall alwaies upon that day diligently and faithfully resort to the Parish Church or Chappel accustomed or to some usual Church or Chappel where the said Morning Prayer Preaching or other service of God shall be used and then and there to abide orderly and soberly during the time of the said Prayer Preaching or other service of God there to be used and ministred And because all and every person may be put in mind of this duty and be the better prepared to the said holy service Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that every Minister shall give warning to his Parishioners publickly in the Church at Morning Prayer the Sunday before every such fifth of November for the due observation of the said day And that after Morning Prayer or Preaching on the said fifth day of November they read distinctly and plainly this present Act. Upon the Powder-Plot OH Murtherous Plot Posterity shall say 'S Vnholyness o'reshoots Caligula The Pope by this and such designs 't is plain Out-Babels Nimrod and out-Butchers Cain Monteagle's Letter was in dubious sence And seem'd a piece of