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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

within their custody Bristol Chester Ireland Wales most of the Westerne parts and all his Forces in their power this Discoverer an eye and ●are-witnesse of destinie from the Legates owne vaunt will informe his Majesty and all his Protestant Subjects who will tremble at the very apprehension of it that they have an Indian poysoned Nut reserved for him amongst this Iesuiticall societie or if it be lost a poysoned Knife perchance or some other Instrument to dispatch him out of the World and so to get the possession protection of the Prince whom they will educate in their Antichristian Religion which how possible how probable it is for them considering their present power and indeavours to effect it their poysoning of the Emperor Henry the seventh in the sacred host of King Iohn in the Chalice their stabbing of Henry the third of France with a K●ife in the belly of Henry the fourth his successor first in the mouth next in the heart-strings though all of their owne Religion because they would not humour the Pope in every unreasonable demand though Henry the fourth turned an Apostate from the Protestant Religion wherein hee was bred restored the Iesuites formerly banished out of France rased the Pillar erected in Paris as a●standing Monument of their Treasons against their Soveraignes and built them a stately Colledge to secure his life from their Ass●ssination which yet would not save him from their butchery Together with their pistolling of the Prince of Orange and poysoning of King Iames himself as the Legate boasted may informe his Majestie and all his faithfull Protestant Subjects especially such as by their confederating with them in these their wars have done nought but executed advanced their fore-named designes whom it concernes now very neerly to prevent if possible such a sad Catastrophe of that bloodie Tragedie which hath been acted overlong in Ireland England by these Conspirators fore-plotted treasons The execrable horridnesse and reality whereof made the very Discoverer of the Plot out of remorse of conscience to desert the Conspirators conspiracie and that bloody Religion which begot it and therfore should much more incite all such in his Majesties Army who are cordially faithfull to their Soveraigne Religion Countrey Posterity and have hitherto ignorantly acted these conspirators treasonable designes under colour of serving the King to consider with remorse of conscience whose Instruments they have thus long been whose treasons they have ripened what Protestant blood they have shed how much they have weakened impoverished betrayed their own Protestant party who have really stood for God Religion King Countrey Parliament against these Romish conspirators and what hopes what advantages they have given these confederates both in England and Ireland to overtop suppresse and ere long utterly to extirpate the Protestant Religion themselves and all other cordially pro●essing it as they have done many thousands of them already And then upon all these sad most serious considerations the very thoughts whereof should cause their soules to bleed and tremble speedily to desert these trayterous Papists ere they get all into their power and unite all their heads hearts hands forces to the Parliaments party who had so good cause to take up defensive arms to prevent the imminent ruine which otherwise is like to befall both King Kingdome Religion Parliament Liberty Property Posterity ere we be aware especially since the most cowardly unworthy yeelding up of Bristoll a fit Inlet for the maligant Welch Papists Irish Rebels who have conspire to come over hither with all expedition and are lately landed here in great multitudes since the pacification made with them to cut all our throats 11. That those Protestants who now side with Popish conspirators when they have accomplished their designes whatsoever they may now fancy to themselves shall find no more mercy or favour from them then the greatest Roundheads if they comply not with them in all things and even in Popery it selfe for if they will not spare the Kings own person and life after so many favours graces extended to them as they will not if we believe this Relation or the late story of King Henry the fourth of France yet fresh in memory what inferiour person can think to be secure to fare better then the King himselfe And if Con the Legate to insinuate himselfe into the Kings and Palatines favours at the fi●st when he had no interest in them would not so much as advi●e the Legat of Colen to mediate for the Palsgrave lest peradventure the King of Spaine should report that the Pope had patronized an here●●●all Prince as the Rela●ion attests though he promised the King effectually to do it How can Prince Rupert Maurice or any other Commanders in the Kings Army when they have fully accomplished the Popes and these his Instruments designes under whose banner they ignorantly yet really militate and promote his cause in steed of the Kings and Kingdomes to whom they and theirs have been so much ingaged hope to receive the least dram of favour pity muchlesse any recompence from the Pope and Popish party if they continue hereticks still notwithstanding all their present goodly promises Will they think● you part with any other inheritances to them then who will not so much as now mediate for them to regaine their own Will these who have butchered so many thousands of innocent Protestants in Ireland in England even before they were sure of the day without any provocation given spare any mothers sonne of them alive if they once erect their Trophees over them Certainly the experience of all former ages compared with the present may fully resolve all that the very tender mercies of these wicked ones will be nought but extreme cruelty and if they prevaile wee all must perish without distinction sooner or later unlesse wee will turne Apostates and lose our Religion God Heaven soules to save our transitory lives Finally therefore let the serious consideration of all the premises instruct us to learne wisdome from these our adversaries let their indefatigable industry subtill policy sincere fidelity cheerfull constancy bountifull liberality fraternall unanimity undaunted magnanimity indissolvable confederacy and uninterrupted pertinacie in prosecuting establishing propagating their Antichristian Religion Treasons designes excite all Protestants according to their severall late Covenants and Protestations much forgotten to equalize if not transcend them in all these in defending securing propagating our true Christian Religion protecting our King Kingdomes Parliament Lawes Liberties Posterity all we yet have or hereafter hope for from that imminent ruine which these Popish conspirators threaten to them Fore-warned fore-armed if now we perish through our owne private dissentions folly cowardize covetousnesse trechery security or monstrous credulity that these conspirators and Papists now in Armes fight onely for the King and establishment of the Protestant Religion as it was in Queen Elizabeths dayes against whom they plotted so many Treasons even for her very Religion

and also the powder-plot since against King Iames and the whole Parliament our blood shall rest upon our owne heads who would not take timely notice of our incumbent dangers nor suddenly prevent them whiles we might YO have read before in the plot it selfe what an active instrument Captaine Read was in promoting this conspiracie of the Iesuites and how he was intrusted with the dispatch and delivery of all their Letters and Packets of intelligence and his house the ordinary randevouze where they weekely met yet see what a Protection this desperate Traytor obtained from his Maiesty to secure him against all apprehensions and prosecutions to advance this designe recorded in the Clerke of the Peace hi● Book for Middlesex in open sessions for his greater immunity and in the Crowne Office By the King VVHereas We have received good testimony of the Loyalty and Duty of Our trusty and welbeloved Captaine Iohn Read and because he may be subject to the penalty of the lawes for Recusancie These are to signifie that We are graciously pl●ased to extend Our speciall Grace towards him and doe hereby will command that no Inditement Presentment Information or Suit in Our name or in the name of any other be henceforth commenced prosecuted or accepted against him by any of Our Officers or Subjects whatsoever for or concerning Recusancie and if any such shall happen then Our will and pleasure is that upon sight hereof the same shall be discharged and made voyd or otherwise not prejudiciall to him Given under Our Signet at Our Court at Theobals the 13. day of Iuly in the 10 th yeere of Our Raigne To all and singular Our Iudges of Assize Iustices of Peace Maiors Sheriffes Clerkes of Assize and Peace Bayliffes Constables Informers and all other Our Officers and Ministers whom it doth or may concerne and to every of them The Examination of Henry Mayo WHo saith That on Thursday last being the twentieth of Iuly one thousand six hundred forty three he being at Bridges in Flanders heard Proclamation made in Dutch who understands it very well that all people within that City that would goe to the Governours house and give any Money to maintaine the Romane Catholiques in England they should have their Money re-paid them againe in a yeeres time with many thanks HENRY MAYO This Examination was taken before us EDWARD BOYCE JOHN BOYCE GEORGE TROTTER FINIS * Psal. 31. 12. Psal. 88. 4 5. a Rom. 11. 33. b Dan. 2. 22 23. ● C●r 13. 8. a See the Acts of the General Assembly of the ●ebels at ●ilkenny Anno 164● printed at ●ondon Marc● 6. 1643. T●e Myste●y of lniquity p. 32. 33. c. b The 48 week ending Decem ● p. 681. 685. * If a stranger were thus affected at the hearing of this Plot how should we our selves be sensible thereof * The Je●uits pl●ts are never ended till they obtaine their desired ends in all things * The Pope and Cardin●ll 〈◊〉 His Majesty and the Realme may be soone betrayed by such false attendants I beseech Your Majesty read these Letters a● they are endorsed by figures 1 2 3 c. Ye had reason so to doe It is an unanswerable Dilemma I c●ncur totally with you in opinion assuring you that no body doth or shall know of this businesse and to shew my care to conceale it I received this but this afternoon and now I make this dispatch before I sleepe Herewith I send his warrant as you advise which indeed I judge to bee the better way I like your answer extreame well and doe promise not to deceive your confidence nor make you break your word I have sent all back I thinke these Apostyles will bee warrant enough for you to proceed especially when I expressly command you to doe so In this I am as far from condemning your judgement as suspecting your fidelitie C. R. * The Kings hand and date * The Archbishops Postscript * A very good Argument of truth and reality * Therefore a man of note and imployment * Jesuites know well how to equivocate thus * If Popes must not favour pro●●stant Princes it s a miracle that they should favor them or harbour any of their agents now neer them * The papacy of Cant. and this other world is of greater value then an Italian Cardinalship * The quality of the discovere● meane● inducing him to reveale this plot * The Popes Nuncio then in England Four sorts of Jesuits * A good caveat to Nobles Gentlemen to beware they entertaine not a Jesuit or Romish spie in their houses in stead of a servant * We had need look about when so many active Traytors are harboured among us even perchance at this present Therfore both Kindoms need look to themselves Strange that such a society should be erected under the Defender of the faith A strange world when a Popes Legate shall be openly harboured so neere the King and Court and have fr●e●ccesse to both without controule If the King truly hate the Pope it will make his Instruments lesse effectuall if they come in his name Popes Instruments are ever very active Strange it was that the chiefe men should not set themselves against him his to send thē packing hence especially that the King himselfe did it not when he thus tempted assaulted him That a Popes Legat should be so familiar with the King and the King make much of him in steed of banishing him is a riddle * The Archb. therefore he had some familiarity and acquaintance at first * This offer appears under the Archbishops own hand in the Journall of his life But he kept not him from the Court. Jesuites are both diligent and able to remove their greatest opposites at Court from out of place and favour too * It is admirable this faction should be so powerfully predominant as to displace the greatest and faithfullest Officers Iesuites wil be sure to move hell when they cannot prevail with Heaven Jesuites cannot indure neuters If a man may be saved in any Religiō he may safely imbrace any and cleave close to none * The Bishops ty●●nny against Puritans the best advantage and greatest advancement of popes designes * He means the Scottish Prayer book the alterations whereof frō the English were found in the Originall copy under the Archbishops own hand whē his chamber was searched The Jesuits love to fish when the Bishops trouble the streames with their innovations and Popish Ceremonies The Iesuits the plotters chief directors of the Scotish war * The King tied to conditions by papists befor they aided him * Now practised in Oxford Wales and the Northern parts by open toleration * The more shame pity and a caveat for the Parliament henceforth to look to it * The King thē must needs be in great danger amongst Papists now * Jesuites make but a vaunt of poysoning Kings * The Jesuites it seems know very well King Iames was poysoned belike by some of their Instruments * It seems some Noblemens Chaplains are but the Popes and Jesuites intelligencers if not their confederates All forraigne popish States contribute their best assistance to reduce England to Rome * A meet guerdon for such a service * Jesuites will not give over acting till they accomplish their designes Bishops Sons oftentimes the Popes greatest Agents His industrious activity should shame our slothfulnesse The protestants want of such mutuall correspondency and intelligence is a great weakning to their cause Let them learn Wisedome by their Enemies * A fit place for their intelligence and correspondency with Ireland lying in the midst between both The Jesuites now make good use of all Nations and Instruments * O that such Romish seducers should obtaine such power and rewards for being seducing Instruments The Jesuites it seems are very powerfull at Court The Popes weekly intelligence at Rome from hence can produce no good to England Jesuites know how to conceal thei● Names and Lodgings There are more Popish Chappels in and about London then are commonly known Jesuites can counterfeit any habit or part to delude the vulgar Papists large contributions to undermine our Religion should make us liberall to defend it Jesuites are as wise as Serpents though not so innocent as Doves The Jesuits learne of the Serpent to seduce men by small instruments to their ruine Her voyage to Rome to visit the Pope made her frequently to visit his legat The Countesse belike was his forerunner thither No wonder the Earls debts be so great A School of Nunnes Is not the King in great danger who hath such a person in his Bed-chamber now keeper of the great Seal Both King and Prince have Iesuiticall agents in their Bed-chambers All businesses and imployments must be set aside to promote this plot A Iesuiticall Secretary his flight and Articles in Parliament confirme all this and more Papists spare no cost The other Conspirators names A ●●●cover for such a dish It seemes their purses were strong their hopes great His Maiesty perchance hath learnt to write Characters from him as appeares by some of his late intercepted Letters A good 〈◊〉 for England now * This must needs be the Legat or one imployed from him * Page 171. * Conference with Fisher neere the end * See the Generall Hist. of France in the life of H. 3. 4. * See the English Pope * With which his Speech in Star-chamber agrees There it is Hoc est corpus m●um c. * To elevate the Hos●ia as Papists do● * See the Articles against him in Parliament * Antiq. Eccles. Brit. p. 322. Ead. lib. 1. and Fox Acts and Mon. Vol. 1. edit ult p. 926. * 23. Eliz. c. 1. 35. Eliz. c. 1. 3. Iac. c. 3. 4 5. * See 1. 2. Phil. Mary c. 8. See the Royall Popish Favorite * Ioh. 10. 10. 11 12 13. * 2 Ioh. 10. 11. * Gratian caus 23. * Gen. 3. * 1 King 11. * Qui amat periculum peribit in 〈◊〉 * So are th● Shrewesbury printed copies See the Royall Popish favorite where it is largely proved * Grimston in his life * Fox Speed Generall hist. of France in Hen. 3. 4. * Meteran●s Grimston * See Doctor Eggl●shams Booke and the Commons charge against the Duke of Buckingham * 〈◊〉 12 10.

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 Con●cience 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 Secresie to the Arch-bishop of Canterbury among whose Papers it was casually found by Master Prynne 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 of Lincolnes Inne Esquire 1 COR. 4. 5. The Lord will bring to light the hidden things of Darknesse and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts and then shall every man have praise of God It is Ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament concerning Printing this first day of August 1643. that this Book Intituled Romes Master-Peece be forthwith Printed by Michael Spark Senior Iohn White The second Edition Printed at London for Michael Sparke Senior 1644. TO The Right Honourable ROBERT Earle of WARWICK Baron of LEEZE AND LORD ADMIRALL of all the Parliaments Sea Forces Right Honourable YOur eminent zealous Sincerity and incomparable Activity both by Sea and Land in defence of our undermined endangered Protestant Religion Lawes Liberties Parliament Nation against the many late secret Plots and open Hostilities of Antichristian Romish Vipers who for sundry yeares together have desperately conspired and most vigorously prosecuted their utter extirpation and now almost accomplished this their infernall Designe unlesse Gods infinite mercy which hath never hitherto beene wanting to us in times of greatest extremity miraculously disappoint it hath induced me to dedicate this Master-p●ece of the Romanists and Jesuites Iniquity to your most Noble Patronage Wherein your Lordship may summarily behold the most horrid conspiracy against our Reformed Religion and the very life of the King our Soveraigne in case he comply not with them as now alas He doth overmuch in all things that ever was discovered to the world and clearly descry who have beene the reall originall Contrivers Fomenters of all those late bloody civill warres which have suddenly transformed our peaceable pleasant delectable Edens of England Ireland Scotland into most desolate rufull Acheldamaes yea Golgothaes to the just amazement of our selves and astonishme●t of all our Neighbour Nations who now more lament our present Infelicity then ever their envied our pristine Tranquility It was an admirable act of Divine Providence that a principall Actor in this Conspiracy sent from Rome to promote it should out of remorse of conscience prove the first Revealer of it to Sir William Boswell But it was a farre more wonderfull hand of God that after this Plot had been long concealed from publique knowledge by Canterbury who smothered it hee should unexpectedly rayse Me up from my forraigne Close Prison of Mount-Orgueil Castle in Jersey where Canterbury and his Confederates had intombed me sundry yeares as a dead man out of minde whom they remembred no more reputing me among the number of those that go down into the pit and as one quite cut off by their hands never likely to rise up again till the generall Resurrection and not only reduce me with Honour and Triumph to my Native Countrey restore me to my former liberty and Profession by the Parliaments impartiall Iustice and make my former and my fellow Sufferers unjust Censures the ruine of the S●archamber Highcommission and Prelates who censured us but likewise beyond all expectation send this Archprelate though the Kings chief Favourite a Prisoner to the Tower of London to which I was first of all committed by his malice and employ me to search his Papers there where he had formerly twice searched mine by his Instruments and therehy make Me both the Discoverer and Publisher of this second Gunpowder Plot to the world after a long concealment of it and that in a time most seasonable which otherwise in all probability had never come to light O the depth of the Riches both of the wisdome and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his Judgments and his wayes past finding out This adorable strange Providence of the God of Heaven who revealeth the deep and secret things and knoweth what is in the darknesse and makes known unto us the Kings matter as it should ascertaine us of his future Protection of our Church and State against these Romish Conspirators whose trayterous Designes hee hath formerly most admirably discovered and frustrated from time to time So it should adde much dignity and acceptation to this Discovory and enlarge our gratulations to God for it To his Blessing I shall in my Prayers recommend this Master-Piece together with your Lordships Person and all your Heroick Endeavours for our Religions our Republikes security and for ever remaine Your Lordships most affectionate Servant William Prynne SInce the first Publishing in Print of the ensuing Plot and Letters by Authority and Directions from the House of Commons which imployed me in this service I have been credibly informed by some Friends that many inoredulous over suspitious Malignants who think there is as much falshood dishonesty in others as in themselves have questioned the Truth of the ensuing Plot Letters Papers and confidently if not impudently averred them to be meere Fictions without any shadow proofe reason ground at all but their own malicious misbeliefe But to satisfie all the world in this Particular and these slanderous Infidels too if not ●rodigiously obstinate I doe here attest upon the faith and honour of a Christian First that I found all these ensuing Letters Papers in the Archbishop of Canterburies Chamber in the Tower of London under his own custody when I was unexpectedly employed by the Close Committee in that undesired service of searching it which the Archbishop himself his Servants the Gentlemen and Souldiers who then accompanied me with those who employed me can witnesse and have already oft attested Secondly that they were all Originals no● Copies under the severall hands and Seals of Sir William Boswell Knight the Kings own Leger Embassador at Hague in the N●therlands Andreas ab Habernfeld a Noble Bohemian Physitian to the Queen of Bohemia a man of known sincerity and untainted reputation The Archbishop of Canterbury who must be the sole forger of the Plot and Letters if fained and of the King himself As the Letters Papers themselves o●t viewed by divers of the Lords Commons and other persons of quality for their satisfaction all now remaining in the Custody of a

Committee of the House of Commons where any incredulous Thomas who dares trust his own senses may view them at his leasure will evidence to all who know their Hands or Seales Thirdly that the Archbishop himselfe and his Servants have confessed the verity reality of the Plot and Papers to divers who repaired to them for their own resolution therein and the Archbishop in his late Petition to the Lords in Parliament for restitution of these Papers hath againe fully acknowledged their reality Fourthly which puts all out of question had these Letters Papers been Forgeries or Impostures not reall verities his Majesty himselfe or the Oxford Mercury for him at least the Archbishop Sir William Boswell Andreas ab Habernfeld or some of their Instruments being all living and the Presses open would long ere this have detected this forgery and disclaimed these Papers and Letters in Print which neither of them have done in seven Months space whereas each of them on the contrary as I am informed have avouched these severall Letters Papers to be genuine and their own Finally it had been a strange over-sight yea madnesse in my self and a great dishonour to a most impolitique devise in the Parliament to publish forged Letters in these eminent living Persons names who want neither will meanes nor power immediately to detect refute and manifest such a grosse Imposture to all the world to the eternall infamy of the Publishers Let Malignants and Papists then with all others who have any sparks of Honesty or Policy remaining in them henceforth rest assured of the verity reality of this Plot these Papers though they have formerly doubted of them else let them perish in their groundlesse Infidelity who will neither believe the King the Archbishop Sir William Boswell nor Hab●rnfeld under their Hands and Seales nor yet the Parliament nor Discoverer of them by an admirable unexpected Divine Providence who abhorres all fictions frauds Impostures whatsoever and can doe nothing against the truth but for the truth I shall only adde this to the Premises that the multitude of his Majesties royall Letters of Grace and Discharges of Popish Recusants Priests Iesuits together with his Marriage-Articles Oathes Letter to the Pope and other evidences lately published in The Popish Royall Favourite the late horrid Rebellion in Ireland the Rebels seising of the Goods Estates and Persons of all the English Protestans there to the Kings use and their bloody massacre by blood-thirsty Papists For the exaltation of the holy Roman Catholike Church and the advancement of his Maiesties service c. And that by vertue of his Majesties speciall Commission under the Great Seale of Scotland and Letters of direction sent therewith for the effecting of this great Work which Commission together with the Arguments evidencing the reality thereof you may read at large in the Mystery of iniquity newly published pag. 34. to 42. his Majesties Articles of Pacification with those Rebels ratified under the Great Seale of England wherein he cals these bloody Rebels his Roman Catholike Subjects and good Subiects in some copies and gives them Authority to persecute his Protestant Subiects in Irelands with license to send such Agents to his Majesty from time to time as they shall think fit accepting a grant of thirty thousand eight hundred pound from them and making their base Irish money currant in England by a speciall Proclamation his sending for the Souldiers sent by the Parliament into Ireland to subdue the Rebels and for Irish Rebels too into England and that By his Maiesties speciall Commission and Authority as Mercurius Aulicus informs us twice together and administring an Oath to every Officer and Souldier that shall be transported To the utmost of his power and hazard of his life to fight against the Forces now under the conduct of the Earle of Essex and against all other Forces whatsoever that are or sha●l be raised under what pretence soever contrary to his Majesties Command or Authority in defence of our Protestant Religion Lawes Liberties All these particulars laid together will infallibly demonstrate the reality of this designe and how farre it hath prevailed even with the King himselfe whose heart and person now wholly captivated and stolne away from the Parliament and Kingdome by these Conspirators the good God rescue out of their Traytorly hands and restore unto us in d●e season which shall be the prayer of the Publishe● of this Plot William Prynne Errata COurteous Reader I pray correct these Presse-errours which during my absence at St. Albanes have through the Printers oversight escaped the Presse in this Edition Page 4. l. 1. r. suffer p. 7. l. 20. na●●ragio p. 9. l. 29. them and most p. 15. l. 6. quam p. 28. l. 3. not brooke l. 27. his zeale 1. 29. strong strang p. 29. l. 33. Chaplaine p. 31. l. 10. men these l. 15. yet come into the Kings p 34. l. 29. his destiny l. 40. reasonable l. 46. dele as p. 35. l 26. conspired In the Margin p. 22. l. 18. small r. female ROMES MASTER-PEECE IF there be any professing the Protestant Religion within the Kings Dominions or elsewhere who are yet so wilfully blinded as not to discern so so●tishly incredulous as not to believe any reall long-prosecuted conspiracy by former secret practises and the present warres to extirpate the Protestant Religion re-establish Popery and inthrall the people in all three Kingdomes notwithstanding all visible effects and transparent Demonstrations of it lively set forth in the late Declaration of the Lords and Commons concerning the Rise and Progresse of the Grand Rebellion with other Remonstrances of that nature most visibly appearing in the late Articles of Pacification made by his Majesties Authority and approbation with the Irish Rebels contrary to divers Acts of Parliament passed by the King this present Session Let them now advisedly fixe their Eyes Minds upon the ensuing Letters and Discoveries seised on by Master Prynne in the Archbishops Chamber in the Tower May 31. 1643. by Warrant from the Close Committee to search his Papers there being unexpectedly commanded on that service and then they must needs acknowledge it an indubitable verity Since Sir William Boswell the Archbishop himselfe if not his Majesty and those who revealed this Plot were perswaded of its reality upon the first Dis●overy before it brake forth openly in Ireland and England Who and what the Authour of this Discovery was who the chiefe active instruments in the Plot when and where they assembled in what vigorous manner they daily prosecuted it how effectually they proceeded in it how difficult it is to dissolve or counter-work it without speciall diligence the Relation it selfe will best discover Whose verity if any question these Reasons will inforce beliefe First That the Discoverer was a chiefe Actor in this Plot sent hither from Rome by Cardinall Barbarino to assist Con the Popes Legate in the pursute of it and privy to all the particulars therein discovered

are so conusant of it though it might not be examined when complaine● of in open Parliament by the Commons but the Assembly rather dissolved then 〈◊〉 death discussed and then the Prince yet young and well inclined to them already b● his education will soon be made an obedient son of the Church of Rome Thus th● Relator a chiefe actor in this pre-plotted Treason discovers And if his single test●mony though out of an wounded conscience will not be believed alone the ensuing circumstances will abundantly manifest the Scottish wars to be plotted and directed by them For Con the Popes Legate Hamilton the Queenes Agent mo●● of the Iesuites then about London Captain Read their Host the Lord Sterling Chamberlaine Cardinall Richelleiu his Agent with other chiefe actors in the plot● being all Scots and imploying of Maxfield and he two other active Popish Sco● Lards in raising these tumults the Earle of Arundel another principall member of this conspiracie being by their procurement made Generall of the firs● Army against the Scots and most of his Commanders Papists the Papists in a● counties of England upon the Queens Letters directed to them contributin● large summes of Money besides Men Armes and Horses to maintaine this wa● for which Master Squire of Shoreditch highly commended them in the Pulpi● as the Kings best Subjects See Master Whites first Century of scandalous Priest● P. 25 Sir Toby Matthew the most industrious conspirator in the packe makin● a voyage with the Lord Deputy into Ireland to stir up the Papists there to contr●bute Men Armes Money to subdue the Scottish Covenanters yea Marquesse Hamiltons own Chaplain imployed as the Kings Comissioner to appease these Scots holding correspondency with Con and resorting to him in private to impart the secrets of that businesse to him the generall discontent of the Papists and conspirators upon the first pacification of those troubles which they soon after infringed and by new large contributions raised a second Army against the Scots when the English Parliament refused to grant Subsidies to maintaine the war All these concurring circumstances compared with the relation will ratifie it without dispute that this war first sprung from these conspirators 9. That the subsequent present Rebellion in Ireland and wars in England originally issued from and were plotted by the same conspirators For the Scottish war producing this setled Parliament beyond the conspirators expectation which they foresaw would prove fatall to this their long agitated conspiracie if it continued undissolved thereupon some Popish Irish Commissioners comming over into England and confederating with the Dutchesse of Buckingham Captaine Read now a prisoner in the Tower and taken in the field in actuall rebellion in Ireland and other of these conspirators who afterwards departed secretly into Ireland they plotted an universall Rebellion surprisall and Massacre of all the Protestants in that Kingdome which though in part prevented by a timely discoverie which secured Dublin and some few places else yet it tooke generall effect in all other parts to the losse of above an hundred and fourtie thousand Protestants lives there massacred by them And finding themselves likely to be overcome there by the Parliaments Forces sent hence and from Scotland to relieve the Protestant party thereupon to worke a diversion they raised a civill bloody war against the Parliament here in England procuring the King after Endymion Porter a principall conspirator in the Plot had gained the custody of the great Seale of England to issue out divers Proclamations under the great Seale proclaming the Parliament themselves Traytors and Rebells yea to grant Commissions to Irish and English Papists contrary to his former proclamations to raise Popish forces both at home and in forraigne parts for his defence as his trustiest and most loyall Subjects to send Letters and Commissions of favour to the Irist Rebels and hinder all supplies from hence to the Protestant party And withall they procured the Queene by the Earle of Antrim● and Dutchesse of Buckinghams mediation to send Ammunition to the Irist Rebels and to attempt to raise an insurrection in Scotland too as the Declaration of the rise and progresse of the Rebellion in Ireland more largely discovers since which his Majesty hath condescended to Articles of Pacification with these Rebels contrary to an act of Parliament and both Houses consents wherein they are declared His Majesties GOOD Catholike Subiects of Ireland and no Rebels at all and hath sent for many thousands of them into England to massacre the Protestant English here and fight against the Parliament as they did in Ireland heretofore Seeing then all may clearely discerne the exact prosecution of this plot carried on in all these wars by the conspirators therein particularly nominated by the Queen and Popish partie in all three Kingdomes and by Papists in forraign parts who have largely contributed Men Money Armes Ammunition to accomplish this grand designe through the instigation of those conspirators in this plot who are gone beyond the Seas and have lately caused publike Proclamations to be made in Bridges and other parts of Flaunders in ●uly last as appeares by the Examination of Henry Maye since seconded by others That all people who will now give ANY MONEY TO MAINTAIN THE ROMAN CATHOLIKES IN ENGLAND should have it re-payd them againe in a yeeres time with many thanks the whole world must of necessity both see and acknowledge unlesse they will renounce their ownn eyes and reason that this conspiracy and plot is no feigned imposture but a most reall perspicuous agitated treachery now driven on almost to its perfection the full accomplishment whereof unlesse Heaven prevent it the Catholikes of England expect within the circuit of one yeere as the forenamed Proclamations intimate 10. That no setled peace was ever formerly intended nor can now be futurely expected in England or Ireland without an universall publike toleration at the least of Popery and a repeale and suspention of all Lawes against it this being the very condition in the plot which the King must condescend to ere the Papists would ingage themselves to assist him in these warres thus raised by them for this end and that none may doubt this verity the late most insolent bold demands of the Irish Rebels in the Treaty with them the most favourable Articles of Pacification granted to them the present suspention of all lawes against Priests and Recusants in all Counties under his Majesties power the uncontrolled multitudes of Masses in his Armies Quarters Wales the North and elsewhere the open boasts of Papists every where the introducing of thousands of Irish Rebels and other Fugitives to extirpate the Protestant Religion most really proclaime it And if the King after all their many yeeres restlesse labour plots costs paines and pretended fidelity to his cause against the Parliament should deny these Merit-mongers such a diminutive reward as this is the very least they will expect now they have him the Prince and Duke

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

pragmaticall peremptory Iesuits who in Popish Kingdomes are in perpetuall enmity with all other orders and they with them they having beene oft banished out of France and other Realmes by the Sorbonists Dominicans and other orders no Protestants writing so bitterly against this Popish Order as themselves as some of their Priests Dominicans and other Friers have done yea the Priests and Jesuites in England were lately at great variance and persecuted and writ against one another with much violence This same then is no good argument that the Arch-bi held no correspondence with Priests and other Orders can beare no good affection to the Church of Rome in whose superstitious Ceremonies he outstripped most Priests themselves VVhat correspondency he held with Franciscus de Sancta Clara with other Priests and Doctor Smith Bishop of Calcedon whom the Jesuits likewise have persecuted and got excommunicated though of their owne Church and religion is at large discovered in a Books in●●●●led The English Pope and how well he approved of some Romish doctrines Alt●●s and Massing rites is evident by the Scottish Common-prayer-booke then found in the Archbishops chamber with all those alterations wherein it differs from the English written with his owne hand in the margin some of which smell very strongly of Popery as namely his blotting out of these words at the delivery of the Bread and Wine in the Sacrament Take and eate this in remembrance that Christ dyed for thee and feed on him in thy heart by faith with thankesgiving Take and drink● this in remembrance that Christs blood was shed for thee c. and leaving onely this former clause the better to justifie and imply a corporall presence of Christ in the Sacrament The body of our Lord Iesus Christ which was given for thee The blood of our Lord Iesus Christ which was shed for thee preserve thy body and soule unto everlasting life And this popish Rubricke therein written with his owne hand The Presbyter during the time of consecration shall stand AT THE MIDDLE OF THE ALTAR where he may with more ease and decency USE BOTH HIS HANDS then he can do if he stand at the North end with other particulars of this kind Moreover in his booke of Private devotions written with his owne hand he hath after the Romish form reduced all his prayers to Ca●●nicall houres many of them for his late good Lord and Master the Duke and Dutches of Buckingham and their family and some against the Scotch Rebels as he stiles them And in the fore-mentioned Memorials of his life written with his owne hand there are these suspicious passages among others besides the offer of the Cardinals-cap An. 1631. I●n 21. and 26. My nearer acquaintance began to settle with Do. S. God blesse us in it I●nii 25. D. S. with me at Fulham cum M● c. meant of Dr. Smith the Popish Bishop of Calcedon as is conceived Iun. 25. Mr. Fr. Windebanke my old friend was 〈◊〉 Secretary of State which place I OBTAINED FOR HIM of my gracious Master King Charles What an Arch-Papist and conspiratour he was the Plot relates and his flight into France for releasing Papists and Iesuits out of prison from executions for debts by his owne Warrants and imprisoning those Officers who apprehended them confirmes About this time Dr. Theodor Price Subdean of Westminster a man very intimate with the Archbishop and recommended specially to the King by him to be a Welsh Bishop in opposition to the Earle of Pembroke and his Chaptain Griffith Williams now an Irish Prelate soon after died a reconciled Papist and received extream● Vnction from a Priest Noscitur ex comite August 30. 1634. He hath this memoriall Saturday at Oatelands the Queen sent for me and gave 〈◊〉 thanks for a businesse with which she trusted me her promise then that she would be my friend and that I should have immediate addresse to her when I had ●ccasion All which considered together with his Chaplaines licencing divers popish Bookes with their ●xpunging most passages against Popery out of Bookes brought to the Presse and other particulars commonly knowne will give a true Character of his temper that 〈◊〉 is another Ca●●ander or middle man betweene an absolute Papist and a reall Protestant who will far sooner hug a popish Priest in his bosome then take ● Puritan by the little finger an absolute Papist in all matters of ceremony pompe and externall worship in which he was over● zealous even to an open bitter persecution of all consci●●tious Ministers who made scruple of them if not halfe an one at least in Doctrinall 〈◊〉 How far he was guilty of a conditionall voting the breaking up the last Parliament before this was called and for what end it was summoned this other memoriall under his owne hand will attest Dec. 5 1639. Thursday the King declared his resolution for a Parliament in case of the Scottish rebellion the first movers to it were my L. Deputy of Ireland my Lord Marquesse Hamilton and my selfe And a Resolution voted at the Board to assist the King in extraordinary wayes if the Parliament should prove peevish and Refuse c. But of him sufficient till his charge now in preparation and since transmitted to the Lords shall come in Observations on and from the relation of this plot FFom the relation of the former Plot by so good a hand our own three Realms and a●● forraigne Protestant States may receive full satisfaction First that there hath been a most cunning strong execrable conspiracie long since contrived at Rome and for divers yeeres together most vigorously pursued in England with all industry policy subtilty engines by many active potent confederates of all sorts all sexes to undermine the Protestant Religion re-establish Popery and alter the very frame of civill government in all the Kings Dominions wherein a most dangerous visible progresse hath been lately made Secondly That to effect this traiterous designe they have not onely secretly erected some Monasteries of Monkes Nunnes in and about London but sent over hither whole Regiments of most active subtill Iesuits incorporated into a particular new society whereof the Pope himselfe is head and Cardinall Barbarino his Vicar which Society was first discovered and some of them apprehended in th●ir private Colledge at Clerken-well together with their bookes of account Reliques and Massing Trinket● about the beginning of the second Parliament of this King yet such power favour friends they had then acquired that their persons were speedily and most indirectly released out of Newgate without any prosecution to prevent that Parliaments proceedings against them which examined this abuse and illegall release Since which this conjured society increasing in strength and number secretly replanted themselves in Queens-street and Long-acre and their purses are now so strong their hopes so elevated their designes so ripened as they have there purchased founded a new magnificent Colledge of their owne for their habitation neere the

fairest buildings of Nobles Knights and Gentlemen the more commodiously to seduce them Thirdly that these Iesuits and conspirators hold weekely constant uninterrupted intelligence with the Pope and Romish Cardinals and have many spies or intelligence● of all sorts about the King Court City Noblemen Ladies Gentlemen of quality and in all quarters of the Kingdome to promote this their damnable Plot. Fourthly that the Pope for divers late yeeres hath had a known avowed Legat C●● by name openly residing even in London neere the Court of purpose to reduce the King and his Kingdoms to the obedience of the Church of Rome and the Queen at least another Legor at Rome trading with the Pope to facilitate the designe to wit one Hamilton a Scot who receives a pension out of the Exchequer granted to another Protestant of that name who payeth it over unto him to palliate the businesse from the peoples knowledge by which meanes there hath been a constant allowed Neg●tiation held between Rome and England without any open interruption 5. That the Popes Legate came over into England to effect this project and kept ●is residence here in London for the better prosecution thereof by the Kings own● privity and consent And whereas by the ancient Law and Custome of the Real●e ●et in force even in times of Popery no Legat whatsoever coming from Rome ought to ●rosse the Seas or land in England or any the Kings Dominions without the Kings own Petition calling and request to the Pope and before hee had taken a ●olemne Oath or Pr●te●station to bring and attempt nothing in word or deed to the prejudice of the Rights Priviledges Laws and Customs of the King and Realm This Legat for ought appears was here admitted without any such cautionary Oath which would have crossed the chiefe end of his legation which was to prejudice all men and our Religion too Yea whereas by the Statutes of the Realm it is made no lesse then high Treason for any Priests Iesuits or others receiving orders or Authority from the Pope of Rome to set footing in England or any the Kings Dominions to seduce any of his Subjects to Popery and Popish Recusants much lesse then Priests Jesuits Legats ought not to remain within ten miles of the City of London nor come yet into the King or Princes Courts the better to avoid such trayterous and most dangerous Conspirators Treasons and attempts as are daily divised and practised by them against the King and Common-weal Yet notwithstanding this Popes Legate and his confederates have not only kept redence for divers yeeres in or neer London and the Court and enjoyed free liberty without disturbance or any prosecution of the Lawes against them to seduce his Majesties Nobles Courtiers Servants Subjects every where to their griefe and prejudice but likewise had familiar accesse to and conference with the King himselfe under the name notion authority of the Popes Legat by all Arts Policies Argument to pervert and draw him with his three Kingdomes into a new subjection to the Sea of Rome as Cardinall Pool the last Popes Legat extant in England before this in Queen Maries raigne reconciled her and the Realm to Rome to their intolerable preiudice An act so inconsistent with the Laws of the Realm with his Majesties many ancient and late Remonstrances Oathes Protestations to maintaine the Protestant Religion without giving way to any back-sliding to Popery in such sort as it was maintained and professed in the purest times of Q. Elizabeth c. as may well amaze the world which ever lookes more at reall Actions then verball Protestations 6. That the Popish party Conspirators have lately usurped a soveraign power not only about the Lawes and Magistrates of the Realm which take no hold of Papists but by the Parliaments late care against them here but even over the King himself who either cannot or dares not for feare perchance of poysoning or other assassination oppose or banish these horrid Conspirators from his Dominions Court but hath a long time permitted them by vertue of his marriage articles to prosecute this plot without any publike opposition or dislike by whose powerfull authority and mediation all persons may easily divine Alas what shal become of the poore sheepe when the Shepheard himself not only neglects to chase and keep out these Romish wolves but permits them free accesse into and harbor in the sheepfold to assault if not devour not only his flock but Person too Either Saint Iohn was much mistaken in the Character of a good Shepheard and prescribing this injunction against such seducers If there come any unto you and bring not this doctrine receive him not into your house neither bid him God speed for he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evill de●ds And the Fathers the Canonists deceived in this Maxime Qui non prohibet malum quod potest jubet or else the premises cannot be tolerated or defended by any who professe themselves enemies or opposites to the Pope Priests or Church of Rome or true Defend●rs of the Protestant reformed Religion 7. That these conspirators are so potent as to remove from Court and publiqu● Offices all such as dare strenuously oppose their plots as the example of Secretary Cooke with other Officers lately removed in Ireland the Articles of Pacificatio● there lately made with the Rebels evidence and plant others of their owne party and confederacie both in his Majesties Court Privie Councell Closet Bedchamber if not Bed and about the Prince to corrupt them And how those that are th● invironed with so many industrious potent seducers of all sorts who have so many snares to intrap so many enticements to withdraw them both in their Beds Bed-chambers Closets Councels Courts where ever they goe or come should possibl● continue long untainted unseduced without an omnipotent protection of which none can be assured who permits or connives at such dangerous temptations is ● thing scarce credible in divine or humane reason if Adams Solomons and other Apostacies by such means be duly pondered He who sailes in the midst of dangerous rocks may justly feare and expect a wracke 8. That the late Scottish troubles wars were both plotted and raised by thes● Iesuiticall Conspirators of purpose to force the King to resort to them and thei● Popish party for aid of Men and Money against the Scots and by colour thereof to raise an Army of their owne to gaine the King into their power and then to wi● or force him to what conditions they pleased who must at leastwise promise the● an universal toleration of their Religion throughout his Dominions ere they woul● yeeld to assist him And in case they conquer or prevaile he must then come ful●ly over to their party or else be sent packing by them with a poysoned Fig to another world as his Father they say was its likely by their instruments or procurement they