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A brief narrative of the several popish treasons and cruelties against the Protestants in England, France, and Ireland giving a full account of the Popish Plot, and a full discovery of the manner of the murther of Sir Edmund-bury Godfrey.
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1678
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Wing B4616; ESTC R18955
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suddenly Hang'd their Throats cut Drowned in Rivers Bogs and Ditches or else Murthered with exquisite Tortures Wives Ravisht before their Husbands faces Children forced to hang up their own parents others compelled against their consciences to own the Romish Superstitions and swear thereunto in hopes to save their lives and presently Murthered as if they designed to destroy Souls as well as bodies And such beastly Cruelties Acted as the most Barbarous Heathens would blush to practice All which being Acted within these 40 Years I hope is not yet nor ever will be forgot But least it should behold they awake our remembrance with an horrid Plot which in the consequence was like to have proved more Bloody and Barbarous than any that went before it being against the Life of our Lord the King and all his good protestant Subjects the Subversion of the Government destruction of our Religion c. And what kind of Spirits were engaged therein we may see by their Inhumane Murther committed upon Sir Edmund-bury Godfrey who being one of this Majesties Justices of the peace for Middlesex Upon the discovery had the Examination of some Priests and others concern'd whom he committed to Newgate on the 28. of September last But meerly for doing thus his duty others of the Tribe were so devilishly enraged against him that they contrived his death for on Satudray the 12th of October he walking out about 9 a Clock from his House near Charing-Cross on his usual occasions was no more to be seen or heard of till the Thursday following and then was found in a Ditch at a place call'd Primrose-Hill near Hampstead about 3 Miles from London with his Cloaths and Money nothing missing but his Band and a pocket-Book wherein he had taken the said priefts Examination but his own Sword was run through his bdoy and so left in it This the Villains had done intending to Murther his Reputation as well as his person and persuade people that he Muthered himself but in that the Devil made Fools of them for there being no blood to be seen in the place the soles of his Shoes clean and especially a Circle about his Neck that shew'd he was Strangled every body concluded he was killed before and lately carried thither Hereupon the King publisht a Proclamation promising 500 l. reward and pardon to any one concern'd that should discover the rest and at last though rather out of trouble of conscience than the invitation of that reward There is a person come in who acknowledges himself privy to it that on the said Saturday they wheadled in Sir Edmundbury into an Eminent House in the Strand under pretence of bringing him to some that could discover more of the Plot that there they forc'd him into a Room and two Jesuits and one priest flinging him down clapt a pillow on his face and sat thereon till they thought they had Stiffled him but finding still some life with a Neckcloth they Strangled him then 't is said they laid the dead body for some time under their Alter as the securest place but of that there is yet no certainty However afterwards they carried it out in a Sedan to the end of the Town and from thence in a Coach to the place where it was found running his Word through him oh put pose to make people believe he killed himself as aforeraid These are the cursed fruits of Popery the effects of Romish zeal and Charity From which let all good Protestants with a just Abhorrence ever pray to be delivered and that God would still be pleased to preserve our most gracious King and the Religion established against all their Bloody plots and Hellish Conspiracies FINIS
A BRIEF NARRATIVE OF THE SEVERAL POPISH Treasons and Cruelties AGAINST THE PROTESTANTS In England France and Ireland Giving a Full Account of the POPISH PLOT AND A Full Discovery of the Manner of the Murther of Sir Edmund-bury Godfrey With Allowance London Printed for P. B. A Brief Narrative of the several Popish Treasons and Cruelties against the Protestants in England c. WEll may we call Popery a Bloody Religion if at least we may afford the name of Religion to a thing made up of Idolatry Usurpation Rebellion and Cruelty Amongst other Christian Nations England the Land of our Nativity has suffered deeply under their Tyranny Not to mention our King John poyson'd by a Monk nor the several Rebellions against that most pious young King Edward the Sixth which were chiefly occasioned by the Priests and designed to bring in the Romish Religion We will come to the time of Queen Mary who restored the Popish Trumpery which her Father in part and her good Brother wholly had suppress'd In her five years time there was more Christian Blood spilt concerning Religion and Matter of Conscience than had been shed in any one Kings Raign since Christianity was first establisht in England Then it was that divers of the chief Compilers of our Book of Common Prayer sealed the Truths of the Protestant -Doctrine with their Blood Fire and Faggot were the Papists best arguments and he that would not Turn against his Conscience to the Idolatrous Mass must Burn for it the Reverend Ridley Bishop of London and Latimer Bishop of Worcester were consumed to ashes at a Stake at Oxford and sometime after the famous Cranmer Arch-Bishop of Canterbury suffered in like manner at the same place Holy John Bradford an excellent Preacher and of a most sober Life was burnt in Smith-field as likewise Saunders Taylor Rogers Heoper Bishops of Glocester and several other Godly Ministers In one year there were burnt for Religion above 80 persons besides those that dyed in prison and in the next 86 of which many were Women and Maids and one a poor blind Woman Ann Askue by name who yet by Arguments from Scripture against the Real Presence Confuted their most Learned Doctors The total Number that suffered Death for their Religion in cruel manner in this Queens short Raign is feckoned between 2 and 4 hundred besides multitudes compelled to leave the Land and undone by imprisonments After her followed Queen Elizabeth whose Name will ever be precious to all Protestants who Establishing again the true Religion 't is impossible to recite in this Sheet the several Treasons plots and Conspiracies hatched against her Life and Government sometimes the Pope cursed her and gave away her Crown and Kingdoms but the best is none of those he bestowed them upon were ever able to take possession sometimes particular men were brib'd with Money or seduced with fancy of Merit and promises of Heaven for the good service to murther her as Parry to Stabb or pistol her Squire to poyson the pummel of her Saddel Throgmorton to kill her in her Pallace Lopez her Physician to poyson her for which he was to have fifty thousand Crowns but all these Traytors were from time to time discovered and Executed according to their deserts Then the Pope and Spaniard stirred up Rebellion in Ireland and sent over Souldiers thither to assist the Rebels but they were always defeated at last they both joyned to invade the Land in the year 1588. but that mighty Spanish Fleet was scattered and bear to pieces a very few of them escaping by flight to tell at home the News of the others disaster In the Raign of this most Vertuous Maiden Queen happenned several instances of Popish Treasons and Cruelties in France First a most bloody Massacre in the year 1572 on St. Bartholomews day at Paris The King of Navarr and Coligni the Admiral of France and most of the cheif Protestants being assembled at a Wedding to be solemnized between the said King and the Sister of the French King on a sudden when no such thing was in the least suspected they were set upon and in one night above twenty thousand Protestants in that one City were barbarously Butchered without any provocation or warning insomuch that 't is said the streets of Paris ran with blood in several places And for the Admiral against whom was their chiefest spight they flung his body out of a Window and caused it to lye in the open street to be devoured by Dogs and Vermine Not long after that Henry the Third King of France was traiterously murthered at the instigation of the Jesuites because he was not so violent to persecute the Protestants as they would have him then the lawful Heir of the Crown as they themselves acknowledged was Henry Surnamed from his mighty actions afterwards The Great and Grandfather by the Mothers side to our Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second but because he was a Protestant they entred into a Confederacy which they call'd The Holy League to keep him from his Right till at last he consented to the Roman Religion but still imagining him not so zealous therein as they would have him he likewise was some years afterwards murthered being stabb'd by Ravillat a Fanatical Jesuited Papist in his Coach on the New-Bridge at Paris in the Year 1610. Upon the same score because King James was a Protestant several Papists conspired to debarr him of his just right to the Crown of England after the death of Queen Elizabeth and two Priests soon after his coming into England were put to death for plotting against his Life and Government But in the 5 th Year of his Reign Just 73 years ago this present Year 1678 The said Papists proceeded to such a Treason as the World never before heard of commonly called The Gun-powder-Plot designed to blow up the King Queen Prince and both Houses of Parliament at one Blast but a Letter being sent from one of the Conspirators to a Lord warning him not to come to the Parliament because they should receive then a Notable Blow c. Search being made 36. Barrels of Gun-powder were found under the Parliament-House and Faux with a Dark Lanthorn standing ready at the time appointed to give Fire to the Train Upon which several persons concerned and some Preists that encouraged them suffered But if we would take a view of Popery in its true Scarlet Dye and know what horrible Murthers Prodigious Cruelties Barbarous Villanies and Inhumane Practices the Jesuits and Fryers are the Authors and encouragers and Papists in general the Actors of We need not look any further back than the present Age In the Rebellion of Ireland wherein there were in all above Three Hundred Thousand Innocent Protestants destroyed and this in a base Treacherous manner without any provocation No Age Sex or Quality being priviledged from Massacres and lingring deaths by being Robbed stript ' naked and so exposed to perish by Cold and Famine or else