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A91228 A new discovery of some Romish emissaries, Quakers; as likewise of some popish errors, unadvisedly embraced, pursued by our anticommunion ministers. Discovering the dangerous effects of their discontinuing the frequent publick administration of the Lords Supper; the popish errors whereon it is bottomed; perswading the frequent celebration of it, to all visible church-members, with their free-admission thereunto; and prescribing some legal regal remedies to redress the new sacrilegious detaining of it from the people, where their ministers are obstinate. / By William Prynne of Swainswicke Esquire, a bencher of Lincolns Inne. Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1656 (1656) Wing P4017; Thomason E495_2; ESTC R203274 40,067 59

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of desolation in which they run on headlong without deliberation discretion fear or wit 1. It is worth our special observation that in m Lancashire and those other Northern parts where Popish Priests Friers Recusants formerly most abounded there our last newest up-start Sect of Quakers first sprung up and now most of all abound sending out their Popish Romish Emissaries thence into all other parts of the Realm to seduce the people and openly to revile traduce affront disturb our Ministers in their Churches Pulpits Houses in going to returning from their Churches and in the open streets in a more insolent manner and with greater impunity than ever the Popish Priests Friers or Papists in those parts affronted reviled disturbed them heretofore when they were most countenanced or connived at by our late Kings or their Officers being encouraged thereunto by many in greatest Authority in those parts of which I have seen lat● sad complaints in Letters of Ministers thus insufferably abused disturbed daily by them to their great vexation not only against n the late Statute of 1 Mariae c. 3. but the antient Fundamental Laws of England before the Conquest o presented to William the Conqueror himself upon Oath by the famous Grand E●quest of 12 of the principal men chosen out of every County and ratified by him i● Parliament in the 4th year of his reign providing for the peace and quiet of the Ministers and people too against all affronts and disturbances both in their going to continuance in and returning from their Churches or Synods as well as to our Parliaments and other Courts of Justice still in full Legal vigour by which all such disturbers may and ought to be fined imprisoned upon conviction according to the quality of their offences as well as p other disturbers infringers of the publike Peace and bound both to the Peace and good behaviour for the future ere released with sufficient sureties 2ly It is remarkable that these New Quakers were sent from those Northern Counties into other quarters of the Kingdom two by two at first no doubt by the direction of their Popish Provincial just as the Franciscan Friers are sent out by their Provincial In the q years 1638 1639 and 1640. there were sundry Franciscans with whole swarms of Jesuits Benedicti●s and other Friers sent from forein parts into England Scotland Ireland Virginia St. Christophers and other English Plantations to reduce the people back to Rome towards which we were then running post The Original Instruments of some of their Missions with sundry of their Letters Papers under their own hands and s●a●s relating their intentions proceedings seised in the Capucins Cell ad●oyning to the late Queens Chappel at Somerset-house and in Mary-land by a Sea-Captain my Client where the Jesuites erected a New Colledge and Society the whole History whereof and of their proceedings in those parts was comprised in their Letters Gods providence brought into my hands when they and their seduced instruments were most busie in reforming new-modelling our Church Religion Parliaments Realms Government after the prescribed patterns of Robert Parsons the Jesuit Thomas Campanella the Frier and Richelieu the French Cardinal as I have r elsewhere demonstrated beyond contradiction The chiefest of these Instruments Letters Papers of great concernment to our Church State Religion I intended long since to have published But s Jo. Bradshaw and his Whitehall Associats out of their transcendent zeal to our Religion and Republike in the end of June 1650 by special warrants directed to Soldiers plundred me of those all my other Papers Letters Writings Records in my Study at Lincolns I●ne and at Swainswicke which they could seise on and then shut me up close Prisoner under strictest armed Guards in 3. remote Castles near 3. whole years without any particular cause then or since expressed or the least hearing or examination of me only to hinder my Discoveries and publications of this Nature whiles these Romish Emissaries in the mean time wandred freely up and down throughout our Dominions without restraint t published many thousands of Popish heretical blasphemous New Books and some of them were Souldiers in pay in their very Guards no doubt to help extirpate Popery Superstition Heresie Schism and for the Preservation Defence and Reformation of the Protestant Religion the preservation of the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament the Liberties of the Kingdom t●e Honour Happinesse Defence and Preservation of the Kings Majesty and his Posterity according to the u Tenor of the Solemn League and Covenant the quite contrary way and promoting their New Engagement diametrically repugnant thereunto Yet notwithstanding all their diligent Searches by Gods providence they left one of those Original Popish Missions in Parchment under Seal undiscovered which I lately found in my Study at L●●colns Inne whereby two Franciscans were sent by their Provincial of Bri●ain in the year 1639. to St. Christophers and other Western Ilands where we had plantations who ended their progresse at Somerset-house where this Instrument was seised which beca●se it may give some light towards the Discovery of our Quakers Missions in like manner two by two I shall here pri●4t verb●●tim out of the Original in my custody seen by many of my Friends Admodum Venerabili Patri * F Hugoni Ancenisiensi Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Sancti Francisci Capucinorum Sacerdoti * F R●phael Nannetensis ejusdem Ordinis et In Provincia Britanni● Provinc●alis licet immeritus Salutem In eo qui est vera Sa●us CUm divino incensus amore et animarum Salutis sollicitudine pulsus ex hac nostra Britanniae Provincia ad Insulas Occidentales per longa maris pericula sis vela facturus ut illius regionis populos in umbra mortis sedentes in ●ucem veritatis Christianae omni cum studio adducere valeas Nobisque ex regulae Seraphyci Patris Francisci praescripto incumbat de mittendorum idonietate judicare et à sancta Sede sit Nobis concessum quos ad tale Apostolicum munus obeundum dignos censuerimus illuc dirigere Te cujus Pietas et fervor animi animarumque Zelus Nobis innotuit ad id munus cum salutaris obedientiae merito et RR. PP. Definitorum applausu ad Insulam Sancti Christopheri Martiniam aut aliam Insulam Occidentalem Ibique commorandi si opus ●nerit Confessiones excipiendi caeteraque tui muneris Apostolici Officia exercendi donec per Nos vel Successorem nostrum tibi aliter innotuerit Vna cum V. P. F. Epiphanio Alenconiensi in nomine Domini mittimus et deputamus Ut autem dignè quantum fierr poterit in tam celebri Missione peragenda te geras omnibus facultatibus per nostra Privilegia concessi●● gaudere atque uti in quantum se extendit nostra authoritas libenter tibi concedimus Monentes ●e●ut cum omni studio vigil●●●ia zelo alacritate ac fidei