they might have a pretence to execute upon them their designed Massacre Dav. Nich. Blundell the Jesuits Catechist substituted into Mr. Oats his room for firing Wapping and the Suburbs on that side the River who did fire the Houses at Limehouse-hole the 18th of Septemb. 1678. twelve days after Mr. Oats had made Affidavit of it before Sir Edmond-Bury Godfry and given his Majesty notice of their purpose in his Information Harcourt and the other Jesuits who imployed Mr. Bedloe and viewed the Tower Bridg-houses and other on the River in order to the application of their Fire-Balls c. Stubs Gifford Molrain who set Eliz. Oxley to fire Mr. Birdans House The Jesuits and their Assistants who were to begin the Fire at the Temple and carry it down to the Savoy The Convent of the Benedictine Monks at the Savoy who were to carry the Fire on to Charing-Cross They who set on and helped M. Clark to fire her Master Mr. De-la Noys House near London-Bridg and the other Maid formerly imployed in the like Villany and the Boy at the Minories * Memorand This Martin de Hamet or Andrew Somers for both those Names were found in his Indenture was an Indenture-Covenant Servant to Claud Lant of the Parish of St. Leonard Shoreditch a French Fringe-maker and for better convenience to carry on the Fire and to get Arms to be used in the Massacre in case the French then aboard their Fleet had landed and the the King thereupon bin assassinated had taken a Lodging in Robin-Hoods Court in Shoe-lane with the then Turn-spit of one of the Inns of Court and firing his own Chamber locked up his Door and was taken going away with the Key and his Indentures in his Pocket and had entred himself in Captain Burton's Company of the Auxiliaries in Shoe-lane The like may be presumed of many more of these Incendiaries This Memorandum is more especially commended to the Officers of the Trained-Bands and Auxiliaries of London because a very wise Man and principal Counsellor to one of the German Princes hath in a Book he published in French affirmed That there are many such French Papists in the City of London who in time of danger would turn to their Enemies and fight against them and now only wait for the King's Death or other opportunity to finish what they begun and designed against their Houses and Lives by Fire and Massacre in the Year 1666. Dr. Tonge hath the Original Indenture and Witnesses to prove this whole Matter to be produced when called for by Authority See Instances of the like Fires Massacres and Robberies acted by Jesuits and other Papists in other Cities in time of Peace in the Doctor 's Demonstration of the Fire-Plot or the Jesuits Incendiaries at the end of that part The Assassins that assailed Justice Arnold Mr. Tomkins Mr. Baron and others may be here added when known Sir EDMOND-BURY GODFREY ANAGRAM I find Murder'd by Rogues Orrory True Justice by false Rogues Murder'd I find They seek in vain Heavens Righteous Eye to blind Dog'd by Furies in Murder Dog'd by Murderin ' Furies By Rogues Rome's Furies dog'd Murder'd you Die Your Name their shame shall live Immortally Dy'd by Rome's rude Finger Rome in Saints Blood still her rude Finger dyes Mother of Murders Lies Idolatries Me dy ' unburied Dog-Friars Whom Cruel Dogs devour unburied lie In Ditches emblems of Friars Cruelty Dun by Romes rigid fury Rome 's riged fury unbid Rome's rigid fury unbid on Murther flies And in Saints Blood her Scarlet double dyes Dy'd by Romes reveng'd fury Rome reveng'd by Fury's dy'd Rom ' dy'd by reveng'd Fury's †Revenge Revenge Furies do Furies call Thy Death is Romes death and thy Fall Romes fall E. T. EDWARD COLEMAN Anagram Lo a damned Crew Anonymus This Proto-Traytor and a damned Crew That follows Lo Heavens Vengeance doth pursue Oe mad and Cruel Whose Confession King Kingdom Life all three Might save dies mute Oe mad and Cruel he E. T. The Publishers Preface to the following Relation of the Mahometan Assassins and their Comparison with the Roman Courteous Reader BE pleased to take notice that this following History of the Mahometan Assassins and their Parallel with the Papal was most of it inserted in Dr. E. Tong 's Royal Martyr as Appendix thereunto For in the Treatise written partly about the Year 1672 and partly about the time of his Majesty's gracious Declaration for Indulgence he endeavoured to discover and prevent if possible in some measure the Horrid Plots ever since the Reformation and more especially in the Reign of our Royal Martyr Charles the First carried on against the Royal Family and still continued until this day for the ruine and destruction of our Religion and therewith of our Laws Liberties and Proprieties therein necessarily involved and charged the Roman Emissaries to have designed all along since the Reformation the Traiterous Parricide of our Protestant Princes and namely of King Charles the First as well as King James and Queen Elizabeth and therein endeavoured to fortify the Testimony of the Reverend Dr. Moulin against them in that particular discountenanced by many and so sedulously suppressed by others that when he endeavoured to promote an Edition of it about the time of the London Fire he found it very difficult to obtain a Copy whereby it might be reprinted And to the better awakening Publick Authority to such a Discovery and Prevention as he intended He judged it convenient to set out this Parallel of our Modern Papal with their Ancestors the more Ancient Mahometan Assassins The Mahometan cannot be denied the honour of the first-born of the Devil the Murderer from the beginning in this Tribe of Regicides though I find one of them envy him the Title and allow him only to be an Ape of the Pope and Jesuits But that these younger Brethren and Successors from Rome have far out-gone him in Principles and Practices cannot be denied as will be more clearly made out when Dr. Oates shall be at leasure to perfect his Narrative of what he hath collected of their Practices in this kind from their own Archieves by which it will appear to admiration most true what John prophesied of that bloody City That all the Blood of God's Martyrs is found in her who hath not only publickly struck at the Crowned Heads of all the Defenders of our Faith but incessantly persued and sought to intercept all our budding Hopes such as were those we conceived of Edward the Sixth and Prince Henry There thou wilt find that hardly any of our Royal Line hath hitherto escaped their Heads or bin unattempted by them if they came near the Succession or gave hopes of zeal for our Religion This Discourse now seasonably as I hope committed to the Press is in particular designed to stir up our Parliament to provide more strict and effectual Means for preventing the like Attempts for the future as in duty they are obliged and to propose to our Princes the
Punishment and this Spiritual or Temporal no Person Place or Age hath furnished us with any Example parallel to this Powder-Traytor Julius Caesar Vaninus nor which ought to strike more terror into the minds of the Seduced Followers of the Modern Impostors for he I say their Disciple and who praises them above all Societies of the World as appears in his own words in the Margent Julius Caesar Vaninus in Epist ad Lectorem p. 2. Cencidunt inquam possum feruntur Haereses quia Militantis Ecclesiae fortissimi heroes ii quos è Societate Jesu ducimus ad illas profligandas excindendasque omnes ammi corporis adhibent Machinationes Bella arma fulmen illud Christianae Militiae Bellarminus R. Card. Meritissimus minatus est c. Valentia vero Becanus Ducaeus Suarez aliique complures ejusdem Sanctissimae Religionis Commilitones quoties pro Gatholica Fide quam gloriosis adversus Haereses quam periculosis demicationibus decertarunt Quam ipsos Adversarios cruentarunt quam profligarunt Itque ego haec gravissimis aliis persuasus Argumentis caeteros quidem variarum Religionum ordines quo vitae integritate qua disciplinorum cognitione qua denique virtutum omnium excellentia exornatos elegantissime gravissime stabilitos ipsam vero Jesu Societatem pietatis eruditionis parentem atque altricem Romanae Ecclesiae splendori fuisse ornamento ipsamque Dei immortalis munere tanquam Romanae Ecclesiae Palladium caeterarum Religionum Columen totius Universitatis Anchoram Hominibus esse concessum c. he only of all Mankind died obstinately and gloried in being a Martyr for Atheism and a professed enemy of God and all Religion so brought about by God's Justice that we and the whole World might see in this dreadful Instance whither the desperate Principles of the Roman Emissaries lead their Disciples and Profelytes when left to themselves As for Father Parsons who in his old Age boasted publickly in the Jesuits College at Rome as our Spanish Doctor here That he had wrought in the Powder-Mine at London And all the rest who escaped God's just revenging Hand in this World let them stand for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 demonstrative Tokens and Evidences unto us as the Apostle teaches us 2 Thess 1.5 of the impartial Judgment to come wherein all Men shall stand before Christ's Tribunal and there receive righteous Judgment according to what they have done in the Flesh whether it be good or evil Here follows one of the Charms or Exorcisms by which our Country-men this noble Spanish Doctor and such other audacious Spirits as they find most fit for their horrid Designs are in their Chambers of Meditation and other Recesses of Darkness conjured up gradually to that prodigious Fury as to think that in bloody Assassinations of Kings and Princes and merciless blowing up of Kingdoms they do acceptable Service to God and merit everlasting Life A Secret Mystery of the Jesuits delivered in French to a lover of the Reformed Religion shortly after the murder of Henry the 4th late King of France WHen they persuaded any Man to murder his King or Prince after that this poor and unfortunate Man is entred into their * The Chamber of Meditations by which the Jesuits prepare fit and train up their Assassins to these Mysteries is thus shortly described in a French Treatise printed 1602 whose Title is La Franc et veritable Discours c. written to dissuade Henry the 4th of France from restoring the banished Jesuits into France in his 37 page in these words Chastell who attempted to kill Hen. 4. of France asked by the said Senators if he had ever bin in the Chamber of Meditations into which the Jesuits bring the most grievous Sinners in which Chamber they set before them and cause them to behold the hideous portratures and shapes of Devils of sundry most terrible Figures under a colour of reducing them to a better course of Life but indeed andetruth to disorder and distract their Minds in such manner that they may be able by such Admonitions and Advice as they give them to atchieve or undertake some great Design He answered them That he had bin often in that Chamber of Meditations So they call it but it might better and more truly be stiled The School of Fury and Madness Chamber of Meditation and Prayer this hellish Brood bring forth a Knife wound up in a Chastel enquis by more than three hundred Senators of the Parliament of Paris a Cloud of sufficient Witnesses S' if n'avoit pas esse en la Chambre des Meditations on les Iesuits intrediusoient les plus grands pecheurs qui voyoint en icelle Chambre les pourtraits de plusieurs diables de diverses figures espouvantables sous coleur de les reduire en meillieure me pours esbranler leurs esprits les pousser par telles admonitions a faire quelque grand cas A dit quilavoit este souvent en cette Chambre c. Scarf in an Ivory Sheath cover'd with an Agnus Dei written round about with perfum'd Characters and when they draw out the said Knife they cast certain drops of Holy Water upon it and then they hang upon the Haft of the Knife five or six blessed Corals which betokeneth that the Man shall deliver so many blessed Souls out of Purgatory as he shall give thrusts with the Knife When they deliver the Knife into the Murderers Hands they speak these words Chosen and Elect Child of God go forth like unto Jeptha the Sword of Sampson the Sword wherewith David did cut off the Head of Goliah the Sword of Gideon the Sword wherewith Judith did cut off the Head of Holofernes the Sword of the Maccabees and the Sword wherewith Peter did cut off Malucha 's Ear the Sword of Pope Julius the 2d wherewith he conquer'd Imole Fayence Friuli Bologne and divers others Go forth and be of active Courage God strengthen thy Arm. This done they fall down on their Knees and the chiefest of them conjurath on this manner Come Chirubims come Seraphims Thrones that rule come the fortunate and blessed Angels Angels of Love and fill this Holy Vessel with Eternal Glory and bring him presently the Crown of the Virgin Mary of the Patriarchs and of the Mattyrs for he is no longer ours And then they say O powerful and invincible God who hast revealed unto him in his Prayers and Meditations that he must kill a Tyrant Heretick to set the Crown upon the Head of a Catholick King being disposed and persuaded to this Murder by us strengthen his Sinews and multiply his Strength that he may fulfil thy Will give him a privy earnest Token whereby he may escape from them that would lay bands upon him give him Wings that the Spies of the Barbarous may not overtake his Sanctified Members dart forth thy fiery Beams into his Soul that thereby his Body may be encouraged boldly to press through all Difficulties without fear
Having ended this Conjuration they lead him before an Altar where they shew him in a Picture how the Angel took up Jaques Clement Jacobine presenting him before the Throne of God and saying Lord behold thy own Arm behold thy Revenge and the Executioner of thy Justice and all the Saints stand up and give him room All this being done no Man may speak with this Man but four Jesuits who when they come to him say That he appeareth to them as having some Divine Nature and God-head and that they are so strucken and moved with the brightness thereof that they kiss his Hands and his Feet accounting him no longer a Man and they make a shew as if they did half envy him his good Fortune and Glory which he possesseth already fetching a deep sigh and saying unto him I would that God had chosen me in this place for then I should be assured to go directly to Paradise and not into Purgatory To the Reader of the following Informations and Depositions LEt no Man flatter himself as if Rome were ashamed or had left off the exercise of those her Impious Frauds in our days because these Works of Darkness are not practised in the Face of the Sun or Men were grown more wise and vertuous in this Age than the former The following Paper not to speak of what is in every Mouth testifies That as they never want Encouragements so they can never want Instruments for the most horrid and cruel Assassinations of Kings and Nobles as well as inferior Persons who with them are of no better esteem than Dogs or most noisome Vermine when they oppose their infatiable Lusts which they call Religion or cover with pretences of Piety If any Man be offended with what I have smartly written and endeavoured to expose to publick scorn and hate of the Doctrines and Practices of the Jesuits abominable to God and Man as some Translations of that kind have bin denied publick License and Light as they well deserved had they aimed at any other end than that of publick Justice which allows the most detestable Practices to be spoken out in the audience of all the People If any be offended I say I would be bould to add one word to them which is this That all those Villanies of Cruelty Assassination and the Gunpowder Blow it self had it taken effect the poison of King James if true the Martyrdom of Charles the First the Massacre of Ireland the intended Poisoning or Assassination of his Majesty Charles the Second whom God preserve and with him the Massacre of hundreds of thousands of his Innocent Subjects illustrated by London Flames cannot be so justly laid by Man to them nor can nor will be so severely required by God at the last day at the hands of these Roman Missionaries and their Disciples the sworn Legionaries and Spies of the Popes and Court of Rome to whom they are obliged as Subjects by all Ties Sacred and Humane of Religion Love Gratitude Glory and hope of Salvation as to them who contrary to Oaths Law Justice and Interest of their Country admit harbour entertain plead for favour and shelter them and discourage the Informers and Prosecutors whom Zeal to publick Good hath pressed to discover and pursue them at the extreme peril of their Lives Let the Case be put for Spies sent into any Enemy's Country by any Prince if they came as Spies and so deserve Death much more those that know and receive them I'ts no less than a common Proverb Receivers make Thieves and in our case make Assassins Traitors Murderers Poisoners and Incendiaries Here the Doctor concludes with the protestation of his Innocency That he is ready to tender an Act of Parliament which will put all the good Laws of England into infallible Execution to the Glory of God Preservation of the King Kingdom Religion Laws and Liberties and that what-ever Laws are henceforth made without such Provisions as are necessary to their infallible Execution are but mockeries of God in his Concern and gross abuses of the Country in their Interests and Trust This Paper coming seasonably to my hand to prove by what particular Law our Modern Poisoners Assassins Incendiaries Plunderers Regicides c. are authorized with a good Conscience to attempt so many horrid Villanies and protest at their Death their Babe-like Innocency I thought it would be acceptable to the Reader to find it recorded here in the Sorbon Doctor 's own words as I found it printed in his Expostulation opposed to the Jesuits printed Thesis defended in their Claromontane College at Paris Valerian Flavigny hath these words in the Book and Page quoted in the Margent Perhaps this place might require me to draw hither many other Decrees and Statutes of the Inquisition such as those which may be read in many places of the approved Decretals or Book of the Secrets of the Inquisition published at Venice by Marcus Antonius Zalterius especially in the 472 675 676 namely That it is lawful for every Man by his own private or proper Authority to take captive strip also to kill Heretics That all Persons who are held bound to any Person whatsoever not excepting Kings in what kind of Obligation soever are then wholly freed from it when they to whom they are obliged fall into any manifest Heresy That Hereticks from the day they become Criminal lose all Right and and Power or Dominion of retaining or disposing of all their Goods That all help and benefit of Laws is denied them and that every legal Act is forbidden them He to whom an Heretick hath entrusted any thing is not obliged to restore his trust to him That a Catholick Wife is not obliged not to defraud her Husband because by the Husbands Heresy the Wife is free from that Duty and so on the other hand neither yet is the Bond of Matrimony thereby dissolved That all Vassals whatsoever are by the Letter of the Law of right freed from all Obligation though confirmed by the Religious Bond of an Oath by which they were engaged to their Lords Children are in their own disposal and freed from all Duty to their Parents so soon as they become Hereticks So testifies the Catholick Doctor of the Laws of the Roman Court of Inquisition Expostulatio adversus Thesin Claromontanam Valeriani de Flavigni Doctoris ac Socii Sorbonensis Sacrarum Hebraicarum Literarum Professoris Regii in Regio Franc. Collegio Professorum Regiorum Decani Pag. 9. Forsitan postularet iste locus ut plura alia Inquisitionis Decreta aut Statuta huc adveherem qualia sunt illa quae passim in Decretorio Inquisitorum approbato Venetiis apud Marcum Antonium Zalterium edito legi possunt ac presertim 472 675 676 videlicet Licere propria Authoritate Haereticos capere spoliare ac etiam interficere Omnes qui aliquo Obligationis genere aliquibus tenentur adstricti tunc liberari penitus cum illi quibus obligati erant in Haeresin
incidunt manifestam Haereticos à die commissi criminis amittere dominium omnium bonorum Haereticis omne Legum auxilium beneficium denegatum esse omnemque actum legitimum interdictum Eum apud quem Haereticus aliquid deposuit non teneri rem depositam Haeretico restituere Uxorem Catholicam è converso viro Haeretico debitum reddere non obligari quia per Haeresin viri ab hoc debito liberata est neque tamen dissolutum esse Matrimonii vinculum Quoscunque vasallos omni Obligatione etiam juramenti Religione munita quo dominis suis tenebantur adstricti ipso jure liberatos esse Filios Haereticorum effici sui juris quam primum eorum parentes incidunt in Haeresin And so on the other side Kings and Parents are not bound to them by parity of Law And here because my ingenious Romanist shall not object against this Testimony as he doth against the King's Evidence that we bring only Saying and Swearing against these monsters of Men and Opinions and no Reasons I will give him two Arguments to prove these Doctrines to be true and necessary Points of their Faith And the first Reason is Because the most Holy Popes and Infallible General Councils confirmed and established these Doctrines who confirmed and established their Faith of the real substantial Presence of the Body and Blood of Christ over and besides all its Graces Vertues Powers and Merits to the faithful Receiver by their incomprehensible Transubstantiation against as clear Light of Sense in this as of Morality utterly extinguished in that So that they who leave the Jesuits in the Doctrine of Poisoning and Murdering Kings cannot continue in the Communion of their Church-Mass by the Authority of Pope or Council Nor can the evasion help that it was ordered but not defined for if fallible in Practice which is directed by Judgment who can secure us that Judgment is Infallible where Practice is Heretical My second Argument is a Demonstration in which the infallible Pen of St. Paul gives the Major That all is the Churches and the Pope's Infallible Chair the Minor The Pope and those in his Communion is the only Church therefore all is theirs and we are beholden to them that they have not long since according to the Law of the Holy Inquisition seized all we have to be sure they owe us nothing to whom we owe our very Lives and therefore we as vainly expect they should owe or afford us one Grain of so pretious a Truth as an ingenuous confession of the present Plot which were to contribute greatly to our Delivery Life and Peace the Plague and Ruin of their Cause And here we may see what quarter we are to expect from all those supercilious Factions who Unchurch all Christians who symbolize not with them in all their Ceremonies and fiercely Excommunicate them as Lutherans do the Calvenists at this day That I may say nothing of our Opinionists who found Dominion in Grace and run from Rome in the Fool 's Circle till they overtake and out-go it Postscript or Marginal Note to Flavigni N.B. That Green Berry and Hill having so good Authority without Warrant from any General or other Superior Commissioned from the Pope by the legal Decree of the Holy Inquisition to kill what Hereticks they pleased for them to acknowledg themselves Guilty had bin to renounce their Holy Pope and Holy Inquisition which were to renounce God and Christ and leave the Church Headless and condemn Holy Garnet and all the Red-letter'd Saints who consecrated themselves by the Slaughter and Massacres they have made of more Protestants within this two hundred Years than are now any where alive and kill'd and burnt more in two Protestant King's Reigns than in all their Popish Predecessors and especially they had blasphemed their French and Irish Massacres and English London-Fire those renowned Proofs of Roman Zeal and Religion The Examination of John Lund of Iver in the County of Bucks taken upon Oath before me Henry Coventry Esq one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State this 2d day of January 1678. Who being duly Sworn and Examined saith THat upon Tuesday the last day of December last about six of the Clock of the same in the Evening this Examinant being abroad to look after some Wood-stealers he saw seven or eight Men on Horse-back coming from Iver-Heath towards Iver-Town and three or four of them parted and went the way toward Rickmansworth and the other four came down the Land near which this Examinant stood One of them having occasion to Untruss he alighted and another held his Horse and commanded the other two to go forward who as this Examinant supposeth were their Servants This Examinant saith That he was on the other side the Hedg and very nigh this Person who alighted and heard the one say to the other How are things like to go The other answered Well enough for as for that Inquisitive Dog Shaftsbury and that Dog Essex and another whose Name this Examinant did not perfectly hear but it was Holle or Alle or some such sound their Business should be done The one asked Which way The other answered One Mac who was a clever stout Fellow and had courage would do it in Womens Apparel The other asked again Are you sure he will do it Yes said he he will but if he will not there are a thousand will do it for the same Encouragement And this Examinant further saith That he heard one of the said Persons say to the other Do not fear nor be discouraged for we will send their Souls to the Devil for a New-years Gift And then they mounted and went forwards to a Place where the ways parted and two of them went towards Kingston and the other two towards Windsor One of these Persons who had this Discourse under the Hedg had a black Cap on his Head and the other a Hat all the Horses were dark coloured and two of the Persons had Waste-belts on and one of them had a laced Livery as near as this Examinant could perceive And further this Examinant saith not Taken before me this 2d day of January 1678. John Lund HENRY COVENTRY This Deposition of so fresh a Date is so full an evidence of that Diabolical Murdering Spirit still reigning in these Roman Emissaries and Conspirators that I shall not need to produce any other of that Cloud of Witnesses who with Sir Edmond-Bury Godfry's Blood continually cry to our King Lords and Commons for Vengeance not so much on the poor deluded Accessaries and Instruments acted as upon the Principals and Actors Jesuits Monks Friers and Priests whereof there is not one sent hither who hath not some Episcopal Jurisdiction and consequently who is not a sworn Enemy to our King Kingdoms and Religion If by the equity of Moses Law he who let a wild Ox go loose who had formerly goared others was to answer with the price of his own Life the mischief done by such
ungoverned Brutes I leave it to God to judg betwixt this People and their Superiors and to determine after so many thousands of Innocents flain in our former Confusions in all the three Kingdoms ralsed or promoted by these Incendiaries at whose hands that Blood shall be required which by any neglect of theirs in not trying up and exterminating these Furies may again destain and pollute this Land These following Propositions to prevent Assassins have bin perused and approved as not unworthy of publick consideration Da veniam subitis non displicuisse meretur Festinat Lector qui placuisse tibi Pardon kind Reader what you can't commend This haste to please deserves not to offend Other Depositions and Informations farther discovering the Jesuital Assassins and Assassinations Mr. Oates's Narrative JUne 13.76 Tho. Whitebread in his Chamber told the Rector of St. Omers That a Minister of the Church of England he meaning Dr. Tonge had scandalously and basely put out the Jesuits Morals in English and had endeavoured villanously to render them odious to the People and asked the said Rector Whether he thought the Deponent Mr. Oates might possibly know him and the Rector not knowing called the Deponent who stood at the Provincial's Chamber Door and heard these words and when the Deponent came into the Chamber of the said Provincial Whitebread he asked him If he knew the Author of the Jesuits Morals The Deponent answered His Person but could not well remember his Name Whitebread then demanded Whether he would undertake to Poison or Assassinate the said Author which the said Deponent undertook to do having fifty pounds Reward promised him by the said Provincial and was appointed to return for England At the said time the Provincial said in his Chamber That he and the Society of London would procure Dr. Stillingfleet to be knockt in the Head and Master Pool the Author of Synopsis Criticorum for writing some things against them Numb 30. July 78 Richard Ashby came to London with Instructions from Whitebread in which was an Item with a Memorandum for the procuring the Assassination of the Right Reverend Father in God Herbert Lord Bishop of Hereford for that the said Bishop had bin educated in the Popish Religion and was fallen and they were resolved not to pity nor spare any Apostate from the Roman Faith Ashby also said That Times being now ready to change they would be ready to give not only Apostates but also those Hereticks that had obstinately opposed the proceedings of the Society and their Agents in propagating the Faith and Interest of the Church of Rome a just Reward for their Apostacy and infamous Obstinacy and though the Parliament have taken away the Act for burning Hereticks they should not escape the vengeance of Catholicks Numb 33. August 9. 1678. Bazil Langworth and others of the Society did offer ten pounds to the Deponent Mr. Oates to kill Berry formerly a Jesuit now a Secular Priest because he had written and was about to print some sheets of Paper in vindication of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and in it persuaded Roman Catholicks to a more charitable compliance with Protestants And urged the Deponent If he durst not do it himself to procure some other to do it assuring the Deponent that whosoever did it and were questioned for it he should have a Pardon Numb 47. Mr. Bedloe pag. 42. April 75. at Paris at a Consultation two French Abbots and several English Monks discoursed about carrying on the Plot to subvert the Government of England to destroy the King and the Lords of the Council the King was principally to be destroyed and the Government subverted as well as the Protestant Religion Coleman's Tryal Mr. Bedloe Ireland's Tryal pag. 44 45. August 78. About the same time there was a discourse of a Design to kill several Noble Men and the particular Parts assigned to every one Knight was to kill the Earl of Shaftsbury Pritchard the Duke of Buckingham Oneal the Earl of Ossory Obrian the Duke of Ormond I will conclude these Informations with an Account borrowed from our ingenious Country-man a zealous Assertor of the Church though not of the Court of Rome nor their Jesuitical Parasites Braves and Cut-throats where you may see how these Artists imitate the Warlike Laconian Education of their Youth making by the severity of their Collegiat Institution the Sacred War to which they send their Missionaries a pleasure rather than a toyl as all they know who have had Education amongst them Baronius in his Roman Martyrologie so writes this Modern Wit saith That the Holy Priests as Innocent Lambs fatted in the Sacred Cloisters by the Holy Society of Jesus with divine Instructions for Martyrdom a Sacrifice acceptable to God and the Sacred Colleges at Rome and Rhemes have bin put to Death because they preached in England the Doctrine of the Holy Romish Church 1. King-killing as above in the Laws of the Holy Inquisition I wish he had not said it in regard they are Envoys of the Society of Jesus because they are accused to be liberal enough of other Mens Blood he means the Missioners and other Orders and therefore though it be a commendable thing to meet Martyrdom I would not have them guilty of sending People meerly upon that Errand when there is no need for it Then to breed them up as Victims to God looks as if we sacrificed them our selves and smells a little of Baal-Peor Then the word Cloister sounds like a Prison as if we kept them in Franks or Styes to force them to keep their Oaths he means of returning as Traitors to their Countries and upon this the Hereticks would be upon our Bones and say of the God to whom we Sacrifice them That it must be some God of this Age or World or else some God of the Earth i. Pope for that the God of Heaven requires now no more Sacrifices at all nor never did those of Humane Blood But that which spoils all is the word Fatted Greased or Anointed A. B. Valgrand sent me to Lipsius Saturnals l. 1. c. 14. for the meaning of it There I found the term was proper to the Gladiators who were pick'd out of the condemned Prisoners or miserable Slaves and afterwards maintained in their Sacred or rather Execrable Seminaries to the end they might purchase or pay for their Fat by their Death Qui dabit immundae venalia fata saginae Propertius They weary them out of their Colleges and Chambers of Meditation c. To furnish such as these the sharp-witted Prosecutors have provided and set up at Rhemes Rome Doway Madrid and Valladolid Colleges of young English who as Marcus Navarrus writes in his third Book of Councils by an established Papal Constitution are bound to swear before they taste any of the Popes Bounty in their Colleges That after so many Years they shall return into England to publish what they have learnt i. Assassination King-killing and City-burning as at this day I add and they at the entrance forswear their Allegiance also what good hath come of this Cardinal Bellarmine tells us in his Apology for Seminaries N. B. To justify our Laws against Roman Emissaries that before they are made Priests they are guilty of accumulated Treasons First It is Felony for any Protestant to go out of this Kingdom without his Majesty's leave much more for such a mischievous end as to be trained up in such desperate Principles in the Popish Seminaries as are there Professed Preached and Taught to the utter subversion of all true Piety to God Allegiance to Prince Morality Civility or Fidelity to Mankind 2. They renounce their Allegiance at their first entrance into such Seminaries which were first Instituted to teach a Foreign Allegiance to a Spanish Heir against Queen Elizabeth this is High Treason 3. They swear to perpetuate this their treasonable Renunciation by an uncessant activity in Treason in their return to England before they can receive any benefit of their Renunciation This intent of Treason were Treason though it should never be reduced into Act here in England whither it is Treason for them to come with such Traiterous Intention 4. At and before their Ordination their Bishops and Priests who in England have Episcopal Jurisdiction swear to be Enemies to all the Pope's Enemies and to seek their utter ruin and destruction I hope Priesthood by its indelible Character doth not blot out but augment all the Oaths and Obligations to Treason in consideration whereof it was and without which it cannot be given 5. All Priests who are of any Regular Orders are obliged by their Oaths to obey the Pope if not with Blind as Jesuits at least with Canonical Obedience and it appears above and elsewhere by the Canon of the Holy Inquisition and the Letter of the Pope's Law that they ought to molest us Hereticks by all manner of means Fire Assassination Regicides false Plots News c. of which we have lately lamentable experience till by mere vexation we be driven as thousands are daily out of other Countries to wander destitute afflicted and tormented in Exile or to forsake our Religion and Laws and live Slaves with our Prince under the Tyranny of the Pope and Devil FINIS