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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76483	Mutatus polemo. The horrible strategems of the Jesuits, lately practised in England, during the Civil-Wars, and now discovered by a reclaimed Romanist: imployed before as a workman of the mission from his Holiness. Wherein the Royalist may see himself outwitted and forlorn, while the Presbyterian is closed with, and all to draw on the holy cause. A relation so particular, and with such exquisite characters of truth stampt upon it, that each of our three grand parties may here feel how each others pulses beat. Also a discovery of a plot laid for a speedy invasion. / By A.B. novice. Published by special command.	A. B., Novice.	1650 (1650)	Wing B21; Thomason E612_2; ESTC R23105	40,723	56

had listed themselves and by their Advance recruited their tottered condition and amended their equipage to which the Monsieur answered Gods death let it be even so or else they 'le take me for a very merry gentleman meaning belike He should be unable to hold his countenance and restrain laughter And now the poor Cabs do captare Ranam shoot at a crow and kill an owle they have brought their hogs to a fair market like the Devil when he threw them into the Sea of a foul event they have a fair labour they must not only be content to be beaten out of the Kingdom but be * Ni resipiscant fustibus flagris nae ipsi vapulabunt beaten in again to usher in and make room for those who when they have served their turn of them will use them and their King both alike nay they shall be forced to fight against themselves Sic vos non vobis c. so that the more victories they win the more miserable they make themselves and un-king their Prince This plot was never so strong against them as t is at this moment as in time I shall declare But they will not be induced to beleeve the French to be other then reall Assisters and that they do not catch at their crown and I must confess their reason seems to be somewhat solid in this particular Because say they we know our King to be reconciled to the Roman-Catholike Church and hereby he hath ingratiated himself with and engaged all the Catholike Princes of Europe for his assistance Ah Freind I know the pulse of the French not to beat so violently for Religion when a crown lies at stake they hope I le warrant thee to see a Lewis crowned in Londre as there was a Henry in Paris But they say His Holiness hath obliged all Catholike Princes to be aiding and amongst them the French who if ever he wins England t is more then probable maugre the Pope will count himself fitter to be Defender of the Faith then he that just now was converted to it to regain a crown And this is but meerly brutorum ratio all the reason they have Well but let us look back and see what we Presbyterian-Cavaleers are doing at Edenburgh amongst the Cavaleer-Presbyterians Our time is wholly spent in listing who list to taste of the Esca of our hooks and no little trouble was it for us to ferret them out of the severall holes they had buried themselves in Our first two daies work was to pretend the disclosing of a great secret to all we met that they should give notice to all the right Cavaleers they knew to meet at a Green a quarter of a mile beyond the Kings Hally-Rood-House neer a little Alehouse there called the Worlds end where Duke Hambleton had by us intended out of his pure pitty a distribution of money to all distressed English Officers and Gentlemen souldiers of the Kings party according to their several qualities and that there would be made some propositions for the seting a foot again of our old quarrel with the English Rebels O how greedily was this Gudgeon swallowed Those that had but twelve i One penny black dogs drunk a health that night in Scotch Ale to the brave Duke and thus we made every one prove a Decoy to his Comrade and our appointed time being come our work we found done to our hands and some Punds drunk upon score in the Dukes health before ere we came at them where we found the silly souls extreamly frolick and blythe Hic saltat laetus hic est sermone facetus every man fancying vanities to himself and building castles in the Air as yet still they do upon a Scotch foundation according to the defect of his judgement and discretion Ex improviso fallitur omnis homo And so they are resolved to be once more * Imbelli adminiculo ne sustenteris deceived by them before they will learn better forecast Nor when we came did we piddle with them a whit but forthwith accosted them with the most prestigious sugar candid words we could invent not forgetting one tittle of our Instructions which we confirmed for truths by a certain token the Duke had sent by us which was twenty shillings sterlin to drink his dear Master the Kings Health and a confusion and damnation to the Parliament besides half so much for the King of France his Health desiring them to accept of these poor favours he had sent them as a token of what more he intended to do as a sympathy of their loyall sufferings but especially as a demonstration of his fidelity though formerly mistrusted to his Master Thus having told our tales and recruted every man with a considerable summ in his pocket besides their heads full of Nobilis Alla we desired them all quietly to disperse themselves and in the mean while to put themselves into as hansom an equipage as they could till our meeting again that day sevenight in the same place when if we did not presently fall upon action we told them we were commanded to assure them upon the Dukes honor they were safe and that there should be a very competent and large allowance offorded the very meanest of them all and so they straglingly parted like fools as they came Qui leviter credit deceptus saepè recedit I cannot call it good nature in them but a shallowness of experience contracted through customary overmuch talk more boasting through too little observation and no pondering for certainly no cattle in world are more easily beguiled then the Cavaleers generally by an over-weening credulity the true occasionall use of a wise distrust and slow Belief either not reaching or else misplacing seldom deliberating till surrounded with fears who are ill Counsellors and never determining but upon hopes and wishes who are false Astrologers The dull Phrygian could Serò sapere the Cavaleer will nunquam He is alwayes extravagantly talking of many generations past never once roundly considering how that Then was Then and Now is Now. But to our Relation We staid not this night till we had informed the Agent how far and fair a progress we had made in the business who seemed very pleasant at the relation of the several pretty passages at our Tap-lash Rendezvous some Devotions being that night performed at his lodgings at which the Duke was present and many other Scotch Gentry though some people will hardly think it we had the honor to be commanded to take our repast there that night and waiting his Honors leasure and further pleasure with us he told us there was no more to be said till the Duke had compleated many things with the States which to him he had ingaged for I will onely add this said he for our comfort I doubt not by the fair progress we have already transacted with these k The Scots people but to see our three l Cabs Presbyters Independants enemies beaten

should I dare publikely to speak all I know of the persons of some men and their now black and dangerous actings and imployments for the restoring of not Charls but to his ancient bloudy Tyranny Suffice thee my Reader thou shalt know all in time it must first be my work at the Councell Table where I shall God willing bring in a horrible large Catalogue of more pernitiously damnably dangerous Actors then was in the year 1605. in that infernall Powder plot If ever there were such a fry of Devils in mens shapes yea in ministers too crept in to undermine a People and State judge you by that time I shall have discharged the duty of a Sound Convert and a Native English Gentleman to those Patriots and worthies whom God by most miraculous providences hath owned to be our undoubtedly lawfull Governours But Non omnes volucres Auceps non omnia lustra Venator spoliat I shall do my uttermost Return we to see what the Catholike faction are a brewing Each had their Conventicle the Cavaleer Buzzard I may say Bayard had their fools o In Oxford a place so fitly called for Newes-meeters Corner and we our p The Catholike savern so generally called Knaves Some of us resolve one thing some another all agree in this we must desert the Royall Cause and as we could get in with the Presbyter One of such a quality cryes out I le compound and goe home fight Dog fight Bear Another I 'le take the Covenant and turn Presbyter But this last sort had carryed themselves meer Amphibiums in religion and not openly known for reall Catholikes but a part of us of more hot spirits not of the laity but of some severall orders did conclude it our best way not only cleerly to relinquish our party but to engratiate our selves with the Enemy by acting some handsome piece of treachery that in time we might revive the old Catholike Cause by more able and apt Instruments then by a company of staring hare-brain'd Cavaleers who are not able to act so powerfully as those we desired to joyn Interest with nor indeed as Solomon speaks when they had a price in their hands were they able to get wisdome And for this Conjunction were there very plausible reasons laid down Say some Had the King prevailed against the People the fawning Bishops to uphold their usurped power would have stampt any Religion upon their Proselyte King that they again might have vanted in their Lawn sleeves and stoln q Pedo Episcopali grande inest mysterium Miters the number of us Catholikes being in England much inconsiderable to that of Hereticks and the King not pertinacious nor a jot solicitous of any Religion which diminishes the least tittle of his monarchical prerogative In this huddle of opinions up starts a Dominican Fa Car by name now in Calice but then known by the degree of Quartermaster Lawrence born at Hexam in Northumberland and seriously in my opinion he spake as we say veteratorie like an old Fox Truly said he I can with better conscience and more liberty fight for and converse with the Scot then the Infidel the Presbyter then the Cavaleer I have more hopes of him for a Convert which is of some religion then of him which is of none and so far quoth he may we call the King but his Party especially true Cavaleers And if we truly consider some points of the Religion and the rigidness I may not call it but the zeal of the Presbyter with its Discipline and Polity you shall find as in severall points I could plainly hold it forth and demonstrate the parallel that there is no Religion in the world does so neerly consent with the true Catholike faith as does the Scotch Presbyterie though I do not say it be super veritate fundatum as ours is Besides said he I might urge the great hopes and probability of a Presbyters conversion for unde aliquis flatus ostenditur vela dat he is subject to turn with every winde no men in the world being of more unstable mindes and r Witness the common-pr-Directory Covenanting-royall-assembly-engageing Ministers of England giddily wavering as are they which if Arguile in time does not as no doubt but he will both the Leslies and the generality of the Brethren will make good Simul ac fortuna dilapsa est devolant omnes As for their guidly Covenant it 's but a Volaticum Iusjurandum seald with butter which they will only make use of to pick a quarrell with England when they have need of one and are out of imployment which the French will soon finde a way to put them upon when the young Å¿ Prince Charles Run-away shall have once given an assurance of his real conversion to the Catholike faith then shall you see the Presbyter the only staffe we must lean upon But for the Cavaleers said he they are Duri Capitones a company of foolish obstinate Asses our hardest taske will be to yoak these * Disparibus bobus vix trahitur Vehiculum two beasts to draw our Pough they that refuse you shall see them pessum premi trodden under foot by * Quod lupus est lupulum nunquam prius est mihi visum us and the * other These and many other arguments being laid down by this Father it was instantly desired by one known at that time generally by no other name but Captain Saint Iohns and yet well known somewhere now in this Country of the order of t Sunt qui Jesu nomen praetexentes hominum animas ipsi Satanae mancipant Jesus though he then walked the streets in a Chlamys how we should speedily dispose of our selves Non ad praeteritum consul valet immo futurum The time and season required our consultations to be brief and pithy and the result was that some of the more aged of unactive bodies for military exploits but of busy spirits to set things in combustion and to augment feuds should be left behind and the rest should inveigle as many as they possibly could of the Cavalry to fall off which to effect some of our younger Novices dispersed themselves to severall petite Garrisons which were not reduced to the States obedience yea verily to almost all the Royall unsurrendred Garrisons in England for really we had enough in Oxford to furnish them besides what before they were stored with and there were few without u Jesuits and preists some some with many I dare affirm none without any Nor was it long ' ere the fruits of our Projects did appear As in the great falling off of many both Souldiers and men of eminency which we could in any way make stoop to the lure of Presbyterie and swallow the goodly godly Covenant more particularly that almost totall defection of the Wallingford Horse led off by one Beard and Pawlet in which I my self had an hand But I shall deviate too much in instancing on the

by that last but new Southern c Colch Ken. and Wal. rupture in which the French and catholikes in generall were on edge to have a finger But upon better deliberation having not then the power and influence on the Scots and English Presbyters which by reason of the yong King they now have they have reserved their strength for this very years after game And most strangely confident were they all that a breach one way or other would be wrought betwixt them especially when they heard of the Peoples eager violence crying out for Justice against the Capitall Delinquent for they hoped this would have reduc'd the Parliament to an hard Dilemma as whither it were fitter to deny the requests and clamours of the generality of the people and so incense them or else by stopping the due course of Justice to claw with a few inconsiderate discontented Laodiceans whose luke-warm neutrality having in time of yore put their hands to the plough of Reformation turns them cleer off from what they had first ingaged themselves to compleat Which peice of Justice as it must of necessiry have been done they resolved would without doubt very sufficiently provoke the Presbyter happily because they had not the honor of doing it themselves the Cavaleers themselves are generally all of them fully of this opinion and say they had these been suffered to domineer over us we had not found that equall intermixture of justice with mercy which we now do find at the hands of the Independent the little finger of their gouty-loyned Covenant which none of us would take would have proved heavier to us then that line of an Engagement which we all have taken nay they now say that a reconciliation betwixt them is meerly impossible and yet they all hope if they stir no more in rebellion they shall see the happy day of a generall pardon from their now Governours But that which was the greatest obstruction and did most of all binde the hands of the French from medling in the last new Presbyterian and Malignant Rebellion was first not only the Spanish difference which caused them to have an eye in their pole not being yet made up as anon I shall speak of secondly nor only the proneness of their own enslaved people to attain that precious liberty which the English had chalkt them out the way of but thirdly and which is all in all Cardinall Mazarin Father D and a a Ies. Le M. had not yet done their do with their yong b P. Ch. Pupill but a fair and hopefull progress they had made in the business They had brought him by that time we came thither to this that he would very usually but closely go to see the fashion of a Private Mass with his Mother and to my knowledge I have seen that he can cross himself prettily of a young Beginner but to Confession indeed they could not of a long time bring him though he might not be ashamed to confess what in forty weekes was so visibly seen by that young French Lady of Honor another young dainty French English Heir Apparent yet at last great promises prevailed and the better to confirm them his brother Jemmy whipt into a Religion by his Mother and turning like a twyne threed was forthwith to be Capt a Cardinall and besides all Catholique Princes should be invited and consulted with for an unanimous invasion of England But loe news comes a loft upon the wings of the Winde that the people and State of England had summoned his Father to an high Court of Judicature to bring him to a trial for all the innocent blood he had spilt and the hideous devastations he had caused This was no little good news to the Cardinalical party I mean the Jesuitical for in my next I shall satisfie thee concerning their cunning workings how even these who pretend so much charity and friendship to the Son did seek by all machinations to expidite and accelerate this high piece of Justice upon the Father and now say his Tutors to him If they proceed to death with your father it will prove rhe better for you for it will utterly allienate the hearts and affections of the people from them and you shall finde them to be the more eagerly violent for your re-investment not considering the change of your Religion which by any means shall not be publikely known to any but your good Catholique Subjects of England till such time as you have wrested power enough into your own hands to protect it and your self in it but indeed the Lad had some of the Fathers astutiousness in him presently asked the Cardinal the same question which his Father once did the King of Spain when he was almost easily intreated to have turned to the Faith Catholique How shal I said he ever expect to be King of England if once the English should understand I am turned Catholique To which they easily gave a satisfactory resolution telling him That as the case now stood he must never look to be admitted but by Fire and Sword the main force of arms must make way for him neither could he ever in the least probability atchieve that or put it in execution without the aide of Catholique Princes which they will never be brought to act in without a firm assurance of your reall and faithful conversion 'T is true I must ingenuously acknowledge for some term of time he made a little pauze upon this hard Lecture but no sooner was there certain news arrived of his Fathers decollation but he was heard by some of his attendance to swear a great oath That he would turn Turk or any thing to be revenged of the bloody English which mad boyish words were like to lose him the Lord Hopton and other of the most considerable of his party of the Episcopal Protestants for they plainly saw the great endeavours therewere for his conversion besides that most times they were secluded and barred from their attendances and indeed they could not otherwise judge but that he would easily be induced to Popery who was resolved to turn Alcoranite or any thing for revenge Besides all his Chaplains were turned to the wilde world a grazing except onely those who did constantly assert their real conversion as that Scotch dissembling Hypocrite yet most rare Linguist Doctor Chrichton did and some few others Hopton 't is true and some more which I could easily name was packing up to be gone and desert such a dangerous cause and rash Master had he been admitted to pardon but he was woon and wound back again by that old subtile Fox that Church-Papist or rather Atheist Cottington and by the great Protestations and intreaties of many others English and French not for the least affection they bear him but well considering how fit and plausibly he may serve to usher in a forraign Enemy and be a Nose of Wax to the great design of Englands second Conquest especially being so