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A34574	Stafford's memoires, or, A brief and impartial account of the birth and quality, imprisonment, tryal, principles, declaration, comportment, devotion, last speech, and final end of William, late Lord Viscount Stafford, beheaded on Tower-hill Wednesday the 29. of Decemb. 1680 whereunto is annexed a short appendix concerning some passages in Stephen Colledges tryal / the whole now again set forth for a more ample illustration of that so wonderfully zealous pamphlet entituled The papists bloody aftergame, writ in answer to the said Memoirs, and published by Langley Curtis, 1682.	Corker, James Maurus, 1636-1715.; Curtis, Langley, fl. 1668-1725.	1682 (1682)	Wing C6306A; ESTC R40876	92,519	237

so hainous Crimes And concluded with an assurance to his Lordship That a true Penitential Sorrow joyned with an humble and hearty Confession was of mighty power and efficacy both with God and Man He then pronounced Sentence upon him in these words THe Judgement of the Law is and the Court doth award it That you go to the place from whence you came from thence you must be draw upon an Hurdle to the place of Execution when you come there you must be Hanged up by the Neck but not till you are Dead for you must be cut down Alive your Privy Members must be cut off And your Bowels Ript up before your Face and thrown into the Fire Then your Head must be severed from your Body and your Body divided into four Quarters And these must be at the disposal of the King And God Almighty have mercy on you SOVL MY Lord received this dismal Sentence with a meek and resigned Countenance He declared in the presence of Almighty God he had no malice in his Heart to them that had Condemned him But freely forgave them all He made one and only one humble request to their Lordships viz That for the short time he had to Live a Prisoner his Wife Children and Friends might be permitted to come at him My Lord High Steward told him Their Lordships had so far a Compassion for him they would be humble suiters to the King That he will remit all the punishments but the taking off his Head Thus Sentence being passed the Lord High Steward broke his Staff and my Lord Stafford was led bak from the Bar to the Tower The Ax being carryed before him as the Custom is in such cases with the Edge toward him SECT III. My Lords Peincples of Faith and LOYALTY DOubtless the thing which most weighed to my Lords prejudice most advanced the credit of the Evidence And most influenced both his Prosecutors and Judges against him was a pre possessed Opinion of wicked Principles supposed to be held and practised by my Lord as the matter of his Faith and Religion It is by many taken for granted The Papists hold it an Article of Faith That to Depose and Murder Kings to Massacre their Neighbours and Destroy their Native Countrey by Fire and Sword when the interest of their Religion requires it are Acts dispensable by the Pope and meritorious of Heaven Now what thing so wicked however slenderly proved will not easily be believed against Men so Principled My Lord therefore to clear himself and his Religion from this heavy and his Religion from as the Papists say injurious Aspersion Protested and Declared in the ple●ence of Almighty God and their Lordships his Judges That he hated and detested such Principles as he did Damnation to himself And that he could not be more desirous of Salvation then he was cordial in hating such Principles That he ever held Treason to be the worst of Crimes and knew no term ill enough to express it That he heard with horrour the late wicked practices in Scotland That he acknowledged the King to be his lawful Soveraign and knew no Person or Authority on Earth could absolve him from his Allegiance And least this might seem a meerly extorted profession of a despairing Man My Lord endeavoured to prove by several convincing Testimonies he had ever been Instructed and Educated in the same Sentiments as the Established Doctrine of the Roman Catholick Church His first Testimony was taken from places of Holy Scripture particularly that of St. Math. 22. v. 21. Render to Caesar the things that are Caesars c. From the plain and clear sense of which and other Texts of Holy Writ nothing he said in this world was able to remove him His second Testimony was taken from the Authority of the General Council of Constance to which all Roman Catholicks are obliged to submit The 15 th Cannon and Definition of which Council is this Quilibit Tyrannus potest debet licité meritorie occidi per quemcunque Vasallum suum vel Subditum etiam per clanculares insidias subtiles blanditias vel adulationes non obstante quocunque Praestito juramento seu confoederatione factis cum eo non expectatâ sententiâ vel mandato judicis cujuscunque Adversus hunc errorem Satagens haec Sancta Synodus exurgere ipsum jundit ùs tollere declarat definit hujusmodi Doctrinam erroneam esse in side in moribus ipsamque tanquam Haereticam Scandalosam ad Fraudes Deceptiones Mendacia Proditiones Perjuria vias dantem reprobat condemnat Declarat insuper decernit quod pertinaciter Doctrinam hanc perniciocissimam asserentes sunt Haeretici tanquam tales jnxta Canonicas Sanctiones puniendi Englished thus Every Tyrant lawfully and meritoriously may and ought to be killed by any Vassal or Subject whatsoever even by hidden Treacheries and subtle Flatteries or Adulations notwithstanding any Oath given or confederation made with him Without expecting the Sentence or Command of any Judge whatsoever which clause is added in regard of the right of Supreme Temporal Monarchs over Inferior Princes Subordinate to them Against which Error this Holy Synod industrious to withstand and utterly to extirpate it doth declare and define That this Doctrine is Erroneous in Faith and Manners and the same as Heretical Scandalous and opening a way to Frauds Deceipts Lyes Treasons and Perjuries doth dissaprove and condemn It farther declares and decrees that those who obstinately maintain this most pernicious Doctrine are Hereticks and as such ought to be punished according to Canonical Sanctions My Lords third Testimony was taken from the Annotations upon the 13 th Chapter of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans in the English Catholick Edition of the new Testament set forth by the Colledge of Divines at Rhemes The words are these upon the Text He that resisteth c. v. 2. Whosoever resisteth or obeyeth not his lawful Superior in those causes wherein he is subject to him resisteth Gods appointment and sinneth deadly and is worthy to be punished both in this World by his Superior and by God in the next Life For in Temporal Government and Causes the Christians were bound in Conscience to obey even their Heathen Emperours And Upon the Text Beareth not the Sword c. v. 4 There were certain Hereticks called Begardi that took away all Rule and Superiority The Wicklesfists also would obey no Prince nor Prelate if he were once in deadly sin Some Protestants of our time care neither for the one nor for the other though they extol only Secular Power when it maketh for them The Catholicks only most humbly obey both according to Gods Ordinance the one in Temporal Causes and the other in Spiritual in which order both these States have blessedly flourished in all Christian Countreys ever since Christs time My Lords 4 th Testimony was taken from the Censure of the Doctors of the famous Faculty

Damnation and this at a time when they might have saved both Bodies and Souls by meerly discharging a good Conscience in acknowledging the Truth and becoming honest men This I say is Inhumane and contradictory to all sense and reason to believe Now therefore I come to what you so often and so earnestly press me to viz. To satisfie the world and clear myself my Fellow Sufferers and my Religion from the imputation laid upon us on pretence of such Principles by a true and candid Explanation of my Belief and Judgment in the main points of Faith and Loyalty controverted between Catholicks and Protestants as they severally relate to God and the King PARAGRAPH I. Of the Catholick Faith and Church in General 1. THe Fruition of God and Remission of Sin is not attainable by man otherwise then in and by the Merits of Jesus Christ who gratis purchased it for us 2. These Merits of Christ are not applied to us otherwise that by a Right Faith in Christ 3. This Faith is but One entire and conformable to its Obiect being Divine Revelations to all which Faith gives an undoubted assent 4. These Revelations contain many Mysteries transcending the natural reach of Humane Wit and Industry Wherefore 5. It became the Divine Wisdom and Goodness to provide Man of some way or means whereby he might arrive to the knowledge of these Mysteries Means visible and apparent to all Means proportionable to the Capacities of all Means sure and certain to all 6. This way or means is not the reading of Scripture interpreted according to the private Reason or Spirit of every disjunctive Person or Nation in particular But 7 It is an Attention and Submission to the Doctrine of the Catholick or Vniversal Church established by Christ for the Instruction of all Spread for that end throughout all Nations and visibly continued in a Succession of Pastors and People throughout all Ages From which Ghurch Guided in Truth and secured from Error in Matters of Faith by the promised Assistance of the Holy Ghost every one may and ought to Learn both the Right Sense of Scripture and all other Christian Mysteries and Duties respectively necessary to Salvation 8. This Church thus Spread thus Guided thus visibly Continued in One Vniform Faith and Subordination of Government is that self same which is termed the Roman Catholick Church The Qualifications abovementioned viz. Vnity Indeficiency Visibility Succession and Vniversality being applicable to no other Church or Assembly whatsoever 9. From the Testimony and Authority of This Church it is that We Receive and Believe the Scriptures to be God's Word And as She can assuredly tell Us This or That Book is God's Word so can she with the like Assurance tell us also the True Sense and Meaning of it in Controverted Points of Faith The same Spirit that Writ the Scripture Enlightning Her to Understand both It and all Matters Necessary to Salvation From These Grounds it Follows 10. All and only Divine Revelations deliver'd by God unto the Church and proposed by Her to be Believed as such are and ought to be esteem'd Articles of Faith and the contrary Opinions Heresie And 11. As an Obstinate Seperation from the Vnity of the Church in known declared Matters of Faith is formal Heresie So a wilful Separation from the Visible Vnity of the same Church in Matters of Subordination and Government is formal Schism 12. The Church proposeth unto Us matters of Faith First and chiefly By the Holy Scripture in Points plain and Intelligible in it Secondly By Definitions of General Councils in Points not sufficiently Explained in Scripture Thirdly By Apostolical Traditions deriv'd from Christ and his Apostles to all Succeeding ages Fourthly By her Practice Worship and Ceremonies Confirming her Doctrine PARAGRAPH II. Of Spiritual and Temporal Authority 1. GEneral Councils which are the Church of God Representative have no Commission from Christ to Frame new matters of Faith these being sole Divine Revelations but only to explain and ascertain unto us what antiently was and is received and retained as of Faith in the Church upon arising Debates and Controversies about them The Definitions of which General Councils in matters of Faith only and proposed as such oblige under pain of Heresie all the Faithful to a Submission of Judgment But 2. It is no Article of Faith to believe That General Councils cannot Err. either in matters of Fact or Discipline alterably by circumstances of time and place or in matters of Speculation or Civil Policy depending on meer humane Judgment or Testimony Neither of those being Divine Revelations deposited in the Catholick Church in regard to which alone she hath the promised Assistance of the Holy Ghost Hence it is deduced 3 If a General Council much less a Papal Consistory should undertake to depose a King and absolve his Subjects from their Allegiance no Catholick as Catholick is bound to submit to such a Decree Hence also it followeth 4. The Subjects of the King of England lawfully may without the least breach of any Catholick Principle Renounce even upon Oath the Teaching Mantaining or Practising the Doctrine of Deposing Kings Excommunicated for Heresie by any Authority whatsoever as Repugnant to the Fundamental Laws of the Nation Injurious to Soveraign Power Destructive to the Peace and Government and by consequence in His Majesties Subjects Impious and Damnable Yet not properly Heretical taking the Word Heretical in that connatural genuine sense it is usually understood in the Catholick Church on account of which and other Expressions no wise appertaining to Loyalty it is that Catholicks of tender Consciences refuse the Oath commonly called the Oath of Allegiance 5. Catholicks believe That the Bishop of Rome is the Successor of St. Peter Vicar of Jesus Christ upon Earth and Head of the whole Catholick Church which Church is therefore fitly stiled Roman Catholick being an universal Body united under one visible Head Nevertheless 6. It is no matter of Faith to be believe That the Pope is in himself Infallible seperate from a General Council even in Expounding the Faith By consequence Papal Definitions or Decrees though ex Cathedra as they term them taken exclusively from a General Council or Universal Acceptance of the Church oblige none under Pain of Heresie to an interior Assent 7. Nor do Catholicks as Catholicks believe that the Pope hath any direct or indirect Authority over the Temporal Power and Jurisdiction of Princes Hence If the Pope should pretend to Absolve or Dispence with His Majesties Subjects from their Allegiance upon account of Heresie or Schism such Dispensation would be Vain and Null and all Catholick Subjects notwithstanding such Dispensation or Absolution would be still bound

could not produce one Scrip or Line to back his Assertion or clear himself from the Forgeries laid to his charge To obviate this Exception the Managers brought in two Sisters Elizabeth and Anne Elder These Sisters depos'd That Dugdale coming one day to their House with several Bundles of Papers in his Pockets and Breeches desir'd them to Burn them saying the Times were troublesome and he being to Travel to divers places if he were taken People would think him a Plotter having all those Papers about him That hereupon Elizabeth Burnt all the Papers except one Book concerning which Anne ask'd Dugdale whether or no that also should be Burnt He answered no lay that by it may do good seven years hence There is no Treason in it Elizabeth reply'd Is there any thing of Treason in the others He said Do you think there is Elizabeth further Deposed She did see Mr. Dugdale take a Glass of Sider and hear him say and Wish it might be his Damnation and he might Sink in the place where he stood if he knew any thing of the Plot. FRom the Testimony of these two Sisters the Managers drew these Inferences First Dugdale 's Fears and Apprehensions in Burning so many Bundles of Papers denotes there were matters contained in them which if known would have discovered the Plot. Secondly When the Question was proposed to Dugdale whether his little Book should be Burnt or no He answer'd No There was no Treason in it which Ambiguous manner of Expression argues there was something of Treason in the other Bundles To which the Papists answer To the first It is not Credible that Dugdale as yet a Catholick should bring to an Ale-house and deliver to two Women in the very heat of the Discovery of the Plot his Pockets and Breeches full of Papers containing High Treason Surely he might with more Secrecy and Safety have Burnt them in his Chamber But if what the Women attest be true it is very easie to learn from the very words of Dugdale himself the reason why he brought and caused to be Burnt those useless Writings viz. Not because there was any Treason in them but because the Times as he said being Troublesome such Bundles of Papers found about a Travelling Papist though never so Innocent would afford matter of Search and Suspition of his being a Plotter To the second Why should we amuse our selves or others with extorted Inferences drawn from Ambiguous Expressions here none surely knows Dugdale's mind better then Dugdale himself we have his words attested by this very Witness to declare his meaning let him tell us in plain English his own Sentiment in this Affair I wish saith he this may be my Damnation and that I may sink in the place where I stand if I know any thing of the Plot. Now let the World judge of Dugdale and his meaning Titus Oates's Deposition against My LORD THe next Witness that gave Evidence to the Impeachment against my Lord was Titus Oates who Swore That in the year 77. whilst he remained in Spain and at St. Omers he saw several Letters Signed Stafford wherein my Lord assured the Jesuits of his Fidelity and Zeal in promoting the Catholick Design That in the year 78. The said Oates being then in London my Lord came to the Chamber of one Fenwick a Jesuit now Executed and there received a Commission from him in Oates's presence to be Pay Master-General to the Army That upon a Discourse with the said Fenwick my Lord said he was of necessity to go down into the Country to take account how Affairs stood there And did not doubt but at his return Groves should do the business And further added speaking of the King He has deceived us a great while and we can bear no longer My Lords Exceptions AGainst these Depositions my Lord made these several Exceptions The first was grounded thus It was not to be imagin'd that so many and great Conspirators so well provided with Moneys and Preferments as Oates pretends all engaged in a Design so dangerous so important to them to keep Secret would or durst permit Doctor Oates their Cabinet Councellour and Main Engine to be reduced to such an Extremity of Want and Penury that he had not Bread to put in his Mouth Yet my Lord was ready to prove in open Court that at the very nick of time when this Oates would have men believe he was most Entrusted and Employed in carrying on the Conspiracy just then he was in so Poor and Despicable a condition so forsaken and contemned by all for his Debauched Life that he Begged at doors for Six-pence To this Doctor Oates himself answer'd he would save my Lord the trouble of proving any such thing saying a mans Poverty was no objection against his Honesty and as he had not Six-pence in his Pocket when he began the Discovery so hath he often wanted Two-pence since the same Discovery having Expended several hundreds of Pounds in His Majesties Service more then he had received To prove this he made a Calculation of Sums given him by Great Persons Sums allowed for taking of Jesuits and Sums gained by Printing of Narratives of all which he said he had nothing left UPon this Argument of my Lords drawn from Oates's Beggery c. The Managers made no Observations Why they did not is a question some say because the Doctor himself undertook to answer it Others affirm because they knew the more they stirred in it the worse it would be and so thought best to Bury it in Silence and Oblivion To the answer therefore given by Dr. Oates the Papists reply Poverty is an Objection against Honesty in a person addicted as Oates was to Idlenes Vice and Debauchery And though a man may be Poor and Honest too yet the same man at the same time and in the same Circumstances Oates pretends to have been in could never be Poor and a Plotter too Could he be privy to all the Grand Commissions Could he be employed in all the deep and Damnable Consults Could he have at his mercy the Lives and Fortunes of all the Chief Conspirators Men stock'd with Banks of Money sufficient if we will believe him to raise Armies and provide for two hundred thousand Soldiers Could this man nevertheless Starve in a manner for Bread Could he Beg for an Alms at the Papists Doors Could he be rejected and contemned as an Idle Vagabond by the very Persons who thus had put their Lives into his Hand This is such a Paradox as none in their Senses will ever believe But the most pleasant passage if there could be any pleasure in Bloudy Perjury is his Miraculous way of spending Great Sums out of Nothing in His Majesties Service He confesseth he had not Six-pence at the breaking forth of the Plot yet he Swears he is several hundreds of pounds worse since the Discovery of it How came he then by all this Money Why He got it by