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A40040	The history of the wicked plots and conspiracies of our pretended saints representing the beginning, constitution, and designs of the Jesuite : with the conspiracies, rebellions, schisms, hypocrisie, perjury, sacriledge, seditions, and vilefying humour of some Presbyterians, proved by a series of authentick examples, as they have been acted in Great Brittain, from the beginning of that faction to this time / by Henry Foulis ...	Foulis, Henry, ca. 1635-1669.	1662 (1662)	Wing F1642; ESTC R4811	275,767	264

doth call Antichristian Popish or Arminian though two to one that neither the Prater nor Hearer understand what really those words signifie Yet the Nation is come to that pass that the ignorant zeal of our Furies hath made the later drown the noyse of the other two That if the word Arminian be but named How do the poor people startle and bogle themselves into a sweat looking as distractedly as if they had been rid with the Night-mare a name that gets a man more envy than the title of Turk or Infidel the people in part knowing what these signifie but for the Arminian their ignorance of what he is puts them into such a fright that they think themselves never secure till they get the destruction of these strange creatures for they do not know what things they are Not unlike those simple people of Munding in Schwaben who having by chance found a Crab which none of them had ever seen before by toling the Bell as if their Enemies had been upon them they all hurryed together and did seriously consult what sort of Animal it should be its creeping backwards putting a terrour into them all At last they enquired of a poor fellow amongst them because for his livelyhood he had been farther from home than any of them who said it must be a Stag or Pigeon but this not satisfying and they not knowing how to be resolved lest it should do them some mischief standing a good way off they for the safety of themselves and Town very valiantly shot this Monster and lest any of themselves or Cattle should be poysoned or venom'd by it they very carefully fortifi'd it about with a strong fence Thus ignorance musters up all the jealousies and fears that can be and when these are once a Cock-Horse they can never want stuff to kindle up their hatred I need not trouble the Reader by telling him how Mr. John Corbet the other day partly whisper'd out the lawfulness of the Warr. Nor how another of the Brethren a great servant and adorer of the Murtherous Bradshaw told the people that it was those with the King that began the Warr and not the Presbyterians nor how the same man threatens the probability of another Rebellion unless the Saints have liberty of Conventicling allowed them Nor need I trouble you by relating the wicked humour of Baxter who protests that if the Warr were to begin again he would take the Parliaments part his reason is because If I should do otherwise I should be guilty of Treason or Disloyalty against the Soveraign Power of the Land for I knew not how to resist and disobey them without violation of the command of God Rom. 13. Let every soul be subject to the Higher Powers c. and without encurring the danger of the Condemnation there threatned to Resisters Nor is it needful to repeat to you how the whole body of the Presbyterian secluded Members vindicated not long since the Rebellion by their Authority Since all these particulars are to small purpose I never yet hearing through all mine enquiry as I can remember of any one Presbyterian but held forth the lawfulness of the late Rebellion Thus we find the Puritans more raging than fat Vrsula in Bartholomew-Fair and certainly Bedlam will be full of Mad-Boys when the Master thereof is Rampant We may well expect extravagant Principles from these Disciplinarians when those who are held most moderate and the chief amongst them cannot hold from prating Treason People are apt to go beyond their Commission but when such Chief-tains amongst them as Baxter whose zeal cannot be perswaded from Preaching Sedition to say no worse word even since the happy restauration of his Majesty with a Club of Presbyterian-secluded Members and others of that Faction can declare write and Vote the late Rebellion against the King to be lawful others of that perswasion may think it no breach of Conscience to take the other step and justifie the securing of his Person and when a King is once imprisoned by his unruly Subjects 't is time for him to prepare himself for a journey to the other World Doubtful Oracles are alwayes interpreted to the desires of the Interested Faction That dubious Letter Edwardum occidere nolite timere bonum est To kill Edward do not fear is a good thing was so well understood by Sir Thomas Gurney and Sir John Maltravers that the horrid Murther of Edward II. was its result Our Puritans well understand their Teachers when they mince Loyalty and though they carry nothing else away with them they are sure to keep that close and at last put it into practise When from the Pulpit Authority is tainted with abominable wickedness and Texts of Scripture wrested to prove the necessity of destroying Tyrants and Idolaters The ignorantly zealous Auditors may think they do God and the Cause good service by doing what they can to bring such a Malefactor to the block and will at all times be ready to Warragainst the Son against whose good Father they have been thus instigated to take Arms and thus at last their bewitching sin of Treason will dwindle to a Commendation amongst these Zealots But well-fare Mr. Baxter that hath found out two pretty Salvo's for his former wickedness First That he is pardoned by the Act of Indempnity And is not he a very thankful man that in requital of the Kings mercy hath since that preach'd seditiously but he and the rest of his fraternity are resolv'd to confirm the character given them by the Emperour Ferdinand and King James as afore related Secondly That now the Parliament had declared where the Soveraign Power was he should acknowledge it and submit to it As if the Soveraign Power did not lye in the King before this Parliament and yet the Gentleman could be very well perswaded to Richard's Supremacy But a man that is altogether ignorant of our Laws is the fittest to make the Nation a Common-wealth and yet none is so blind as him that will not see nor none so wicked as him whose Interest alwayes prompts him to take the staff by the wrong end The best excuse that I know for them is Their being drunk with Zeal created in them a strange spirit of Prejudice which fancy'd the Nation to be in such a distracted condition that all things were running to distruction And these good souls thinking to free themselves and the Kingdom from such miseries busled into a body to expel those evils which their debauch'd fury thought might give ease to the Nation and quietness to themselves Like those guzling Companions upon the Texel's side in Amsterdam who tippled so long looking out of a Casement that really thinking they were at Sea in a Tempest to lighten their Ship began to throw Tables and Stools with other luggage out of the windows thinking they were in danger of Shipwrack But if these men have the liberty to create jealousies and fears

good Definition as in his Latin yet may we pick a sound truth of it in English That a seditious person is both an evil and unuseful Member in the Common-wealth Yet were this vice more wicked then it is it would never want admirers as long as Idleness is permitted the former being inseparable from the latter if we will believe the Historian And whether did leasurely foment our discontents or no I know not though I believe by this our turbulent spirits obtained many Proselytes who if they had had any thing else to do would never have spent so much time in an obstinate schism running dayly into more enormities under some pretence or other but never thinking of a return And they that are unwilling to amend Will take offence because they will offend Which was the true temperature of our Non-conformists not that they had any real cause of such disgusts but what they brought forth themselves And they having once taken fire found it no great difficulty to allure the multitude into their faction by their preachments whisperings pamphleting and such like rumours without which it is impossible to get a party moulded to act such destructive wickedness For though the people like the bounded Ocean do naturally affect ease tranquillity and such like peaceable vertues yet are they apt by the seditious blusterings and malicious insinuations of some factious Grandees or neighbours to be perswaded and agitated into turbulent extravagancies and Rebellion The minds of the irrational multitude as one calls them being thus seasoned and tempered with the principles of discontent and sedition are now ordered to put in practice what they have been taught and they so long meditated upon and these proceedings must run parallel to those of their good brethren the Covenanters in Scotland For as one ingeniously observes the English did derive from them not only the rudiments but the method also of revolt Our first probationary Tumult commencing in a rude assault upon the Arch-bishop of Canterbury as theirs upon the Arch-bishop of Saint Andrews Above five hundred of the Rabble one night assaulted the Arch-bishop's house at Lambeth and to what purpose is easy to conjecture And a little after about two thousand Sectaries made a tumult in London where they tore down the benches in the Consistory of Saint Paul's crying out they would have no Bishop nor no high Commission actions so inconsistent with good Subjects that the obedient Parret in Brasil will be as a reproach to these irrational Rebels Nor did their sury end here for when they perceived the execution of the Earl of Strafford was not so hasted on as their hot heads expected and when the Court dream't of nothing but joy the Princess Mary being then marryed to the Prince of Orange the very next morning after the wedding above five thousand Londoners most of them girded to their swords came yelling for justice against the said Earl affirming for want of it they were like to perish having no bread an excellent Non-conforming consequence calling the Earl of Bristol an Apostate and vilifying his son the Lord Digby one of them balling out If we get not satisfaction of the Lievtenant we will have it of the King or as some affirm If we have not the Lievtenants life we will have the King 's And posted up a Paper in Westminster with the names of 55. Lords Knights Gentlemen with the Title of Straffordians with this under-written This and more shall be done to the enemirs of justice afore-written Thus was this Earl rather murthered by malice then condemned by Law or Reason yet so impatiently wicked was the Rabble and Presbyterie that as Darius appointed a man every day to prompt him with a Sir Remember to be revenged on the Athenians so had these men their dayly agitators and contrivers by-jugled up Petitions and such like monitors to mind them of three things the destruction of this Earl the Extirpation of Episcopacy and the abolishing of the Common-prayer-book and Ceremonies The which at last by God's permission and Satan's assistance they obtained And immediatly before they had assaulted the Spanish Embassador's house with a great deal of violence and their pretended reason for so doing was because Mass was there said A Priviledge used by all Embassadors to exercise their own Religion be what it will and this allowed them by the Law of Nations yet was their malice such that if they had not been prevented by the Lord Maior they might have done abundance of mischief though what they did was no small blemish to the civility of a Nation These actions by the Sectaries were look'd upon as a blessing to the Nation and to keep the hands of these Myrmidons in use the City and Kingdom must now and anon too be alarum'd with false rumours and un-heard of plots and designs against something or other Now must the Houses of Parliament be said to be on fire and together by the ears and the City for sorrow thereof like to tumult and uproar themselves into Bedlam Then must strange plots come from unknown parts of the world be discovered at which the careful Commons take fears and jealousies and order the Arch-bishop's House at Lambeth to be searcht for arms as if the Arch-bishop then in the Tower should pelt the Parliament from Lambeth cross the water Then must there be a strange thing in Scotland agitating against Duke Hamilton and their true friend Argyle and this discover'd and seen by Mr. Pym at Westminster upon which the Members are in a hubbub and in great fear of their lives forsooth and therefore a strong guard under Essex is provided for the security of their Worship 's against temptations And the Burgesses of Westminster and the Knights for Middlesex are ordered in all haste to provide bullets and match and to shoot like little John at the Sun and Moon being resolved for the future to work altogether in darkness Yet were all these and many more acted with as much seriousness and gravity as Sancho Pança governed the Iland Barataria so that the abused people did not only believe such stories but feared their events which being once setled in their noddles is impossible to be removed the people being like the lineage of the Pança's all head-strong These jugling Transactions were enough to perswade the King and his friends to look about them but being innocent seemed also fearless Yet for prevention of disorders and tumults some people were ordered to keep watch near the Parliament thereby to keep off the Rabble which used daily to tumble out by thousands in great disorder ranting and railing against something or other in government according to the Items of their Patrons very beneficial to and desirable by the Commons Who took it so ill that their good friends the Multitude should thus be kept back that they did not only question the Justices of peace of

O the height of Puritanical Malice were I a Caesar Vaninus I would call Presbytery the Father of Lies His enemies the Independents are farr more Civil in this than these Brethren of which I shall give you one or two Instances enough to cleer his Majesty from this Presbyterian slander John Cook then of Grays-Inn Barrister his Immortal foe when it was his purpose to cast all the filth that he could upon the King with an intention to make him odious to Eternity yet even then doth cleer him of this I do not think that the King was a Papist or that he design'd to introduce the Popes Supremacy in spiritual things into this Kingdome Nor that I think he did believe Transubstantiation God forbid I should wrong the dead And another of his profest Enemies viz. Will. Lilly thus vindicates the King He was no Papist or favour'd any of their Tenents And because an Enemies Commendation is held Authentick you shall see what a good King he was according to their own Opinions Of him thus saith the aforesaid Cook who yet demanded Justice against him for which Treason he since felt the Law He was well known to be a great student in his younger dayes He had more learning and dexterity in State affairs undoubtedly then all the Kings in Christendome And thus farther saith Lilly He was an excellent Horsman would shoot well at a Mark had singular skill in Limming and Pictures A good Mathematitian not unskilful in Musick well read in Divinity excellently in History and no lesse in the Laws and Statutes of this Nation He had a quick and sharp Conception would write his mind singularly well and in good language and style only he loved long Parentheses He would apprehend a matter in Difference betwixt party and party with great readiness and methodize a long matter and Contract it in few lines Insomuch that I have heard Sir Robert Holdorne oft say He had a quicker Conception and would sooner understand a Case in Law or with more sharpness drive the matter unto a head than any of his Privy Council Insomuch that when the King was not at the Council Table Sir Robert never car'd to be there He had also amongst others his special gifts the gift of patience Insomuch that if any offer'd him a long Discourse or Speech he would with much Patience and without any Interruption or Distaste hear their Story or Speech out at length He did not much court the Ladies He had exquisite judgement by the Eye and Physiognomy to discover the virtuous from the wanton he honour'd the virtuous He was nothing at all given to Luxury was extreme sober both in his Food and Apparel He could argue Logically and frame his Arguments Artificially If these qualities confest by an enemy do not make a good man Jack Presbyter can have small hopes to be so who hated him because he was too vertuous for them as the Devill envies honesty Amongst all the Plots and Designes these men have to overthrow the Church of England 't is none of the least to ruine its Glory by making it contemptible by Poverty For which purpose they endeavour to get all the Bishops Lands alienated or sold Dr. Burgess being their Champion and they will never question Law as long as Prynne hath any malice who toils and writes what he can to get the Lands confirm'd as they were sold by his Associates those Sacrilegious of the wicked long Parliament who impiously sold the Church Revenues to maintain their Rebellion against God and their King Had they been the Doners they might have had a more plausible Plea for their Alienation but since these Lands were given by other Pious and Noble Benefactors it shews their Devillish Avarice and Malice to meddle with or pocket up that which they had no claime to nor power over being but a Rump of two Houses actually in Rebellion against their King and so had no more Authority to conclude and act in such an high Concern without and against the consent of the King than the Pope hath to give away this or that Kingdom upon his form of Excommunication to any of his Favorites that can win it and wear it or poor Simnell had to the Crown in King Henry VII time Yet to have this wickedness confirm'd Burges and his Associats will offer severall hundred thousand pounds to his Majesty by way of gift thereby to hook him in to be pertakers of their sins a Presbyterian being like a Common Drunkard who is not satisfy'd with his own Excess but makes it his business that all his Neighbours too should be partners with him in his wickedness and debauchery But his Majesty is too Sacred and good to be toll'd away by such Miscreants it shews their abominable Impudence to imagine to perswade the Son to be an Enemy to the Church whose Father was a Glorious Martyr for it as if they would shew him a better way and Rule than the Example and Footsteps of his holy Parent To me it seems a strange piece of malicious Ignorance in them who will allow some knavish Lawyers to get by their prating some ignorant Physitians by distruction some cousening Trades-men by false dealing and some murthering Souldiers by plundring for some such there are in all faculties though their callings be lawfull and commendable two three or four Thousand pounds a year and yet think it an hard case or unlawful for a Reverend Bishop or Clergy-man who hath spent many years and all his own means in hard study and is held the most honourable preferment as much as the Soul excels the Body to possess that which other good charitable men have freely given him since such a deed of gift is so farr from endamaging our Presbyterian Grumblers that it is a main encouragement for their studies and preferment If they say as I have heard that these Benefactorships were given not to the men but the Diocesses by this retort they malepertly reflect upon the Kings discretion whose wisdom thinks such men fit for and capable of such Places But by this they may as well reason against Colledge and Hospital Lands and the Commons belonging to Corporations and when they have once taken these away they will eat up one another through avarice But enough of this only there was some ground for the observation that the only way to preferment was to be a busling Non-conformist Besides these and others they have another way to shake the foundation of Episcopacy and the peace of the Nation They know full well that nothing seems more formidable to the vulgar then a story of Gods strange judgments upon this or that And if they question the verball Narrative shew it them in print and 't is sufficient they having not confidence enough to deny that which cometh from the Press The story of a Spirit will fright these people out of their little witts and the relation of such a terrible

accident though false will force the poor souls to a blessing of themselves from such people against whom God hath such an enmity Thus at the beginning of the Warres John Vicars afrighted many of the weaker sort from having any agreement with the Kings party by fobbing into their heads strange stories of Gods wrath against Cavaliers And thus they now set themselves awork again by abusing the vulgar with such fopperies What strange judgments do they threaten to these Nations if Episcopacy and Common-prayer book be not taken away And what sad Revolutions do they denounce if they be not remov'd To which purpose Mr. Ed. Bagshaw one now well known amongst the Brethren hath lately put forth a Sermon enough to make a whole Country distracted And to carry on this great work the dropping Anabaptist and Millenary make a great noise in which Throng H. Jessey holding up his ridiculous Pamphlet The Lords loud Call to England which is seconded by another forging zealot under the title of Mirabilis Annus both which are as free from truth as Tom. Scot from chastity here you may be as long finding a true story as Diogenes an honest man in Athens In both which books to my own knowledge and eye-sight are some most abominable lies and forgeries that were but St. Quintin now alive to pull them by their Noses those parts would soon fall off and leave the Sectaries mark'd for lyers Not unlike one Harris a Gold-smith who in the straits of Magellan going to blow his Nose instead of the snot threw the nose into the fire so violent was the cold and so Antony Knivet drew his benumm'd toes off with his frozen stockens But I hope Jessey and the rest of his Sectarian Associates will have no more influence upon the people than He Knolls and others of his Club had over the old blind woman neer Algate in London who by their anointing with oil thought to restore her to sight But alas these Dreamers can do no miracles unlesse like the two Priests of Orleance by deceipt and cunning But of these things I could pay them in their own coin if I thought it worth the while I could tell them of a great Lord a mortall enemy to Bishops and Cathedrals who March 1640. told some other Lords I hope one of us shall live to see no one stone left upon another of that Building meaning St. Pauls And after going to storm Lichfield-Close being all compleatly armed was in March 1643. shot in the left eye by a Gent. that was both dumb and deaf and which is also observeable he was thus slain upon St. Ceddes day who is the Patron of that Cathedral I could also tell them of Col. Hambdens being slain in that very place where he first took up Arms against the King I could also tell them of Mr. Tho. Hoyle Alderman of York and a Parliament man who hang'd himself in his own House at Westminster upon the same day and hour twelve-month that the King was murdered I could also tell them the rumours of Essex's death the storys of Pyms eating-disease and how the Lord Gray welterd in his own blood I could tell them of Mr. Hall of St. Needs in Huntingtonshire who hang'd himself of Sr. Tho. Martin of Cambridg-shire who said that he had rather wash his hands in the blood of the young King of Scots then in the Deer then slain and the same day brake his skull and shoulders of which he died I could tell them of one adventuring to climb up to pull down Cheap-side Cross slipt his hold and falling with his ribbs upon the Iron pikes wounded himself to death I could tell of another that endeavouring to tear down the Organs at Worcester fell down upon the Pavement broke his bones and dyed I could tell of another who had his hand shiver'd to pieces by the breaking and splitting of his gun as he endeavour'd to shoot at the similitude of Christ over All-souls Coll. gate in Oxford and of another who thinking to do the same at Martin Colledge had one of his eies blown out and the other little better I could tell the Anabaptists of one Anne Martin and another woman who got their deaths by the new mode of dipping And I could tell the Quaker how Lieutenant Thomas lately poyson'd himself and of a woman of his Tribe endeavouring to do miracles fell presently mad And as for the Presbyterians I could tell them a story of a great Preacher of their Faction viz. Mr. Barker of Pitchley in Northamptonshire and was by them held a godly man who was publickly hang'd for incest and murder who defil'd his Niece and had the child murdred which he had by her And let them consider the temperature of Dr. Cheynell But 't is a mark upon all this Fraternity to be hot-headed which doth make good the Description of a Puritan made long since by Dr. Butler of Cambridge viz. A Puritan is a Protestant frayd out of his witts I shall say nothing of Mary Gadbury a great Follower of Mr. Sedgwick and Mr. Case then of Goodwin and Jessey nor what pretty pranks she plaid to prove her self to be the Virgin Mary nor of Mr. Woodward Minister and his Wife great actors in that story yet it will not be amisse if I tell you one Covenanting passage On the same day that Mr. Joseph Caryll preach'd to exhort the people to the taking of the Covenant This following Bill was given to him to be read and praid for One that through much passion oftentimes grievously offends the Majesty of God by cursing and swearing And that since his late TAKING THE COVENANT desires the Prayers of this Congregation that his Offence may be pardoned and that he may be enabled to overcome that temptation from hence forwards Let Mr. Caryl make what interpretation he pleaseth the Reader must have as much power to judge as he Should I be as impertinent as these men I could give them story for story as long as they would and yet it may be scarce a true judgment of either side though highly fancyed so to be by the people Like the Country fellow who thought that the Astronomer taking the height of something with his Jacobs staffe had shot down the starre which by chance then fell as we usually say Tom Coryat tells a story of a fellow that mending a Clock in Venice and being very busie about the Bell at the same time one of the great men of Brasse that us'd to strike the Quarters of the hours with his great brazen hammer gave him such a violent blow that he knock'd him dead on the place should I tell the Brethren that this man was a Roman Catholick they would cry out a great judgment of God upon a Member of Anti-christ But 't is ridiculous to make every accident a judgment and 't is unchristian to question that God doth not sometimes manifestly revenge himself and cause