Canterburys Doom

to subvert the Protestant Religion, set up Popery, and reconcile us unto Rome, by engaging the King in a bloody war against the Scots, and working him to their party; and in case they could not do it, then to give him a poisoned sigge (as his Father was poisoned) and seize upon the Prince, whom they would educate in the Romish Religion. This Plot was discovered, merely out of remorse of conscionce, by one who was a chief actor in it, sent from Rome to assist Con, the Popes Lagat in his Negotiations in England, to one Andreas ab Habernfield (Physician to the Queen of Bohemia) who disclosed it to Sir William Boswell, the Kings leager at the Hague, who from thence by sundry Letters, revealed it to this Arch-bishop, in whose chamber at the Tower, the whole plot and original Letters concerning it, were seized on by Master Prynne (who attested and produced them at the Barre) and published them at large to the world by order of Parliament, in Rome's Master-piece, where the principal Agents in this plot, and their proceedings therein are particularly related many of them (as Secr Windebank, the Earl and Countess of Arundell, Mr. Porter of the Bed-chamber, and Sir Toby Matthew) being the Arch-bishops intimate friends and familiars. Of this Plot the Arch-bishop took such special notice, that he acquainted the King himself with it, as appears by his own Letter to the King, and his Majesty's Answer to it, with his own royal hand to it in the margin, sent from York to Lambeth: Yet for all this, he was so far from crossing this their Jesuitical design, that he confederated and joined with the Jesuits and popish party in fomenting, maintaining the war against the Scots, and revived it when it was ceased, by persuading the King to break the first pacification, and denounce a second war against them.

The third particular we shall produce, to prove an endeavor of the Pope and Cardinal Barbarino at Rome, to reconcile, reduce us back to them, and that this Arch-bishop had notice of it, is a Letter (found in his Study, attested by Master Prynne) written to him by one Master John Greaves, from Ligonne, March 3. 1639. indorsed with his own hand thus, Rece. Mar. 27. 1640. Fastidius printed at Rome: Wherein Master Greaves hath this clause: I humbly beseech your Grace to pardon my presumptions, and this other Information which I shall give your Grace: They have printed at Rome a Book of Fastidius, a Britain Bishop, De Vitâ Christianâ, WHICH THE CARDINALL FRANCISCO BARBARINO INTENDS TO DEDICATE TO HIS SACRED MAJESTY; a Book of singulan devotion and piety, and of great Antiquity; the Author being a Bishop in England, about three hundred years after our Savior. Lucas Holstenius, a very learned man, hath the care oft the Edition, but hath not I think, as yet finished the Annotations upon it: For the Text, he and I compared the Manuscript (which was also very ancient) with the printed Copy, and I find it exactly to agree.

Now what other meaning could there be for this Cardinal to print this book at Rome, to dedicate it publicly to our King, and to use Master Greaves himself in comparing the printed Copy with the Manuscript, but to insinuate himself into the Kings affections, thereby to reduce both him and his Dominions unto the bosom of the Church of Rome, which the forementioned discovery of this and the Jesuits Plot, by Andreas ab Habernfield, more largely demonstrates? this Cardinal sending over sundry Statues, Pictures, Antiquities, and other vanities from Rome to his Majesty, to incline him to the Roman party, as we have elsewhere manifested,

The fourth particular Evidence we shall insist on, which adds luster and vigor to all the former, is the Book entitled Deus, Natura & Gratia: Ubi ad trutinam Fidei Catholicae examinatur Confessio Anglicana, & ad singula puncta, quid teneat, qualiter differat execuitur: Accessit Paraphrastica Exposit to reliquorum Articulorum Confessionis Anglicae, per Fr. Franciscum â Sancta Clara, olim apud Duacenses in Collegio B. Bon aventurae, Provinciae ANGLIAE F. F, Minorum, S. Theolog. Lectorem primarium: Printed Lugduni, 1634. Cum Privilegio Regis, & approbatione Doctorum.

This Book was dedicated to our King Charles, with a Dedicatory Epistle, to seduce his Majesty in his Religion, and induce him to establish the Romish Religion amongst us by his Royal authority; as this close of the Epistle manifests: Periculosum nobis admodum, atque etiam miserabile est, tot nunc fides existere quot voluntates, &c. Contremiscunt ossa mea dum hoc recogito: Morbus, ubi spiritus vitales opprimuntur, nempe ut fides radix vitae corrumpitur, difficilime sanatur: Hic morbus noster: Remedium tamen, & illud efficax, à Samaritano nostro designatum reperimus, nec aliud nisi illud, DIC ECCLESIAE. Dico: Ecclesiae definitiones Majestati Vestrae propono; Sanctorum Patrum & Venerabilium Doctorum expositions, Novorum ineptijs praepono; quas dum modeste retego, in Christo • ego; saniem, non-scalpendo, sed suaviter lambendo; lavo ut abluam: SACRO VESTRO IMPERIO OPUS, QUIPPE UT EXECUTIONI MANDETUR, quod ab Ecclesia & Sanctis Patribus sancitum est, secundum illud Justiniani. Constit. 42. Haec decrevimus Sanctorum Patrum canones secuti: HOC TUA MAJESTATE DIGNUM; hoc dignitati causae consonum, HOC SALUTI ANIMARUM PRORSUS NECESSARIUM; ET OMNIS POPULUS, DICET AMEN.

Sacrae suae Majestatis

Devotissimus Subditus

Fr. Fran. â S. Clara.

The scope of the whole Book in the composing and publishing, was to reconcile, reduce both our King, Church, and the Articles of our Religion, which i • coments upon, to the Church of Rome. This we shall evidence,

First by the Authors own express confession, pag. 338. Instudui (ut vides) pie Lector RECONCILIARE Articulos Confessionis Anglicae, DETERMINATION IBUS ECCLESIAE CATHOLICAE: NON ECCLESIAM IPSIS, ex quâ collapsi sunt; SED IPSOS ECCLESIAE, in qua (Dei opitulante Gratia) salvandi sunt, DUCENDOS CENSUI. Corticem verborum subinde censurâ graviori dignum censebis; sensum ocro latitantem, quem elicui, non adeo veritati dissonum, nisi alio detorquere malint, recte judicabis: his tamen verborum Novitatibus, Christum lacerum inspexi, tunicam inconsu • ilem dissutam, dissectam reperi: quis non condoleret? quis non REDINTEGRATIONEM SUADERET? omnibus modis, si posset, PERSUADERET? HIC UNICUS SCOPUS MEUS, &c. Omnia Ecclesiae & ejus sub Christo capiti [the Pope] quâ del eo reverentiâ submitto: Ultro obtestor Deum & Sanctos ejus, me in hoc qualicunque Opello nostro animarum salutem, PER FIDEI REDINTIGRATIONEM intendere: Quod Deus per viscera Domini Nostri Jesu Christi, ad intercessionem omnium beatorum opportune efficiat; ET SERENISSIMUM REGEM NOSTRUM, PRO OMNIUM CATHOLICORUM VOTIS, AD UTRAMQUE FAELICITATEM PERDVCAT.

Secondly, by the censures and judgments of the Doctors and Divines (who are twelve in number) prefixed, by way of approbation thereunto: James Dre •• a Sorbon Doctor, Londini pridie Calend. Augusti. gives this testimony of this Book▪ Fateor me, &c. sed & laudasse consilium & propositum tuum, quod in Ecclesiae utilitatem cessarum auguror, ad CONCILIANDOS ERRANTIUM ANIMOS, si Deus Opt. Max. caeptis tuis annuat, QUOD SPERO PRECORQUE. Thomas Blaclo, Professor of Divinity, 5. Julij 1633. gives this verdict of it: Libellum qui sic inscribitur, Articuli confessionis Anglicanae paraphrastice exponuntur, &c. ex zelo Fidei & animarum scriptus omnibus CONCORDIAE ET PACIS CHRISTIANAE AMICIS, non potest non esse acceptus, cum Catholico & animo & calamo scriptus sit, & errantibus, UT AD CHRISTI CAULAM REDITUM INVENIANT, facem Catholicae veritatis, quasi ex propinquo ad alliciendos pusillanimos ostentet: William Tomson, Doctor of Divinity, writes of it, 20. Aprilis, Dignum praelo, censuit sperans INTER PROTESTANTES, saltem moderatiores, fructuri futurum. T. P. a Papist, professor of Divinity, 16. April 1633. gives this approbation of it, Tractatum hunc perlegi, &c. & vere secundum calculum meum, publicatio operis PROTESTANTIBUS MODERATIORIBUS ARRIDEBIT (omnibus pla, ere difficilimum) ET AD READVNATIONEM CUM ECCLESIA ROMANA, DUM OPPORTUNUM FUERIT DISPONET: & interim reverentiorem ejus estimationem inuret; praesertim reliquos Confessionis Anglicae Articulos (quod optarem) eadem moderation exponere vellet, & ad calcem hujus operis (si pro voto successerit) Lectorem spe caterorum foveres: All which are attested to agree with the Originals, by D. David, Monachus & Decanus Congregationis Casinensis, olim Romae Serenis. D. N. Urbani Papae Octavi Panetentiarius, NOTORIUS APOSTOLICUS. The design therefore of this Book, by the testimony of all these popish Doctors, and of the Popes own Notary, was, to reconcile, reunite us and our Articles to the Church and Doctrine of Rome.

Thirdly, this we shall make evident by notable passages in the Book it self, wherein the Athor proclaimrs our reconciliation in sundry points of doctrine, as Bishop Montague, Bi. Andrew's, with some other of our popish Doctors expounded both our Articles, Homilies and positions: In his 22. Problem. concerning the great controversy about Justification, he thus publisheth our agreement and consent, page 157, 158, 159. Haec Doctrina eorum & nostra; nec plus dant fidei quam Concilium Trid. quoad justificationem, si caute exponantur, &c. Hîc ergo facilima pax ineunda; sic enim D. Montacutius Articulum de Fide recte explicat, &c. Nulla igitur differentia quoad hoc punctum. Ecce igitur PLANE ET PLENE CONVENIMUS: Et hinc ut patebit quaestione sequenti doctiores, Protestants tribuunt justificationem nostram intrinsecam habitui Justitiae: non ergo fidei. Imo haec nostra positio solenniter Cantabrigiae in Comitijs anniversarijs pro actu Doctorali haec anno currente mense Julio, agitata & probata est. Which he thus seconds, page 181. Quibus omnibus been pensatis, sane nulla hodie reperietur differentia in Confessione Anglica, & Sanctissima diffinitione Trid. nihil enim in Articulis Hamptonienfibus in oppositum ordinatur: Ut patet Artic. 9. De Justification: Unde Montacutius in suo Appello Caesarem, ca. 6. express probat, doctrinam nostram, saltem secundum gradum hujus latitudinis, ab ipsis teneri, & ibidem recte adducit Doctorem White, asserentem, in Justification peccatoris, duas esse actiones Dei; unam, quâ remittit peccatum; alteram, qua potestatem dat homini resistendi peccatis; quae potestas est ipsa charitas infusa in cordibus nostris, per illam secundam actionem Dei, quae est ipsissima doctrina nostra. HIC IGITUR PAX.

So in the point of falling from grace, in his 30. Problem, An Justus potest finaliter peccare? page 209, 210, 211. he brings in our 16. Article, and the Book of Homilies, just as they are cited by Montague in his Appeale, to prove, that a justified person may fall from grace, and sin finally; concluding thus, Et certe omnes confessiones aliarum Nationum fere conspirant, cum Ovarello in Collatione Hamptoniensi; Montacutio in suâ Appellatione, Causabono, in Epistola ad Bertium, cum reliquis omnibus melioris Notae.

In his 36. Problem, concerning Supererogation, misconstruing the fourteenth Article of our Church, point blank against the words and sense, he concludes thus, page 253. Interim â nobis stant Confessio Anglicana, & ejus Genuini sequaces, HIC ERGO PAX, & utinam Pax illa, non quam mundus dat, quae singulis horis novitate opinionum violatur, sed quam Christus suis Apostolis legavit, &c.

In the 37. Problem concerning the Invocation of Saints, and its lawfulness, he writes thus, page 260. Montacutius de hoc subjecto agens, momentis rationum, & monamentis authoritatum oppressus, â veritate stat, & alij frequenter: De re agitur non solum inter nos concordia, sed ni fallor inter celebriores ex adversarijs, ut posted melius patebit: Which he prosecutes, page 273, 274, 275, 276. where he records, Quoad Reliquiarum & Crucis Christi Venerationem, profitetur D. Andreros, in Response. ad cap. 18. Peronij. Causabonus in Exercitationibus Baronij, ad An. 34. Cultus etiam seu venerationem quandam honoratiorem Sacrarum imaginum, cum Chrysostomo in sua Liturgia, id est, inclinationem religiosam ad Imaginem, astruit post alios D. Montacutius, in Responsoria ad Heighamum, & in Appello Caesarem cap. 22. Then he concludes, page 277. Hîc igitur cum Confessione Anglica erit PAX OMNIMODE, modo non ex affectu partium, sed veritatis, omnia pro dignitate perpendent. Closing up his Deus Natura & Gratia thus; In quibus si omnia recte perpenderit Lector eruditus, MAGNUM FUTURAE READUNATIONIS SPECIMEN PERSPICIET.

After this, pag. 278. he paraphraseth all our 39. Articles, endeavoring to reconcile them, and us in them, to the Tenets of the Church of Rome: pag. 316, 317. on the 31. Article (against the sacrifice of the Mass) he glosseth thus; Nulla prorsus hîc erit difficultas cum doctioribus Protestantibus, qui plane hoc totum fatentur: Ut videre est apud D. Andreros, contrâ Perronium, & D. Montacutium, contra Heigham & alios frequenter: Denique nec hic Articulus, ullatenus adversatur: Cum enim ipsi fateantur, in Ecclesiá esse Sacerdotes, esse etiam Sacrificia propitiantia, fateantur necesse est. Nam in Heb. 5. Omnis Sacerdos constituitur, ut offer at dona, & sacrificia pro peccatis; HIC IGITUR NECESSARIO PAX: Ad pacem vero hanc altius stabiliandam, examinemus naturam sacrificij, &c. Est igitur sacrificium, sed cum termino illo restrictivo â Patribus usurpato, incruentum, quod non negant. And pag. 334. Et eo plus quo video celebriores Protestantium Doctors Sacerdotes & sacrificia agnoscere. In the 25. Article concerning Homilies, pag. 321. he thus shakes off our Homilies, in our Bishops own terms: Nec tenentur Protestants, ob haec verba in Articulo statim in singula verba vel sententias Homiliarum jurare, &c. Prudenter igitur quae sanam Doctrinam sapiunt, populo legenda; alia, neglectui habenda.

Pape 332. in the 37. Article, concerning the power of the civil Magistrates, against the Popes Jurisdiction, he writes thus; D. Montacutius, contr. Heighum & alij eorum doctissimi, quibuscum de hoc egi, nullam utique Jurisdictionem spiritualem Regibus nosiris concedunt, sed gubernium civile & temporale, indirecte & per accidens, ob pacem Reipubl. in personas & causas Ecclesiasticas extensum. Gavisus sum etiam valdà de illo quod etiam his diebus factum est Cantabrigiae, in Comitijs pro actu Doctoroli, ubi SUMMO PONTIFICI UT MAXIMO PATRI (sic enim eum appellabant) designata est cura spiritualium, Regi temporalium, licet sub fine subjiciebatur, Regum esse omnes regere; quod intelligi debet civiliter, non spiritualiter, modo â nobis explicato. After which, pag. 334, 335, 336. he handles these three Questions: First, Whether any have power to withdraw themselves from subjection and obedience to the Sea and Church of Rome upon any occasion? Secondly, Whether we of this Realm had sufficient causes to do it? Thirdly, Whether we did well in it, and did not exceed measure therein? And he resolves the two latter thus.

Utraque quaestio si • e dubio, gravissima est, & maximum meretur discussionem. Quod si causa sufficiens non fuerit; vel terminus justae substractionis excesserint, quanta pericula in tàm diuturno scismate? Hinc utique omnia quantacunque mala sunt, originaliter ebullierunt. Catholici veriori & tutiori parti adhaerere volentes, cum insufficientiasm causae, quam moderaminis excessum agnoverunt ponderant utique gravissimum illud Augustini; praecidendae unitatis nulla est justa necessitas, Lib. 2. cont. Epist. Parm. Utinam DENVO AUTHORITATE PUBLICA pro dignitane (PURITANIS NON INTERMIXTIS ) EX AFFECTU READUNITIONIS PERPENDERETUR & ad hoc singuli evoluant Augustinum contra Donatum. Scio illos hoc abhorrere de quibus dicit Cassander, (licet haud satis affectus Romanae Ecclesiae;) Plerique ex eis qui sibi ab Evangelio nomen sumpserunt, cum partem qua vetus Catholicorum, & Ecclesiae Romanae nomen retinet, prorsus aspernantur, omnem que ejus communionem defugiunt, nec ut membra ejusdem corporis, amore & misericordia prosequuntur (quod nos a Puritanis hic experimur) sed ut Satanae & Antichristi corpus abominatur. Scio id equidem & doles, & qui ejusmodi sunt, quomodo â schismatis (rectius dixisset Haereseos) nota eximi possunt, non video.

From all these remarkable passages of this book, it is most evident, that it was purposely penned, published, dedicated and presented to the King, to reconcile him, and reunite our Church and Articles to the Church of Rome; that this union and accommodation was already accomplished by Bishop Andrew's, Bishop Muntague, and others of our most eminent moderate Divines, in many points of greatest moment, and would soon be effected in the residue, by a public Assembly or Synod of our Prelates and divines, if no Puritans were intermixed among them.

But you will object; What is all this, or this Book to the Archbishop? Did he know anything of this Plot, Book, or had any hand therein? Yes verily: First, he know of this book before it was published, Doctor Lindsey his great favourite (whom he advanced to a Deanery and two Bishoprics, as we have formerly proved) acquainting him therewith, and bringing the Author of it to his Grace, who had recourse to him several times after: This we shall prove by a paper written with his own hand, by way of extenuation of this charge even since his commitment to the Tower, and there sei • ed on by Master Pryme, which was read as followeth.

MY Intelligence with the Pope by S. Clara. I never saw that Franciscan Friar in my life, to the utmost of my memory, above four times, or five at most.

He was first brought to me by Doctor Linsey, it was when he was setting out his book about the Articles of the Church of England; and I then told Doctor Linsey, I did fear he would never expound them, so as the Church of England might have cause to thank him for it.

He never came to me after, till he was almost ready to print another book, to prove, that Episcopacy was authorized in the Church by divine right; and these was after this unhappy stirs began: His desire was, to have this book printed here; but at his several addresses to me for this, I still gave him this answer: That I did not like the way which the Church of Rome went concerning Episcopacy: And howsoever, I would never give way that any such book from the pen of any Romanist, should be printed here: And the Bishops of England are very well able to defend their own cause and calling, without calling in any aid from Rome, and would so do when they saw cause; And this is all the conference that ever I had with him.

This excuse of his (though partial) acknowledgeth, that he was acquainted with the book and Author before its printing, and that Doctor Linsey his favourite, was a great promoter of it, privy to the plot of Reconciliation, and very intimate with the Friar that compiled it.

Secondly, when the book was printed, this Author presented not only the King, but Archbishop himself with one of them, bound up in Vellam, with the Kings Arms on the cover, and blew silk strings, which he thus endorsed with his own hand, Fron. â Sanctâ Clara, Problemata 37. Expositio paraphrastica Confessionis Anglicanae: Which book he reserved in his Study at Lambeth, where Master Prynne seized, and produced it at the Barre.

Thirdly, he not only received, but permitted it to be publicly sold and dispersed amongst us, without any seizure or restaint, and to be twice or thrice reprinted in London, notwithstanding many exceptions and complaints against it, when as he most strictly suppressed orthodox books.

Fourthly, if Friar Saint Giles were the true Author of this book (as he was reputed by the Friars in foreign parts) the Archbishop not only knew, but maintained him in the University of Oxford (to seduce, poison the Scholars there, and reconcile them to Rome) and gave him an annual pension of one hundred Markes; the blame of which action for his own excuse, he would transfer upon the King (without any proof at all, but only this surreptitious warrant, without any date at all, writ with his own hand, not by any Secretary of State) which will no ways extenuate, but aggravate his crime, the warrant being no doubt fraudulently procured, to serve a turn at a dead lift, since his troubles.

Charles R.

CAnterbury, Master Saint Giles by serving Us and this State, hath lost all his hopes in France, and desires to spend his time here at his private studies; I would have you think upon some way for his maintenance, and to place him in Oxford, that he may have use of that Library, which he much desires: And he may so order it, that his profession in Religion may do no harm.

What the service was that this Friar had done for the King and State, for which he lost his hopes in France, we could never learn, unless it were the penning and publishing of this book, which some Jesuits and their faction only, disliked. What it was that this Archbishop did for him (upon this warrant, as he pretends) is thus expressed, in a paper written with his own hand, by way of excuse, seized by Master Prynne in the Tower, and by him produced at the Lord's Barre, where it was read as followeth.

MAster Saint Giles was a man well reputed of in France, and placed about the Queens Majesty, at her Majesty's first coming hither: After upon some services (and those in a very fair way) done to this State, he lost ground in France, and when some other French men were sent away from the Queens service, he durst not go thither, but chose to live here in a very low condition for safeties sake, rather then adventure thither. All this while the man was unknown to me, but coming one day to wait upon his Majesty at Saint Jamses, his Majesty was pleased to ask me, Whether I knew Master Saint Giles? I answered, I did not: Hereupon his Majesty took occasion to tell me the condition of the man, and his wants, and withal, told me which way he conceived some relief might be given to his necessities; and prescribed me a way how to order it, that he might receive for his maintenance a hundred Marks a year. This in obedience to his Majesty, I did: (and I have his Majesty's Warrant for it) But I never allowed or gave him one penny of my own.

Not long after this, partly that the poor man, being a stranger, might live the cheaper, and partly that he might have the use of the public Library, resolving (as he pretended) to follow metaphisicall learning, and not engage himself in the controversies of the times; His Majesty moved me again, that he might live in Oxford, and in some College or Hall there. In this I humbly besought his Majesty to pardon me, because it would be dangerous to the youth bred in that College, and scandalous to his Majesty, this Church, and the University, and bring danger upon myself, being Chancellor there: After much importunity used by me, his Majesty was gnaciously pleased to be satisfied, that he should not be admitted to live in any College or Hall among the Students, but required me not to hinder his going to Oxford, and the making use of the Library, provided, that he kept no company with any young Scholars; that he lived privately in some Town-house; and that he did not presume to exercise his Priestly function, or do anything against the laws: This he undertook to perform, and I could never find (by any the spies which I put upon him) that he brake this in any particular, but lived there without offense given to any.

In all times of his recourse to me for his pension, I never spent one hour with him, nor had I ever any discourse with him at all, but once only, and that was about a dangerous opinion of Pompanatius,: At that time he told me, he had a desire to labor in that Argument, and to confute him: I told him, I could not approve any meddling with that question in these times, for that I thought few would be able to understand the subtlety of that dispute, and that the stirring of it in these times would do a great deal of mischief; and this is all that ever past between him and me all my life.

This Saint Giles by this Prelates means, continued in the University of Oxford sundry years, and had the use of the Libraries there, where he did much mischief; Master Broad of Oxford deposed, that Saint Giles continued in Oxford four years or more, that he was a very dangerous insinuating person, that Doctor Turner, Doctor Johnson, and others of the University, usually resorted to him, and familiarly conversed with him, though he were there known to be a popish Priest; that when Master Prynne, Master Burton, and Doctor Bastwick suffered at Westminster on the Pillory, this Saint Giles speaking of their sufferings, told this Deponent (in whose Kinswomans house he lay) that though the Archbishop and other Bishops WERE CORDIALL FOR THE ROMISH RELIGION, yet he doubted their cruelty would rather hurt then further their cause, because it lost them much in the affections of the people. Now what a capital offense it was for this Archprelat to harbor such a dangerous seducing Priest, (reputed one of the greatest Scholars among the Papists) in this famous University to seduce the Students there (and as the Queens Apothecary, a great Papist, reported, of purpose to instruct the Doctors there, as Master Godfrey, a quondam converted popish Priest averred) and to lay the blame of it thus wholly on his Majesty to excuse himself, we humbly submit to your Lordships consideration.

To prove this Saint Giles (now Priest to the Venetian Ambassador, resident in London, where he doth much mischief) the Author of Deus, Natura & Gratia, &c. what repute it had among Papists abroad, how the Archbishops Agents applauded, made use of it, and certified him from time to time, how it was entertained by Papists in foreign parts, what they thought of him and other great persons in England, & how they stood affected to popery, we shall produce two Original Letters from Master William Middleton (then Chaplain to the Lord Fielding, Ambassador at Venice) sent thence to the Archbishop, in whose Study they were found by Master Prynne, endorsed by Master Dell and the Archbishop: the first of them bears date in September. 1635. and was received by the Archbishop Octob. 9. wherein he thus writes:

The second Letter is dated December 21. 1635. in which there are these observable clauses:

By these Letters it is most apparent, that Saint Giles was the Author of Sancta Clara's book; that though the Jesuits seemed to dislike it, yet it was at last authorized and printed at Rome, where they had a good opinion not only of the Kings favor to the Roman Catholics, but of the Archbishops inclination to their party, their Religion, and conceived he had a hand in sending Major Bret to Rome, to negotiate with the Popes &c. This last Letter is thus endorsed with Mr. Dels hand, Recep. Jan. 10. 1635. from Venice, from Master Midleton, The allowance of Saint Clara his Book at Rome: to which the Archbishop himself adds with his own hand; This is not so; (therefore it seems he had better intelligence here from Rome, then Master Midleton had at Venice;) The English Cardinal, The English Agent.

How far this Book was approved, countenanced here in England by the King and Archbishop, will appear by these Instructions under Secretary Windebankes own hand, to his Son, when he was at Paris to solicit the Palsgraves enlargement, found among his sequestered papers, and attested by Master Pryme.

IF you hear Fa. Francis his Book, or person touched, let them know, that we understand assuredly that it proceeds from the Jesuits, (most likely also by this last Letter of Mr. Midleton to the Archbishop) who employ others in it, as they did against Father Leanded till it cost him his life; and if that upon their informations, they proceed against such persons, who THOUGH IN ALL THINGS CATHOLIKE yet are more discrect and temperate, and not intermeddling in matters of State, THE KING WILL BE MUCH OFFENDED.

Thus much for this Book of Sancta Clara, and the Author of it.

The fifth Evidence we shall pitch upon, to prove a design to reconcile and reduce us back to Rome, is the Popes and his Agents promises, tenders of Cardinals Caps and Places to some prime English men, and to this Archbishop himself in particular; the end whereof could be no other, but to enthrall us again to the superstitious jurisdiction of the Papal See.

The first proffer we find of a Cardinals Cap made to any English Prelat since the Reformation, was to this Archbishop, who thus records the time and manner thereof with his own hand in his Diary.

Aug. 4. 1633. Sunday, news came to Court of the Lord Archbishop of Canterburies death, and the King RESOLVED PRESENTLY to give it me, which he did. Aug. 6. That very morning at Greenwich, there came one to me seriously, and THAT AVOWED ABILITY TO PERFORME IT, AND OFFERED ME TO BE A CARDINALL. I went presently to the King and acquainted him both with the thing and person.

It is very considerable that Master Anthony Mildmay deposed, that Con the Popes Nuncio, told him at Rome before Archbishop Abbots death, that Bishop Laud should succeed him, and that he would be more favorable to the Catholics then Abbot. By which it appears, that Bishop Laud was long before Abbots death designed to the place, if not at the solicitation, yet at least by the approbation of the Roman party: No sooner comes news to Court of Archbishop Abbots death, but the King presently resolves, that Bishop Laud should succeed him; and no sooner is this known at Court, but that very morning (as himself records) he is thus seriously offered to be a Cardinal, by one who avowed ability to perform it; and that at Greenwich in the Kings own Court. Who it was that made this offer, were worth the discovery, but this mystery he couceales; The Plot against the King, discovered to him by Habernfield, informs us, That Con the Popes Nuncio had a command to offer A CARDINALS CAP TO THE ARCHBISHOP, in the name of the Pope of Rome, and that he should allure him also, with greater promises; but this first offer was before Con's arrival here. Were the person an English Subject, of what rank soever, this proffer of his to to revive this popish dignity of a Cardinal among us, and to receive it from the Popes exploded forraigue power (which drew Cardinal Woolsey into a Premunire, if not under the guilt of high Treason, though this honor was procured him, not only by King Henry the 8 ^th his assent, but solicitation) deserved the severest exemplary punishment, especially since it tended to engage the Primate and Metropolitan of all England,, most obliged by his place and office, against all Popish power, offices, superstitious doctrines, to submit unto them, and become the Popes sworn vassal: If the Popes own Nuncio [Panzani] which is probable, or any other foreign Agent, the affront had been so great both to the Archbishops person, place (had he been cordial to our Church, our Religion, being both a Privy Counselor, the Kings grand favorite, and he who steard our Churches helm) to the honor of our Church, Religion, of the King himself and his Royal Court, that it could not patiently be put up or pretermitted without some eminent satisfaction: But be the person one or other, certain it is, he was never once questioned or molested by the Archbishop for this proffer, who took it so well at the parties hands, or rejected it so coldly, that on the 17. day of the same Moneth, he had a second serious offer made to him of the self-same dignity, (most probably by the same person) which himself thus Registreth in his Diary.

Aug. 17. 1633. Saturday, I had A SERIOUS OFFER MADE ME AGAIN TO BE A CARDINALL: I was then from Court, but so soon as I came thither, (which was August 21) I acquainted his Majesty with it: But my answer again was, that somewhat dwelt within me, which would not suffer that, till Rome were other then it is.

What it was that dwelt within him (which made him not absolutely, but for the present only, to refuse this offer till Rome was other then it is) we may learn from Sir Hen. Mildmay's, Mr. Anth. Mildmay's, & Mr. Challoner's depositions forementioned, and his own Reply to Fisher, pag. 171. to wit, an ambitious, Papal spirit; he would (like his worthy Predecessor, Saint Anselm, so he stiles him) be both in Title and Jurisdiction, Papa alterius Orbis, Pope of our British world, and Universal Patriarch of all the Churches within his Majesty's Realms and Dominions; which Rome, as it then was, and the Jesuitical party there (as these witnesses have deposed) distiked and would not suffer; and for this cause only he refused this dignity, which would have more enthralled him to the Popes and Rome's jurisdiction (not to their Religion) then his ambitious spirit could well brook.

This double, serious proffer of a Romish Cardinalship to the Archbishop, is an infallible Argument; First, that the Pope and his Conclave at Rome, had an extraordinary good opinion of his favor, his good affection to Popery and their Antichristian Church, else they would not have proffered him such a dignity, incompatible to any Protestant English Prelat: Secondly, that they deemed him the aptest, activest Instrument to reconcile and re-unite us to Rome of all other, in respect of his favor at Court, power with the King, and inclination to Popery (as Sir Henry Mildmay, Master Anthony Mildmay, Master Challoner have attested;) therefore they would honor him with a Cardinals Hat, to the end, that as his Predecessor Cardinal Poole, Archbishop of Canterbury (the last English Cardinal of any of our Prelates) reconciled our revolted Kingdom to Rome in Queen Mary's days, as appeareth at large by the Statute of 1. & 2. Phil. & Mary, ch. 8. So he invested with the same Papal dignity, and fitting in the self-same See, might once more as easily reduce us to the bosom of the Roman Church in the days of this Queen Mary, (as Popish as the former) as he did then.

As this Archbishop, so Master Walter Montague, not long after, had good hopes given him at Rome to be made a Cardinal, as the Archbishop himself was informed by Mr. Middleton's forecited Letter; which dignity he should have lately received thence, had he not been imprisoned (if Sir Kenelme Digbies Letter may be credited) to help on this work of our reducement to Rome; yea, the discovery of Andreas ab Habernfield to the Archbishop, informs both him and ns, That one of Endimion Porters Sons of the Bed-chamber (now in arms against the Parliament) was promised a Cardinals Hat, if this design succeeded well, and that Sir Kenelme Digby, Master Walter Montague, and other active Instruments who promoted that design among us, attended the sixteen Cardinals Caps that were vacant, which were therefore detained vacant for some years, to impose a vain hope on those who expected them; And Master Widford in his Letters from Rome to Secretary Windebank Novemb. 10. 1640. informs him, that Master Sommerset and Master Brudenell were come to Florence, aiming at our English Cardinals Caps, which then, by reason of the Popes Catarre, were like to be disposed of. All which particulars are a most clear demonstration of the Pope and his Conclaves endeavors to reduce us back to Rome, and of this Archbishops privity to, if not assistance in it.

The sixth Evidence we shall mention to prove the Archbishops, not only intelligence of, but compliance with the Popes and his Instruments Plots and proceedings to usher in Popery, and reduce our Kingdoms to the Antichristian Religion and Church of Rome, is his conusance and furtherance of this their design in Ireland, which we shall thus demonstrate. The House of Commons June 11. 1628. presented a Remonstrance to the King, concerning the extraordinary increase and growth of Popery, of Papists both in England and Ireland, and the extraordinary favor which they found from some great persons in his Court; wherein they had this notable clause concerning Ireland.

IT doth not a little also increase our dangers and fears this way, to understand the miserable condition of your Kingdom of Ireland, where without control the Popish Religion is openly professed and practiced in every part thereof, Popish jurisdiction being generally exercised and avowed; Monasteries, Nunneries, and other superstitious houses newly erected, re-edified, replenished with men and women of several Orders, and in a plentiful manner maintained in Dublin, and most of the great Towns, and divers other places of that Kingdom: Which (of what ill consequence it may prove) if not seasonably repressed, we leave to your Majesty's wisdom to judge: But most heartily beseech you (as we assure ourselves you do) to lay the serious consideration thereof to your Royal, pious heart, AND THAT SOME TIMELY COURSE MAY BE TAKEN FOR REDRESSE HEREIN.

Had this pious, prudent, timely advice been then hearkened to, and followed to purpose, it might no doubt (through God's concurrence with it) have prevented that horrid Rebellion, those bloody Massacres of some hundred thousands of poor English Protestants in, and devastation of that distressed Kingdom, which have broken forth and been perpetrated there of late, almost to the utter extirpation of the English and Irish Protestants, the ruin of that Kingdom, and infinite loss, yea eminent danger of this our Realm to boot.

But this Popish Prelate, though he then certainly knew this Remonstrance to be most true, out of an inveterate hatred to the Parliament, and a desire to promote the Catholics designs there, instead of persuading his Majesty to hearken to this true information and wholesome advice of his faithful Commons, drew up a most pernicious malepert Answer, with his own hand, in his Majesty's name, against this Remonstrance, which he presented to his Majesty; wherein he incensed him against the Commons, charging them not only with misinforming, but traducing his Majesty's government by this clause concerning Ireland, in this dishonorable language, produced and read under his own hand out of the Original draught, attested by Master Prynne.

FOR Ireland, We think in case of Religion, 'tis not worse then Queen Elizabeth left it, and for other affairs, 'tis as good as we found it, nay perhaps better; and We take it a great disparagement of Our government that it should be urged, that new Monasteries, Nunneries, and other superstitious houses are erected and replenished in Dublin, and other great Towns in this Our Kingdom; for we assure Our Selves, Our Deputy and Our Counsel there will not suffer God and Our government so to be dishonored, but We should have had some account of it from them; and We may not endure thus to have Our good People misled with shows.

Which in plain terms is but a giving the House of Commons the Lye, and a slandering of them as false Informers, both to the King and people: By which wicked practice, their Remonstrance was rejected as a slanderous Libell, and their Council not pursued; the doleful effects whereof, we now experimentally feel and rue. That this Prelate when he made this Answer, certainly knew of the grand increase of the Papists in Ireland, and that they had then upon the matter obtained a public toleration, will appear by a paper found in his Study, (produced at the Barre,) thus endorsed with this Archbishops own hand, 1626. The Bishops of Ireland about a Toleration feared.

There were likely to be granted to the Papists in Ireland many privileges, and withal, a toleration for their Religion, in the consideration of the payment of a great sum of money. This Easter term 1626. there was a great meeting of all the chiefest of the whole Kingdom, and the Archbishops and Bishops, &c. and it was likely to be concluded: Doctor D • wanm Bishop of London-Derry April 11. preached at Dublin before the Lord Deputy and the State; his Text was Luke 1. at the 79. In the midst of his Sermon he openly read this Protestation above written, subscribed by the Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland, and at the end, he boldly said, And let all the people say, Amen. And suddenly all the whole Church almost shook with the sound that their loud Amen made, &c. The Lord Deputy called from the Bishop of Derry a Copy both of his Sermon and Protestation to send to the King: The learned and courageous Bishop gave this Answer, that there was nothing he either spake or read, in the Pulpit, but he would willingly justify it before his Majesty, and feared not who read or saw it: So now by God's mercy nothing may yet be done, or will be, till the Lord Deputy hear from the King.

That this information of the Commons to his Majesty, was then most true, real, and that this Bishop knew it to be so in every particular, we shall manifest by this printed Proclamation, found in his Study, thus endorsed with his own hand, not long after his Answer to the Commons Remonstrance: April 1. 1629. A Proclamation concerning the growth of Popery in Ireland, &c. which was read as followeth:

Here we have a confitentem, reum the Bi. himself under his own handwriting endorsed on this Proclamation, justifying the Parlia. Remonstrance to be true, and his Answer to it a malicious slander, to advance the Papists designs: After which he had further intelligence from time to time, by several Letters and Papers out of Ireland ( elsewhere published at large) of the dangerous growth, increase and insolencies of the Papists there, notwithstanding this Proclamation, and that there was a popish Hierarchy there exercised and University erected without control: We shall instance only in two remarkable Letters, written to him from Doctor Beadle, Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh, found in his Study, endorsed with his own hand, and read at the Lord's Barre.

The first of them he thus endorseth, April 1. 1630. From Doctor Beadle, Lord Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh, about the state of the Church in his Diocese, and the Papists in Ireland: Who writes thus thereof:

His second Letter to the Lord Deputy of Ireland about the maintenance of the Army and the Cavan Petition, which he sent enclosed in another Letter to the Archbishop, is somewhat more full and observable, wherein there is this memorable passage concerning the increase and insolencies of the Papists in Ireland; which Letter he received thence Decemb. 4. 1633.

By these two Letters, it is most apparent, that this Arch-Prelat was from time to time acquainted with the extraordinary increase and insufferable insolencies of the Papists in Ireland, as likewise of their popish Arch-bishops and Bishops audacious proceedings in that Kingdom, which he was more fully informed of by two printed papers; (sent to him by Archbishop Usher) the one in Latin, the other in English, found in his Study; endorsed thus with his Secretary Dels hand, May 3. 1632. Protestations of the Secular Priests in Ireland, against Thomas Flemming Arch-bishop of Dublin; one whereof was read at the Lord's Barre.

From which Protestation, we may observe these considerable particulars:

First, that the Papists in Ireland had their own popish Archbishops, Bishops and a Vicar Apostolical residing then amongst them, as the title and body of this Protestation manifests.

Secondly, that their Archbishop Flemming had a popish Clergy under him, in his Province, and did exceedingly tyrannize over them, usurping jurisdiction even in temporal causes, and over the Kings own Courts among the Catholics of Ireland.

Thirdly, that the popish Bishops in Ireland, did usually confer Orders, and exercise all Episcopal jurisdiction there.

Fourthly, that they had a special Cardinal at Rome [Ludovifius] given by the Pope unto the Irish, as the only Patron and Protector of the Irish Nation.

Fifthly, that they were grown extraordinary bold and insolent there, so as they openly published this their Protestation and Appeal in print, both in Latin and English, to all the world, and avowed it under their hands, subscribed to it.

Sixthly, that they had then erected a popish University in Dublin itself, of which Paul Harris professeth himself Deacon (or Dean, as Bishop Beadle stiles him. even in print.

This Prelat, though he knew all this, yet for ought we find, he never took any severe course at all to prevent the increase and insolencies of the popish Prelates, Priests, Friars, Papists there, but rather to foment them: For first, he promoted and sent over divers superstitious popish Clergy-men thither, as young Mr. Croxton, Doctor Bramball (his principal Agent and Informer, Chaplain to the Lord Deputy) Master Chapel, and others, who set up sundry popish innovations, and brcohed popish Doctrines there, to the great encouragement of the Papists: Secondly, he sent over the Lord Wentworth (his grand instrument and confederace) to be Lord Deputy of that Kingdom, who extraordinarily favored the popish party there, and at last proceeded so far, as to make use of them even in Parliament, to balance the Protestants, the better to conquer and enslave that Kingdom, even by Parliaments; witness this remarkable clause in A Duplicate of a Dispatch of this Lord Deputies to his Majesty Jan. 22. 1633. with this subscription: For my Lord's Grace of Canterbury; found in his private Study at Lambeth, thus endorsed with his own hand, Rec. Mar. 2. 1633. Comp. Ang. Reasons for the present calling of a Parliament in Ireland: Where thus he writes concerning the Parliament then intended to be there called.

Thus poising one by the other, which single might perchance prove more unhappy to deal with.

With this Machiavillian policy, he then acquainted this Archbishop, and acaccordingly pursued it; which what desperate effects it hath of late produced in that Kingdom, by making the Irish Papists able to over-master, and almost extirpate the English-Irish Protestants and their Religion there, we now experimentally feel to our greatest grief and danger.

Neither did the Archbishop only approve this hellish policy of the Lord Deputy, but likewise in the late Scottish troubles, they both most desperately persuaded his Majesty (without the privity of the other Lord's) to raise an Army among the Papists in Ireland, to subdue the Scots by force, because they durst not trust the English, in regard the puritan party was so great, and beld correspondency with the Scots; which advice was held most dangerous and pernicious council by our States-men, as two: Jesuits G. T. (Talbot the Jesuit) and William Hewill, writ to their Father Superior at Paris • nne 28. 1631. as appears by their intercepted Letters, found among Secretary Windebanks sequestered papers.

If any should object, than this Archbishop had no power or charge at all in Ireland to suppress the Papists there: We answer, it appears by hundreds of papers, Letters found in his Study, sent from thence to him; that nothing at all was there acted concerning any Church affairs, but by his direction, who swayed all things, disposed of all Church preferments there at his pleasure, and likewise did what he pleased there in most state businesses by reason of his power with the King, and interest in the Deputy, insomuch, that the very naming of him at the Counsel Table there, was like a Gorgons head, to amaze all opposites, and strike them mute, or into a shaking fit, as the Primate of Armagh informed him in two several Letters from thence: Wherefore we cannot but from all the premises conclude this very Archbishop guilty of being not only privy, but aiding to the reestablishing of popery in Ireland, and reuniting it to the Church of Rome; which Realm being farthest out of sight, was thought the meetest Theater for the Pope and his Instruments to act their designs and parts upon, with most advantage, security, and least opposition.

The seventh particular, which most evidently manifests the Pope's with his Agents designs and studious endeavor to reconcile us to Rome, and our domestic compliance therewith, is the Popes sending of divers Nuncioes successively from Rome into England (a thing never formerly heard of since the Reformation) who kept their residence, and were entertained as Nuncioes to him in London, Westminster, had frequent access to Court, and held correspondency with divers of our Nobility; more especially with Secret. Windebank and Bishop Montague, this Archbishops chief Creatures, seconded with our avowed entertainment of popish Agents at Rome, of purpose to reduce and reconcile us to it.

The first of these Nuncioes was Gregorio Panzani, who arrived at London Decem. 25. 1634. where he was received, welcomed, treated with both by King and Queen; who continuing here till the year 1636. and then returning, Seignior Georgio Con, a Scot, (who departed from Rome towards England May 20. 1636.) arrived here about the end of that month, bringing a great Breve, and many Relics of Saints, Meddals, and pieces of gold and silver, with the Popes picture stamped on them, who was courteously entertained by the King and Queen at Hombly in Northamptonshire, where he found them, and afterwards kept his residence in Westminster near the New Exchange. He after three years and two months stay here in England, aspiring to a Cardinals Cap, returned towards Rome, laden with great store of Jewels and gifts worth many thousand pounds. After him Count Rossetti, a Noble man of Ferrara, was sent over hither as Nuncio, who continued his Negotiation here, and found great respect at Court, till he was driven hence by this Parliament, wherein were many complaints against him, about July 1641. as we have elsewhere manifested: And as the Pope had his Nuncio's here, so had we our reciprocal Agents at Rome: The first of them was Master Walter Montague, who arrived there about August 1633. to whom succeeded Serj. Major Bret, who arrived at Rome about Decemb. 1635. After him succeeded Sir William Hamilton, a Scot, dangerous Papist, who came to Rome about the end of May 1636. and continued Agent there till this present Parliament: Of all which this Archbishop had exact intelligence, as appears by Master Midleton's Letters to him, and Habernfields Discovery; found among his own papers, endorsed by himself.

The eighth particular, is the Popes and his Congreations, de Propaganda side, a • Rome, sending over infinite swarms of Seminary Priests, Jesuits, Friars of all sorts into England, to seduce us; their erecting of a popish Hierachy, societies of Jesuits, Monasteries of Monks, Nuns, and other popish Locusts secretly among us, and holding a general Counsel at London, whereof Con the Popes Nuncio was President; to raise arms, forces, monies against the Scots, to advance the Catholics cause; all which we have elsewhere related, proved at large, and was very well know to this Prelat, by the manifold Remonstrances, Petitions of the Parliament, against this dangerous increase of Papists, Priests, Jesuits, Popery, which Petitions he still opposed.

These five particulars thus proved, premised, infallibly demonstrating a dangerous design and prosecution of it in the Pope and his Instruments to reduce, subject us to the Church of Rome, of which this Archbishop was most fully informed, and wherewith in a great measure he complied with them; we shall now proceed to demonstrate, that instead of counterworking, opposing, resisting this known design and practice of theirs, according to his trust and duty, he did most traitorously and wickedly combine, confederate with them to the utmost of his wit and power, to advance, accomplish this their design and project by sundry Jesuitical practices; some whereof we have formerly proved, pressed at large, and therefore shall only recapitulate now, to re-fresh your memories, and then proceed to further evidence.

First of all, he began to usher into our Cathedrals, Churches, Chapels, Universities, by inches and degrees, one after another, Altars, Images, Crucifixes, Tapers, Copes, consecrated Basons, Altar-cloths, bowing to Altars, Popish consecrations of Churches, Chapels, Church-yards, Flagons, Vestments, Credentiaes, Corporals, turning and railing in Communion Tables Altarwise, kneeling at the new Rails, standing up at Gloria Patri, praying toward the east, reading second service at the Altar, with other popish Innovations formerly mentioned; at first he introduced them only as things tolerable, or indifferent, at last enjoyed them as expedient and necessary.

Secondly, he proceeded to introduce divers Arminian Tenants as a bridge to popery; first, in Pulpits, discourses; then in printed authorized books, prohibiting, suppressing, all preaching, printing, and books against them under severe penalties.

Thirdly, he next went on to countenance, authorize, maintain, confirm, both in Pulpit and Press, divers erroneous positions, contrary to the general strain and tenent of our own and foreign Protestant Writers of chiefest note, tending towards a reconciliation between us and Rome: We shall instance in these few particulars, maintained by himself, both in his speeches and writings: First, that the Church of Rome is a true Church: Secondly, that she never erred in fundamentals in the worst times, but only circa fundamentalia, both which he publicly maintained in the High Commission at Doctor Bastwicks censure, as Master Burton and Master Lane a Minister deposed: Thirdly, that the Religion of Papists and Protestants is one and the same: Fourthly, that men may be saved in the Church of Rome and Romish Religion, & therefore we need not pray for any Papists conversion, no not for the Queens, which he specially prohibited, and questioned those who thus prayed for her: Fifthly, that the Pope is not Antichrist, nor ought to have this title given him, which he expunged both out of the public Books of our Church, and private men's impressions: Sixthly, that the Pope is supreme head of the Church, the first and greatest Patriarch; and to make this doctrine pass more current, he suffered the Popes own Titles of, Sanctitatis Vestrae Sanctissime Pater, Spiritus Sancti effusissime plenus; Optimus Maximusque in terris: Ille quo rectior non-stat Regula, quo Prior est corrigenda Religio; to be attributed to him successively in sundry Letters from the University of Oxford, Master Croxton and others without control; and proclaims himself a Patriarch, in his own book against Fisher, pag. 171. Seventhly, his own Chaplain Doctor Bray, by his special direction, in two Books of Doctor Pocklingtons, severally printed, and reprinted with authority, proclaimed, that he derived his lineal succession and Episcopacy from Pope Gregory and Saint Peters Chair at Rome, and that our Church was miserable if he could not do so; which Doctor Heylen, by his special command, seconded in print; which Bishop Montague thus trebles in his Originum Ecclesiasticarum; Tomi Priorus, pars posterior, pag. 465. In Pontificali, seu libro quam vocamus Ordinationum, Episcopus, (AB AUGUSTINO LEGITIME DERIVATA SUCCESSIONE, ET GREGORIO ROMANO DEDUCTUS) Sacros Ordines secundum veteris Ecclesiae Cannores conferens, Ordinandum Sacerdotem, sic affatur, Accipe Spiritum Sanctum, &c. Deriving not only this Archbishop, but all our other Bishops successions and Episcopacy from Augustine the Monk, and Pope Gregory of Rome; a goodly Romish pedigree to be much insisted on directly reducing us back to Rome, from whence it was derived, as to our Mother Church.

Fourthly, he with his Instruments and Chaplains, vented, authorized not only in the Pulpit, but Press, all manner of popish erroneous doctrines, never heard amongst us in former years, comprizing the whole body of Papistry, of purpose to reduce us back to Rome; the particulars whereof you have heard, refusing, suppressing orthodox Books, written against popish errors, and purging the chiefest passages against the Church, Pope, Prests, Jesuits and errors of Rome out of all old reprinted and new licensed books, before they could pass the Press, as we have abundantly proved, inserting popish pictures, and a popish Index into our very Bibles, the more easily to seduce men to Popery.

Fifthly, he advanced the most corrupt, popish, superstitious persons of all sorts, to Bishoprics, Deaneries, Prebendaries, Head-ships of houses in the University, Chaplains to the King and Prince, and the greatest Benefices; suppressed, silenced, deprived, censured, banished the most zealous preaching orthodox Ministers in all places, and kept them from preferment, the better to facilitate and effect this design.

Sixthly, he caused sundry books tending to Reconciliation of us to Rome, to be printed and published, especially Bishop Montague's Appeal, and other Books since, of which Sancta Clara took special notice, and made bold to proclaim a peace and reconciliation in most points between us.

Seventhly, he suppressed all Lectures and after-noon Sermons on the Lord's day in most places, that the people through ignorance might be more easily seduced; and instead of strict sanctification of the Lord's day, the principal means of increasing piety, knowledge, and keeping men off from popery and profaneness, he caused a new Declaration to be printed and published in his Majesty's name, for the use of profane sports and pastimes even on God's own day, and under pretext thereof, caused hundreds of our most conscientious Ministers, (whom otherwise he could not tax or quarrel,) to be silenced, suspended, imprisoned, yea, driven out of the Realm to foreign Countries and Plantations, that so these grand obstructions of our reconciliation with Rome being removed we might without any great difficulty or opposition be reduced, reconciled to her; and least any impediment should arise to cross this Unity from the Dutch, French, or Walloon Churches in our Realms, not any ways poisoned with his popish drugs and Romish innovations, he attempted their extirpation too, and had almost effected it: All which particulars we have already proved.

We shall now proceed to some further evidence, manifesting his compliancy, intelligence and concurrence with the Pope and his Instruments in this hellish plot; what evidence of this kind, common fame and report, both at home, at Rome, and elsewhere hath given in against him, Sir Henry Mildmay, Master Anthony Mildmay, Master Challoner and others have already attested: what real evidence we have yet remaining, to make good this fame, we shall now produce.

It had been too gross, too palpable an oversight in such a politician as this Archbishop was reputed, and very prejudicial to his designs, considering the place he sustained, his pretended profession of the Protestant Religion, his dislike of Rome, and the many vigilant eyes that were continually fixed on his actions, to have held any open or immediate intelligence with the Pope, or his known Agents here, and therefore it cannot reasonably be expected from us to produce direct proofs of any such gross intelligence; what then he could not act publicly and immediately in person, he contrived to effect more courtly and mediately by fitting instruments, who held strict correspondence with the Roman Pontife and his Negotiators. The two trustiest persons he could call out for such a purpose, were Master Francis Windebank, a lay man, and Richard Montague a Divine, who had other associates joined with them to accomplish this reducement: To enable them the better to carry on this work with more advantage to the Catholic cause, he procured Montague (in despite of several Parliaments opposition) to be made a Bishop, heaped sundry preferments on him in our Church (of which he so ill deserved) as we have already proved, and shall not here insist on: As for Windebank, he advanced him to one of the greatest places of trust and secrecy in the Kingdom, making him a principal Secretary of State to his Majesty, which he thus expresseth with his own hand in his Diary: June 15. 1632. Master Fancis Windebank, MY OLD FRIEND, was sworn Secretary of State, WHICH PLACE I OBTAINED FOR HIM of my gracious Master King CHARLES; so that he was a creature of his own advancing. No sooner was he settled in this place of honor and trust, but he presently falls to his designed work; he protects, releaseth popish Priests, Jesuits, Friars, and held familiar correspondency with them, entertaining them in his house, Study, Coach, Garden, and feasting them at his Table; imprisons, molests, reviles the Messengers who by office, duty, were bound to apprehend them; suspends the execution of all penal laws against them and popish Recusants, by his Letters and Warrants of protection under the privy Signet; held familiar intelligence with Cardinal Barbarino and Panzani, Con, Rossetti, the Popes Nuncioes, during their abode in England; sends two of his sons to Rome in their travels, where this Cardinal entertains them with all courtesy and respect for their Fathers sake, and sends sundry Letters to Con from Rome in one of their Trunks; all which being largely proved and published to the world in other Impressions, we shall but point at here.

First, For Windebank's release of Priests and Jesuits, for which he was impeached by the Parliament, and fled the Kingdom, we have elsewhere given you a Catalogue of 27. Priests discharged by him out of prison, the Original Warrants for whose discharge we have ready to produce under his hand, and printed the Copies of them; we shall mention only one or two Warrants wherein this Archbishop concurred with Windebank in the release of two popish Priests from their prisons, though we never heard of such a favor extended by him to any Puritan or Zealot against Papists, whom he shut up close prisoners even in foreign parts, from Wives, Children, Friends, and all human comforts.

The first is a Warrant for the release of one Robert Hais, a Priest (so proved upon Oath by Master Thomas Mayo, a Pursuivant) dated 13. Decemb. 1633. the Original whereof under Seal was read:

At Whitehall the 18. of December 1633. present.

Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.

Lord Cottington, &c.

Archbishop of York, &c.

Master Secretary Windebank.

WHereas a Petition was this day presented to the Board, by Robert Hais, prisoner in the New-prison, showing, that the Petitioner is much impoverished in his estate by his long imprisonment, and is now grown so weak through infirmities, that unless by their Lorships favor he may enjoy the benefit of fresh air for the recovery of his health, his life is in great danger; and therefore made humble suit to be discharged from prison (for preservation of his life aforesaid) upon good security, to attend the Board within ten days after notice in that behalf; Forasmuch as his Petition was recommended to the Board BY THE QUEENS MAJESTY; their Lordships do think fit, and order, that the said Hais (first giving good security, to attend the Board within ten days after notice given, as aforesaid) shall be discharged from his imprisonment, and enjoy his liberty, without molestation or trouble of any Messengers, or other his Majesty's Officers whatsoever; whereof the Keeper of the said prison, and all other whom it may concern, are to take notice.

Ex. WIL. BECHER.

The second, is a Warrant for the enlarging of William Walgrave (deposed to be a dangerous seducing Priest, by Master Francis Newton) subscribed with the Archbishops own hand, and others; the Original whereof was produced.

These are to will and command you to set at full liberty the person of William Walgrave formerly committed to your custody; and for your so doing, this shall be your sufficient Warrant. Dated at Star-chamber the last of January 1633.

Will. Cant. R. Ebor, &c.

Secondly, for Letters of grace and protection, granted by Windebank, under the Privy Signet, for the stay of all proceedings against Recusants, and suspension of penal Laws against them; there are multitudes of them printed by Authority of Parliament, in the Popish Royal Favorite, to which we shall remit the Reader.

Thirdly, for his holding intelligence with the Popes Nuncioes, Cardinal Barbarino, Jesuits, Priests, and dangerous Papists, with his sons resort to, and entertainment at Rome; we shall evidence it by these ensuing Letters, the Originals whereof under hand and seal, endorsed with Secretary Windebanks own hand, were produced and read at the Lord's Bar.

The first is a letter written from Rome it self from Gregorio Panzani (the Popes first Nuncio sent thence into England,) dated May 31. 1637. wherein he returns hearty thanks to this Secretary, for the many favors he daily received from him whiles he was Nuncio in England, in behalf of the poor Catholics; makes mention of his Sons being entertainment at Rome, and Cardinal Barbarino his extraordinary commendations of them; the Original whereof was shown, written in Italian, and a true translated copy thereof (attested upon oath by one Master Godfry) read in these ensuing words.

This Letter is most full and punctual, to prove Secretary Windebanks intelligence and correspondence with Rome, the Pope and his Agents.

The second is a Letter from Father Joseph (then a kind of Confessor to the French King, by whose special command it was, writ Confessor afterwards to our Queen, and one of the Capucines in Somerset-House) written from Paris in Italian to Secretary Windebank; the translation whereof into English by Master Godfrey (who attested the truth of it upon oath) was read as followeth:

By this Letter it is evident, what a Professed Patron this Secretary was of popish Priests and Friars, and what correspondency he held with them.

The third, is a Letter to Secretary Windebank from Father Phillips (the Queens Confessor) to inform him of Sir William Hamiltons departure from Paris towards Rome, where he resides as Our Agent to the Pope; and of Con the Popes Nuncioes departure from Rome towards England; a pregnant evidence of his privity and compliancy with this Negotiation.

The fourth, is a Letter of Master Thomas Windebank, writ to the Secretary his Father from Rome, thus endorsed with his own hand, 6. September. 1626. Tom from Rome, recei. 22. our style.

The fifth, is a Letter from his Son Tom from Rome, thus endorsed by the Secretary, Tom from Rom, Rec. 30. Sept. our style. Wherein thus he writes:

These two Letters clearly manifest his Son's being, respect, and great entertainment at Rome, both by Sir William Hamilton, our popish Agent there, and Cardinal Barbarino.

The sixth, is a Letter of his said Son, from Padoa, thus endorsed by Master Secretary, 16. March 1637. Tom from Padoa, Rec. 8. April our style.

Here his Son becomes an Instrument to convey popish Trinkets from Cardinal Barbarino at Rome, to Con the Popes Nuncio then in England.

The seventh is a Letter from the Lord Scudamore, to Secretary Windebank from Paris, informing him of a Statue sent from Cardinal Barbarino from Rome, to be transported to him into England.

The eighth is a Letter written to him from his Son Christopher Windebank from Rome, informing this Secretary, how many Friends and Servants he had there, who much respected and honored him for his sake; among others Panzani, who had been here a Nuncio, and Father John, (agent to the English Benedictines in Rome,) which he thus endorsed, Kit from Rome.

If we compare these Letters with the forementioned Instructions of this Secretary to his Son Thomas at Paris, concerning Ludovicus â Sancta Maria, Franciscus de Sancta Clara his Book, and Father Leander, it is past all controversy; that he held most strict and constant intelligence with the Pope, Cardinal Barbarino, the Popes Nuncio's, Priests, Jesuits, and contributed all possible assistance to them in their confederacy of reducing us back to Rome.

The reality whereof, and this Archbishop's cognizance of it, was thus attested to the Archbishop himself, by Andreas ab Habernfield, and Sir William Bosel, in the Plot they sent him from the Hague, found in his chamber in the Tower, endorsed with his own hand.

SEcretary Windebank, a most fierce Papist, is the most unfaithful to the King of all men, who not only betrays and reveals even the Kings greatest secrets, but likewise communicates Councils, by which the design may be best advanced: He at least thrice every week converseth with the Legat in nocturnal Conventicles, and reveals those things which he thinks fit to be known, for which end he hired a house near to the Legates house, whom he often resorts to through the Garden door, for by this vicinity, the meeting is facilitated; • he said Secretary is bribed with gifts to the party of that conjured society, by whom he is sustained, that he may the more seriously execute his Office: He sent his Son to Rome, to insinuate himself into the Roman Pontiffe.

For his committing Messengers to prison, until they should enter into bond never to persecute Priests or Jesuits more (an extraordinary good service of a pretended Protestant Secretary of State) you shall hear thereof anon, when we produce our Witnesses.

By all these particulars, it is most evident, that this Secretary, (the Archbishops old, and most intimate loving friend,) was advanced by him to this place of trust, to be a most pestilent treacherous instrument of protecting, enlarging, securing popish Priests, Jesuits, Friars, Papists, to hold familiar intelligence with the Popes Cardinals, Nuncio's, Agents, to promote their dangerous designs upon us, and reduce us back to Rome; that the Archbishop knew he was such an one, and yet continued his intimacy and correspondency with him to promote the same designs.

We shall now proceed a little further, and clearly evidence to your Lordships and the world, that the Archbishop held, not only remote & mediate correspondency with the Pope and his Agents by Bishop Montague, Windebank, and others of his Instruments, but even with most desperate popish Priests, Jesuits and Papists themselves; Not to instance in the Earl of Arundel and his Countess, Sir Kenelme Digby, Sir John Winter, and other lay-papists, who were very active strenuous promoters of this Romish plot, at Habernfield's Discovery informs both the Archbishop himself and us, we shall nominate some professed Priests and Jesuits of note, with whom he had intelligence.

Sancta Clara, as we have proved formerly under his own hand, was brought to him by Doctor Lindsey, who acquainted him with his Book of Reconciliation, before it was printed, and was with him afterwards some five or six times more, proffering him his Service to maintain Episcopacy to be Jure Divino.

Monsieur Saint Giles, a most dangerous seducing Priest, though known to him to be such a one, was maintained by him sundry years together in the University of Oxford, where he had the free use of the Library, to instruct and seduce both the Doctors and Students there, & reduce them back to Rome, who were running too fast thither without such a spur to post them forwards, or Postilion to direct them in the way: This we have proved under his own hand, by the testimony of Master Brode, and if need be, we have Master Nixon, Master Godfrey, and one Father Cox a Benectine Priest, to attest it further on their Oaths.

Sir Toby Matthew, a most dangerous seducing active Priest and Jesuit, was frequent with him at Lambeth, White-Hall, and other places, eating oft with him at his Table, riding sometimes very familiarly with him in his Coach, and going with him in his Barge.

Father Flud alias Smith, a most desperate seducing Priest and Jesuit, who had a hand in the Gun-powder-plot, was very familiar with his Creature Windebank and oft frequented the Arch-bishop at Lambeth House.

Father Leander, a Benedictine Monk (his ancient Chamber-fellow and acquaintance in Oxford, sent over into Engl. about the year 1636. as was generally reported among the Benedictines and Papists, of purpose to reconcile us to Rome, by his interest in this Archbishop, and great learning, was very intimate with his Grace and Windebank: So was Father Price, general of the English Benedictines (who procured the Searchers place at Dover, and put Papists into it, for the more secure passing of Priests, Jesuits & popish Agents the easier into England, conveying Englishmen and women to foreign Monasteries, and intelligence to and from Rome, and other parts, by the assistance of Windebank, Canterbury, and others:) yea, the popish Bishop of Calcedon too, Dr Smith, held firm correspondence with him.

Neither was he thus only familiar and held correspondency with these Priests and Jesuits, but protected them all he might, not prosecuting them at all, but only in show to delude the people, and then very coldly, securing them in by prisons where they had the best chambers, great resort, liberty to go in and out at pleasure without a Keeper, never sending them to the common Goales, to be indicted, executed, and at last releasing them out of prison, when as he persecuted, close imprisoned, banished into foreign Countries, dungeons, cut off the ears, slit the noses, branded the cheeks of some, and utterly ruined other Protestant Ministes and zealous Gentlemen, for opposing popery and popish Innovations. Nay, he imprisoned one Gray, a great discover of Priests, only for apprehending Priests, calling him a Priest-catching knave, commanded the Pursevants not to keep company with him, for if they did he would displace them, and pull their Messengers coats over their ears; denied to employ others as Messengers to apprehend Priests and Jesuits, because, he said, they were too hot and zealous in that service; yea, he suffered all manner of popish Books to be imported, to seduce his Majesty's Subjects, restored them to their owners, when seized by the searchers, contrary to an express Statute, concealed some of their most desperate plots, treasons, discouraging, menacing the Witnesses that revealed them: To evidence all this, we shall produce our witnesses, who testified upon oath as followeth:

James Waddesworth Gent. of Saint Dunstans parish in the west, London, deposed both in writing and vivâ voice at the Lord's Bar, That one Henry Smith, alias Loyd, a dangerous Priest and Jesuit, before the beginning of the Scottish Wars, did cell him in Norfolk (where he met him) That the popish Religion was not to be brought in here by disputing or Books of controversy, but with an Army and with fire and sword; that he hath often times since met the said Smith, going (as he told him) to see the Archbishop of Canterbury, who (as he said) was a good man, and loved them well; that himself was about eight years since, imprisoned above three years space in several prisons, only for calling a Priest Traitor, and for apprehending Priests: During which time of his imprisonment, the said Smith came three or four times to visit him, in the name of the Archbishop, the Lord Cottington, and Secretary Windebanke, and told him, That if he would adjure the Realm, and never prosecute Priests more, he should have a Warrant under the Kings hand to release him, which he refusing at that time, he was afterward released out of prison, but upō this promise, never to prosecute priests again: And when he was thus enlarged, one Davis brought him four pound in money from the said Archbishop (as he told him) towards the payment of his fees. And he further deposed, that he hath often met Father Price a Priest, Superior of the English Benedictines, and Father Leander a Benedictine Monk and Priest, going (as themselves said and confessed) to Lambeth to the Archbishop, to see and speak with him, which they oft times spake in a vanting manner; and that Leander was commonly reported to have been the Archbishops Chamber-fellow in Oxford: That Smith, alias Loyd the Jesuit, did usually meet at the Lord Cottingtons house in Breadstreet, at a Juncto every Friday night; where were usually present, the said Lord, Sir Toby Matthew, the Spanish Ambassador, Sir Arthur Hopton, Endimion Porter, James Hammond a great Papist, and Secretary Windebank: Which Juncto sometimes met at Sir Arthur Hoptons house in the Palace-Yard at Westminster.

Francis Newton of Saint Giles Creplegate London, Gent. deposed both in writing and by word of mouth at the Lord's Bar, that he by virtue of a general Warrant from the Lord's of the Counsel for the apprehending of Jesuits and popish Priests (among others, apprehended one Henry Morse, a grand Jesuit, and great seducer of his Majesty's Subjects, who had perverted 500. persons in and about London, as appeared by certificats at his Trial, who being like to be discharged before his Trial, this Deponent by the appointment of Secretary Cook, the Lord Keeper Coventry, and Lord Privy-Seal, repaired to Lambeth to the Archbishop, to desire him to give this Deponent order, that the said Morse might not be discharged, they saying, it is now time to look about us, so many being seduced by one person: Whereupon he repairing to Lambeth, desired Master Dell, the Archbishops Secretary, to help him to speak with the Archbishop from these Lord's, about the Priests discharge: Master Dell answered, that the Archbishop was busy with Sir Toby Matthews, (commonly reputed a Jesuit, and an arch-intelligencer of Rome) in the Garden, and this Deponent being earnest with Master Dell to have an answer from the Archbishop to return to the Lord's, he brought answer from him, That the Deponent should bring him the next day before the Council-boo • d, and sent Dell the next morning to Master Secretary Cook, to know, whether he had sent the Deponent to him or no. After which the said Priest being sent to Newgate, and arraigned upon two Bills found against him, was by Order form the King, put by his judgment, and soon after released. He further dep • sed, that one Henry Loyd, alias Francis Smith, alias Rivers, alias Sin • us; (Provincial of the Jesuits, and a chief actor in the Gunpowder-treason, as this deponent was informed by one Stukely a Priest, who bid this deponent remember him of 5. die Novembris, meaning the Gunpowder-plot) was by the Deponent and one Tho: Mayo, Indited and Out-lawd of High-treason; and afterwards being protected by Secretary Windebank from the arrests of Messengers, this Deponent oftentimes meeting of him in the streets on horsback, and telling him, that a sledg and three horses were fitter for him then one horse to ride on; he replied some two or three times, when the Deponent used these speeches, holding up his finger; well Newton, you rogue, I have done your arrand to my Lord's grace of Cant. already, and shall do it to Secr. Windebank also. And he deposed, that he hath seen the said Jesuit once at Lambeth-house, and there entertained by M ^r Del the Archb Secretary, in a room near the Archbishops Study, where being in familiar conference with the said M ^r Del, he did whisper to him, & often cast an eye toward this Depont as if he were speaking of him. He likewise further deposed, that he hath oft times seen the said Smith the Jesuit at Secr. Windebanks house, talking very familiarly w ^th him, and clapping him on the back, & that he met divers times sundry of the imprisoned popish Priests, freely walking without a keeper in Grays-Inn walks, and in other places, and that they lay abroad out of prison in Town and in the Country many weeks together, & he hath gone into the Newprison & Clinck where there were about 20 Priests imprisoned, and found not above one or two there.

Richard D • unel Gent. deposed upon oath, that he being a prisoner in the Newprison some years since, the Priests and Jesuits committed thither by the Archbi. had the best rooms in the prison, a Cook, Steward and common table, at w ^ch they dicted all together, Mass said in their chambers, divers Ladies & Gentlemē in ••• ches frequently visiting them without restraint, and great store of Venison sent them in its season, when as M ^r Huntly and other godly Ministers there imprisoned by the Archb. were thrust into the worst lodgings, denied liberty to di •• together, and were not suffered to go out of prison upon any occasion, but with a costly keeper attending on them, though they had given bond for their true imprisonment, neither had their friends free access to them, but were many times questioned and restrained.

Thomas Mayo a Messenger, of Saint Andrew's Holborne, testified upon Oath, That about nine years since, the Archbishop of Canterbury, having committed one John Evans a Minister to the Gate-house, for printing of Bills, setting forth the use of the Antimonial Cup, he did thereupon repair with a Petition in his behalf, to the Archbishops house at Lambeth, where he then saw Master Henry Moore, and Henry Loyd, alias Smith, two dangerous Jesuits, in the great Chamber above stairs, near the Archbishops Study, waiting there, as he conceiveth, to speak with the said Archbishop, and very familiarly entertained in discourse by Master Dell, who carried himself very respectively towards them, which he well remembereth, for that he then delivered an Antimoniall Cup to the said Master Dell to be delivered to the Archbishop from Master Evans: And he further deposed, that he hath often seen Sir Toby Matthews (whom this Deponent hath seen in Saint Johns College in Lovain in Brabant, who there was reputed a Jesuit) at Lambeth house, and there walking in a friendly manner with the said Archbishop, and at other times hath seen Sir Toby riding with him in his Coach (once in the Strand) and passing with him in his Barge from White-hall to Lambeth; that he often assisting other Messengers to discover and apprehend Priests, and finding some neglect in them in that service, did thereupon desire the said Archbishop, That he might have a Warrant for himself to apprehend Priests and Jesuits: To which the said Archbishop answered, You are too hot and nimble for that service, saying, He had Messengers enough already, and refused to grant his request: And withal by order from the said Archbishop, he was employed to attend popish Ambassadors houses, Denmark-house, and the Popes Nuncioes Lodging, to view and return unto him the number of popish Priests and Recusants which resorted thither to Mass; which accordingly he did every Monday, for the space of half a year and more, giving the Archbishop a Certificate of their number and quality; but he never received any order from him to apprehend any of them, nor saw any fruit or reformation thereof: That he having a special Warrant from the said Archbishop and others of the high Commission, to apprehend one Peter Wilford, a Priest, (condemned since the Parliament, and now in Newgate) and apprehending him by virtue thereof, he brought him before this Archbishop to his Chamber in White-hall, who sent this Deponent word by Sir John Lamb, that he would not meddle with him; and the said Wilford having a Protection from Secretary Windebank which he shown the Deponent, was thereupon discharged by the said Archbishops direction, signified by Sir John Lamb.

Elizabeth Gray of Saint Margaret's Westminster, Widow, deposed, That her late husband, John Gray, being a Messenger to the Lord's of the Counsel, and having a Warrant from them to apprehend Jesuits and Seminary Priests; the said Gray by virtue of that Warrant, apprehended one Fisher, alias Persey, a grand Jesuit, and acquainted Master Secretary Cook therewith, whereupon he was committed prisoner to the Gate-house, there to remain until he should put in security to depart the Realm, and never to return again: Soon after which, the said Gray and one John Cook (as the Deponent was often informed by them) meeting the said Fisher walking in the streets, apprehended him; whereupon he shown a Warrant of Secretary Windebanks, requiring that no Messenger should apprehend the said Fisher, nor search the house or houses where he should frequent; upon which Gray discharged him, and repairing to Secretary Cook acquainted him with the said Jesuits protection; who thereupon commanded Gray and Cook to repair to this Archbishop of Canterbury, and acquaint him with the premises; who thereupon went to Lambeth, and desired Master Dell the Archbishops Secretary, to acquaint the Archbishop therewith, as from Master Secretary Cook, and to grant them a Warrant to apprehend the said Fisher: To which Master Dell replied, That he was an idle fellow, and bade him move the whole Board for it, For his Lord would grant no such Warrant: Whereupon Gray replied, Lord have mercy upon is all, I see how the game goes now, I hope to see better days.

For which words, the said Gray was sent for the next day before the Counsel, upon the complaint of the said Archbishop, and committed prisoner to the Fleet for the same: Whereupon this Deponent exhibited many Petitions to the said Archbishop, and the whole Board for her said husbands release, to which she could get no answer; and one day she presenting a Petition to the said Archbishop in the stone Gallery at Whitehall, for her Husbands enlargement, he looking upon the same, and seeing the said Grayes name therein, flung it away in an angry manner, saying, he would have nothing to do with a Priest-catching knave. By means whereof, her said Husband continued a prisoner in the Fleet for two and twenty weeks, and could not be released (as Master Read Secretary Windebanks Secretary, told this Deponent) till such time as he should give Bond and Baile, never to apprehend Priests and Jesuits more.

The next day she going to Secretary Windebank for her Husbands release, Master Read (his Secretary) demanded, where his said Bond and Baile was? To which she answered, That some Gentlemen in the Fleet said, That in requiring such Bond and Baile, they incurred a Premunire: To which the said Master Read replied, That the said Gentlemen and the Deponent deserved to be sent to Newgate for these speeches: And Secretary Windebank himself taking exception at the said speeches, gave Order, after the said Gray had his Discharge, That he should stay in prison till every penny of his Fees were paid.

That a little before this her said Husbands trouble, upon his apprehending of a Priest or Jesuit, from whom he took good store of Books, to the value of an hundred pounds; the said Archbishop commended it for a good piece of service, and willed him to bring the said Books to his House at Lambeth, and he would well recompense him: But he receiving and keeping the Books, never gave him any recompense.

John Goldsmith deposed, that about four years since, he being in the High-Commission Court at Lambeth, the Archbishop before the Court sat, called all the Messengers of the Court to him, and charged them to take heed that they kept not company with one Gray, A PRIEST-CATCHER, against whom Secretary Windebank had made a complaint at the Counsel Table for discovering Priests; and told them, that if he heard that any of them had anymore to do with him, he would not only LAY THEM BY THE HEELS, BUT LIKEWISE PULL THEIR COATS OFF FROM THEIR BACKS, AND TURNE THEM OUT OF THEIR PLACES. And he further deposed, that he did complain and indite a Papist for saying, THAT OUR RELIGION WAS SPURD OUT OF KING HENRY THE EIGTH HIS COD • IECE; whereupon the Papist prosecuted him in the High Commission for a defamation.

John Cook of Rederosse-street, London, deposed, That John Gray a Messenger, had a Warrant from the Lord's of the Counsel Table, for the apprehending of Priests and Jesuits: And that the said Gray and this Deponent by virtue thereof, did apprehend one Father Fisher, alias Piersey, a grand Jesuit, and brought him before Master Secretary Cook, who wished us to bring him before the Counsel Table the next sitting, which we did accordingly in Anno 1634. And after his Examination there, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Secretary Cook went to the King, to know his pleasure what should be done with him: Who returning to the Board, the Archbishop delivered the Kings pleasure to this effect:

Master Fisher kneel down upon your knees every morning and every evening, and pray for the King for granting you your life: And to be short, Master Fisher, his Majesty's pleasure is, that you shall be forthwith banished this Kingdom, and all at her his Majesty's Dominions; and you shall remain prisoner in the Gate-house, until you put in good security before the Kings Attorney, Sir John Banks, never to return again. Whereunto Fisher replied: If he had a hundred lives, be would come hither again, or elsewhere, if his Superior so commanded him; and utterly refused to put in any security.

Whereupon the Board sent him to the Gate-house, there to remain until he should put in such security as aforesaid.

Whereupon, about four months after, the said Gray and the Deponent met the said Fisher in Holborn, and demanding of him the reason of his going abroad; he replied, We were Rogues, what was that to us; and shown us a Warrant under the hand of Secretary Windebank for his enlargement: Whereupon Gray and this Deponent went to Lambeth to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and endeavored to acquaint him by Master Dell his Secretary, that Fisher had a Warrant from Master Secretary Windebank for his liberty, and desired to know the Archbishops pleasure therein: But Master Dell made answer, That his Lord would not meddle with such trifling matters: Whereupon Gray said, He hoped to see better days, for he saw now how the game went: The next day after, Gray was sent for by a Messenger to the Counsel Table, and then the Archbishop said at the Table, This fellow railed on me, and bid them have him away; whereupon Gray was committed to the Fleet, where he lay twelve weeks upon the Archbishops complaint, and after that, seven weeks more by Secretary Windebanks Warrant, who refused to release him, unless he would give bond and bail, never to prosecute Priests and Jesuits more. He further deposed, that in his hearing, one Loyd a dangerous Jesuit, desired Sir Kenelm Digby to tell the Bishop of Canterbury, that he could not that day dine with him, and bid him remember his love to the Archbishop, and desire him to be mindful of the business that they and he had formerly speech about: And that he hath often seen the said Loyd, Sir Kenelm Digby, Sir Toby Matthews, and one Gray a great Papist, at Lambeth at the Archbishops house.

Master Thomas Thacher of Barkin Parish, London, attested upon Oath, That he having a Warrant from the High Commissioners to apprehend popish Priests and Jesuits, did by virtue thereof apprehend Master Henry Morse a Jesuit, and one Gârdiner a Priest, great seducers, who being committed to Newgate, were soon after discharged thence by Secretary Windebank's Warrant; to whom he repairing for his fees; the said Secretary demanding a sight of his Warrant, which he shown, detained it from him, and would not restore the same: Whereupon he repaired to the Archbishop, and desired of him a new Warrant to apprehend Priests and Jesuits; who thereupon told him, That Secretary Windebank had complained of this Deponent to the Queen, and demanded of him if he kept not company with one Gray, who gave him intelligence of the persons and lodgings of Priests and Jesuits, and wished him not to keep company with him anymore, for if he did, he would lay him by the heels, and turn him out of his Place. He further deposed, that he having a special Warrant from the Lord's of the Counsel for the apprehending of Sir Toby Matthew, a dangerous Papist; and apprehending him accordingly, the late Lord Strafford Deputy of Ireland, sent for this Deponent to bring Sir Toby to him, which he did; who thereupon discharged Sir Toby by word of mouth, and promised to save the Deponent harmless, who thereupon repairing to the Archbishop, acquainted him therewith, the Archbishop said, it is well, I shall speak with him anon.

John Egerton of the Minories, deposed, That he being at Lambeth-house upon occasion, did see Sir Toby Matthew there two several times with the Archbishop; That he being one of the Searchers of the Custom-house in London, did on the 28. of December 1633. seize four hundred Popish books in English, written by one Louis of Puente a Jesuit, with divers popish Primmers and Catechisms, brought over from beyond the Seas, to seduce his Majesty's Subjects, contrary to the statute of 3 -Jacobis cap. 5. which gives the forfeiture of 40 ^s . for every Book so imported, against the Importers of them: Which Books he carried to the now Archbishop of Canterbury, who commanded him to deliver them to Master Mottershead, Register of the High Commission; which he did: and that about a fortnight after, he coming to the said Mottershead, to demand satisfaction for his pains and charge in seizing the said Books, and demanding of him where the said Books were? he answered and affirmed to the Deponent, That he had delivered them to the owners of them by the Archbishops direction and command; and Motteshead appointed him only forty shillings for his pains, when the charge he had been at in carrying them from place to place, cost him five pounds: After which he was troubled in the High Commission for importing English Bibles, and there put from his Searchers place, imprisoned and fined two hundred pounds, when as the Importers of popish books were never questioned.

In the year 1640. May 16. upon the Letter of Doctor Thomas Weeks, Chaplain both to the Archbishop, and Bishop of London, there were eleven Cases of popish Books, belonging to one John Weld, a Popish Recusant and others, delivered out of the Custom-house, where they were seized, to the owners to be dispersed, to seduce his Majesty's people, contrary to the Statute, as Master Jones, Master Dent, and others of the Custom-house, attested under their hands: Viz. Holy Courts 456. Key of Paradise 603. Manuels 661. The life of Eleazar Count of Sabri • 259. The following of Christ 116. Popish Catechisms 344. dozens; Fronts for Altars 39. Ladies Psalters 24. The Mirrour of new Reformation 134. Offices of our Lady 558. Mass books 9. and two great ones more; The Devout heart 101. Vade Mecum 276. A Method to serve our Lady 570. Most of these were very richly bound up, and some of them delivered to Knight the Register of the High Commission, by the Archbishops order, and by him restored to the owners; when as on the contrary, he was very strict in seizing all puritanicall Books, and punishing the dispersers of them; witness this his subscription to the Petition of one Francis Wallis Gentleman, who complaining to him against one Thomas Abbis of London, for selling and transporting beyond the Seas, an Abstract of the Laws of New-England, The whole proceedings against Doctor Bastwick, Master Burton, and Master Prynne, and against the Bishop of Lincoln, the Archbishop subscribed it in this sort.

For the Archbishops intimacy with Doctor Smith the Bishop of Calcedon, we have no direct proof at hand, but two very suspicious passages in his own Diary, which seem to intimate it, wherein we read as followeth: Jan. 26. 1631. My nearer acquaintance began to settlewith D • . S. I pray God bless us in it. June 25. 1632. Do. S. with me, &c. Cum Ma. Which Do. S. we conceive to signify, either Smith the Arch-Jesuit, of whose familiarity with him the former witnesses have deposed; or Doctor Smith Bishop of Calcedon, with whom, if not this Archbishop, yet his Minion Secretary Windebank at least, held strict intelligence, as appears by this Original Letter to his Son at Paris, under his own Hand and Seal, found among his sequestered Papers by MASTER PRYNNE.

The benefit of this intelligence being principally to redound to the Archbishop, the original cause and grand fomenter of the Scottish Wars, it is most probable, this advice proceeded originally from him, and his interest in this popish Bishop.

Before we make any special application of the preceding testimonies and evidence, we shall only manifest what a most pernicious, seducing, dangerous Priest and Jesuit, this Sir Toby Matthew (with whom the Archbishop so familiarly conversed) was at that very time.

Andreas ab Habernfiela's Discovery of the Plot of Treason against the King, sent from Sir William Boswel to the Archbishop himself, gives this true Character of him: Sir Toby Matthew a Priest and Jesuit, of the Order of Politicians, a most vigilant man, one of the primest heads, to whom a bed was never so dear, that he would rest his head thereon, refreshing his body with sleep in a chair for an hour or two, spareth his mach inations neither day nor night; a man principally noxious, and the very plague of the King and Kingdom of England; a most impudent man, who flies to all Banquets and Feasts, called or uncalled, never quiet, always in action and perpetual motion, thrusting himself into all meetings of Superiors, urgeth conferences familiarly, that be may fish out the minds of men: whatever he observeth thence, that may bring any commodity or discommodity to the part of the Conspirators, he communicates to the Popes Legat, the more secret things he himself writes to the Pope, or to Cardinal Barbarino. In fine, he adjoynes himself to any Company; no word can be spoken that he will not lay hold on and accommodate to his party: In the mean time, what he hath fished out, he reduceth into a Catalogue, and in the Summer carries it to the general Consistory of the Jesuits Politicks, which secretly meets together in the Province of Wales, where he is an acceptable Guest: There Counsels are secretly hammered, which are most meet for the convulsion of the Ecclesiastic and Politic State of both Kingdoms.

Yea, this most sedulous promoter of the Popes designs, for his dexterity, experience and sedulity in managing his Holiness affairs in England, was in such extraordinary favor with the Pope, that by a Special Bull he committed his last Nuncio, Count Rossetti (being but young) to his tutelage and direction, as to his Angle Guardian; hoping, that his Nuncio assisted by his Counsels, would produce no small fruits to the Catholic Church IN A SHORT TIME, SPACE, and through the help of the female Amazons there RESTORE THE AUTHORITY OF THE SEE APOSTOLICK IN THE KINGDOM OF ENGLAND, which by oceasion of one woman (Queen ELIZABETH) was there suppressed. The Copy whereof (found among Secretary Windebankes papers) being very material, was read at the Bar: In which Bull the Pope himself gives him this Title: A sufficient evidence that Sir Toby was both a Jesuit and Priest too.

By all these premised Testimonies and Evidences, it is most fully proved, as far as is possible for us to go, unless we had the very Popish Priests and Jesuits themselves here personally present to be examined (who would be very unwilling to discover anything against their Arch-Patriot upon Oath.)

First, that this Archbishop held familiarity and correspondency with sundry notorious Priests and Jesuits forementioned, employed as Agents by the Papists to reduce and reconcile us unto Rome; who were ofttimes seen at Lambeth-house, near his Study, and publicly boasted of their recourse to, and favor with him.

Secondly, that Sir Toby Matthew, the most dangerous seducing Priest and Jesuit of all others, was most intimately familiar with him, and ofttimes seen with him both in his Coach, his Barge, his Garden, his House, and a frequent Guesse at his Table: and Saint Giles, a most pernicious Priest, maintained by him in the University of Oxford to seduce the Doctors and Students there to Popery.

Thirdly, that he was very coldin the prosecution of Priests and Jesuits; and if at any time he imprisoned them for a show to gull the vulgar people, it was only in the Clinke or New Prison (not Newgate or any County Goale,) where they were protected, secured against all Legal prosecutions, had the best Lodgings, a common Steward, Cook, Table, very good fare, great resort of all sorts of people, daily Masses, and free liberty to walk and stay abroad at pleasure without a Keeper, as freely as any man might walk out of his own House. Yea, such was his indulgence towards them (though Arch-Traitors by our Laws) that in his Epistle Dedicatory to the King himself, before his Relation of a Conference with Fisher the Jesuit, he makes this profession of it in Print, not only to his Majesty, but to the whole world, in these words which were read at the Barre.

In which Speech give me leave to observe to your Sacred Majesty, how grievously you suffer him (Master Fisher) and his Fellowes to be persecuted for the Catho, like Faith, when your poor Subject and servant cannot set our, A true Copy of a Conference held with the Jesuit, Jussu Superiorum; but by and by this man is persecuted. GOD FORBID I SHOULD EVER OFFER TO PERSWADE A PERSECUTION IN ANY KINDE, OR PRACTICE IT IN THE LEAST: (to • it, 〈…〉 , Popish Priests and Jesuits, of whom only he there intended it:) For 〈…〉 HAVE NOT GIVEN HIM OR HIS SO MUCH AS COVERSE LANGVAGE.

Behold from his own pen what a most mild and favorable ••• end he was to Jesuits and Roman Priests! He never persuaded any persecution against them in any kind, or practiced it in the lest; adding an absit, God forbid that he should ever offer it: But yet on the contrary, did he not persuade a persecution in every kind, and practice it in the bighest degree against the most zealous Protestant Ministers, Gentlemen who opposed his and their popish designs, by exciting his Majesty and the whole State against them, even in this very Epistle, yea, in his printed Speech in Star-chamber, at the censure of Master Prynne, Master Burton, and Doctor Bastwick, and in his Epistle Dedicatory to the King, thereto prefixed? all mere persuasions, excitements to persecution in the extremist degree; Nay, did he not most cruelly practice the same in the severest manner upon sundry of them, by adjudging them to the Pillory, fining them beyond their estates, cutting off their ears, slitting their noses, branding their cheeks with hot irons, whipping them through the streets, shutting them up close prisoners in nasty dungeons, banishing them into remote Islands, there to be perpetually imprisoned all their lives, so strictly, that neither Wives, children, kindred, friends, must have the least access unto them, nor yet set footing in the Islands to visit or relieve them? yea, deprive them of Pen, Inke, Paper to write unto their friends for necessaries, or Petition for release; intercept all Letters and relief sent to them, and deprive them of the use of all Books to pass their time, except the Bible, Common-Prayer-Book, Doctor Cozens, and such like Books of private devotion? And did he not persecute hundreds of other godly Ministers, yea raise up a general persecution against them throughout the Kingdom, and drive sundry of them, with many thousands of religious, godly people out of the Kingdom into foreign Plantations among Savages and Indian heathens? Nay, did he not all this and more whiles he had any power, notwithstanding God himself did forbid it? And whereas he writes, That to his remembrance be never gave this Jesuit, or any of his, so much as course language: he was so far from using such civility to our godly Protestant Ministers, Gentlemen, & others who most opposed Popery and Popish Innovations; that his mouth was full of most bitter railing Invectives, Satires, revilings against them, not only in his private Chamber when ever convented before him, but even in his public Speeches in the Starchamber and High-Commission; witness his printed Speech in Starchamber before mentioned, with his Epistle to it; nay, in this very Epistle to the King, he thus rails upon them in down-right terms; How I have been used by the scandalous and scurrilous pens of some bitter men, the world knows: little leisure and less encouragement given me, whiles I am under the Prophets affliction, Psal. 50. between the mouth that speaks wickedness, and the tongue that sets forth deceit, and slander me as thick as if I were not their own mothers son. In the midst of these libellous outcries against me, &c. Factious people at home, &c. And not content to rail at them himself in Speech and Print, he set his creatures every-where to revile and rail most libellously against them in Press and Pulpit; witness Doctor Heylins and Christipher Doves books against Master Burton, written and printed by this Archbishops command, Doctor Pocklintons and Bishop Montague's Books forecited; Bishop Whites Epistle before his Discourse of the Sabbath, Doctor Heylins History of the Sabbath, and Antidotum Lincolniense, with infinite Sermons, full of gall, vinegar, and most libellous railings against Puritans, and the most zealous Protestant without the least invective against Priests, Pope, or Jesuits; Therefore his grand addition, his favorable dealing with Priests and Jesuits on the one side, compared with his most harsh persecutions and libellous invectives against their 〈◊〉 are most pregnant evidences for what party he stood, and whose 〈◊〉 most cordially drived on.

Fourthly, that the Archbishop contrary to his Trust, Oath, Place and duty, both as an Archbishop, a Privy Counselor and high Commissioner, did not only favor Seminary Priests and Jesuits, though traitors by Law, but discourage, discountenance those Officers appointed by the State to apprehend them; telling Thomas Mayo, that he was too hot and nimble for that service; threatening Master Thatcher to lay him by the heels, and turn him out of his place, if he kept company with Gray, who gave him intelligence of the persons and lodgings of Priests and Jesuits; threatening all the Messengars of the high Commission openly in Court, that if they kept company with Gray (whom he called A PRIEST-CATCHER) he would not only lay them by the heels, but likewise pull-their Coats from off their backs, and turn them out of their places: That he caused Gray to be committed to the Fleet above twelve weeks for apprehending Priests, and the words forementioned, yea threw away his Petition, saying, He would have nothing to do with that PRIST-CATCHING KNAVE: nay, he and Master Waddesworth must not be released out of Prison till they would promise never to apprehend or prosecute Priests or Jesuits more. A most clear demonstration, that he not only had correspondency and intelligence with Priests and Jesuits, but likewise was their Arch-protector, their grand friend, insomuch that Smith the Jesuit openly threatened Master Newton in the streets, That he had done his errand to the Archbishop.

Now we appeal to all the world, whether ever any real Protestant Prelat shown himself such a Patriot of Priests and Jesuits in this kind as he? or whether the Pope himself could have done more in their behalf then he did, had he sat Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth-house. It was one chief Article of the Privy Counsels and Judges charge against Cardinal Woolsey, presented to King Henry the eighth: That he had been the impeacher and disturber of due and direct correction of Errors and Heresies, by reason whereof, they crept more abroad, and took greater place, being highly to the danger and peril of the whole body, and good Christian people of this Realm: All which this Archbishop is guilty in an higher measure, in respect of Popery, Priests and Jesuits, then ever this Cardinal was, in regard of the Lutheran Sect and Opinions.

Fifthly, it is evident that the Archbishop had a hand in assisting the Papists Priests and Jesuits, in the dispersing of their popish Books, to seduce his Majesty's Subjects, contrary to an express Statut; whereas he used all possible diligence to suppress the printing, dispersing, importing Orthodox Books (and those he styled Puritannicall) both at home and beyond the Seas.

Finally, the Archbishop complied with the Papists, Priests, Jesuits, in concealing their very treasonable plots and conspiracies against the King, Kingdom, Church; and all professors of the Protestant Religion; we shall instance but in two particulars. The first is in the case of Mistress Anne Hussey, who deposed at the Lord's Barre to this effect: That William O Conner an Irish Priest, servant to the Queen Mother, soon after Easter, in the year 1640. among other discourses, told her, at the house of one Master Hill, near the Strand in Westminster, That there were many private houses about London, wherein they used to have Mass said, that there were 7000. men in private pay ready to aid the Catholics, and to cut the Protestants throats that should resist them.

After which, he coming to her in great haste, at Mistress Pinocks house about the end of July 1640. told her, That he was then in great haste, for he had Letters from the Queen Mother, to be delivered to three Ambassadors, the Spanish, the Venetian, the French, to send to the Pope, to know from himself or his Legat, when to begin the subduing of the Protestants; that the Queen his Lady was no fool, and that if the King joined with the Protestants, they would cut him off, if not by the sword, yet by some other way; that if no other hand would do it, his hand should kill the King; and that he would kill an Heretic at any time, for the advancement of the Mother Church of Rome, swearing by Saint Francis and Saint Dominick, that he would do it. All which he spake to her in Irish, she counterfeiting her self to be a Roman Catholic, desirous to become a Nun: He likewise confessed, That he had been a servant long to the Queen Mother, and employed by her in business to all the Princes of CHRISTENDOME.

Whereupon she according to her duty and allegiance, complained of this Priest, revealing this discomse and treason of his to the Lord's of the Privy Counsel, attesting her information upon oath, and producing a Letter of this Priests to her under his own hand, with some other witnesses to confirm her testimony in point of circumstance of time, place, and this Priests resort unto her; But the Archbishop of Canterbury to discourage and take her off from this discovery, reviled and gave her many ill words and threats, told her she was mad, and that she was hired by the Londoners to make this accusation; demanding, how she durst be so bold as to utter or discover ought which had any the least reflection upon the Queen Mother? threatening to have her punished, and caused her to be committed to one of the Sheriffs of London's house; whereas the other Lord's gave her good words, and committed the Priest to the Gate-house, and so the business was smothered, without further prosecution, till she revived it this Parliament in the Commons House, who released her of her restraint.

We shall close all with the most desperate plot of Cardinal Barbarino, the Popes Nuncio, the society of the English and Scottish Jesuits, with their confederates, to subvert the Protestant Religion, usher in Popery, raise a War between England and Scotland, subvert the government both of Church and State, yea, to poison the King himself if he crossed this design, and then to seize and train up the Prince in the Popish 〈◊〉 .

This plot being discovered at first only in generally, by a chief Actor in it, (sent from Rome) to Andreas ab Habernfield, & Sir Will. Boswell, & by them by Letters from the Hague to the Archbishop; he conceiving it to be a plot only of the Puritans to destroy the King and himself too, revealed it to the King, and prosecuted the further discovery with all earnestness, as appears by sundry Original Lett • ers concerning it, seized and attested by Master Prynne, produced at the Barre. But no sooner received he the large particular discovery of it, which fastened the treason only upon Cardinal Barbarino, the Popes Nuncio, the Jesuits with their confederates, Sir Toby Matthew, Sir Kenelme Digby, Sir John Winter, Endimion Porter, Secretary Windebanke, Master Walter Montague, the Countess of Arundel, and others, but he presently smothered it; yea though he received the full discovery of it, but on the 14. of October 1640. not many days before the beginning of this present Parliament, yet he he never revealed it to both or either Houses of Parliament, or any members thereof for the preservation of our Religion, Church, State, King thereby, and the executing condign punishment on these Arch-traitos and Conspirators, then present in London and Westminster, nor yet so much as disclosed it, when Sir Toby Matthew, Sir John Winter, and others were questioned in the Commons House, about the Popish Parliament kept in London, and the levying of moneys against the Scots, among the Papists; nor when Secretary Windebank was questioned for releasing Priests and Jesuits against Law, and the negotiation of the Popes Nuncio debated in the Commons House, but concealed these papers from the Parliaments knowledge, till Master Prynne unexpectedly seized them in the Archbishops Cabinet in the Tower of London.

From all which particulars, we conceive we have abundantly manifested, most substantially proved his correspondency, confederacy with the Pope and his instruments of all sorts, in their most desperate treasons, to extirpate our Religion, introduce popery, reconcile, reduce the Church of England to the Church of Rome, and most satisfactorily justified, the first Branch of our charge of high treason against him in every particular; whereupon we most humbly pray, in the name of the Commons of England, the Judgment of an Arch-traitor to be given against him, as one who hath declared himself a professed Traitor, not only to our Laws, Liberties, Parliament, Kingdoms, but to our very Religion, Church, souls, the highest treason of all others, especially in a Clergyman, an Archbishop of Canterbury, who is by title, office, Primate and Metropolitan of all England, yea Confessor, chief Curate, and Ecclesiastical Vicegerent to the King himself, who entrusted him wholly, if not solely, with the care of our Religion, which he hath most perfidiously undermined, betrayed sundry ways, as all the premises demonstrate.