The converted cavaliers confession of their designe when first we drew the King away from his Parliament as also (now our eyes are in some measure opened) that we see there was a deeper plot and designe in hand at that time by the papists who made use of us to accomplish their own designe, which then lay hid from us, but now discovereth it selfe : with our resolution to forsake the papists / written by a converted cavalier, for full satisfaction to all neutralists.
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             The converted cavaliers confession of their designe when first we drew the King away from his Parliament as also (now our eyes are in some measure opened) that we see there was a deeper plot and designe in hand at that time by the papists who made use of us to accomplish their own designe, which then lay hid from us, but now discovereth it selfe : with our resolution to forsake the papists / written by a converted cavalier, for full satisfaction to all neutralists.
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           THE
           Converted
           Cavaliers
           CONFESSION
           
             OF
             THEIR
          
           DESIGNE
           When
           first
           we
           drew
           the
           King
           away
           from
           his
           PARLIAMENT
           .
        
         
           As
           also
           (
           now
           our
           eyes
           are
           in
           some
           measure
           opened
           )
           that
           we
           see
           there
           was
           a
           deeper
           Plot
           and
           Designe
           in
           hand
           ,
           at
           that
           time
           by
           the
           Papists
           ;
           who
           made
           use
           of
           us
           ,
           to
           accomplish
           their
           own
           Designe
           ,
           which
           then
           lay
           hid
           from
           us
           ,
           but
           now
           discovereth
           it selfe
           :
           With
           our
           Resolution
           to
           forsake
           the
           Papists
           .
        
         
           Written
           by
           a
           converted
           Cavalier
           ,
           for
           full
           satisfaction
           to
           all
           Neutralists
           .
        
         
           
             LONDON
             .
          
           Printed
           by
           
             Bern
             :
             Alsop
             ,
          
           according
           to
           Order
           .
           1644.
           
        
      
    
     
       
       
       
         
           THE
           CONVERTED
           CAVALIER
           HIS
           CONFESSION
           :
           Of
           their
           DESIGNE
           ,
           When
           they
           drew
           the
           King
           away
           from
           his
           PARLIAMENT
           .
        
         
           TO
           confesse
           the
           truth
           of
           our
           Designe
           ,
           (
           of
           us
           I
           meane
           who
           are
           Protestants
           and
           in
           the
           Kings
           party
           )
           it
           was
           at
           the
           first
           )
           to
           accomplish
           these
           two
           things
           .
        
         
           First
           ,
           we
           perceived
           that
           the
           Parliament
           would
           not
           suffer
           us
           in
           our
           Pattents
           which
           we
           had
           obtained
           of
           his
           Majesty
           ,
           and
           which
           had
           cost
           us
           deare
           ;
           and
           were
           like
           to
           be
           
           very
           profitable
           to
           us
           ;
           we
           therefore
           were
           loth
           to
           lay
           them
           downe
           ,
           and
           forgetting
           the
           law
           of
           the
           land
           ,
           wee
           thought
           that
           his
           Majesty
           might
           doe
           what
           he
           pleased
           ,
           and
           therefore
           wee
           conceived
           that
           if
           wee
           could
           draw
           his
           Majesty
           away
           from
           his
           Parliament
           ,
           into
           some
           remote
           place
           ,
           where
           we
           might
           incense
           and
           inrage
           him
           against
           them
           ,
           by
           perswading
           him
           that
           they
           did
           abridge
           him
           of
           his
           prerogative
           ,
           and
           then
           promising
           him
           that
           to
           maintain
           his
           prerogative
           ,
           we
           would
           assist
           him
           with
           mony
           ,
           horses
           ,
           and
           arms
           ,
           thereby
           to
           awe
           the
           Parliament
           ;
           we
           thought
           this
           being
           performed
           ,
           that
           then
           we
           should
           enjoy
           still
           our
           unlawfull
           gaines
           by
           Pattents
           as
           we
           had
           done
           formerly
           ,
           so
           that
           being
           too
           much
           leavened
           with
           the
           Earle
           of
           Straffords
           doctrine
           ,
           we
           held
           that
           if
           the
           Parliament
           would
           not
           apply
           themselves
           to
           his
           Majesty
           ,
           the
           King
           then
           was
           acquitted
           before
           God
           and
           man
           ,
           and
           might
           make
           use
           of
           his
           prerogative
           ,
           this
           is
           the
           first
           thing
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           second
           place
           we
           perceived
           that
           the
           Parliament
           would
           indeavour
           to
           reform
           the
           Church
           government
           ,
           and
           take
           away
           all
           superstitious
           worship
           out
           of
           it
           ,
           and
           that
           they
           would
           amend
           (
           if
           not
           take
           away
           )
           the
           book
           of
           Common
           Prayer
           ,
           which
           thing
           seemed
           very
           grievous
           to
           us
           ,
           because
           we
           desired
           to
           serve
           God
           in
           a
           formall
           worship
           (
           it
           being
           more
           pleasing
           to
           the
           flesh
           )
           and
           obey
           him
           only
           with
           the
           outward
           man
           ,
           for
           we
           thought
           that
           even
           that
           was
           pleasing
           to
           God
           ,
           and
           that
           we
           should
           now
           be
           urged
           and
           pressed
           to
           a
           more
           spirituall
           worship
           ,
           which
           we
           thought
           was
           quite
           against
           the
           haire
           ,
           likewise
           we
           thought
           it
           an
           high
           offence
           ,
           (
           now
           after
           the
           book
           of
           Common
           Prayer
           had
           been
           received
           so
           many
           yeares
           )
           that
           we
           should
           goe
           to
           condemne
           our
           fore-fathers
           for
           the
           use
           of
           it
           ,
           by
           taking
           it
           away
           ;
           we
           
           likewise
           hoped
           that
           when
           by
           this
           Designe
           of
           drawing
           the
           King
           away
           ,
           wee
           should
           by
           force
           effect
           for
           him
           that
           hee
           might
           by
           his
           prerogative
           doe
           what
           he
           pleased
           ,
           and
           that
           we
           should
           have
           this
           book
           of
           Common
           Prayer
           set
           up
           (
           not
           dreaming
           all
           this
           while
           that
           the
           Papists
           had
           any
           plot
           in
           stirring
           us
           up
           ,
           and
           likewise
           ,
           our
           blind
           and
           superstitious
           Ministers
           to
           stand
           up
           for
           it
           ,
           though
           indeed
           now
           we
           well
           remember
           that
           one
           said
           a
           year
           agoe
           that
           they
           would
           stirre
           us
           up
           to
           stand
           for
           the
           Common
           Prayer
           till
           they
           had
           effected
           their
           owne
           ends
           ,
           and
           then
           wee
           should
           have
           Popery
           set
           up
           ,
           and
           such
           a
           Service
           Book
           as
           they
           would
           have
           imposed
           on
           Scotland
           ,
           (
           which
           now
           we
           may
           see
           is
           their
           plot
           )
           in
           despite
           of
           a
           Puritan
           Parliament
           ,
           and
           all
           their
           Puritan
           adherents
           ,
           and
           that
           we
           should
           have
           our
           Lord
           Bishops
           againe
           ,
           to
           curb
           those
           that
           did
           speak
           or
           doe
           any
           thing
           against
           it
           ,
           as
           they
           did
           heretofore
           (
           esteeming
           that
           they
           which
           were
           such
           great
           Schollars
           were
           the
           only
           Church-men
           )
           and
           all
           that
           which
           they
           did
           to
           be
           divine
           ,
           and
           that
           we
           ought
           to
           observe
           it
           ;
           this
           was
           the
           second
           thing
           .
        
         
           But
           now
           we
           see
           that
           they
           made
           use
           of
           us
           and
           our
           designes
           but
           for
           their
           owne
           ends
           ,
           for
           they
           had
           a
           deeper
           plot
           and
           designe
           then
           in
           hand
           ,
           then
           that
           wee
           were
           aware
           of
           ,
           which
           we
           find
           now
           to
           be
           this
           ,
           that
           they
           indeavour
           ,
           to
           make
           a
           division
           betwixt
           us
           that
           are
           (
           as
           yet
           )
           but
           Protestants
           in
           name
           ,
           and
           those
           that
           are
           Protestants
           in
           heart
           ,
           that
           so
           we
           dashing
           our selves
           one
           against
           another
           ,
           both
           parties
           might
           be
           consumed
           ,
           and
           then
           (
           when
           wee
           are
           so
           weakned
           )
           they
           know
           it
           will
           be
           an
           easie
           matter
           for
           them
           to
           destroy
           both
           parties
           ;
           that
           this
           is
           their
           Designe
           wee
           shall
           make
           appeare
           ,
           by
           these
           reasons
           .
        
         
         
           1.
           
           Because
           these
           many
           yeares
           they
           have
           (
           by
           means
           of
           some
           near
           to
           the
           King
           )
           had
           familiar
           recourse
           to
           the
           Court
           ,
           there
           to
           agitate
           and
           further
           any
           Design
           that
           they
           had
           ,
           and
           likewise
           were
           much
           countenanced
           and
           favoured
           ;
           as
           Mr.
           
             Prin
          
           in
           his
           late
           book
           at
           large
           setteth
           forth
           ,
           that
           they
           had
           their
           Agents
           at
           Court
           consisting
           not
           only
           of
           Iesuits
           and
           Priests
           ,
           but
           even
           of
           our
           own
           Bishops
           ,
           which
           should
           have
           been
           fathers
           to
           uphold
           our
           Religion
           ,
           they
           have
           bin
           cheife
           Incendiaries
           to
           set
           the
           Protestants
           together
           by
           the
           eares
           ,
           and
           the
           Bishop
           of
           
             Canterbury
          
           by
           name
           hath
           imployed
           a
           Iesuit
           and
           a
           Papist
           to
           indeavour
           to
           bring
           us
           to
           the
           Romish
           Religion
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           laid
           to
           his
           charge
           in
           his
           articles
           of
           impeachment
           ;
           now
           it
           is
           evident
           that
           this
           was
           the
           Design
           that
           they
           prosecuted
           ,
           because
           first
           they
           did
           (
           according
           as
           they
           durst
           )
           in
           words
           and
           writings
           ,
           disgrace
           the
           profession
           and
           professors
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           thereby
           to
           cause
           prophane
           people
           to
           hate
           ,
           those
           that
           were
           more
           forward
           in
           Religion
           then
           themselves
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           Because
           they
           cannot
           indure
           any
           that
           are
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           neither
           are
           they
           to
           
           keep
           faith
           with
           us
           (
           as
           their
           Religion
           teacheth
           them
           )
           who
           are
           Protestants
           ,
           but
           they
           may
           murther
           and
           destroy
           us
           ,
           and
           for
           so
           doing
           they
           merit
           heaven
           ,
           then
           sure
           it
           is
           very
           madnes
           and
           folly
           in
           us
           to
           think
           that
           they
           will
           indeavour
           to
           establish
           the
           true
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           which
           they
           call
           heresy
           ,
           and
           howsoever
           although
           we
           can
           indure
           their
           Religion
           practiced
           by
           both
           great
           and
           small
           among
           us
           ,
           yet
           if
           they
           prevaile
           ,
           they
           will
           not
           leave
           one
           that
           beares
           the
           name
           of
           a
           Protestant
           alive
           in
           our
           Kingdom
           ,
           witnes
           what
           they
           have
           done
           in
           
             Ireland
          
           to
           the
           
             Protestants
          
           there
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           Because
           now
           their
           Plot
           doth
           discover
           it selfe
           ,
           by
           bringing
           the
           Irish
           forces
           over
           ;
           first
           the
           Protestant
           forces
           ,
           that
           so
           they
           might
           not
           oppose
           them
           there
           ,
           but
           come
           over
           into
           England
           to
           waste
           themselves
           ,
           and
           such
           Protestant
           forces
           as
           were
           here
           before
           :
           And
           now
           they
           bring
           (
           O
           you
           Malignants
           and
           all
           my
           fellow
           Cavaliers
           open
           your
           eyes
           )
           the
           Irish
           Rebels
           (
           that
           have
           killed
           so
           many
           thousand
           Protestants
           in
           Ireland
           )
           into
           England
           daily
           for
           to
           cut
           our
           throats
           ,
           so
           that
           now
           we
           may
           see
           that
           whatsoever
           colour
           they
           put
           upon
           their
           designe
           ,
           by
           perswading
           us
           that
           the
           King
           fought
           for
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           
           and
           his
           Prerogative
           ,
           and
           that
           they
           that
           were
           Papists
           did
           but
           assist
           him
           for
           the
           accomplishing
           of
           the
           same
           ,
           against
           those
           which
           they
           and
           we
           call
           Puritans
           ,
           yet
           they
           do
           indeed
           intend
           to
           bring
           us
           under
           the
           command
           of
           the
           Pope
           ,
           and
           so
           to
           take
           away
           the
           Kings
           Prerogative
           ,
           that
           he
           would
           be
           subject
           to
           him
           ,
           and
           so
           although
           His
           Majestie
           do
           indeed
           intend
           the
           true
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           yet
           (
           they
           prevailing
           )
           he
           shall
           not
           be
           able
           to
           establish
           it
           .
        
         
           The
           Consideration
           of
           these
           things
           ,
           is
           the
           true
           Cause
           why
           we
           do
           now
           forsake
           their
           Proceedings
           ,
           and
           publish
           it
           to
           this
           intent
           ,
           That
           others
           that
           still
           prosecute
           the
           designe
           that
           we
           did
           ,
           may
           now
           take
           notice
           of
           the
           Papists
           ,
           how
           they
           make
           use
           of
           us
           to
           our
           own
           destruction
           ;
           and
           then
           I
           hope
           ,
           you
           likewise
           will
           forsake
           them
           ,
           as
           many
           already
           have
           done
           ,
           who
           are
           different
           from
           us
           in
           their
           persons
           ,
           but
           more
           in
           their
           affections
           ;
           and
           let
           us
           now
           make
           use
           of
           what
           we
           see
           them
           do
           for
           our
           best
           advantage
           ,
           and
           that
           is
           this
           ;
           Whereas
           we
           see
           them
           encouraging
           and
           countenancing
           and
           helping
           them
           that
           are
           zealous
           in
           their
           false
           Religion
           ,
           so
           let
           us
           now
           unite
           our selves
           to
           those
           that
           are
           zealous
           for
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           and
           as
           much
           countenance
           encourage
           and
           help
           them
           ,
           both
           by
           our
           persons
           and
           prayers
           ,
           and
           in
           particular
           this
           Parliament
           ,
           which
           they
           have
           beene
           a
           meanes
           to
           cause
           us
           so
           much
           to
           oppose
           :
           For
           sure
           ,
           had
           not
           God
           raised
           them
           up
           as
           Instruments
           to
           stand
           for
           this
           Nation
           ,
           we
           had
           been
           all
           lost
           .
           And
           this
           is
           my
           perswasion
           ,
           and
           my
           Resolution
           is
           to
           adhere
           to
           the
           Kings
           Forces
           no
           more
           .
        
         
           FINIS
           .