The copy of a letter sent from the Cardinall du Perron embassadour for the French king at Rome concerning the divisions of the papists of England their difference in government whether by bishops or Jesuites with the care of His Holinesse in the agreement, and his judgement in placing of bishops in England for making priests to increase the Catholic number : whereunto is added a certaine conjecture of the use both prelates and papists have made of the cardinals counsell to augment and establish their greatnesse.
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             The copy of a letter sent from the Cardinall du Perron embassadour for the French king at Rome concerning the divisions of the papists of England their difference in government whether by bishops or Jesuites with the care of His Holinesse in the agreement, and his judgement in placing of bishops in England for making priests to increase the Catholic number : whereunto is added a certaine conjecture of the use both prelates and papists have made of the cardinals counsell to augment and establish their greatnesse.
             Ambassades et negotiations. English. Selections
             Du Perron, Jacques Davy, 1556-1618.
          
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             1641.
          
           
             Translation of part of a letter of 7 September 1605, extracted from the author's Ambassades et negotiations.
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           THE
           COPY
           OF
           A
           LETTER
           SENT
           FROM
           THE
           Cardinall
           du
           Perron
           Embassadour
           for
           the
           French
           King
           at
           Rome
           ,
           CONCERNING
           THE
           Divisions
           of
           the
           Papists
           of
           England
           ,
           their
           difference
           in
           Government
           ,
           whether
           by
           Bishops
           or
           Jesuites
           ,
           with
           the
           Care
           of
           his
           Holinesse
           in
           the
           agreement
           ,
           and
           his
           Judgement
           in
           placing
           of
           Bishops
           in
           England
           ,
           for
           making
           Priests
           to
           increase
           the
           Catholike
           Number
           .
           Whereunto
           is
           added
           a
           certaine
           Conjecture
           of
           the
           use
           both
           Prelates
           and
           Papists
           have
           made
           of
           the
           Cardinals
           Counsell
           to
           augment
           and
           establish
           their
           Greatnesse
           .
        
         
           Printed
           in
           the
           yeere
           ,
           1641.
           
        
      
       
       
         
           IT
           is
           not
           long
           since
           accidentally
           I
           did
           fall
           upon
           a
           Book
           written
           in
           French
           of
           the
           
             Negotiations
             and
             Embassages
          
           of
           the
           famous
           and
           learned
           Cardinall
           
             du
             Perron
             .
          
           Where
           amongst
           many
           notable
           passages
           which
           happened
           in
           his
           Embassage
           at
           
             Rome
             ,
          
           and
           wherewith
           hee
           acquainted
           the
           French
           King
           
             Henrie
          
           the
           fourth
           his
           master
           ,
           he
           has
           one
           in
           one
           letter
           to
           the
           King
           his
           master
           concerning
           the
           divisions
           of
           the
           Papists
           in
           England
           ,
           and
           the
           meanes
           to
           be
           used
           for
           their
           reconciliation
           .
           With
           his
           judgement
           of
           the
           Bishops
           of
           England
           .
           Which
           after
           I
           had
           read
           and
           considered
           ,
           I
           was
           induced
           thereby
           not
           without
           reason
           to
           believe
           that
           it
           had
           served
           for
           a
           Counsell
           to
           both
           the
           Bishops
           and
           Papists
           to
           ground
           their
           greatnesse
           upon
           and
           to
           advance
           both
           the
           one
           and
           the
           other
           to
           that
           height
           they
           were
           in
           before
           the
           
             Parliament
          
           began
           .
           Now
           imagining
           that
           it
           might
           serve
           to
           informe
           the
           judgements
           of
           many
           ,
           and
           help
           them
           to
           rip
           up
           the
           
             arcana
             principia
             ,
          
           and
           hid
           Maximes
           the
           Prelates
           and
           Papists
           have
           used
           these
           many
           yeeres
           to
           increase
           their
           owne
           greatnesse
           ,
           oppresse
           all
           those
           that
           should
           dare
           to
           oppose
           them
           .
           I
           have
           set
           down
           the
           true
           Coppy
           (
           not
           varying
           from
           the
           originall
           )
           so
           truly
           as
           I
           could
           ,
           to
           which
           I
           have
           added
           my
           conjecture
           in
           few
           words
           of
           the
           advantages
           Prelates
           and
           Papists
           have
           taken
           from
           it
           ,
           as
           also
           of
           their
           complying
           together
           to
           uphold
           one
           another
           .
        
      
    
     
       
       
         
           The
           Coppy
           of
           a
           Letter
           sent
           from
           ROME
           by
           the
           Cardinall
           
             Du
             Perron
          
           to
           HENRY
           the
           fourth
           King
           of
           
             France
             ,
          
           his
           Master
           ;
           extant
           in
           the
           second
           volumn
           of
           his
           negotiations
           and
           Embassages
           ,
           being
           this
           
             Argument
             .
          
        
         
           
             He
             communicated
             to
             the
             Pope
             ,
             that
             which
             it
             had
             pleased
             his
             Majesty
             to
             write
             to
             him
             ,
             of
             the
             estate
             of
             affairs
             in
             England
             ,
             and
             of
             the
             dispute
             betwixt
             the
             Fathers
             Jacobines
             and
             Jesuites
             there
             :
             that
             which
             his
             Holinesse
             spake
             to
             him
             ,
             and
             desired
             him
             to
             do
             :
             a
             dissension
             amongst
             the
             English
             Papists
             :
             the
             means
             proposed
             to
             appease
             them
             :
             contrary
             difficulties
             and
             remedies
             to
             be
             used
             .
          
        
         
           TO
           HENRY
           the
           Great
           .
        
         
           
             Sir
             ,
          
        
         
           I
           Shall
           supply
           in
           this
           Letter
           ,
           my
           shortnesse
           in
           the
           last
           I
           sent
           to
           your
           Maiesty
           by
           the
           Ordinarie
           .
           On
           
             Tuesday
          
           the
           
             23.
          
           of
           the
           last
           Moneth
           ,
           I
           had
           audience
           of
           the
           Pope
           ,
           and
           did
           communicate
           to
           his
           Holinesse
           ,
           that
           which
           it
           pleased
           your
           Maiesty
           to
           impart
           to
           me
           of
           your
           opinion
           concerning
           the
           affairs
           in
           
             England
             ,
          
           and
           the
           dispute
           betwixt
           the
           Fathers
           ,
           
             Jacobines
          
           and
           
             Jesuites
             :
          
           he
           was
           much
           satisfied
           with
           both
           the
           one
           and
           the
           other
           advise
           ,
           and
           often
           thanked
           your
           Maiestie
           for
           the
           good
           duties
           your
           Maiesty
           had
           done
           him
           ,
           in
           blotting
           out
           of
           the
           King
           of
           
             Englands
          
           imagination
           the
           sinistrous
           impression
           divers
           had
           moved
           him
           to
           conceive
           of
           his
           intentions
           .
           Concerning
           the
           dispute
           ,
           he
           seemed
           highly
           to
           approve
           of
           your
           Maiesties
           opinion
           ,
           which
           was
           to
           endeavour
           by
           all
           means
           to
           end
           that
           difference
           by
           one
           agreement
           ;
           to
           which
           purpose
           ,
           he
           gave
           me
           charge
           that
           at
           the
           first
           Congregation
           of
           the
           Cardinals
           ,
           which
           should
           be
           holden
           for
           that
           effect
           ,
           I
           should
           propose
           somethings
           to
           try
           if
           possibly
           that
           expedient
           might
           be
           used
           .
           I
           did
           communicate
           also
           to
           his
           Holinesse
           ,
           concerning
           the
           affairs
           of
           
             England
          
           two
           Letters
           sent
           to
           me
           from
           
             Venice
             ,
          
           the
           one
           from
           
             Mounsieur
             De
             Beaumont
          
           to
           
             Mounsieur
             De
             Fresnes
             ;
          
           the
           other
           from
           
             Mounsieur
             De
             Fresnes
          
           to
           mee
           ,
           accompanied
           with
           a
           third
           sent
           from
           a
           certain
           Doctor
           of
           
             England
             ,
          
           (
           by
           their
           means
           )
           to
           his
           Holinesse
           .
           The
           end
           of
           all
           those
           Letters
           was
           ,
           that
           the
           divisions
           amongst
           the
           
             English
          
           Papists
           might
           be
           taken
           away
           ,
           some
           of
           them
           obeying
           
           one
           Arch-priest
           governed
           by
           the
           Iesuites
           :
           others
           appealing
           from
           the
           unlawfully
           administred
           authority
           of
           the
           arch-priest
           .
           Their
           common
           opinion
           for
           removing
           that
           difference
           was
           ,
           to
           establish
           a
           good
           number
           of
           Bishops
           ,
           to
           whom
           neither
           the
           appealers
           nor
           the
           Iesuits
           could
           lawfully
           refuse
           obedience
           .
           I
           read
           those
           Letters
           gladly
           to
           his
           Holinesse
           ,
           as
           being
           written
           with
           great
           wisdome
           and
           discretion
           ,
           evidencing
           also
           the
           care
           your
           Maiesties
           servants
           had
           for
           the
           advancement
           of
           Religion
           in
           that
           Kingdome
           ,
           and
           especially
           because
           the
           Letters
           of
           the
           English
           Priest
           heretofore
           well
           known
           to
           his
           Holinesse
           ,
           was
           filled
           with
           the
           praises
           of
           your
           Maiesties
           prudent
           carriage
           in
           the
           matter
           of
           the
           Catholike
           Religion
           there
           ,
           and
           much
           blaming
           that
           of
           the
           Spaniards
           :
           as
           also
           because
           myself
           had
           proposed
           the
           same
           things
           to
           the
           Pope
           at
           his
           first
           Inauguration
           ,
           esteeming
           it
           profitable
           ,
           not
           onely
           for
           the
           good
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           but
           also
           for
           your
           Maiesties
           service
           :
           because
           the
           faction
           of
           the
           Iesuites
           in
           that
           Kingdome
           dependeth
           on
           
             Personius
             ,
          
           and
           other
           instruments
           of
           the
           Spanish
           faction
           .
           His
           Holinesse
           made
           me
           answer
           ,
           that
           Pope
           
             Clement
          
           had
           continually
           made
           scruple
           to
           hearken
           to
           that
           expedient
           ,
           fearing
           least
           it
           should
           stirre
           up
           a
           greater
           persecution
           in
           England
           against
           the
           Catholikes
           ,
           I
           answered
           him
           that
           on
           the
           ▪
           contrary
           ,
           it
           would
           rather
           diminish
           then
           augment
           it
           ,
           because
           that
           in
           generall
           the
           Heretiques
           did
           not
           carry
           so
           much
           hatred
           against
           the
           Bishops
           ,
           as
           against
           the
           Iesuites
           ,
           who
           (
           as
           they
           beleeve
           )
           do
           meddle
           themselves
           much
           more
           with
           the
           estates
           and
           lives
           of
           Princes
           ,
           nor
           any
           other
           of
           the
           Ecclesiasticall
           orders
           .
           Morever
           that
           the
           name
           of
           Bishops
           was
           yet
           in
           great
           reverence
           amongst
           them
           ,
           and
           where
           as
           they
           do
           reiect
           and
           abhor
           the
           title
           of
           Priest
           ,
           because
           they
           beleeve
           there
           is
           no
           sacrifice
           in
           the
           Christian
           Religion
           :
           they
           do
           honour
           and
           respect
           the
           name
           of
           Bishops
           ,
           and
           by
           this
           means
           they
           should
           moderate
           and
           diminish
           their
           persecutions
           against
           Bishops
           ,
           much
           more
           against
           the
           simple
           Priests
           or
           Iesuites
           .
           To
           which
           I
           added
           ,
           that
           there
           being
           no
           Bishops
           in
           England
           ,
           there
           could
           be
           no
           Priests
           consecrated
           there
           ,
           and
           that
           it
           behooved
           those
           who
           desired
           to
           be
           promoted
           to
           the
           order
           of
           Priesthood
           ,
           should
           come
           take
           their
           orders
           here
           beyond
           the
           Seas
           :
           whence
           did
           arise
           two
           notable
           inconveniences
           .
           First
           ,
           that
           it
           did
           hinder
           the
           multiplication
           of
           Ecclesiastique
           persons
           in
           England
           ,
           inregard
           of
           the
           expence
           ,
           perils
           ,
           and
           incommodities
           it
           behooved
           them
           to
           undergoe
           in
           passing
           and
           repassing
           the
           Seas
           .
           The
           other
           ,
           that
           this
           communication
           and
           acquaintance
           they
           came
           to
           make
           here
           with
           strangers
           ,
           made
           them
           afterwards
           suspected
           to
           their
           Countrey
           men
           ,
           as
           having
           been
           corrupted
           and
           suborned
           of
           them
           ,
           by
           whose
           means
           they
           had
           obtained
           those
           orders
           ;
           so
           that
           
           I
           did
           foresee
           great
           utilities
           in
           the
           proposed
           advice
           ,
           and
           did
           onely
           find
           one
           incommodity
           ,
           which
           was
           that
           the
           Protestant
           Bishops
           of
           England
           (
           wherof
           many
           do
           secretly
           favour
           the
           Romish
           Religion
           ,
           allured
           possibly
           in
           hope
           to
           be
           confirmed
           by
           the
           Catholikes
           in
           their
           dignities
           )
           should
           fall
           from
           all
           such
           hopes
           ,
           when
           they
           should
           perceive
           his
           Holinesse
           had
           consecrated
           others
           in
           their
           place
           .
           But
           the
           remedy
           that
           might
           be
           used
           ,
           was
           to
           consecrate
           onely
           some
           Bishops
           in
           place
           of
           those
           who
           were
           married
           ,
           and
           already
           out
           of
           hopes
           they
           should
           keep
           their
           wives
           and
           Bishopricks
           together
           in
           the
           Catholike
           Religion
           .
           His
           Holinesse
           took
           time
           to
           think
           upon
           it
           :
           after
           which
           according
           to
           the
           commandment
           I
           shall
           receive
           from
           your
           Maiestie
           ,
           I
           shall
           continue
           ,
           or
           leave
           off
           to
           present
           the
           businesse
           further
           ;
           and
           thus
           much
           from
           that
           Letter
           .
        
      
       
         
           NOw
           I
           hope
           ye
           see
           clearly
           from
           the
           Cardinalls
           Letter
           ,
           what
           his
           judgement
           was
           of
           our
           Bishops
           ,
           wherein
           if
           he
           was
           deceived
           or
           not
           ,
           I
           will
           not
           judge
           ,
           onely
           this
           I
           may
           say
           confidently
           ,
           if
           he
           spoke
           falsly
           of
           Bishops
           of
           his
           time
           ,
           he
           hath
           been
           an
           oracle
           of
           truth
           concerning
           the
           Bishops
           of
           our
           time
           ,
           as
           may
           easily
           appear
           to
           those
           ,
           who
           will
           informe
           themselves
           but
           slenderly
           of
           their
           doctrines
           and
           practices
           so
           well
           known
           to
           most
           sorts
           of
           men
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           wonder
           they
           should
           find
           so
           much
           as
           one
           ,
           to
           speak
           but
           one
           word
           in
           their
           defence
           ,
           for
           have
           they
           not
           used
           all
           violent
           courses
           to
           suppresse
           the
           truth
           of
           the
           Gospell
           by
           pilloring
           ,
           scourging
           ,
           imprisoning
           ,
           fining
           ,
           banishing
           ,
           and
           confining
           numbers
           of
           the
           most
           zealous
           professours
           of
           the
           truth
           ,
           for
           no
           other
           known
           offence
           ,
           but
           because
           they
           would
           not
           submit
           themselves
           to
           the
           superstitions
           ,
           tyrannies
           ,
           and
           oppressions
           of
           those
           bloodthirsty
           persecutors
           ?
           Did
           ever
           any
           of
           that
           cruell
           society
           hitherto
           ,
           publikely
           disapprove
           either
           by
           word
           or
           writing
           the
           barbarous
           rage
           of
           their
           Tygerlike
           fellows
           ,
           the
           misery
           of
           those
           injustly
           persecuted
           men
           ,
           the
           deplorable
           c●lamities
           of
           their
           distressed
           Mother
           the
           Church
           ,
           oppressed
           by
           the
           too
           too
           prevalent
           factions
           of
           Papists
           and
           Arminians
           to
           this
           day
           ?
           But
           for
           all
           this
           ,
           some
           will
           not
           spare
           to
           averre
           that
           divers
           of
           the
           Bishops
           had
           never
           any
           hand
           in
           those
           businesses
           ,
           but
           on
           the
           contrary
           cherished
           piety
           ,
           abhorred
           cruelty
           ,
           resisted
           superstition
           to
           the
           utmost
           of
           their
           power
           ,
           and
           endeavoured
           (
           as
           they
           were
           able
           )
           to
           conserve
           the
           peace
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           and
           State
           .
           My
           onely
           desire
           is
           ,
           that
           those
           men
           would
           consider
           ,
           that
           neither
           love
           ,
           affection
           towards
           the
           one
           party
           ,
           nor
           hatred
           towards
           the
           other
           doth
           so
           much
           move
           me
           as
           the
           love
           to
           the
           truth
           ,
           
           which
           ought
           to
           be
           freely
           spoken
           at
           all
           times
           ,
           but
           especially
           when
           men
           seem
           as
           it
           were
           to
           doate
           on
           those
           Bishops
           who
           seem
           innocent
           to
           divers
           ,
           and
           it
           may
           be
           they
           neither
           did
           contrive
           nor
           desire
           those
           abominations
           ;
           which
           charitie
           would
           make
           me
           beleeve
           ,
           if
           I
           should
           find
           reason
           to
           perswade
           me
           ,
           that
           they
           did
           either
           disapprove
           or
           reject
           them
           being
           once
           urged
           by
           their
           fellow
           companions
           ;
           nay
           on
           the
           contrary
           ,
           divers
           reasons
           induce
           me
           to
           believe
           that
           they
           did
           approve
           all
           ,
           without
           any
           the
           least
           opposition
           ;
           as
           first
           ,
           suffering
           all
           things
           to
           be
           imposed
           upon
           them
           without
           any
           repining
           .
           Secondly
           ,
           urging
           the
           practice
           upon
           all
           men
           punishing
           severely
           the
           refractory
           .
           Thirdly
           ,
           their
           unanimous
           consent
           to
           the
           late
           diabolicall
           Canons
           (
           whence
           I
           Imagine
           all
           things
           to
           have
           been
           done
           in
           the
           same
           manner
           )
           Lastly
           ,
           their
           prodigious
           silence
           which
           is
           one
           infallible
           signe
           that
           even
           to
           this
           day
           they
           allow
           of
           them
           ,
           for
           
             qui
             tacet
             ,
             consentire
             videtur
             .
          
        
         
           But
           the
           end
           of
           introducing
           those
           superstitions
           ,
           and
           setting
           those
           persecutions
           on
           foot
           ,
           is
           most
           probable
           ,
           as
           I
           can
           conjecture
           to
           curry
           favour
           of
           the
           Papists
           ,
           and
           seek
           by
           their
           means
           and
           assistance
           to
           raise
           their
           monstrous
           greatnesse
           ,
           and
           boundlesse
           ambition
           to
           such
           an
           height
           as
           they
           might
           easily
           crush
           and
           ruine
           all
           those
           who
           should
           attempt
           to
           oppose
           their
           superstitious
           ,
           cruell
           ,
           bloudy
           ,
           and
           hellish
           designes
           .
           As
           for
           the
           Papists
           ,
           humane
           policie
           could
           never
           have
           invented
           one
           surer
           foundation
           (
           then
           the
           Cardinals
           councels
           )
           for
           them
           to
           have
           builded
           their
           greatnesse
           in
           this
           Kingdome
           ,
           all
           things
           wisely
           considered
           ;
           for
           hath
           not
           the
           pacifying
           of
           discords
           amongst
           the
           Papists
           here
           ,
           and
           the
           sending
           over
           of
           Bishops
           ,
           been
           the
           chief
           instruments
           ,
           and
           in
           a
           manner
           the
           sole
           causes
           of
           the
           excessive
           increase
           of
           the
           Romanists
           in
           these
           Kingdomes
           ?
           Let
           Papists
           themselves
           speak
           ,
           who
           tell
           us
           plainly
           ,
           that
           the
           dexterity
           of
           the
           Romish
           Bishops
           (
           who
           are
           no
           fewer
           then
           the
           Protestant
           Bishops
           in
           number
           )
           hath
           been
           such
           ,
           that
           in
           complying
           the
           one
           with
           the
           other
           ,
           they
           have
           equally
           shared
           in
           the
           divisions
           :
           for
           if
           we
           may
           believe
           some
           of
           their
           catalogues
           ,
           there
           be
           above
           6000.
           
           Priests
           in
           England
           ,
           which
           number
           being
           compared
           with
           that
           of
           the
           preaching
           Ministers
           ,
           shall
           not
           come
           farre
           short
           ,
           if
           not
           equall
           them
           ,
           as
           I
           suppose
           .
           And
           truly
           this
           councell
           of
           the
           Cardinall
           hath
           been
           received
           by
           his
           part
           with
           as
           great
           policie
           and
           good
           successe
           ,
           as
           it
           was
           given
           with
           solidity
           and
           wisdome
           .
           Now
           if
           the
           number
           be
           so
           excessive
           in
           England
           ,
           what
           shall
           we
           expect
           of
           Ireland
           ,
           where
           the
           most
           part
           of
           the
           Natives
           hath
           known
           no
           other
           Religion
           from
           their
           infancie
           ;
           truly
           the
           prodigious
           multitude
           
           of
           that
           whores
           sonnes
           (
           who
           in
           blind
           zeal
           to
           that
           Idolatrous
           strumpet
           and
           blasphemous
           beast
           )
           can
           ,
           finding
           opportunitie
           ,
           devote
           themselves
           to
           murder
           Kings
           and
           Princes
           ,
           blow
           up
           Parliaments
           ,
           betray
           their
           Countrey
           ,
           and
           bring
           all
           to
           confusion
           without
           fear
           of
           God
           ,
           or
           reverence
           to
           man
           ,
           as
           wofull
           experience
           ,
           the
           master
           of
           fools
           ,
           hath
           too
           too
           often
           taught
           by
           lamentable
           examples
           ,
           to
           the
           infinite
           dammage
           of
           the
           Christian
           world
           .
        
         
           The
           sympathy
           and
           affinitie
           of
           those
           men
           with
           our
           Bishops
           ,
           is
           such
           as
           I
           conceive
           ,
           would
           not
           require
           much
           labour
           to
           make
           in
           most
           things
           a
           notable
           parallel
           ,
           which
           I
           leave
           to
           some
           other
           ,
           contenting
           my self
           onely
           to
           shew
           that
           their
           correspondency
           hath
           been
           such
           these
           many
           years
           ,
           that
           the
           Bishops
           have
           taken
           all
           things
           done
           against
           Papists
           as
           done
           against
           themselves
           ,
           and
           the
           Papists
           all
           things
           done
           against
           Bishops
           ,
           as
           done
           against
           their
           head
           the
           Pope
           and
           them
           ;
           but
           this
           hath
           been
           so
           cunningly
           performed
           ,
           as
           few
           could
           heretofore
           perceive
           it
           ,
           whilst
           at
           last
           the
           Papists
           seeing
           both
           themselves
           and
           the
           Miter
           of
           Bishops
           wronged
           (
           as
           they
           thought
           )
           by
           the
           factious
           covenanters
           of
           Scotland
           ,
           could
           contain
           themselves
           no
           more
           ,
           but
           burst
           out
           in
           rage
           against
           those
           Hereticks
           ,
           and
           openly
           undertook
           to
           defend
           ,
           that
           our
           Bishops
           were
           
             Iure
             Divino
             tales
             ,
          
           more
           I
           am
           sure
           then
           ever
           they
           would
           have
           said
           for
           their
           infallible
           head
           the
           Pope
           ,
           whom
           they
           defend
           onely
           to
           be
           
             Iure
             Ecclesiastice
          
           Pope
           :
           but
           this
           they
           did
           ,
           perceiving
           that
           if
           ours
           should
           not
           be
           proved
           to
           be
           
             Iure
             Divino
             tales
             ,
          
           no
           Ecclesiastick
           or
           humane
           constitution
           could
           hinder
           their
           Miters
           to
           be
           fallable
           ,
           although
           themselves
           beleeve
           all
           that
           the
           Church
           the
           Pope
           beleeveth
           ,
           who
           will
           never
           beleeve
           any
           thing
           to
           his
           own
           disadvantage
           .
           And
           least
           our
           Bishops
           should
           seem
           to
           be
           behind
           with
           the
           Papists
           in
           mutuall
           courtesies
           ,
           I
           assure
           you
           ,
           they
           have
           rendred
           them
           tenfold
           the
           league
           being
           offensive
           and
           defensive
           ;
           for
           they
           will
           have
           us
           beleeve
           that
           the
           Pope
           is
           not
           Antichrist
           ,
           but
           the
           true
           successour
           of
           
             Peter
             ;
          
           that
           the
           Romish
           Church
           as
           it
           is
           presently
           ,
           is
           the
           true
           Church
           ;
           that
           in
           it
           they
           defend
           no
           materiall
           or
           substantiall
           errours
           ;
           that
           our
           Religion
           differeth
           from
           the
           popish
           in
           matters
           of
           small
           or
           no
           consequence
           ;
           that
           invocation
           on
           Saints
           ,
           prayer
           for
           the
           dead
           ,
           worshipping
           of
           Images
           ,
           crucifixes
           ,
           and
           other
           reliques
           ,
           with
           more
           then
           seven
           mountains
           of
           other
           abominations
           of
           that
           blasphemous
           beast
           ,
           and
           her
           whorish
           Locusts
           ,
           are
           not
           onely
           lawfull
           ,
           but
           expedient
           and
           profitable
           to
           be
           used
           .
           I
           may
           further
           averre
           that
           Papists
           have
           been
           the
           men
           of
           greatest
           esteem
           with
           our
           
           Bishops
           ,
           and
           that
           they
           went
           free
           being
           convicted
           by
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           land
           ,
           when
           Godly
           and
           laborious
           Ministers
           ,
           zealous
           professours
           ,
           and
           sound
           Christians
           were
           most
           barbarously
           martyred
           ,
           and
           that
           for
           obeying
           the
           Laws
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           the
           King
           ;
           all
           this
           undoubtedly
           to
           please
           that
           man
           of
           sinne
           ,
           who
           under
           promise
           of
           assistance
           caused
           them
           to
           sin
           .
           But
           I
           can
           tell
           them
           that
           he
           hath
           
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
          
           written
           on
           the
           triple
           crown
           ,
           which
           covereth
           his
           blasphemous
           head
           :
           and
           though
           this
           seem
           a
           mystery
           to
           most
           men
           ,
           yet
           they
           may
           perswade
           themselves
           it
           is
           true
           ,
           that
           the
           Pope
           would
           redeem
           their
           dignities
           with
           millions
           ,
           &
           furnish
           them
           all
           with
           competent
           maintenance
           ,
           onely
           to
           cover
           under
           their
           wings
           ,
           the
           nest
           of
           his
           newly
           cleked
           vipers
           ,
           not
           without
           reason
           ,
           suspecting
           that
           their
           fall
           shall
           be
           his
           ruine
           in
           this
           land
           .
           And
           although
           divers
           will
           affirm
           ,
           that
           Segnior
           
             Conne
          
           and
           
             Rosseti
          
           brought
           bags
           full
           of
           Apostolicall
           benedictions
           ,
           to
           all
           those
           who
           would
           spend
           their
           lives
           &
           estates
           ,
           where
           the
           Miter
           was
           so
           much
           concerned
           ,
           yet
           their
           infallibility
           ●ea●ed
           them
           ,
           all
           those
           things
           not
           being
           capable
           to
           save
           from
           censure
           C.
           C.
           and
           some
           others
           ,
           who
           received
           a
           yeerly
           pension
           of
           Angelicall
           and
           Pistolicall
           benedictions
           from
           the
           P.
           his
           H.
           and
           the
           K.
           of
           S.
           to
           advance
           their
           affairs
           in
           England
           .
        
         
           And
           now
           diverse
           Merchants
           assure
           mee
           that
           
             Gregorie
          
           is
           to
           have
           the
           bill
           of
           exchange
           to
           pay
           them
           the
           last
           wages
           for
           their
           service
           ,
           who
           (
           as
           I
           am
           informed
           )
           will
           be
           so
           ready
           upon
           the
           first
           receipt
           thereof
           to
           shew
           them
           the
           same
           courtesie
           he
           useth
           to
           others
           ,
           that
           they
           shall
           have
           no
           just
           occasion
           to
           complain
           of
           his
           sound
           dealing
           ,
           more
           then
           others
           have
           done
           before
           ;
           for
           my
           part
           ,
           I
           am
           so
           confident
           ,
           he
           will
           doe
           them
           right
           ,
           even
           behind
           their
           backs
           ,
           that
           I
           could
           heartily
           wish
           all
           such
           as
           their
           Lordships
           to
           addresse
           themselves
           to
           him
           who
           can
           certainly
           end
           their
           desires
           .
        
         
           FINIS
           .