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<P>The Copy of A LETTER ADDRESSED To the Father Rector at Bru&s;&s;els, found among&s;t &s;ome Ie&s;uites taken at <HI>London,</HI> about the third yeere of His MAjESTIES Raigne.</P>
<P>Wherein is manife&s;ted, that the Ie&s;uites from time to time have been the only Incendiaries and contrivers of the mi&s;eries and di&s;tractions of this Kingdome.</P>
<P>And how their de&s;ignes are, by a perpetuall motion, carried on by the &s;ame Coun&s;els at this time, as formerly they have been.</P>
<P><ADD>June 5^t^h</ADD> <HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Ralph Rounthwait,</HI> 1643.</P>
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<HEAD>A Copy of a Letter which was found among&s;t &s;ome Je&s;uits that were taken lately at <HI>London,</HI> and addre&s;&s;ed to the Father Rector at <HI>Bru&s;&s;els.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Shewing there is a perpetuall mi&s;chievous motion of the Je&s;uits for <HI>Englands</HI> ruine.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>_FAther Rector,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>let not the dump of a&s;toni&s;h|ment &s;eize upon your mo&s;t ardent and zealous &s;oul in apprehending this &s;udden and unexpected calling of a Parliament, we have not oppo&s;ed but rather furthered it, &s;o that we hope as much in this Parlia|ment, as ever we feared any in Qu. <HI>Eliza|beths</HI> daies; You mu&s;t know the Councel is engaged to a&s;&s;i&s;t the King by way of Prerogative, in ca&s;e the Parliamentary way &s;hould faile; you &s;hall &s;ee this Parliament will re&s;emble the Pelican which takes plea&s;ure to digge out with her owne beake, her owne bowels. The election of the Knights and Burge&s;&s;es have been in &s;uch confu&s;ion and &s;uch apparent fractions (that which we were wont to procure here|tofore with much art and indu&s;try when the Spani&s;h match was in Treaty) that it now works out naturally, as a botch or boyle, and &s;pits and &s;pewes out its owne rancour and venome; you may remember how that famous &amp; immortall Stat<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;man the Count <HI>Gondamore</HI> led King <HI>James</HI>'s fancy, and rocked him a&s;leepe with the &s;oft and &s;weet &s;ound of peace, to keepe up the Spani&s;h Treaty; likewi&s;e we were much bound to &s;ome
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imminent State&s;men of our owne Country to regaine time in procuring tho&s;e advantaging ce&s;&s;ations of Armes in the Par|liament, and in admiring the worth and honour of the Spa|ni&s;h Nation, vilifying the Hollanders, remon&s;trating to King <HI>James</HI> the State was mo&s;t ungratefull both to his Predece&s;&s;or Qu. <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> and his &s;acred Maje&s;tie; That the States were more obnoxious then the Turke, and perpetually injured his Maje&s;ties loving Subjects in the Ea&s;t-Indies; And likewi&s;e they had u&s;urped from His Maje&s;ty the regality of the nar|row Seas, in fi&s;hing upon the Engli&s;h coa&s;t. Had the Spani&s;h match taken effect, (that which was broken by the heat and violence of our furious enemy the Duke of <HI>Buckingham,</HI>) cer|tainely King <HI>James</HI> had de&s;erted the Hollanders. The&s;e great State&s;men had but one meanes to further their great and good de&s;ignes which was to &s;eize on King <HI>Iames,</HI> that none but the Puritan faction which plotted nothing but Anarchy and his confu&s;ion, were aver&s;e to this mo&s;t happy union. We &s;teered on the &s;ame cour&s;e, and have made great u&s;e of this Anarchi|call election and have prejudicated and anticipated the great one, that none but the Kings enemies and his are cho&s;en of the Parliament, and that the Parliament vowes to begin where they left, and will never give over untill they have extirpated him and his po&s;terity. On the other &s;ide the &s;ame parties are to be admired for their indefatigable indu&s;try, ince&s;&s;antly &s;ome out revenge, and jealou&s;ie in mo&s;t of the Parliament-men, and e&s;pecially they worke upon the pride and vaine-glory of &s;uch who have been impri&s;oned, acknowledging that they are the onely Martyrs and Worthies of their Coun|try. <HI>London</HI> is as much di&s;tempered as ever <HI>Florence</HI> vvas, for the Companies are at odds, and the Common-councell have oppo&s;ed the Magi&s;trates, again&s;t their old cu&s;tomes in the electi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n of Knights, which hath bred a great heart-burning in the City, that twice we can divulge vvhat we li&s;t in <HI>Pauls,</HI> and upon the Exchange, and vve have already rendered our
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irrecoverable enemy the Duke of <HI>Buckingham</HI> as odious as a Toade, &s;o that the people are apt to beleeve any thing again&s;t him; vve hope to be revenged of that ball of Wildfire the Duke, and &s;hortly to quench his fury; you &s;hall &s;ee the &s;ame Sword that hath vvounded us, drawn upon the vvound vvith an Oyle that vve anointed, it &s;hall make us vvhole, and this &s;hall be done, The Parliament as a great &s;hip hath da&s;hed twice again&s;t the &s;ame Rocke, and vve have &s;o vvrought up|on the &s;everall complexions of Parliament men in charging the mo&s;t temperate and vvi&s;er &s;ort; that the be&s;t vvay to over|throw the Duke is by humble Petition to his Maje&s;tie, vvith the violent &s;ort vve have taken a contrary cour&s;e by vvorking upon their pa&s;&s;ions, and inebriating their fancies vvith pro|babilities and precedents that vvere never heard of, that Fa|vourites have not been Parliament proofe; they may vvre&s;tle for a time, but at la&s;t the Parliament hath overthrowne them upon their backs. We doe encourage them vvith all the vvit vve have to fall upon the Duke, and per&s;wade them, now is the time or never, the King being in &s;uch apparent nece&s;&s;ity, in&s;omuch as vve a&s;&s;ure our &s;elves God hath for&s;aken and in|fatuated them, that they &s;hall not onely &s;trike and da&s;h upon the rocke againe, but &s;plit and vvracke in the bottomle&s;&s;e Sea of di&s;traction: vve have now many &s;trings to our bow, and have &s;trongly fortified our faction and have added two bul|warkes more: for vvhen K. <HI>Iames</HI> lived, you know he was very vehement again&s;t Arminiani&s;m, &amp; interrupted vvith his pe&s;ti|lent wit, and deep learning, our &s;trong de&s;ignes in <HI>Holland,</HI> and was a great friend to that old rebel &amp; heretick the P. of <HI>Orange.</HI> Now we have planted that &s;overaigne drug <HI>Arminiani&s;me,</HI> which we hope will purge the Prote&s;tants from their Here&s;ie, and that flouri&s;heth and bears fruits in due &s;ea&s;on; The ma|terials which builds upon other Bulwarks are the Projectors and Beggerers of all ranks and qualities what&s;oever; both the&s;e factions cooperate to de&s;troy the Parliament, and intro|duce
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a new &s;pecies and form of government which is elegant. The&s;e factions &s;erve as direct Medicines and In&s;truments to our end, which is the univer&s;all Catholique Monarchie; our foundation is mutation, this mutation will cau&s;e a relaxation, and many violent di&s;ea&s;es in the body, as the Stone, Gout, &amp;c. And to the &s;peedy di&s;traction or perpetuall and in&s;ufferable angui&s;h of the body, which is wor&s;e then death it &s;elfe, we proceed with Coun&s;ell and mature deliberation when and how to worke upon the Dukes jealou&s;ie and revenge, and in this we give the honour to tho&s;e which merit it, which are the Church Catholiques.</P>
<P>There is another matter of con&s;equence, which wee take much in our con&s;ideration and tender care, which is, The Puritans, that they hang not upon the Dukes ears; they are impudent &s;ubtill people, and that is to be feared, le&s;t they &s;hould negotiate a reconciliation between the Duke and the Parliament; that is certain, the Duke would gladly have re|conciled him&s;elfe at the Parliament at <HI>Oxford</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin|&s;ter:</HI> But now we a&s;&s;ure our &s;elves we have handled the mat|ter, that both Duke &amp; Parliament are irreconcileable. For the better preventing of the Prote&s;tants, the Arminians have al|ready blocked up the Dukes ears, and we have tho&s;e of our Religion which &s;tand continually Sentinels at the Dukes Chamber to &s;ee who goes in and out: we cannot be too care|full and circum&s;pect in this regard. I cannot chu&s;e but laugh to &s;ee how &s;ome of our coat have accoutered them&s;elves; you would &s;carce know them if you &s;aw them, and that is ad|mirable, how in &s;peech and ge&s;ture they act the Puritans. The Cambridge Schollers, to their wofull experience, &s;hall &s;ee we can act the Puritans a little better then they can act the Ie&s;uites: They abu&s;ed our Patron, Saint <HI>Ignatius,</HI> in je&s;t, but we will make them &s;mart for it in earne&s;t. I hope you will excu&s;e my digre&s;&s;ion, for I confe&s;&s;e unto you, I am at this in&s;tant tran&s;ported with joy to &s;ee how happily all in|&s;truments
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and means, as well great as le&s;&s;e, cooperate to our purpo&s;e.</P>
<P>But to return to the main fabrick, our foundation is <HI>Armi|niani&s;me:</HI> The Arminians and Projectors, as it appeareth in the Premi&s;&s;es affect mutation; this wee &s;econd and enforce by all probable Arguments we can: In the fir&s;t place we take into our con&s;ideration the Kings honour and pre&s;ent nece&s;&s;i|ty, and we &s;hew how the King may free him&s;elfe of his ward|&s;hip, as <HI>Lewis</HI> the eleventh did, and for his greater &s;plendor and lu&s;tre, he may rai&s;e a va&s;t revenue, and not be behold|ing to his Subjects, which is by way of impo&s;ition and exci&s;e; we in&s;tance in the Low Countries, and &s;hew what a ma&s;&s;e of Money they rai&s;ed to pay the Armies by Sea and Land, meer|ly out of exci&s;e. Then our Church Catholikes proceed to &s;hew the means how to &s;ettle this exci&s;e, which mu&s;t be by a mercenary Army of Hor&s;e and Foot; for the Hor&s;e we have made it &s;ure they &s;hall be Forraigners and Germans, who will eat up the Kings revenues and &s;poile the Countrey where&s;o|ever they come, though they &s;hould be well paid; what ha|vocke will they then make when they get no pay, for when they are not duly paid, &s;urely they will doe much more in mi&s;chiefe then we of the Catholike Armie will doe. We are provident and carefull that this mercenary Armie of 2000. Hor&s;e and 20000. Foot &s;hall bee taken out and in pay before the Exci&s;e be &s;etled, inforcing the Exci&s;e. The Countrey is mo&s;t ready to ri&s;e; if the mercenary Armie &s;ubjugate the Countrey, then the Souldiers and Projectors &s;hall be paid out of the Confi&s;cations: If the Countrey bee too hard for the Souldiers, then they mu&s;t con&s;equently mutinie, which is equally advantagious to us.</P>
<P>Our &s;uperlative de&s;igne is, to worke the Prote&s;tants as well as the Catholikes to welcome in the Conquerour; that is, by this meanes we hope in&s;tantly to di&s;&s;olve Trade, and hinder the building of the Shipping, in propounding probable de|&s;ignes,
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and put the State upon Expeditions, as that of Coals, in taking away the Merchants Ships, and feeding them with hopes to take the We&s;t-India Fleet, which is to &s;eek a nee|dle in a bottle of Hay. His Catholike Maje&s;tie &s;hall not want our be&s;t intelligence; be&s;ides he hath <HI>Pi&s;tacheos</HI> and <HI>Caravils,</HI> which are &s;till abroad to di&s;cover, &s;o you cannot be &s;urpri&s;ed in any Harbour. When Trade is ruined, and Shipping de|cayed, what will become of Exci&s;e? What will become of Nobles and Gentlemens Revenues? the Yeomen and Far|mers, in which con&s;i&s;teth the glory of the Infanterie of this Kingdom, they will turn Rogues, and re&s;emble the Pea&s;ants in <HI>France,</HI> who are little better then &s;laves. Trade and Ship|ping is al&s;o much decayed abroad, that <HI>London</HI> is at it were be&s;ieged for want of fuell, for Sea-coale are at three pound a Chaldron. When things are brought to this perfection, which we hope will be by that time his &s;acred Maje&s;ty hath &s;etled his affairs in <HI>Germany,</HI> all the people in generall will long for a conque&s;t, mi&s;&s;ing their means and revenues which &s;hould maintaine and &s;upport them according to their &s;eve|rall ranks and qualities. Then we a&s;&s;ure our &s;elves that the Lands which were rent and torne from the Church by that ruinous mon&s;ter <HI>Henry</HI> the eighth, &s;hall be re-a&s;&s;umed by our mighty Protector, his Catholike Maje&s;tie, to the recalling of tho&s;e which are exiled, and delivering thou&s;ands of &s;ouls which &s;uffer per&s;ecution at home for the te&s;timony of a good con&s;cience. Joyn your prayers with ours, imploring the ble&s;|&s;ed Virgin, and all the ho&s;t of Angels and holy Martyrs, to intercede for us. Thus hoping to &s;ee Count <HI>Tilly,</HI> and Mar|que&s;&s;e <HI>Spinola</HI> here about July come twelve moneths, I re&s;t: In the meane time we pray for all the happy &s;ucce&s;&s;e in Ger|many and the Low-Countries.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From the County of <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"></DATELINE> <SIGNED>Your friend <HI>J. M.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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