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the citizens, for which he gave them great thanks: and, for the first petition, though he and her Majesty had before proposed to winter at Hampton Court, yet, being now fully persuaded, that the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, and the most considerable part of the citizens of London, had not any hand in the disorders mentioned by Mr. Recorder, in his second petition, he intended, and so he knew her Majesty would, to alter his resolution, and with all convenient speed repair to Whitehall, there to keep their Christmas, and be ready to do any thing else, that might promote the trade of the city, desiring Mr. Recorder to join with him, in taking some course, for prevention of the like disorders for the future.

After his Majesty had ended his answer, and that Mr. Recorder, and Sir George Whitmore, had kissed his royal hand, the next Alderman in seniority kneeled down, to receive the like princely favour, when suddenly, and unexpectedly, his Majesty drew a sword, and, instead of giving him his hand to kiss, he laid his sword upon his shoulder, and knighted him; the like he did to the other Aldermen and two Sheriffs, being in number seven.

This done, their Majesties gave them their hands to kiss; the like princely favour vouchsafed they to the commoners of the committee; and, after many gracious demonstrations of love to them, and the whole city, his Majesty commanded, that they should dine before they left the court.

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His Majesty's command was fully and effectually performed: for, as soon as they had in most humble manner taken their leaves of their Ma jesties, they were brought (by the Right Honourable the Earl of Dorset, and by Mr. Comptroller, and other officers of the court) into a room, where a table was prepared for them, and no others, to dine at, where they were bountifully feasted, being honoured with the presence of the Earl of Dorset, who vouchsafed to dine with them, and, in their Majesties names, gave them exceeding great welcome, expressing to them that love, which he ever hath abundantly manifested to the city. Mr. Comptroller likewise dined with them, using them with very great respect.

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While they were at dinner, there came two gentlemen to them, one from his Majesty, the other from the Queen, to let them know, that their Majesties had remembered the health of the Lord Mayor, and the whole city; which they all entertained with all due respect, returning their humble thanks, for that their Majesties extraordinary favour.

Dinner being done, they took their leaves of the honourable Earl, and other officers of quality and eminency of the court, and departed, returning to the Lord Mayor, with great joy and comfort, to whom they made relation of their Majesties grace and favour to his Lordship, the whole city, and themselves.

Thus have you seen, as briefly as we could, the work of this day, and in it, as well the demonstration of the city's love, and dutiful affection to his Majesty, and his royal consort, as their Majesties gracious and loving eptation of it: the former being but the bounden service

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of good and loyal subjects; the other, an extraordinary act of favour and grace, worthy to be engraven in tables of brass, to be preserved to all posterity.

Nothing now remains, but that we, and all other his Majesty's loving and loyal people, heartily desire of God, to crown his Majesty with all spiritual and temporal blessings; that he may long and peaceably reign over us, to the re-establishing of pure religion, and the preservation of his church undefiled, as from idolatry and superstition, so from prophaneness and schism: that we, and our posterity, may ever praise the glorious name of God, in the great congregation, with unanimous and uniform consent, for all his blessings daily conferred upon us in his Majesty, and learn true and pious obedience to him, as set over us, for our good: that his kingdoms may flourish in peace and happiness, to God's glory, his Majesty's honour, and the good of all his loving subjects, who (we doubt not, but) to this will all heartily say, Amen.

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DISCOVERY OF THE DEVILSH DESIGNS, AND KILLING PROJECTS,

Of the Society of Jesuits, of late Years projected, and, by them, hitherto acted, in Germany,

INTENDED, BUT GRACIOUSLY PREVENTED, IN ENGLAND.
Translated out of the Latin Copy.

DEDICATED TO THE HIGH-COURT OF PARLIAMENT,

By W. F. X. B. Minister of Christ's Gospel,

From all Sedition, and privy Conspiracy; from all false Doctrine

and Heresy,

Good Lord deliver us.

London, printed by T. Fawcet, dwelling in Grub-street, 1641. Quarto, containing thirty-six pages.

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To the High and Honourable, the Lords and House of Commons of England, in Parliament assembled.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

ABOUT twelve years ago, there came to my hand a little tract, written, in Latin, by one who stiled himself Johannes Camiltonus, and professed himself to have been sometimes a probationer in that co!lege of Jesuits in Germany, whereof Jacobus del Rio, at that time pro

vincial, was the visitor. This book, in the year 1607, was by him written, and dedicated to the protestant electors of Germany, as a discovery, beforehand, of those most damnable projects, which that society then had in agitation against the people of Germany. The title of this book was, De Studiis Jesuitarum abstrusioribus, concerning the more secret and reserved practices of the Jesuits: whereunto had those princes, to whom this book was dedicated, given such timely ear and belief, as they might have done, they had, in all próbability, prevented the greatest part of those unparalleled miseries, which, since the beginning of the wars there (and that was not till eleven years after the publication of this book) these incendiaries of Christendom have brought upon the German nation, to the astonishment of all the world. But we see what hath since been permitted to these fellows to do, and what the neglect of a timely taking heed, to a seasonable warning, hath brought upon those then flourishing princes and states.

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That we, therefore, might learn, by other men's harms, to rectify our own particular, I have endeavoured the publication of this translation, under your honours 'protection; having taught this discoverer to speak our language, for the publick benefit of our English nation against them: I dare boldly say, even yourselves being my judges, when shall have read this small tract, that the same course hath. been taken, by these common incendiaries, for breeding a disturbance, and bringing all things into a confusion, both in our church and state, that was then projected, and, since then, acted upon Germany. Nor do I think, but it is sufficiently known to your honours, and grave wisdoms, that the same wheel of mischief, that wrought all the woes of Germany, since the year 1618, hath, for some years last past, been set also at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland; witness all the factions and fractions in church and state, the disturbances and discontents between the prince and people, the fearful divisions betwixt the clergy and clergy, betwixt the court and city, and betwixt the king and his commons, yea, even betwixt the two crowns of England and Scotland; all which have received their birth and breeding from the devilish designs of those sons of division, the society of Jesuits, and been fomented, almost to a perfect flame, by their agents, and adherents, their deluded disciples of this nation; and had undoubtedly broke out, and produced, in short time, the like effects amongst us, that they have done in Germany, had not Almighty God, in mere mercy to this nation, and in his divine com passion to his poor church in England, thus ready to perish, stepped in to our rescue, by his blessed hand of providence stirring up the spirits of our noble peers, to represent to his sacred Majesty the imminent danger, and graciously inclining his royal heart to hearken thereto, and so that we may say with the psalmist, Ps. cxviii. 23. This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes. And the same God, if it be his blessed will, in his own time, by his own means, perfect that good work of mercy, which he hath so graciously begun for us of this land and nation, by rooting out, from amongst us, that disloyal brood of Inigo Loyola, that our eyes may see it,

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and we may say, the Lord hath been magnified upon the borders of England. For, assuredly, though the Roman factors may now justly say, as Edom did in the prophecy of Malachi, i. 4. We are impoverished, but we will return, and build up our desolate places': for they cannot but be sensible of their own counsels, defeated both by sea and land; by water, in the year 1588, by fire, 1605; and it is not to be doubted, that they apprehend a fear of the miscarriage of their great and long intended plot of wit, now begun to break out this year, 1641; all which, notwithstanding, they still retain a resolution to return, and build up their desolate places; yet I desire them to read, and take notice of the words following, in the place before cited, 'Yet, thus saith the Lord of Hosts, they shall build up, but I will destroy, and men shall call them the border of wickedness, and the people with whom the Lord is angry for ever. And your eyes shall see it, and men shall say, the Lord's name hath been magnified upon the borders of England. And, to speak truly what I think, I must confess, that I have conceived an hope, of a long time, that this year, 1641, which compleateth the century, since that society had their bull from the pope, under protection whereof they have wrought so much mischief, would shew unto the world an apparent alteration in the body of that monster, the society of Jesuits. A point, which I am induced the rather to believe, because I have been certified as much, in effect, from a couple of their own men, of eminent note for learning; the one Paulus Florenius, an Italian, the other Christianus Franken, a German; the former whereof was divinity reader, the other philosophy reader, in the imperial college. of Jesuits at Vienna; both which, above threescore years ago, upon just grounds, expressed in a book by them published, forsook that religion, and became protestants. That book also is to be seen, and, if it please this honourable house to command it, shall be published also in English, for I find it written in Latin. And, if their predic tion fail not more in the conclusion, than it hath done in the progress hitherto, I am confident that this may prove a very fatal year to that society. But I fear I hold you too long from the book itself; humbly, therefore, commending you all to Almighty God, in my due and daily prayers, I leave this discovery to your consideration,

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Yours, in all the duty of a minister of Christ's gospel,

W. F. X. B.

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HAT Marcus Cato sometimes spoke, concerning the Roman soothsayers, that he wondered how they could forbear to smile upon each other, so often as they met, may not unfitly be applied to the Jesuits. It is a wonder that one Jesuit, when he looketh upon another, doth not straightway burst forth into a laughing outright, they being, amongst themselves, privy to such impostures practised

upon the people. I speak not touching your simpler sorts of Jesuits from whom these more reserved and closer practices of the society are altogether concealed, either in respect they are not held wise enough, forsooth, to be acquainted with them, or that they are thought too devout to entertain them, or else in regard of their short continuance in that society; for all such are so kept short, through severity of discipline, that not one of them, except he be wonderous quick of scent, can ever smell out, in the least measure, what knavery is therein practised, under a shew of holiness. My discourse only toucheth the prime and principal fellows of that society, their regents, fathers, provincials, and generals; all which are so universally and jointly tainted with all manner of wickedness, but especially with whoredom, covetousness, and magick, that, indeed, any reasonable man may think it little less than a miracle, if a Jesuit, of this rank, meeting such another upon a sudden, and beholding, as it were, another picture, or lively representation of himself, should have power to abstain from laughing outright.

I therefore thought it not amiss, considering the premisses, to lay open unto the world some particular passages, and practices of that society, of the greatest part whereof myself have been an eye-witness, and some part whereof hath been related unto me by Jesuits, whom I am able to name, and will undoubtedly nominate, if they shall but dare, in the least manner, to lift up their tongues against me, or to contradict what I have written. And, howsoever, at this time, I pass over things briefly, and do only, as it were, give you a first draught thereof, I do purpose, in due time, God assisting me, to do it more largely and compleatly, with expression of all and singular circumstances thereunto appertaining.

First of all, then, at your entrance into any college of Jesuits, espe cially if it be situated in or near unto any large, and populous, and rich place. But, alas! why do I say, if it be built there (seeing they have no colleges in any poor, mean, or obscure place.) At your first entry, I say, into such a place or college, take principal notice of the porter of their gate, and him you shall find to look like unto the picture of a very Charon, or, rather, a Cerberus; for the most part, you shall observe him to be a man of very great years, or, if he be younger, he is a fellow of most approved trust and secrecy. And this is the man, if any such there be, who is well skilled in all the mysteries of the Jesuits Cabal, or reserved divinity.

In this fellow's keeping is great store of apparel, both of men and women, of every degree and calling; and, with this apparel, do the Jesuits habit themselves, according to the quality that every one findeth himself ablest to personate, and so practise wonderful impostures in the world. For, at some times, being habited like soldiers, very gallant, they walk in the streets and high-ways, whoring and swaggering in the publick stews. At other times, in the civil habits of citizens, professing themselves to be of the reformed religion, they pry up and down, and listen in inns, in play-houses, in taverns, upon the exchange, and in all places of publick meetings, wheresoever there is any frequent

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