Baxter - BX1765 B39 1691

... r 12 J ~ ·16231 (when the Match was broken) and faith 'to them, [ It hath been talked of my remifn~fs ~ in maintenance of Religion, and fufpicion of a ~ Toleration: But as God !11all ju.dge me, I never . 'thought nor meant, nor ever in .word expre!feq f any thing that fa 17oured of it. ] But the flinging Pet~tion agalnfi 'the Papi.fls ( as the I\:ing ~alled it) which this Parliament offered him {hewed fiill what they were againfi. If the Papifis fay thefe Articles frufh:ate prove no forbearance of Severities againfr us ; Rufh– worthan[wers them faying, pag. 156. ofthe Frepch Match, [~In Novemb. the · Articles V\ 7 ere Swor~ ~to by King 1ames, Prince Charles, and the French ·rr King. . The Articles concerning Religion were • ~ not much fhort of thofe for tbe Sp?nifi1 Match.] And pag. 173. ['That the Engliih Carholicks ~ ihourd be no more fearched after,' 11or molefied 'for their Religion. J · , · · § 5. And they have the lefs reafon to accufe the King ofCruelty, or yet to report that he was in Heart a Papifi, when he rather endured their dif7 pleafure than he would nirn to them, and yet en– dured the difgufi both of the Church~men and Par.. liament than he would lay by his Clemency to7 ,wax:d them. ''The Commons, faith Rujhworth 'pag. 2Ij· · An. 1625. cenfured Mr. ~i. Monta~ue f fvr endeavouring to reconcile England and Rome ' and to ·alienate the Kings Affections from his ~ well-3ffect.ed Subjects. And the A. Bif110p .Abbot wrote this Letter to ~he King. · · · · · ·· ( , , .,. • . J

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