[ 6& ] _. , ~_had run great hazards of being afTaffinated.) Tbe refi is , 'That the King refolved to fettle ' Liberty of Confcience by calling an Affembly ' ofTrufiy Engliih and Foreign Divines at nover ' or Boloigne. · I havfi recited this to £hew that as thev are not wanting in Art and lnduHry , fo they ahufe the Name-of Princes to promote their Caufe. Who c;an tell but much of this is Lies? And if King ]ames to prevent Butchery, gave them a few fair words, it's like they' add~ more cf their own. And if he ufed the Papifl:s ,kindly, as being againft Cruelty , they were the more ,unexcufable that woulq have defiroyed him, and conld not be kept in Peace. . , §. 4·· Yet do the Papifls make people l:,eyond Sea believe that they live here under conftant Martyrdom ! Sure if Hifcory be to be believed, the Articles of King 1ames and his Son, our late King, about the Spanifh and French Matches,~ do acquit both Kings from any jufc Accufation of ~ruelty againft the Papifts. Rujhworth afcermen– tioned thus reciteth the private Articles of thefirft Match, Pag. 86, 87, 88. · 1. ' Parricu~ar Laws made againft RomanCa– c- tholicks,under which other Vaffids of our Realm ' are not comprehended, and g~neral La,vs under ' which all are egually eomprized , if repugnant ' to the Romifh Rtcligion, ihall not -any time here– ' after -by any means or chancewhatever, direCtly -'·or indireCtly ~· be commanded to be put in '"Execution againfi the faid Roman Catbolicks: 'And we will caufe that our Counci.l iliall .rake 'the fame Oath, as far as it pertains ro them, and ~-belongs to· the Execution which by them and .~· their ~inifters is obe exercifed.. z.. ~Iha~
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