Chap. IL 7lae HISTORY of the PURITANS. 499 The words of the prince of Wales's oath were there: " I Charles prince KingJames . " of Wales engage myfelf that all things contained in the foregoing r622. °` articles, which concern as well the fufpenfion as abrogation of all laws made againft roman catholicks, (ball within three years infallibly " take efred, and fooner if pofíible; which we will have to lie upon our confcience and royal honour : And Iwill intercede with my father " that the ten years of education of the children that (hall be born of R" this marriage, which the pope of Rome delires may be lengthened to twelve, (hall be prolonged to the Paid term. And I (wear, that if e` the entire power of difpofing this matter be devolved upon me, I will " grant and approve of the laid term. Furthermore, as oft as the In- Ra(hw. " fanta (hall delire that I fhould give ear to divines and others, whom 17°1. 1. " her highnefs (hall be pleated to employ in matters of the roman ca- p' 89' tholick religion, I will hearken to them willingly, without all difficul- t° ties, and laying afide all excufes." Under thefe advantages, the papifts appeared openly, and behaved with an offenfive infolence; but the hearts of all true protefiants trembled for themfelves and their poflerity. And archbifhop Abbot, though under grchhuap a cloud, ventured to write to the king upon the fubjelt ; befeeching him Abbot a- to confider, " whether by the toleration which his majefty propofes, he gait0 their. " is not Petting up that molt damnable and heretical doctrine of the " church of Rome, the whore of Babylon? How hateful mull this be it toGod, and grievous to your good fubjeEls, Pays he, that your ma- °` jelly, who hath learnedly written again ft thefe wicked herefes, fhould " now thew yourfelf a patron of thole doEtrines, which your pen has told the world, and your confcience tells yourfelf, are fuper"ftitious, ido- " latrous, and deteftable. Befides, this toleration which you endea- e` vour to let up by proclamation, cannot be done without a parliament, " unlefs your majefty will let your fubjelts fee that you will take a li- berty to throw down the laws at your pleafure. And above all, I be- Fuller, " leech your majefly to confider, left by this toleration your majefty do B. X. " not draw upon the kingdom in general, and on yourfelf in particular, P. rob: God's heavy wrath and ',indignation." But this wife king, inftead of hearkening to the remonflrances of his Prince of proteftant fubjefts, put the peace of his kingdom, and the whole pro- ooPdadñd teitant religion, into the hands of the Spaniard, by fending his fort with t the duke of Buckingham to Madrid, to fetch home the Infanta; a piece of confidence that the Solomon of the age fhould not have been guilty of. When the prince was gone, it is raid, that Archy the king'sfool, clapped, his cap upon the king's head. The king afking him the reafon, he anfwered, becaufe he had lent the prince into Spain. But Pays his majefly, what if he fhould come back fafe? Why then, Pays Archy, Iwill take my S f f 2 cap
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