512 he HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap. III. 1 Ch2arlesLavoidable by law. ANSw. It/hall be done, according as is dejired. That ) your majefty give order to your judges and all officers of juf4ice, to fee the laws againft popifh recufants duly executed. ANSw. His mizjelly leaves the laws to their course. That your majefty will remove from places of authority and government all popifh recufants. ANSw. His majejly will give order accordingly. That order be taken for difarming all popifh recu- lants conviée according to law, and that popifh recufants be commanded to retire to their houles, and be confined within five miles of home. ANSW. The laws /hall be put in execution. That none of your majefty's natural born fubjeées go to hear mats at the houles or chapels of foreign ambaffadors. ANSW. The king will give order accordingly. That the fiatute of 1 Eliz. for the payment of twelve-pence every funday by Inch as abfent from divine fervice in the church, without a lawful ex- cufe, be put in execution. ANSW. The king promifes the penalties (hall not be dfpénfed with. That your majefly will extend your princely care to Ireland, that the like courfes may be taken there for eflablifhing the true religion. ANSW. His majefly will do all that a religious king can do in that a#air. Remarks. It is furprizing that the king fhould make there promifes to his par- Rlbw liament within fix months after he had figned his marriage articles, in P. 9' which he had engaged to let all Roman catholicks at liberty, and to fuller no fearch or moleflation of them for their religion, and had in confe- quence of it pardoned twenty Rorni%h priefts, and (in imitation of his royal father) given orders to his lord- keeper to direée the judges and jufti ces of peace all over England, " to forbear all manner of proceedings .< againft his Roman catholick fubjeéts, by, information, indiétment, or « otherwife; it being his royal pleafure that there fhould be a ceffirtion <. of all and fingular pains and penalties whereunto they were liable by Rapin. " any laws, ftatutes, or ordinances of this realm," But as a judicious, writer obferves, it feems to have been a maxim in this and the laft reign, that no faith is to be kept with parliaments. The papilla were apprized of the reafons of irate that obliged the king to comply outwardly with what he did not really intend ; and therefore though his majeflydireéted; a letter to his archbifhop, [December 15, 1625.] to proceed againft po- pifh recufants, and a proclamation was publifhed to recal the Englijhyouuth from popifh feminaries, little regard was paid to them. The king him- felf releafed eleven Romifh priefts out of prifon, by fpecial warrant the next day ; the titular bifhop of Chalcedon, by letters dated June 1, 1625. appointed a popifh vicar-general and archdeacons all overEngland, whole Rulhw. names were publifhed in the year 1643. And when the next parlia- P. 390. ment petitioned for the removal of papifis from offices of truft, it appeared
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