Chap. V. The HISTORY of the PURITANS. 6o5, Rome; cardinal Barberini was made prote&or of the englifh nation, and K. Charles L. a fociety was erected under the title of the congregation for propagating rt 6, thefaith. Richard Smith titular bill-lop of Chalcedon, exercifed epifco- Their num- pal jurifdiction over the englifh catholicks by commiflion from the pope bers and in- he conferred orders, and appeared in Lancafhire with his mitre and cro- FuÌer Fier ; feignior Con or Cunreus the pope's legate gained over feveral of the, B. XI: gentry, and attempted the king himfelf by prefents of little popifh toys p. s35. 137. and pictures, with which his majefty was wonderfully delighted. The Prynne, papifts had a common purfe, with which theypurchafed feveral mono- Piox 8 and polies, and bellowed the profits upon their bell friends ; feveral of their Firebrands, . military men were put into commifiìon, and great numbers were lifted in Part 3d. P. 124. his majefty's armies againft the foots. Collyer,. But let the reader form his judgment of the numbers and ßrength of p. 781, the roman catholicks from lord Clarendon, who fays " The papifts had Lord Cla- " for many years enjoyed a great calm, beingon the matter abfolved from rendon'a ac- the fevereft parts of the law, and difpenfedwith for the gentle/1. They ethem of " were grown to be a part of the revenue, without any probable danger Vol. I. " of being made a f orifice to the law. They were looked upon as good P 148. fubjeas at court, and good neighbours in the country; all the reftraints " and reproaches of former times being forgotten : But they were not " prudent managers of their profperity, being elated with the connivance " and proteaion they received; and though I am perfuaded their num- bers encreafed not, their pomp and boldnefs did to that degree, that " as if they affected to be thought dangerous to the (late, they appeared " more publickly, entertained and urged conferences more avowedly, than. " had before been known. They reforted at common hours to mars to " Somerfet-Houle, and returned thence in great multitudes with the fame- " barefacednefs as others come from the Savoy and other neighbouring " churches. They attempted and fometimes gained profelytes of weak. " and uninformed ladies, with fuch circumftances as provoked the rage " and deftroyed the charityof great and powerful families which longed " for their fuppref3ion ; they grew not only fecret contrivers, but publick. " profeft promoters of and minifters in the molt odious and molt Brie. " vous projects, as in that of foap, formed framed and executed by al- " molt a corporationof that religion, which under that licence and notion. " might be and were fufpefted to be qualified for other agitations. The " priefls and fuch as were in orders, (orders that in themfelves were " punifhable with death) were departed from their former modefty and, ".fear, and were as willing to be known as to be hearkened to; info- " much that a jefuit at Paris who was coming for England, had the. n boldnefs to vitiit the ambaffador there, who knew him to be fuck,. and offering him his fervice, acquainted. him with his journey, as if there': " hadi
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