Chap. r. The HISTORY of the PURIrANs. 79.1 Upon the firfi news of the irifh maffacre, the commons turned them- K. Charles I. Selves into a committee of the whole houfe, and cam to the following 't164ti7 refolutions, " That all roman catholicks of quality in the feveral counties proceedings of England be fecured, and that all papifts depart fromLondon to their ofparliament refpeêtive places of abode in the country ; that the houle of lords be upon the in- " detred to join with the commons in a petition for diffolving the con-- urret3ion " vent of capuchins, and fending them out of the kingdom ; that the fo- " reign ambaffadors be defired todeliver up fuch priefts of the king's fub- " jells as are in their . houles ; that a lift be brought inof the queen's fer- " vants ; and that a proclamation be iffued out for all ftrangers that are " not proteftants, to give an account of their names and places of abode, " or depart the kingdom." They alto difpatched a meffenger to the king, befeeching him to concur with them in fecuring the nation againft any further attempts of the papifts; and not to employ any in his councils who were favourers of popery, fuperfiition, or innovation in religion. They voted two hundred thoufand pounds to be borrowed immediately for the fervice of Ireland, and appointed the train-bands of Weflminfíer to guard them from the infolence and affronts of vagrant foldiers about the court, . and to fecure them from other defigns which they had reafon to fufpe&. The lords ordered all romifh reczfánts to remove out of the inns of court . and Chancery. The commons ordered the oaths of allegiance and fupre- macy to be tendered to all itfhgentlemen within thofe courts; for it now Natrona, " appears (lays Mr. Pym) that the religion of the papifts is incompatible P. 667. " with any other religion, it is deftrudhive to all others, and will endure " nothing that oppofes it. There are other religions that are not right, " but not fo def1ruélive as popery, for the principles of popery are fob- " verfive of all Rates and perlons that oppofe it." When the king returned from Scotland the latter endof November,. and The king's had been received with the acclamations of the citizens of London, he imprudenar was prevailed with by the queen and her fa&ion to check the proceedings rj of o , of the two houles, frnce thefeats were eafy, and the hearts of the englfh p. 6c6.. nation feemed to be with-him ; his majefty had recommended the fup- preffing the iri/h rebellion to the /cots reprefentatives, and by letter had committed the care of it alto to the englifh parliament ; whereupon the houfe of commons, in the king's abfence, authorized the earl of Leiceßer, by an ordinance of their own, to raife forces, and the lord high admiral to provide (hipping for their tranfportation from Chiller, and other ports ; but when the king cante to Whitehall he feemed fo unwilling to ad againft the papifts, that the parliament wereafraid of fending proteftant foldiers out of the kingdom,, left his majefty thould-take advantage of their ab-- Y -"cey
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