The H Js·T 0 R Y ·of the PuRITANS. VoL. II. K. Charles I. ved; that he was fometimes with him in his barge, fometimes in his -~ coach, fometimes in private with him in his garden, and frequenrly at his table. The like has been proved of Santla Clara, St. Gi/es Leander, Smith, and Price, and we can't but wonder at his denying that he knew them to be priefts, when the evidence of his knowledge of fome of them has been produced under his own hand ; and the witneifes for the others ·were no meaner perfons than the lords of the council, and the high com. •miilione1's, ·(a·mongft which was himfelf) employed to apprehend prie!ts and delinquents; from whence we conclude, that all the archbi!hop's predecellors fince the reformation, had not half the intimacy with popi!h priefts and jefuits as himfelf, and his harbouring fome of them that were native engtifh men, is within the ftatutes of 23 Eliz. cap. 1. and 27 Eliz. cap. 2. 'Tis very certain, that the liberty the jefuits have enjoyed in prifon, and elfewhere, was owing to his connivance; and though the· archbi!hop is fo happy as not to remember his checking the officers, for their diligence in apprehending popifh pridls, yet his difiinClion between Prynne, p. not perjecuting papifis, and prcflcuting puritans, befides the quibble, is an 458, 448.j unanfwerable argument of his affection to the one beyond the other. .And dijcoun· The managers produced fix or eight witneifes, to prove the archbifhop's ten~ncmg_ difcountenancing and threatening fuch as were active in apprehending !~;.;~ projecu- priefis and jefuits. And though he woulcl wafh his hands of the affair of Prynne, p. the pope's nuncio, refiding here in character, and holding an intimate 446. correfpondence with the court, becau.fe himfelf did not appear in it, yet 'tis evident, that fecret ary Windebank, who was the archbifhop's .crea– ture and confident, held an avowed correfpondence with them. If he h ad no concern in this affi1ir, fhould he not, out of regard to the protef– tant religion, and church of England, even to the hazard of his archbi· fh oprick, have made fome open protetftation, when Gregorio Pan-zani re- 'lo his con– cealing Ha– bernfield's plot. Prynne, p. s64, &c. . fided here in character two years ; Gregorio Con a Jcot for three years and two months; and lafi of all, count Rqjetti, till driven away by the pre– fent parliJment. It has been fuffic iently proved, that the archbifhop was concerned in theJPanifh and french matches, and in the in(huctions given to the prince at his going to Spain, to fatisfy the pope's nuncio about king James's having ·declared the pope to be mltichrijl; for the duke of Buckingham was the prince's di rector, and himfelf acknowledged that he was the duke's confeifor. And as to t-he late plots of Habertifield, we have owned in our evi– dences, that at firfi he difcovered it to the king, becaufe he imagined it to be a plot of the purita11s, but when he found the parties engaged in it to be papifis, and among others, fecretary Windebank and Sir Toby Mathew his own creatures, .he then concealed his papers, called it a fham plot, and brow•
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