68o -'I'he HIS T 0 R Y of the PuRI'I' ANS. VoL. II. Cl Ki 1 ng II together with the remedies, which if the reader will carefully conlide 1• lares •l '11 "Id'" I d'ar f fl: ' 1 6 71 1e WI ea.1 y 11cover t 1e 1uerent Utage o prote ant non-conformifis ~ and popifh recufants. Remerlits propofed by the parlia• ment. The eau[~ ofthe increafe of popery, were, I. The great number of jef~its who were all over the kingdom. 2. The chapels in great towns for faymg mafs, befides ambaffadors houfes, whither great numbers of his majefl:y's fubjeCl:s reforted without controul. 3· The fraternities or con· •vents of prie!ls and jefuits at St. James's, .and in feveral parts of the king– dom, befides their fchools for the educating youth. 4· The public fale of popifh catecbifms, &c. 5· The gener~l remifii1efs of magifhates, and other officers, in not convicting papifl:s according to law. 6. Suf– peCled recufants enjoying offices by themfelves or their deputies. 7· Pre– fentations to livings by popifh recufants, or by others as they dirctl:. 8. Sending youth beyond fea under tutors, to be educated in the popifh reli– gion. 9· The few Exchequer proc~(fes that have been iffued forth, rhough many have been certified thither. 1 o. The great infolence of papifl:s in Ireland, where archbi(hops and bifhops of the pope's creation, appear publicly, mafs being fa id openly in Dublin, and other parts of the king• dom. The remedies which the houfe propofed againft thefe growing mifchiefs were. I. That a proclamation be iffued out to banii11 all popil11 priefl:s and jefuits out of the realm, except fuch as attend the queen and foreign ambaf– fadors. 2. That the king's fubjeCl:s be forbid going to hear mafs and other exercifes of the romijh religion. 3· That no office or employment of public authority be put into the hands of popifh recufants. 4· That all fraternities, convents, and popifh fchools be abolifhed, and the jefuits, prie!ls, friars, and fchool-mafl:ers punifhed. 5· That his majefiy require .all the officers of the Exchequer, to iffue out proc~!fes againtl: popin1 reCLI– fants conviCt, certified thither. 6. That Plzmket the pretended primate of Ireland, and 'Talbot arcbbifhop of Dubliu, be fent for into England, to anfwer fuch matters as il1ould be objeCted againfl: them. Condull of The king promifed to confider the addre(s, but hoped they would altbe court. low him to ditl:inguifh between new converts, and thofe who bar! been ~aze~t.e559. bred up in the popifh religion, and ferved him and his father in the late um wars. After fome time a procL1mation was iffued, in which his maje!ly declares, that he had always adhered to the true religiou eflablijhed iu this kingdom agaitjl all temptations whatfoever; and that he would employ his utmotl: care and zeal in its defence. But the magiftrates knowing DNke of his maje!ly's inclinations, took no care of the execution of it. Nay, Yorkabjum the duke of York the king's brother, having lately loll: his dutchefs, tl';t;otejlant lord C/arendon's daughter,. who died a papitl:, made a formal abjura– r·t 1g10n. tion
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