News from Hell, Letter
Nevvs from Hell, Rome, and the Innes of Court.
Wherein is set forth the coppy of a Letter written from the Devill to the Pope.
The true coppy of the Petition delivered to the King at Yorke.
The coppy of certaine Articles of agreement betweene the Devill, the Pope, and divers others.
The description of a Feast, sent from the Devill to the Pope; together with a short advertisement to the High Court of PARLIAMENT, with sundry other particulars.
Published for the future peace and tranquillity of the Inhabitants of Great BRITANY. By J. M.
Printed in the yeare of Grace and Reformation. 1642.
TO OVR DEARELY BELOVED SONNE THE most Pious and most Religious Primate of the Romane Church, and to all our dearely beloved Children the Cardinals, and Lordly Bishops in Europe.
Haste: Haste: Poste: Haste.
Your intire Prince and God of this world, Lucifer, Prince of Darknes and Superstition, King of Stiks and Phlegeton, Supreame Lord of Gehenna, Tartaria, Colmakia, Samoyedia, Lappia, Corelia, and Colmagoria, Prince Abyssus, and sole commander of Seeberia, Alteenia, Pecheora, and of all the infernall furies and their punife, the Jesuites, Priests, and Semenaries, Sendeth Greeting. MOst dearely beloved Sonne, and you our dutifull Children, whose sanctity we reverence, whose persons we adore, whose wisdomes wee admire, at whose policies we wonder, at whose power we muse, and at whose invincible stratagems we stand amazed.
Nor can wee in the first place, but extoll, applaud, and most highly commend thee our deare Sonne for the extraordinary care in the advancement of our Kingdome.
And as next in place the extraordinary diligent and vigilant care of all our beloved children the Lordly Bishops in the advancement of our Regall power to the great enlargement of our infernall dominions, by their rare and subtill plots, and stratagems.
And in a more speciall manner wee are pleased through our infernall grace and favour to extoll them for this their present and excellent invention, in sowing discord amongst the English hereticks, as also in provoking the Scots hereticks to an apparant opposition against their King, yea so farre as to an invasion of the Territories of England; all which services are most deare and acceptable unto us.
In respect of which services, as also for their fidelity to us and our Kingdome, we have caused our principall Secretary of estate, Don Antonio Furioso Diabolo, to make an especiall Inroulement of their names in our Calend, amongst those our deare servants the plotters of the Gun-powder-treason; and the most renowned the complotters of the former Invasion of England, in the year of grace 1588. and since the creation of the world 5609. both which services although their events were no wayes answerable according to our Royall expectation; yet those instruments that so freely adventured themselves in them, shall be ever renowned in our court infernall, and most acceptable to our person.
And for the better incouragement of these our trusty and wel-beloved servants, in the speedier advancement of this worke, now intended for the utter extirpation of all hereticks, and increase of our regall power, we are pleased by this our Royall manuell to give unto them assurance of our aide and best assistance in the most efficacious manner that our Princely power can extend unto. And because our former stratagems put in execution by our beloved Cozen and Counsellor the King of Spaine, were by him no wayes effected according to our Princely expectation: Wee have now therefore imposed our Princely command upon our beloved servant the King of France, at the humble sute made unto us, by our children the Lordly Bishops, and by some of our servants of greatest quality in the Realme of England, as also by our servants the Jesuites and Romane Catholicks of England, to have a puissant armie in readinesse for the Invasion of England at such a time, as those our children and servants shall conceive it most convenient and efficacious.
And further our will and pleasure is, that you our deare Son, shall still persist to stir up and incourage our children the Arch-bishops, as also the disciples and our loyall subjects and servants the Jesuites, Priests, and Seminaries, to this worke, that they with all their might, together with our powerfull policies granted unto them, may strive to effect this worke with all celerity; that we may once more see our Kingdome of Superstition re-established in the Monarchie of Great Brittain and Ireland.
The motives to be pressed, inducing them to the expeditious effecting of the same is principally, their respect to our Kingly honour, next their own increase of greatnes, for we promise & assure them by the word of a King infernall, That every of them shall raigne as Princes under us, not onelyonly over the bodies and estates of men, but also over their soules, by and through the many infernall graces by us most freely and benignely conferred on them: and hereby, to make them the more sensible of these our severall graces conferred on them, we are pleased therefore here at present to expresse but some few of them in particular, (as namely) pride, vainglory, hypocrisie, selfe-love of themselves; and of this present world, love of will worship, and advancement of Idolatry; Together with that speciall gift of covetousnesse, the onelyonly pillar to all the rest of our infernall graces conferred on them.
Thirdly, in respect of the cleare passage by us made for them, by setting the hereticks for this long time at variance amongst themselves, by our trusty servants the Lawyers, and advancement of Idolatry amongst them: The onelyonly meanes in our Princely wisdome conceived to be to the breaking of the bond of unity and peace, thereby to provoke the great God of heaven to leave them to themselves, and to our powerfull stratagems. We are likewise pleased to take speciall notice of that service done by our children the Lordly Bishops, in working the dissolution of the assembly of Parliament in May last past, 1640. by which meanes nothing was effected for the good of hereticks, either concerning their Church or Common-wealth, so as the successe of this designe of ours was thereby no wayes hindered: you are likewise to let them know from us, that the Noblemen of England be disheartered, the Gentry daunted, … divided, the number of our servants, the Roman Catholicks infinitely increased, and the Realme in generall greatly oppressed, not onelyonly by the sundry Monopolies, but also by the invincible oppressing power of our children the Lordly Bishops, the multitude of our servants the corrupt Judges, base minded Lawyers, seditious Atturnies, and woodden-headed Doctors of our civill lawes, Proctors, Prothonotaries, Registers, Advocates, Solicitors, and Apparators, whom wee have caused to swarme, like to the Egyptian Locusts, over all the land, for the sowing of discord, and blowing the coales of contention amongst all the Inhabitants of the same, they having all of them long since received instructions by some of our infernall spirits, sent forth from us to that effect.
You are likewise to let them know, that out of our Princely respect to them, & their damnable actions for our honour: We are pleased to take speciall notice of that service, which they most willingly endeavoured to effect for the confusion of all the hereticks, inhabiting England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Netherlands, by the late (conceived) Invincible Armado, procured from Spain in the yeare of our raigne 5660. Which through the providence of the celestiall powers then over them, and the disturbance of Martin Harper Trump, here below, failed of that successe, which wee together with them expected and hoped for, to our no lesse sorrow then theirs.
Nor can we but applaud the diligent care taken by our children and servants of greatest quality in that Kingdome, in preventing the discovery of that Invasive plott by the hereticks, and their small well-meaning State, through their speedy flight to Dover Rode, and private conference there with Don Oquindo, the Generalissimo of Spaine to that effect; All which was most exquisitely performed, especially by our hispaniolized lack-latine Lord, our dearely beloved servant.
And lastly our hope is, that this present plot set on foot by these our trusty and well-beloved children, and servants afore-named, and by their earnest endeavours and our assistance once effected, will crowne all our labours to our unspeakable terrestriall glory, and their eternall favours by us to bee conferred on them in our Royall Pallace of perdition, where we have already imposed our Royal command upon our trusty and wel-beloved cozen and counsellour, Peter Tretyacove Chancellour, Evane Becklemeesheve our Knight Marshall, Richardo Slowe Treasurer, and Don Serborus grand Porter of our said Pallace, to give them free admittance into our Royall Presence.
Thus no wayes doubting of your singular care and diligence in fulfilling this our Royall will and pleasure hereby expressed; we doe further impose our Royall favour and Princely respect to be by you presented unto our trusty and wel-beloved cozen and counsellour your present Nuntio in the Court of England, as also unto our beloved children and servants, the Bishops, Jesuites, Priests, and Seminaries, our faithfull agents in this invincible plot; and also to all our faithfull subjects and servants the Roman Catholicks of England.
We are pleased to remaine your Royall Soveraigne and Patron of all your damnable plots and stratagems now in hand.
Given at out Infernall Pallace of perdition this first of September, and in the 5661. yeare of our most damnable raigne.
Postscript.
Since the above-writtē we are credibly informed of the intention of a most scandalous Petition to be delivered by a small number of hereticall Lords unto their King at York, which doth not a little touch our honour, & the discovery of this our present stratagem. Our expresse will & pleasure is, that there be some speedy course taken for the suppressing of the same, and the authors thereof severely punished, and Pomfret Castle allotted unto them for their abode, untill our will and pleasure be further knowne, and this our designe be effected; of which faile you not, as you tender our Royall favour, the successe of this our designe, and your owne safety. Farewell.
Antonio Furioso Diabolo: Principalio Secretario.
Consider this and marke the substance well,
It seemes a letter from the Feind of hell;
What ere the form or method seeme to be,
Th' intent thereof was quite the contrarie.
Had not this rung a knell in some mens eares,
They'd nea'r been freed from their slavish feares,
Of tyranny, oppression, and th' Bishops pride;
Judges, and Lawyers; a wicked crew beside,
Of Doctors, Proctors, that the Realm did sway,
Trod under foot Gods truth, turn'd night to day.
Strove to confound Great Brittains Monarchy,
Justice and Truth pervert; advanc't impiety;
And all by this, Romes doctrine to prefer,
Obey the Pope, and serve King Lucifer;
That is the cause, why them he doth applaud,
That he thereby with them may have the LAUD,
And honour due, unto his servants all,
That strive by him, to worke Great Brittains fall.