The Popish Royal Favorite, Title page – Note
THE POPISH ROYALL FAVOVRITE: OR, A full Discovery of His Majesties Extraordinary Favours to, and Protections of notorious Papists, Priests, Jesuits, against all prosecutions and penalties of the Laws enacted against them; notwithstanding his many Royall Proclamations, Declarations, and Protestations to the contrary: As likewise of a most desperate long prosecuted Designe to set up Popery, and extirpate the Protestant Religion by degrees, in this our …ealm of England, and all His Majesties Dominions. Manifested by sundry Letters of Grace, Warrants, Writings under the Kings own Signe-Manuall, Privy-Signet, His Privy-Councels, and Secretary Windebanks hands and Seals, by divers Orders and Proceedings in open Sessions at Newgate, in the Kings Bench, and elsewhere (all extant on Record in the Sessions-Books, Goal-Books, Crown-Office, where all who scruple their indubitable verity or reality, may peruse them for their better satisfaction;) As likewise by the Kings Letter to the Pope, His marriage Articles, Oaths, and other pregnant Testimonies, worthy publike knowledge and Consideration.
Collected and published by Authority of Parliament: By WILLIAM PRYNNE, of Lincolns Inne, Esquire.
2 CHRON. 19. 2.
An… Ioh… the son of Hanani the Seer went out to meet him, and said to King …, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord? therefore is wrath upon thee from the Lord.
ESAY 29. 15. to 20.
Wo unto them, that seek deep to hide their counsell from the Lord and their works are in the dark, and they say, who seeth us? and who knoweth us? Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potters clay. And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darknesse, the meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord; and the poor among men shall rejoyce in the holy One of Israel. For the terrible one shall be brought to nought, and the scorne… shall be consumed, and all that watch for iniquity shall be cut off.
Imprinted at London for MICHAEL SPARK Senior, and are to be sold at the Blue-Bible in Green Arbour. 1643.
IT is this seventeenth day of Novemb. 1643. ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons concerning Printing, that this Book intituled, THE POPISH ROYALL FAVOURITE, &c. be Printed by MICHAEL SPARK Senior.
JOHN WHITE.
A matetiall Observation.
THe*See their Remonstrance, and Dr. Iones, his book. Rebels in Ireland, declared the Parliaments proceedings and intendments against Papists, the only ground of their Rebellion.
The Queen soon after, for to ayde them and the English Romanists, departs the Realm with the Kings Jewels, to raise Monies, Men, provide Armes, Ammunition, the which she strenuously performed.
The King immediatly upon her departure deserts the Parliament altogether, notwithstanding all Petitions, Messages to reduce him: raiseth an Army first of English Malignants, then of Papists, to divert all supplies from hence against the Popish Rebels in Ireland, and secure the Catholike party in England and Scotland.
Upon the Queens return, the Irish Rebels are first supplyed with Armes and Ammunition from the Queen, then after some negotiation, received into the Kings Royall favour as his good Catholike Subjects, by Articles of pacification, under the great Seal, contrary to two expresse Acts passed by him this Parliament, to the undoing of the English Adventurers and Protestant party there: And finally, they are sent for hither to aide the King and English Catholiks against the Parliament. Judge then whether the Kings departure from, and taking up Armes against the Parliament, be not only and wholly to maintain his Roman Catholikes and their Religion, according to the tenour of his ensuing marriage Oathes and Articles, what ever be pretended, protested to the contrary.
The King besides the generall and speciall Articles of the Spanish match hereafter mentioned, took this further Royall Oath Ex abundanti; (as the*Pag. 48, 49. where this passage should have been inserted. French Mercury records;) To permit at all times that any one should freely propose unto him the Arguments of the Roman Catholike Religion, without giving any impeachment thereunto: and that he would never permit, neither directly nor indirectly,*Tom…. 9. An. 1624. p. 9. that any one should speak to the Infanta against it; taking since the like Oath, with reference to the Queen… by which he hath irresistably exposed himself to all temptations, seducements to the Antichristian Religion, and bound himself, neither by word nor deed, to make the least opposition against it, but to give it all the protection and incouragements that may be, and to the professors of it, as appears by the Articles ensuing, p. 48, 49, &c.