A Brief
Historical Relation
&c.
by Narcissus Luttrell
1678 - November
In which are Parliament and Popery
November: On the 2nd. came out an order of councill, promising the reward of 20l. to any person who shall discover any officer or souldier in his majesties guards, that, since the taking of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy and the test, hath or shall be perverted to the Romish religion.
On the 9th the king came into the house of lords in his robes, and sent for the house of commons up, and made a most gratious speech, thanking them for the great care they took of his person: and that he was not unmindful of their security, but came to assure them of his readinesse to comply with all lawes that shall secure the protestant religion, and that not only during his time, but also of any successor, so as they tend not to impeach the right of succession, nor the descent of the crown in the true line.
Here it is worth noting that, thought this parliament was called the long parliament, had many courtiers, so that when a question came to be putt wherein the contest was meerely court and country, the parties were so even that it was carried sometimes by one side and sometimes by the other, nmot above four or five voices; and though it was a parliament that gave those vast summs of money, and therefore called the pensioner parliament; yet did they all this sessions apply themselves earnestly to the prosecution of the popish plott, and went on now very unanimously, and came even to consider about excluding the duke of York from the crown as a papist; which occasioned the preceding speech of the king.
On the 10th his majesties proclamation came out for the confinement of popish recusants within five miles of their respective dwellings.
On the 17th came out his majesties proclamation for apprehending severall persons (George Coniers, …… Simonds, Charles Walsh, …… Le Phaire, …… Pritchard, and …… Biston, alias Beeston) as persons guilty of the plott; and for the further security of his majestie and his government from dangers arising from popish recusants.
November: On the 2nd. came out an order of councill, promising the reward of 20l. to any person who shall discover any officer or souldier in his majesties guards, that, since the taking of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy and the test, hath or shall be perverted to the Romish religion.
On the 9th the king came into the house of lords in his robes, and sent for the house of commons up, and made a most gratious speech, thanking them for the great care they took of his person: and that he was not unmindful of their security, but came to assure them of his readinesse to comply with all lawes that shall secure the protestant religion, and that not only during his time, but also of any successor, so as they tend not to impeach the right of succession, nor the descent of the crown in the true line.
Here it is worth noting that, thought this parliament was called the long parliament, had many courtiers, so that when a question came to be putt wherein the contest was meerely court and country, the parties were so even that it was carried sometimes by one side and sometimes by the other, nmot above four or five voices; and though it was a parliament that gave those vast summs of money, and therefore called the pensioner parliament; yet did they all this sessions apply themselves earnestly to the prosecution of the popish plott, and went on now very unanimously, and came even to consider about excluding the duke of York from the crown as a papist; which occasioned the preceding speech of the king.
On the 10th his majesties proclamation came out for the confinement of popish recusants within five miles of their respective dwellings.
On the 17th came out his majesties proclamation for apprehending severall persons (George Coniers, …… Simonds, Charles Walsh, …… Le Phaire, …… Pritchard, and …… Biston, alias Beeston) as persons guilty of the plott; and for the further security of his majestie and his government from dangers arising from popish recusants.
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