The confession of John Browne, a Iesvite, in the gate-house twice examined by a committee from the honourable House of Commons wherein is discovered the late plots of the Pope and papacy against these kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland : and the manner how he poceeds in his intents to intrude himselfe into the temporall monarchy hereof : with the copy of the Popes Breve, & the fansinesse of his Nuntio with the English ladies : and the event that may preoceed by stopping such proceedings.

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The confession of John Browne, a Iesvite, in the gate-house twice examined by a committee from the honourable House of Commons wherein is discovered the late plots of the Pope and papacy against these kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland : and the manner how he poceeds in his intents to intrude himselfe into the temporall monarchy hereof : with the copy of the Popes Breve, & the fansinesse of his Nuntio with the English ladies : and the event that may preoceed by stopping such proceedings.
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Browne, John, Jesuit.
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1641.
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"The confession of John Browne, a Iesvite, in the gate-house twice examined by a committee from the honourable House of Commons wherein is discovered the late plots of the Pope and papacy against these kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland : and the manner how he poceeds in his intents to intrude himselfe into the temporall monarchy hereof : with the copy of the Popes Breve, & the fansinesse of his Nuntio with the English ladies : and the event that may preoceed by stopping such proceedings." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A29831.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.

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2. Of the Reformation of some things in the Queens Court, and of some Persons which are fit to be removed.

THe Actors are Father Philips, her Confessour, and the superior of the Capuchins, and a gray Fryer, who hath in∣truded himselfe by degrees, to be a Clark of her Maje∣sties Chappell: sometimes he is called by the name of Wilson, some∣times of Tomson, and a Doctor of Divinity, a furious and un∣quiet Spirit, by a nick-name called Cackafugo: he rules Father Philips, he rules the businesse amongst them, that concernes the State; and for the most part, the matters of Rome, having three wives at this present all alive. There is also one Pen∣rick resident at Rome, by his Master Mr. William Hamilton, lte agent at Rome.

There be many more, one Francis Maitland, alias quashet hath 100 crowns, per annum of her Majesties Pensioner, a firebrand intelligencer at Rome, France, Flanders, and Spaine, with Liddington, colonell Syms, Chambers, and Penricke at Paris.

I should think it good to remove all these from about her Majesty, except only Father Philips, who is of a sweet dis∣position:

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though so easily perswaded by Sir Toby Mat∣thewes, Sir Iohn Winter, Mr. Walter Mountague, who are of the Cabinet Counsell.

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