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A34574	Stafford's memoires, or, A brief and impartial account of the birth and quality, imprisonment, tryal, principles, declaration, comportment, devotion, last speech, and final end of William, late Lord Viscount Stafford, beheaded on Tower-hill Wednesday the 29. of Decemb. 1680 whereunto is annexed a short appendix concerning some passages in Stephen Colledges tryal / the whole now again set forth for a more ample illustration of that so wonderfully zealous pamphlet entituled The papists bloody aftergame, writ in answer to the said Memoirs, and published by Langley Curtis, 1682.	Corker, James Maurus, 1636-1715.; Curtis, Langley, fl. 1668-1725.	1682 (1682)	Wing C6306A; ESTC R40876	92,519	237

think I never said any thing that was unfitting there or contrary to the Law and Vse of Parliaments For certainly if I had the Lords would as they might have punished me So I am not culpable before God or Man It is much reported of Indulgences Dispensations and Pardons to Murther Rebel Lie Forswear and Commit such other Crimes held and given in the Church I do here profess in the presence of God I never Learned Believed or Practised any such thing but the contrary And I speak this without any Equivocation or Reservation whatsoever And certainly were I guilty either my self or knew of any one that were Guilty whosoever that were so of any of those Crimes of which I am accused I were not only the greatest Fool imaginable but a perfect Mad-man and as wicked as any of those that so falsly have accused me If I should not discover any ill Design I knew in any kind and so upon Discovery save my Life I have so often had so fair occasions proposed unto me And so am guilty of Self-Murther which is a most grievous and hainous Sin and though I was last Impeached at the Lords Bar yet I have great grounds to believe that I was first brought to Tryal on the belief that to save my Life I would make some great Discovery And truly so I would had I known any such thing of any ill Design or Illegal Dangerous Plot either of my self or any other Person whatsoever without any Exception But had I a thousand Lives I would loose them all rather then Falsly accuse either my self or any other whatsoever And if I had known of any Treason and should thus deny it as I do now upon my Salvation at this time I should have no hope of Salvation which now I have through the Merits of Christ Jesus I do beseech God to bless his Majesty who is my Lawful King and Soveraign whom I was always by all Laws Humane and Divine bound to Obey and I am sure that no power upon Earth either singly or altogether can legally allow me or any body else to lift up a hand against him or his Legal Authority I do hold that the Constitution of the Government of this Kingdom is the only way to continue peace and quietness which God long continue Next to Treason I hold Murther in Abhorrence and have ever done and do And I do sincerely profess that if I could at this time free my self immediatly and Establish what Religion I would and what Government I would and make my self as great as I could wish and all by the Death of one of those Fellows that by their Perjuries have brought me to the place where I am I so much abhor to be the cause of any Mans death that I would not any way be the cause of their Murther how much less would I endeavour the Assassination of his Majesty whom I hold to be as Gracious a King as ever this or any other Nation had And under whom the People may enjoy their Liberties as much as ever any did And if it please God to grant him Life and Happiness according as I have always Wished and Prayed for I am morally perswaded that he and all his Dominions will be as happy and prosperous as ever People were Which I beseech God grant I do most humbly ask Pardon of the Almighty and All-merciful God for all the great Offences I have committed against his Divine Majesty and I know he would not have the Death and Confusion of a Sinner but that he may Repent and Live In that assurance I hope knowing he never despiseth a Contrite Heart And though I have not so feeling a Contrition as I would yet I have it as well as I can and I doubt not but that God will accept of the Good Will I do desire that all People will forgive me any Injury that I have done them in any thing either Wilfully or by Chance and I do heartily forgive all People in this World that have Injured me I forgive even those Perjured Men that so Falsly have brought me hither by their Perjuries I do now upon my Death and Salvation aver That I never spoke one word either to Oates or Turbervil or to my knowledge ever saw them until my Tryal And for Dugdale I never spoke unto him of any thing but about a Foot-boy or Foot-man or Foot-race and never was then alone with him All the Punishment that I wish them is that they may repent and acknowledge the Wrong that they have done me then it will appear how Innocent I am God forgive them I have a great Confidence that it please Almighty God and that he will in a short time bring Truth to Light then You and all the World will see and know what Injury they have done me I hope that I have made it appear that I have some Conscience for if I had none certainly I would have sav'd my Life by acknowledging my self Guilty which I could have done though I know I am not in the least Guilty And I having some Conscience make very ill use of it for I throw my self into Eternal Pain by thus plainly and constantly denying thus at my Death the knowledge of what I am accused of in the least I have said thus much in discharge of my Concience and do aver upon my Salvation what I have said to be really true I shall say little of my Tryal and whether it were all according to the known Law I am two much a Party to say much of it if it were not so God forgive him or them that were the cause of it My Judges were all Persons of Honour who were all as much bound to Judge rightly as if they had been upon Oath upon what was legally proved And not to Vote but according as in their Consciences they were satisfied And if any of them did otherwise upon any account whatsoever I beseech God to forgive them I do heartily I shall end with my hearty Prayers for the happiness of His Majesty that he may enjoy all happiness in this World and the World to come and Govern his People according to the Laws of God and that the People may be sensible what a Blessing God hath so miraculously given them and obey him as they ought I ask Pardon with a prostrate Heart of Almighty God for all the great Offences that I have committed against his Divine Majesty and hope through the Merits and Passion of Christ Jesus to obtain everlasting Happiness into whose hands I commit my Spirit asking Pardon of every Person that I have done any wrong to I do freely for give all that have any ways wronged me I do with all the Devotion and Repentance that I can humbly invoke the mercy of our Blessed Saviour I beseech God not to Revenge my Innocent Bloud upon the Nation or on those that were the cause of it with my last Breath I do with my last Breath truly

nominating the very Persons who were to effect it But that which seems above all most strange is the mighty reward the Jesuits proffered him in case he would joyn with the Four Ruffians in this Devilish Enterprize Oates informs us Sir George Wakeman was to have Fifteen Thousand Pounds to Poyson the King and Groves Fifteen Hundred for Shooting him Yet when these Jesuits come to beat the Price with Jenison though a Man hard to be wrought upon they could afford him no more then Twenty Pounds and this only to be remitted of an Old Debt a wonderful encouragement to a Scrupulous Man for so desperate and damned an Exploit To conclude this whole matter The Papists aver● if the Justice and Equity of their Cause be impartially consider'd the Integrity of their Principles rightly understood their formerly experienc'd Loyalty regarded The contrary practices of their chiefest Adversaries remembered The Infamy of the Witnesses and Inconsistency of their Evidence duly weighed there will remain no colour of proof or even Suspition of this fatal Plot which hath already drawn so much Innocent Blood and brought no small confusion both to Church and State The Process against my Lord in Particular ¶ 3 AFter a long and accurate discussion of the Plot in general The Court proceeded to take cognizance of what in particular affected my Lord the Prisoner at the Bar. In pursuance hereof the Managers regarding in all things a Methodical exactness first demanded before they produc'd their Evidence That none of my Lords Councel might stand near to prompt or advise him what he should say or answer as to matters of Fact wherewith he was charged Then they began by way of introduction to shew that they had made it out there was a Plot. That this Plot was a general Design of the Popish party That it was not likely such a design could be carried on without the Concurrence of Persons of great Quality That therefore it was to be presumed my Lord at the Bar a Nobleman and a Zealous Papist had a share in it But what that share was and how far my Lord was engaged was to appear from the positive Evidence IT will not be expected that my Lord one single Person of 68. years of Age long Imprisoned no great Rhetorician nor much versed in the Law should take all advantages improve favourable circumstances and keep equal measures in sharpness of Wit and effluence of Speech with his Opponents who were Ten or Twelve of the greatest Lawyers and ablest Judgments of the Nation Nor is it any wonder if my Lord confounded with the multiplicity of Arguments astonished at the Horrour of the objected Crimes discountenanced by the Auditory And as he acknowledged half Stupified with continual Pleading day after day without intermission Did sometimes insist upon matters of less and omit matters of greater moment in his own behalf yet he seemed to manifest much of Candour and Sincerity in all his Comportment and Addressing himself to my Lords his Judges before he began his Plea to the particular Evidence against him He spoke to this effect That he was much afflicted to see himself accused by so high an Authority for a Crime which above all others he ever from his heart utterly abhorred He renounced detested with much Exaggeration all Plots against the King and Government He abjured all Principles leading to such ends And disowned all Authority upon Earth which might in the least pretend to absolve him from his Allegiance He further shewed how faithful and affectionate he had been both to the late King in his Wars and to this in his Exile He declared he had timely notice of his being Impeached and thereupon might if he would have easily fled He likewise acknowledged That after he was in the Tower both the King and the House of Lords had sent him word That in case he would make a Discovery though he were never so Guilty he should have a Pardon If therefore he had been really Conscious of his own Guilt and might have secured himself by either of these means and would not he ought to die for his folly as well as his Crime He professed he had always a natural Abhorrence of Blood-shed insomuch that he could not wish the death even of his Adversaries that Swore against him Lastly He desired as necessary to his defence Copies of some Depositions made by the Witnesses before several Authorities on several occasions which Copies after a long debate upon it were granted NOw begin the particular Depositions of each particular Witness directly against my Lord upon which the House of Commons grounded their Impeachment To these Depositions as they severally occur I shall adjoyn my Lords immediate Answer And to his Answer the Mannagers reply That so both confusion and unnecessary Repetitions inconsistent with a Compendium may be avoided Furthermore because the Mannagers in Summing up their Evidence made divers ingenious Observations and urged many Reasons to uphold their several Charges not mentioned in the body of the Tryal And also for that the Papists affirm there was more of flourishing Rhethorick then strength of Argument in the said Observations the order of Law not permitting my Lord in the close of the Tryal to Rejoyn upon them I shall to give the best satisfaction I can to all parties annex here the plain Substance both of the said Mannagers Observations and the Papists Answers as they respectively occur to each particular Evidence Dugdale's Deposition against my LORD THe first Witness that gave Evidence to the particular Impeachment was Stephen Dugdale who Swore That at a certain Meeting held at Tixal in Stafford shire about the latter end of August or the beginning of September 78. My Lord did together with the Lord Aston and others in the presence of Dugdale give his deliberate and full consent To take away the Kings Life and Introduce the Popish Religion That on the 20th or 21st of September 78. in the forenoon my Lord then residing at Tixal sent for him the said Dugdale to his Chamber by one of his Servants either his Gentleman or Page whilst he was dressing That when he came in my Lord sent out his Servants and being there alone together my Lord offered him 500 l. for his Charges and Encouragement to take away the Kings Life and further told him He should have free Pardon of all his Sins and should be Sainted For the King had been Excommunicated and was likewise a Traitor and a Rebel and an enemy to Jesus Christ My Lords Exceptions TO this Deposition my Lord made several grand Exceptions The first was That Dugdale was a Person of an Infamous Life That he had Cheated the Lord Aston his Master and defrauded the Work-men and Servants of their Wages That by his Extravagancies and Misdemeanours he had run himself into several hundred pounds Debt for which he was thrown into Goal and despaired of ever getting out from thence otherwise then by making

so hainous Crimes And concluded with an assurance to his Lordship That a true Penitential Sorrow joyned with an humble and hearty Confession was of mighty power and efficacy both with God and Man He then pronounced Sentence upon him in these words THe Judgement of the Law is and the Court doth award it That you go to the place from whence you came from thence you must be draw upon an Hurdle to the place of Execution when you come there you must be Hanged up by the Neck but not till you are Dead for you must be cut down Alive your Privy Members must be cut off And your Bowels Ript up before your Face and thrown into the Fire Then your Head must be severed from your Body and your Body divided into four Quarters And these must be at the disposal of the King And God Almighty have mercy on you SOVL MY Lord received this dismal Sentence with a meek and resigned Countenance He declared in the presence of Almighty God he had no malice in his Heart to them that had Condemned him But freely forgave them all He made one and only one humble request to their Lordships viz That for the short time he had to Live a Prisoner his Wife Children and Friends might be permitted to come at him My Lord High Steward told him Their Lordships had so far a Compassion for him they would be humble suiters to the King That he will remit all the punishments but the taking off his Head Thus Sentence being passed the Lord High Steward broke his Staff and my Lord Stafford was led bak from the Bar to the Tower The Ax being carryed before him as the Custom is in such cases with the Edge toward him SECT III. My Lords Peincples of Faith and LOYALTY DOubtless the thing which most weighed to my Lords prejudice most advanced the credit of the Evidence And most influenced both his Prosecutors and Judges against him was a pre possessed Opinion of wicked Principles supposed to be held and practised by my Lord as the matter of his Faith and Religion It is by many taken for granted The Papists hold it an Article of Faith That to Depose and Murder Kings to Massacre their Neighbours and Destroy their Native Countrey by Fire and Sword when the interest of their Religion requires it are Acts dispensable by the Pope and meritorious of Heaven Now what thing so wicked however slenderly proved will not easily be believed against Men so Principled My Lord therefore to clear himself and his Religion from this heavy and his Religion from as the Papists say injurious Aspersion Protested and Declared in the ple●ence of Almighty God and their Lordships his Judges That he hated and detested such Principles as he did Damnation to himself And that he could not be more desirous of Salvation then he was cordial in hating such Principles That he ever held Treason to be the worst of Crimes and knew no term ill enough to express it That he heard with horrour the late wicked practices in Scotland That he acknowledged the King to be his lawful Soveraign and knew no Person or Authority on Earth could absolve him from his Allegiance And least this might seem a meerly extorted profession of a despairing Man My Lord endeavoured to prove by several convincing Testimonies he had ever been Instructed and Educated in the same Sentiments as the Established Doctrine of the Roman Catholick Church His first Testimony was taken from places of Holy Scripture particularly that of St. Math. 22. v. 21. Render to Caesar the things that are Caesars c. From the plain and clear sense of which and other Texts of Holy Writ nothing he said in this world was able to remove him His second Testimony was taken from the Authority of the General Council of Constance to which all Roman Catholicks are obliged to submit The 15 th Cannon and Definition of which Council is this Quilibit Tyrannus potest debet licité meritorie occidi per quemcunque Vasallum suum vel Subditum etiam per clanculares insidias subtiles blanditias vel adulationes non obstante quocunque Praestito juramento seu confoederatione factis cum eo non expectatâ sententiâ vel mandato judicis cujuscunque Adversus hunc errorem Satagens haec Sancta Synodus exurgere ipsum jundit ùs tollere declarat definit hujusmodi Doctrinam erroneam esse in side in moribus ipsamque tanquam Haereticam Scandalosam ad Fraudes Deceptiones Mendacia Proditiones Perjuria vias dantem reprobat condemnat Declarat insuper decernit quod pertinaciter Doctrinam hanc perniciocissimam asserentes sunt Haeretici tanquam tales jnxta Canonicas Sanctiones puniendi Englished thus Every Tyrant lawfully and meritoriously may and ought to be killed by any Vassal or Subject whatsoever even by hidden Treacheries and subtle Flatteries or Adulations notwithstanding any Oath given or confederation made with him Without expecting the Sentence or Command of any Judge whatsoever which clause is added in regard of the right of Supreme Temporal Monarchs over Inferior Princes Subordinate to them Against which Error this Holy Synod industrious to withstand and utterly to extirpate it doth declare and define That this Doctrine is Erroneous in Faith and Manners and the same as Heretical Scandalous and opening a way to Frauds Deceipts Lyes Treasons and Perjuries doth dissaprove and condemn It farther declares and decrees that those who obstinately maintain this most pernicious Doctrine are Hereticks and as such ought to be punished according to Canonical Sanctions My Lords third Testimony was taken from the Annotations upon the 13 th Chapter of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans in the English Catholick Edition of the new Testament set forth by the Colledge of Divines at Rhemes The words are these upon the Text He that resisteth c. v. 2. Whosoever resisteth or obeyeth not his lawful Superior in those causes wherein he is subject to him resisteth Gods appointment and sinneth deadly and is worthy to be punished both in this World by his Superior and by God in the next Life For in Temporal Government and Causes the Christians were bound in Conscience to obey even their Heathen Emperours And Upon the Text Beareth not the Sword c. v. 4 There were certain Hereticks called Begardi that took away all Rule and Superiority The Wicklesfists also would obey no Prince nor Prelate if he were once in deadly sin Some Protestants of our time care neither for the one nor for the other though they extol only Secular Power when it maketh for them The Catholicks only most humbly obey both according to Gods Ordinance the one in Temporal Causes and the other in Spiritual in which order both these States have blessedly flourished in all Christian Countreys ever since Christs time My Lords 4 th Testimony was taken from the Censure of the Doctors of the famous Faculty

Damnation and this at a time when they might have saved both Bodies and Souls by meerly discharging a good Conscience in acknowledging the Truth and becoming honest men This I say is Inhumane and contradictory to all sense and reason to believe Now therefore I come to what you so often and so earnestly press me to viz. To satisfie the world and clear myself my Fellow Sufferers and my Religion from the imputation laid upon us on pretence of such Principles by a true and candid Explanation of my Belief and Judgment in the main points of Faith and Loyalty controverted between Catholicks and Protestants as they severally relate to God and the King PARAGRAPH I. Of the Catholick Faith and Church in General 1. THe Fruition of God and Remission of Sin is not attainable by man otherwise then in and by the Merits of Jesus Christ who gratis purchased it for us 2. These Merits of Christ are not applied to us otherwise that by a Right Faith in Christ 3. This Faith is but One entire and conformable to its Obiect being Divine Revelations to all which Faith gives an undoubted assent 4. These Revelations contain many Mysteries transcending the natural reach of Humane Wit and Industry Wherefore 5. It became the Divine Wisdom and Goodness to provide Man of some way or means whereby he might arrive to the knowledge of these Mysteries Means visible and apparent to all Means proportionable to the Capacities of all Means sure and certain to all 6. This way or means is not the reading of Scripture interpreted according to the private Reason or Spirit of every disjunctive Person or Nation in particular But 7 It is an Attention and Submission to the Doctrine of the Catholick or Vniversal Church established by Christ for the Instruction of all Spread for that end throughout all Nations and visibly continued in a Succession of Pastors and People throughout all Ages From which Ghurch Guided in Truth and secured from Error in Matters of Faith by the promised Assistance of the Holy Ghost every one may and ought to Learn both the Right Sense of Scripture and all other Christian Mysteries and Duties respectively necessary to Salvation 8. This Church thus Spread thus Guided thus visibly Continued in One Vniform Faith and Subordination of Government is that self same which is termed the Roman Catholick Church The Qualifications abovementioned viz. Vnity Indeficiency Visibility Succession and Vniversality being applicable to no other Church or Assembly whatsoever 9. From the Testimony and Authority of This Church it is that We Receive and Believe the Scriptures to be God's Word And as She can assuredly tell Us This or That Book is God's Word so can she with the like Assurance tell us also the True Sense and Meaning of it in Controverted Points of Faith The same Spirit that Writ the Scripture Enlightning Her to Understand both It and all Matters Necessary to Salvation From These Grounds it Follows 10. All and only Divine Revelations deliver'd by God unto the Church and proposed by Her to be Believed as such are and ought to be esteem'd Articles of Faith and the contrary Opinions Heresie And 11. As an Obstinate Seperation from the Vnity of the Church in known declared Matters of Faith is formal Heresie So a wilful Separation from the Visible Vnity of the same Church in Matters of Subordination and Government is formal Schism 12. The Church proposeth unto Us matters of Faith First and chiefly By the Holy Scripture in Points plain and Intelligible in it Secondly By Definitions of General Councils in Points not sufficiently Explained in Scripture Thirdly By Apostolical Traditions deriv'd from Christ and his Apostles to all Succeeding ages Fourthly By her Practice Worship and Ceremonies Confirming her Doctrine PARAGRAPH II. Of Spiritual and Temporal Authority 1. GEneral Councils which are the Church of God Representative have no Commission from Christ to Frame new matters of Faith these being sole Divine Revelations but only to explain and ascertain unto us what antiently was and is received and retained as of Faith in the Church upon arising Debates and Controversies about them The Definitions of which General Councils in matters of Faith only and proposed as such oblige under pain of Heresie all the Faithful to a Submission of Judgment But 2. It is no Article of Faith to believe That General Councils cannot Err. either in matters of Fact or Discipline alterably by circumstances of time and place or in matters of Speculation or Civil Policy depending on meer humane Judgment or Testimony Neither of those being Divine Revelations deposited in the Catholick Church in regard to which alone she hath the promised Assistance of the Holy Ghost Hence it is deduced 3 If a General Council much less a Papal Consistory should undertake to depose a King and absolve his Subjects from their Allegiance no Catholick as Catholick is bound to submit to such a Decree Hence also it followeth 4. The Subjects of the King of England lawfully may without the least breach of any Catholick Principle Renounce even upon Oath the Teaching Mantaining or Practising the Doctrine of Deposing Kings Excommunicated for Heresie by any Authority whatsoever as Repugnant to the Fundamental Laws of the Nation Injurious to Soveraign Power Destructive to the Peace and Government and by consequence in His Majesties Subjects Impious and Damnable Yet not properly Heretical taking the Word Heretical in that connatural genuine sense it is usually understood in the Catholick Church on account of which and other Expressions no wise appertaining to Loyalty it is that Catholicks of tender Consciences refuse the Oath commonly called the Oath of Allegiance 5. Catholicks believe That the Bishop of Rome is the Successor of St. Peter Vicar of Jesus Christ upon Earth and Head of the whole Catholick Church which Church is therefore fitly stiled Roman Catholick being an universal Body united under one visible Head Nevertheless 6. It is no matter of Faith to be believe That the Pope is in himself Infallible seperate from a General Council even in Expounding the Faith By consequence Papal Definitions or Decrees though ex Cathedra as they term them taken exclusively from a General Council or Universal Acceptance of the Church oblige none under Pain of Heresie to an interior Assent 7. Nor do Catholicks as Catholicks believe that the Pope hath any direct or indirect Authority over the Temporal Power and Jurisdiction of Princes Hence If the Pope should pretend to Absolve or Dispence with His Majesties Subjects from their Allegiance upon account of Heresie or Schism such Dispensation would be Vain and Null and all Catholick Subjects notwithstanding such Dispensation or Absolution would be still bound

Smith and Turbervil be real Papists how is it proved they were imployed to sham off the Plot Why may not Papists be good Witnesses against the Presbyterians in point of Treason without Suspition of a sham Is Treason a thing so strange and unheard of amongst the Presbyterians Or why should credit be given to the Witnesses when they swear against the Papists who are only charged with a Design to kill the King and credit be denyed to the same Witnesses when they swear against those who actually killed the King 2ly What the least Argument or Appearance is there that Dugdale Smith and Turbervil are Papists or ●opishly affected They profess the Protestant Religion they frequent the Protestant Church they receive the Protestant Communion they take all Oaths and Tests can be required of them as was acknowledged in this very Tryal They practise neither Fasting Pennance nor other works of Supererogation the Symptoms of Popery They pursue their former design of swearing against the Papists with as much obstinacy and violence as ever as was likewise prov'd in this Tryal And is it possible the Papists should employ in their shams and intrigues if they had any the very Persons who at the same time make it their Trade and Lively-hood to cut their Throats Indeed if any of the Witnesses against my Lord Stafford be Popishly affected it is Dr. Oates whose present disparagement of his fellow Evidence look● said Mr. Sollicitor General as if he were again returning to St. Omers Lastly It is argued The Jury bringing in Colledge Guilty of High Treason by that very Verdict cleared Dugdale Smith and Turbervil of the Perjury charged upon them by D. Oates It is answered 1 st The Jury brought in their Verdict against Colledge not upon the sole Testimony of Dugdale Smith and Turbervil but more especially upon the Evidence given by Sir William Jennings and Mr. Maisters Persons of known worth and honesty As also upon pregnant proof made and acknowledged in a manner by Colledge himself That he by Combination with others appeared in open Arms at an appointed time and place ready for and designing publick Acts of Hostility in the very presence of the King yet without his knowledge or authority which by the Law is adjudged Treason 2 ly The Papists do not undertake to make good Oate's Charge of Perjury against Dugdale Smith and Turbervil Nor theirs against him But only to shew that the guilt of this horrid crime lyeth amongst them And consequently whether it be charged upon Oates as the chief Swearing-Master and Original Author of the Plot or upon Dugdale Smith and Turbervil as his Pedants and Accessaries in the Imposture Or as is most rational upon both and all of them It follows That the Lord Stafford dyed by Perjury And Roman Catholicks have wrongfully suffered by their Villanies the loss of their Fortunes their Estates their Liberties their Lives Luke 29 Verse 22. Out of thine own Mouth will I Judge thee Thou Wicked Servant THus I have here Briefly and Impartially set down what occurs to me on this occasion And now for an Appology to the whole Treatise Seing the Papists as well as all other Men have a natural right when Impeached to defend their Innocence I hope it will not be Imputed a fault in me to have Rehearsed some of their Arguments as they lay within the Limits and Sphere of my Design If any Persons of Depraved Judgments shall from hence draw sinister Reflections upon the Justice of the Nation I declare they abuse both the Government Themselves and Me by such their unjust Paraphrase FINIS Tryal p 4. Pag 7. c. Pag. 17. c. The motives of his Perversion His Imployment in Eng. Pag. 21 c. His Contribution for Arms c. 500 l. Armies ready at an hours warning The Popes contribution 1000 l Pag. 25. c. Pag. 25. c. his feigned Conversion The Provincial of Castile contribution 10000 l. Afterwards a Promise of 30000 Masses Pag. 32. A Twenty pound Debt remitted for a reward to kill the King Pag 30. Pag. 17. ●e Papists 〈◊〉 against 〈◊〉 Plot in ●eral Page 123. (a) Colemans Tryal Coleman's Letters Sir Edmundbury Godfrey's Murder Page 20 Page 77. Page 136 Fire-Balls Sham-Plot c. The Votes of both Houses of Parliament declaring it a Plot. * See the Tryals of Wakeman Corker Marshal Earl of Castlemain Sir Tho. Gascoin Lady Powis Tempest c. Gunpowder Treason French Massacre c. Ireland's Tryal Page 40. c. The first onset against my Lord. My Lords Address Page ●5 c. Pa 24. c. Dugdal's Infamy and Beggery Pa. 94 c. Pa. 84. c. Pa. 87. c. Pag. 145. c. Pag. 163. Pag. 175. Pag. 147. Pag. 163. Pag. 168. Dugdale's Perjury Pag. 82. c. Pag 175. Pag 74. Page 147 Pag. 83 c. Pag. 80. c. Pag. 32. c. Page 174. Pag. 117. Page 175. Pag. 178. Dugdale's Subornation of Oaths Pa. 93. c. Pag. 138. c. Page 186. Dugdale's Improbable manner of Swearing Page ●2 Pa. 46. c. P. 728 c Pag. 130 c. This Oates affirms in Langhorns Tryal Page 101. Page 1●9 Oates's new Forgeries Pag. 102. Page 25. Pag. 126. Oates his Apostacy and Sacriledge Page 123. Turbervil's Perjury in seven Particulars Page 120. c. Pag. 122. Page 152. Page 109. Page 131. Page 108. Page 113. Page 181. Page 106. Page 180. Page 112 Page 110. Page 182. Page 101. Page 116. Turbervil's loose manner of Life Page 154. Page 163. The sum of my Lord's Plea as to matters of Fact Pag 167. c. P 199. c. The sum of the Evidence against my Lord. Page 17● Page 171 c. Page 184. Pag. 151. Answer to my Lord's Plea in matters of Law My Lord 's particular Address Page 198. Page 212. My Lord High Steward's Speech His Relations imputed to him as the Cause of his Guilt Page 214. The Sentence Page 54. Page 53. Ibid. Ibid. Ibid. ●bid Ibid. An Objection Answer'd The intent of this Epistle Redemption in Christ a Eph. 2.8 1 Cor. 15.22 applicable by Faith b Mar. 16.16 Heb. 11.6 Which is but one c Eph. 4.4 c. d Jam. 2.10 Supernatural e 1 Cor. 1.20 Mat. 16.17 By the Divine Providence to be learnt f Isai 35.8 g Joh. 9.41 h Mat. 11.25 i John 15.22 Not from private Interpretation of Scripture k 2 Pet. 3 16. Pro. 14. 12. Mat. 22.29 l 1 Jo. 4.1 and 6. Prov. 12.16 m Mat. 18.17 Luk. 10.16 but from the Universal Church dilated continued and guided by the Holy Ghost for that end n Psal 2 8. Isa 2 2. c. 49.6 o Mat. 5.14 Isai 59.21 Joh. 16 13. Ezek. 37.26 Eph. 5.25 c. 1 Tim. 3 15. Mat. 16.18 p Mat. 28 20. Joh. 14 16. q Deut. 17 8. c. Mat. 23 2. This Church is the same with the Roman Catholick r Can. 6 8. Joh 10.16 Rom. 15 5. Joh. 17 22.