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A39245	A modest vindication of Titus Oates, the Salamanca-doctor from perjury, or, An essay to demonstrate him only forsworn in several instances by Adam Elliot ...	Elliot, Adam, d. 1700.	1682 (1682)	Wing E543; ESTC R20237	56,671	58

Oathes with a suitable Lye he stiles himself Titus Oates Sacra Theologiae Professor which rendred into true English is Titus Oates a damn'd Liar for Titus Oates Doctor in Divinity is a contradiction to truth He has impos'd upon the nation asserting upon the word of a Priest that he commenc'd Doctor at Salamanca whereas he has made it highly probable that he never was there and besides by declaring that he never received Clerical Orders from the Church of Rome he has given all understanding men a better proof than his Oath that he could never be a Doctor no person being qualified for that degree in that University who is not a Romish Priest It is very unlikely that he should obtain the highest honour of Academical preferment in a forreign University who never deserv'd the Grace of the lowest degree in the University of Cambridge amongst his own Countreymen The Doctors of Salamanca are much fam'd for their acuteness and exact knowledg in Scholastick Divinity which this blockhead understands as much as he does Greek or the Chinese Languages which his Mother never taught him and therefore he is a stranger to I have heard of Angelicus Doctor and Seraphicus Doctor but I never heard of Doctor Diabolicus until Titus Oates and the hellish Popish Plot appear'd together a Damnable Doctor created at the Amsterdam-Coffee-house or B l's Club in the Devils name and so let him pass Having by this prefatory address of a palpable Lye bespoke the Readers belief to what follows he begins and swears four abominable rappers in a breath he swears I beat my Tutor that I robb'd a study of Books and offer'd to sell the Books to him that during his knowledg of me which by his own acknowledgment was only for the space of a year I was maintain'd by some Doctors of the University and yet during that time I was not maintain'd by them for they withdrew the maintenance by reason of my whoring drinking c. and lastly he swears that I went a Deer-stealing These are four scandalous crimes by which he begins and assaults my Reputation but because he knew the charge lay obnoxious to be disprov'd and the falsity thereof might easily be made appear by the testimony of the whole Colledge therefore he has recourse to the usual shelter of his lies viz. I confess'd these things to him And now he thinks he has entrench'd himself secure against the most powerful attacks of the plainest truth It was to this refuge that this impudent forger of falshoods betook himself when at my Lord Castlemain's Trial he was charg'd by that noble Person with a manifest Lye in asserting that he was divorc'd he brought himself off with a retreat to the old sconce I am sure says he My Lord told me he was divorc'd But I hope the Reader will be so just as to qualify this sort of argument which if admitted without consideration is as apt to destroy the innocent as condemn the guilty the quality both of the Oath and the Swearer ought to be examined otherwise the most innocent person is expos'd to the malice of every confident Villain Now the Doctor has sworn against me crimes committed in Cajus Colledge in Cambridge which the Colledge never so much as heard me suspected of and moreover some persons of known integrity and veracity who were well acquainted with me and during all the time of my residence in Cambridge knew me intimately have thought themselves oblig'd to do me justice and have upon Oath in the Court of Delegates declar'd that they had all reason to believe me abus'd by malicious slander seeing if there had been any ground for such aspersions they must of necessity have been made acquainted with it as who were my fellow-Collegiates and had the opportunity of a converse four times as long as Oates can pretend to My Tutor did likewise declare and offer'd to make Oath that he never knew me in the least guilty of any such undutiful carriage as to beat him or any fellow in the Colledge he moreover did attest and offer'd to procure the Testimony of the whole Colledge that I never was charg'd nor suspected of Robbing a study and whereas this impudent false-witness did aver to a person of Honour that I robb'd my Tutor's study that he himself never had his study robb'd either by me or any other As for Oates's other charge that during his knowledge of me I was maintain'd by some Doctors and that for my whoreing drinking and riotous living they withdrew the maintenance The whole Colledge can attest that I resided in the Colledge till after I was Batchelour of Arts and I desy the Doctor to produce one Cambridge Dun who could charge me with the least Debt when I left the University and how then I should be addicted to such expensive vices especially seeing the Doctor has been pleased to allow me but a very small competency to maintain them is matter of enquiry But his last charge is the most wild and extravagant of all viz. Deer-stealing I solemnly profess I never saw a Deer during my being a member of Cajus Colledge I never saw any Park neither knew I where there was any neither did I know or hear of any who were addicted to that sport in the University and for the truth of what I assert here I refer my self to the arbitration of that Society of which I had the honour to be a Member and to all persons in the University acquainted with me or my conversation who can be suppos'd to be the only competent Judges or Witnesses in this affair And now how shall I ferret him out of his last hole namely his plea that I confessed my self guilty of these crimes to him there is no way of demonstrating the falsity of this but however I have as great probabilities thereof to offer as the matter will allow and I hope the Reader will not expect more As 1st it is highly improbable that Titus Oates should contract a greater acquaintance with me in one year than any of the Colledge could do in four 2ly That I should defame my self or unbosome my self to him who was of the meanest repute in the Colledge who was inferior to me both in years and in standing in the University and who besides was as to his quality only a poor Sizer the Son of a Weaver and as to his parts the most ignorant illiterate Dunce uncapable of improvement from whose converse there was not the least prospect of advantage And then in the third place notwithstanding his precise memory which has registred more Letters than ever Langhorn writ notwithstanding he can remember the particular hand-writings of a thousand men only by seeing them put Pen to Paper yea notwithstanding he swears he is very well acquainted with my character fifteen years ago which is more then I am my self and that we were such intimate Comerades that I trusted him with all my secrets yet he unhappily cannot call to

be endur'd by any True Protestant says the Captain speak your pleasure of me says he but do not blaspheme the venerable Doctor the Doctor continued I if he depos'd with no more truth against the Jesuits than he did against me they died Martyrs At this the Captain rises and runs away to Sir Robert Booth a True-Protestant L. C. J. of the Kings Bench and makes affidavit that I said that Titus Oates was a Rogue and the five Jesuits Martyrs To be short I was sent for by a Tipstaff bound over to answer at the Kings-Bench the near approaching term when I was indicted for these very words found guilty and fin'd 200 l. and imprisonment until I paid it At the same time comes over from England a pretended character of Adam Elliot directed to a Gentleman of Quality in Dublin who was desired to disperse Copies of it it was subscribed North and Grey and was a base malicious Libel stufft with lies and impudence it is Scandalum Magnatum any person professing Honour and Honesty as the Author of it He asserts upon his honour that I was expell'd the University of Cambridge that I was a Jesuit that I was a Renegado and a Mahumetan that I was a Felon that I was a Murderer that I was guilty of Forgery and particularly that I combin'd with Ralph Lord Grey of Werk and with him forg'd the last Will of his Father William Lord Grey to the prejudice of the Lord North of above 30000 l. This infamous character howsoever most abominably and from the beginning to the end false yet coming under the specious recommendation of a Person of Honour did much prejudice me especially with the concurrence of my other misfortunes so that I was rendered very odious and vile insomuch that my confinement was my best security for if I had walkt the Streets I had been in danger of being ston'd At length after this violent ferment of the Peoples hatred by a little time as is usual had begun to abate the Privy Council upon my Petition were pleas'd to consider my condition as thinking that I had met with very hard measure for speaking a few words which were by the severest construction the result only of passion and inadvertency and being pretty well satisfied of my good inclinations to the Church of England and Ireland as by Law established as also to the Government and my aversion to Popery and withall considering how I labour'd under the calumnies and slanders of a scandalous Libel apparently false and design'd out of malice to ruin my reputation and that I had no way to do my self right so long as I was under confinement they were pleas'd to order my releasement upon Bail until the next Term and then I satisfied the Law and was discharg'd After my departure from London for Ireland the Lord North perceiving how much a propô it would be to invalidate my testimony viz. that excellent invention of Circumcision for though a Papists Oath may be taken yet no man sure will believe one who has renounc't the Christian Faith he renews his sollicitations to the Doctor to swear against me in the Court of Delegates the Doctor who us'd not to swear lightly and in vain i. e. for nothing seem'd shy at first but having heard that I call'd him a Rogue and the Jesuits Martyrs he comply'd with the desire of his good Friend the Lord North who at that time the Reader must take notice was a Petitioning Lord that is one of those Lords who subscrib'd and presented a Petition to his Majesty for the sitting of the Parliament and therefore was by all obliging offices to be caress'd and retain'd The Reader is likewise desir'd to take notice that at the Lord Stafford's Tryal Oates swore that a certain Lord sent him a 100 l. but he neither tells us who nor for what so that whether this remark be to the purpose or not I cannot as yet tell Oates's Depositions against me upon Oath are as followeth 4 to Maii 1680. Super Allegatione articulata ex parte Domini North and Grey ejus Uxoris quarto Martii 1679 juxta c. data 18 o ejusdem mensis admissa Titus Oates Sacrae Theologiae Professor Vicarius Vicariae de Bibbin in Com. Cantii aetatis suae 32 o aut eo circiter natus apud Okeham in Com. Rutlandiae Testis productus juratus examinatus deponit prout sequitur viz. AD. 11 12 Articulos dictae Allegationis deponit That he knew Mr. Elliot now a Minister whose name he thinks Adam in the year 1667 in the Colledge of Cajus in Cambridge and as near as he can remember he was then Pupil to Mr. Simon Bagg or Mr. John Ellis one of which as the said Elliot confessed he the said Elliot did beat at which time and during the time of this Deponents knowledge of him in the said Colledge which was for about the space of a year he the said Elliot was a poor Schollar maintained by some of the Doctors of the Vniversity as he confest to the Deponent but for his rude riotous whoreing and debauch'd living they withdrew his maintenance as he complained to this Deponent And the said Adam Elliot hath confessed that he went a Deer-stealing and the said Elliot rob'd a Study in Cajus Colledge and would have sold this Deponent some of the Books he took from thence He further saith that after the said Elliot was gone from the said Vniversity and in the year 1670 or thereabouts the said Elliot did write to the Rector of St. Omers and gave him an account that he had received Orders and was a Priest and had sung high Mass at the English Colledge at Rome which Letter this Deponent saw in the year 1677 juxta c. and afterwards the said Elliot was carried a Slave into Barbary and there as it was reported generally and credibly was Circumcis'd and as he confessed did give poyson to his Master or Patron After which returning to Rome he made his Recantation which this Deponent hath seen under his own hand as this Deponent believes having been well acquainted with his Character He further saith that in the year 1673 the said Elliot living in Kent did lead a very dissolute debauched life and was much given to Drinking Whoreing Lying and Swearing that to be true which was not so And he saith that he hath seen a Letter subscribed as from the Bishop of Meath in Ireland the purport of which was that Elliot was indicted in Dublin before the Lord Chief Justice Booth for saying that this Deponent was a perjured Rogue and that the Jesuits that were hanged for high Treason died Martyrs and that there was no such thing as a Popish Plot or to that effect upon which the said Elliot was convicted and fined 200 lb. and was to be imprisoned till the said Fine was paid or to that purpose And this Deponent doth verily believe that the said Elliot was and is so vile