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A68764	The theatre of the empire of Great Britaine presenting an exact geography of the kingdomes of England, Scotland, Ireland, and the iles adioyning: with the shires, hundreds, cities and shire-townes, within ye kingdome of England, divided and described by Iohn Speed.	Speed, John, 1552?-1629.; Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612, engraver.; Schweitzer, Christoph, wood-engraver.; Camden, William, 1551-1623. Britannia.	1612 (1612)	STC 23041; ESTC S117917	30,317	987

in his first Edition of this Pamphlet and all this upon your Credit as he tells you But if this Author should fall under this misfortune that neither you Doctor nor any sober Wise man should approve of his abortive births from his false Conceptions how can he make the Nation a Compensation for these abuses as without all Peradventure the Case will appear to every one that considers impartially the Plot it self that it is not an Inextricable Labyrinth but in truth is pure and easie Matter of Fact and the Essence thereof lies not at all in any of those by-Circumstantials Mr. Roger hath made use of and as he says For his own ends which is certainly true for they are not in the least to the Advantage of the Nation the Governors or Government the Protestant Religion nor the Kings witnesses but in apparent and great dishonour to all In his next Paragraph he cries out what Innocence can Warrant against Envy or Authority protect when Le Strange comes to be arraigned as a Papist for shewing the likeliest was to Extirpate Popery and yourname cannot Protect him in it nay he tells you it is well if you can uphold your self if this goes on and concludes that none can fall foul upon that Discovery without Wounding your Evidence Now certainly had this Author as well believed the truth of this reason as he cannot but imagine others do he would never under this Disguise of Friendship to you Doctor have undertaken thus publickly to Villifie you Alas he talks of Innocence that is begging the question I know not of any that can be allowed him by any one in his right Wits nor do I know nor never heard but from himself that ever he did or could shew any way that is likely to extirpate Popery I admire at his Confidence to adventure upon such a subject to the people which only and singly appertains to the Magistracy and I think he hath cause to rejoyce that he is not questioned for a Seditious Pamphletteer for that his Work in such a time as this is which calls for our Union not division He says some call his book Jesuitical for my part I think there is no man in his right Wits that can Judge less of his Book than call the Scope and Drift of it of a Jesuitical Stamp but what is that to you Doctor does it therefore follow that because he hath written a book deserves that Censure you must be accounted a Papist that was no way Privy to it but this Consequence is like the rest but upon hard Pumping he has indeavoured to bring you in by Head and Shoulders for he says he hath your Word and Oath for it for you swear the Priests and Jesuites herd themselves amongst the Non-Conformists they denie it and yet prove themselves in the Plot and discredit the Kings Evidence What Hocus Pocus is here I am sure in no part of your Evidence is it Sworn they herd with Non-Conformists nor have I yet ever seen or heard any proof that any Non-Conformists have proved themselves to be in the Plot or that any of them whatsoever discredited any of the Kings Evidence but this must be accepted upon his Veracity or else his strain of Wit by his Subsequent Querie for thus the Author argues if they Shelter not themselves in Conventicles and field-Meetings to stir up Broyls in the Government What becomes of your Testimony and none but Papists would oppose the Ferretting them out What he means or what he would be at If you know Doctor it s well but for my part I understand not the Sence of it but because you have proved there were some Jesuites or their Agents sent into Scotland to Facilitate their design amongst the discontented Scots if they could therefore all the Dessenters from the Church of England in England are guilty of the Plot I am very Confident the meanest of Grammarian School-Masters in England would have whipped the dullest Boy he had under his tuition for using such a Nonsensical Argument In Confirmation of this the Author further tells you nothing can be clearer according to your Evidence of Wright and others sent amongst the Scots with other Evidence to that Purpose and then says all this will not serve to Convince some of the Priests mingled with Fanaticks till the Pilgrims and the Forty Thousand black Bills come to open their Eyes This Author is in much wrath that every body does not wear his Spectacles for I am fully assured there is not a sober English Christian of what perswasion soever except such Sons of the Church of England as he and God-dam-me Sons that see no further than the Church-yard but do believe your Evidence in that particular as fully as your Words or intention thereby extended Then he concludes that Paragraph with a Clamorous acclamation If these Infidels I presume he means the Dessenters from the Church of England Have any Priviledg for the Defaming publick Justice and blasting the Kings Evidence above other People they should do well to produce it But I am sure it would have been better done of him to have produced some Proof of the Slander before he had aspersed the Parties with it I never heard of their guilt of the one nor the other but from his Pen which I take to be as little Slander as his mouth Then he proceeds to tell you he hath read considered and studied you and what wonderfull things you have done for him in the Dark and at length brought him into the light and when he hathlent you these Ironical Expressions he comends you in the same Dialect and further tells you of his Sensibility of the roundness of your Periods the Luxuriancy of your Invention where there is Scope for it the Frankness of your Stile and the Harmony of your C●●ceptions Indeed had it been your design Doctor to have made your trade of Living and getting Dinners by Scribling or had those things which you have published in Print been otherwise than pure matter of Fact to satisfie the Governors Government and People of the Nation and limitted and bounded to the nature and quality of the thing in question and in a great part in the nature of a report It s morally Possible you might as well have observed your Periods as the Fault-finder nay I can say it with some Assurrance It is so in all Impartial mens Judgments all things duely considered which answers may also serve you for your Inventions and Conceptions for I know not of any such in all your works and doubtless those that do as well know you Doctor and understand you as Mr. Le Strange are clearly of opinion that had you Imployed your Genius that way if it had been but in making a Play against your own Mother you might and would have come off with as much Reputation made as good Syllogismes and had as pertinent Coherences as any that have undertaken or performed the like and for the

amongst all Parties whatsoever nay and by his own shewing as he puts the case they may be as secure amongst the members of the Church of England nay and more than the Dissenters from the Church of England for although he says because many of the Dissenters will not take Oaths therefore there the Jesuites c. may hide themselves so also he says many of the Jesuites and Papists will take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and so will the members of the Church of England if so then what can hinder the Jesuites c. to herd and hide there Into what Confusion hath this Author brought us if all his Suppositions be true but certainly had the Earl of Castlemain the Countess of Powis John Gadbury Mris. Celier and their accomplices been of Opinion that their Security had lain amongst the Dissenters to the Church of England they would not have been so injurious to them as to have endeavoured to have turned the Plot upon them and besides its to all rational men a strange Proof against this Authors Assertion in that particular for if the Jesuites c. herd only amongst Dissenters from the Church of England and they had been their fellow-Conspirators or Agents in the Plot It could not be unknown to them and then certainly there had not been such necessity as they conceived to go about by desperate and false Oaths to make them either Authors Abetters or Contrivers of the Plot and doth it not evidently and plainly Demonstrate the Contrary for had those Assertions been true this Author would have you Doctor and the world believe in that particular surely there had not needed a Sham-Plot to bring the Dissenters from the Church of England into the real Plot for had it been true it might have been proved by other means but yet to this day there is not one man of the dissenters from the Church of England come to my knowledge that is either charged with or detected of any such thing unless the Authors bare word be to be taken for granted so that though the Jesuites and Priests have according to your Depositions endeavoured to draw them in yet have they not prevailed for what appears so that for ought I can preceive its undeniable that the Saddle was and is upon the right Horse and then all his Queries of if's or not's fall to the ground and needs not any answer but what is before upon the like questions But that the Dissenters from the Church of England have Jesuites and Priests actually amongst them doth not by your's or any other deposition proof or experience whatsoever appear there is any or if there be that they have not wrought any Influence at all upon them or at least such an one as may from the Government merit a total Extirpation which the Author strongly presses for but I presume an healing Plaister is better But he having been heretofore accustomed to Write new's-Books thought his book would not appear authentick or at least would not be vendable without an advertisment annexed to it which Advertisment is indeed as much to the purpose and Coherent to the Subsequent matter of his Pamphlet as comes just to nothing and truly he is so Ingenious as to tell you so for he says in the close of it that its Forraign to the Subject of his Pamphlet but more Accomodate to the Season But for my part I think its Forraign to both for it is that the Subjects right of Petitioning hath been of late in such manner asserted as if his Majesty had no right of refusing and then answers it with some Instances from Edward the Third to Henry the Eight of Granting and Refusing I know not his Author nor I believe he did not for that Assertion for if he had certainly he would have named him But if any one did so he was to blame and was I suppose as much under a mistake as the Author is in his Pamphlet and the Subject matter of it for I take it to be undoubred that the person or Power that may be petitioned to hath a power of granting and denying as for instance if a Party of his friends should in a petition to his Majesty set forth according to their apprehension his merits by his Pamphlet and pray a reward for him his Majesty might refuse it and on the other hand if you Doctor and others by petition to his Majesty should set forth how he hath traduced his Majesty the Government and the Kings Witnesses in his said Pamphlet and pray that the same and he might be left to the Law to be punished according to their demerits the same might and would be granted but in regard he could not or at least would not make a further Discovery of that Damnable and hellish Plot Discovered by you give me leave to tell you if he could have been convinced by any other Evidence or Testimony than Dives and his brethren how he might have done it by publishing to the world as the truth is that the singer of God hath been in this Discovery of your's throughout for it cannot proved be that you Doctor had the least advice or assistance of any one man to guide or help you to contrive the way you took and was to take and that with eminent danger and vast hazard and great difficulty for the making your self Master of this Discovery in less than a year That you had not the least advice or assistance of any one man to help you to contrive the time the way and method how to publish this Discovery to Authority but came barely and nakedly to it yea and with a proof in your mouth from those you were to discover you nor any one else should be credited That when many of the material measures you had proposed to your self and depended upon to make good and for the manifestation of your Discovery as Coleman's latter Papers Langhorne's Papers the foreign Pacquets were removed and you deprived of them and by reason thereof barely stood as a single Witness and inevitable ruine and destruction ghastly and grimly staring in your face yet your Spirits were supported and you not at all discouraged from sticking to the truth But then the Jesuitical Party being infatuated and raging with madness must needs to hide their Villanies as all notorious Sinners commonly do by committing another Sin so did they by committing that barbarous and inhumane Murther of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey which proved otherwise than they designed it for instead of suppressing the Discovery of the Plot it did as it were give a new life to what you had delivered Then doubtless moved by the same spirit you were did not the then Representatives of the Nation unanimously by their Votes testifie their credit of your Evidence Then by the same hand apparently were sent in to your assistance and confirmation Mr. Bedlow Mr. Dugdale and many others who have proved many other particulars and concurred in the general to a tittle with you That until you and the rest of the Witnesses in this Hellish and Damnable Plot had been made use of at a publick Trial you did not converse or associate with one another as can be proved by a multitude of authentick Witnesses so far as is provable in a negative and I am confident cannot be proved in the affirmative That not any two of you that are the King's Witnesses in that Plot or any part of it were of any Familiarity or acquaintance before your being ingaged in that business and you all lived remote from one another and although you do not all swear to the same particulars yet do concurr in the whole as to the generality of the Plot. That not any one of them but your self who for some short time was under a necessity to counterfeit your self a Papist These things Doctor I only mention to put you in mind by what hand you as I conceive have been supported in this Discovery and to shew you according to my apprehension what improbability nay I may say impossibility there is that this Discovery of yours of this Hellish Plot is in the least any thing of an invention or contrived Design by you but is pure matter of Fact and of undeniable verity and not to be so slighted as that invention of Beddingfields being alive again All which I was prompted to as I conceived as a Duty incumbent upon me upon and by the obligation of the Loyalty I truly owe to my natural Prince the real veneration I have for the Government and true Christian Religion and Justice of the Nation the Cordial Love I have to my faithful fellow-Subjects and my profess'd and faithful Friendship to your self and therefore keep up your Spirits and be not dismayed or in the least discouraged for it is my opinion and I hope not without good grounds and presume I may with reverence and without offence say it unless to the tender ears of some captious Masquerade and strange Sons of the Church of England that God will neither forsake you nor this Cause but in despite of all opposition will therein glorifie himself and in truth set up the Kingdom of his Son But give me leave to tell you my Judgment that if this Author's Assertions and Arguments Your Cordial Friend B. W. FINIS