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A58385	Reflections upon the murder of S. Edmund-Bury Godfrey the design of Thompson, Farwell, and Paine to sham off that murder from the papists : the late endeavours to prove Stafford a martyr and no traitor, and the particular kindnesses of the Observator, and Heraclitus to the whole design, in a dialogue ; with a dedication from Mrs. Cellier.	Cellier, Elizabeth, fl. 1680.	1682 (1682)	Wing R731; ESTC R36706	39,638	35

Impartial There is the Juggle of your supposition We do not believe the whole Body of Roman Catholicks knew of the blackness and execrableness of your Design but many were told by their Priests and Confessors that there was a Design carrying on for the good of the Catholick Cause and that was necessary to procure the Milk of Contribution And so far this Nation has all the reason to belieue that the whole Body of Roman Catholicks was concern'd in this Plot. Then for the loss of their honour and hazard of ruining themselves and their Families they that were in darkness knew not their danger and the rest knew there was little For had they compass'd their ends they had had their advantages and we are too deeply sensible that they had some strange assurances how little they should suffer if they 〈◊〉 He goes on with a mighty wonder if it be not a greater wonder that he could be so impudent as to write it In this Plot says he are said to be engaged for several years together divers Nations England Scotland Ireland France Italy Spain Germany c. What a deal of high-flown Forgery and Fallacy is here● a meer amusing 〈…〉 y-eatching piece of cajolry with which if the English Protestants will let their indignation against the late discover'd Plot be laid asleep they will not want for worse Where are those Mountanous Accusations against all England all Scotland all France all Ireland all Spain all Germany No true Englishman can doubt but that for the carrying on the Late Plot there were Romish Correspondencies Spanish Correspondencies Irish Correspondencies and for the French Correspondencies we have testimony sufficient But to make Inferences from National Accusations where never any were was a Romance of Mr. Impartials own Hyperbolical 〈◊〉 And therefore to say truth whoever undertook to put such fallacious shamms and tricks upon the already too much injur'd English Protestants in the Vindication of Treason and Villany deserves more the Whip and the Pillory than those persons he calls rak'd out of Jayle for no person rak'd out of Hell can be worse than himself But yet to shew that there may be that thing that comes very near a National Concealment of a Conspiracy The Rebellion in Ireland how closely how cunningly was it managed without the least Discovery till the Kingdom ran with Bloud and Massaere lay in heaps yet none of all that vast number had any remorse for so bloudy a Treason none all that while had the worth wit of grace to reveal it This was somewhat hard to believe and yet was true Being got into his Romances he cannot get out of 'em but goes on raving and still amusing the ignorant with a noise of Armies improbable for their numbers which is nothing to the purpose for all this riffraff makes it nothing the less improbable but that Men engag'd in such Designs of Universul Massacre intended convenient Levies and convenient quantitys of Arms and Ammunition for those Levies and therefore is a thing not so much to be wondred at 'T is no matter for Number or Quantity 't is the intent of raising Forces against the Establish'd Government and providing Arms and Ammunition for these Forces and that discours'd of and consulted upon that makes the Treason our as effectually in the eye of the Law as if the Men had bin Levy'd or the Money paid into the Lord Staffords hands So then the intent of raising Forces and the actual Banking of Money for Arms and Ammunition being positively sworn as it was and all for carrying on this detestable tho as detestably vindicated Plot Mr. Impartial must not think to bury such a Plot in the Rubbish of his impertinent Raillery But he runs on in his Poetical Raptures a very pretty way of refuting a demonstrated Plot and crys We are told of hundreds of Seal'd Commissions for all sorts of Military Officers and God knows how many Bushels of Letters and Papers all containing most Damnable Treason sent nevertheless up and down at random some by the Common Post others by such Messengers as Oates Bedlow Dugdale and Dangerfield who as bosom Counsellers were still made privy to what was sent Understand Sir once more that number and quantity signifie nothing and all your Hyperboles of Hunderds and Bushels are not worth a Rush But where is the improbability of granting Commissions who more fit or who had greater Authority to grant these Commissions than the great General of your Religion the Pope from whom you and the rest of the Conspirarators deriv'd all their power Dr. Oates whose Testimony your ridioulous Memoirs that have nothing in 'em but defamation and railing can never invalidate tells ye of several Commissions that he gave to several persons by name himself That Whitebreads Commission together with several Papers and Letters were seiz'd at the same time that his person was apprehended At another time Harcourt's Papers were seiz'd and after that a plentiful Parcel of Letters were publickly printed full of Cyphers all relating to the Plot then add to this that several of your Seals have bin produc'd in Court More than all this there was nothing more frequently boasted in the common discourses of the Papists at that time one among another then that the Roman Catholick Religion would suddenly flourish in England that they had considerable Armies raising for that purpose and that the Lords in the Tower had not only Commissions themselves but had given out Commissions to several others Viz. One to Talbot of Langford another to Sir H. Beningfield of Oxborough another to one Mr. Stoner and several others Ireland declar'd in his own Chamber at that time That there would shortly be fifty thousand men in Arms and being ask'd for what We must have them speedily said he to settle our Religion here or else all will be ruin'd Which argu'd that there were plenty of Popish Commissions then in England whate'r is become of them But Mr. Impartial being a Protestant as he pretends too easily 't is to be fear'd takes his Employers words Where is next the improbability that your Packets tho full of damnable Treason might not be sent by the Common Post The King has no Inquisitor that sits in his Publick Office to break open Gentlemens Letters and examine the Contents More then that there was a Packet and a large one too sent by the Common Post directed to Father Benningfield that by a lucky fate to you and your Employers mist falling into the hands of those that would have made better use of it Lastly Where 's the improbability that such persons as you strive to defame should not be trusted by those profound Head-pieces your Employers They were under the same as you call'd them Sacred Oaths of Secresie and sent to be charm'd with your Idolatrous Eucharist thrice a Week What great Policy had Vicount Stafford that he might not trust Dugdale so firmly bound What more than ordinary piercing Wits or discerning Faculties

that morning A. What about the Scale and impertinent story of the Antipendium and the Brass Screws B. No no not that A. Oh I find ye our ye mean the story of the Vintners Boys A hopeful story indeed of a Protestant Observator Though I must confess 't was well nick'd and well improv'd to help a lame Popish Curr over the Stile By which you may see how the Observator and Thompson hung together and drove on both the same interest What he got by 't he may put in his Eye if the Tories are not wholly wedded to their own blindness and it is thought that that mornings work has open'd the Eyes of a good many already B. Why did not P. swear that he never sent for L. S. the night before when he did A. What if he had sent for him and then rashly sworn the contrary though that cannot be prov'd neither it being another Person that sent for him what signified a rash oath in a Tavern to enervate a judicial oath in a Court of Justice only it shew'd the nimble double diligence of the Observator to send his emissaries to drill a leash of raw Boys into a sort of fram'd forms of Affidavits that signified nothing to the purpose had they been sworn and how zealous he was to have protected his three Friends that were running post to the Devil to serve the Popish Cause Wink with one Eye and see whether you can spie nothing B. There 's no such necessity Sir one Pope one King of France one Observator's enough at one time A. Nay you do well to make much of him for you 'l never get such another They say he 's such a parlous Observator that he 'l observe a Mutiner among the Mites in a Cheese that he smells so of Loyalty that there 's never a monarchical Bee in England will offer to sting him He labors day and night drudges like a Camel so profusely fills the world with his volumes of wast paper as if he foresaw a famine of Bumfodder B. However he has done a great deal of good he has knockt down Fanaticism like an Ox Dissenterism like a Calf he has trod upon the Asp and the Basilisk as Alex. He trod upon Barbarossa's Neck A. Yes and you see how fairly he let drive at the reputation of the Kings Evidence a reputation of much more consequence to the Kingdom than forty such as his is on purpose to ward the stroke of Justice from Subornation and to ease the Papists of the load of the most barbarous murther that the lust of Woman or the Ambition of a Caesar Borgio ever committed Which could he have done the Coach six Horses must have return'd again for the Popish Mints could have done no less then have wrought a month for his satisfaction Hereafter too he shall be Canoniz'd and all the Popish Ora pro nobis's shall be addressed to him the most proper to be their Intercessor in Heaven that did them such faithful service upon Earth But for men of sense and reason unless it be some few of his own Flie-blown party they deride his Mummery and Impertinence B. But I hope you 'l grant ther'e 's somthing due to the witty Heraclitus A. Not the value of a straw That Corporation of Duncerie has but just Brains and Rhume enough to keep the Ship afloat They are many but they have exhausted themselves like Silk-worms or rather like Gentleman Ushers in the Harlotry service of their own prostituted Conceits and so you may leave 'm to the scorn and contempt where you found ' em As for Thompson Paine and Farwell should this World deal with 'em according to their deserts it is resolved that they shall escape Purgatory in the other though it were very requisite one would think that they should have a little Purgation by fire from the dross of willful Submission to Subornation and premeditated Perjury For else it can never be expected that the Popes single Pass should ever give them Entrance into Heaven Well but wee 'l suppose they are never like to come there Then care must be taken by His Holiness on the other hand and great means used to Rhadamanthus besides that when they come into the lower Regions they be not thrown into Harpie's wood under the Title of Ruffians for though they did not murther the poor Innocent Gentleman yet after he was murthered they endeavoured their utmost to assassinate the memory of his Good name and Reputation Now this Wood is a terrible Wood purposely for the punishment of Ruffians wherein they are no sooner entred but down come the Harpies from the top of the Boughs and make most miserable Havock of their Flesh and Sinews and then hunt them with other Ruffians in the shape of Dogs into the Center of the Wood where having no other way to escape they are forced to leap out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire and plunge themselves into a great Lake of Brimstone and Flame through which they sink down right into utter darkness in Secula Seculorum Amen But now what says the Ld. Staffords Hobgoblin a main stickler in this business of Sir Edmund In the first place he braggs of the Education in the Flesh and his Endowments of Grace which Italy indeed according to custom connived at but which Germany had like to have punished with the utmost severity of her Laws had not his nearest Relations been as careful then of his Redemption as before of his Education Next he tells us of his high Marriage and his being made a Baron by his late Majesty The more ingrateful he to turn Traitor to his Prince the most gratious Son of such a gratious Father to whom he had been so paternally beholding Then he boasts his Sufferings for his Loyalty to the King Not so much it seems out of love of Loyalty as out of Reward For because K. Charl. 2d did not satisfie his Expectation therefore he mutter'd grumbled entred into a Conspiracy to take away his Life For this saith he the Lord was accused of High Treason and because he did not presently betake him to his Heels as a wiser man would have done therefore he was innocent But in such Cases to out-face danger is no sign of Innocence For Catiline took his place in the Senate when he knew his Conspiracy was detected and Biron though he knew himself engaged in a deep design against his Prince was so hardy as to appear before the King to justifie himself and to demand Justice upon his Accusers so idle a thing it is to judge of Innocence by the daring boldness of the Criminal Nor was the over-confident Coleman the more innocent for approaching the Council Chambers at the same time that his own Treasonable Letters were under examination After this he would insinuate that because as he says the Evidence was yet weak for farther discovery Indempnitys were promis'd rewards propos'd and encouragement given by Proclamation to

don't know but my Lord's Servants have been at the Swearing-School For proof of which 't is notorious in the printed Tryal how Furness was trapp'd by the Lord High Steward and himself p. 83. In p. 37. He taxes the Court of shifting off Perjury by a trifling jest Which requires no other then the firm answer and the same correction For the scandal still lies upon the Court who whatever the Managers said where to consider the weight of the Matter I must confess the World may well wonder that such a malicious Piece of pretended Protestantism should adventure with his frivolous objections so insinuatingly to bespatter the Learning and Integrity of those most worthy Patriots that so highly deserve by their great Circumspection and Industry from the whole Nation and the Protestant Religion But the Profession of true Protestantism being the most refin'd in the World 't is no more then could be expected from a Maggot of that common Proverb Corruptio optima est pessima Whose whole Diabolical Design being onely to traduce and by traducing true worth and virtue to assert the innocence of Trayterous Popery it cannot be thought that reason and Loyalty will judge the better of the Lord Staffords Innocency because they behav'd themselves so nobly and renownedly in the prosecution of his Treasons And thus you see the most Gigantic force and strength of his arguments for the injustice of the Lord Stafford being brought to the Block A bold and audacious Recrimination upon the United Wisdom and Justice of the whole Kingdom What such a foul-mouth'd Mr. Cover-Plot may deserve I will not be so adventurous as to put the question However it is not to be doubted but that all His Majesties most true and Loyal Protestant Subjects hope in time to see him duly rewarded according to his deserts In the next place he troubles the World with my Lords Principles of Truth and Loyalty What does it concern us what his Principles were if his actions were otherwise Nor will Mr. Impartial easily perswade the World That a Traitor in his actions could be Loyal in his Principles The Sacred Lips of Christ himself hath taught us that we must judg of the Tree by its Fruit. Cromwel that committed that unparallell'd Murther of God's Anointed was the most compleat Counterfeiter of outward Sanctity of any of his Time So that the ridiculous account of my Lords Principles was most unseasonable and insignificant As little to the purpose is that vain Recapitulation of the Cream of the Pa 〈…〉 Tenents For that Religion can be no Religion that has not some Tenents tending to 〈◊〉 and Morality but what signifies that We know the Rules of all the Popish Orders are very strict and savouring of a most Seraphic Holiness yet none more generally wicked and dissolute then they that live under those Holy Vows Even the Order of Jesus cannot exempt the professours of it from being the most pernicious of men But Mr. Impartial since you have been picking and culling the Strawberries of your Religion what think you of the p 〈…〉 sonous Mandrake-Aples that follow Since you have politickly taken this oportunity to sow the choisest of your Grain on purpose to seduce and win the multitude I will take the boldness to throw a double quantity of you own Darnel Seed among it to prevent the growth of it in the hear●s of the people To which end I begin thus That the Popish Religion is a scandal to all Europe burlesqu'd and pasquin'd by those that daily behold the Foolleries and Debaucheries of its most Exalted Aaarns and High Priest A Religion that maintains that inveterate implacable and imbred hatred to Protestantism contrary to the Character of Christianity that the Instances of it in History would serve to compile a Volume Read but the Lives of the Popes and there you shall find a Progeny of Christs Vicars and S. Peter Successors as they call themselves infamous for their Frauds Perjuries Blasphemies lost Consciences Buggeries Defilements and Prostitutions of their own Daughters Adulteries Poysonings Atheism and in short for all manner of Villany and Debauchery And when the Fountains are so filthy and impure Let the World judg what the Streams that flow from thence must be Their Monasteries Sties of Bestialitie their Nunneries Brothel-Houses Their Doctrine common principles and practise the frequent Excommunications and Murders of Princes the legallity of Equivocation and Perjury that there is no faith to be kept with Hereticks that libertie of Religion granted to Protestants is repugnant to the Law of God that it is the duty of the Papists to destroy the Protestants by Fire Sword Poyson Gun-powder or any other way most oportune That there is no obligation or allegiance due to Heretical Magistrates and Princes These are the singular and genuine Principles of Popery Which they that will not believe let 'em read the Works of Simancha Conradus Brunus Martin Becanus Cardinal Baronius Mariana Peter de Ouna Creswel Fresham and the Decree of Vrban the 2d That they should not be accounted Murtherers that kill any of the Enemies of the Roman Ctholick Cahurch And thus after a rambling impertinent Story of his Lordships behaviour that looks like a piece of Romance enterlanded with Love-Letters he brings his Lordship to the Scaffold where he avers to the World three notorious Rappers two of them in a Breath After a short pause he stept to one side of the Scaffold and with a graceful Air and intelligible Voice pronounced his last Speech A very graceful Air indeed encourag'd and highten'd with stupifying and therefore undaunted Inebriation which the near Spectators well observ'd However this is as true as the next that he pronounc'd his Speech when they that were at a distance might easily perceive he read it every word and as they that stood by related very fumblingly too And indeed it could not be otherwise expected For you know Mr. Impartial his Lordship was never accounted a Speech-maker in his Life and for a person under his circumstances and of his mean parts to read the sence of other men intelligibly and with a graceful Air is a thing more improbable then any of your absurdities And therefore Mr. Impartial you must lay your stories closer together next time But when the Head was held up by the Excutioner what then The People made no acclamations at the sight By which bloudy untruth so bloudily averr'd it is most plainly apparent what credit is to be given to all than Mr. Impartial has been clamouring all ●his while It being apparent that he who shall tell such a publick falshood so easie to be evinc'd would never scruple to make a thousand wilful mistakes clandestinly Surely he was either deaf or he had stopp'd his Ears with Plaister of Paris For certainly such a number of people could never have fill'd the Skie with lowder shouts and hollows unless they had had the Throats of Stentor himself And therefore if there were any that went away with confusion and remorse or cri'd him up for a just man they were onely some of his own Gang the Papistical Tribe of Handcherchief-dippers It seems there were others that said he was drunk with Brandy and then 't was no wonder his Air was so graceful indeed Truly Mr. Impartial you had better have left that Remark out of your Memoirs for now you put me in mind of it 't was so reported nay asserted and by many still so believ'd and indeed it is an an observation most agreeable to your discription of his behaviour toward the people and his intelligible pronunciation And 〈…〉 I 'd this Famous Traitor whose Cause if it were innocent there was never such a mistake committed since Adam was expell'd the Garden of Eden Which because it cannot be thought within the Verge of suspicion Therefore the Popish Plot remains a Popish Plot still The Lord Stafford remains a Traitor to Posterity The Evidence against him legal and unquestionable and the Lord Staffords Memoirs not worth a straw Post Mortem nulla Voluptas FINIS ☞ To all Persons of true Integrity whether this were not a holy cheat beyond guilding of shillings The one is but a breach of a single Statute the other perverts the whole course of Justice and scoffs at the whole Law of the Land Yet these and their Defenders are they that would defame and perjure the Kings Evidence that will not allow the King the Prerogative of his Mercy These are They that exclaim'd against the ill Life and Conversation of Dr. Otes who if he were at any time guilty of those things wherewith they taxed him we know now from whence he learnt ' em