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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47888	Lestrange's narrative of the plot set forth for the edification of His Majesties liege-people.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1680 (1680)	Wing L1275; ESTC R14939	23,723	36

to Embroil the Government Now let the World bear me Witness that I have nothing at all to do with the Original Plot or the Priests Artifices of Moulding and Cajolling the Dissenters any further then in a resignation to Truth and Authority My purpose being only to set forth the Emprovements that have been made under the Cover of One Plot toward the Advancing of Another I shall Date This my Narrative from the Transmigration of the Conspiracy and so carry it on through all the steps of its Progression as the Manner of Representing matters the Probable Intent and Effect of That way of Proceeding The Translating of a Popular Odium from the Papists to the Government and so mounting by degrees from a Zeal against Popery to a Sedition against the State IT is no Lessening of This Execrable Plot to say that Subjects ought dutyfully to acquiesce in the Resolutions of their Superiours And that all Clamorous Appeals from the Magistrate to the Multitude are only so far pardonable as the Abundance of Good will may help to excuse the want of Moderation and Discretion So that a great part of those Fierce and Unmannerly Transports that have been employ'd upon This Unhappy Occasion and without any regard either to Quality or Sex or in truth to the very Foundations of Christian Charity might have been much better let alone since they serve only to enflame the Vulgar without any sort of avail to the Cause in question It is no better then either a Translating of the Judicature from the King and his Courts of Justice to the Rabble or else a Complaint to the People brought in with a side-winde against the Government which are two dangerous Points striking at his Majesties Sovereignty the One way and at his Reputation the Other And yet all This is Tolerable if it goes off so and without blowing up a Passion into a Designe But we shall better understand the Drift of it by the Sequele If it rests Here it is only a laudable Zeal Ill menag'd For it is not the Cutting Strictures of a sharp Tongue or a Virulent Pen but the Sober and Impassionate Sentence of Law that by Prisons Axes and Gibbets determines These Controversies In one word let them vent their Indignation against the Principles and Practices of the Church of Rome in what Terms they please and make Popery as Odious as they can provided that they do not encourage Tumults and that they contain their Passions within the Bounds of Truth and Justice If they once passe those Limits Knowingly and by Consent 't is no longer Zeal but Confederacy This Caution of keeping so strictly to the Rules of Truth and Justice has a respect First to the manner of representing both Persons and Things and Secondly to the matter of Fact Now if to the Intemperance of Words there be added a Malitious Aggravation of Circumstances with Fiction and Imposture over and above 't is to be fear'd that all is not right at the bottom I shall be here encounter'd with a Reproof for being so Tender forsooth of the Reputation of the Papists and yet any man that is not Intoxicated with Popular Fumes or led Hood-winkt into a False Conception of things must necessarily see that my great Concernment is for the Honour and Dignity of Christians It being our Duty to proceed according to the measures of Good Faith and Justice even with the worst of Infidels But people you 'l say may be mistaken and give Credit to False Reports without either Malice or Designe This is Confest and none of those Errours shall be put to account If you ask me To what End Or What 's the Benefit of Imposing these Flams upon the Nation It is easily Answer'd First that the Plying of the Multitude perpetually with Allarms and Terrors does in a manner turn their very Brains take away their Judgements and render them fit Instruments for the boldest and most Unwarrantable Undertakings So soon as they are once touch't in the Crown with These Conceipts 't is but Sadling their Noses with a pair of State-Spectacles and you may perswade them upon New-Market Heath that they are Tumbling down Dover Cliff Secondly the very Perso●s that so artificially make the People Sick are to reap the Profit of the Cure which is such an●ther kind of Remedy as if a man should beat out his Brains for fear of the Headach Briefly they do first make the people M●d and then by the Consent of the Madmen they themselves ar● m●de Governours of the Bedlam But without any m●●e Des●anting upon the Good or the Evill the Grounds or Cons●quences of Matters we shall now deliver some few Instances to our present purpose AT the time when Mr. Powell the Merchant was so long missing what a Rabble of Formal Relations went about then of his being T●epann'd a Shipboard in what Company what Mony in his Pocket what Forebodings of his Fate and all terminating in a peremptory Conclusion that he ●as Murther'd by the Papists and not so few as five and Twenty or Thirty Pamphlets Trumpetting these Tidings all over the Kingdom And yet not one Syllable of Truth in 't at last What a Noyse was there about Sir Harry Titchbourn's House Even to the very Catalogue of the Arms that were There taken as 166. Muskets 54. Case of Pistols 37. Saddles 47. Daggers 2. Barrells of Bullets 3. Bundles of Match Letters sent expresse to Certify the Truth of the Story and Copies of them dispersed presently at St. Albans and elsewhere without any Colour in the World for the Report And so for the Herse full of Arms that was Intercepted at Banbury the Hampers of Fire balls that were found in the Savoy and Somerset-house which were only certain Rockets Serpents and other Artificiall Fire-works which Mr. Choqueux had publiquely prepar'd for the Entertainment os a Solemn Festival And yet all these Shams were blown up and down the Kingdom by News-letters and Printed Libells with as much Confidence as if they had been Articles of Faith and no doubt of it but many Thousands of his Majesties good Subjects believe them to This day for want of being better enformed What a Bustle there was about Mr. Langhorns being Bury'd in the Temple and what Remarks upon the Government for shewing That Countenance to Papists And upon the persons also that Assisted at That Funeral when all This while there was no more in the Case then only the Body of a Gentleman that dy'd in Holburn and was There Interr'd upon the night to the day of Mr. Langhorns Execution THE History of Bedingfields being privately Convey'd out of the Gate house and a Dead Body left in his place past so Current that Sir William Waller himself tho' he perhaps could smell a Jesuit as far as another body took a long Journy into the North upon 't to catch the wrong Bedingfield The Circumstances of that Adventure would be too Comicall for This place We could tell you the Conduct of