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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54302	The Rye-house travestie, or, A true account and declaration of the horrid and execrable conspiracy against His Majesty King William and the government collected out of original papers and unquestionable records, whereby the whole narration has undeniable clearness and strength / in a letter to the Right Reverend Father in God, Dr. Thomas Sprat ... from his Lordship's most humble servant, Thomas Percival.	Percival, Thomas, fl. 1696-1697.; Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713.	1696 (1696)	Wing P1454A; ESTC R20526	37,925	84

Day His Majesty has gain'd this very considerable Advantage that he plainly perceives the strength of all his Enemies Arrogance lyes not now as heretofore in their extravagant Power to pack the City Juries Therefore now may not even a Lord Securely project or a Ferguson write or a Confederacy act against the Government they not having Sheriffs and a Settled Club at hand with their Corrupt Pannels to indempnify and to second and applaud their most Villainous Practices And His Majesty seems resolv'd at length after a many intollerable Provocations to strike at that which he has now found to be the very Root of the Faction and not to suffer an ill Party of Men to destroy his Government as they might have done had they been suffered to go on never so little farther uncontrouled and it is not to be doubted but the Righteousness of His Majesty's Cause will meet with an answerable Success and that so many guilty Persons will not escape unpunished who were just at the point of bringing their devilish Purposes to a quick Issue and once for all to strike boldly at the Heart of the King and Kingdom But to proceed to the History of the Times this Conspiracy was resolved upon by the French King and the late King Iames in Ianuary last and for the carrying of it on the Duke of Berwick and others were sent into England to concert the grand Point of the Assassination Their Party thenceforth gave over all their quieter and more plausible Arts of Sedition and betook themselves to more precipitate Enterprizes inflaming some to Insurrections others to Assassinations They proudly brag'd throughout the Nation that the late King Iames would be here within a Month Nay they offered to lay Wagers that within that time we should have a New Lord Keeper and Mr. F. was to be the Man They bought up Horses and Arms in all Parts of the Kingdom at the same time using innumerable Deceits to alienate the minds of His Majesty's Subjects from His Government Their pretended Protestant Clergy both Iurors and Non-Iurors talked at this time very impertinently of the horrid Murder of King Charles the First insinuating the Abdication of Iames the Second to be of the same Complexion They ridicul'd the Popish Plot in 1678 that theirs of 1695 might be less credited They took occasion to exclaim against the Rebellion in 1641 and of the Duke of Monmouth's not sticking to represent the Prince of Orange's glorious Expedition parallel thereto At other times under Umbrage of great Loyalty to King William many of them declaim'd of the Divine Right of Kings and of their unaccountableness on this side Heaven from whence this wicked Inference was made that the late King Iames still remains their rightful King Such Practices as these were found by evident Proof to have been the Principal Rise and Occasion of ripening the horrid Conspiracy in this Nation As for his Majesty's Kingdom of Scotland it is Notorious there has been long Shelter'd in it a desperate Faction of furious Zealots that under the Notion of Prelatists were growing up by degrees to a Violation at last not only of all the Rules and Institutions of true Religion but of Common Humanity Have they not proceeded to all the execrable Rage of Rapine aud Violence Their Principles are not yet entirely extinguish'd tho their Force has been Vanquish'd in open Field by God's Provindence prospering His Majesty's Arms. It is certain also the Peace of that Kingdom has been much endangered by other Factious and Seditious Spirits who tho at first they would not venture to encourage publickly the Treason yet stuck not secretly to favour and foment their Cause and would soon have own'd and headed the furious Traitors had the Plot prospered By this brief Recollection of the Troubled State of Affairs and the tumultuous temper of ill Men's Minds in His Majesty's Kingdoms of England and Scotland about the time when this Treasonable Conspiracy was in Agitation the Impartial World may perceive from what destructive Seeds of Sedition private Passions and Animosities under the disguise of Religion and the Publick Interest so Monstrous a Birth was produced In the wonderful Discovery of which detestable Confederacy and in the happy prevention of its dire Effects as all who have heard of it must acknowledg that a signal care of God's Providence has appear'd for His Majesty and these Nations preservation so it must be acknowledged by all that nothing has been done on his Majesties Part but what was agreeable to that Royal Benignity and Natural Candor of his whole Life whereof all the World even his Enemies have had such undoubted Experience Much of the Evidence was deliver'd in His Majesty's own presence The Examinations were taken by Men of unquestionable Reputation and Honour The whole proceedings has been managed with all imaginable Integrity There has been no straining or extorting of Accusations to blemish the Fame of the Innocent No Temptations of Rewards proposed no Pardon assured before-hand for discovering or aggravating the Crimes of the Guilty Some Witnesses who offer'd themselves of whom there might have been any colourable Suspition were wholly rejected Lest it should once again happen that the blasted Credit or needy Condition or Profligate Lives of the Persons deposing should derogate from the strength of their Depositions and administer any the least doubt of Subornation Those Witnesses His Majesty admitted had been generally Men strongly prepossessed in Conscience Zeal and Interest for that Party Men whose former avow'd Hatred of the Government was reason sufficient to gain them an absolute Trust with any who studied to overthrow it They were not of desperate Fortunes nor despicable Men for the most part they seperatly and singly brought in their Discoveries Divers of them had little or no Conversation or Familiarity one with another There was no shadow or possibility of a Combination between them all to discover yet such is the prevalence of self Conviction and so great the Power of Truth that all their several Discoveries did perfectly agree with themselves and with each other in all Material Parts and Circumstances It was therefore in the Year 1695 a time when all His Majesty's Dominons enjoyed a settled Peace and profound Security whilst the greatest part of the Neighbouring World was involved in Wars and Combustions that his Majesty and his Council were suddenly awaken'd with the surprizing Knowledg of this dreadful Conspiracy which had been laying very deep and broad for many Months before The Man whom God chose to make the first Discoverer was Mr. Prendergast a Person of good Credit in his Conversation but otherwise a most perverse Papist and fiercely addicted to their Cause and one of the busiest Sticklers against the Government He by his approved Activity and Violence for the French Interest was Judg'd by the Chief Conspirators fitly qualified to be admitted into their most private Consultations and accordingly thereafter they trusted