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Dr. Oates's answer to Count Teckly's letter giving him a true account of the present horrible plot.
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Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.; Thököly, Imre, gróf, 1657-1705.
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Dr. OATES's ANSWER To COUNT TECKLY's LETTER Giving Him a True Account of the Present Horrible Plot. May it please your Excellency THe inexpressible favour you have shewn to the Adorer not only of his Mahometan Majesty the Grand Seignior your self the Mahometan Laws and Religion but also of your Excellency's Discenting Principle from your Christian Master which is a true Parable with us here in these Kingdoms has fill'd me with amazement to find a Poet of our Party to answer the incomparable Letter you were pleas'd to honour me withal For indeed I am not good at writing or reading my business is only Plot-vouching for which I thank Mahomet I am famous all over the World But at last rather than be silent I have by many importunities persuaded him that was Author of a Famous Book that I believe your Excellency has heard of Intituled a Popish Successor c. to write this Answer which will inform you the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth which is more then ever I swore or said in all my life before In the first place I do from the bottom of my heart assure you which is more than I durst say of my swearing in the late Popish Plot tho'I had one Prance an Eminent Murderer by Oath to back me with a well sworn improbable Murder of a Famous Justice of the Peace that I have as good wishes and hearty Prayers for the Mahometan Cause as any man breathing in Christendom of which I am under colour a Member tho'never Baptiz'd and have ventur'd my Damnation as far as any that puts forth Christian Coulers on a Mahometan Design as I shall give your Exellency a true Relation In the beginning of my true swearing of which every body is sensible was to the Earl of Shaftsbury's contrivance I knowing of the truth of the matter but was resolved to make my self Famous as you are sensible I have I must needs acknowledge my self a sincere adorer of Mahomet by my persecuting Oaths against the true Lovers of the King of England whether Protestents or Papists I mean not the the True Blew Protestants for as I told your Excellency before They were for the Mahometan Cause we have always stood by Therefore to answer your Letter without many more Parentheses tho' my life does admit of the Devil and all who is best acquainted with all my proceedings as our Sea-men say from Stem to Stearn I am and all the Mahomeatan Protestants under persecution for the sham Popish Plot which was to introduce a true Phanatical Conspitacy that is also confounded Therefore we have design'd a day of Humiliation not only for the defeat of our Un-Christian Cause here but so your Mahometan Cause before Vienna as the Christian Gazets do inform us whose truth we strive to confound by our good wishes and daily Mahometan Prayers and yet we cannot prevail At the Christian Thanksgiving for the Discovery of our Horrid Conspiracy did we not abuse the Government and affrons the Clergy by sending up perfidious Notes to their Pulpits wherein we justify'd those that rightly suffer'd for contriving the death of the King and the Royal Family to be absolutely Murder'd and yet this does us no good neither lies it in my power for what would it avail me to tell your Excellence a lie to resist by those Methods your Excellence requires for upon the faith of what shall I say a Gentleman that I am none a Doctor I never was and a Christian my Father being an Anabaptist would never make me But by Mahomet whom I adore I know nothing of the Black-Bills by me sworn in the No Popish Plot for instead of thousands I never saw one nor does it lie in my power to tell you what they are like Therefore I cannot assist his Majesty the Grand Seignior with any thing of that kind For by our Prophet Mahomet they were invisible to me too I perceive now our Cause is in its Wane 't will expire like the snuff of a Candle having no Sun to renew its light by unless the Son of Perdition which will cast a damn'd pur-blind Reflection For the Spanish Pilgrims as I have already sworn I will not tell you a Lie tho' I scarce know how to frame my self to a Truth was an Aldersgate-street Contrivance to carry on our Design and a Stratagem to amuse the Rabble for upon my Mahometan Faith there was never any such thing Therefore his Majesty the Turkish Emperour and my ever Honoured Prince cannot possibly expect any belief from them I am extreamly willing to change my Climate had I but money to bear my Charges for being in the vein of speaking Truth I was fore'd to pawn some of my Contribution plate to redeem me from the Tenter-hooks of the Poultry Compters which an 't please your Excellence is a place a man cannot get clear of without tearing his cloaths And indeed mine began to be out at Elbows for want of a Plot-allowance Nay my Plot it self I was fore'd to pawn to Archibald Sparks Serjeant at Mace belonging to the Shrievedom of London who has no more Faith in my Plot than a Jew has in Christianity and now I have nothing else to pawn unless it be my Soul to the Devil which I fear he will lend nothing upon being his own already without a Bribe Therefore I do not find any possibility of my going to wait on my Grateful Master the G. S. my Janisaries have left me having no faith in my swearing when there is no money stirring And now the Giant Perjuries of your humble Servant are dwindled to the Dwarfish belief of a Loyal Subject so that I lie expos'd to Jack Ketch in his Office I must confess I began to be tired with our True Blue Protestant Bums having Bugger'd almost the whole Party over that I long for those Mahometan back-sides assured me in the Grand Seigniors Masculine Seraglio But that I now despair of unless his Mahometan Majesty by a speedy supply of money from his own Treasury do redeem me from the Justice of those Christian Princes I have I must needs confess by my Perjuries abus'd and set all honesty in a flame which is now like to scorch me to death except I say the G. S. and your self who have exprest so much love to me relieve your Vassal for by Mahomet I adore you before the Crucified Saviour you design'd to persecute For I was just to the True Blew Mahometan Cause and will continue stedfast For I will Lie for it Swear for it go to the Devil and be Damn'd for it if it will do the Cause any good If you will send Money to bear the charge of their Voyage I do not doubt but to bring the G. S. a hundred thousand True Mahometan Protestants that since your Letter I have recommended your Excellencys respects too Nay a great part of them are in the Village of London and do talk and will do as much for the good old Mahometan Cause as ever Our Prince Mon-Teckly has given us the slip but Bethel-Teckly is as vigorous a Cause-monger still as any man and will be ready upon the least Summons to head us with the help of Sir William Waller who lies ready at a Bawdy-house in Holland and can easily give us his assistance as he has promised for he was the man that burnt his Saviour in Effigy and therefore is true to the Mahometan Cause But for those Commissions you mention I confess by the Mahometan Faith I never saw one of e'm my self And for the Vessel that brought me from Spain to Islington in a days time to tell you the truth was a great Lye of mine because I would be thought a worker of Miracles The True Protestant Mahometans send but money you shall have them all but the Black-Bills I deny the Spanish Pilgrims I know nothing of the Irish Ruffins was a Sham the French Army was a Dream Purbeck Invaders was a trick to raise the Countrey Screw'd Guns and Chew'd Bullets were a Jest but the Protestant-Flails and Blunderbusses were a real Truth to destroy the King and all the Royal Family and beat out the Brains of all their Loyal Subjects And if they will serve you you may command them from your Excellencies great Admirer From the Amsterdam Coffee-house Oates FINIS