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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55165	The plot in a dream, or, The discoverer in masquerade in a succinct discourse and narrative of the late and present designs of the papists against the King and government : illustrated with copper plates / by Philopatris.	Philopatris.	1681 (1681)	Wing P2598; ESTC R7519	110,309	297

to be the Petropolitan Advocate At his coming up seeing them sit in form of a Court and that he was to be tryed before them he began like a Lawyer to put questions to them demanding of them Quo Warranto they sate and what Iurisdiction they claimed and that if they had any thing there to charge him with he had already made satisfaction upon Earth upon an Execution executed upon his Body Limbs and Members and therefore demanded the Iudgment of the Court si ulterius implitetur with such like canting terms which the judge Rhadamanthus heartily laughed at who told him that though they had several of his Profession in that Place yet they used no other Law there but their own by which he was now to be tried and therefore without more adoe required him to give an account for what cause he was brought thither The Advocate turning his head seeing the old Viccar sitting at the other end of the Board enquired if he were in Commission as a Iudge there or no Rhadamanthus answered him no he was only an Associate and that he himself was the sole Iudge in that place and that he must direct his Speech to him which the Advocate after a formal cringe accordingly did beginning thus May it please your Lordship or Devilship if it please you I was while upon Earth Advocate to the Petropolitans and retained by them at the Consult here lately holden to be assistant to them in their present Designs pursuant to which since my return into Albonia I performed them these Services as namely by contriving Settlements of such Estates as they had purchased in such Dispositions as they might be secured of the same by holding Correspondence with the Franconian Confessor by encouraging the Designs and Agents imployed for the killing of the King by taking care of delivering out the Commissions granted by His Viccarship to the Petropolitan Lords and others of Places and Offices conferred upon them by procuring 6000 l. of the Benedictine Fraternity for carrying on of the Cause in the interim of these my Endeavours the Plot being discovered by Phileroy I was upon his Information seised and brought to my Tryal when upon his and other Witnesses fully proving the aforesaid matters against me I was according to the Albonian Laws condemned to suffer the penalties of High-Treason which was executed upon me accordingly yet at my Death I stoutly denied the fact as I heard those that had gone that way before me had done These were my services and these have been my sufferings for which I hope and expect by your gracious suffrages to receive the honorary Fee of Martyrdom Out upon 't cryed Rhadamanthus laughing heartily a Fee for your Folly we have many Lawyers that are punisht here for their knaveries done in the other World but none that I know for being thrust out of it by their own folly as you have been and therefore for that if not for your knavery you must be punish'd so look to him Gaoler and then he was carried off At last to make up the full complement of Martyrs were brought up the five great Worthies of the Ignatian Order who had been the most active and stirring in carrying on this Conspiracy of all others viz. The Provincial Blancpain Father Courthar Father Vanga Father Wickefen and Father Tornero all of them as appeared by the tales they told there were lately Executed together at the Tyburnian Trident I could but think with my self how gay and jocund these Gentlemen were when I saw them last here consulting upon their Designs and now how pitifully they looked they would fain have made their application to his Viccarship who at their coming up gave them a formal bow for old acquaintance sake but Rhadamanthus perceiving it angrily called to them to come before him looking at them the while as they say the Devil looks over Lincoln as if he would devour them For the Truth is the Devil however sometimes they juggle together for their own ends loves Priests and holy Water both alike i.e. he cares not a Fart for either of them as appears by the sequel for after they were forc'd to come before him Father Vanga began in an elegant discourse as he was one indeed with a good stock of Eloquence to set forth the priviledges of P●iesthood and that as they were Spiritual Persons they ought to be tryed by none but the Spiritualty and therefore they appealed to his Viccarship Why What the Devil do you make of me sayes Rhadamanthus an Ass or an Hobby-horse I will maintain it I am more Spiritual than you or your Viccar himself And where I wonder lyes this precious Spirituality of yours in the Metaphysical imbraces of your Beloved Courtezans in the Seraphique pleasures of delicious drinking and feeding or in the refined morals of bloody and villanous practices such as makes Hell it self to blush at you for out-doing them in wickedness Well you see what your Spiritual practices have brought you to but indeed had you been as truly Spiritual as I am you had saved your selves a Martyrdom and cheated the Hangman of your Quarters but I will not be trifled with Gentlemen and therefore come to the business and tell me plainly for what you came hither They seeing there was no trifling with this Angry Devil did then severally give accounts to him of their practices and Sufferings which Practices though in some particulars they differ'd yet in the main were complicated together as being joynt Associates that had the management and direction of the inferiour Undertakers Blancpaine confessed or rather boasted that as he was Provincial it was by his Authority and Order that their grand Consult was holden at the Blanc-cheval where they joyntly subscribed an Instrument of a Resolve to take away the life of the King Courthar alledged that he was the man that gave 80 Guinies to the Ruffians that were to Assassinate the King besides one Guiny to the Messenger that carried them to drink the Secretary's health with And that he did also give 2000 l. to the Physician that was to poison the King Vanga insisted upon his great Zeal in stirring up and incouraging Villains to prosecute the King's Murther and as soon as the Deed was done to charge it as they have endeavoured all along in other their practices to do upon the Christian Dissenters The other two acknowledged they were all along assisting and contriving with the rest for the carrying on of the Design to Murther the King that for these and the like practices they had been apprehended and tryed and the truth of the aforesaid facts being particular and proved against them by several Witnesses they were therefore condemned and executed as Traytors yet that at their Deaths they all stoutly denyed the Facts that the Cause might not suffer by their doing otherwise for which act of courage at last they hoped they should be rewarded accordingly And that you shall I assure you quoth Rhadamanthus ho

and shook about him as if they had been hung on with wires and his head though he could not keep it from wagging every way yet he would often throw it up and seem to look very loftily about him before I came near him I heard him use this expression repeating it often with a stern and angry voice There is no Faith in Man Where am I now Is this the Reward of my service Is this the Elizium of Martyrs or where shall I find it But perceiving me now to draw near him he courteously saluted me with a Comment portez vouz Monsieur I imagined by his dialect together with his crinkling postures that he was some Frenchified Person but looking wisely upon him I knew him to be one that much used that Lingua and that he was the famous Petropolitan Secretary whom I perceiv'd Justice had sent into those Shades to seek the Rewards of his Martyrdom I answer'd the civility of his salute with a bien mercy Dieu Mounsieur Secretary Why said he wondring at the appellation Do you know me very well said I I remember you at the Consult at Strombolo and have often seen you in Albonia and am well acquainted with your History both of your services and sufferings in the Petropolitan Cause why then you are a Petropolitan I perceive replyed the Secretary Are you a Martyr for the Cause No said I nor ever will be as long as I have life left me upon Earth to spend in better services The more Fool was I said he to lose my own life so simply but it was my dependance upon my great friends that made me hazard it so ventrously otherwise a free confession might have saved it but they fearing I should babble something to their prejudice resolved to prevent me by leaving me to the course of Justice and slipping me out of the hands of their protection dropt me into that fatal Noose that brought me hither Well There is no Faith in Ma● But now that I am loosed from that treacherous Race of Mankind what company shall I have next and where lyes my way Are you Sir acquainted with these Countries No said I I am a Stranger in them being an Inhabitant of the Earth only was brought hither by an Extasi● for a Diversion however as long as my stay suffers me I will bear you company in your way to whatever place you are determined Discoursing thus together in a moving posture a little farther we entred upon a Road rising with a winding ascent and well beaten by Travellers as we marched along to divert the way I desired my limping Companion to give me an account of his Tryal and Execution for as to the previous matters of his actings in the Petropolitan Service I told him I was already sufficiently acquainted with them This my Request he readily granted and informed me that at his Tryal before the great Albonian Tribunal being charged with High-Treason against the King and Government his Papers that were before seized by Phileroy were produced in Evidence against him by which it appeared that he had on the behalf of his great Master held a strict correspondence with the Confessor of the Franconian Monarch to prevail with that Prince for moneys to carry on the Petropolitan Designs and by keeping off the Great Senates Sitting to preserve the Great Dukes title undisturbed until such time as they could rid the King out of the way by the contrivances of those that were designed to do it That it was farther proved against him that to expedite the taking off the King and to encourage the Design he gave money himself and promised great sums in the behalf of others to such as should attempt it for which and several other acts of the like nature which he thought to be highly Meritorious in respect it was for the Petropolitan Cause he was by the Judgment of the Court condemned to suffer as a Traytor which Sentence was shortly after accordingly Executed upon him altho he depended to the very last gasp upon the kindness of his Great Friends to free him from it but how he was rewarded for these his sufferings and services he was yet to seek At the Conclusion of this Discourse I heard a crackling noise and perceiv'd the glimmerings of some fiery irruptions ascending as 't were out of the Earth which made me think we might be now again at the place we lately came from Strombolo and so it was as it happened for as we drew nearer I perceived the passage into the Purgatorian Confines where a Scout standing ready presently seized upon the Secretary and hurryed him into it I was my Self so secured by the Magick of my Visions that I dreaded no dangers either from Flesh or Spirit and so boldly ventured in after him where in the Great Room where the Consult was formerly held I perceived a company of Sooty Feinds like Lictors or Officers of Iustice with Whips Chains and Fetters walking up and down the Room expecting Orders For it seems there was a Court held there At this time Rhadamanthus the Judge of that Place sitting in great State at a Table in his fiery Purple to Try the Prisoners that should be brought before him At the same Board I saw the Great Bishop with some of his Scarlet Senate all now in black sitting in a very melancholy and dumpish posture I imagined it was for that their Designs succeeded no better in Albonia The Officer bringing up his Prisoner to the Board he imagined I suppose that they were holding another Consult and so was going to take his place as Secretary and sit down amongst them But the Lictor pulling him back carryed him before Rhadamanthus telling him the case was now alter'd and that he was not there now as Secretary but as a Prisoner and that he must answer to the Iudge there such Questions as he should be demanded who presently demanded of him for what Cause he came thither he told him for being over-credulous in confiding to his deceitful friends but he hoped the Great Bishop turning himself towards him would not prove one of them having performed such signal duty in the services he was employed in and for which he was rewarded as a Traytor with a bitter and severe Martyrdom the accounts of all which to the purpose of what is before related he fully gave them and hoped that upon the merits of the same he should be condignly rewarded as he was all along made to believe he should if ever Fate brought him to that Condition The Great Bishop shook his head a little in way of compassion telling him he was sorry for his sufferings and that thereby they had lost the benefit of his future services but that he might thank his own Folly in being so over-credulous in trusting to the Faith of Man when he knew the Petropolitans used theirs no farther than their Interest served However knowing him to be one of an ambitious humour he would in