his Cypher and with all acquainted them that Father Lachaise had acquainted him that notwithstanding his Receipt 20000 l. of which he had given no manner of accompt he was still urgent for Money which did cause a suspicion in the French King that Coleman sought rather his own then the French Kings Interest and that Lachaise had written to him that the French King would not be wanting to supply the Nobility of England that were engaged to advance his Interest and design here in England and at the time of the Concell the Lord Powis did Chide Coleman for his being so open in his Correspondence least he Smarted for it without hopes of Reliefe and told him it was a peice of Vâ—â— Glory in him and that he would prejudice himself and Friends of which â—â—iding Coleman told Whitebread and Whitebread in my hearing did tell Mr. Coleman that it was good to be prudent in affaires of such moment as those were 6. In Letters of August 1678 to the Fathers at St. Omers he wrote that he Longed till the Blow was Given I suppose Sir I shall not need to Explain those Expressions to you though your Cattel then did Vindicate your Innocency that when the Worke was done their Mouthes were Stopt and some did observe that after you Usurped the Crown you never could hold up your Head but like Cain carried about you such a guilt of his Blood in your Countenance as made several stand amazed but whether I may make a wrong Judgment or they â—hat did observe you nothing can be more plaine then that your Brother came to an Untimely end and who was called to an account for his or Shorts Murder who to his dying Day did say that he was Poysoned so as Powis longed for the Blow I do not question but that you longed to and if you did you had your longing Gratified And so much for Powis LORD PETRE I could have put you in mind of several other passages relateing to the Lord Powis but they were not very materiall and so I let you pass for the present and come to this noble Lord Petre who was not a man of such Contemptible parts as some men would make him he was much of your own Standard both as to Courage and Cunning and therefore as sit to engage with the Jesuits to destroy your Brother Charles as your self and he might as well serve for a Lieutenant Generall and to as much purpose too under the Banner of the French King as ever you served under the King of Spain the Lord Petre differed onely from you in this Point that where he did Espouse a Cause he never left it as you did the interest of your Master the King of Spain that kept your Brother and you from Starving and for his Recompence your Brother and you Sold him into the Hands of the French King but to the point in Hand 1. This Lord Petre was constituted one of the Lieutenant Generals of your Popish Army the Patent I saw in Mr. Langhorn's Chamber in the Month of May 1678. and in the Month of June the Lord Petre received this Commission and I heard a Priest whose Name was Langworth wish him much Joy of the said Commission and this Langworth was Priest in the House of the Lord Petre and was of the Order of the Jesuits and at the Consult at Wild-house where the grand Consult was held in April 1678. And you planted Langworth in the Lord Petre's House as you had Mr. Morgan in the House of the Lord Powis 2. That the Lord Petre was privy to that Consult for this Langworth gave the Lord Petre an exact Account of the said Consult in my own Hearing and that Coleman had another to shew you and I suppose honest Ned would not be behind hand of letting you know how the World did swing and he swung for it to your great Joy So the Lord Petre had the same Account from his Priest that you had from your Secretary in these Particulars 1. That Cazy was sent from England to Rome and that this Cazy was a substantial Man fit for Business 2. That Pickering and Groves were appointed to kill the King and the said Langworth telling the Reward that Pickering was to have Petre's laught heartily and said That a little ready Mony would not have been amiss And also telling the Reward that Groves was to have said It was too little for such a considerable piece of Service but said If they like it I do But this I say That I know Groves to be a stout Fellow But in the Conclusion of the whole Story the Lord Petre was for poysoning the King as the more safe way 3. That by your Direction the Lord Petre kept several Men in Pay which were to be ready to joyn in with the French when ever they should Land and that Portsmouth and Plimouth were in safe Hands in Men that were the avowed Friends of the French King and your self and Petre did agree with Langworth and the Consul who said That they had expected long enough and could no longer bear his Usage of them for he had put many Things upon them which he had promised to the contrary when he was at Bruxels And the Lord Petre did say That he thought the Fool would have more Wit when he came in 4. That the Lord Petre did say That notwithstanding he had received 10000 l. from you yet he had expended 3000 l. more than ever he had received and that he expected that he should have received more from you for that you had received 300000 l. from the French King twice told and that he could not continue your Men upon Pay without Money and that you had put him off to the Lord Arundel of Wardour who would acquaint him with the Pacquet that Sir Henry Titchburn had brought both from Rome and France But when the Lord Petre discoursed him about them and having received no Directions from the Lord Arundel Petre pressing the Lord Arundel with too much Importunity he huss'd him the Lord Petre and called him Fool and asked him what he would have and this the Lord Petre took as a great Affront and complained of it to your self and all the Answer he received from you was That the Lord Arundel was a great Man and was old and that you could advise the Lord Petre to nothing but Patience and in due time all things would be accommodated to the Lord Petre's Content and withall told the Lord Petre that he must obey the Lord Arundel's Directions the French King putting great Trust in him and the Lord Powis and the Lord Belasys This Discourse was at the Lord Petre's House in Covent Garden and thus far the Lord Petre. LORD BELASYS Thus the World may see what a Creature of yours the Lord Petre was But like to like as the Devil said to the Collier you were not at all unequally yoked and I having refreshed your Memory concerning him let me give
ΕΙΚΩΠΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ ΤΕΤΑΡΤΗ OR THE PICTURE OF THE Late King James Further drawn to the LIFE In which is made manifest by several Articles That the whole Course of his Life hath been a continued Conspiracy against the Protestant Religion Laws and Liberties of the Three Kingdoms In a Letter to Himself The Fourth Part. By TITVS OATES D. D. LONDON Printed and are to be sold by Richard Baldwin 〈◊〉 the Oxford-Arms Inn in Warwick-Lane MDCXCVII TO His most Excellent Majesty WILLIAM III. By the Grace of God And the Choice of the Good People of England Of Great Britain France and Ireland Rightful and Lawful KING Defender of the Faith and Restorer of our LAWS and LIBERTIES As well as the Victorious PROTECTOR of Oppress'd Europe TITVS OATES D. D. His Faithful Dutiful and Loyal Subject and Servant most humbly dedicates this ensuing MEMORIAL ΕΙΚΩΠΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ ΤΕΤΑΡΤΗ Or The Fourth Part of the Picture of the Late King JAMES SIR I Know you expect I should be as good as my word and truly so I will to the utmost of my poor power because of the great regard I have for your Person Cause and Interest and before I enter upon any more lines of your sweet face in order to perfect your Picture let us take a dish of drink together and give you a true state of your interest here in England and when we consider the excellent qualifications of your Hell-born Crew here you may easily conclude what a nasty pickle you and my old Landlady are in and that I shall do in these six particulars 1. Your Cattel here have acted their parts in tampering to make parties against the present Government which parties were to have been made either of your Friends or your Enemies the former are such a parcel of Cowardly Rascals that to tell you the truth as they quitted your Father in the time when he had most occasion for them so they did you witness your friends both here and in Scotland too notwithstanding the application they made by your especial direction to Sir Timothy Stiff-Jaws when old Preston's hopeful design was baffled by the vigilance of the present Government nay I doubt not but that they might by Scotch Robin have made some effort of that nature upon some of our Dissenters but alas it was to no purpose for they understood their Interest as well as an old friend of yours did of cheating your Brother of a tickling summ you know for what use and therefore all attempts if ever any were to all intents and purposes fruitless and vain well I pray what tools did you make use of very sorry ones upon my word a sort of people whose persons were neither known nor had they credit for a two-penny Loaf persons not able to make you a party worth the mentioning nor can I by the best enquiry I can make tell who set them on work or what Warrant or Authority they have for what they do for if one should ask Sir Timothy Stiff-Jaws to whom as I said before they were to make application he would swear by my Landlady's white hand that he knew never a Rogue of them all and would not lose his good Preferment as long as there was a shilling to be got though I must tell you that in spight of the Whore his neighbour he hath quitted his Post since a penny could not be got in it with any great matter of content he is now at Grass and waits dear Sir for a comfortable minute that he may have my Landlady by the hand again without disturbance I suppose he might make you under-hand half a dozen poor Curs and these the Rogues call a Party and a Party for you and upon the strength of these Fellows impudence your nonsensical Crew shamm'd a simple Declaration from you bearing date from St. Germains which did you more hurt than the Fishermen of Feversham could do for their hearts blood Well when your gracious Declaration came Lord What a stir they made with it and publish it they would hand over head without any regard had for the Publishers and disposers of the same or the least thought of making any provision for those willing Vermin that lay at the mercy of our Government to be drawn hang'd and quartered for such an eminent piece of service and some of them have taken a civil swing tho much ado before they could be perswaded to it You was not pleased to put us off with one Declaration but a second and a third was issued forth bearing date from St. Germains in which you lovingly declared what great and good things they should have the Lord knows when if they would but meet you the Lord knows where But I pray Sir why did you reflect upon the ingratitude of some of your old Friends Alas alas you did not well consider that they might be got into good employments in which they were to Battle their sweet Bodies for a convenient season or it may be if some of them had been so scandalous that they could not get into an employment of considerable trust they were got behind the Hangings with a comfortable Pension to the end that they may use King William in that Post as they did you when you employed them Nay sweet Sir now I think on 't there is your old Friend Sir Simkin you know who turned Whig to betray the Whigs to your Brother and then he turned Tory to betray your Brother to the Whigs then turned Papist to betray your good Worship what could you do with such a Spark if he should take the other turn but keep him behind the Hangings to do some job or another tho it cost you two or three thousand pounds per annum for Secret service for in my conscience Rhiming Jack Carryl and the rest of your doughty Crew at St. Germains would scarce sit at Council-board with him he would be so scandalous he saith he is a man of good parts and wouâ—d himself sign a Certificate even upon Oath since honour hath so long been a stranger to him yet none of your poor humble Curs now with you would be seen in his company for forty shillings a man lest he should betray you once more Come let me ask you one civil question if you should be King of Poland or Jerusalem or Ushant or Bell Isle Would you ever admit him so much as Clerk of your Kitchen truly you must have the Grace of a great deal of good Nature to believe him worthy of such an Employ for since he hath made so many turns let him have nothing with you but that of a Turnspit he being too lend for any else yet for all this this Case-hardened Coxcomb that brags of doing great feats for the support of our Government hath pretended to such an Interest with you and my very good Landlady that one would think that he was ready to make another turn and some of your Cattle here would fain make us believe he is doing
and that Greasy Guts had been Speaker to have supplied their extraordinary occasions and that you had entrusted your Brothers old friend with t'other two hundred thousand pound too be paid to them for secret service Truly Sir this they call secret service and very well they may good men for it 's all over secret only their Character Names Places of Abode their Persons and their Business are known we could and can easily find them and take them up when we please without the charge of a Kingston or a Fuller to discover them the former you will do well to return to his Trade of a Taylor and the latter to that of a Coney-wool-cutter You will say what is this Kingston Truly Sir an humble poor Cur of yours that a friend of yours in the Kings Bench Court helped to the use of a Pulpit in the Diocess of Bristol where the good man exercised his Talent and run down the Popish Plot with all the shreds of Learning he had in time the Bp. of the Diocess came to understand that this fellow had never been ordained by either Bp. or Presbyter but that he had been only a broken Taylor that had impudence enough without any colour of Law to get up into the Pulpit the Bp examined the matter and dismissed my Spark from his preaching Well what then Truly the next thing he took up was to be a Spy upon a Party to betray them as if Sir Simkin had laid his hands upon him for that purpose without the help of a Scotch Bp. here and truly there was no manner of need of his service for your Crew were as secret as Noon-day had these people managed as your Jesuits managed with you the Popish Plot we had then stood in need of forty Spies whereas in your last managed designs there was no need of one for every man did so plainly see the foolish behaviour of your Conspirators that they must have been blind had they not seen their designs Who would be plagued with such a pack of Scoundrels I advise you to write to Sir Sweetface Tellpenny that â—e pay off the Rogues that plot so foolishly that they are the reproach of a Conspiracy for they mind nothing but eating and drinking as if they had been Consecrated for that work by Sir John Greasyguts in a pretty Chapel a mile or two out of Town but if the Gentleman pay them off I pray let him do it without account lest he should be forced to reduce his Books as he once was upon another account but showing of Books and cutting of Books and betraying our Masters is as much out of fashion at Court as the Mass it self and Royal Pimping left Whitehall when your Brother went to his place and you in a decent manner left the Government being quietly driven from it by the perjured people of England If Sir Sweetface Tellpenny should not be at leisure to dischaâ—ge your Pensioner Plotters I pray be so gracious as to let Honest Tom the Exchequer man do it that s a Loyal Our Plâ—asâ—ure you one that if he was well examined hath not only the talent of Sir John Greasyguts but he hath a great deal of Sir Sweetface Tellpenny so that he may in a most humble manner serve to cheat you as both the other have done your dearest Brother of pious memory they are all in pretty good Posts not Whipping-posts and have a fair opportunity through mercy to cheat a third Monarch if he shall be so graciously pleased without the least danger of standing in the Pillory for that acceptable piece of service But you say what would men have you to do Truly I have nothing for you to do but to recollect with your self what a set of Rogues you have rely'd on and they have all failed you and above all to call to mind how they pretended Loyalty to you tho they knew you ascended the Throne by fraud perjury violence and murther and when you were driven from us they struck in with the Government of a Prince that ascended the Throne by the voice of the people and pretend to have a great esteem for his Justice and Valour but in truth it s for the Money-getting imployments they have met withal I say remember these things and if you had but a grain of sense you would do that to you self you caused to be done to the truly noble and never to be forgotten Earl of Essex 4. I have a fourth thing to observe to you you have a number of fools that run up and down and brags of their Commissions and foreign correspondence shewing of Letters c. and sometimes they will prate of you and your worthy Ministers at St. Germains as Harry Higden and the Town Bullies used to talk of a Constable and his Watch and let the subject be what it will the Scene is St. Germains the Cypher it runs still in the old way of Trade and Law-suits with a Clause at the end of all to this effect I hope to see you suddenly for my Uncle's Cause will come to a hearing the next Term. Now this is a vail every body sees through and the deep mystery lies as open and intelligible as a Proclamation nay one would think that Sir Simkin was amongst these people and was incognito as he was once you know where and so had betray d them and exposed their pretences to the Government and so you are once more betrayed in spight of your Teeth Well if you are I can't help it if I should cry my eyes out you must give them more caution for the time to come but upon the whole you may see that your Rascally Crew have neither Brains nor Interest nor Fortune but have struck into a vein of intelligence by themselves and for want of better security they are forbid to vouch for one another they all sing the same song and use the same authority for every thing they say and do and all this while not a Drawer in the Tavern they frequent but can call every one by his right Nick-name and tell what post he hath or was to have enjoyed in your service had your simple designs taken effect Do but observe how these Vermin live in a great measure by spunging upon your sweet Self or your credulous friends nay rather than the Rogues will be idle they will fall into Distress to be helped out again and spend what they get in guttling and fuddling and as for those that have done you good service they sham off with a God-damn ye And are these things so Yes truly and so they will be as long as they have an unfortunate Prince for whose Cause they contend and as long as they are managed by those whose Loyalty consists in Drinking and Swearing and Whoring too or else they would not be liked of They now and then will make a man of some Figure privy to their Intreague then poor Cur in his own defence he is forced to
it as your Cattel would willingly have done if they had been taken into it Oh! that you were but here with a wise head and an honest heart that no body might know you to hear them talk of Descents and bodies of Jacobites to cover them you would split your sides with laughing at their extravagant folly for if you were to have twenty thousand lousie French Curs to land here they could not expect to be covered unless they covered one another as Tumble-down Dick would have covered the Booksellers Boy or a sweet-faced young Gentleman yet alive to tell the story such a covering they might have met withal but as for any other covering they know nothing of the matter nay my old friend I suppose they have sent over their Emissaries to invite you and to tell you they are ready truly so they are some are ready to starve and some are ready to be hanged and others of them are ready with your sweet self to run away and truly I am ready to dye with laughing when I see their management Come come to deal plainly with you these can neither fight nor cover but in that way I mentioned for they are purely for Passive Obedience and Non-Resistance and will no more fight than your Army did at Hounslow-Heath or at Salisbury the Rogues will not shew any Courage unless it be that of Tom Jenner or your sweet self valiantly to run away In short they are a pack of Rogues that are in a direct faction against the more sober sort of Jacobites and give false Characters of them aboard and calumniate them at home as discouragers of all Loyal designs as they call their nasty scoundrel Plots when in truth they have only shamm'd themselves to the Gallows and by their vain and villanous attempts they have exposed themselves as a rascally Generation of people that will not be content under any Government for if they had you here again those very men would be the first that would fly not only in yours but also in my poor Landlady's face God bless her and keep the poor Gentlewoman on the other side the Water and scratch her Eyes out rather than they would stand idle for want of business and send you and her and the little Cub a Grazing the second time Therefore I humbly conceive that your Cause is upon its last Legs unless these men have some better way than is yet known to the Government But still you huff and bounce and say they are your friends so they are and it is fit they should for in my conscience I think if they were yoked to any Interest but your own it would be yoking an Ox and an Ass together which would be an unequal yoking but for all your huffing and making such a noise of their friendship let me tell you the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth that they depose you their pretended King in the very conditions upon which they say they would have you restored for they would make you accountable to them or else good night Nicholas But what a swearing do you make and will in spight of Hell it self have them to be understanding men Well be quiet I will say so too and there is good reason for it For in their labouring to restore you they good men only think to accomplish an impossibility and above all they neither understand the state of the Nation nor the humour of the people nor the measures of Government nor the complication of Interests and Parties nor so much as the root of the Disease much less the Remedy but to please you they shall be men of intelligence because they get in to the most public Coffee-houses about the Town and therefore they cannot want for News and News-letters and upon the strength of Dyer's Letters they set up for men of business and intreague and they assume to themselves the Government of the whole Province of Jacobitism Oh what undertakers you have had for Levies Associations Parliaments Councils Lieutenants Seamen Soldiers Nay because the nature of their designs required secrecy they have made the whole Town to ring of their exploits and orders so that in giving you intelligence they have been and still are intelligencers to King VVilliam and give us a better account of what is done at St. Germains than they give you what is done here so that they are rather the instruments for this Government than for your good Worship Well what think you of the point don't you think your self blest with a parcel of pure understanding Loggerheads Oh how doth Tom the Exchequer-man value himself upon sitting at the upper end of the Table in Company with these his Brethren I never find him famous for any great adventure unless it was for sending a Coach-man to Bridewell for asking him Eighteen-pence for driving him from the Exchange to Westminster-hall and the poor man I suppose did share of Tom s blessing when the Rogue was a Justice of the Peace He is sometimes in pretty Company where to his great sorrow poor Dog your name is mentioned but not much to your advantage He is an ignorant Rascal that is hearty in your Cause when it doth not threaten his Pockets but an Intelligencer he is just such as your Brother and you used to have in you Ministry 6. I must observe a sixth thing to your good Worship Your Cattle here are a bold pragmatical sort of people they are great undertakers I must confess that is to say when they have the obedient Child that cheated his old Dad of his Estate in company with them they are as great talkers as ever met at the Devil Tavern nay they value themselves upon huffing and making a noise to no manner of purpose they are great secret-keepers for they tell every body what they know and more especially since Scotch Robin hath joined with them and as they contrive their matters the poorest Porter in the Street nay Squire Boldface Sir John Greasy Guts his Neighbour would swear that their Management is a scandal to their very Cause and Commission Now you make your Face up as if you were somewhat concerned at the News Come Sir I will appeal to Tom Long the Carrier of Exeter notwithstanding his simple remarks upon Mr. Baxter's Life or to Mr. Wind and Stink of All Souls or to Tom Little Pitcher his Kinsman nay to Doctor Dunce of the Abbey with his disputed Title and endless Wars who was a great Companion to Sir John Femvick that worthy good man nay rather than fail I will adventure to appeal to Rhyming Jack Carryl or to your old Fiddler Hodge and his inferiour Crew of Spiritual Bums whether or no your Puppies have not acted contrary to all the measures of common sense as well as Political Prudence in such a manner that no man of credit or brains even of their own Crew will have to do with them nay since Scotch Robin the Bookseller hath advanced himself into
inflaming the differences that were amongst Protestants you had as great a talent at this sort of business as any man could be supposed to have had your party kept pace with you to a hairs breadth for at your coming how did you endeavour to heighten the difference between the Conforming and Nonconforming parties how watchful were the Good men of the Episcopal party over the Dissenters judging them to be greater Enemies to their cause and Quarrel than the Papists because of their great numbers and being in a bodily fear that the Dissenters would not only out-live but out-preach them this was a great crime Sir in the poor Protestant Dissenters which high Church would never forgive for some of them cared as little for preaching as you did for fighting unless it were with an honest Protestant at the Old Baily or the Kings-Bench Court where you were always sure to get the better of them and then you very seldome gave quarter to any that lay at your mercy nay did not Castlemain pâ—ess the Bishops to revenge themselves upon the Dissenters for their severe usage of them and their Clergy for their scandalous lives and ignorance in the word of Righteousness nay he did not only advise in the matter but pusht on their taking revenge with Head and Horns together rather than the poor Dissenters should go unpunished or that the division should not be widened to the utmost therefore upon the whole let me ask you or any of those Traytors that were with you at St. Germains whether these differences thus influenced was not to betray us into the hands of your villainous Popish party for it was not your Province I suppose to strengthen the Protestant Interest against the Conspiracies of the Papists no you will not pretend to that for that would be a solicism with a vengeance or did you judge that the Papists could by their plottings do any great damage to a Protestant Interest firmly united truly it is plain that because of the strength of a united Protestant Interest you could have but a poor account of your well-laid designs in a word therefore it was the weakening the Protestant Interest you aimed at and nothing could weaken them but dividing them and then this point being gained to work you and your Rogues went to destroy both and had effected your design had you not met with an unlucky fellow that discovered all 4. There was a fourth step taken to effect your Popish and Trayterous designs and that was the engaging the high Church party to run in with the Popish party in arraigning the Dissenters for Traytors and Rebels nay tho several of them who had with much zeal fought under the late King your Father and your Papists were somenters of the said War and would have fought against the King in the service of the Parliament if their services might have been accepted of and if any of them did fight for the King it was because his Cause was like to the Gallows received all and refused none it is well known that it was the folly of some of those you aspersed that brought your Brother home for which I think they have well paid for it but what doth all this tend to why they were to be battered at by the Church and Popish party together but that they might the more effectually be destroyed and then the Popish party with reason might expect the more easily to carry their point against high Church it self whom they judge Hereticks as much as they do the Dissenters and this I must say that our high Church if they had been destroyed by you and your party they might have thanked themselves for their ruine though I must confess I should have been sorry that so great a number of men should so heartily contribute to their own destruction and reject our Brethren that would so heartily have joyned in with them to have destroyed you and your villainous party in order to have preserved the Protestant Religion 5. There was a fifth step you made to effect your design by creating in many unthinking people especially in many of our Baal's Priests that the Kingdom did enjoy a sufficient security for our Laws Liberties and Religion and therefore how your party used to quarrel with those men that were apprehensive of our dangers in those cases your Brother apprehended that our Religion and Laws tho I should have thought that his apprehension of the danger of the Protestants had risen from Nell s wanting of Money to buy Cloaths to wipe down her Mistresses Stairs or from her Mistresses wanting some new rigging if none had thought of the danger that we were in but himself but we had four Parliaments that saw the danger as well as himself and did not only see the danger with which we were encompassed but with what great difficulty we were like to meet withal in order to prevent it till their eyes were opened you went on with a full career in your Plots and Conspiracies and met with great success suitable to that zeal to which you were as Coleman saith converted in a very high degree the plain truth is that you had a mighty work in hand and a mighty mind to it and therefore it was fit you should take mighty steps to effect the same 6. Another step you took to effect your wicked design on foot was to create and preserve a Jealousie in the King of the faithfulness and loyalty of the People and a jealousie in the People of the sincerity and good affection of the King to them so that they seeing they could not keep up a War between the King and the States General yet they would maintain a War between the King and the People of England and truly they had their ends for they brought your Brother in a manner to set up his Standard and proclaim a War against his honest Subjects by the frequent Rapes he committed in the time of his Reign upon the Laws and Liberties of the people witness his quitting his legal power and setting up of a French mode of Government and laying aside those Laws by which he was to have governed his people so that he became universally hated by the honest party of the Nation and thereby the more exposed to the vengeance of your cut-throat Crew who to destroy him would ordinarily expose his Government that they might so divest him of friends in such a measure as that none might appear to avenge his death but rather rejoyce in his destruction as you and your party did when you had done his business and I must say this of him he died more lamented than you thought for and less lamented than most Kings of England that died before him 3. I come now to show you who assisted in this Conspiracy you could not carry on any design without some great assistance therefore it is necessary that they should be pointed out that the World may know them from other men and
thing without being made privy to the same but also all Arlington's friends at Court lay under your great displeasure but some of them who had as much Courage as you had Wrath dealt plainly with you in the point and told you that your Daughter was not to be look'd upon as yours but as the King's Daughter and Child of the Kingdom and so that your consent was not much to be considered in the disposal of her but only the Interest of State but this was not at all satisfactory to you and your French Pensioners and Popish Crew because you all foresaw by that that the Protestant Interest would be strengthened and the French and Popish Interest hurt and Arlington would render himself the darling of the Parliament and the Protestant Interest and the States General of the United Provinces Well Sir you may remember that this trusty friend of yours the Lord Arlington set forth upon this Errand upon November the 11th 1674 and returned not till the sixth of January during his absence Old Veracity and Duke Lauderdale and some other of your French Pensioners who were the Persons of considerable credit with the King your Brother and did pretend to be united to you These Villains set up their Throats and roared declaiming loudly and with the greatest violence against poor Arlington and his actions and truly they gave you such hopes in his absence to blow him up and his whole party at Court so that as Beddingfield told me you passed the time pretty comfortably you expecting by these trayterous impliments to have routed him and all his Creatures and in so doing they drew you on to believe that upon the ruine of the Lord Arlington they could do you Service and the French King and that they could with the greatest ease imaginable manage and deal with your Band of Pensioners but protested to you till they could get rid of him they had not courage to speak to the Parliament for fear they should not succeed nay your old White-hair'd Friend whose gratitude to the Duke of Buckingham was so notorious told you that if you could not get rid of Arlington that the Parliament would sit again in spight of them all and further acquainted you that if the Parliament should come to hear of this that they had used their endeavours against their sitting would prove an unpardonable Crime that neither the French King nor you no nor your Brother could save them from punishment these Villains knew the greatness of their Crimes and therefore they were forced to play an odd trick with you now and then to save themselves harmless but you whose nature and property was never to forgive was forced at this time to dissemble with them by your pretended acquiescing in their judgments tho' full sore against your proud Stomach and if you remember Arlington was too many for all your Party for if I am not out he would not have you to treat with the Parliament in his absence for on the Tenth of November the very day before his departure he so managed his Affairs the Parliament was put off till the thirteenth of April 1675. What overtures these two Lords made in relation to the match I cannot well tell nor will it be much to the point if I could but when they had done that for which they were sent they returned home but alas the creatures found themselves not able to prevail against Arlington by those means and arts they had then tryed they resolved now upon counsels which were to out-run him in his own course which accordingly they undertook and became as zealous men for the Protestant Religion and Liberty and Property as ever the Lord Arlington could pretend to have been before and in pursuance thereof perswaded the King your Brother to issue out those severe Orders and Proclamations against your Brethren in the Faith which you knew came out in Feb. 1674 5 by which you see they even they your own French Pensioners did what in them lay to extirpate your own dear Religion and to Banish your Brethren out of the Kingdom what ungrateful wretches were these to pursue such counsels as were in opposition to your Worship Had you advanced these Vermin O yes and they had professed much duty and service to you what Scoundrels were these so basely to leave you Come don't cry your friend Coleman knew who it was that would support you in order to this presently an Express was dispatched over to France and trusty Jack Smith was dispatched away to the Most Christian Turk and oh what Complaints you made to his Father Confessor of these Rogueries and truly it was high time to enter upon new thoughts how to preserve you in this juncture of affairs from the deceits of these men upon whom you used to depend very much for the support of your Cause alas Sir what would you have them do they had for a long time been acting in your designs till they were as obnoxious to the people as the Devil could make them it was therefore highly necessary that they should do some small matter to render themselves a little grateful to the Parliament provided there was a necessity of its sitting at the time appointed and you know that nothing was so pleasing to the Parliament as brushing of Popery s Jacket a little notwithstanding all this the sence of their Guilt was such that they had rather have seen the Devil than a Session of Parliament and therefore they would have been glad to have found out any expedient to have put it off though they durst not for their ears engage in it openly themselves But Sir what was all this but shamming the Nation for all this while like State-Moles they were hard at work under-ground to secure you for what they had done openly against your interest and the interest of the French King their point Sir was to whet your zeal for the dissolution of the Parliament and that they had been somewhat severe against the Saints of your cursed Church only to make way for a dissolution and that an objection of the people might be fairly obviated viz. that the dissolution of the Parliament was in favour of Popery which clamour theyt old you was prevented before-hand by the severity they had used against it Upon this you sent to the French King as before and made your propositions in good earnest for it was but in vain to trifle since you saw your self shammed you could but judge what sort of Cattel you had to do withal and what you had to trust to if you lay at their mercy and that you now must trust in the mighty mind of his most Christian Majesty then you made your application to him and like a good Boy you promise heartily to perform what was required from you he complies with you and so you were safe you had his Purse and so you were easie and Coleman his 20000 l. and so all was well and what could
thrive since you had the benefit of such admirable assistance so that reasonably you could expect nothing less than the extirpation of the Protestant Religion and the total overthrow of England's Liberties 4. You had a certain Queen that had received very great affronts from you know who her Bed invaded and defiled by a parcel of Whores and it was high time for her to declare her resentments by engaging her self in the Conspiracy especially since Mother Church was to be advanced and Heresie which had so long domineered in these Northern Countries to be extirpated she knew what assistance you had from aboard and therefore Good Lady she would not be behind hand at home especially since she could no otherways be revenged for all the wrong that had been done her She was brought upon the Stage for it but he that was most concerned thought he could do no less in point of Honour to preserve her though it was from the publick Justice of the Nation 5. You had your Female Companion which was pinn'd upon the Nation by the Advice and Counsel of Lewis your Ally who in order to secure your Brother and you to his Cause and Interest adopted her a Daughter of France and was to pay her Portion she was a main instrument to encourage Popery and Slavery and what intercourse there was between you and the See of Rome upon the Marriage with that hopeful piece of Houshold-stuff I have already shewed you in my first memorial the band of Pensioners had such a foresight of the sad consequences of that Marriage that they made many Votes and did Address the King your Brother to prevent the consummation thereof as appears in the Journals of the said Parliament and her carriage when she was Dutchess of York and when she wore the Name Stile and Title of Queen was a sufficient proof of her intentions to advance the design of subverting our Religion and changing the Government and murthering the King the Jesuits your trusty friends can well tell to this day 6. You had the standing Court-Whores that were engaged with you for this let me tell you that whoring and consuming the Treasure of the Nation were Crimes that were to be pardoned but their being State-Whores was the thing that rendered them in their day to be a greater grievance to the Nation for they were put upon your Brother to betray his Councils to Rome and France and it was by their aid and assistance that you compleated that mighty part of converting these Kingdoms by poysoning him for though he was a Papist yet not Papist enough to hold the Throne and what steps you took in his time you took by their assistance and sometimes you met with unexpected delays so that you could not preserve alive the work that was upon your hands and therefore it was resolved that he must dye that the work of the time might go on without contradiction or delay your Jesuits resolved upon it in the years 1676 1677 and 1678 the Whores agreed to it in 1677 8 upon the Marriage of the Prince of Orange with your Daughter 7. You had your Brother engaged with you in the whole design but that of his own life and I suppose you could not expect his consent to that part of the Conspiracy and therefore to prevent his Jealousie of that you forged a plot upon the Dissenting party and began with the Lord Claypoole who was committed to the Tower and you had two of your Popish Cut-throats ready cut and dried to have sworn him out of his life and several others so that you might destroy the King and lay his Death at the door of the Dissenting Protestants and in this Sir you happily failed when I appeared to take your Cause and Design and laid it before the Parliament who were willing to save your Brother's Reputation if it had laid in their power and his Life if he himself had been pleased graciously to consent to it but he would not and therefore through the blessing of God you did his business as effectually as if Sir George Wakeman had done it himself This I put down to shew you that since he would not let the Parliament preserve his life the destroying of which was one of the two good things that ever you did the other was your running away 8. You had our high Church brokers that through their folly and madness against poor Dissenters turn'd Pimps for nay prostituted themselves and their Cause to Rome and France rather than the Honest Party of England should escape the gracious Vengeance you designd for them Did they not to serve your Cause and Interest preach Sedition and villiâ—ie the Reformation promote Popery assert Popish Principles decry the Popish Plot and turn'd the same upon the Protestants and endeavour'd to subvert the Liberty and Property of the Subject and the Rights and Privileges of Parliaments In a word many of these Devils brokers they appear'd to all sober thinking men a very scandal and reproach to their Function And that I may clear this point I will instance in some of them by Name that the World may see these sort of Rogues how they help'd on Popery and Arbitrary Power to which they were by your Brother and you engaged and for the doing of which they had your Brother's Countenance and yours 1. The first I shall bring upon the Stage was old Sheldon a whoring wicked Fellow and in his younger days was as lewd as his Gown could make him It is well known that there was none greater than he and your Servant Coleman none more ready to satisfie your former Dutchess that she might turn Papist without any danger to her Soul This Sir was at your instance And to him 2. We joyn Morley that wicked Bishop of Winton that urged the Dutchess with the necessity of obeying her Husband and that there was but little difference between the two Religions and he hoped to live to see an Accommodation between the Church of Rome and the Church of England 3. Your old Friend Gunning he was a Fellow of rare Principles and of him I shall say nothing he having shewed himself in his own colours in the House of Lords in his time 4. Let me add old Cosins that met with his Friend a Papist after the Meeting at the Savoy upon the Return of your Brother and you to the ruine of the Nation and swore God damn me Old Boy we have sav'd Bell and the Dragon and we will not be long before we make your Church and ours to meet that we may be revenged of these Fanatick Rogues And 5. I will instance in Guy Carlton the Bishop of Chichester that said at the Bishop of Ely's Table in the hearing of Bishop Gulston and Gunning He had rather have Poperty than Presbytery in England for the Difference between the Church of England and the Church of Rome might be composed but it was impossible that ever the Presbyterians and the Church of
upon the Crown for the better support of the Government upon pretence that the Revenue was not sufficient but the House of Commons did not relish it the very Band of Pensioners opposing it and the reason for it was that in case there should be more standing Revenue their Trade would be spoiled for then there would be no need of their service and your old Parliament-briber would keep his Dinners and his Monies too without which those Rascals could not live but the Parliament being gone you and your Rogues being a little unsatisfied that you had not bubbled them out of more Mony began to mutter behind their backs of their unhandsom carriage to the King your Brother and to load the Parliament with the Infamy of being the cause of the Cessation like to be and the Peace which was expected to ensue the French all this while playing their Rogues tricks in Flanders streightly blocking up Mons which they expected to carry before the Peace The Dutch and the Spaniard with the assistance of the English Forces that were in Flanders under the command of the Earl of Ossory were resolved to succour Mons before the Peace took place but the French King being aware of their designs pressed night and day the more to streighten the Town and stopped up the ways so that all relief was hinder'd from coming to them for Luxemburg who did all this had a vast Army with him the very Flower of France the Prince of Orange with the Dutch and Spaniard at the earnest sollicitation of the Spaniard were resolved to succour the Town that it might not fall into the hands of the French before the Peace was concluded they march directly for Mons where they found it close block'd up by the French Army under the command of Luxemburg but notwithstanding the getting into Mons by reason of the Blockade and the advantageous Posts the French were possessed of as if there had been a new Courage put into the Spaniard and Dutch and as if it were a fatality on the French to blemish all his former Enterprizes and to give him a parting blow the Prince with the English then with him pressed upon the French so hard that they forced them out of their advantageous posts and made them quit the Field and by this course Mons was succoured tho' with the loss of many Men on both sides but the French were strangely beaten and retired in great disorder in the Night which was so great a blemish to the French King's Glory and struck such a Fear upon his Army that it was verily thought by judicious persons that had the Dutch and Spaniards followed the blow upon the French they had ruined his whole Design Your Designs on foot beginning to appear to most thinking men and meeting with this sad disaster I remember your Countenance was disorder'd in a strange manner as if you had broke up some House or robbed some Church for which you were to be called to an account and then sometimes you would mimp up your Mouth like some old Custard-maker and say It was a hare-brain'd rash Act done by the Prince of Orange and the Duke of Mâ—nmouth who just came in as they began to fight not like Soldiers but like Madmen I remember it was upon the self-same day that your Brother was made acquainted with that part of the Popish Conspiracy that concerned his Life but of that in its proper place But upon this defeat of the French at which â—n honest company of your good Friends laughed heartily and as heartily drank yours and your Conspirators Healths But I pray Sir how did your French Mustard-maker take all this truly Sir you well remember he sent several Messages to your Brother and you and told you both very roundly that our Forces were the cause of this Affront and Abuse put upon them and in plain terms he called you both to an account for your breach with him in suffering the Duke of Monmouth and the English to fall upon him contrary to agreement truly this made your Brother and you uneasie as also the rest of your bloody Rogues for you were much afraid that he would not furnish you with his purse according to the other agreement but you and your Rogues with open cry protested your Innocency and that you had not the least thoughts of any such Action and truly I did believe you were much in the right Well what to do you could not tell for you were all of you ready to beshit your selves but this Sir you may remember that you dispatched away your trusty Messengers both to the French Court and to Holland and promised upon the Faith of Gammer Potteâ—'s Honesty and her Husband's Religion you were not at all privy to the Prince of Orange's Counsels Right but what then truly you would be a good Boy and stop such ungentile proceedings for time to come and withal assured the French King that the Duke of Monmouth went not over by your consent more truth yet â— nor had he any business there but his curiosity only led him to it and for time to come better care should be taken of him than to be busied about such affairs withal assuring the French King that he should have no thanks for his pains when he came home So you pulled up your Breeches and escaped a scowring for that time and so you and the French was as intimate as the Tinker of Baâ—bury and his Trull for to give you your due you never forgave the Duke of Monmouth that scurvy bout but had an Eye upon him as Saul had upon David for slaying his ten thousands Well then what becomes of the Peace Truly this Foil the Monsieur met withal did not retard the Peace but rather further'd it for your Ally order'd his business so well by his Emissaries at the Hague amongst the States and with the Governor of Flanders Villa Hermosa that the Prince of Orange just as if the De Wits had been risen from the dead had positive Orders immediately after the Fight if not before not to go on any further for that the Peace was concluded from which Peace the States-General had good reason as well as the Spanish Netherlands yea and England too to have dated their ruine as did appear by the fatal Consequences of that Peace had not God design'd a Deliverance for them all and a Deliverer too But your villanous Popish and Popishly-affected Conspirators ply'd their Work and first got in the States General then the Spaniard and then the Emperor even to the abandoning their Allies Denmark and Brandenburg who were drawn into the War for the Common Cause of Christâ—ndom and had been most eminently serviceable with their Arms to divert the Swede and French Interest yet then were leâ—t in the lurch by them whose part they had taken and forced to quit all their Conquests and lose their Charges or else they had been liable to have been undone which made the
of the Faith of the Church of Rome that were not of the Faith of the Court of Rome and therefore though they gave all manner of Encouragement to the Romish Religion yet by great Caution and Vigilance they have very much prevented the undermining the Temporal Authority they had over their Subjects Our former Kings of England though they were of that Faith and did countenance their Subjects in that worship yet they would not let them be enslaved by any pretended Papal Jurisdiction but your Villains were blessed with a man that would not only allow the Bishop of Rome his rascally Worship but also allow him to enslave the Nation with a Power he challenged in the temporal Government this your Cut-throats were assured of and therefore they would not in good manners to your great Zeal be in the least behind hand to joyn with you to hasten the Exit of your Brother who would by no means keep pace with them to their horrid Designs and therefore they judged that he was their only Let or Hinderance in compleating that mighty work 3. You was not only a Papist but a bigotted papist and being such you put your self under the Conduct of the Jesuits this Confederacy of yours with those zealous Sons of the Synagogue of Sâ—than could not be otherwise than very fatal to the Kingdom as to its Religion and Government and the person of the King your Brother for you arriving to that Pitch of Zeal and putting your self under their Conduct they in gratitude to you could not but endeavour the hastning your Accession to the Crown of which you were as ambitious as they were zealous and therefore you both joyned to destroy your Brother that was converted to the Religion of Rome but not zealous enough in driving on the Jesuits Designs had you Brother's Zeal been as fierce as yours he might have been cooling his Heels at St. Germains as well as your self and good Company there It was not for want of good will to your Religion but for want of a galloping Zeal which was no ways consistent with his voluptuous Living that you and these villanous Jesuits and the Popish Party conspired his death these were the three Advantages on which your Cut-throat Party did build their Hopes which made your Jesuits in the most considerable part of the Kingdom and in many places abroad to preach their King murthering Doctrine the better to prepare those of their Communion to joyn with you in the Fatal Blow that you and your Council at St. James's had designed to give the King your Brother 6. A sixth Testimony that appeared against you and your Party was the Trayterous Correspondencies that was maintained in order to carry on a Rebellion in Scotland and Ireland for Scotland your Villains took the Advantage of the great Heats that were created in that Kingdom by the dreadful Tyranny of Duke Lauderdale who acted by your Director and used all those Methods that might provoke a Rebellion and your Servant Coleman who had a great Interest in Lauderdale was often with him by which the Jesuits understood what Measures to take and a Party was appointed to incense the Villainous Bishops of that Kingdom against the poor Protestants there whereby their Lives were made very miserable and the Usage of their Ministers who by providence were driven upon the Coasts of England and came to the House of Lords where an Account was given to the Parliament that sat in the year 1678 in the month of December and the Parliament took their Cause into Consideration and dismissed them of their Irons and Thumckins and addressed your Brother against Lauderdale and as you had a Party of men that acted their part with the Episcopal Party in Scotland thus to vex and torment the afflicted Protestants in Scotland so your Jesuits they entertained another party of Rogues of the same Complexion to assocIate themselves with these poor Protestants in order to keep up their Animositie against the Prelatique Party withal urging them that they at that time had a fair Opportunity to vindicate their Liberty and Religion and that it could not be done but by the Sword and whereas that the King had received many of their Addresses yet he was so addicted to his pleasures that he neither would nor could take little or no care of redressing their intolerable Grievances and the great Cause of their ill Usage proceeded even from the King himself by which Sir it appeared their great Design in Conjunction with you was to weaken your Brothers Interest in that Kingdom for they urged that if they did not stir in time they would be put under some Forreign Force which would be more vexatious to them and you found your Design so well that your Jesuits received an Account from Scotland dated Feb. 7. 1677 that all Diligence was used to put the Potestants in that Kingdom of Scotland upon opposing Duke Lauderdale and his Villains and questioned not but that all things should be so ordered that a Rebellion should be raised in Scotland and a little before you went down to Windsor you knew that Messengers were sent down to Scotland to press the poor people to a resentment of the Tyranny they lived under by the Male-Administration of Duke Lauderdale and such that were of the Ministry in that Kingdom and especially since they could not obtain the Liberty of Conscience notwithstanding all their humble Supplications to the King therefore the Sword must do it a Rebellion at last you obtain'd in order to destroy these poor Wretches the Consequence of which was the total enslaving that Kingdom the better to fit it for its Submission to the Romish Religion As for Ireland I have already at large not only in this but in the first Memorial laid open your Practices in that Kingdom 7. Call to mind Colemans Letters and say that you knew nothing of them if you dare there it is said that you had a mighty work upon your Hands no less than the Conversion of three Kingdoms Come Sir deal freely was it to be brought about by Arguments from the Scripture no Sir I did never find the Knowledge of the Scriptures abound in the most learned of them all we have scarce a Protestant Cobler but is able to cope with if not to baffle a Romish Priest it could not be that these three Kingdoms could be converted by these sorts of Arguments with which your Cut-throats were little acquainted and their preaching is generally too silly and empty to prevail with Protestants to change their Religion unless some few weak Debauchees and weaker Whores Well you were to convert three Kingdom I pray how was not your Conversion and Conviction by enlightening the eyes of the Protestant Party by a Faggot and by the powerful and irresistible Arguments of the Dagger those Letters of Coleman's tell the world that the design prospered so well that there was no doubt but that it would be managed to the utter Ruine of
the Protestant Party Truely Sir Coleman's Letters were such pregnant Proofs of your villanous Designs and his Declaration drawn up and prepared for your Brothers Signature were testimony enough without the Addition of any further Evidence but I will put you in mind of some short Notes of that Saint of yours and then set down the Letters as they have been published for the Satisfaction of Mankind by which Sir it is manifest that by your order under your self he was the great Director of the Affairs of the Popish Party here in these three Kingdoms as you may see by the Correspondence he maintained with the Pope himself by the means of Cardinal Howard and his Correspondence with the Popes Internuncio at Bruxels and Father Sheldon at Doway and the Monks there and with your dear Fathers at St. Omers to whom he gave an exact Account of the debates of your Council at St. James's and of the Affairs of the Government at White-hall â—ay let me tell you that your Brother the King had such an Opinion that when you had obtained a Promise from him of dissolving the Parliament he would have none but Coleman to draw it up but he being of the Opinion of Lewis of France that Princes by no means ought to be slaves to their Promises the dissolving of the Parliament was moved in hopes of gaining Mony from them to supply his Wants he had such an Interest with Lachaise that he did obtain the summ of 20000 l. for himself and 300000 l. for you and the promise of 300000 l. a year till you could bring your designs to bear and an Army was through his Sollicitation promised to be landed in Ireland and England as soon as peace was concluded between the French King and the then confederate Princes as being the time that his most Christian Majesty would be at leasure to assist you in this mighty work of converting these three Kingdoms you know then the dragooning Apostles were to come over to preach here in order to convert us to Romes Religion and the French Government by these â—ou were to do the work with the Assistance of your Cut-throats at home both in England and Ireland Now Sir it will not be amiss that we offer to your Consideration the Letters themselves with which Sir you cannot but be highly pleased since they were the Hopes of your Family if the design specified in them had taken effect first then here is the long Letter that this blessed Saint and Mâ—rtyr wrote to Father Lachaice SInce Father St. Germain hath been so kind to me c. This Letter puts us in mind of the great Correspondence that this Villain held with one Ferrier by your Order in Order to subvert the Laws Liberties and Religion of these three Kingdoms and the said Ferrier going to his place St. Germain a notorious French Jesuit recommended Coleman to Father Lachaice for to renew this Correspondence that did for some time â—â—ase by reason of the death of the said Ferrier there are several things in this Letter that are remarkable as 1. That the sending of the Troop of Horse Guards into the service of the French King and the Care that was taken to send with it an Officer called Sr. William Throgmortoâ— with whom Coleman had a particular Intimacy this was the person that Coleman made choice of by whom he might correspond with Ferrier This Throgmorton was once a dissolute Protestant and being a person but of a mean or a broken Fortune was by Coleman perverted to the Church of Rome and as a reward for his coming over to your Church he was made an Officer in this Troop of Guards but indeed he was rather sent a Spy upon the English Gentlemen and when he died Nevil Pain took that Province upon him and gave an Account to Court and especially to your self as William Throgmorton had done before of their Carriage 2. I observe that the recalling of Liberty of Conscience was fatal to you and your Cut-throats to that you did owe all your Miseries and Hazards and therefore Sir I hope that you will allow me that great Truth which I delivered to you that Liberty of Conscience was the first great Step your Brother and you made to establish the Roman Catholick Religion here for nothing hurts it like the recalling of that Indulgence and making peace with the Dutch provided it had been a good one though Aâ—â—ington when he was Embassadour there perswaded the French King for some time that your Servant Coleman was much out in his Politicks as well as your self 3. That Peace was much to be desired between the French King and the Confederate Princes of Europe and that nothing could procure a good one for the French King but the Dissolution of the then Parliament who tho' they had been laterally by you and your Rogues well bribed to give many an ill Vote yet at last they began like English Men to fly in the Kings Face and roar against Popery especially upon an empty Pocket and if Fortune had not sent them a seasonable shower or two in a Session to cultivate their Inclinations to act according to the bent of the then Court and till this peace was made between the French King and the Confederates little could be done towards the revival of the Catholick Cause after its recovering that fatal stroke by recalling the Liberty of Conscience and setting up that damnable Doctrine of a Protestant State Purgatory which hindred many an honest Apostolical Cut-throat from having a Place at Court but you will say Why should the Dissolution of our Parliament procure a Peace The Reason is plain for the Confederate Princes had unluckily got an Interest in our theâ— Parliament as bad as it was and they depended more upon their Power and Interest they had in that Parliament than in any thing in the world and I will give you a Reason for that because from them the Confederate Princes received the greatest Encouragement to continue the War and so that in case the Parliament were dissolved the aforesaid Confederates would be necessitated to a peace upon the Terms the French King should give which would facilitate his joyning with you in the blessed Conversion of these three Nations and subduing the Northern Heresie that had so long domineer'd in this Northern World so that the Troops of Guards and the other Forces that were sent into the Service of the French were only to learn the way of converting these three Kingdoms and also to the end that they might joyn with your French Apostles in that Work of which you so earnestly desir'd to be the Author and Instrument Of this I said before Coleman by the means of the Earl of Arlington when he did reside at the Court of France was much discourag'd and was forced to leave off for a time to argue the case with the French King by Ferryer and took up the post of railing at Arlington but railing did not do
Deponent saying your Brother the said Messenger replied we are off that thing now therefore he desired me me not to speak of it to any body afterwards the said Butler came to this Deponent 's Shop and told the Deponent that he had received great Anger in that he had told the Deponent of what Messenger was to Attempt This Deponent further saith that some what above half a year since he heard Mr. Walliston Paston say that young Sir Henry Beddingfield of Oxburrough Hall in Norfolk was to have a Commission form my Lord Arundel for a Troop of Horse in the Army to be raised by the Papists Also about the time that the four Lords that were in the Tower that is the Duke of Buckingham my Lord Shaftsbury the Lord Wharton and the Lord Salisbury that one Mr. Knightly came to me and greatly rejoycing at their Imprisonment said that now is the time for promoting the Catholic Religion because of the difference that was amongst the Lords and that if the Duke of York did but follow the business closely which the Catholics had ground to believe he would they did not doubt but that it would be settled in that juncture of time Your Friend Mr. Prance gave in another Information on the 22. of March which is as follows IN the Month of August 1678 I having occasion to write to a Friend in the Country but could not tell well how to send I went to Mr. Pastons who lodged at one Bambers a Taylor in Duke-street who gave me an Account where to send to him and we immediately fell into Discourse concerning the present posture of Affairs and he bid me not to fear for we should suddenly have better times for in the first place he said that the King was a great Heretick and that the Lord Bellasis and Lord Arundel and Lord Powis and the Lord Petre would have a very good Army for the Deposing of the King and the suppression of the Hereticks and then the Catholick Religion should be established and flourish in this Nation he also said that the above named Lords had given out Commissions already to some Gentlemen in the Country whom he named to me who were Mr. Talbot of Longford and Sir Henry Beddingfield of Oxborow Hall in Norfolk and one Mr. Stone who lives within four or five miles of Kingston upon Thames Also about two years ago one Townley of Townley in Lancashire came up to London with his two Sons whom he was carrying over to Doway he also brought along with him his two Brothers to keep him Company they took Lodgings at Ayries house in Drury-Lane where Fenwick lodged and in a short time two of them went over to Doway with the two Lads and left the other here who in the absence of his Brothers declared very often to my Wifes Brother and to Adamson that when his Brothers came back again from Doway they expected Commissions from the above named Lords for the raising of Men for the Carrying on the Catholick Cause this my Brother and Adamson often told me at Pettleyes in Veres-street where we had a Club very often of none but Papists Now Sir we have given you an account of what Mr. Prance swore before the Parliament concerning the Popish Plot in which you may see your self engaged for you had a business upon your hands and that business was to be followed closely and then the Catholick Religion would flourish and you know to what a degree of Zeal and Piety you were converted as not to regard any thing in the world in comparison of God Almighty's Glory and the Salvation of your own and the conversion of this poor Kingdom which hath been a long time oppressed and miserably harassed with Heresie and Schism nay your Zeal was such That Coleman could sâ—arce believe himself awake when he thought on it I will now put you in mind of what he discovered upon Oath concerning the said Popish Plot at the Tryals of several of your Villains I begin with the Tryals of the five Jesuites where the said Prance did with all chearfulness declare That Harcourt the Jesuit and one of your Councellors at St. Jameses told Prance that there was a design of killing the King and St. Ireland Fenwick and Grove who was one of your Popish Messengers and Firers of the Borough of Southwark told him of 50000 Men that were to be raised for the carrying on of the Catholick Cause and to settle the Catholick Religion which Affair was to be managed by the Five Lords that were for that Conspiracy committed to the Tower who as well as Whitebread were to grant Commissions for Officers nay had actually granted several and to incourage this Prance who though he had but a little Sense yet he had so much as to dread a Civil War told him that he need not fear he should have Church Work enough It will not be unnecessary to make some Observations upon Mr. Prance his Testimony before we come to another and in it here are five or six things worthy of your Consideration 1. Here is expresly sworn That Popery was to be introduced which you know is High Treason your Priests all expected to see the Romish Religion setled and that then all things would do well and your Priests should have fat Parsonages and then all things would go right 2. This Religion was to be brought in by an Army you know that your Dragooning Apostles here might have planted Religion in as an effectual way as they ruin'd the poor Protestants in France 3. Here is the King your Brother declared an Heretick and therefore by your Popish Army to be deposed and by Messenger to be destroyed 4. Here is your selâ— having a work in hand which you were to follow closely 5. Here are your Popish Party all engaged and you at the Head of them 6. Here is all the Incouragement in the World to prevent them from fainting in the Cause for fear of a Civil War they should have Trade enough what can be plainer let all the World judge 4. A Fourth Witness that proved the Popish Plot was the Testimony of Mr. Robert Jenison the manner of his coming in was thus upon the 15th of June 1679 Mr. Chetwind of Westminster who had some Discourse with one Mr. Griffith a Gentleman of Grays Inn about the five Jesuites that had been condemned on the day before and their attempt â—o prove William Ireland alias Ironmonger executed some time before for High Treason to have been in Staffordshire and on his Journey thither from the fifth of August 1678 till the seventh of September following and not to have been within that time in London as I had with others sworn him to have been there between the eight and the twelfth of August and to be returned again thither on the beginning of September whereupon Mr. Griffith told Mr. Chetwynd that Sir Michael Wharton of Beverley in the County of York then a Member of Parliament told him
Family should be brought to publick Justice within the Memory of Man that would be an unpardonable Fault but what could not be done in 78 was done in 88 and so it 's all one in the Original only a parcel of honest Men were murdered to please your good Worship that you might not bid England Farewell with dry Lips but Sir some of your Ignorant Crew might ask why you would consent that it might be so much a Plot of the Jesuites truly Sir the necessity of Money to pay your Popish Army and Sir John Whitelips thought you would do well to consent to that or else you could not have found a Cripple in all Westminster no nor in White-Hall or the Cockpit and a Cripple you must have or not one Penny would be given therefore the Project was tryed to see what a Cripple the Popish Plot would make therefore when your Brother had opened old Veracity with his Lockram Jaws began to tell the Parliament of a Plot ay and a Plot of the Jesuites and the old Coxcomb made such a Stir with the Plot as if be were resolved that the Plot was to be a Cripple for nothing else but to countenance you and your Cattle in some further Roguery or to get Money at least but the Parliament instead of resolving upon Money they joyn together with the Lords and resolved if possible to get to the bottom of it and turning it over and over they found my Testimony to be very full against five of your Popish Lords and the Earl of Barkshire's Letters made a Sixth notoriously Guilty but he did in 1678 fairly rub of for he was as much affraid of being called to an Account by the Government as you in 1688 was of being called to an Account by the Prince of Orange notwithstanding your being born free your Popish Lords were the Viscount Stafford the Lord Arundel of Wardour the Earl of Poâ—is the Lord Petre and the Lord Belasys against these I was a witness and therefore I shall put you in mind of what I testifyed against those Impudent Traitors and I will give you a Particular of the Charge I gave in against every one of them As for Stafford I will not trouble you with any further matter against him but put you in mind that he was to have been your Paymaster General of your Popish Army and no doubt but he might have been as dexterous in that Affair as your old Greasie Guts was who I think is famous to this day for nothing but his cheating of three Kings and to give him his due I think there is no great hope of his being better unless his young Mistress's Pranks can do any good upon him as for old Stafford you had dipt him in and the poor Fellow hath paid the Debt due to his Faults and therefore I shall say no more of him 1. The said Lord Arundel in a Memoâ—ial of his to Thomas Whitebread that was hanged for this Conspiracy which was to be turned into Latin and sent to the Memorial of the Jesuits wherein an Account was to be given to the said Father General of the Progress that was made in the Affairs of England for the carrying on of the Design or the mighty Work you then had upon your mighty Mind and mighty Hands which Memorial consisted of these nine Particulars 1. That he with others of your Council at St. James's had procured several zealous Protestants who Persecuted the Papists to be turned out of the Commission of the Peace in Wiltshire and several other Counties in the Kingdom and that care would be taken to clear the Commissions of such Men as should not stand well affected to the Catholick Party 2. That the Laws made since the coming in of the King your Brother relateing to Religion excepting the Test Bill did rather tend to the disadvantage of the Phanatiques then Catholicks 3. That the Lord Powis had endeavoured to procure several Governours in and about Wales and had procured some to deliver up their Government into the hands of Catholicks when others in the Dominion of Wales by giving them several Summs of Money and that he did not Question but that he should procure the Interest of the Isle of VVhite and Portsmouth because that Sir Robert Holmes would appear in any Circumstance his Lordships humble Servant and a word was enough to the Wise and to Encourage them he was pleased to tell them that he was so sure of Portsmouth that there would be no resistance when the French Fleet should come 4. That most of the Justices of the Peace then in Commission especially about the North were Men easy to be drawn on to Countenance the Proceedings of the Catholicks 5. That the General of the Jesuits should be assured that Sir William Godolphin your Ambassador in Spain had been very true to the trust Committed to him by the Fathers of the Society of the Kingdom of England and Ireland 6. That the Lord Arundel would venture his Life and Fortune to Satisfye the expectations of the General of the Society of Jesus and the whole Order That a Stone should not be left unturn'd to promote the Catholick Religion and if that you had not complied with them as you did they would have served you the same Sauce as they designed for your Brother for that they were as sure of the Aid and Power of the French King as ever you was and would have compleated their Design without you had not you given them fresh Instances of your Resolutions to bear up in the Cause then in hand and to tell you the truth they could have been contented that you had been more â—it for their purpose than indeed you were and the Reason the Lord Arundel gave was because that you was not a Man either â—it to Govern or Receive advice but what you wanted in Understanding you made up in your Zeal and therefore they were the more willing to join with you but your Brother had cheated them so often that there was no trust to be put in him 7. That he was confident that they might begin to build Colleges and erect Schools before a Year to an end and that he himself had procured several Catholick Schoolmasters to be connived at especially a School near to VVinchester the Masters name of which was Taytour 8. That he wondred that he had received nothing from the Pope when as there were such assurances made to Mr. Coleman by Cardinal Howard in the Month of July 1677. 9. That he was an humble Servant to Father General and the whole Society and desired that his Humble Duty might in a most especial manner be Presented to him and thanked him for his last kind remembrance of him 10. That though he had spent several Hundreds of Pounds upon repairing his House in Wiltshire yet he would not be wanting to appear in carrying on the Design This Memorial you were Privy to excepting to assign that Clause in the sixth Particular
Bull was obtained then in the latter part of 1677 Commissions began to appear pretty rife and in the year 1678 to the time the Plot was Discovered to your Brother which was some little time before you went to Windsor But to conclude this particular observe 1. that you were not to appear aâ— the head of the Conspiracy for fear of being Exposed to the Parliament 2. that if the thing were Discovered it should appear an unprobable Story and so not be Believed 3 That your Allie of France might not Expose himself to the Princes of Christendom 4 That the General of the Jesuits unwillingly engaged in the Affair of granting Commissions 5. That when he had undertaken the Province aforesaid the whole Body of Jesuits were engaged in the Work 6. And more closly Linckt to the Interest of the French King their General being his Creature to all Intents and Purposes 8. What Credit the Discovery of the Popish Plot obtained in the Nation this did not only obtain Credit in the Nation but might have been of great use to Charles your Brother and I am sure it was very Fatal to you and your Party but that which you sneer at were the Reasons why the Witnesses were so ill treated at Court and were not beloved by your Brother to this I must give you these two Answers 1. By way of Concession that is possible he might not be pleased to give that Credit to the Discovery of the Popish Plot and therefore its true he did not give the Witnesses that kind Treatment at Court the Nature of their Cause required and there where four Reasons for it 1. Your Brother was well acquainted with the new Government and the new Religion that was to be brought in but you were not so Civil as to acquaint him with the Design that was against his own Life so that when that part of your Design was Discovered you almost prevailed upon your Brother not to believe this part of the Plot because that you had so freely acquainted him with all the other Part of your Design and engaged him in it so that he being persuaded by you and your Party not to give Credit or at leastwise to own that he did believe that the self same Party with whom he himself was in a Conspiracy should have such another Plot against his Life the King your Brother was in the Design against the Religion and Government of the Kingdom because he was sold into an opinion that the Religion and Government thereof was inconsistant with Monarchy as he told the King of Poland by old Sir Cutbook Lockrom Jaws alias Mapleface quondam his Envoy then and that Rascal of a Book-Cutter had got such a notion of the uniting of the Church of England with the Church of Rome that I think it was as great an argument to induce you to prefer him as well as the cheating of your dear Brother by reason of his excellent Talent in the work of Book-Cutting and also at the destroying of the Discovery of the Popish Plot. 2. Another Reason why the King your Brother might not bee inclined to give the Witnesses that Credit and Reception they did deserve because of his affection to the Popish Crew tho I must tell you that had I been of your Brothers Council I should have given him this Advice viz. That if he would have preserved himself from a Conspiracy was obliged in Policy to have had an Eye upon those for whom he hath done the greatest Kindnesses rather than upon those to whom he hath been unkind for those that were disgusted they made not such frequent Opportunities nor such easy Accesses to him as your favoured Villains had and the Conspiracy that was begun against his Life was by you and those Popish Lords and Jesuits that had been most familiar with him for was it not his own only Life that kept you from the three Kingdoms and that you were in danger every day to turn your Party destroyed by the Parliament therefore it stood you in much stead to dispense with the Sixth Commandement rather then your Negotiations with the Cardinal Howard the French King and Father Farrier and Father Lachaise and Oliva General of the Jesuits and the Popes Internuncio at Bruxels nay with the Pope himself should fall to the Ground and you know that you found him but loose in his Religion which was that of Rome if he had any at all and that he had neither Resolution nor Courage nor Constancy and Popery was the thing you now Resolved upon and Arbitrary Government he was Privy to all this and liked the Project but would not run the hazard you did therefore because he was a Trotter only and not a Galloper you were resolved to destroy him and to blind him so that he might not see your Design nor believe it you and your Party urged this for a main Reason his Affection to them and his laying so many Obligations upon them was an Argument sufficient to support your Party against the Credit of the Witnesses that appeared to accuse them 3. Because the King your Brother was Swallowed up in the Pleasures of his Lusts he preferred the Amorous Glances of his Whores before the safety of the three Nations who were most of them of the Popish Religion and they having his Ear and his Heart did much prevail with him to discountenance the Discovery of the Popish Plot and the Discovâ—rers thereof as Portsmouth in particular who in Conjunction with you and your Party carried the King and his Ministers that were up to the Ears with you in all the other Parts of the Design and you know that when I appeared I stood a single Witness a great while and notwithstanding you and the Court Whores and Court Pimps and Court Bawds set your Faces upon me to destroy me nevertheless I stood like a Rock against all your Attempts 1. You know who it was that was acquainted with the Conspiracy by Order from the King your Brother and he was so far pursuing the Discovery that he chose rather to let the Conspirators have time enough to convey away their Person and their Papers and Madam Remarkable was as diligent a cast Whore as any in that Affair 2. Your Italian Comrade you know made a visit to the Princess of Orange in Flanders and by that Opportunity many of the Traytors had an opportunity to escape as also when you was sent to take the Air in that Country you took along with you several of your Villains 3. You know how Coleman's last two years Letters were Conveyed away 4. You bribed Scroggs to baffle the Testimonies of the Witnesses you and the Whores thus prevailing upon the King you might dispose him not to give the Witnesses that reception their Cause and Service did deserve 2. I answer in the second Place that notwithstanding the usage the Witnesses met withal from your Brother in private Capacity as he was a Man Wedded to his Pleasures and
fair Story but upon Inquiry I find the Story as false as any thing can be true for they fled to the King your Father either to be Protected by him or to betray him as old Simkin says he did you but your Fathers Cause was bad enough and if they did go in to serve him it was like to like as the Devil said to the Collier but when they found his Interest sunk they like old Rats left the falling House and Contributed all they could good Men to hasten his blessed Memory out of the World and joined in heartily with those that Accomplished that Work yet your Party were Netled and say that it was impossible the Popish Plot should be true because there were so many Persons of Quality said to be concerned in it that had been most remarkable for their Loyalty to your Family what a mighty wonder is here that Persons of Quality should be engaged in a Plot. I would fain have you and your Ragged Mumping Ministry at St. Germains tell me when there was a Plot carried on without Persons of Quality for Persons of Quality are most capable by their Purses and Interests to head Parties and Factions in a Kingdom I pray when the French King offered to your sweet self the Aid of his Purse and Credit to carry on the mighty work that you had upon your Hands should you have slighted that generous offer of his and rather excepted of the offer of a Broommans Purse and Credit in Kent-street was not the French Kings Purse a longer Purse and his Quality somewhat greater I pray ask my Land-Lady when she hath rubb'd you down and see what an Answer she will give you come Sir methinks you should be able to answer this Question without making one silly Face at the business But if I should ask your Middleton or your Melfort or your Carryl or your Powis they would swear by my Gammer Powis's hump Back That Simnel's Plot and the Plot of Perkin was carried on by Persons of Quality against Henry the Seventh I pray ask your mighty Lewis Whether the Holy League against Henry the Third of France was not carried on by Persons of Quality And why might not your Popish Plot be managed as well by Persons of Quality as well as the Popish Plot against Henry the Third of France But since you are so full of your Wonders I will wonder too and that is That you and your Persons of Quality were not in a most decent manner hang'd the French King's Purse and Credit to the contrary notwithstanding O but they were Men of Vertue and Integrity and unblemished Reputation What their Reputation was I leave to the Nation that knew them and what yours among the rest all Europe knows But this is certain That a certain Popish Lord yet alive carried a Petition to the Lord Protector Cromwel signed by above Five hundred Noble men and Gentlemen in which they promised that great Man that if he would procure them the Toleration of their Religion by a Law they would for his sake cut the Family of the Stuarts off Root and Branch Now if this be Reputation or what Reputation it was for you while you was beyond Sea to be in a Plot against your Brother's Life I leave to betâ—â— Judgments Come my old Friend that you may not lose your Fee I wâ—ll give you the Point That your Popish Noble-men and Gentlemen were men of known Worth and Integrity truly then they were the more likely to be engaged in your Plot For such is the Nature of your Popish Bigottry and such is the infatuated Heat of its Professors and such the dread of their Conscience under the Charms of their Priesthood so pinching and terrible are the Chains of their Oaths such their inbred Enmity to Hereticks that the more Consciencious and Devout they are the more Religiously they believe themselves bound to conceal what-ever Designs are on foot for the Propagation of the Romish Interest and the Extirpation of Hereticks Obj. 6. You and your Party may plead farther and say The World was told of several Commissions granted out by the General of the Jesuites for all Sorts of Offices both Military and Civil but no treasonable Papers nor none of these Commissions could ever be seen Answ You have hit it now I suppose you will be quiet in your Mind and take an Answer that may become you to receive and me to give It was on the Thirteenth of August the Plot was discovered to the King your Brother 1678. and you and your Party had from the Thirteenth of August till the Twenty eigthth of September following to burn and consume all such Papers and Commissions as might affect any one of you and what you burnt of them you know best But Sir when Harcourt's Papers were seized there were no less than Six Commissions ready sealed with Blanks to fill up with what Names they pleased and they were bundled up with this Inscription R. H. and our Master's Blessing in Coleman's Papers above Sixty in Fenwick's Papers Four which were tied up in a Paper and called A Warr for a Buck and Ireland's Papers Two and the Seals that sealed them which were produced in Court Sir William Jones had some of them in keeping but because they were Blanks he made no other use of them than to perswade old Pious that there was a Design against his Life but your Brother had Sir Philip Lloyd that stifled all that he could lay his Hands upon them to oblige you and your everlasting Cut-throats And besides they not being Marked the Messengers that took them would not swear where they found them And this is another Reason why they were not made use of against the Jesuits What a Multitude of Cyphers Coleman Ireland Harcourt and Whitebread had was much Amazing to your Brother not that he was Amazed at their being in the Conspiracy but that they had not upon due Notice given them by your Brother and your self burnt them or otherways made away with them But found they were and between you and Floyd they were stifled in order to weaken the Proof of your Villanous Designs against the Life of your Brother and the Religion Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom You have your full Charge as to this Article of the Popish Plot and you have all that can be said on your behalf and the behalf of your Villanous Popish Party if there can be any more I suppose old Hodg with some of his inferior Bums and Scotch Robin will join their Forces together and muster up a Word of Information in order to your Vindication I pray let them come forth and they shall be heard for I challenge all and every of the Enemies of this Government to give the Lye to any Thing that is here inserted much more might have been said but it would fill a great Volume to tell of all your Villanies relating to this horrid Design of yours and Villains to destroy and