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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28610	The papists bloody oath of secrecy and letany of intercession for the carrying on of this present plot with the manner of taking the oath upon their entring into any grand conspiracy against the Protestants / as it was taken in the chappel belonging to Barmbow-Hall, the residence of Sir Thomas Gascoigne, from William Rushton, a popish priest, by me, Robert Bolron ; together with some further informations relating to the plot and murther of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey.	Bolron, Robert, fl. 1674-1680.	1680 (1680)	Wing B3502; ESTC R19392	11,513	24

THE PAPISTS Bloody OATH of Secrecy AND Letany OF Intercession For the Carrying on of This Present Plot. WITH THE Manner of Taking the Oath upon their Entring into any Grand Conspiracy against the Protestants As it was Taken in the Chappel belonging to Barmbow-Hall the Residence of Sir Thomas Gascoigne from William Rushton a Popish Priest by Me Robert Bolron Together with some further Informations relating To the PLOT And MURTHER of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey Jovis 16th die Decembris 1680. Ordered THat Mr. Robert Bolron have Liberty from This House to Print and Publish the said Oath of Secrecy and Letany William Goldsbrough Cler. Dom. Com. LONDON Printed for Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall 1680. Jovis 16th die Decembris 1680. A Petition of Mr. Robert Bolron desiring Leave from This House to Print the PAPIST's Oath of Secrecy and Letany of Intercession for England therein mentioned was Read Ordered THat Mr. Robert Bolron have Liberty from This House to Print and Publish the said OATH OF SECRECY and LETANY William Goldsbrough Cler. Dom. Com. BY Vertue of this Order above-mentioned I do Appoint Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall London To Print this BOOK And that no other Person or Persons do presume to Print the same Decemb. 17th 1680. Robert Bolron The Farther INFORMATION OF Robert Bolron Gent. Containing The Oath of Secresie Letany With Other Matters of Moment in which he was concerned when Engaged in the Horrid Popish PLOT AFter the Antient Piety Zeal and Strictness of Life exemplary in the Primitive Christians had in a measure put the Dominion of this World and the Keyes of the next into the hands of the Clergy care of gaining Souls became in a few Centuries Obsoleted The former Illustrious times of Vertue vanished and a gloomy night of Ignorance soon over-spread the Universe The Clergy the Authors of this Unhappiness finding their Religion and Greatness must be maintained by Power and Policy and Conscious to themselves that their Lives and Doctrine held no good Correspondence with the Purity and Poverty of their Predecessors took a course because they had little left of their Own to Trade with the Piety of the Ages past and prop up their own Ignorance and Sloath by that means To work they go They make Gods of the deceased Propagators of Christianity and Enshrine their Rotten Bones or those of others in Cases of Gold and Silver The next thing was to perswade or Compel the People to Adore them In this Erecting a new Order of demy-Gods they imitated the Pagans in their Wickedness but not in their Vertue or Valour and Clapt the Festivals of these new Pa-Gods into the Calendar in places of the old Holy-dayes of Saturn Minerva and Bacchus c. This Project answered expectation they grew greater but not better The Miracles pretendedly wrought at those Shrines and multitude of Ceremonies dazled the Vulgar supported the Reputation and supplied the Defect of the Clergy The glorious Lives Wonders and Martyrdoms of the Antients were made into Mantles to hide the Ignorance Lust and Avarice of worthless Impostors and Laws made every where were made to restrain Men from peeping into the Ark of the Church And to strip Princes privily of their Power and to draw their Subjects to other dependencies numourous Orders and Societies are Conjured up as though the Laity had not groaned enough under the Seculars to Erect a Kingdom in every Kingdom for the Pope and to supply him in every Corner with a Villain Spiritual to Stab or Poison what Potentates he pleases Things thus Jog'd on till the days of our Grand-Fathers when in England the Pope and his Clergy were secluded And it was made death for any Romish Priest to enter the Realm yet since they have not only come hither but by help of Factors and Proselites acquired great Estates in these Kingdomes and Arrived to a height of no less Confidence than of ruling the Rost destroying us all and introducing Popery This is as clear as Noon-day by many Testimonies among which this Oath following is a most Notorious Evidence on which I shall make some Remarks The Oath of Secrecy given by William Rushton to me Robert Bolron the Second of February 1676 7. ✚ In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy-Ghost Amen I Robert Bolron being in the presence of Almighty God the Blessed Mary ever Virgin the Blessed Michael the Arch-Angel the Blessed St. John Baptist the Holy Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul and all the Saints in Heaven and to You my Ghostly Father do declare and in my Heart believe the Pope Christ's Vicar General to be the true and only Head of Christ's Church here on Earth and that by Vertue of the Keyes of Binding and Loosing given his Holiness by our Saviour Christ he hath Power to depose all Heretical Kings and Princes and cause them to be Killed Therefore to the utmost of my Power I will defend this Doctrin and his Holinesses Rights against all Vsurpers whatever especially against the now pretended King of England in regard that he hath broke his Vows with his Holinesses Agents beyond Seas and not performed his Promises in bringing into England the Holy Roman-Catholick Religion I do Renounce and Disown any Allegiance as due to the said pretended King of England or Obedience to any of his Inferiour Officers and Magistrates but do believe the Protestant Doctrin to be Heretical and Damnable and that all are Damn'd which do not forsake the same and to the best of my power will help his Holinesses Agents here in England to extirpate and root out the said Protestant Doctrin and to destroy the said pretended King of England and all such of his Subjects as will not adhere to the Holy See of Rome and the Religion there Professed I further do promise and declare That I will keep Secret and Private and not Divulge directly or indirectly by Word Writing or Circumstance whatever shall be proposed given in charge or discovered to me by You my Ghostly Father or any other engaged in the promoting of this pious and holy Design and that I will be Active and not Desist from the carrying of it on and that no hopes of Rewards Threats or Punishments shall make me Discover the rest concerned in so pious a Work and if Discovered shall never confess any Accessaries with my self concerned in this Design All which I do Swear by the Blessed Trinity and by the Blessed Sacrament which I now purpose to Receive to perform and on my part to keep inviolable And do call all the Angels and Saints in Heaven to Witness my real Intention to keep this Oath In Testimony whereof I do Receive this most Holy and Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist It is manifest that the Grandees of the Roman Church make no more account of Religion than the profit and convenience it brings along with it are able to compence Yet they ever begin with a Holy Canticum In nomine Patris by such