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The second part of the Display of tyranny; or Remarks upon the illegal and arbitrary proceedings in the Courts of Westminster, and Guild-Hall London From the year, 1678. to the abdication of the late King James, in the year 1688. In which time, the rule was, quod principi placuis, lex esto.
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Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.
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sufficiently instruct such who have not seen more secret Memoires But let us come to Examine their Actions which are a better proof of their hearts were not the Duke's Servants and Confidents all Papists Witness his Talbots Patricks and other Irish Teags were not the Duke and such of his Creatures as were known Papists promoted to all publick Offices of trust both at Sea and Land Witness Bellasis now a Traytor in the Tower did not James by Coleman Throgmorton and others hold open Correspondency with the Pope and Cardinals and could Charles be Ignorant of all this Nay he lik'd all so well that he hardly employed any about him but Papists as Clifford whom he made Treasurer or employed any abroad but Persons of the same stamp Witness Godolphin whom he sent Embassador into Spain as he did others elsewhere what more obvious than that though the Duke's Treachery against the Kingdom and Protestant Religion be fully made out and the People and Parliament seek to bring him to a legal Tryal yet Charles obstructs Justice and will not suffer it How can this be but that he is joyned in Will and Deed in all the Duke's Villanies and that he is afraid to be discovered and found out to be a Papist and a Betrayer of his People and the Protestant Religion If he was heartily concerned for our Religion would he not oppose a Popish Successor who will Infallibly overthrow it Can there be any thing more evident than that he continues the Duke's Adherents and those who were advanced by him in all Offices of Trust And hath he not turn'd out of his Council the most Zealous Protestants such as Shaftesbury Essex and others and introduced in their Rooms other meer Tools or those that are Popishly and Arbitrarily affected Hath he not modell'd all the Sheriffs and Justices throughout England in subserviency to a Popish Design Was not Sir William Waller and Dr. Chamberlain and divers others turn'd out of the Commission in and about London meerly for being Zealous Prosecutors of Priests and Papists Doth not Charles all he can to hinder the further detection of the Popish Plot And doth he not to his utmost discountenance the Discoverers of it and suffer them to want Bread And doth he not in the mean time plentifully encourage and reward Fitz-Gerald and all the Sham-Plotters Whereas Dangerfield had 8 l. a week whilst a Forger of Plots against the Protestants he is cast off with scorn and in danger of his Life since he laid open the Popish Engineer Is not Charles so much in love with his Popish Irish Rebels therein treading in his Fathers steps that he promotes Montgarret Carlingford Fitz-Ratrick and others who were the Heads of the Rebellion to Honours and Preferment tho' Charles took the Covenant and a Coronation Oath to preserve the Protestaut Religion yet hath he not palpably broken them He made large promises and protestations at Breda for the allowing a perpetual Liberty of Conscience to Non-conforming Protestants but he soon forgot them all To what end was the Act which was made soon after his Restoration prohibiting any to call him Papist or to say he was Popishly enclined and render such as should offend Guilty of a Premunire but to stop the Peoples Mouthes when ever he should Act any thing in Favour of Popery as he was then resolved to do Is it not manifest therefore that Scotch Oaths Breda Promises Protestant Profession Liberty of Conscience War with France saving of Flanders is all in Jest to delude Protestant Subjects Is it not apparent that breaking of Leagues Dutch War Smirna Fleet French measures to favour their Conquests loss of Ships War in Christendom Blood of Protestants reprieving of Popish Traytors is all in earnest and done in favour of Popery And are not his fair Speeches his true Protestant Love to Parliaments just Rights and English Liberties his pretended Ignorance of the Plot and his Hanging of Traytors to serve a turn but in meer jest Are not his great Debaucheries his Whoring Courtiers Popish Councils Cheating Rogues Hellish Plottings his saving of Traytors his French Pensioners his Nests of Whores and Swarms of Bastards his Macks his Cut throats his Horrid Murderers his Burning of London and the Provost's House too his Sham-Plotting his suborn'd Villains his Popish Officers by Sea and Land his Struglings for a Popish Successor his agreements with France his frequent Dissolutions of Parliaments his buying of Voices his false returns all of them designs to ruine us in good earnest and in favour of Arbitrary Government And is it not in order to this Blessed end that you see none Countenanced by Charles and James but Church Papists betraying Bishops Tantivy Abhorrers barking Tonzers Popish Scriblers to deceive the People and six the Popish Successors Illegal Title Are not Jesuits Counsels French Assistance to conquer Ireland subdue Scotland winn Flanders beat the Dutch get their Shipping be Masters of the Seas And are not facing a Rebellion the letting the Plot go on the endeavouring to retrieve the Popish Cause by getting a Popish pentionary abhorring Partiaments who shall betray their Country enslave posterity and destroy themselves at last means only to save a Popish Trayterous Successor and a present Popish Possessor James and Charles are Brethren in Iniquity corrupt both in Root and Branch and who study to enslaver England to a French and Romish Yoke is not all this plain Have you not Eyes Sense or Feeling Where is the Old English Noble Spirit Are you become French Asses to suffer any load to be laid upon you And therefore if you can get no remedy from this next Parliament as certainly you will not and if Charles doth not repent and comply with it then up all as one Man O brave English Men look to your own defence e're it be too late rouze up your Spirits remember your Predocessors remember how that the asserting of their liberties justified both by success and Law the War of the Barons against wicked Councellours who misled the Kingâ— And will you now let that go which cost them so dear How many oppressing Kings have been deposed in this Nation as appears in Records referr'd unto in that worthy Patriots History of the Succession were not Rich. 2 d. And Hen. 6. both laid aside not to mention others was there ever such a King as this of ours was not King John deposed for going about to imbrace the Mahometan Religion and for entring into a League with the King of Morocco to that purpose Though Mahometanism and the King of Morocco were no such Enemies to our Rights and Liberties as Popery and the French King are Is it not time then that all should be ready Let the City of London stand by the Parliament for the maintaining of their Liberties and Religion in an extream way if Parliamentary ways be not consented unto by the King let the Counties by ready to enter into an Association as the County of York did in
he had been thrice examined by the Secretaries of State and sworn to the substance of his Examination taken by Sr Robert Clayton and Sr George Treby So this idle Tale in it self could never deserve the least credit in that it made the Sheriffs so foolish and vain as to think a Declaration from such a Wretch as Fitz-H of his belief of the Popish Plot to have been of great value and that it was worth a high Reward for him to have invented a plausible story to confirm the Plot after the belief thereof had been confirmed by many Proclamations by the Votes of four Parliaments and the Condemnation and Execution of several of the Plotters Further Dr Hawkins his Paper brings in Fitz-H charging it upon the Sheriffs that they extorted from him false Confessions about the Popish Plot and it makes him to speak thus I finding my self in Newgate fettered Monyless and Friendless and I could see no other refuge for my Life but complying with them the Sheriffs so to save my Life I did comply But as soon as the Doctor had published this Sham the falshood thereof was detected and the World rightly informed in the matter that Fitz-H was never fettered or put in Irons but was treated with all imaginable civility for which he thanked the Sheriffs even with his dying Breath The Doctor 's impudent Libel then fell upon Sr Robert Clayton and Sr George Treby and insinuates that they would have induced Fitz-Harris to say more than was true and says that what he deposed before them about Father Patrick was forced out of him and was not true F. H. himself well knew that Sr Robert Clayton and Sr George Treby came to take his Confession upon his earnest importunity and that after he had been thrice examined by the Secretaries and Attorney General and he had sworn before them all the matters in substance contained in the Examination by Sr R. C. and Sr G. T. except that one passage about de Puy and when that Examination was read to the House of Commons at Oxford Secretary Jenkins acknowledged that he had confessed the same to the Lord Conway the Attorney General and himself except that about de Puy yet the Contriver of the Sham Retractation took no care to retract or excuse his Swearing the same matters before the Secretaries and Mr Attorney because Reason of State did at that day require that not They but the City Magistrates must be exposed Then the impudence of Hell is assumed to bring in Sr George Treby inviting Fitz-H to accuse the Earl of Danby and the Popish Lords in the Tower by speaking thus do but you say it We have have those that will swear it Had they been provided with false Witnesses and had they had such an accursed design There was no need of Fitz-H his saying any thing Neither the false Suggestions nor the Perjuries could have gained any weight or credit from the Authority of Fitz-H by his saying what they were to Swear To conclude there are Persons who can unriddle this whole Mystery pull off the Disguises and Vizors wherewith this affair is even to this day obscured and therefore I have made this Recapitulation of the fore-going particulars to incite those who are better able to oblige the World with a more full knowledge of the vile Practices with this poor deluded timerous Wretch and then it may be evident that the Doctor gave him expectation if not assurance of Life to the very last Moment that he drew breath Remarks upon the Tryal of Mrs Elizabeth Gaunt at the Old-Bayly London upon the 19th day of October 1685. WEre my Pen qualified to represent the due Character of this Excellent Woman it would be readily granted that she stood most deservedly entitled to an eternal Monument of honour in the hearts of all sincere Lovers of the Reformed Religion All true Christians tho' in some things differing in perswasion with her found in her a universal Charity and sincore Friendship as is well known to many here and also to a Multitude of the Scotch Nation Ministers and others who for Conscience sake were thrust into Exile by Prelatick Rage These found her a most refreshing Refuge She dedicated her self with unwearied industry to provide for their supply and support and therein I do incline to think she out-stripped every individual Person if not the whole Body of Protestants in this great City Hereby she became exposed to the implacable fury of the bloody Papists and those blind Tools who co-operated to promote their accursed designs and so there appeared little difficulty to procure a Jury as there were well prepared Judges to make her a Sacrifice as a Traytor to Holy Church Upon Monday the 19th day of October 1685 Mrs Gaunt was arraigned upon an Indictment to this effect viz. That she intending to disturb the Peace and Tranquility of the Kingdom and to stir up Rebellion against the King and to subvert his Government and depose and put him to death for bringing her Traytorous purposes to pass she well knowing James Burton to be a Traytor did secretly and Trayterously entertain and conceal him and did give him Meat Drink and 5 l. in Money for his Maintenance and Sustenance She having pleaded Not guilty the following Jury was sworn Tho. Rawlinson Tho. Langham Ambrose Isted Tho. Pendleton John Grice Tho. Oneby William Cloudesley Richard Holford William Longboate Steven Colman Robert Clavel and William Long. Then Mr Attorney General said The Prisoner is indicted for harbouring Burton a great Traytor and procuring a way for his escape beyond Sea and giving him 5 l. to bear his Charges She and her Husband were the great Brokers for carrying over such Traytors as my Lord Shaftesbury and others He then called James Burton and demanded an account of him whether he were engaged in the matter of the Rye-House and how Mrs Gaunt harboured him Burton testified that Keeling brought him and Barber and Thompson into the company of Rumbold It looks as tho Keeling had been employed at White-hall to make as well as to discover this Plot for of the very small number accused of it We have him here drawing in three at once That upon Keeling's discovery he was put into the Proclamation for being at that Meeting and absconded about two Moneths and then Mrs Gaunt came to enquire of his Wife for him who brought her to him and she told him that there were some Persons about to make an escape and she would have him go along with them and sent him with Rumbold to Rochford-Hundred in Essex to take Ship but not liking the Vessel and the Weather being bad they returned to London That many Moneths afterwards Mrs Gaunt came and gave him 5 l. and sent him in a Boat to Gravesend from whence he went in a Vessel to Amsterdam Mary Gilbert Burton's Daughter was sworn and said that she met Mrs Gaunt with her Father in Houndsditch and they went to a