〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OR THE PICTURE OF THE Late King James Drawn to the LIFE In which is made manifest That the whole Course of his Life hath to this day been a continued Conspiracy against the Protestant Religion Laws and Liberties of the Three Kingdoms In a Letter to Himself And humbly Dedicated to the King 's Most Excellent Majesty WILLIAM the Third Our Deliverer and Restorer By TITVS OATES D. D. LONDON Printed for Richard Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms Inn in Warwick-Lane MDCXCVI To His Sacred MAJESTY William the Third By the Grace of GOD of Great Britain France and Ireland KING Defender of the Faith c. GREAT SIR I Have here undertaken to draw the Picture of a Person that once was invested with the Stile Title and Dignity of a King and certainly he might have been the greatest in his time could he but have complied with the ends of his great Office in this Nation to which he was admitted and with the observation of the Laws of the Realm to which he was solemnly Sworn according to the Customs and Constitutions thereof at his Coronation I did never in my whoLe life take him to be the Wisest of Men nor did I believe him to be so much behind-hand in Understanding but that he must needs know That as Government was Originally instituted by the Great God himself and this or that Form of it chosen and submitted to by Men for the Peace Happiness and Security of those who are Governed and not for the private Interest and personal Greatness of them that Rule so that Government hath been always esteemed the best where Supream Magistrates have been invested with the Power and Prerogatives that might capacitate them not only to preserve the People from Violence and Oppression but to promote their Prosperity and yet where nothing was to belong to them by the Rules of the Constitution that might enable them to Injure and Oppress them This unhappy Prince was a long stander by in his Brother's Reign from the Year 1660 to 1685 and Experience and the Informations of wise Men without all doubt taught him That it had been the Glory of England above other Nations and Countries where his Brother and he had Travelled that its King hath had all Intrusted with him that was necessary for the advancing the welfare of the People or for his own Protection in the discharge of his Office and support of his Dignity and Grandure and withal stood so limited and restrained by the Fundamental terms of the Constitution that without the violation of his own Oath as well as the Rules and Measures of the Government he could do them no hurt nor exercise any act of Authority but through the Administration of such hands as stood obnoxious to be Punished in case they Transgressed So that according to the true Primitive frame of the Government the Prerogatives of the Crown and the Rights and Privileges of the Subject were so far from justling one another that the Immunities reserved unto the People tended to render the King Honourable and Great and the Prerogatives settled on the King were in order to the Subjects Protection and Safety Notwithstanding all this it is well known to your Most Excellent Majesty that in the two last Reigns there was a dismal and an unaccountable alteration of the Government attempted by this Prince and his Popish Accomplices and the most excellent Monarchy endeavoured to be changed into an absolute French Tyranny For tho our Religion and Liberties were fenced and hedged about by as many Laws as the Wisdom of Men could devise for our Preservation from Popery and Arbitrary Power yet our Religion was in those unaccountable Reigns Undermined by Popish Counsels and our Privileges ravished from us by the Fraud and Violence of the two last Kings who were in a continued Conspiracy against the Protestant Religion and the Rights of the People of England of which your Majesty may take a full Account in the following Memorial I must confess to Your Majesty that to discant on the Misfortunes of a Person that is fallen from so high a Dignity and is reduced to a State that is next to Death is neither a thing that I coveted or desig'nd tho I was a great Sufferer by him both in his Brother's and his Reign but the Insolency of his wicked Conspirators that are here among us hath so provoked me that I cannot in point of Duty that I owe to God and Your Majesty forbear letting the Nation know what we must trust to if ever that Man should return again and Reign over us This present Conspiracy against Your Majesty and Government hath not only provoked me to publish the Arts and Methods of the late King used for the destruction of our Laws Liberties and Religion in conjunction with the Popish Party but it hath encouraged me to Dedicate the same to your Royal Name and Patronage and to no other because I am well assured it will not only justifie the truth of the Popish Plot for the discovery of which I have undergone a fierce Fiery Tryal out of which I was delivered by Your Majesties coming to Save us when we were even upon the brink of Ruin and Destruction the sense of which hath created in me an undelible Love and Loyalty to Your Majesty and Government and I question not but that Your Majesty will Pardon the Human Frailties that may appear in this Memorial in the manner of my expressing the Truths therein Contained The Villainous Party against whom I now Write have used many Arts and ways to traduce your Majesty and Government meerly because you promote the Grandure of your People and the Ease and Welfare of your Subjects rather than intrench in the least upon any of their Immunities and Privileges some of whom would be thought to be good Protestants but their late Conspiracy to Assassinate Your Majesty shews them to be very Traytors and Rebels to your Majesty and Government and it proves that Party to be obstinately restless and never be brought to Reason by Mercy and Clemency How little therefore these Criminals will deserve from Your Majesty the World will better judge if they will but consider how Graciously Your Majesty hath dealt with them ever since Your happy Accession to the Imperial Crown of this Realm to the very day that their wicked Purposes were discovered to Your Majesty I have seen some of the very same Spirit caressed by some that were about You whist your real hearty Friends were Slighted and Abandoned Nay I shall be so plain to say with truth that your Majesty hazarded the Hearts and Affections of your best Subjects and much of your Royal Honour in conniving at the Carriages of these Men though with frustration to win and oblige if possible these everlasting holy Cut-throats But Sir what Arguments of Clemency and Grace can persuade such Men to be true to your Majesty their Rightful and Lawful King maintaining the Laws and
a Field as any of external Felicity wherein to exercise their own Virtue and to reward and encourage it in others In a word your Majesty hath enlarged our Liberties in consenting to the Bill to Regulate Tryals in Cases of High-Treason in which there are large Immunities granted to any that fall under that black Circumstance that their Lives may not be at the mercy of a Mercenary Judge or Judges if God should in his Judgment leave poor England to such Men But your Majesty hath begun and I question not but your Royal inclination will carry you on to compleat our security from such Vermin Therefore to conclude what a Government is this we enjoy than which nothing can come nearer the Divine Perfection The Monarch enjoys a capacity of doing all the good imaginable to Mankind but under a disability of doing any thing that is Evil. This Scheme of the Civil Government the Late King did well know and therefore in Council on the day of his Accession to the Crown he was pleased to say That the Laws of England were sufficient to make the King of England as great a Monarch as he could wish or desire so that your Majesty may see that he could own that the Greatness of the English Monarchy had its Birth and rise from the Laws Who then would have lessened himself as he did by breaking in upon those very Laws that had made him Great And who would have broken so excellent a Government as made him Secure and Happy And what Subject of England Papist or Protestant that would lose such Immunities and Privileges by joyning in with that unhappy Man to destroy themselves Were they so in love with King James that they were not satisfied till they had him Nay he and they waded through King Charles's Blood that he might Reign Why then did they not keep the terms of the Government which would have been the most effectual way of continuing him on the Throne Besides all this we cannot forget that the Parliaments under Queen Elizabeth King James King Charles the First and King Charles the Second made it Treason in whosoever that should attempt to Seduce any one of the meanest of your Majesty's Subjects to the Church of Rome And the Long Parliament held in the time of Charles the Second to all Penalties of the Statute Law added an incapacity for any Man to say that that King was a Papist or an introducer of Popery What Lawless and incapable Miscreants were these What wicked Traytors were those Men who did indeavour to pervert the whole Body of Protestants and to bring that about in effect which even to mention was penal at one Italian stroke attempting to subvert the Government and Religion to kill the Body and damn the Soul of the Nation Your Majesty finds to this day there are such a Set of Men in this Nation who have undertaken and have made it their business under your Majesties happy legal and perfect Government by the intended destruction of your Royal Person to introduce a French Slavery and instead of so pure a Religion that your Majesty ventured hard to preserve to establish the Roman Idolatry either of which Crimes are of the highest nature for if we look upon the Government if the Murther of your Royal Person be a fact so horrid as no Man can find words enough to declare his detestation and abhorrence of it how much more then is the Murther of your Royal Person with an intent to Assassinate the Kingdom And Sir none will deny but that to alter the Monarchy of these Kingdoms into a Republick is High Treason So by the same fundamental Rule the Crime is no less to Murther your Royal Person in order to make the Monarchy Absolute Sir I beg your Majesty's leave to tell you that my Heart is much enlarged to your Majesty I beseech your Majesty that your Royal Heart may be for this one time enlarged to me in your Grace and Pardon for this trouble I now give your most excellent Majesty Let me undertake upon serious inquiry to give your Majesty some satisfaction who these Men are that have from the Year 1660 to this day attempted to Subvert our Government and our Religion Had these Men been the old honest Cavaleers that fought for Charles the I. or suffered much in the time of Charles II. it would have been allowable in them as oft as their Wound did break out at Spring or Fall to think of a more Arbitrary Government as a sovereign Balsom for their Aches or to imagin that no Weapon-Salve but that of the Moss that Grows on an Enemies Skull could cure them or could they to have kept their Hands in ure have fought their Cause over again since they saw they were neglected and left to Starve yet their Age and times they lived in and their unjust usage they met with from two Kings might have pleaded something on their behalf in mitigation of Damages But Sir give me leave to make this Remark to your Majesty concerning those Gentlemen that they were and are still if any of them remain too Generous too good Christians and Subjects too affectionate to the English legal Government to be capable of such an Impression whereas these Conspirators that carried on the design of subverting our Religion into Popery and changing the Government into downright Slavery are such as have not one drop of Cavaleer Blood or no Bowels at least of a Cavaleer in them but such as starved the Cavaleers to revel and surfeit upon their Calamities making their Persons and the very Cause by pretending to it themselves almost Ridiculous Or had these Villains been all of the Popish communion and avowed so to be give me leave to say it over again to your Majesty your danger would have been the less their Religion would in some measure have been answerable for the Errors and Extravgancies they might have been guilty of to promote it but these render their intended Villany more black they were Protestants and of the Church of England too that joyned with Papists to Assassinate your Royal Person What can any Man say for them Your Majesty knows what to do with them These Villains because I perceive they lye under a great difficulty to find Accomplices enough at home to Mutiny and Rebel and Murther your Majesties true and loyal Subjects therefore they put themselves under the Banner and Pay of the French King to compleat their wicked designs and purposes to bring a foreign Enemy to Invade us that King being endowed with all those which in a French Prince or in an Abdicated King may pass for Vertues but in any private Man they would be Capital and moreover so abounding in Zeal for Popery and Slavery above all other Princes that none else could engage both Body and Soul in such a Villanous Undertaking to which Consideration adding that their Interests are both one and the one is and the other would be the Master of
Subsidy of One shilling in the pound to the real value of all Lands and other Estates proportionably with several more Beneficial Clauses into the Bargain to begin the 24th of June 1671. and to expire the 24th of June 1672. together with this they gave the additional Excise upon Beer and Ale for Six years to reckon the same from June the 24th 1671. And lastly the Law-Bill commencing from the first of May 1671. and at nine years end to determine If you now you are at leisure will cast up these Three Bills you will find them not a penny less than 2500000 l. Thus Sir you may see what a Reputation this Tripple League gave the King your Brother both at home and abroad at home this Triple League obtained a Tripple supply which some men thought would as with three Golden Nails have revetted it All the Princes of Europe courted him abroad and were highly pleased with it the Emperor used all the pressing means that became him that he might partake of the benefit of that Alliance and was refused The Duke of Lorain who had been always a true Friend to your Brother and your self and by his affection to the Tripple League did incur the displeasure of the French King and lost his whole Territory It was seized in the Year 1669. against all Laws not only of Peace but of Hostility too because of his not being admitted into the Alliance for which he had so great a regard that the honour he had for it proved fatal to him he was left by your means to be a Sacrifice notwithstanding King Charles's Invitation of all Princes to come in yet when they desired to be admitted they were refused But in a short time all those Honest Counsels which had taken effect with so great satisfaction to the Nation and to the great honour of your Brother were all changed just as if Treaties as soon as the Wax is cold do lose their vertue the King your Brother went down to Dover in the Month of June 1670. to meet after a long Absence Madam his and your only remaining Sister and if the Duke of Buckingham and Sir Thomas Armstrong were alive they could tell what a pleasant Meeting they had and how pleasantly they passed the time of the interview and what passed I shall not now relate you knowing all of it well enough But as the days were the more pleasant because the King had not seen her for a long season so the Interview proved fatal to that Princess for though she left England in good health yet upon her arrival in France she suddenly expires Well then she dies what was the consequence of her death The Marquess Belfonds is immediately dispatched hither and a Person of great Honour sent to the Court of France and before ever the inquiry and grumbling at her death was over in a trice there was an invisible League in prejudice of the Tripple one struck up with France to all the height and dearness of affection as if upon diffecting the Princess there had been some State-Philtre been found in her Bowels or the Reconciliation with France were not to be celebrated with a less Sacrifice than the Blood Royal of England The sequel of this Interview was fatal to the Princess and the consequence of her coming was fatal to England for as the Treaty was a work of darkness and could not presently be discovered so the Parliament I told you must meet again to give a Tripple Supply to maintain the Tripple League and they being ignorant of what was done thinking all had been secure gave the aforesaid supply Sir You got the Supply what use did your Conspiritors make of it Was not the Parliament prorogued and met not again till the 4th of Febr. 1672. by which means you and your Accomplices had a convenient scope for the mighty work you had upon your hands to ruin the Protestant Religion and the Professors thereof and that you might be free from the inspection of a Parliament till this mighty Work was finished I observed to you That the King your Brother before the Interview was inciting of the Princes to come into the Alliance but from hence forward it ceased and as I said before when any did offer themselves they were basely refused Oh! what joy Sir you and the rest of the Conspirators did conceive with what diligence was Smith the Jesuits Agent in London dispatched over to St. Omers to acquaint your Friends there of the English Jesuits and from thence to Doway to acquaint the Crew there in what a happy way you were in to do the Catholick Religion service and that the King was clearly come over he having promised to do all things now that might tend to the destroying of the Interest of the Dutch and to advance the Power and Interest of France and if that the Tripple League were once dissolved the King your Brother would never more make any such Alliance with those Rebels I have seen your Letters dispatched by the said Smith You indeed with the help of your Hellish Crew your Brother being gained to your side in this particular you resolve upon the annulling of that Alliance which was of very little use for some time before it was totally dissolved In order to the dissolving this Treaty old Henry Coventry one of your Conspirâ—tors was dispatched to the Court of Sweden and he with as much impudence as truth affirmed at his departure That the end of his Journey to Sweden was to break the Tripple League and this is apparent that after his jugling with the French Ministers there and the King of Sweden the said King did never more prosecute the Design and ends of that Alliance until the breach between us and the Dutch What did he arm himself at the expence of the League and did first under the disguise of a Mediation act the French Interest and at last he threw off the Vizor and drew his Sword in their Quarrel Truly Sir I cannot but admire how successful you were in gaining that great Point of ruining Europe in general and this Nation in particular by this way designing the utter subversion of the Protestant Religion and all our English Liberties as I shall shew you in the sequel of this Memento Nevertheless I cannot but much more admire that Mr. Coventry that in his Embassy at Breda was so instrumental in putting a period to that first wicked and unfortunate War with the Dutch should at length be made a Tool of a Second and break such an Alliance as rendered England honourable to all Europe and by which all Christendom was fastened And that which rendered his Carriage in that Affair more vile and base since no man understood the Theory and Practick of Honour better than himself and yet could in so eminent an Instance forget it and himself too the imployment being more fit for a Butler or a Downing or some such Dunghil Rascal all that I shall say in his
could never learn But Sir was it not hard that they should be incapable of Offices and Employments since they had purchased them at so dear a rate but these Arguments prevailed not so the Bills were passed and the Parliament was dismissed till the 27th of October 1673. and good reason there was for their dismission for their sitting was grown very uneasy to your Popish Conspirators But Sir we could not but laugh in our Sleeves to see some of the Conspirators take up the Cross and quit their Imployments as the Lord Clifford the Lord Bellasis and Sir Thomas Strickland and others who had long appeared zealous Sons of our Church yet discovered to be of the Synagogue of Rome as soon as the Test or Purgatory Bill passed and truly Sir we were not sorry when you appeared to be of the same Complexion with those other Conspirators tho at the same time I must tell you That your going off did astonish many men there being no Record in History of any Prince that changed his Religion in your Circumstances But did your Conspirators stand still and put up the Sword that was drawn against the Dutch No they had got 1250000 l. therefore you and they strove with all imaginable strength to regain by the War that part of the Cursed Design that was lost by Parliament tho some of you forsook your Places rather than your Consciences yet Sir you never wanted some double-dy'd Sons of the Church of England to succeed in your Places upon the same Terms your Popish Conspirators held them so that they were but your Conspirators Deputies who followed the same Councels and carried on the same Design for this Year was a fruitful Year of Engagements with the Dutch the French carries all before him by Land but we got nothing from the Dutch but maimed Ships and broken Bones we had indeed changed our General but our Success was the same For you remember with whom we were in Conjunction we may thank our selves for keeping such ill Company So that in a word I may say those Heretick Dogs as they were termed by the Great Lewis were too many for our English Popish Conspirators What then Did we nothing by land had we not an Army at Black-Heath and General Schomberg at the head of them Yes we had but that good Gentleman when he saw the Army and understood that they were not an Army against the Dutch but were designed against London he fairly quitted his Post and the Kingdom at the same time as being ashamed of your Conspirators Intentions in the raising that Army He being a French-man you imagined he would join with you in bringing in the French mode of Government and your Irish Papist that was Major-General was to have brought in the Irish Religion the latter would have been true to the uttermost of his power and Irish Discretion but the former was a Protestant and so washed his hands of the business You will say that the French were on our side yes Sir they were but it is as plain as the Sun shining at Noon-day that the French in this second War against the Dutch intended nothing less than really to assist us for he was no Changeling for he had practised the same Art at Sea in the first War the Conspirators had against the Dutch when he was in league with them for his Navy never did them any service for his business was only to see us batter one another and it 's well known that when he pretended to be on our side and to assist us they then only took an opportunity to sound our Seas to spy our Ports and to learn our Building and contemplate our way of Fight to consume our Navy and preserve his own to increase his own Commerce and to order all so that the two great Naval Powers of Europe being crushed together that he might remain Prince and Lord of the Ocean and by consequence Master of all the Isles and the Continent into the bargain To which purpose you and your Banditti furnished him with all possible Opportunities as I shall by and by relate as well to put you in mind of what you and the rest of the Conspirators did do as to inform those of your Party here that are still ignorant of the Transactions of those Times Notwithstanding that we were always worsted by the Dutch yet they having a regard to the preservation of our Religion and Liberties which you had agreed to part withal to the French Court made strong Applications for a Peace and the Conspirators for a Supply to carry on the War and all Endeavours were by you and your Friends used to render the Dutch odious to the Parliament witness the Importunities that were used and great Assurances given In a word nothing but the Voice of War was in their Mouths But you know that there was an unhappy Accident fell out which I shall show you in its proper place that made the King put off the Parliament that sat down the 27th of October till the 7th of January following and in the mean time what Artifices your Accomplices used for to prepare the Parliament to have an ill Opinion of the Dutch you may see in the Speech made by that Villain of a Keeper who was your Tool to all intents and purposes you may remember how he represented the Dutch how averse they were to Peace and Reason and how uncivil and indirect in their Overtures of Treaty with His Majesty and therefore a demand was made of a proportionable and speedy Supply But the Dutch who sound themselves abused and obstructed and hitherto in a manner excluded from all manner of Application and whatever means they had used was still misinterpreted and ill represented they were so wise and industrious as by this time to have undeceived most of the Members of Parliament therefore the House of Commons were for a Peace to be made with the Dutch and in order thereunto would not part with one Penny judging that to be the best means for a Peace to follow and began to call some of your Rogues to an account that had been principal Contrivers of that most ungodly War this was an excellent but a new way of negotiating a Peace with the States-General I well remember that some of your Friends began to look blew upon the business looking every day to be called to an account for their Conspiracy against our Laws Liberties and Religion in the contriving and carrying on this War as aforesaid By this means Sir but full against your will I can tell how it grieved your Soul to see the general bent of the whole Nation to be against the War especially because the French were engaged in it In a word The House of Commons advised your Brother to a Just and an Honourable Peace with the States-General which the King put off till it could be no longer opposed then a Peace was concluded with the Dutch and when that was done the
of the Lambskin Order and others of your Conspirators as a Mark of your Clemency and Tenderness towards me The Sentence was as barbarous and inhuman as it was unjust for I was to pay to you Two thousand Marks to be divested of my Canonical Habit and brought into Westminster-Hall with a Paper upon my Head with this Inscription Titus Dates convicted upon full Evidence of two Horrid Perjuries to stand in and upon the Pillory for two several days on Wednesday to be Whip'd from Aldgate to Newgate and on the Friday following from Newgate to Tyburn and to stand in and upon the Pillory five times every year of my Life and to remain a Prisoner during Life This Sentence sounded ill in the Ears of most Men and filled many with Horror and Amazement when they consider'd the great Clemency and Tenderness that you did in your Speech but a little before mention to the Council and therefore some persons of known worth and quality made application to you to mitigate the Sentence but were refus'd with the gracious Saying That I should go through it if I had breath in my body And then judging that your Italian Comrade might have this Clemency and Tenderness of yours under her Lock and Key application was made to her Ladiship but they found that she was resolv'd upon my Destruction they return'd home holding up their Eyes and Hands to Heaven with a Lord have Mercy upon us Truly Sir it was their Good-will to me but it was their Inadvertency to make any Application to you or your Italian Pugg for it was the Example of your Brother's Clemency and Tenderness that you were resolv'd to follow Since it was so not only I but all thinking men did then judge that your unparallel'd Sentence thus pronounc'd was to murder me and therefore to justifie the inherent Clemency and Tenderness that you had for a poor English Protestant the said Sentence was executed with all the Circumstances of Barbarity for I suffer'd some thousands of Stripes by which I was put to unspeakable Tortures and lay ten weeks under the Chyrurgeons hands But Sir your Malice and Malicious Clemency and Barbarous Tenderness did not cease here but because I thro' the great Mercy of Almighty God supporting me and the extraordinary Care and Skill of a Judicious Chyrurgeon outliv'd your Cruelty for such were your tender Mercies to me you sent some of your Cut-throat Crew whilst I was weak in my Bed to pull off those Plaisters applied to cure my Back and in your most gracious Name they threatned me with all Courtesie and Humanity to destroy me Surely Sir a Man would have thought that by this time you had given Testimony enough of your Tenderness and Clemency but I found to my Cost that I was to taste a little more of your Grace and Mercy for by your own Command I was loaded with Irons of excessive weight for the space of one whole year without any intermission and of your Princely Compassion they were not suffer'd to be taken off even when my Legs were swoln with the Gout Nay that I might appear to partake of the utmost of your Mercy I was by your order shut up in the Hole or Dungeon of the Prison whereby I became impair'd of my Limbs and contracted Convulsion Fits to the hazard of my Life But when you had fill'd up the measure of your Sins and the Nation came to its self you were by the just Judgment of God driven out of the Kingdom and a Parliament freely chosen did sit observe the Judgment they made of your Grace and Clemency and Tenderness in order to which read the Vote of the House of Commons June 11. 1689. which was this Resolved That the Prosecution of Titus Oates upon two Indictments of Perjury in the Court of King's Bench was a Design to stifle the Popish Plot and that the Verdicts given thereupon were corrupt and that the Judgments given thereupon were cruel and illegal Do you get such another Vote to justifie your Clemency and Tenderness we will keep a Day for you tho' through the Blessing of God we may never see your Face again but if we should give me leave to tell you that the old Window of the Banquetting House stands in the same place where it did you know when But lest you or any of your cursed Crew should say That altho' I tasted not of your Grace and Clemency and Tenderness yet still your Clemency did appear to others that had offended you this makes me hasten to some other Instances wherein the World may judge whether or no your Tender Mercies were not Cruelty in the highest degree 2. Give me leave therefore to instance to you of the Usage of the Duke of Monmouth and those Men that were with him in the West who did ryse to have deliver'd the Nation from your Designs of Popery and Slavery which you had for so many years with your Cut-throats carried on with such Success That Noble Duke was your kind and loving Brother's Son and your own Nephew and one that for many years together had been very obsequious to you and was tho' ignorantly in the Conspiracy with you to ruine the Nation and ventur'd his Life in that wicked War against the Dutch to oblige you and his Father but God had no sooner open'd his Eyes to make a true Judgment of your wicked purposes but you sought his Ruine and took all Opportunities to be reveng'd upon him and his Party which you know once was very considerable And when God deliver'd him into your hand you were pleas'd upon Tower-hill to murder him This I say because that he being a Peer of the Realm notwithstanding his pretended Attainder he ought to have had the liberty of an attainded Peer that is to have been heard at the Bar of the House of Lords and to have shew'd Cause why he should not be executed according to the Tenure of that Act by which he stood attainded But you I conceive was resolv'd to have his Blood and therefore you would not complement him with that piece of Justice which is due to every man that is found guilty of any capital Offence So that he being deny'd of this piece of Justice I do affirm that he by your Clemency and Tenderness was basely betray'd and murder'd Well did the business of the West end so No for remember how many of them by your Villanous Kirk were murder'd and hang'd up in cool Blood without any manner of proceeding according to the form of Law and Justice and this being taken notice of by your own Crew that had heard of your pretended Clemency and Tenderness as a thing that would not sound well in the Nation therefore the remainder were confined and your Villain Jefferies and his murdering Brethren were sent down to try these poor unfortunate wretches from many of whom a Confession was extorted upon the Promise of Pardon and then they were condemn'd and murder'd they being innocent