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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33880	The history of the damnable popish plot, in its various branches and progress published for the satisfaction of the present and future ages / by the authors of The weekly pacquet of advice from Rome.	Care, Henry, 1646-1688.; Robinson, 17th cent.	1680 (1680)	Wing C522; ESTC R10752	197,441	406

years is too well known to need here a Repetition that Oppression may make wise men mad is attested by the wisest of Princes yet far be it from us to patronize or palliate Rebellion on any pretext The first Overt act was the Murther of Doctor Sharp Archbishop of St. Andrews in his Coach on the Road May 3. 1679. by about a dozen Assassinates attended with such extraordinary horrid and barbarous Circumstances that seem'd to intimate something of a further Improvement as well as present Malice or as if there had been a Design to eclipse the Villany of the Popish Assassination on Sir Edmondb Godfrey by this more inhumane one committed by supposed Protestants 'T is certain the blame was laid upon the Whiggs or Nonconformists there for which there wanted not specious Reasons But Relations no less credible have given an Account that the principal Murderer acted merely on private Revenge for personal Injuries and 't is not impossible that a person of such bad Principles might be egg'd on to so villanous a Barbarity by insinuating Jesuits who like their Father the Devil take the advantage of mens Passions and by Temptations improve their Animosities to the perpetration of the blackest Crimes The next News was of an Insurrection in the West of Scotland May 29 1679. attended with a Declaration and other Insolencies of those Rebels equally extravagant and detestable To quell which his Grace the Gallant Duke of Monmouth June the 15th sets forward towards Scotland and with great Expedition Joyning and Heading the Royal Plost soon discomfited the Rebels at Bothwel-bridge and returned Victorious victorious That the Papists or some of their well-willers at least by their Counsel and contrivances had an hand in fomenting these disturbances is more than probable as well for the preparations they had made for it as aforesaid as for that nothing at this juncture could make more for their Interest to which they do not use to be wanting for hereby they startled the Government diverted the general odium from themselves and notably colour'd their clamours against the Presbyterians Besides 't is not unlikely that some who were justly apprehensive of being called in question about that time for their male-Administration of Affairs in that Kingdom might hope to bury the memory of their past severities or justifie them as necessary Policies by ostentation of this Rebellion the more liable to be suspected for a Contrivance for that it was not only not joyned in but generally dis-own'd and detested by the Dissenters both in Scotland and England and for that their Horse when the Duke came to engage them so soon betook them to flight as if they had onely designed to cajole in these miserable desperado's of the Infantry into destruction However since his Grace the Duke of Monmouth behaved himself with so much Zeal Conduct and Courage in that Action 't is hard to measure the Confidence of the Popish Conspirators that they should hope so soon after to set him up for a General of Rebellion in England over a like pretended Faction as he had but now routed and dissipated in Scotland and whereof several inferiour promoters and active instruments therein have since suffered Death Banishment and other punishments according to the Laws of that Kingdom And now Affairs sleeping as it were for a while the old Enemy takes advantage of that opportunity industriously to sow his Tares by spreading swarms of virulent Libels of which we shall give you a more particular account in the next Chapter against the Protestant Interest and the Reputation of the Kings Evidence who had they not been wonderfully supported by the hand of God the prayers of good men and their own natural courage must certainly have sunk and been over-whelmed with the various discouragements and mountains of Lies and slanders daily cast upon them But at last the Conspirators finding that all the Interest they had made for carrying Elections for their Tooth of Members to serve in the new Parliament summoned to sit the seventeenth of October could not prevail but that generally throughout the Nation men of approved Loyalty and Integrity to the Protestant Religion and weal of the Publick had notwithanding all their stickling and the vain efforts of a multitude of Laodicean Chemarims been chosen for that weighty Trust and particularly reflecting how shamefully they had been baffled in the Choice for the City of London Octob. the 7th they were now for stifling that Child which before they would have mis-begot and improved all their endeavours by a certain White-Powder that makes no noise probably some new French Invention to blow up the approaching Parliament which yet 't is hoped by the blessing of God and His Majesties Favour will continue sitting so long as may enable it to Countermine all their Plots and bring the Traytors as well Cedars as Shrubs to condign punishment so as to secure His Majesties Life from their villanous attempts for the future and settle the Protestant Religion and Property on a firm and durable Basis In the mean time viz. on the second of September the Anniversary Fast for the never-to-be-forgotten Burning of London by Popish Treachery and as 't is said about Two of the clock in the morning his Royal Highness the Duke of York arrived here from Flanders and forthwith went to the King who then to the great grief and affliction of all his good Subjects was very Ill at Windsor The Dukes coming as was then published by Authority in the Gazet was contrary to expectation and therefore he acquainted His Majesty That hearing of His Majesties Indisposition he thought he could do no less than to come to wait on him and see how he did adding That he was ready as soon as His Majesty pleased to depart for Flanders or any other part of the world that His Majesty should appoint And now the Popish Conspirators those Rooks in policy resolving to put the great Game upon us began notably to shuffle the Cards a Proclamation was published signifying That the Parliament which was to Convene on the seventeenth of October should thence be Prorogued till the thirtieth of the same Month. Out-cries and Alarums from Pulpit and Press and Coffee-houses were every where heard against the Presbyterians c the dangers the Government was in from a Fanatical Faction the grounds and broachers whereof we shall soon acquaint you with though 't is possible some innocent zealous Protestants might be inveigled in so far as to believe the thing real and might far from any ill design join in and promote the common clamour And now to the great surprize and grief of the people his Grace the Duke of Monmouth fell under the Kings disfavour and was commanded to withdraw himself out of His Majesties Dominions the occasion whereof was variously reported nor dare we presume to pry into the Cabinet of State so far as to conjecture the reasons though some subsequent Discoveries of Transactions at that instant on the wheel