England should ever be reconciled At which words Bishop Gulston took offence and departed There were others of the same Kidney but your inferiour Clergy were without number there was your Thompson of Bristol and your rascally Chaplains and others Rogues of a deep dye These I say Sir were your reverend Assistants in the mighty Work upon your hands though they did not foresee the evil Consequences of this their Carriage in reference to the Interest of England both as to its Religion and Government Nay I hope they did not fully see into your Designs if they did you I hope will judge of them according to their Merits 5. You being so well guarded and regarded you were in a little time resolved to set up and shew your self and wicked Party what you would be at but Sir I took pity upon you and would not let you discover your self and therefore I laid it open and the Design of your Pope French King General of the Jesuites and the Society and your Brother and your self which was the reduction of England Scotland and Ireland by the Sword to the Romish Religion and the French way of Government To effect this glorious Design you and your Brother gave the then Pope Authority to entitle himself to the Kingdoms of England Ireland and Scotland to have the absolute Power and Government of the Church In order to this he dispatched his Legate into Ireland and Cardinal Howard was to have come for England and your Brother 's trusty and well-beloved Cuckold and Councellor was to have had a Cardinals Hat and was to have gone for Scotland to have taken Possession of the Ecclesiastical State of that Kingdom in the behalf of the Bishop of Rome the two others were to do the like in England and Ireland Moreover sir by your Brother and you it was contrived and agreed on that the General of the Jesuites should derive a pretended Power from the Bishop of Rome with which Project the French King was highly pleased According to this Project the Bishop of Rome did grant a Commission to the said General of the Jesuites and this Authority the said General did derive to Thomas White the Provincial to issue forth the Commissions of him the said General of the Jesuites and accordingly be with the Counsel of the Jesuites in London did issue forth such Commissions to Captain-Generals Lieutenant-Generals and Colonels Lieutenant-Colonels Majors Captains and the Advocate-General Richard Langhorn and to your Secretary of State Coleman you have a whole List of them in my Narrative already printed and published for your special service altho' not by your Royal Command Further to carry on your wicked Designs your Jesuites by the same Authority consulted concerning your Brother and because he was not a Galloper in your Cause he was by them condemned to death and that was to be executed either by stabbing shooting or poysoning him To this your Servant Coleman was privy and say you know nothing of the matter if you dare to this part of the Conspiracy The Court of Claims in Ireland if they had then been sitting would have declared him Innocent upon your Letter as they did the Marquis of Antrim upon your Brother 's nay Sir if they had carried their Point then you were to have received the Crowns as forfeited by your Brother to the Pope as of his Gift and you was to have been obliged to have such Prelates and Dignitaries in the Church and such Officers in Commands and Places civil naval and military as he had and should commissionate and you had agreed both with him and the French King to extirpate the Protestant Religion and to consent to the Assassination of the King your Brother and to massacre by the help and assistance of the French King the Protestants to Fire our Towns that stood in opposition to these cruel designs of yours You agreed to pardon the Assassines Murderers and Incendiaries and in case you died without Issue male these three Kingdoms were to be made three Provinces of France and become Subjects of that Crown for ever Here your Brother and you were engaged to the French King And that the Prince of Orange might not pretend to the same he was also condemned and designed against by Name by the Proviso and Consent of the Pope French King your Brother and your self and how you appear'd in the Design against him I have already set forth in my first Memorial to you Truly you your self must not have escaped if you had not heartily comply'd to follow such Steps and Counsels as should have been at any time proposed by your Counsellors at St. James's You have here laid before you the design in short and it was a black one God knows and What say you to it now Sir if you will let the little Gentleman of Wales learn to read I have a good Schoolmaster for him he may see here the true Picture of your sweet self which he may spell over by degrees for I would not have the Boy have too much load at a time laid upon him lest he should be disabled from serving the Tyler his true Father with a Hod of Mortar or so in order to its conformable Livelihood 6. Concerning the discovery of this Plot of yours 't is fit a word should be spoken to that point because I believe the revival of this Story will much oblige you and your ragged Crew at St. Germain's and your Saints you have left behind you You may remember that your design prosper'd so well and your damnable Arâ—y were so insolent that notwithstanding the fair pretences your Brother and you used for the keeping them up and your old Parliament briber put your Brother upon the asking of more Mony and no War with France notwithstanding they had so largely paid for the War they had advised to be begun with that mighty Monarch and they consider'd that an Army without a War would be of dangerous and pernicious consequence to the Nation therefore they agreed to this Vote in answer to your Brother's Speech made to them some time before Resolved That the House taking into consideration the state of His Majesty's Affairs and the great charge and burthen His Majesty and the Nation lies under by the Army now in being we humbly are of opinion that if His Majesty pleases to enter into a War with the French King the House is and always will be ready to support and assist in that War but if otherwise then they will proceed to the consideration of providing for the speedy disbanding of the Army And truly dear Sir you could not well blame the Parliament for this Vote for your design in general did to them appear notwithstanding the plausible Arguments your Villains used for the keeping up of that Popish Army tho' you know this disbanding the Army was not the thing you aimed at for you never designed it from the first moment that it was raised for it being Officer'd to your
of Commerce the said Lord Protector had made to the great advantage of the English Nation and graciously left his people to be treated in their trade to France at the pleasure of the French King In a word your Brother was no sooner sixt at Whitehall and you at St. James's but the French King was become your Confident and the King of Spain slighted which as it was against justice and humanity so it was against the maxims of Policy and Prudence the French Nation being natural Enemies of the English and the next Neighbour to it and of all Nations the most formidable all these considerations should have made you to have made a firm alliance with Spain at that time for their condition was very low being brought to that sad state in a great measure upon the account of your Family both in your Grand fathers and Fathers Reigns insomuch that notwithstanding the largeness of the Dominions of that King yet out of them all he could not find an Army to fight against the Portuguese this I must say that God did visit that Crown with severe Judgments for their unjust dealings with the Americans both in respect of the War they made with them and the cruelties they exercised towards them You will say the King of Spain was poor yes so he was and the Proverb was good That Vermin will quit a falling house you well knew that the Popish party could not bear up in their undertakings in the design of changing our Religion into Popery nor our Government into Slavery upon the Credit Purse and Interest of the King of Spain but upon the Purse Interest and Credit of the French King your party thought they might with the better success and with more ease accomplish their wicked designs and purposes against the Religion Laws and Liberties of these three Kingdoms Let me tell you Sir that notwithstanding all the efforts the Popish party made in the years 1660 and 1661 they all proved abortive for they have not their expectation fully answered for they wanted some considerable person to head them but you know your Brother and you thought it convenient to be plaguy Godly for a little time and therefore the Red-Letter-men were to expect a little longer 4. That all might not be lost for want of looking after your Mother comes from France to give those of the Church of Rome some countenance and to be head of that Council that was appointed to sit at Somerset-house you know the pretence of her coming over was a Treaty with her Son about the Marriage of Madam her Daughter with the Monsieur of France but the real cause was to make earnest solicitations on the behalf of the Popish party that they might in some measure receive the benefit of those promises your Brother and you had made to them and to most of the Popish Princes in Christendom upon their account and though you could not engage your self to appear bare-faced you at that time wearing a Protestant face as did also your dear Brother the King so that she to encourage them came over and resided here in England for some time and that the interest might be strengthened the Marriage of her Son the King with the Daughter of Portugal was no less designed than that of her Daughter with Monsieur Give me leave to tell you in this affair the Queen your Mother did testifie more love to her Daughter your Sister than she did to the King your Brother and more like a Daughter of France than a Queen Mother of England by her coming over she did not only secure the interest of France in England but she secured all the Popish party to be true to the French interest and secured the French King to be their great friend that would not cease to do all good offices between them and his dear Brother the King of England and they might be assured of you in a short time and also by her coming a great number of Priests Jesuits Monks and Fryers came over who were caressed with part of the Treasure of the Nation amongst whom was one Kirton a Fryar that had two hundred pound a year Pension given him the pretence was that he was an excellent Chocolate-maker for your Brother the King She also spurred on the Council that sat at Somerset-house to use that diligence that became them that they might answer those ends that their meeting together required This plainly shews what encouragement the Popish party received by the coming of your Mother from France 5. Your Brothers Marriage with the Daughter of Portugal was another considerable encouragement for though she brought no considerable Fortune to the Crown yet still she strengthened the French interest the French King in order thereunto proposed and promoted the Match for never was one word said of it till the Arrival of the Queen Mother and then you know that affair was driven on with all the Zeal imaginable insomuch that if any of the Church of Rome that were of the Spanish Faction had offered any thing against the Match with Portugal he or she or they were in danger of being forbid the then Court at Somerset-House Sir Kenelm Digby was one of the Council at Somerset-House and he was in danger of losing your Mothers favour and his place at that board only for expressing himself not with the due respects that she expected to the intended Match with Portugal and the Lord Castlehaven was forbidden her presence for asserting that Match could never tend to the Honour and Advantage of the English Nation and the late Duke of Norfolk though he was a Papist and Loyal enough yet because he was not of the French Interest and was against the Match your Mother did but look sowrely upon him nay you may remember that for some time all the Honour he could get was but to be made the Son of a Duke and it was some time before he could obtain that mark of Royal Favour The Match was concluded on and over came that peice of Portugal Flesh for His Majesty's use and she was no sooner arrived and fixed at St. James's but behold another Council was appointed there upon the account of the Catholicks and so they had now two Councils one at St. James's and one at Somerset-House and truly all things run on merrily on their side they having two Queens to Espouse their Cause then finally you were reconciled to the Church of Rome and so your Brother and you being both of a Religion what greater incouragement could that villainous party of Men expect and then came all the Ambassadors Envoys Agents they had the Priviledge of open Chapels so that London it self was made a Nursery for Popery 2. You now may see what encouragements the Popish party had to engage in the design of changing our Religion and Government in order to bring in Popery and Arbitrary power when you being reconciled to the Church and See of Rome did establish a third Council
assured the Fathers of the Society here in England that the then Pope would not be wanting when any considerable progress was made in that undertaking you know what it was and it shall be laid before you in its proper place that you might not fail of the Popes assistance you had Sir Henry Tichhorne whom you constituted an Agent at Rome to negotiate your affairs with the Pope and Cardinal Howard was always ready to do his part but was much concerned to see that you made such use of Peter Talbot who was an impudent false fellow and always spoiled the business in which he was engaged and that the Pope did not much approve of Talbot's being made privy to any thing of weight but alas nothing could wean you from him and therefore it was to no purpose to perswade you but come to the point there was never yet any Conspiracy carried on but that Romish Prelate hath been at one end or another of the same I pray observe Sir what disturbances and fatal mischiefs the claim and exercise of the Papal Authority and Jurisdiction hath occasioned both to Princes and People that were of the Church of Rome therefore you might have reasonable hopes that the Pope would give you his assistance to convert three Kingdoms that had so long groaned under the burthen of Heresie and Schism for certainly when you were pleased to communicate your zeal to accomplish so mighty a work he had the same mighty mind which he expressed by his Tears when he read your Letters not for Grief but for the great Joy that the good old Gentleman had conceived for the great progress you had made in the advancement of the Catholick Religion and withal engaged to write to the French King to persevere in his good intention of furthering so good a work which Letters were carried by Tichborne and were graciously and most humbly received by Lewis your friend who was much encouraged when he saw your Brother and you blest with such an Ally Barrillon acquainted your Brother with the Pope's zeal for his being delivered from the Parliament it is well known that he closes in with every part of the design but that of his own life that your party did not communicate to him lest he shauld have begged their pardon and not have consented to be so far engaged I dare say you could not blame him it is necessary to put you in mind that Coleman made the same propositions to Cardinal Howard as you had done to the French King and he by your direction signified the great sence you had of the friendship of Lewis your Ally and of the great readiness there was in you to make such improvements of that his friendship with all those good Offices that you were capable of all which was by him the said Cardinal to be communicated to the Bishop of Rome nay he pressed the said Cardinal to use his Interest with the Pope to press the French King to engage the King of England if possible to dissolve that Parliament that was so great a Bar to your carrying on your design for the advancement of the Catholick Religion and in order to this work the Pope was accordingly pressed and he wrote to the French King to press the King your Brother to dissolve the Parliament and further to encourage him with the offer of his Purse as he had done to you but the Pope when the Cardinal discoursed him concerning a new Parliament judged no Parliament of England would ever engage in the design of restoring the Cotholick Religion therefore he thought that what was to be done must be without a Parliament and that the French King ought to consider what an advantage it would be to his greatness to be liberal in a work of this importance for whereas an old Parliament hath been hurtful to the Catholicks a new Parliament can never be supposed to do them any good therefore the good old Gentleman would by no means hear of a Parliament and so his opinion and yours was much alike but wondered at the Earl of Arlington concerning whom he was pleased to say in his Letter to the French King that he was represented to him to be a good Catholick notwithstanding the heavy charge you brought against him the said Arlington to his most Christian Majesty and withal the Cardinal by the express command from his Holiness did assure you of his Holiness his Friendship and withal he sent you his Benediction And when your design was ripe and almost ready to be put in execution the Fathers were assured that the Bishop of Rome would supply you with a competent summ of Money when he was satisfied that you had made some progress in the mighty work that you had upon your hands and truly Sir it was an expression of very great zeal in the Bishop of Rome if you will consider how he supplied the Emperour against the Male-contents in Hungary tho the Apostolic Chamber was then much in debt as it was a signal manifestation of his zeal to stand by you with his Purse so it is a proof not to be denyed that he was a mighty assistant to you in this mighty work 4. You had the Crown of Spain for your assistance in this mighty work for though Don John of Austria and the then Queen Regent of Spain was at difference about some things in relation to the Government and their own private interests yet they both agreed to joyn with you in this work of changing both the Religion and Government of this Kingdom and Circular Letters were by them both dispatched throughout the dominions of Spain and with some difficulty they raised two hundred thousand Dollars for the service of that part of the design which was to be carried on in Ireland and was paid by some Irish Merchants residing at Galloway at which Coleman was angry and thought that you ought to have had the management of the Money since that you were at the head of the design of restoring the Catholick Religion in the three Kingdoms but you reprehended Coleman since the Merchants there had paid in the Money to the Popish Arbhbishop of Dublin who was ready at your command to transmit the Money whenever you should see iâ— necessary and besides all this your Brother had a great desire at that time to borrow that very Money of you which you could the more readily deny whilst it was out of your power 5. Another support you had for the carrying the mighty work upon your hands was the Crown of Portugal and Russel the English Bishop of Portlegrah pressed the Prince of Portugal to contribute to the carrying on of the great design then in hand and had his Messengers sent about to the Religious of that Kingdom when you had raised for you the summ of fifty thousand pounds and a certain Lady was much concerned that no greater summ could be raised thence since she had prevailed with the Generals of the respective
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
the Frauds and Devilish Artifices the Jesuits use in their practice and teaching their Politic Interest and industrious Self-seeking all under the Hypocritical Zeal and Characters of Religious though none so Irreligious you would not wonder why all secular Priests are against them and the Pope for upholding them and their Practices and Principles Mr. Jenison replied thereunto he believed they were crafty Men upon which this Informant asked him how he came now to say they were crafty Men having formerly spoke so much of their Sanctity He replied because he had considered several odd and suspicious Expressions Mr. Ireland had spoken to him whereupon this Informant replied you will only give the King and Country Satisfaction in declaring the odd and suspicious Expressions of Mr. Ireland who is now imprisoned for the Plot but also discharge the Duty of a Christian and Obligation of a Subject urging many other reasons to perswade Mr. Jenison to make a full discovery to the Councel whereunto Mr. Jenison replied he doubted the Jesuits would prove as black as their Habits adding that his Brother Mr. Thomas Jenison the Jesuit told him there was a design in Hand in which if he plaid his Part he might with ease and safety raise his Fortune and that he answered his Brother he would use all lawful means and that he thereupon replied the means were not only Lawful but Meritorious otherwise their Body and the cheif Catholics in England would not herein be concerned as now they were whereupon this Informant asked him what he understood by his Brothers discourse and whether he did not understand that the Jesuits and Papists had some Design against the Protestant Religion who answered he might well understand and suspect they had some such Design in hand and thereupon this Informant again pressed him to make a full discovery to the Councel when he came to London if his Evidence were judged material And this Informant told him that he held himself bound in Conscience to Discover all that he heard from him if he omitted to do it himself urging that his Evidence would at least-wise be fortifying to others Testimony and this Informant very well remembers that coming about a week afterwards with Mr. Robert Jenison from Mr. Fenwicks House at Beywel Mr. Bowes met them and drew Mr. Jenison aside and discoursed Mr. Jenison sometime after which Mr. Jenison singled out this Informant and told him he believed his own Brother Mr. Thomas Jenison would be hanged and several other Persons of Quality who were concerned in this horrible Design thereupon this Informant asked why Who answered a handful of Jesuits could not carry on such a Design without the assistance of Persons of Note and Power and the Pope himself must be in because of his Purse and he believed the Plot was Universal because his said Brother had told him the greatest Catholics in England were concerned in that Design wherein he would have had him to have plaid his part declaring he had reason to believe it was to destroy the King and Government whereunto this Informant replied can you swear it who answer'd I will not swear it now and therefore this Informant repied Will and Can are two things Mr. Jenison further added he was once in Company of five or six Jesuits and that all their discourse was then tending to the destruction of the King and the Government all agreeing to the self same end but himself but that he had not contradicted them in regard he was Young and Inferiour in Scholarship and this Informant asked him what he meant by Persons of Note and Power engaged in the Plot he answered the cheifest Catholics in England but would name none saying in a Passion do you think I am Privy to it but added by God they will have about with the Duke whereby this Informant believed there was a Hellish Plot and that the greatest Catholics of England were in it and that Mr. Robert Jenison knew more of it than he did at any time lay open and this Informant speaking something of the Popish Emissaries engaged in the Plot meaning Jesuits and Monks Mr. Jenison asked him whether he was not a Popish Emissary whereunto this Informant replied no he did abhor the Name and that he was a Preacher after the Ancient Apostolical way which teacheth all Men to Fear God and Honour the King and to be Obedient to all Superiour Magistrates to which Mr. Jenison replied the Jesuits hold it Lawful to Deposeâ— and Murther any Heretic Kings and to dispose of their Kingdoms and this Informant further saith That Mr. Jenison told him also at Walworth that Mr. Ireland had lent him Twenty Pounds which he desired the Informant to send him to London to pay Mr. Ireland again and further saith not Jurat coram me Edm. Warcupp John Smith There are in this Information several things worthy of your Observation in this Evidence of Mr. Smith and if you will cast but those Orient eyes of yours upon this Account given in upon Oath and not glout upon it as the Devil did upon the Chimney Sweeper but let it have your gracious Consideration 1. This account strongly Corroborated Mr. Jenisons Testimony for all these Dicourses past between this Mr. Jenison and Smith whilest Jenison was a Papist before ever he entertained a thought of changing his Religion or telling his knowledge of your Plot and truly after this that Man must be impudently incredulous that would not believe Mr. Ireland was in Town in the month of August and at that part of the Month to which I did Swear since Mr. Jenison that conversed with him had acquainted so many Credible Witness within so few days after and that which is most remarkable all this was declared to his Father Sister and Mr. Smith when that neither he nor any Man alive could apprehend that ever there would be an occasion of bringing that Matter in doubt and the Controversie upon the Stage this being so plâ—inly made out none but such a Bigot as your self and your rascally Conspirators would either endeavour to perswade the World to question the Truth of this Conspiracy or to give Credit to your villainous Party in any thing they say nor could there be a greater Evidence of that Plot to destroy our religious Laws and Liberties then that rather than their Design should miscarry they would Sacrifice their Souls and Consciences in the Justification of a most palpable Lye but the Truth is they had a Vertuous King and a Pious Duke to save and rather then they would Expose them they would venture their eternal State on your behalf 2. Though you had wedded your self to that faction of the Roman Synagogue the Jesuits I mean yet they never forgave your appearing a Protestant for they were resolved upon your Ruin as soon as they had fixed their business and had settled the French interest and power unless you would to all intents and purposes go through with them in those Designs of
theirs that might tend to the fixing of their Religion upon such a sure Foundation as should not be in the Power of any number of Men to destroy and in good sooth Landlord you was resolved to keep pace with these Villains rather than you would hazard the destroying an old rotten Carcase by any remisness in obeying the commands and following the Councels of your Ghostly Hell-born Crew 3. That your Prosecution of me for Perjury upon that Point was most illegal and unjust and could never have been contrived against an English Gentleman but by a parcel of Villains that valued neither what they said or swore and incouraged by your self that had vowed a revenge against me for discovering and breaking the neck of so fair a Design in which you and they were ingaged but God hath pretty well rewarded you for your Grace and Favour to me in that point in this World what he may do in the next he knows best you would do well to sit down and consider with your self the charge and pains you were at in that Affair and if you would have turned but a Jew for half the Money with the help of your lewd Priest that prates in the Neighbourhood of that Religion you might have convicted me of being a circumcised Mahumetan 7. Another Testimony that I shall produce is Mr. Oliver de Fequett and Francis Verdier concerning Colombiere a Jesuit and Preacher to Mrs. Modena your old Comrade who acquainted the Parliament that he had communication with Coleman who endeavoured to pervert Fiquett to the Popish Religion saying that he knew the King to be a Catholick in his Heart and that the Parliament should not always be Master but in a little time all England should change and furthermore he diverted Fiquetâ— from going to Oxford to his Study promising to recommend him to Father Lachaise the French Kings Confessor he further testifyed that you good Sir expressed much satisfaction in it at which this Fiquett was much surprised but my old Landladies Priest told him that he ouâ—ht not to wonder at that seing you were a Roman Catholic and often received the Sacrament which was confirmed by this said Câ—lombiere his Servant with many other Particulars and Verdier was perswaded to become a Roman Catholick by the saying that the King was a Papist in his heart this Evidence was given to the House of Lords by these two Men. 8. Another Testimony that was produced to prove this Devilish Design of yours was Captain William Bedloe who testified that several of your Jesuits with Coleman and others were in frequent Consultations about the introducing of Popery and he named several Jesuits as Whitebread Ireland Fenwick Harcourt all which he charged home and your Servant Coleman in a most especial manner for whom he carried over a Packet of Letters to Father Lachaise to which he brought an Answer this Coleman did say in the hearing of Mr. Bedloe that he would venture any thing to bring in the Popish Religion and that if he had a â—undred Lives and were to go through a Sea of Blood he would venture all to further the Cause of the Church of Rome that itâ— Religion and Worship might be Established here in England and that he valued not the destruction of one hundred Herâ—tical Kings and if the said Bedloe had lived he would have given the World an Account of a Consult held at Sommerseâ— House at which were several Persons which would have turned up your Plot by the roots you know there was a little Woman concerned there as well as you but a Word is enough to the Wise But since it pleased God to take the poor Man out of the World its fit but you should have an Account of what that villain of Cheif Justice S. Francis North I mean was pleased to bless us withal but as it is I pray take it he tells you that at his first coming to one Mr. Rumsey's House where he was to lodge at Bristol upon Munday 16. of August 1680. in the afternoon being the first day of the Assizes Sir John Knight came to the Judge and said that Mr. Bedloe lay dangerously ill of a Feavor and had little hopes of Life and desired him that he would give him a visit that he might impart something of great Consequence before his death and the Judge â—â—ld Sir John that he would give Mr. Bedloe a visit that night after Supper about nine of the Clock provided that he might be Satisfied of two things 1st that there was no infection in his Distemper 2ly that the time would not be Inconvenient but that Mr. Bedloe might discourse him the Judge without prejudice to his Condition after some time two Physitians came to the Judge and assured him that there was no danger of infection and that the time he had appointed would be most proper for commonly he took his repose in the Afternoon and at nine a Clock he would in all probability be refreshed and fit to discourse with him thereupon the Judge declared his resolution of going and desired the Company of the two Sheriffs and his worthy and trusty Brother Roger North and ordered his Marshal William Janes to go with him as these Persons were upon the way Mr. Grossman a Minister in that City acquainted this Judge that Mr. Bedloe desired him to wait upon the Judge to this Mr. Bedloes House the Judge said it was very well he should be glad of his Company whereupon they went altogether and being come into the Room where Mr. Bedloe lay the Judge saluted him and said that he was extream sorry to find him so ill assuring him that he came to visit him upon his own desires and did Imagin that Bedloe might have something to impart to him as a privy Councellour and therefore if he thought fit the Company might withdraw but Bedloe told the Judge that needed not yet for he had much to say that was proper for the Company to hear and having saluted the Sheriffs and Mr. Crossman he discoursed to this effect or purpose That he looked on himself as a dying Man and found within himself that he could not last long but must shortly appear before God to give an Account of all his Actions and because many Persons had made it their business to baffle and deride the Plot he did for the Satisfaction of the World there deâ—lare upon the Faith of a dying Man and as he hoped for Salvation That whatever he had testified concerning the Plot was true and that he had wronged no Man by his Testimony but had testified rather under than over what was Truth and that he had nothing that lay upon his Conscience upon that Account he said that he had many Witnesses to produce who would make the Plot as clear as the Sun and that he had other things of great importance â—o discover These dying Words of Mr. Bedloe did go a great way with all true Protestants and indeed some of your own
Charges of the Government and that whereas they were asâ—ured by the then Marquis of Huntley that they begun pretty well in Scotland and that if four Hundred Thousand Pound Per annum were setled in England upon the King your Brother and his Heirs for Ever that then your Brother would stand no more in need of this Peevish Parliament and when that he was Dispatcht their would be something for a Successor to come to therefore they prayed you in these Letters that you would Perswade the King your Brother to move in Parliament for an Additionall Revenue for such an Additionall Revenue for him and his Heirs Upon your sight of this Letter you did Prevail with the King to move it in Parliament and what became of the Motion we all well know for though your Pensioners were willing to often to grant the King a sum of Money yet for fear of becoming as useless to themselves as they had been Dangerous to their Countrey they fairely denied him such a Revenue but the Jesuits when they found their Expectation Defeated did Write to these Lords that notwithstanding the unwillingness of the Parliament to settle such a Revenue that they questioned not but to find a Sufficient Revenue for the Successor without the help of a Parliament which Letter you saw and was much pleased that the Jesuits were concerned for the support of the Successor 10. That when your villanous Conspiracy was Discovered the said Lord Arundel of VVardour in your presence did chide Justice Godfrey and told him that he had been to forward in taking my Depositions which did put Godfrey into great feares as he told me but a Week before he was missing and that he told him in your Presence the Day before the King went to New-market that the said Justice Godfrey would finde the Parliament would give him no thanks for his paines LORD POWIS It is time to hasten to this Noble Lord and put you in mind how far he was Ingaged with you in your mighty Work that you had upon your Hand and you must own him as necessary a Traytor as you had in the whole bunch therefore to ingage him to you he had your Countenance and in return of such a favour he was as Obsequious as any of them all Therefore 1. You may remember that at your direction he Intertained in his House one William Morgan one of the Consult held in April 1678 and that this Lord Powis knew him to be such for by his then Secretary which was Mr. Peirson he sent a note to speake with Mr. Morgan in which he said he hoped that they had come to a Resolution in the affair it being four of the Clock in the Afternoon by this Peirson the Lord Powis received his Commission to be Lord High Treasurer of England from Feâ—wick and Ireland and this Peirson delivered to them a Letter from the Lord Powis and 300 l. for the use of the Society in which Letter he said that he would venture his Life and Fortune in the affairs and give me leave to tell you that I saw the Commision before that Ireland and Fenwick had it at Langhorn's Chamber in the Temple 2. That there was a Commission from Rome that the Government of the Nation should be in the Hands of the Lord Powis and the Lord Belasys but the Lord Arundel of Wardour who was alwayes to preside in their councels and by the way of Coleman you were to have an account of their Resolution and by the way I pray observe that Powis and Arundel of Wardour had Negotiated between you and the Pope for Eight Years and that Powis and Belasys was also to Execute all such orders that they received from the Generall of the Jesuits and the French King with which you were also acquainted from time to time by Mr. Coleman and some times by the Father Generall himself and from Lachaise on the behalfe of the French King and from both those that you might not appear least the evil that fell upon Coleman might have been your Portion 3. Further to oblige you the good Lord Powis bred up his Soâ— at the Jesuits Colledge at Paris and in order to his better Reception there you recomended him to the care of Father Lachaise and in his Letter to his Son there was one sent to Father Lachaise in which he and the rest of the Popish Lords engaged with you in the Conspiracy against the Religion and Government earnestly importune the aid and assistance of the French King which Letters bore date about the latter part of December 1677 and in his Letters to the Fathers at St. Omers of the same date in which his Lordship protested his Prudence in the managing the design there on Foot and that he had distributed the 2000 Tickets amongst the Catholick Party in the West that were then Well-wishers which were to be their Protection from the Rage of those who were to come from France to Suppress the Protestant Party and that he had a good Friend that had a great authority in Wales and the bordering Counties that would Joyn in with the Catholick Party and in a Particular manner promised that the Militia in Wales should not be in any posture to give them any Opposition and that he had procured severall to be made Deputy Lieutenants by the favour of his good Friend that had promised to appear for the Catholick Party when the Design should take effect and that it did become them to bear a Signall respect to his Friend which he Named but I will not but your old Friend Mr. Arnold can for a need for he hath been an Excellent Friend of his the cleane contrary way and how the said Lord gave a great Incomium of Sr. Politick Fring Mr. Arnold's Friend for that he had made several worthy Justices in those parts that were hearty Men in the cause what ever the World thought of them 4. That in other Letters of more Ancient Date to the Fathers at St. Omers he the said Lord Powis did write to the Jesuits that he had procured severall forward Fellowes to be turned out of the Commission of the peace Particularly Mr Arnold and Mr. Scudamore and others did but Bark against the Catholicks and you told them that you were pleased that a Lieutenancy through out all England should be constituted of such as should be True Men and further assured them that there was great summs would be Expended as soone as you should receive that summ of 300000 l. from the French King to enable you and these Letters bore date 1675. And another of 1675 And furthermore told the Fathers in that of 1675 that great numbers were dayly converted to the Faith and obedience of the Roman Catholick Church 5. In his Letters of June 1678 he the said Lord Powis acquainted the Fathers that Mr. Coleman was to open in his business and did desire the Fathers to admonish Mr. Coleman to be more close and stick more to
Party 10. A great number of Officers that were Papists had been imployed and several under half Pay and many other Things of the like Nature All which Particulars laid before your Brother in this Address justify the Credit the Evidences of the Popish Plot had in Parliament But that I may not leave you so I pray peruse the Address it self it was a Swinger I 'll assure you and much to the purpose The humble Address of the Commons in Parliament assembled Presented to his Majesty Munday the 29th of Nov. 1680. May it please your most Excellent Majesty WE your Majesty's most Obedient and Loyal Subjects the Commons in Parliament assembled having with all Duty and Regard taken into our serious Consideration your Majesty's late Message relating to Tangier cannot but account the present Condition of it as your Majesty is pleas'd to represent in your said Message after so vast a Treasure expended to make it useful not only as one Infelicity more added to the afflicted Estate of your Majesty's faithful and loyal Subjects but as one result also of the same Counsels and Designs which have brought your Majesty's Person Crown and Kingdoms into those great and imminent Dangers with which at this Day they are surrounded and we are the less surprised to hear of the Exigencies of Tangier when we remember that since it became a part of your Majesty's Dominions it hath several Times been under the Command of Popish Governors particularly for some Time under the Command of a Lord impeach'd and now Prisoner in the Tower for that execrable and horrid Popish Plot that the Supplies sent thither have been in a great Part made up of Popish Officers and Soldiers and that the Irish Papists amongst the Soldiers of that Garison have been the Persons most countenanced and encouraged To that part of your Majesty's Message which expresses a Reliance upon this House for the Support of Tangier and a Recommendation of it to our speedy Care we do with all Humility and Reverence give this Answer That although in due Time and Order we shall omit nothing incumbent on us for the Preservation of every Part of your Majesty's Dominions and advancing the Prosperity and flourishing Estate of this your Kingdom yet at this Time when a Cloud that hath long threatned this Land is ready to break upon our Heads in a Storm of Ruin and Confusion to enter into any further Consideration of this Matter especially to come to any Resolutions in it before we are effectually secured from the imminent and apparent Dangers arising from the Powâ—r of Popish Persons and Counsels we humbly conceive will not consist either with our Duty to your Majesty or the Trust reposed in us by those we represent It is not unknown to your Majesty how restless the Endeavors and how bold the Attempts of the Popish Party for many Years last past have been not only in this but other your Majesty's Kingdoms to introduce the Romish and utterly to extirpâ—te the Protestant Religion The several Approaches they have made towards the compassing this their Design assisted by the Treachery of perfidious Protestants have been so strangely successful that 't is matter of Admiration to us and which we can only ascribe â—o an over-ruling Providence that your Majesty's Reign is still continued over us and that we are yet assembled to câ—nsult the Means of our Preservation This bloody and restless Party not content with the great Liberty they had a long time enjoyed to exercise their own Religion privately among themselves to partake of an equal Freedom of their Persons and Estates with your Majesties Protestant Subjects and of an Advantage above them in being excused from chargeable Offices and Employments hath so far prevailed as to find Countenance for an open and avowed Practice for their Superstition and Idolatry without controul in several Parts of the Kingdom Great swarms of Priests and Jesuits have resorted hither and have here exercised their Jurisdiction and been daily tampering to pervert the Consciences of your Majesty's Subjects their Opposers they have found means to disgrace and if they were Judges Justices of the Peace or other Magistrates to have them turned out of Commission and in contempt of the known Laws of the Land they have practised upon People of all Ranks and Qualities and gained over divers to their Religion some openly to profess it others secretly to espouse it and most conduced to the Service thereof After some time they became able to influence Matters of State and Government and thereby to destroy those they cannot corrupt The Continuance or Prorogation of Parliaments has been accommodated to serve the Purposes of the Party Money raised upon the People to supply your Majesty's extraordinary Occasions was by the prevalence of Popish Counsels imployed to make War upon a Protestant State and to advance and augment the dreadful Power of the French King though to the apparent Hazard of this and all other Protestant Countries Great Numbers of your Majesty's Subjects were sent into and continued in the Service of that King notwithstanding the apparent Interest of your Majesty's Kingdoms the Addresses of the Parliament and your Majesty's gracious Proclamations to the contrary Nor can we forbear to mention how that at the beginning of the same War even the Ministers of England were made Instruments to press upon that State the acceptance of one Demand among others from the French King for procuring their Peace with him That they should admit the publick Exercise of the Roman Catholick Religion in the Vnited Provinces the Churches there to be divided and the Popish Priests to be maintained out of the publick Revenue At home if your Majesty did at any time by the Advice of your Privy Council or of your Two Houses of Parliament command the Laws to be put in due Execution against Papists even from thence they gained Advantage to their Party while the Edge of those Laws was turned against Protestant Dissenters and the Papists escaped in a manner untoucht The Act of Parliament enjoining a Test to be taken by all Persons admitted into any publick Office and intended for a Security against Papists coming into Employment had so little effect That either by Dispensations obtained from Rome they submitted to those Tests and held their Ofces themselves or those put in their Places were so favourable to the same Interests that Popery it self has rather gained than lost Ground since that Act. But that their Business in hand might yet more speedily and strongly proceed at length a Popish Secretary since executed for his Treasons takes upon him to set a foot and maintain Correspondencies at Rome particularly with a Native Subject of your Majesty 's promoted to be a Cardinal and in the Courts of other foreign Princes to use their own form of Speech for the subduing the pestilent Heresy which has so long domineer'd over this Northern World that is to root out the Protestant Religion out of England and
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
you service For my part I don 't but if you believe it you may then imagine that by him you may accomplish your restoration without putting your friend Lewis to the charge of an hard Onion or a round Coal in the said service if they cannot rely upon him the fools will brag that they have some friends that are in place I confess I do see some of your old Villains yet employed but the boast that is made by your Crew of their aid and assistance is rather noisie than dangerous I am more affraid of the men of Brains Quality and Reserve that manage in the dark I am sure we cannot be too wary of such Instruments I looked upon Sir Timothy Stiff-Jaws and Sir Formal the younger to be more dangerous instruments for your service than ever Sir Simkin could pretend to be and they would have appeared in their colours could your old hanged Excise-man have carried his point for you know four thousand Horse at command is a pretty Post and might have done something I 'll assure you towards your changing your French air of which I suppose you are pretty weary But what next what are we to do now Truly since Betraying and Plotting is pretty well out of fashion Sir Simkin sets up a Mercury Office to help men to places and values himself much upon his last calling how long the trade will last I can't tell but if I thought it would hold any considerable time I would put a friend of mine an apprentice to him for seven years provided he might be free of the Trade when he comes out of his time I ll warrant you now that you have a great desire to know of Sir Simkin's good health and when I saw him Truly Sir I see him often and he hath his health well but he hath left off the use of his Beads and leaving them off at an unseasonable time it was of some prejudice to the little reputation he had amongst some of your friends as for Mother Church she hath left him as an out-cast and what game he is playing the Dee'l and John a Cumber knows best his office doth take pretty well as I hear I have not had occasion to make use of him you may have a cast of his Office if you will trust him again 2. I am to observe a second thing to you concerning your willing friends here and that relates to their Pamphlets which I must tell you Sir are spitefully dangerous that it is death to touch them and so dear and tedious to spread them that they are of little or no use to your Cause and Interest For example Scotch Robin's Great Britains Groans by reason of the depredation of the Dutch The lying Rascal should have confessed that the English had been very remiss on the one hand and the Dutch very diligent on the other that hath been indeed the cause of our decay and their interest in Trade but the Book had not there been too much of it was only to rail at King William s supposed mis-management of his Affairs and thereby he would imply that he was a Tyrant but the Rogue durst not for his Ears say that King VVilliam was an Usurper for if he had he might have been hanged for his pains without Madam VVilkinson's interposition to save him But you may imagin that it may be for your service to have King William s management of his Affairs exposed to the scorn and contempt of the World Well suppose it be I believe he doth as little value it as the Feversham men did your Worship when they clapt your Arse I do not find he is afraid to let a Parliament inspect his Management and thanks be to God he lets them have time enough to call delinquents to an Account but how in the name of an old Oyster-wench is this for your service For to publish his miscarriages to the world would be a notorious reflexion upon your Brother s Government and yours for your Scribblers as Scotch Robin and his friend old Hodge and his inferiour crew writing against K. VVilliam for the cause aforesaid they write against you and directly murther your sweet self in compliment to James Stuart late of VVestminster Labourer These fellows when they write of our King William they arraign him as a Tyrant with little or no imputation upon him as an Usurper so that the clamour they make is about his Male administration so that tacitely they admit of his Authority and so wound you through his sides In a word all they drive at is that our King is not so good a man as your sweet self I pray Sir is not their reflecting upon our King a publication that you was a man that did break your Faith and Word with the people of England with this difference only that King William hath done it as well as you Well I think King William hath justified his Government and the management thereof to three Legal Parliaments and if you could but have done as much but to one you needed not to have ambled to St. Germains But Sir see what a pack of Rascals you rely upon since all the subjects on which they treat and propositions in their Books by them laid down are as contrary to the interest they pretend to as light is to darkness nay Simkin himself could not have done your business more effectually than these scoundrels have done it for here they betray your Title and Honour and sink your Prerogative that if ever you should return you would not have enough to piece the knees of your Breeches withal and that would be a sad thing my friend to have that Royal business reduced to so low an ebb surely these men are in hopes of Sir Simkin's getting them places They write so wickedly for you and as little to the purpose as if they were disposed rather to six you in Rome than in England what is this but betraying you and betraying is betraying let it be to St. Germains or the Hague it 's all one in the Original 3. I would observe to you a third thing if my Landlady and this little Cub would give us leave and that is the Cabaâ—ling of your Party which is no more than their meeting in so many Clubs for what I pray you truly to stuff their Guts make good Chear drink your good Health and my Gammer Sweetapple your young Cubs Health one would have thought they had been all the disciples of Sir John Greasy Guts nay they do drink to your speedy Restoration but the Devil a bit of Counsel or contrivance was there of restoring of you and my Landlady or drawing one single Soul to their Party nay they meat and drink it away as if the 80000 Pound that was forgiven to Sir John had been divided amongst them to make them hearty merry in truth Sir their Expences one time were so lavish that one would have thought that a Band of Pensioners had sat at St. Germains
some Reputation with these Coxcombs he hath flattered several people into a vain attendance and dependance upon Risings and Descents till the poor Dogs have spent themselves to their Shirts in waiting and preparing for their days of Jubilee and after many disappointments upon the back one of another they have brought themselves under a fatal despondency of any Relief at all and since Sir your contest is at an end I will tell you that had I been of your Party and Interest I should in spight of Scotch Robin and all his Politicks have advised you to have taken the Counsel of Sir Sweetface Tellpenny who would have told you the vanity of applying to wrong persons and in wrong methods and by wrong instruments You thought the method you used would take but alas instead of that some of your Rogues have been taken and made wry mouth at the West end of the Town for their pains and old Sir Timothy Stiff-Jaws if your people had but made due application to his Worship he would have told them that you ought to have retrenched your number at St. Germains and inspected into their Ability Credit and Morals and that you ought to have drawn your Commissions into fewer hands and fixed upon some men of Honour Quality and Interest to order and communicate in chief and not leave themselves to the mercy of so many forward and impertinent pretenders and hangers on who would certainly betray you as soon as they were pinched Now Sir you may remember that you bless'd us with two or three Declarations but all to no purpose but if upon the declaration of War between us and the French your mighty Ally instead of your Declarations had himself published a Manifesto to all the Princes of Europe in your favour and if he had protested that he aimed at nothing but your Restoration and to settle you in the legal possession of your Throne without the least encroachment upon the Laws of the Land or the Religion Liberties and Properties of the people without proposing to himself any other recompence than in the Conscience of so meritorious a work this might have gone a great way I 'le assure you had he and you but reputation in Europe but of two ordinary Porters especially if it had been so explicitly and exactly drawn as to make no room for a Reserve but the truth of it is you and he had so often violated your Words and Oaths that such Declarations would only have served for Bum-fodder and would have signified as little as your pimping Manifesto's did to the Popish and Protestant Princes of Europe You would have me deal plainly with you I suppose if you would not 't is all one I shall not be afraid to proceed to the Thirtieth Article therefore sit down and hear your charge with all the patience that becomes so foul a Criminal and then the World will abhor you as a detestable Wretch and England will be pittied by all the Princes of Europe in that we would not exclude you from inheriting the Imperial Crown of this Realm Your Villains do threaten me but I shall not be afraid to lay down the truth with all freedom and if I suffer for it it is no great matter for it is no new thing for me to suffer for acting the part of an honest man ARTICLE 30. 30. You stand charged with the fomenting a Popish Plot or Conspiracy for the Alteration of the Religion and Government and Countenancing those that were charged to be in that part that did relate to the life of your Brother Charles the second for the management of this Article 1. I will show what was done in order to this incouraging men to undertake and to engage in this design 2. What steps were taken in the design in order to effect it 3. Who assisted in it 4. Who were engaged here at home 5. The design it self 6. Concerning the discovery of it 7 I shall show you what evidence there was to prove it 8. What Credit it obtained in the Nation 9. Of what great use the discovery might have been to King Charles the Second if he had pleased to have managed himself according to the Counsel of Parliament and the Patriots of the Protestant Religion 10. What were the consequences of the discovery of the Popish Plot and how fatal it was to their Popish party 1. I will shew you what was done in order to the encouraging men to undertake and engage in this design the design bespoke it self for nothing but a cursed Jesuit and men of the same principles who might to all intents and purposes be the more paced in this holy undertaking of that villanous party The Jesuits that in conjunction with your self and wicked party of Papists and Popishly affected persons undertook this affair You know Sir that you no sooner was by the providence of God and the earnest desire of the people of England restored to the Land of your Nativity but the Popish party began to bestir themselves for the restoration of their Religion therefore they apply themselves to the Jesuits and Jesuited Priests and men of Arbitrary principles and protested their zeal for the Restoration of the Catholic Religion but they durst not enter upon any design in the years 1660 and 1661 till they were sure how the Parliament would steer their Course in relation to the uniformity of service here in England who should carry the point whether the Bishops or the Dissenting Protestants and therefore it was resolved by the Jesuits that nothing should for that present time be undertaken but the drawing in of some men into Conspiracies and to provide Rogues lustily and heartily to swear Treason against them in order to the destruction of some and to bring others into disrepute with the Parliament that they might be kept under by some severe Laws that might be made against them to the end that they might be in no condition to give any opposition to them in their designs that should be by them formed for the effecting so blessed a work besides all this they at that time were not sure of your Countenance because for several years you made a sort of profession of the Protestant Religion and received the Sacrament of the Lords Supper according to the usage of the Church of England with the King your Brother and he himself was not married and they thought it convenient that nothing should be so much as proposed till they might have the countenance of some Popish Consort and then it was thought that they might act the more safely if the King could be engaged in a War against the Dutch which they longed for with much impatience But Sir I must descend into some particulars and therefore I will undertake these two things 1. I will put you in mind of what happened to encourage the Popish Party in undertaking their villainous designs against the Protestant Religion and Government 2. I will shew you what encouragements you
and your Popish Councellors gave to your party to undertake the same 1. I will put you mind of what happened to encourage the Popish Party in undertaking of their villainous designs against the Protestant Religion and the Government and this is necessary to be done that you may remember how you and your party have treated this Nation by way of recompence for the restoring your Brother to his Throne and you to your Native Country which well considered we may see what a Blessing you both were to this Nation Therefore Sir observe 7. Another Argument against the Bill of Exclusion was that it would have led the Parliament to attempt other great and considerable Changes and thereby endangered the whole Government and the peace of the Nation Now what your Villains would have had the Nation to understand by this change is worthy consideration Therefore first if by a change they meant a change of the constitution of the Government let me tell you that he could never have forged a more villainous Lye than those wicked Wretches did that they might in conjunction with you instil such thoughts into the mind of the King as might effectually alienate his Soul from the use of Parliaments It is evident even to these Holbourn Wretches that there was no Vote or Proposition in either of these Parliaments that could give any ground for such a malicious reflection and thefore in this matter we that were lookers on might reasonably charge your Brother and you and your whole party with a malicious design against all Parliaments in thus arraigning the whole body of the Nation upon these ill grounded and malicious suggestions I am sure this did not become the grandeur and justice of Princes nor was agreeable to the measures of Prudence and Wisdom by which you should have governed your selves And Now Sir I will give the true reason why you thus delighted in these men viz. your hating Parliaments being afraid they should have called you and them to account for your high Crimes and Misdemeanors by this means together with the inclinations of your dear Brother you so sway d him that you could never want grounds to dissolve not only three such Parliaments but threescore if there had been occasion In the second place Sir if you and your admirers had understood by attempting great and important changes that the Parliament would have besought the King that you might no longer have the Government in your hands that your villainous Conspirators should no longer preside in his Councils nor possess all the great Offices of Trust in the Kingdom that our Ports Garrisons and Fleet should no longer be governed by those that were at your Devotion that marks of Favour and characters of Honour should no more be placed upon such as the wisdom of the Nation had adjusted favourers of Popery or Pensioners to the French King These I must confess were great and important changes such as became English Protestants to believe were designed by those Parliaments and would have been by any other Parliament your Brother should have called in his time and such as the people of England would have prayed for and left the success to Almighty God who governs the hearts of Kings and Princes Truly without these changes the Bill of Exclusion would have signified little it might have provoked but not have disabled your wicked party Nay the money the Nation must have paid for it would have been used to hasten your return upon us 8. Another Argument used against the Bill of Exclusion was your great Grace and Favour for your Country and the excellency of your Temper and Vertue Surely Sir if you heard these men magnify you for your excellent personal qualifications you would have spit in their Faces and told them they ly'd for the violence of your natural Temper was sufficiently Known and your vehemency in exalting the prerogative in your Brother's Reign beyond its due bounds and the principles of your cursed Religion which carried you to all imaginable excesses of Cruelty convinced all Mankind that there was a necessity of excluding you rather than to leave you the name and place the power in a Protector For in good truth they must have looked upon it as the greatest folly to have made such a change in the Government which would have been a means to destroy and not to preserve the Government Sir they saw your Temper that was bred up in such principles of Politicks as made you in love with A bitrary power and bigotted to that Religion which always propagates it self by Blood could never bear with such shackles as would even disgust a Prince of the meekest disposition This was your Temper and how it is amended since you placed your self at St. Germains I suppose your followers can tell better than I. But what a regard and favour you have born to this Nation was well seen from your first return to England 1660. to your leaving it in 1688. You engaged it in two wicked Wars with the Dutch and a third with France I would not have your Cattle love too much of your Grace and Favour But truly if you had any for this Nation you was pleased to conceal it except in two things in which you did England the most signal service that ever man did the one was destroying your Brother and the other your running away and if you will keep on the other side of the small River that parts France from us we will forgive you all the faults of your life But notwithstahding all the noise your party have made about you exclusion I think they are now fully satisfied or at least may be that those three Parliaments that did proceed to exclude you had just grounds for it so that all your pretences stand convict as foolish and impertinent And these things being thus can any man judge you otherwise than an Enemy to Parliaments and that way of English Government which made you and your Traytors so much to inviegh against your most just proceedings 1. You may remember that the Nation could not be redeemed from that Bondage and Slavery that threatened it by the Arbitrary Government of Charles your Father but by the Long Parliament that sat down in the year 1640 and by the mismanagement of affairs by those to whom the guardianship of this Nation had been committed they thought nothing would bring on a new Heaven and a new Earth and repair the breaches in the Nation occasioned by the confusion rage and distraction they laboured under which were the consequences of the aforesaid mismanagement of affairs but by the restoring King Charles the second to gratifie this expectation the Convention which met on the 25th of April 1660 hand over head without any Preliminaries of asserting the right and priviledges of the people of England so manifestly violated by your Grandfather and Father and so restored your Brother to his Throne without the least opposition The hopes of the
happy days under his Reign quite blotted out the remembrance of the villanous designs that were carried on in the time of your Grandfather and Father for the destruction of the Protestant interest and furthermore like Court-Parasites flattered him and you stiling your Father the Martyr for England's Church and Government The King your Brother being restored he began to be as Arbitrary as either his Father or Grandfather had been before him and the Kingdom lay under a necessity of submitting to him rather than run into a new confusion and disorder or revile the old ones for the misery they brought upon the Nation The memory of these times were so odious to these Flatterers that if the Parliament took notice of any of their Irregularities or mismanagement of the Government they were presently charged with running back to the Parliament that sat down in the year 1640 and they seeing the King restored without any terms thought it was necessary to form a Council consisting of a number of men that were to meet at Somerset-house in order to get something in favour of poor Catholicks and this was to be a standing Council for that purpose To this Council the Jesuits both at home and abroad were to make their application from time to time as occasion should require and they having such an encouragement as this they could not but reasonably expect some great thing from your Brother because of the Oaths and Protestations he had made to them of restoring their Religion or at least to give them all the Indulgence imaginable till he had an opportunity of setting up that Worship of theirs as the publick Worship of the Nation which they thought must of necessity come to pass the one or the other since he was not restrained by any Preliminaries at his admission to the exercise of his Kingly power this fatal mistake of the Parliament was the cause of much joy to the Jesuits for upon this Courtney within a Fortnight after your Brothers coming in was dispatched away to St. Omers to give them an account of what a prospect they now had of advancing the Catholick Cause and what a Council was pitched upon to meet at Somerset-house to manage the Cause of poor Catholicks in order to their ease in respect of Religion and what preferments several of the leading men of that perswasion were like to have at Court So Sir this was the first encouragement your party received through the want of some necessary restrictions to have put upon your Brother in order to have secured the Nation from Popery and Arbitrary power A second encouragement the Popish party had to oblige men to undertake and engage themselves in their villainous designs against the Protestant Religion and Government of this Nation was your Brothers neglecting the old Cavaliers that if they had any Religion it was that of the Church of England These men had been great sufferers not only upon your Father's account but also upon your Brother's to the ruine of themselves and families indeed they thought and that very justly that upon the Restoration they should enjoy Halcyon days But alas through yours and the advice of old Chancellor Clarendon they were in a worse state than they were before for these poor miserable Wretches having Mortgaged their Estates to redeem their Sequestations the remainder paid the Taxes to the King and the interest of the Mortgage notwithstanding all this they are not at all countenanced by the King who one would have thought should have made them his chief favourites if he had retained one dram of gratitude He had favourites it 's true but none of the old Protestant Cavaliers you will say then who were his Favourites you may remember that his Favourites were those of the Popish party in conjunction with a party of men who knew not his Father but humoured him in his sensual pleasures and they were of the Female as well as of the Male Sex who were a sort of Favourites his Father was not acquainted with nor in short do I find that he had ever any regard for his Fathers memory in that he so basely left those who had not only ventured but lost all in his Fathers service and these men having great Antipathy against the Papists for carrying all before them in the Court at Oxford in your Fathers time were much brow-beaten by these Popish Favourites and they being discouraged were in no capacity to contend the point with that villainous party at Court so that they in your Brother's time carried all before them in spite of fate The poor Dissenters they durst not stir the Bishops severely chastizing them for their severe usage of them in the times of the Civil War and the high Church-party run in with this Popish party as men that had deserved well from the King and whose Religion and theirs was of nearer a kin than that of the Dissenters so that your Popish party having such a Reinforcement from high Church-men were considerably strengthened and taking the advantage of your Brother's neglect of the old Cavaliers who hated them they found by this means so much encouragement as to engage a number of men to undertake with them in their cursed designs 3. A third encouragement the Popish party had upon your Restoration was the great ascendency your Mother had over the King your Brother for she being a Daughter of France inclined him to her side so that he no sooner left Brussels but he quitted Spain and embraced the interest of France and an Alliance with that Crown and she living ten years after his Restoration so fixed this as an habit in him that all his life after he could never get rid of it notwithstanding all the provocations of the French King to the contrary who upon the great inclination there was in your Brother and you to him became a mighty protection to the Popish party By the way Sir give me leave to observe to you that it was a most inhumane thing in your Brother and you to quit the Spaniard who entertained you both when the French had in a most barbarous manner and with all the reproach imaginable expelled you both and joyned with the then Lord Protector against you to ruine you and your whole Family again observe how unjust it was considering what protestations and promises both your Brother and you had made to the Crown of Spain of making and keeping a strict alliance offensive and defensive that you might be revenged of the French King for his false dealing with you yet contrary to all your promises and protestations it is remembred what success the French Ambassador had with your Brother in his negotiations for though he did not make any league with the French against the Spaniard yet he and the French King dealt with the Spaniard as if he had been an open enemy nay Sir that he might not fall short of his respects to his Brother of France he most willingly waved a Treaty
on the behalf of the Popish party which became wholly yours they owning you for their head your business therefore was to strengthen their interest at Court by having the King your Brother always ready to heap his favours upon them and to enlarge their Interest in the Country by obtaining such Immunities for them as no Protestant Dissenter could ever obtain in all your Brother's Reign notwithstanding they were more quiet under their pressures and provocations than the other were under your Brother's favours and caresses your party before your arrival at your last reconciliation to the Church of Rome had met with these encouragements to engage men in this design I pray Sir let us compare Notes a little and let us see what encouragement you gave those that were ingaged in the design of subverting our Religion and Government give me leave to put you in the mind of these in their order 1. The first encouragement that you gave them you procured them employments in the Government nay if it were a place but of 20 l. per Annum a poor Catholic was preferred before another if he stood in competition with him you did espouse that party with that zeal which put your friend Coleman into a sort of a Religious extasie when he considered what a Prince God had given them who was become to a miracle zealous of being the Author and Instrument of so glorious a work of converting three Kingdoms and by that perhaps the utter subduing of a pestilent Heresy which hath domineered over great part of the Northern part of the World a long time and that there were never such hopes as in this time notwithstanding the opposition you were like to meet withal and truly Sir I could not blame Coleman for this rapture of his for the providing for your friends was a good sign of your conversion to that degree of Zeal that Secretary of yours spake of Now Sir the getting of your friends into employments did strengthen their hands that they might be fit for business or else Sir Patrick Trant might have continued in the Black-guard for ought I know to the day of his Death but your conversion converted him not only to your Church but also converted him from being a Black-guard-boy to wear a great name and place I pray Sir to what end was Sir George Ratcliffe to have had a Patent for to be a Baron of England but that the Popish party might be more strengthened in the North that the little ones might be encouraged and their numbers encreased by the protection he might give them in your name you were so successful in this that you boasted to Beddingfield and to others before him that were your Confessors that you did not question but that in a short time you could raise an Army of your Cotholick friends to establish the Catholick Religion Obj. Why might not the Son of Charles the First shew himself greatful to Roman Catholicks and procure them an Interest at Court had not they an universal esteem for their Loyalty to Charles the First and Charles the Second Why in such a heat good Sir where was the Loyalty of your Servant Manning where was the Loyalty of those that petitioned Cromwel for Liberty of Conscience and promising in lieu of so great a favour to destroy your Family alas Sir here is Loyalty for you besides all this behold it was they that had a hand nay a great hand in your Fathers death where was the Loyalty of the Irish murderers that renounced your Fathers Authority after they had performed his Gracious Command of murdering of one hundred and fifty thousand Protestants 'T is true they went into your Fathers Interest but not to serve him but to be protected by him from the Justice the Parliament would have inflicted on them for the wicked War they had in conjunction with that Villain Laude fomented against the Scotch and had also contributed to the same and not only so but had commenced that wicked War of the King your Father against the Parliament of England they were the Authors of our Civil War But Sir suppose they had been great sufferers upon your Father's account was that an argument why they were so well provided for alas Sir if that were an argument why was it not an Argument for the old Cavaliers no they were too generous to engage in any design against the good English Government for they thought that when they engaged with Charles the First that they had fought for the Protestant Religion and Liberties of England and therefore many times wondered the Papists herded with them and were much displeased to see Popish Councils and Councellors perferred before their Faces and they scarce suffered to have the Kings Ear therefore Sir you know well enough these men were not sit for your work and service on the other hand you were sure of the faithfulness of your Popish crew their Religion being security enough to you that they would engage in the design with you and therefore they were to be encouraged These Rogues had not one drop of Cavalier Blood in them no not one drop of any Blood but that of the Whore of Rome the poor Cavaliers were therefore to be starved and these fellows suffered to Revel and Surfeit upon their calamities this was the first encouragement they received from you viz. their Interest at Court 2. Your second encouragement you gave them was the check that you gave to those who opposed them especially the old Cavaliers for Sir you may remember that upon the coming in of the King your Popish party made them themselves very fine nay they resolved that none should be so fine as they but the old Cavaliers were resolved not to be out-done but they would be as fine though they did not live to pay the Taylors but when they showed themselves at Court your Brother and you scarce knew them though the Papists at that time had all the demonstrations of affection shew'd them to the great astonishment of the poor Cavaliers but when they had recovered themselves they fell into a desperate rage with the Papists asking them what they did there and began to arraign them for their former Rogueries but you was pleased to tell one that had signalized himself in your Father's service that it was not for him nor any other to malign the Roman Catholicks who had been your Brother's best friends and therefore we might easily see since that few or none durst appear so against them to suggest any thing that might bring them under the least jealousie lest they should be said to asperse the only friends of the Government and I truly have stood amazed that the little Credit the Papists had got by shrouding themselves under the protection of the King your Father should be so highly improved nay it was scarce credible till the World saw the design in which with you they were engaged then we plainly discovered the reason why they that
Religious Orders to write to their Provincials and Guardians to contribute largely to so pious a work but Perrot a Secular did pacifie the said Lady and did assure her that he had more reason to wonder that so much came since the Jesuits had wrote so many notorious lies not only to Portugal but also to many other places in Europe of the state and condition of the Catholic Religion in England and Sir what he said was true he told you that he doubted the Jesuits run too fast and it would do well that you obtained of the King your Brother Liberty of Conscience for the Catholicks it was as much as could be expected but Sir you may remember that Beddingfield did endeavour to incense you against the Secular Clergy who were much influenced by the said Perrot he being their Superiour here in England and told you that Perrot and the Secular Clergy were a sort of Rascally fellows that had neither Wit nor Courage to manage such a design but at length a small spell being thrown in amongst the Secular Clergy they prostituted themselves to your Cause and Watkins that was Superiour of the English Colledge at Lisbon was written to by Perrot and another attempt was made upon Prince Peter but your design was discovered and so all that attempt turned to no account to you at that time 6. You had most of the Princes of Christendom that were of the Popish Religion and of the French Interest to support you in your design by the means of the Popes Internuncio then at Bruxels with whom Coleman your trusty Secretary held a great Correspondence and if you please you may remember that Coleman in one of his to the Internuntio that ✚ the design prospered so well that he doubted not but in a little time the business would be managed to the utter ruine of the Protestant party which Letter bore date Aug. 21. 1674 but these Princes being engaged in Wars they could not contribute but if the design had prospered you know they had all engaged whenever there should be a General Peace to assist your Brother and you in that good work of advancing the Catholick Religion but upon the discovery of the business the whole face of affairs of Europe were changed and whether you could get any Money from them I never learned so much you know best and so did your Traytor Coleman But so much may serve for the point in hand to wit a short account of those who had engaged their assistance from abroad 4. I come now to put you in mind of those who were engaged here at home and as I said before so must I say again that it was not the old Cavaliers that you had engaged in this villainous design for they were better natured and had a greater regard to our Religion and our Liberties than to be drawn into this Conspiracy nor were they those alone that professed communion with the Church of Rome for then our danger had been the less but there were some that seemed to be of the communion of the Church of England and were Papists in Masquerade but that I may be plain and particular with you I will lay them forth to the world in these following particulars 1. You had your Papists in Masquerade I bring them in foremost and these were the wicked Ministers that notwithstanding their mighty pretences to the Church of England as by Law established to preserve her yet at that time they were pensioners to France and abettors of the Popish party and promoters of the French Interest and thereby rendered themselves Enemies of the Government and of the whole Kingdom These were a set of Rogues that had not one drop of Cavalier Blood in them but revelled and surfeited upon the ruins of those men who had done much on your Father's behalf and had undergone great sufferings upon his account and your Brother's and no care was taken but of their starving for want of Bread such was your Grace and Favour to them Your Scotch Ministers of State gave great proof of their heartily being engaged with you in the Conspiracy for they did what in them lay to ruin the Protestant Interest in that Kingdom they over-turned the Laws and Liberties of that antient Kingdom and so reduced the Laws to the Will of the King your Brother that none could tell the difference between the condition of that People and the Subjects of the French King excepting him that the Scotch were by them made the greater Slaves and it was a rule that your Conspirators at St. James's laid down that in Scotland Slavery and Debauchery was the surest way to bring in Popery as Popery and Debauchery would certainly bring in Slavery upon the English Nation both which was to be effected or all would be lost Your wicked Ministers at Court in England good men they plied their business with as much zeal as possibly they could to make all things ready against you mounted the Throne and truly they met with little or no opposition in their progress for the then Parliament through their being corrupted and bribed by the Ministers then employed they had lost much of their authority and esteem so that though they sometimes made a little noise about Popery and Arbitrary power they durst not be over bold because that then they would have endangered their being dissolved which was worse to them than death it self so that by these means your wicked Conspiracy went on with impunity and few or none were called to an account till the discovery of the Plot. It is true they now and then roared against Lauderdale they got Buckingham removed from being a Councellor they it may be might have an aching Tooth at several but I know nothing they did against any of them but make a noise till your true friend appeared then they did talk with some of your Conspirators and would gladly Sir have spoken with you but that you went to take a little Air in Flanders 2. You had the Popish party that were engaged with you in a bare-faced manner and with as much impudence as your Heart and Soul could desire Priests Noblemen Gentlemen throughout the whole Kingdom so that you were in a very hopeful way of doing your business had not God in his mercy prevented it they were all ready they wanted but the word and the business had been done to all intents and purposes and I doubt without any possibility of retrieving 3. You had your Army ready at hand and if they might have been secured to be a standing Army they would have done what you commanded and you had your Irish villains in Ireland that wanted nothing but your word and they were ready to have engaged in any thing that should have contributed to the advancement of the Religion to which you were so miraculously Converted that your zeal was such that you valued it above all things in the World and therefore your design could not but
oblig'd the House to send for the Lord Chief Justice Scroggs privately who sign'd Warrants for the apprehending several Popish Lords and committed them to several Prisons about the Town And another Gentleman being under consideration which at last came to an Accusation and an Impeachment for that it was found out by his Letters the Intrigues he held with your Ally for Mony to procure a Peace and deceive the Parliament which Letters were preserv'd and brought into the House by the procurement of a worthy Gentleman since a Peer of the Realm who had wisely kept them against a rainy day upon which many of the open case-harden'd Rogues began to trudge beyond the Seas and some of your Plotters found it too hot for England to hold them for the Murther of Justice Godfrey stuck upon our Stomachs without the least prospect of being digested and several of his Murtherers did travel for fear of being call'd to an account for that bloody piece of Villany or of being in the Plot to murther the King And to give you your due you did bestir your self and that the Journeys of these your Villains might be more easie you had a couple of good-natur'd Rogues that made no Bones to oblige you with a cast of their Office that these Vermin might not be stopt in their way by which they would have endanger'd themselves and you too and lost their Cause in which they had been true Drudges to your Brother and your self You did also take more than special care for the securing a jolly number of Jesuites who were blest with the same Fortune by the Assistance of your aforesaid Hell hounds to get over the Herring pond I commend the Diligence of the English Gentlemen of the House of Commons but the Sons of Zerviah were too many for them for the Ministry at that time of the day to serve you were willing to help their Brethren in Iniquity and as the Parliament were ready to detect the black piece of Villany you and these Rogues were engag'd in the Court and the Conspirators were as diligent to conceal if not on the contrary far to outdo them in supplanting the Discovery Truly to give the House of Lords their due they acted with as much Prudence as the Commons they appointed a secret Committee consisting of five or six Lords and by this Committee whilst it was a secret one and whilst they kept their Examinations private they did discover your sweet self God bless you and the Queen-Dowager to be in the bottom of the Design And the Duke of Buckingham having for some considerable time had a Scheme of the Conspiracy from my self he well understood how to manage the Discovery to a Hairs breadth and he certainly did it with admirable dexterity and committed all men of whom there was the least suspicion by which method several things were discover'd to that Committee which would otherwise never have come to light and especially about the Murther of Godfrey This Sir struck a mighty Terror into the Hearts of several of your Vermin that made them both fear and tremble and some of them whose Hearts God had touched as you say in your reverend Letter from Rochester began to think of discovering your wicked Designs against the King your Brother and our Religion Laws and Liberties and the Murther of that innocent Magistrate What News next I think it is a Question may be ask'd without your making that sowre Face you will turn my Stomach presently if you do not accept of this Goodwill of mine with a more cheerful Countenance therefore without the Ceremony of making that Fridays Mouth let us go on and let me observe to you that the Nation was in a great confusion and expected nothing less but that you and your Cut-throats would begin your Church-work of converting this Nation by a Baptism of Blood and this great City by a Baptism of Fire and that we might be preserv'd as well from the one as the other the Parliament resolv'd to have the Nation in a posture of defence and to raise the Militia throughout the Kingdom and therefore prepar'd a Bill for that purpose for the Militia to be in Arms for so many days which Bill passed both Houses without difficulty but you and your Hell-born Crew seeing this great Zeal and sweet Harmony between both Houses and that they were resolv'd as well to defend the Nation as to â—ecure us from farther Mischief you by the Advice of your Counsellors who had the Impudence to stay behind made use of this Stratagem to divide your Brother from the Houses and put a stop to the passing the Bill for you were filled with Horror of the Militia's being raised lest your Rogues should be put out of their Traces and be a means to frustrate all your designs After the Parliament was risen you possessed your Brother with the danger of the Bill and whatever he did he should not pass it for it was too great a Trust to be reposed in the People and that it would be of a sad consequence to himself No Sir you were out the true danger would have been yours and not the King 's and your Brother knew it well enough and he therefore was as willing to deny the passing the Bill as you and your Rogues were to have him The Bill being rejected your Brother was troubled at the Parliaments resenting the refusal of the passing so necessary a Bill then he began to wheedle with the Parliament and declar'd that he was ready to assent to any Bill that he should have tender'd to him for the security of the Kingdom by the Militia so that the whole power of calling or not calling continuing or not continuing them together during the time limited was in him and that he might be the sole Judge of the publick Security So we thank'd him for nothing and the business fell Come on then here was by this time a Mess of sad Tydings for here a second Witness appears and brings in a more full Discovery of Godfrey's Murther this Witness was your old Friend Mr. Bedloe who was employ'd or was at least privy to the Intrigue and had been greatly employ'd to carry on the Plot beyond the Seas by the Priests and Jesuites so that now your dear Friend's Testimony was in a most unexpected manner corroborated and confirm'd Upon his coming in you and your Crew were much out of countenance and cast down but it was not for your Party to stand still and therefore to work you go and endeavour to discourage him and cry down his Evidence and to baffle him upon his Knowledge of the Rooms in Somerset-house where the murthered person lay but in good truth it did you no manner of Service for the Parliament was then sitting and the secret Committee of Peers had got his Examination so that by Bedloe's fresh Evidence all but your Conspirators and your self were well pleased And he having been now throughly examin'd both as
to the Murther and Plot made such Discoveries that the two Houses began to look about them with more diligence and caution than ever in regard it plainly appear'd that you as well as the Jesuites were at the bottom of all this Villany or the Wheel within the Wheel which some of your Protestant Rogues were not privy to Well here you have an account of the Discovery Prance confesseth the Murther Dugdâ—le comes in and Jennison and Smith and many others I shall speak of them in their proper places Methinks you droop take a Glass of true Nants and give Mrs. Pugg another if it be not good for her Milk it may be good for her Water and so it 's all one bring the Sucking bottle to the little Welch Cub that we may have no noise for if he doth I will call for Will. Fuller your Puggs Page of Honour to jerk the young Kâ—ave if he be not quiet for he is as intimately acquainted with his true Mother if the Gentleman says the Truth or can speak Truth as your sweet self I suppose he was one of your Privy-Councellors once at St. Germain's and may pretend to have Authority in that case But I must stick to my point and come to a second thing I promised and that is to shew the reason of this Discovery 2. Was there such a Design on foot to destroy the King extirpate the Protestant Religion and subvert the Government and ought not this to be discover'd What if the Queen-Dowager were in it and you and the Court-Whores and the Court pimps and Court-Bawds and some of the Ministers of State and Justice and your villanous Council at St James's must they not be detected Were we to be afraid to speak the Truth No Sir it was not high time to speak Truth Yes Sir it was high time and more than high time But yet your Brother good man to save you and your party did in the month of November 1678 offer me at Secretary Coventry's Apartment the Bishoprick of Chichester and also promised me the Favour of advancing me if I would desist this Enterprize as he call'd the discovery of the Popish Plot assuring me that it would not be for his Service because of the heat it would put the people into and further told me That the Parliament would forsake me and not do any thing for me and if I had a Thought of complying with him I should meet him at the Prince's Lodgings but I went to the Prince and told him what the King had said who when he heard me give him an account of what the King had offer'd me and upon what terms The poor man said the Prince doâ—h court his own Ruine the most of any man I know And the Prince advis'd me not to meddle nor make with any thing of that Nature for said the Prince either he will cheat or expose you or if he be real there is an old Wife in the case who will be set on you to draw you off from the good work you have began or perhaps to do that which is worse and so I refused that offer and let me tell you farther that upon the discovery of the Plot several Papers were found at the House of one Jolliff a Taylor I did observe that CHARLES I. of Blessed Memory had commissionated several of the Irish to Rise and withal I saw the Instructions that were given to them to give the English no quarter and I saw a Letter of your Fathers to the Bishop of Casal as near as I can remember wherein he promised his Catholick Subjects that if he were driven through the necessity of Affairs to cause a Cessation of Arms it should not be for the Disadvantage of his Irish Catholick Subjects but to let them have a little time to breath so that they might be the better able to serve him and themselves against the Factious English there if there should be any remaining amongst them all which were carried to White-hall and what became of them I know not I saw also in those Papers found as aforesaid at the House of the said Jollife several Passes given to those of the Rebels that fled out of Ireland upon the reducing of that Country and notwithstanding they had shed much Protestant Blood they were by your Brother and you recommended to several Ministers of the Court of Spain and several other Princes of the Romish Religion as persons that had served your Father in reducing their Country to the Obedience of the Catholick Church and that had contributed much to the destroying of the English Hereticks that had planted themselves in that Kingdom Give me leave to observe farther to you that the Jesuits did tell me that the coming over of the Princess Henrietta was in order to make way for restoring the Catholick Religion here in England and that the Breach of the peace with the Dutch was by you and her contrived and by the late King consented to in order to reduce those States to the Catholick Faith and that it was thought fit to begin the Exercise of the Romish Religion in Ireland and to grant a general Toleration here in order to which sixteen hundred Priests of all orders were sent over from divers Nations and that the most of 'em were kept here on a maintenance for secret Service and others by your self in half Pay as disbanded Officers but this being all defeated by Parliament by your Brothers Assent they were much irritated against the King your Brother and so was your sweet self and furthermore the Jesuits acquainted me that the King your Brother had dispatched an Envoy to the King of Poland to engage him in the Catholick League for at that time the Catholick Princes as he said were resolved to extirpate the Protestant Religion and that the French King and your Brother and your self were Heads of this League which League they said your Brother had not carefully kept and observed but had given way to his impertinent Parliaments but that they might not hinder this good Design the French King had agreed to your Request of 300000 l. per Ann. for 3 years if by any means your Brother might be dispatched out of the way there being no manner of trust to be put in him and that he was not only unfaithful in all his Promises and Oaths made to them the said Jesuits and Catholicks but was an Apostate from the Catholick Religion and therefore not to be endured any longer This Negotiation of the mony Part of the Conspiracy and killing your Brother was carried on by the Lord Powy's and the late Earl of Berkshire and Coleman and St. Germain the Jesuit by and with the advice of the Jesuits and those of your Council at St. James's and your good worthy self It will not be inconvenient to put you in mind that your Brother was a mortal Hater of the Protestant Religion and the way of Governments by Parliaments for do but observe a Letter
that your being a Papist and the Hopes you gave the Popish Party of coming such to the Crown had encouraged them in this wicked Conspiracy and though in Civility to your Brother they did not impeach you for your Treasons yet they thought it necessary to prevent your coming by a Bill of Exclusion but on the contrary had not your Designs been discovered the Nation must have sunk by your Trayterous Designs and have been ruined without any impossibility of recovery but tho' the discovery had not its desired Effect yet it did so much affect you that when you invaded the Throne by the murther of your Brother that you could not make that considerable Progress in your Work for then you saw plainly you had received a deadly wound of which you could by no means be cured for the Nation saw who they were you had espoused and therefore they were aware both of you and them and made your own Conspiracy to be a Plague to you Obj. But you may say how can this be a good Ground or Reason for the discovery of such a design When there was but few that believed it and that the King your Brother laught at the Plot as a matter wholly Fabuloâ—s and that the Parliaments were but a parcel of Factious Men and therefore what could the Nation judge of those Men that I espoused since the matter of Fact was false with which they stood charged To this I answer 1. It is well known that your Brother laughed at the Plot and would have made some to have believed that it was Fabulous but he well knew that he was engaged in every part of it but that of his own Life and that he was too conscious to himself he had disobliged you and your party by being so loose and negligent in the performance of those promises he had made to you and your Party and to get a sum of Money from the Paliament he would let the Parliament worry your Friends nay rather than go without it he would himself give your Cause a gentle Stab witâ—ess his passing the Test Bill in the year 1673 and refusing to sign Coleman's Declaration in the â—â—rs 1674 1675 1676. But suppose that he did laugh at the Plot he hath laugh'd at the Sacrament of the Altar and would be witty upon the Superstition of the Church of Rome yet at that very time he was a Papist and had receiv'd the Sacrament of the Church of Rome nay he was many times prophanely witty upon the Gospel it self and would speak very slightly of Religion you know he was a witty man and could make a Jest of any thing in the World But who shall we believe Charles Stuart or Charles King of England Shall we take notice of what he said in his private Capacity before what he said in his publick Capacity I tell you Sir I must and so must any man in the World that hath but a grain of Sence take that to be his that he spake in his publick Capacity and this well consider'd will satisfie any thinking man Ans 2. I pray observe your Brother's Proclamation Octob. 30 1678 where he called your Conspiracy a Bloody and Trayterous Design of Popish Recusants of which Sir you were the Head against his Person and Government and the Protestant Religion Again in his Proclamation of November the 20th 1678 did he not declare That the Popish Priests and Jesuites lurking within the Realm had contrived and set on foot divers trayterous Plots and Designs against his Person and Government and the Protestant Religion by Law establish'd Again observe Sir his Proclamation for a Fast March the 28th 1679 where he declar'd That through the impious and malicious Conspiracy of the Popish Party there was a Plot not only intended to the Destruction of his Royal Person but the total Subversion of the Government and of the true Protestant Religion within the Realm by Law establish'd Obj. There might be a Conspiracy against the Religion and Government of England but not against the King's Person Ans That is a Contradiction in plain terms for how could the Religion of a Nation and the Government be subverted but by the destruction of its Head See what my Lord Chancellor saith in his Speech to both Houses of Parliament Mar. 6. 1678 9 wherein he assures both Houses That His Majesty's Royal Person hath been in danger by a Conspiracy against his sacred Life maliciously contriv'd and industriously carried on by the Seminary Priests and Jesuites and their Adherents who thought themselves under some Obligation of Conscience to effect it and having vow'd the Subversion of the true Religion amongst us found no way so likely to compass it as to wound us in the Head and kill the Defender of the Faith Can any one that believ'd the King your Brother to be a Protestant think that a number of Men should conspire against his Religion and not destroy his person that was a Defender of it And on the other hand those who knew him or judged him a Papist had incurr'd the Displeasure of that Party by his notorious Miscarriage to them in his many breaches of Word and Royal Promise as I have mention'd before Ans 3. to the main Objection That few believed the Popish Plot Which is as false as any thing can be true for the Plot was believ'd as I shall shew in its proper place And as for the Parliaments being a number of factious Men it was your usual Dialect and we know what Love you had for Parliaments therefore what you say in that case you may wipe your Sâ—out and hold your Tongue for what you or your Party says against them passes for nothing So that I may again say that there was a necessity of discovering of that Plot in order to shew to the whole Nation what those men were with whom you herded and were engag'd in order to our destruction and I insist the more upon it because of the great Loyalty to which they pretended and for which they were countenanc'd by your Brother and you in opposition to all Law and Reason whilst other faithful men with their Families were left to perish for want of Bread who had serv'd your Father your Brother and you without the least recompence for their Service and that the Nation might be undeceiv'd in that respect as well as in others that they might see they were no Changelings but were full of the same Devil their Forefathers had and if they did conceal him it was for want of an Opportunity and they were about to shew what they would be at but I was beforehand with them and then the Nation was fully satisfied concerning their Loyalty What! do you grin and shew your Teeth I am sure you cannot bite no more than your dead Dog Mumper I pray let us have your Thought for once I warrant you you have some impertinent Question to ask it may be you still insist upon being satisfied why
Bastard endeavour'd by a Book under the counterfeit name of Doleman by the Approbation of Cardinal Allen and Sir Francis Inglefield to disprove his Title to the Crown but he being in despight of all the Contrivances of the Papal Vermin establish'd on the Throne they shew'd the First fruits of their Loyalty to him they welcom'd him with a Conspiracy contriv'd by Watson and Clark two secular priests but wheedled into that Contrivance by the Jesuites but this scribbling Conspiracy of theirs failing the Jesuites who were unwearied Enemies to the peace of Mankind and are so still they I say commenc'd another Plot and that was one that was to all intents and purposes an evident demonstration of their Principles and a Testimony of their Good-will to the Protestant Interest in England therefore that they might do all their business at once they attempted the blowing up of the King Lords and Commons and were quickned in this Design in two Breves from your Roman Grandsire but you know they were disappointed in that piece of Villany the greatness of which awaken'd the Kingdom to provide against that Party of Men by many wholsome Laws made in the Reign of the said King James your said Grandfather And tho' the whole World stood amaz'd at the blackness of this Conspiracy and many of the Papists in a most hypocritical manner expressed their detestation of the same and of the Principles that produced it but it was indeed because it wanted the success they desir'd yet the Pope and Court of Rome took all imaginable care to have the Traytors magnified and honour'd especially Garâ—et the Provincial of the Jesuites who tho' he confessed under his own Hand that he dy'd for Treason yet his Name was inserted in the Book of their Villanous Martyrs and precious Relicks made of his Bones and his miraculous Picture kept at St. Omer's and a glorious Picture of his set over their Altars And two other Principal Jesuites that escap'd the Halter were by the then Pope caresâ—ed with Preserments at Rome And when upon this occasion the Oath of Allegiance was enacted to be impos'd upon the Subjects of your said Grandfather Pope Paul the Fifth publish'd several Bulls against the said Oath and several of the Româ—sh Communion wrote against it as Becanus and Bâ—llarmin c. Another Instance of their villanous practices was against your Father who tho' he had been a Bosom friend of theirs yet he was not thought sit to live as you may see in Habâ—râ—field's Discovery to Sir William Boswell then your Father's Ambassador at the Hague And who but men of such Villanous Principles could have engag'd your Mother to have fomented that unnatural War in your Father's ancient native Kingdom of Scotland which was the Foundation of the never to be forgotten Civil War in England And wheâ— the King your Father was by the just Judgment of God brought to Prison because he made some Concessions not out of Choice but of Necessity against that party of Men the Jesuites condemn'd him before he was brought to his Tryal and when dead Dr. Gâ—ffe a Priest of the Oratory brandish'd his Sword over his Head saying Now is the Enemy of God fallen But that of the Massacre in Ireland was a bloody demonstration of their Faith and Zeal there was no other reason that ever they could give but that those whom they murder'd were Protestants and that in killing them the Cathâ—lick Cause was promoted for at no time did thâ— Irish enjoy their Estates and the exercise of their Religion with greater peace than when they broke out into that dreadful Rebellion Nor was that Quiet and Security they possess'd the fruits only of a Connivance but the effects of many Acts of Grace which had a little before passed in favour of them They attempted the betraying your Brother in his escape at Worcester and to root out your whole Family if the then Protector would have but given them liberty by a Law they would have murder'd him at Bruxels too to have obliged you with the Crown Is not this Evidence enough against them that they had in conjunction with your self their Head design'd as well to destroy his Person as his Government and our Religion I pray consider this Topick while you are in the peaceable enjoyment of your Apartment at St. Germains before you are forced to take up your Bed and walk 3. A third Witness that appear'd to prove the Popish Conspiracy is the impudent Claims that the Bishop of Rome makes to the Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland It is noâ— Sir unworthy of your Observation what your Bellarmine hath written upon that point The King of England â—aith he is subâ—â—ct to the Pope by a twofold Right first by reason of his Apostolick Power and secondly by right of proper Dominion Sir your Rascally Crew do not only plead Henry the second 's submitting his Crown to the Pope but also King John's resigning his Crown to the Pope and receiving it again as a Fee oâ— the Church of Rome And as for Scotland you know that Pope Boniface the Eighth did make a Claim to that Kingdom And at Madrid in the Year 1677 there was a Scotchman that was Robed and call'd the King of Scotland and he in the Jesuites College there resign'd into the Hands of James Lynce the pretended Archbishop of Tuam of the Kingdom of Ireland and took the Crown of the Kingdom of Scotland from the said Archbishop to revive the Claim of Pope Boniface over that Kingdom all which was done by vertue of a Bull from Innocent the Eleventh for that purpose And as for the Kingdom of Ireland it is matter of Fact that Henry the third did swear Homage to the Bishop of Rome for that Kingdom and did oblige himself to pay him Tribute for it in recognition of the Right of that Prelate You may mimp up those Canvas Chaps of yours but it is certain that you promis'd to your Jesuites to hold the Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland as a Fee of the Papacy or else they would have made bold to have sent you the same way they design'd to send your Brother and did at last accomplish their Design by your gracious aid and assistance And had Popery been establish'd in England in the time of your gracious Tyranny and had the People been brought under the Soul-sanctifying Conduct of the Jesuits who as they have been true Dragoons to the Chair of Rome in the pervertion of the Nation we should have found how they would have improv'd these Claims for the service of the Romish Antichrist In case any difference should have risen between him and you your Bellarmine tells you roundly That these Kingdoms are the Dominions of the Church of Rome and that the Pope is our natural Lord and that the King at best is but his Vassal And in the time of the Rebellion you cannot but have heard that Innoceâ—t the Tenth did not only claim these three
Kingdoms but did actually usurp a Royal Power over that Nation and accordingly gave forth all kind of Commissions by the hands of his Nuncio and you know that the wiâ—ty Knaves about Town said that the late Nâ—â—câ—o that was with you came to get his Countrywoman with Child but Sir to be plain with you I cannot â—ell what secret Service there might be to bring the Gentlewomans Milk but this I aâ— sure that the Nuncio that was with me in disguise with Keins the Provincial and Ned Petre and trusty Charles of Limestreet and Ned Neviâ—e told me That he expected to have found the Nation dispos'd to be reconciled to the Church of Rome and that his main business was to take your Homage to the See of Rome for your holding these three Kingdoms and that if the Nation had been reconciled that business would have been done So that it was plain that you were not only in a Plot to destroy your own Brother but to subjugate these Nations to the Obedience of the See of Rome and France 4. The Doctrines they publickly preach in their Churches and teach in their Schools to their young Students to be educated under them for it is as plain as the Sun at Noon day that the Popes pretend to have a power to depose Kings and that no King reigns but at the pleasure of the Pope And from hence Sir give me leave to observe two things 1. That by reason of the Doctrin they have taught and do still teach they publish themselves not only Rogues ready for any Design against the Peace and Safety of any Kingdom where-ever they shall be admitted but also publish themselves Traytors of the deepest dye and ought to have been proceeded against as such tho' never convicted of any Action suitable to such Principles for the Principle it self is the highest Treason that any foreign Power should have power to depose a Prince that owes him neither suit nor service tho' there be no Overt Act for the condemning such Villains And it is well known to your self that so far as the Popish Religion hath only an inâ—luence upon the future state of Men it was never punish'd with Death in England it is only upon the score of those damnable Doctrines which instruct and countenance them to over-throw the State and Government that your villanous Priests were justly made liable to suffer and therefore the Priests that were arraign'd in the time of the Discovery of the Popish Plot and were condemn'd and executed without being proceeded against for any thing but their being Priests and their withdrawing the Subject from the Religion by Law establish'd were as real Traytors as those which were executed for having a Design in conjunction with you to murder your Brother 2. Could any Government be secur'd of the Loyalty of such a person who taught such pernicious Principles as these No surely I will give you a home Instance of this There were some Irish Papists since the Year 1660 had in a Remonstrance prepar'd for the perswading the Government that they were persons of great Loyalty and owned King Charles their lawâ—ul King and that the Pope had no power to depose him you know that thereupon they were told from Rome that they had renounc'd the Catholick Faith and that they were fallen under the condemnation of the Apostolick See I pray sir put on your Irish Yokes and read the Letter from Bruxels bearing date July 21. 1662 where the Pope's Nuncio who wrote that Letter tells them how that their Remonstrance being examin'd at Rome by the Cardinals and Divines was found to contain Propositions condemn'd by Paul the fifth and Innocent the tenth an Acquaintance of yours and that Alexander the seventh then Pope was so far from approving it that he did not so much as permit or connive at it and therefore condemn'd as a thing that could not be kept without breach of Faith according to the Decrees of Paul the fifth and that it denied the Pope's Authority in matters of Faith according to the Decree of Innocent the tenth Sir give me leave to tell you and Mrs. Pugg my quondam â—andlady that your Rogues went farther in their Doctrines they taught those they had under their care and conduct in Rome in order to be sent to England to preach the same Doctrine that it was not only lawful to depose Heretical Kings excommunicate and declar'd to be Hereticks but also it would be a meritorious act to kill such they being unfit to live especially if they are Apostates Now you mâ—mble about your Mouth and slabber as if you had got a bunch of Thistles there and say that this was the prate of two or three â—ash Block-heads that knew no better Come come when you go to visit the bawdy Cardinal d' Este now Duke of Modena he can â—ell you other tydings so that you are as much out in this as you was in marrying my old Friend his Sister nay you your self can tell if there be any truth in you that this Doctrine was not preached by two or three but that it is the common received Doctrine of your damn'd Synagogue of Rome especially of the Jesuites under whose management you were and are still to this day And the little Welch Cubâ— is in the same condition and may improve in the knowledge of that point unless God provide better for him and 〈…〉 is Hâ—art as you used to say and incline him as graciously to return to his own dear Father's Trade But hence I must observe to you four things 1st That your Brother who was too loose a Papist â—ay by them condemned of Apostacy and Persidiousness to their Cause and Party was as much hated by them as if he had been the most zealous Protestant in the World so that his person was expos'd to the Mercy of any one that under the encouragement of meriting Heaven will dare to assassinate him whether in a Coach or in his Quarters at Newmarket or at Windsor or in St. James's Park or at White-hall by Pistol or Poison or Dagger or by Blunderbuss or what you please they are the main Arguments they us'd to convert Princes that were Hereticks to the Catholick Faith And why so good Sir why must Kings be so serv'd tho' they are Protestants And must your Brother be slain in this or that way tho' he did not refuse the passing the Test-Bill or sign Coleman's Declaration for the dissolving the Parliament Truly there was good reason for it said your Jesuites he had broke his word with the Catholicks all the World over and therefore he was excommunicate or if he was not his many Miscarriages entituled him to nothing better than a violent death For his Life would hinder the carrying on your design This I say was not the Doctrine only of a few that such Princes are ipso facto excommunicate and therefore may be destroy'd for if you will but read or let me send for your old Crackfart
and let him read over the Canoâ—s and Decrees of your Church and Councils see the Decree of Pope Vrban We do not esteem them Murtherers saith that godly Prelate who shall happen to kill a person that is excommunicate out of Ardour and Zeal to thâ—â—r Mother the Catholick Church 2dly Gâ—ve me leave to observe to you what impudent Lyars your trusâ—y and well-beloved Councellors and Conspirators the â—ive Jesuites were that blest the Gallows in the Year 1679 and danced a singular Courant when they came to Tyburn They said that there was but one Jesuite that ever maintain'd that Doctrine and that was Mariana Truly Sir you knew that was an impudent Lye with which they jump'd out of the World and the People that saw them take their last Leaves of old England believ'd them much alike in other parts of their last words for they that would dye with so great a Lye as that would not make bones of twenty more rather than fail for Aâ—dâ—rton the Rector of the College of Rome and Campton the Minister of the College and Green the Procurator and Souâ—hwell that was Assistant to Father Oliva the then General Father Buckley good man that was like to have been hang'd for Buggery in Spain not because of the Sin but because it was made publick these you will say were Preachers only but none ever wrote for it but Mariana Was not Tolet a Jesuite And I pray see what he saith he was an honest man I assure you these are his sweet words That Subjects are not bound to maintain invâ—â—aâ—e their Oath of Allegiance to an excommuâ—icate Prince Was not Bellarmin a Jesuite and doth not he affirm that the Pope hath the same Right and Power over Kings as Jâ—â—â—jâ—dâ— had over Athaliah Was not Greâ—â—lentâ—a a Jesuite and doth not he in his Writings affirm That the Pope may deprive Heretical Kings of all dominion and superiority over their Subjects Was not Creswell a Jesuite and doth not he affirm that if a Prince be not of the Romish Religion he loseth all right and title to govern and that his Subjects are discharg'd from all Obligation of Obedience and that he may be proceeded against as an â—nemy of Mankind Was not Francisâ—â—s Varona Constantinâ—s a Jesuite doth not he in his Apology for John Chastele who wounded Henry the fourth of France your Grandfather tell us That it is lawful for a private man to destroy Kings and Princes condemn'd of Heresie Is not this point so evident that de Haâ—lâ—y the first President of the Parliament of Paris who both knew the Doctrine of the Jesuites and had seen the woful Effects of it in the murder of two Kings of France publickly avow'd it to be their common Doctrine in all their Writings That the Pope hath a Right to excommunicate Kings and thereupon their Subjects may with Innocence assault and destroy them What a sort of a weak Memory you may have I know not but of this I am sure that our English Nation which thro' God's Blessing you may â—ever see more unless it be to a very glorious purpose have not with your five hang'd Jesuites learnt the knack of Forgetfulness so as not to remember that Cardinal Aâ—en wrote a Book to prove that Princes excommunicate for Heresie not only might but were to be deprived of their Kingdom and Life And was not William Parry thereby provoked to kill Queen Elizabeth which tho' before at Rome he had resolved to do yet he was hesitating in his Mind about it till encourag'd by that Book Do you think that England hath forgotten that Father Gifford instigated one John Savage to kill the same Queen upon the Bull of Pius quintusâ—â— And to conclude this second Observation it was remarkable at the same time that they might be the less suspected and that Queen the more secure they wrote a Book wherein they admonish'd the Papists in England not to attempt any thing against their Princess but to fight against their Adversaries only with Christian Weapons viz. Tears Spiritual Reasonings Prayers Watchings and Fastings 3dly Give me leave to recommend a third thing to your consideration and that is Tho' this be a common Doctrin in the Church of Rome yet in the years 1672 73 74 75 76 77 78. it was more earnestly pressed than at any time before and indeâ—d they had then great occasion to put that Doctrin in practise And since it was with speed to be transacted it was not sit their Votaries should go about the Work uninstructed Thus when the Murther of your Grandfather Henry the Fourth of France was determin'd Father Generâ—t a Jesuite instructed John Chastele in this damnable Doctrin of your Hell-born Church and Father Fayre did the same by Francis Veron to dispose his godly Soul for the same work yea when they were ready to perpetrate the same Villany upon that great Prince the very Sermons of the Jesuites were all framed to instigate Men to such an impious Attempt so that Ravilliac when examin'd about the causes why he stab'd the King answer'd That he might understand them by the Sermons of the Preachers I pray call to mind how that twelve Missioners in the year 1677 were sent into Spain and were by the Jesuites oblig'd to reâ—ounce their Allegiance to the King your Brother and were taught by Daniel Armstrâ—ng that the said Oath was heretical antichristian and devilish and they having resolv'd upon your Brother's death with you the said Armstrong did on the 29th of September 1677 in his Sermon to the said Missioners declare That Charles the second King of England was no lawful King but came of a spurious race that his Father was a black Scotchman who by Trade was a Taylor and not Charles the first and that he was a Bastard And you may remember that George Coniers the Jesuite was order'd to preach upon the day dedicated to Thomas Beckâ—t to preach against the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and that he should exhort the Fathers to stand by the new Provincial in the Great Work that you and the Society had in hand And your old Friend Blundâ—l had his places where he against the good time taught several young Men treasonable and mutinous Doctrines against the Interest and Person of the King your Brother John Keins on the 13th of August 1678 preach'd a Sermon to twelve Men in poor habits yet Men of Quality by the whiteness of their Hands in which Sermon he deliver'd this villanous Doctrine That Protestant and other Heretical Princes were ipso facto deposed because such and that it was as lawful to destroy them as an Oliver Cromwel or any other Usurper At which Sermon Sir I was present not designedly but by chance 4thly I must observe that a Man that is not thorow paced in all the points of these Villains is in danger of being expos'd to the Vengeance of their Cruelty for I find that tho' they knew you in all points to be a Roman Catholick
yet if you had not come up to the point of killing your Brother you must have been destroy'd as well as he and I do believe that they never was sure of your arriving at that pitch of Courage for I will tell you that there were some of the Blackwan Papists that were for the destroying of you both but their Counsel was rejected for that you were heartily engag'd in that part of the design which related to your Brother's death but they always fear'd that you would not be much capable of their Counsel and Advice whenever you came to the Crown but truly you deceived them all for you Thanks be to God proved as thorow paced a Tyrant as our Hearts and Souls could desire and it was that and only that which did deliver us from you 5thly Give me leave to add a fifth Observation which is well worth your Judicious Consideration for I know you to be a man of great Sense and Ingenuity therefore it will not be amiss to put you in mind and observe to you they did not only preach against all the Princes of Europe in general but against your Brother in particular that he was an Heâ—etick and therefore condemned to what to Death by whom By the Jesuits all over Christendom and the whole Church of Rome for what cause Because he had engaged to set up the Catholick Religion and had broke his word he had received the Sacrament on Easter Day in the morning from Ireland your Jesuit and then from the Church of England at noon he had wounded the Catholick Cause to death by the Test Bill therefore in the first place they declared him a Bastard then a Heretick and then commanded their Young â—ry not to pay Obedience to an Heretical Prince and had I not been Privy to their Design I should have argued thus with my self that since there are so many Protestant Kings and Princes in Christendom why then should they aim thus at the King of England more than the rest of the Protestant Princes but truely I found that it was but a brave Adventure The Jesuits and you well knowing that the rest would follow of Course for they used to say that neither of the two Northern Crowns were worth there contending for till England was gained and if England was once subdâ—ed to the Catholick Faith the rest could not hold out against them therefore as a Prologue to that the war against Holland was commenc'd that with more ease they might extirpate Heresie and had that Potestant State been ruined what could the rest of the Princes of Europe do against France and England these were the Summ and Substance of the debates of your Councellours at St. James's which we had from your Servant St. Coleman you may say what reason had these men to propose to themselves this Advantage whence was this to arise to this I answer 1. You was the next in view after Charles the second that was to sâ—cceed to the Crown and you being a Papist it was no matter of surprize to me nor do I think that it is now to any rational thinking man that they to further and hasten your Succession should with you conspire the destruction of the King your Brother who was the only Obstacle in your way to the Throne I hope thâ—â— you have some about you that are not so unacquainted with the History of England as not to know that your Great Grandmother the Queen of Scots was engag'd with the Popish Party in several Conspiracies against Q. Elizabeth in order to the said Queen of Scots coming to the Crown she being next in descent to the said Queen Elizabeth and truly as long as the Scottish Queen lasted our Queen Elizabeth was never out of Danger Hence it was that our Fore-fathers were so sensible of the Queens Danger which made them to enter into an Association throughout all the Kingdom even in an interval of Parliament in which Association they mutually obliged themselves in case the said Queen Elizabeth should be taken off by any undue means to avenge it upon the Papists and they were not for this taunted at bythe Queen for a parcel of Factious and Rebellious Rogues but received as her dutiful and loyal Subjects and the Parliament passed it into a Law by the Consent of the said Queen Truely Sir your Rogues well knew that should they lose that Opportunity and Advantage of your being a Papist and having Hopes of your Coming such to the Crown for the Re-establishment of the Popish Religion they might never enjoy such an Opportunity again these your Villains perceived that the King your Brother was in all Humane Judgement more likely to live longer than you therefore it was highly necessary to anticipate the course of Nature and not trust matters of such Consequence as the Restoration of the Romish Religion to such a Contingency as your Brothers dying in a natural way before your sweet self nay rather than they would be ouâ— your Popish Astrologer was consulted and the Judgement that he gave was that the King in the Course of Nature would out-live you then you and your Party were resolved that he was to be cut off that his Life might not prevent the great Glory of Englands having a Catholick King which would be of such Advantage to the Holy Chair that you and they purposed to employ such Case harden'd Villains as should not boggle at striking the fatal Blow and though you was pleased to smile at that time upon some that called themselves Proteâ—tants yet they found themselves out in their Accounts when you came to the Crown they saw that they had foolishly sâ—attered themselves with the vain Hopes of having high Church secured for Sir you well knew that it did not become a Man of your Religion to be a Slave to your Word and Faith especially to those you judged Hereticks 2. They well knew that you was not only of the Popish Religion but that you was bigotted to that Religion give me leave to wipe that â—notty Nose of yours with a little passage of your St. Câ—leman God hath given us a Prince said that Holy Traytor who is become to a miracle zealous of being the Author of so glorious a Work Now Sir that Work this great Saint and Martyr of your making Points at was the Conversion of three Kingdoms that was the mighty Work upon your Hands and as you had a mighty work so you had a mighty Zeal for the carrying on that work I am Sir of an Opinion that your Cut-throats would have been contented to have had a Papist of an indifferent Zeal upon the Throne provided they would but have kept him Steady but to have such a Prince that was converted to that degree of Zeal as that he valued nothing in the world in Comparison of his Religion was of far greater Consequence to them than the High Church Cox-combs at that time were sensible of there have been Kings that have been
by their seditious and false Constructions of what we had so candidly and sincerely done for their Good and surprised with a Vote of our House of Commons against our Writs of Elections which we intended for their Satisfactions against many presidents of ours or without any colour of Law of their side denying our power to Issue out such Writs addressing to us to Issue out others Which we consented to do at their request choosing rather to yield to our Subjects in that Point than to be forced to Submit to our Enemies in others hoping that our Parliament being sensibly touched with that our extraordinary Condescention would go on to consider the public Concern of the Kingdom without any further to do But we found another use made of our easie Compliance which served to encourage them to ask more so that soon after we found our Declaration for indulging tender Consciences Arraigned voted Illegal though we cannot to this day understand the Consistences of that Vote with our undoubted Supremacy in all Ecclesiastics recognizing by so many Acts of Parliament and required to be Sworn to by all our Subjects and Addresses made to us one after another to recal it which we condescended to also from hence they proceeded to us to weaken our self in an actual War and to render many of our Subjects of whose Loyalty and Ability we were well satisfied inoapable to serve us when we wanted Officers and Souldiers and had reason to invite as many experienced Men as we could to Engage in our Arms rather than to Incapacitate or Discourage any yet this also we gratified them in to gain their Assistance against our Enemies who grew high by these our differences rather than expose our Country to their Power and Fury hoping that in time our People would be confounded to see our concessions and be ashamed of their Errours in making such demands But finding the unfortunate Effects of our Divisions the following Summer we found our Parliament more Extravagant at the next meeting than â—ver Addressing to us to hinder the Consummation of our dear Brothers Marriage contrary to the Law of God which forbideth any to separate any whom he hath joyned against our Faith and Honour engaged in the solemn Treaty obstinately persisting in that Address after we had acquainted them that the Marriage was then actually ratified and that we had Acted in it by our Ambassadour so that we were forced to separate them for a while hoping they would bethink themselves better at their meeting in January instead of being more moderate or ready to consider our wants towards the War they Voted as they had done before not to Assist us still till their Religion were effectually secured against Popery Aggreivances redressed and all obnoxious Men removed from us which we had reason to take for an absolute denyal of all Aid considering the Indefiniteness of what was to proceed and the Moral impossibility of effecting it in their Sences for when will they say their Religion is effectually secured from Popery if it were in Danger then by reason of the insolency of Papists When our House of Commons which is made up of Members from every corner of our Kingdom with invitations publicly posted up to all Men to accuse them has not yet in so many years as they have complained of them been able to Charge one single Member of that Communion with so much as a Misdemeanor or what security câ—â—ld they possibly expect against that body of Men or their Religion more than we had given them Or how can we hope to live so perfectly that Study and Pains may not make a collection of Grievances as considerable as that which was lately presented to us than which we could not have wished for a better Vindication of our Government or when shall we be sure that all obnoxious Men are removed from us when common Fame thinks fit to call them so which is to every body without any proof sufficient to render any Man obnoxious who is Popishly affected or any thing else that is ill though they have never so often or lately complyed with their own Tests and Marks of Distinction and Discriminations finding our People thus unhappily disordred we saw it impossible to prosecute the War any longer and therefore did by their advice make a Peace upon such conditions as we could get hoping that being gratified in that darling Point â—hey would at least have paid our Debts and enabled us to have built sâ—me Ships for the future security of our Honour and their own Properties but they being transported with their success â—n asking were resolv'd to go on still that way and would needs have us put upon the removing of our Judges from those charges which they have always hitherto heâ—â— at the wâ—â— and pleasure of the Crown out of our Power to alter the ancient Laws of trying of Peâ—â—s and to make it a Premunire in our Subjects in a case supposed not to sight against our self nay some â—ad tâ—e heart to ask that the Hereditary Succession of our Crown which is the Foundation of alâ— our Laws should be changed into a sort of Election they requiring the Heir to be qualified with cerâ—ain conditions to make him capable of succeeding and out-doing that Pâ—pish Doctrine which we have so long and so loudly with good reason decryed that Heresâ—â— incapacitates Kings to Reâ—gn They would have had that the Heir of the Crown marrying a Papist though he continued never so orthodâ—x himself should forfeit his Right of Inheâ—itance not understanding this paradoxical waâ— of securing Râ—ligion by destroying it as this would have done that of the Church of England which always taught obedience to their Natural Kings as an indâ—spensable duty in all good Christians let the Religion or Deportment of their Pâ—ince be what it will and not knowing how soon that impediment which was supposed as sufficient to keep out an Heir might be thought as fit to remove a Possâ—ssâ—ur And comparing that Bill which would have it a Prâ—muniâ—e in a Sheriff not to raise the Posse Comâ—â—atus against our Commission in a case there supposed though we our self should Assist that our Commission in our Person for not being excepted is â—mpâ—â—ed with the other made by this very Parliament in the 14th year of our Reign which all our Subjects or at least many of them were obliged to Swear viz. That the Doctrine of taking up Aâ—ms by the Kings Authority against his Person was detestable and we soon found that the design was level'd against the good Protestant Religion of our good Church which its Enemies had a mind to blemish by slâ—â—ing in sâ—â—â—y thâ—se daâ—â—nable Doctrines by such an Authority as that of our Parliament into the profession of our Faith or Practices and to expâ—se our whole Religion to the Scorn and Reproaâ—h of themselves and all the World we therefore thought it our duty to be so watchful as to prevent the enemy
Peace with Holland that I urg'd all the Arguments I could which to me were Demonstrations to convince your Court of that Mischief and press'd all I could to perswade his most Christian Majesty to use his uâ—most endeavour to prevent that Session of our Parliament and proposed Expedients how to do it But I was answered so often and so positively that his most Christian Majesty was so well assured by his Embassador here our Embassador there the Lord Arlington and even the King himself that he had no such apprehensions at all but was fully satisfied of the contrary and lookt upon what I offered as a very zealous mistake that I was forced to give over arguing though not believing as I did but conâ—idently appealed to time and Success to prove who took their measures rightest When it happened what I foresaw came to pass the good Father was a little suprized to see all the great men mistaken and a little one in the right and was pleased by Sir William Throckmorton to desire the continuance of my correspondence which I was mighty willing to comply with knowing the Interest of our King and in a more particular manner of my more immediate Master the Duke and his most Christian Majesty to be so inseparably united that in was impossible to divide them without destroying them all Vpon this I shewed that our Parliament in the circumstances it was managed by the timerous Councels of our Ministers who then governed would never be useful either to England France or Catholick Religion but that we should as certainly be forced from our Neutrality at their next meeting as we had been from our Active Alliance with France the last Year That a Peace in the Circumstances we were in was much more to be desired than the continuance of the War and that the Dissolution of our Parliament would certainly procure a Peace for that the Confederates did more depend upon the power they had in our Parliament then upon any thing else in the World and were more encouraged from them to the continâ—ing of the War so that if they were Dissolved their measures would be all broken and they consequently in a manner necessitated to a Peace The good Father minding this Discourse somewhat more then the Court of France thought fit to do my former urg'd it so home to the King that his Majesty was pleased to give him Orders to signify to his R H my Master that his Majesty was fully jaâ—isfyed of his R. H's good intention towards him and that he esteemed both their interests but as one and the same that my Lord Arliâ—gton and the Parliament were both to be lookt upon as very unuseful to their interest That if his R H. would endeavour to dissolve this Parliament his most Christian Majesty would assist him with his Power and Purse to have a new one as should be for their purpose This and a great many more expressions of kindness and confidence Father Ferryer was pleased to communicate to Sir William Throckmorton and Commanded them to send them to his R H. and withal to beg his R. H. to propose to his most Christian Majesty what he thought necessary for his own concern and the advantage of Religion and his Majesty would certainly do all he could to advance both or either of them This Sir William Thorckmorton sent to me by an Express who left Paris the 2d of June 1674. Stilo novo I no sooner had it but I communicated it to his R. H. To which his R H. commanded me to answer as I did on the 29th of the same month That his R. H. was very sensible of his most Christian Majesties friendship and that he would labour to cultivate it with all the good Offices he was capable of doing foâ— his Majesty that he was fully convinced that their Interests were both one that my Lord Arlington and the Parliament were not only unuseful but very dangerous both to England and France That therefore it was necessary that they should do all they could to Dissolve is And that his R. H's opinion was that if his most Christian Majesty would Write his thoughts freely to the King of England upon this Subject and make the same proffer to his Majesty of his Purse to Dissolve this Parliament which he had made to his R. H. to call another he did believe it very possible for him to succeed with the assistance we should be able to give him here and that if this Parliament were Dissolved there would be no great difficulty of getting a new one which would be more useful The Constitution of our Parliaments being sucâ— that a new one can never hart the Crown nor an old one do it good His R. H. being pleased to own these propositions which were but only general I thought it reasonable to be more particular and come closer to the point we might go the faster about the work and come to some issue before the time was too far spent I laid this for my Maxim the Dissolution of our Parliament will certainly preâ—ure a Peace which proposition was granted by every Body I Conversed withal even with Monsieur Rouvigny himself with whom I took liberty of discoâ—rsing so far but durst not say any thing of the Inteligence I had with Father Ferryer Next that a Sum of Money certain would certainly procure a Dissolution this some doubted but I am sure I never did for I knew perfectly well that the King had frequent Disputes with himself at that time whether he should dissolve or continue them and he several times declared that the Arguments were so strong on both sides that he could not tell to which to incline but was carried at last to the continuance of them by this one Argument If I try them once more they may possibly give me Money If they do I have gain'd my point If they do not I can dissolve them then and be where I am now so that I have a possibility at least of getting Money for their Continuance against nothing on the other side But if we could have turned this Argument and said Sir their Dissolution will certainly procure you Money when you have only a bare possibility of getting any by their Continuance and have shewn how far that bare possibility was from being a foundation to build any reasonable hope upon which I am sure his Majesty was sensible of and how much 300000 l. sterl certain which was the Sum we propos'd was better than a bare possibility without any reason to hope that that could ever be compassed of having half so much more which was the most he design'd to ask upon such vile dishonourable terms and a thousand other hazards which he had great reason to be afraid of If I say we had had power to have argued this I am most confidently assured we could have compassed it for Logick in our Court built upon Money has more powerful Charms then any other sort of
having turned their Faces the Parliament would â—o so too and still be against them and be as little for Pâ—rsecution then as they had been for Popery before This I underâ—ook to manage for the Duke and the King of France 's Interest and assured Mounsier Rouvigny which I am sure he will testify if occasion serves that â—â—at Sessions should do neither of them any hurt for that I was sure I had power enough to prevenâ— mischief though I â—urst not engage for any good they would do because I had but very few assistances to carry on the â—orâ— and wanted those helps which others had of making friends The Dutch and Spainaâ—d spared no pains nor expence of Money to animate as many as they could against France Our Lord Treasurer Lord Keeper all the Bishops and such as call'd themselves Old Cavaliers who were all then as one man were not less industrious against Popery and had the Purse at their Girdle too which is an Excellent Instrument to gain Friends with and all Vnited against the Duke â—â— Patron both of France and Catholick Religion To deal with all this Force we had no Money but what came from a few private hands and those so mean ones too that I dare venture to say that I spent mâ—re my particular self out of my own Fortune and upon my single Credit than all the whole Body of Catholickâ— in England besides which was so inconsiderable in comparison of what our Adversaries commanded and we verily believe did bestow in making their Party that it is not worth mentioning Yet notwithstanding all this we saw that by the help of the Nonconfâ—rmists as Presbyterians Independents and other Sects who were as much afraid of Persecution as our selves and of the Enemies of the Ministers and particularly of the Treasurer who by that time had supplâ—nted the Earl of Arlington and was grown sole manager of all Affairs himself we should be very able to prevent what they designed against us and so render the Sessions ineffectual to their Ends though we might not be able to compass our own which were to make some brisk step in Favour of his R. H. to shew the King that his Majesties Affairs in Parliament were not Obstructed by reason of any Aversion they had to his R. H 's Person or apprehensions they had of him or his Religion But from Faction and Ambition in some and from a real dissatisfaction in others that we have not had such Fruits and good Effects of those great sums of Money which have been formerly given as was expected If we could have made but one such stâ—p the King would have certainly have restored his R. H. to all his Commissions upon which he would have been much greater than ever yet he was in his whole Life or could probably ever have been by any other Course in the World than what he had taken of becoming 〈◊〉 c. And we were so very near gaining this Point that I did humbly beg his 〈…〉 â—o put the Parliament upon making an Address to the King that his Majesty 〈◊〉 be pleased to put the Fleet into the hands of his R. H. as the only Person likely to give a good 〈◊〉 of so impâ—â—tant a Charge as that was to the Kingdom And shewed his R. H. such Reasons â—â—â—â—rswade him that we could carry it that he agreed with me in it that be believ'd â—e could 〈◊〉 others telling him â—ew great a Damage it would be to him if he should miss in such aâ— undertaking which for my part I could not then see nor do I yet he was prevailed upon not to venture though he was preswaded he could carry it I did Communicate this Design of â—ine to Mâ—â—nsieur Râ—â—â—lgny who agreed with me that it would be the greatest advantage imaginable to 〈◊〉 Master to have the Dukes Power and Credit so far Advanced as this would certainly do if we could composs it I shewed him all the Difficulty we were like to meet with and what helps we should have but that we should want one very matterial one Money to carry on the Wâ—â—k as we ought and therefore I do Confess I did shamefully beg his Masters Help and would willingly have been in â—verlâ—sting Disgrace with all the World if I had not with that assistance of Twenty Thousand Pounâ—s Sterling which perhaps is not the tenth part of what was spent on the other side 〈◊〉 is evident to the Duke that he could not have missed it Mounsieur Râ—uvignâ— used to tell me that if he could be sure of succeeding in that Design his Master would give a veâ—â— much larger Sum but that he was not in a Condition to throw away money upon Vncertainties I 〈◊〉 that nothing of that nature could be so infallibly sure as not to be subject to some possiâ—â—lities of â—ailâ—ng â—ut that I duâ—st venture to undertake to make it evidenâ— that there was as great an assurance of succeeding in it as any Husbandman can have of a Crop in Haâ—vest whâ— seâ—s his Grâ—â—nd in its due Season and yet it would be counted a very imprudent peice of waâ—iness an any Body to scruple the venturing so much Seed in its proper time because it is possible it may be totally lost and no benefit of it found in Harvest he that minds the Winds and the Rains at that rate shall neither Sow nor Reap I take our Case to be much the same as it was the last Sessions If we can advance the Duke 's Interest one step forward we shall put him out of the reach of Chance for ever for he makes such a Figure already that Cautious Men do not care to Act against him nor always without him because they do not see that he is much out-powered by his Enemies Yet is he not at such a Pitch as to be quite out of danger or free from opposition But if he could gain any considerable new addition of Power all would come over to him as to the only steddy Center of our Government and no body would contend with him further Then would Catholics be at Rest and his Most Christian Majestie 's Interest secured with us in England beyond all apprehensions whatsoever In order to this we have two great Designs to Attempt this next Sessions First that which we were about before viz. To put the Parliament upon making it their humble Request to the King that the Fleet may be put into his R. H's Care Secondly to get an Act for general liberty of Conscience If we carry these two or either of them we shall in effect do what we list afterwards and truly we think we do not undertake these great points very unreasonably but that we have good Cards for our Game Not but that we expect great Opposition and have great Reason to beg all the Assistance we can possibly get and therefore if his Most Christian Majesty would stand by us a little in this Conjuncture and help us with such
was impossible that Godfrey had murdered himself because his Neck was broke before his Sword was run through his Body nay your good Brother the King saw you so earnest that he was ashamed at your Zeal which made the Prince swear to the D. of Buckingham that you carryed your self with that heat that a small Evidence would make him if you were brought to a Tryal to find you guilty of the said Murder Sir your behaviour in that particular was so nauseous your actions so plain and yet so pernicious that I stand amazed that your hand stopt there in short Sir the Sence I have of your guilt in that base Murder hath hardened my Heart against you and your villainous party for the many Insolencies that they at that time did offer and the secret Murders they Committed and were by you countenanced that all Men cryed shame and stood more amazed that you were not called to an Account for that Murder than they did at the impudence of the Murder it Self though God he knows that that Murther was of it self astonishing enough but to conclude this Head I pray take two things along with you which I shall leave you as my Legacy 1. What greater Satisfaction can the World have of your Guilt in this Affair if the Sons of Men will but give themselves a little time to consider these Circumstances that I have laid before you had I been so unfortunate as to have been privy to the Murder I would have been no more affraid to have charged you with it than your murdering Crew was to strangle that innocent Magistrate you will do well now to acquit your self of it if you can 't is true you are now out of the reach of the Law and since it is so I pray God keep you so during your Life but this I will tell you that these Circumstances entitle you to the Guilt of that Fact and whilst this Gentleman's Blood lies upon you I cannot forbear observing to you that in what you did to him you gave the world a Specimen of what you would have done to others and made many Men believe That the Earl of Essex came to his end by that way of Charity so that we have had great Testimony that for promoting your Cause you would not stick at the Protestants Blood you began with that honest Gentleman and you did not end in the Earl of Essex you killed Godfrey in his Person but the whole Nation in him was murdered in â—ffigie your hands were imbrued in his Blood but your black Hell-born Soul was dipt in the Blood of us all and since we are convinced that you murdered him and Essex I cannot but be convinced that you poysoned your Brother and had you had but time you would have made all away that stood in the way of your damn'd Religion you would have converted us with Blood and baptized us with Fire your nature and actions testifyed the one and London in a dreadful manner felt the other 2. Let me observe to you the Folly of your murdering this Magistrate certainly Sir it was one of the greatest pieces of Folly that you and your Party could be guilty of for what could be your end in it did you think that if Sir Edmund Bury Godfrey could not escape your murdering Crew that we could not find one in his room yes Sir to your great comfort there was a Gentleman that succeeded him that Harazed your Rogues to as good purpose as a Mans heart and soul could wish and if a Man could but have seen into your cursed Soul we might have found that you had the same Grace and Favours for and intended the same act of Charity to him as you did to Justice Godfrey but he escaped your Blessing and is yet alive to give you an Account of his Stewardship in Print if he pleases and of some of your Royal Misdemeanors into the bargain I pray Sir how do you And how do you like your self by this time how will you come of Therefore to conclude all Is there not here a monstrous Evidence of your whole Popish Plot For in truth we cannot prove it better than by such Practices as these that this Man was killed why either he knew or had discovered to him something that you and your Villains would not have him tell or you did it in defiance of Justice and in Terror to all them that then durst execute it upon them which I say is a great Evidence in its self I leave it with you after you have mumbled over your Mattins you may consider it whilst you have opportunity and leisure 9. I shall in proof of your Popish Plot offer to your consideration the Oral Testimony that was given so that you may see that we were not overhasty in our Proceedings upon those Malefactors that were charged to be in that villainous Conspiracy therefore I will give you their Names in order as follows 1. You have Richard Gastrel of the Grange in Gloucestershire I pray look upon him and see how you like him well sit down and hear what he saith to you in an Examination taken before the Lord Bishop of London a zealous Protestant I assure you and a Justice of the Peace so that you may see we had more good Justices besides Sir Edmund Bury Godfrey and this Richard Gastrel's Information was as follows THIS Deponent saith That in the year 1675 he travelled to Râ—me and being there he was by many arts and perswasions inveighled into the Romish Religion after which he was entertained by Cardinal Barbarini as one of his Gentlemen where after he had continued about five Months he was pervailed withal by several English there and by the said Cardinal to put himself into the English Seminary where after he had continued about two years and a half he returned home but whilst he continued in the said Colledge viz. in Lent last he discâ—ursed with Gerrard Ireland and William Dormour Priests now in England the said Iâ—eland told him that the Catholicks of England had expected long enough from his Majesty withâ—ut Effect and that it was in vain to expect any longer That the King had been much obliged to the Catholics and that he had now forgot their Kindness That he did no Good in England nor did deserve to be King but was a shame to all Princes and that it was no Sin to Kill him to which one Sergeant a Schollar replied Why The said Ireland answered bâ—cause it would be for the Good of the whole Church if the King were Dead the Catholic Religion would soon be brought into England And discoursing further of their going into England the said Ireland and Dormour said they hoped each of them to get a good fat Parsonage there this Dâ—ponent further saith That having an Audience of the Pope in the company of â—our Priests and another secular Gentleman all Students of the same Colledge the Pope understanding they were going for England and
being desirous to know their several States and Conditions and having demanded of Father Campian who conducted them to the Pope whether they were all Priests and understanding by the said Campians answer that two of them were Seculars he asked of the said two their design of going into England whether they intended there to be Soldiers for that they were very â—it for the same this Deponent further saith that in the beginning of May last a few days before his coming away from Rome he waited on Cardinal Barbarini whom he found sick on his Bed he bid the said Deponent at parting the Rector being present to take care to be True and Faithful and serve the Duke of York which the Rector also desired him to bear in Mind the Cardinal afterwards applying himself to the said Rector said that if the Catholic Religion were brought into England notwithstanding his great Age he would go thither Legaâ— de Latere This Information was taken by the Bishop of London upon the 20th of December 1678 and there is contained in it many things worthy of your Observation 1. That your viâ—lainous Party had waited upon the King your Brother till they were weary of writing and that I doubt noâ— in the least and I question not but you laboured under the same Diâ—ease for without all doubt he had given them his Royal Word and Promise of restoring their Religion or at least of making them to all intents and purposes easie in their Worship by such an Indulgence as should be a fair step to the restoring of their Religion and Worship to be the National Way of Worshipping God 2 That because your Brother had forfeited his Credit with them in that point they thought it no sin to destroy him and truly you was much of their opinion when you was privy to the deadly Dose that was given him for if you had been of the Opinion that it was a Sin to destroy him you would have brought that impudent Whore that gave him his Bane to Public Justice and would rather have protested against it publickly than have consented to the poysoning of Short that was to give him his due disgusted at the death of that poor Prince who to serve you had for several years before his death abandoned himself to be destroyed 3. That there was little hopes of restoring the Catholic Religion till he was dead and why then truly you knew who was to succeâ—d him and you being a Papist and their hopes of your coming such to the Crown raised their pious Zeal to hasten his Destruction in order to make way for the restoring of your damn'd Religion here amongst us Again 4. This Gastrel was to take Care to serve you and be faithful to you and he and his Companions were fit to be Soldiers for your Service you were to have an Army and it was necessary that it should be an Army fit for the business for the mighty Work that you had upon your hands even the Conversion of three Kingdoms and the subduing the Northern Heresie Truly Sir I did never hear that any Objection was made to the Testimony of this Man the Bishop of London is yet alive and can give a better Account of him than I can do at present but this I will say for him if I am not much out that he gave the then Bishop of Ely such a warming bout for treating him coursly for leaving the Church of Rome that I thought the old Villain of a Priest in some danger of being beaten but had I known what villainous Popish Principles that base Fellow held I should never have appeared for him in the case of Sedway but I confess then that Gastrel told me that Gunning was a Man of very rotten Principles in relation to our Reforming from the Church of Rome but he was your Favourite dear Sir and that was enough to have published him a well-wisher to the Romish Mathematicks once he told me that he thought the Church of God had no loss by the death of Edward the Sixth but this by the way I hasten to a second Witness 2. The Deposition of Thomas Crowder one of the Soldiers of Chepstow Castle made Oath before William Floyd your old Friend sometimes Bishop of Landaff then One of the Justices of the Peace for the County of Landaff the Three and twentieth day of January 1678 9 is as follows This Deponent saith upon his Oath That being in Captain Francis Spalding 's Chamber at Chepstow Castle about the Eleventh of November last past he this Deponent heard the said Captain Spalding say That if he had been at home when William Bedloe was in the Town he would have secured the said William Bedloe from discovering of the Plot. Upon which Sir you know That the said Captain Spalding was ordered to be committed to the Kings Bench Prison but that you may remember the case of this Villain Spalding that was both Knave Coward and Traitor all at once and therefore the more fit for your Service and the better to serve your wicked Designs and Purposes he was planted a Chepstow to maintain a Correspondence with the Popish Party about Wales which was tranâ—mitted to Sir â—olitick Fringe that bore a mighty sway in those Parts and Sir Politick transmitted it to your good Worship old Sir Trevor and some others were once much obliged to him for several singular Favours and so was the late great Morgan of Tredeghan the Traitor grins his Chaps much like your self and saith he is a Protestant but I will no more take his word in that case than I did in the Affair of Combe Abbey for tho he saith he is a Protestant yet it is well known that he hath been an Instrument in your hand to seduce the People of the Country and nothing in the day of your power and his would serve him but the Blood of whole Families that did not comply with your and his villainous Principles and Practises for his Popish Priests that he always had about him were his great Incouragers to ruin Families of Gentlemen and especially he having not only your countenance but your especial direction in the case for by the means of this Villain Spalding your Sir Politick Fringe that grins upon a Mans Face though he be resolved that moment to cut his Throat had a Character of every Gentleman in and about Wales being much assisted in that blessed Work by one Herbert a Justice of the Peace another true blew Protestant one of Sir Politick's Agents this Sir was your Spalding a Spy for you upon many Families in order if possible to their ruin by your means this Spalding got his Inlargement and was taken care of by you as a main Prop of your Cause and Conspiracy in the Welsh Counties but Sir why should I wonder at these Practises of yours and of your good Sir Politick since both of you have been taught and do still believe that it is but a Deed of Charity to
ruine any Man that stands in either of your ways the Doctrine you have been taught will induce any thinking Man to believe your Practice and both your Practises and his do sufficiently prove the Damnableness of the Doctrin you have received 3. A third Testimony that I shall urge in this case is the Evidence that was given in by William Johnson and Joseph Wright upon the Fifteenth day of May 1679 before the Lords Committees sitting in the Lord Privy Seals Lodgings who say that one Jonathan Smith a Papist supposing these two Informants to be of the same Religion said that he knew the King was a Papist and the rest of the Nobles of the Kingdom also and that there was scarce one of them but that had Romish Priests in their Houses this Smith also declared that he had his Maintenance from the Lord Stafford's House that Mr. Smith the then Steward to the Lord Stafford was his Uncle and believed that several Priests were in the Lord Stafford's House Upon which the Lords Ordered to search the Lord Stafford's House and to seize all dangerous Papers and Persons but notice being given to the Conspirators the Priests and Papers were conveyed to St. Jameses to be graciously disposed of as you should think fit and when the Lords had notice of it there could be nothing further done in the Affair because your Brother the King to give the Rogues a Taste of his Royal Favour raised the Parliament and sent them home when they were in the midst of their Work in Discovering the horrid Villanies of your self and Party 4. That Evidence that Mr. Prance gave in to the then Marquiss of Winchester now Duke of Bolton on the Nineteenth of March 1678 9 The said Marquiss being then One of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex and City and Liberty of Westminster THIS Examinant saith That he and Mr. Maddison a Barber in Holborne and Mr. Staley were Drinking at the Cross Keys Tavern over against Staleys House about a Fortnight before the said Staley was taken where complaining of the great Persecution that the Papists lay under and if that they did not take some speedy course to destroy their Enemies they should be ruined the said Staley and Maddison resolved to Kill the Earl of Shaftsbury as the ring leader of the Mischief that would fall upon them Maddison said that he would engage three to wit Adamson a Watchmaker and Prosser a Silversmith and Bradshaw an Upholster and the said Maddison coming afterwards to this Deponents Shop shewed the Deponent a Pistol he had prepared for that Purpose this Deponent further saith That meeting the said Adamson at one Pettleyes at the White-posts in Veres-street and discoursing of News Adamson said they should be undone if they did not look about them therefore they were resolved to Kill the Lord Shaftsbury he also speaking the same thing to this Deponent at the Grid-iron in Holborn this Deponent further saith That the aforesaid Prosser told him he was undone and that he intended to Kill the Lord Shaftsbury for he with other of the Lords intended to undo the Lord Arundel of Wardour who was one of his best Customers the said Prosser telling the said Deponent another time That he was to be an Ensign under the Lord Arundel this Deponent further saith That Bradshaw in discourse with him saith that he would make no more to kill a Protestant than to kill a Dog or a Cat and that he was resolved to Kill some of the busie Lords but the first should be the Lord Shaftsbury and the said Bradshaw also shewed him the Deponent a Pistol at the same time this Deponent further saith that he the Deponent and Mr. Messenger Prosser and Maddison were at Bradlies in Holborn about five weeks before Staley was taken where the said Messenger was complaining of the severity of the Laws against the Papists and much fearing they would be put in Exeâ—ution against them by some that were no lovers of them and particularly by the Lord Shaftsbury who did most busie himself about them said that there must be speedy Course taken to prevent it And this Deponent further saith that some time after the said Prosser told him that the said Messenger was the Person that Promoted the killing the Lord Shaftsbury the Deponent further saith That Mr. Goseen told him both in Covent Garden and in the Deponents Shop that the King and Parliament would undo them and that if he were to kill a Man he would as soon kill the King as any Man and if he had him in Spain he would have killed him ere this This Deponent further saith that about six Months since he heard Mr. Matthews the Lord Peters Priest say that his Lord and the Lord Belasys with some other Lords would have a great Army and that he hoped the Catholick Religion would be setled in England This Deponent further saith That about a Year since he heard Mr. Singleton a Priest say in the presence of Mr. Hall that he hoped he should be setled in a Parish Church before a twelve month and that he did not fear but that the Catholic Religion would Reign in England and that he would not make any more matter of Stabbing forty Parliament Men than to eat his Dinner This Deponent saith that he hath also heard Mr. Byflet and Dr. Guilding say several times that they turned divers People from the Protestant Religion and that they hoped they should turn many more the Deponent also believeth that the said Hall knows where the said Singleton Byfleet and Guilding are for that they used to be always at Halls house and the said Hall always received the Money for the said Singleton which was to be distributed for Masses for the Dead This Deponent further saith that Mr. Groves told him that this was no Plot but a Plot of the Protestants own making and when his Vncle was Condemned he said they were all Rogues that Swore against him the Deponent then asking him what he thought of the four thousand Men which he knew were to be raised the said Groves replied that might be in Jest the Deponent further saith that Mr. Ridley a Chyrurgeon at the Lord Baltimores house in Wild-street told him several times that he hoped to be Chyrurgeon to a Catholic Army in England and that the Lord Belasis would stand his Friend in the Concern This Deponent further saith that the Lord Arundel of Wardours Butler told him that Mr. Messenger was to kill the King and that he was to have a good Reward if he saved his Life and if he were killed the said Reward should be distributed amongst such Friends as he should appoint by the Lord Arundel the Earl Powys and the rest of the Lords that were in the same Plot This Deponent further saith that meeting with Mr. Messenger after that he asked the said Messenger why he would kill the King the said Messenger answered who told you of it the
and committed for High Treason and you had two Villaiâ—◠〈…〉 him out of his Life just before I discovered the Plot and when 〈…〉 your â—â—pish Witnesses disappeared and Clapool in January or February following was 〈◊〉 I have said pretty much of that business in my first Parâ— to which 〈…〉 4. Give me leave to add another Particular and that is you did no◠〈…〉 true blew Church of England Protestants that were aiding and abâ—tting youâ— Popish Crew in the Country of which there might be many Instances given 〈…〉 not too much burden your Sacred Soul I will only mention this One 〈…〉 out by Mr. Dugdale against Sr. Thomas Whitgrave of Bridgford in the County of Stafford who was a Person applyed unto on the Papists behalf to evade the Penaâ—â—iâ—s and Punishments of the Penal Laws against Papists as a Justice of the Peace in open Sessions assisting the Papists on all occasions particularly directing Presentments against Papists to be omitted which he had to the Knowledg of this Dugdale practised for ten Years together and also he was one that laboured with the Inhabitants of the Town of Stafford to choose the Lord Stafford for their Steward and further acquainted the House that this Whitgrave received Money of the Lord Aston for his said Practices on the behalf of the Papists and not only so but that he the said Whitgrave had for some time before the Discovery of the Popish Plot fraudulently purchased divers Papists Estates to the value of 40000 l. and upwards to defraud the King and that he was acquainted with the Secrets of the Papists and with the Orders and Decrees of the Popish Priests as he was told and could if he might have been heard have proved the same 6. The next Witness that I shall use is John Smith this Man upon his Return to England was planted as a Priest in the House of Mr. Robert Jenison before mentioned who wâ—â—â—he fourth Witness and in his time there was a great Collection of Money on fooâ—â—mongst the Popish Party to the promoting of which Collection the Assistance â—â— Mr. Smith was desired but he did not only refuse but disswaded Mr. Jenison and 〈◊〉 â—amily where he then was from contributing Money upon any occasion 't is true â—â—â—retence for which this Money was raised was the Repair of the English Colâ—â—â—â— â—oway but the Collection was so universal and the Sum collected so great that 〈…〉 could not believe that such a Treasure could be all sacrificed to the repair of a Câ—â—â—ge but feared that there was some design on foot for the carrying on of which so large a Sum of Money was raised but the thing dyed with Mr Smith and revived not till the Discovery of the Popish Plot then Mr. Smith did not only acquaint the Parliament with this Passage but gave in an Information that tended mightily to corroborate Mr. Jenison's Evidence which is as follows Part of the Information of John Smith of Walworth in the County Palatine of Durham Gent. taken upon Oath the 8th day of September 1679 before me Edmund Warcupp Esq One of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace in the said County and City THis Informant that Mr. Robert Jenison came to his Fathers Midd. ss House in Sept. 1678 where after he had been some Days Sir Edward Smith came to Walworth and produced a Letter signifying a Discovery of a Popish Plot in London and upon Inquiry who were in it Ireland and Whitebread were named about three or four days after which Mr. Robert Jenison before his Father Sisters and this Informant said That he believed there was something of a Plot for that he had heard Mr. Ireland say it was an easie matter to take off the King whereupon this Informant asked what that Ireland was who answered that he was a Jesuit and his Cosen and Mrs. Katharine Jenison his Sister asked when he saw Mr. Ireland Who answered a little before he came out of Town at his Lodging in Russelstreet which was on the day that himself came from Windsor and the same day that Mr. Ireland came post out of Staffordshire and that he then found him pulling off his Boots Mrs. Katharine Jenison asked him how her Aunt in Staffordshire did Who replied Mr. Ireland said she was well and that he had been with her in Staffordshire at that time This Informant then asked him what a kind of man Mr. Ireland was Who answered that he was a fine Countenanced smiling man and Swore if he be Guilty of this Plot I will never trust a smiling man again thereupon this Informant asked him what he thought of him Who answered I doubt there is some Guilt in him because he had inquired of him when he came from Windsor how the King diverted and how he was attended whereunto he answered in Hawking and Fishing attended only with three or four Persons Mr. Ireland replied he would go so slenderly guarded he were easily taken off and then he paused but sometime after Mr. Jenison repeated that he feared there was something in that Plot for that Mr. Ireland had said to him at another time That there was but One in the way and were he removed the Catholic Religion might flourish again in England whereupon this Informant said those were damnable suspicious things which Mr. Ireland had spoken about the King thereupon old Mr. Jenison rose up and swore Mr. Ireland was a Rogue and so left the Room and determined the discourse at that time but sometime after in this same Month this Informant walking on the Leads with Mr. Robert Jenison discoursing of the Jesuits being in the Plot the said Robert Jenison told this Informant that Mr. Ireland had at another time told him that Sir George Wakeman was a fit Person to Poyson the King being the Queens Physitian and a Papist upon which this Informant said he hoped the King would not take Physic of any Papist in regard they might be Jesuitically inclined and the Jesuits were against Monarchy in temporal Princes though appointed by God himself upoâ— which the said Mr. Robert Jenison asked are the Jesuits against Monarchy whereto this Informant replied you may easily Judge that by their taking off many Kings and Princes and by their holding it lawful for the Pope to deprive Kings of their Kingdoms and to dispose of them at his pleasure so that though a King be the Annointed of the Lord and One that should not be touched with violent Hands yet not only his Kingdom but his sacred Life lies at the Popes Pleasure Mr. Jenison answered doth the Pope allow of this This Informant answered yes they have often practised it in this and other Kingdoms and thereby brought more Schism and Division into the Church than ever was before such damnable things were practised by the Pope and his Emissaries whereto Mr. Jenison replied you Seculars are generally against the Jusuits and in many things against the Pope whereunto this Informant replied if you please to consider
that related to yourself and that was put in by trusty Ned your own Secretary after that you had perused the Memorial with whom you had been very rash with him about an affront he had put upon Sir Allen Apsly in relation to Religion of which he had complained to you for Coleman was as Impudent on the one hand as you were short in your Judgment on the other which many times did much prejudice your Design and truely it was his impudence and your Folly that helped to deliver the Nation 2. That this Lord Arundel of Wardour did give Money to pervert several of the Subjects of England under the notion of Charity which was distributed by Fenwick and Ireland for the use of Poor Converts and no other need I did see the Mony distributed to several Persons perverted as the Lord Arundel's mony in the Month of December 1677 and in the Month of June 1678 in Drury-lane at Fennicks Chamber that Money in June 1678 was 160 l. that was given to about 80 People that Fenwick had Perverted to the Church of Rome 3. That the Lord Arundel of Wardour was privy to the Consult held in April and May in which the Death of the King your Brother was determined for in the beginning of May this Fenwick gave that noble Lord a full account of the unanimous Resolution of the Fathers of the Society in that Point and it was at the same time this noble Lord signed a Bill of 250 l. for the use of the Societies in carrying on their Design 4. This Lord Arundel as mighty as you appear to be had the chief managing of the Affairs of the Popish Party and the Negotiations between you and the French King both as to War and Peace and between the Pope and you in reference to Religion was manag'd by him and you could never have Obtained the Kingdom till that in the Month of June 1678 you had engaged to the French King and the General of the Jesuits who acted with you on the behalf of the Bishop of Rome to take the Kingdom upon the termes the Pope and the French King would allow of and then you fully complied and Arundel was made choice of and was to have been your chief Minister of State and your trusty and well beloved Cuckold and Councellour was to have had a Cardinals Hat with which Sir I suppose you will at this time be content and be glad if you can come of so fairly 5. The Lord Arundel of VVardour did take a Commission from the General of the Jesuits to be high Chancellor of England which was delivered to him by one of Langhorn's Son and to my Knowledge he owned the Receipt of the said Commission in Colemans presence and also by a letter to Fenwick who shewed me the Letter by which the World may see what a Dogs-turd of a King you were like to be for you durst not for your Ears have granted that Commission therefore to Skreen you from the imputation of a Traitour and the French King of an Invader you and he agreed to put it upon the General of the Society who with some difficulty undertook the Province and was on the Popes behalf to choose your Officers both Civil and Military and the Dignities of the Church had not the Design been Discovered which made all of you that did not suffer the Justice of the Nation to alter your Measures 6. That your Servant Coleman having held a long Correspondency with the See of Rome and finding that the Pence he Received did not answer his expectation he began to flag and complain of the same to the Lord Arundel of Wardour but the Lord Arundel was resolved that Coleman should not be discharged and therefore the Lord Arundel writ to the Fathers of the Society and complained of the slowness of the Court of Rome of remitting Mony to England and in the Letter to the Fathers of St. Omers was one inclosed to Cardinal Howard of which there was answer that the Cardinal did not question but that he should obtain a good Pension from the Pope for Coleman and after some time did obtain the said Pension for honest Ned and then he went on briskly and you know that at that very time your Pacquet went a Copy of which Coleman Communicated to the Fathers in London which I had the opportunity of seeing and it did farther appear to me by the constant Correspondence that they held with the Jesuits at St. Omers in the Year 1675 76 77 1678. that he had been a great support to Coleman in those his Correspondences with the General of the Jesuits and Lachaise 7. This Lord Arundel of VVardour by your especial Direction did acquaint the Fathers at St. Omers in what awe you kept the Justices of Wiltshire insomuch they durst not appear to put the Laws in Execution against the Roman-Catholicks and told some that they were more forward than they had thanks for their Paines and that they must expect that if they were more mild they would find that which was Sauce for a Goose was Sauce for a Gander and in that Letter expressed much Joy that there was every day a fine increase of the number of Roman Catholicks especially in VVales Herefordshire and Staffordshire 8. This Lord Arundel of VVardour told Mr. Fenwick at his Chamber in my hearing that he did not question but to have Berwick upon Tweed put into the Hands of the Scotch Roman Catholicks and that it would be a good refuge for the Scotch Party which Scotch Party you know a parcel of Scotch Highlanders Cut-Throats that were to molest all the North Parts of England and the Fife in Scotland and that the Castle of Edenburgh was to be put into the Hands of the then Marquiss of Huntly so that you were sure of doing your business in the North without much Opposition you by your Tool Lauderdale having brought that Kingdom intosuch Slavery that the Poor Protestants had but little hopes of Recovering their Liberties and I do believe they would have chosen rather to have fallen into the Hands of the Popish party than to have continued under that Slavery they groaned under by the Tyrany of Lauderdale and his Villanous Scotch Prelates but how they could have mended their Condition by falling into their Hands I am yet I confess to learne 9. That the Lord Belasys the Lord Arundel of VVardour the Lord Powis the Lord Stafford and the Lord Baltimore met and held a Committee at VVild-House and this Lord Arundel was in the Chair and Mivo the Jesuit sat Secretary to them at that time and a letter was drawn up to Coleman to Communicate to you and the Import of the said Letter was this that whereas Peter Talbot the Arch-Bishop of Dublin had informed them that the Duke of Ormond then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland would endeavour to raise the Revenue of Ireland to be two Hundred thousand Pounds Per annum for ever over and above all the
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