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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39245	A modest vindication of Titus Oates, the Salamanca-doctor from perjury, or, An essay to demonstrate him only forsworn in several instances by Adam Elliot ...	Elliot, Adam, d. 1700.	1682 (1682)	Wing E543; ESTC R20237	56,671	58

mind who was my Tutor yea he cannot tell whether I was his Fellow-Pupil for Mr. John Ellis was his Tutor which is a pretty fair indication that his memory is not so excellent as his Lying for if it was defective where he had such convenient helps it affords reason to suspect it too bad to remember where he could have but mean and imperfect assistances I have been thus prolix in vindicating the reputation of my younger years from this Calumniator's aspersions not that I arrogate any supererogating observation of the Statutes of our Colledg for I am sufficiently sensible of the loss of these opportunities which I might have improv'd to very happy advantages under the excellent discipline of that learned Society which I ought never to mention but with all resentments of Gratitude and Honour but that I might shew unto the world how consistent with his principles this forsworn Villain has been in every particular against me charging me only with those things which are false and of which the severest Censor of manners in Cajus Colledge must pronounce me innocent and that Titus Oates must have been a perfect Stranger both to my converse and humour The Bloud-thirsty Murderer makes his next attempt to take away my life he swears he saw a Letter subscribed by my hand in the year 1670 directed to the Rector of S. Omers wherein I gave him an account that I had receiv'd Priests Orders and had sung high Mass in the English Colledge at Rome this Letter he swears he saw in the year 1677. If the Valiant Captain were alive now to second the Learned Doctor and swear that he saw Langhorn register this Letter there needs no more to hang me Good God! how unsearchable are thy judgments and thy ways past finding out who thus permittest the blood-thirsty and deceitful man to go on still in his wickedness and to prosper in his Villanies in respect of which Cain the Murderer was innocent and a Saint If the Schoolmen and Doctors of Salamanca have given a true notion of the Sin against the holy Ghost then I do affirm that there is no hopes of pardon for that damn'd Reprobate a sham-brother of theirs Doctor Titus Oates who sins wilfully in despite of his conscience and swears and lyes against his knowledg outbraving Hell-fire and daring the vengeance of God for I desire the Reader to take notice that I invoke this vengeance of the Almighty to seize me immediately if ever I received any Orders from the See or Church of Rome or if ever I received any Ecclesiastical Ordination except of Deacon An. 1671 from the hands of Bishop Laney of Ely and of Priest An. 1672 from Bishop Henchman of London according to the rites of the Church of England now by Law established Moreover if ever I wrote any such Letter as Oates swears I did to the Rector of St. Omers or any other person or if ever Oates saw any such Letter writ by me And that I may satisfy the Reader as far as I can in the proof of a Negative I declare my name was never known to be Elliot beyond Sea as hundreds can attest and besides to shew that that Rogue 's wickedness is more my concern than the danger of my life I will put it to the venture and gage my life against his if the law will permit that he knows not my hand-writing from any other which he never saw If I had received Orders from the See of Rome I needed not to be Reordained our Church holding the Romish Ordination to be valid But because his chief aim in his Depositions was to invalidate my Testimony he is not content to have made me a Priest but he boldly calls God to witness that I am a Renegado and a Mahumetan swearing I that I was carried a Slave into Barbary 2ly that there as it was generally and credibly reported I was circumcis'd 3ly that I confess'd I gave poyson to my Patron 4ly that after that I returned to Rome 5ly that I made a Recantation there 6ly that he saw this Recantation under my own hand being well acquainted with my character In every of which particulars I do affirm and engage my self to prove Titus Oates to have sworn falsely and I challenge all his friends to undertake his defence from the imputation of having sworn in some of these instances maliciously and contrary to his knowledge and in some others to put the best construction rashly and in all falsely As to the first Oates never saw me in Barbary therefore he swore beyond the sphere of his knowledge and howsoever it be materially true yet it is formally false in him who swears at random and calls God to witness his certainty of the truth in a matter which he cannot know whether it be true or false yea which he has more reason to believe to be false than true according to his own Oath as afterwards it follows in the Depositions that after I came to England and when I lived in Kent An. 1673 I was much given to swearing that to be true which was not so then thus I argue ad hominem all the intelligence that Oates had of my having been in Barbary and a Slave there proceeded from my own information to several persons before it came to his hands and therefore seeing I was the sole author of the Narrative of my Captivity Oates had more reason to believe it false than otherwise And besides the account of my escape appear'd so Romantick that a great many persons who heard it thought themselves oblig'd upon good prudential considerations to suspend their judgments and to doubt whether ever I was in Barbary or not so that Oates by swearing positively that I was carried a Slave into Barbary has sworn to the truth of that which he could not be certain of and which he had much more reason to believe to be false 2. As to the second particular that there viz. in Barbary it was generally and credibly reported that I was circumcis'd this Oath is also rash and therefore false and is liable to be prov'd so by the same means as the former because Oates never was at Salle the place of my Captivity and consequently could not certainly know what was generally and credibly reported there Moreover whereas he swears it was generally and credibly reported it seems very probable that if he swears true and does not contradict his conscience he could produce some of those persons whom he knows to be credible but I challenge him and all mankind to produce one person who ever attested or reported that I was circumcis'd until about three years agoe Titus Oates brought this Lye and a great many others into the world Seeing then he cannot produce one of those many witnesses whose credit he much relies upon its probable he swears maliciously as well as falsely but however it is certain he swears at least rashly to a thing which he did not know and therefore falsely 3.

to answer the importunity of my friends and to disabuse any who may be deluded by the malicious calumnies of my nettled Adversaries I have adventured to put Pen to Paper to give a full and clear account of the proceedings 'twixt the Dr. and my self which will consist in these following particulars I shall first give a short Narrative of my Travails Captivity and Escape from Slavery in Barbary which though it may seem forreign and impertinent to my design yet because it is the subject of the Doctor 's Oaths I cannot clearly without it represent the quality of them and besides being a recital of some rare accidents and almost miraculous instances of the providence of God in my deliverance from a Moorish Captivity I presume it will make some compensation for the impertinence which it seemingly carries to the design of these Sheets In the next place I shall faithfully set down what the Doctor hath depos'd against me upon Oath under his own hand at Doctors Commons and what was prov'd in Court at our Tryal by unexceptionable Witnesses that he had said several times against me to the same purpose with what he swore before And in the third place I shall give an account of what was sworn in his behalf to mitigate Dammages Upon all which I shall only make such Anirnad versions as are pertinent and proper and draw such Inferences as the matter will rationally allow And then I refer my self to the whole Nation as Judges whether or no the Doctor has not only falsly and maliciously defam'd me but likewise sworn that to be true which in it self is false and to his own knowledge also Yet notwithstanding all this I cannot see how it will follow that the Doctor is guilty of Perjury for though in the Court of Heaven and before God Perjury and false swearing be synonymous yet none are esteemed guilty of Perjury by the Laws of this Land but who have been convicted of swearing falsly in a Court of Record But the Court of Delegates where Oates's Depositions against me were exhibited being no such Court therefore according to the Law-Phrase what ever I think in my conscience and I am sure he is Porsworn yet I cannot say that the Doctor is Perjur'd and consequently that the Pillory has never been adequate to the Doctor 's high merits A Wooden Ruff does not well become the Saviour of the Nation with modesty be it spoke as I said before I think a Halter would much better befit him and really before I should see the Salamanca Doctor treated as they say poor N. T. was I had much rather see him hang'd This modest Vindication of the Doctor my grateful sense of his merciful kind temper to me has commanded from me for if the Doctor had pleased to have thought of me when he and Dr. Tongue were thinking together he might easily have bestowed a small Commission upon his old Acquaintance some little Cross-bearers place amongst the Spanish Pilgrims or else if he had only made me a Courier 'twixt tall fair Don John and the four Ruffians any such like employment and the Doctor has bestow'd abundance and has much more in store would have consigned me to Jack Ketches disposal long ago for it is very hard to prove a Negative But now that he has only made me a Musselman cujus character est indelebilis he has given me a fair opportunity of proving him a forsworn Liar for which singular kindness I cannot sufficiently profess my obligations And this is one reason why I have undertook this modest Vindication Which labour of mine though it may seem to carry an oblique design only of gratifying my fond humour to the Doctor yet to considering persons also I presume I shall be thought to have hereby contributed my Mite to the publick in exposing the wickedness of a Wretch whose talent lies only in Swearing for though I have undertook his Vindication yet I intend it shall be with all Modesty and such as shall not interfere with the Truth The Doctor has employ'd his Swearing faculty only to my particular detriment the meanest of the Church of England he has forsworn himself to prejudice me but yet every member thereof is concern'd since this publick Enemy has given broad signs of his inclinations to them all as namely when he said there were not above three Protestant Bishops in the Church of England and that all the Clergy were tantivying to Rome as also in his Sermon at Woodstock he delivered for true doctrine that the Presbyterians were the only supporters of the Protestant interest and there is no question but that when there shall come a House of Commons to pay him the 40000 l. promised as he says by the last House who sat at Westminster he has 40000 Oaths at their service But now by exposing him as Forsworn the edge of his Swearing will for the future be rebated for if it be the dictate of prudence never to trust those who have but once been found to impose upon us then certainly it is unaccountable folly and madness to accept the testimony of one who has manifestly Forsworn himself and in a manner proclaimed to all the world that he has no dread of that God who will revenge himself upon those who take his name in vain For my own part though forty Plots were laid against me I had rather venture them all than rely upon a Salamanca Doctor 's Oath and if any thing staggers my faith in the belief of the 40000 Black bills and other remarkable passages in the Popish Plot next to the contradictions which occur it is because a Villain of so plainly debaucht and profligate a conscience has concern'd himself in the discovery Which I have endeavoured to make appear manifestly to others as well as my self from the following Sheets A NARRATIVE OF My TRAVAILS CAPTIVITY and ESCAPE FROM SALLE In the Kingdom of FEZ IN the year 1664 I was admitted into Cajus Colledge in the University of Cambridge where I continued until 1668 when Commencing Batchelour of Arts I obtain'd Letters testimonial from our Colledge and then left the University During my stay there I remember Titus Oates was entered into our Colledge by the same token that the Plague and he both visited the University in the same year He was very remarkable for a Canting Fanatical way conveyed to him with his Anabaptistical Education and in our Academical exercises when others declaim'd Oates always preach'd some of which Lectures they were so very strange that I do yet remember them I moreover remember that he staid not above a year in our Colledge but removed to S. Johns what the occasion was I cannot call to mind and then he was so inconsiderable both as to his person and parts that I appeal to all who knew me whether Elliot and Oates could be such intimate acquaintance as Oates would make the world believe After I had commenced Batchelour in 1668 I left the University in