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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59754	Mr. Sheridan's speech after his examination before the late House of Commons on Wednesday the 15th of December, 1680	Sheridan, Thomas, 1646-ca. 1688.	1681 (1681)	Wing S3227_VARIANT; ESTC R37543	8,436	4

Phanaticks of England than hope to make me a Proselyte Now if all this be not sufficient to wipe off the imputation of Popery I confess I am to seek for a defence Among others 't is objected That by my Interest in his R.H. I got my Brother made a Bishop in opposition to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and contrary to Merit To this I answer That my Brother has been as much and as injuriously though not so publicly defam'd as I that he came off with Honour that a peak between two Great Lords of that Kingdom and one of the greatest of this did not only prevent his being sooner promoted but was the occasion of his being bespatter'd with many falshoods and calumnies that few in Ireland deserve it better that what he enjoys he obtain'd not in opposition to tho' without the recommendation of the chief Governour nor by the mediation of the Duke but of a great Minister in the presence of my Lord Bishop of London from the King 's immediate Grace openly shewn in Council and with a particular mark of His Royal Favour I hope 't is no Crime to honour and revere the Duke as he is a Prince or if a private man to love and value his innate Worth and Qualities or to have said as it is reported I wish nothing else had been with less Truth That I wou'd hazard my Life and Fortune to do him any lawful and just Service If it be a Crime as I can no ways apprehend of the Brother of my King while publickly pray'd for in all the Churches of the three Kingdoms I confess my self guilty But I am not so wedded to his Interest as to espouse or pursue them if he can have any such contrary to the Duty I owe and ever will pay my Sovereign my Country my Religion and my God And I do here most solemnly protest as I hope for Heaven if I knew him in any instance a Conspirator or a Traitor I wou'd not only detest but endeavour to bring him to publick Justice and if ever he can be prov'd a Criminal of this nature I will have no more respect nor regard but less for him than I wou'd for any common Offender And therefore without the hopes of reward or the fears of punishment I declare in the presence of the Almighty If I knew any part of the Popish-Plot or the persons concern'd in 't I wou'd long since have reveal'd the whole Contrivance But none in their senses can believe that a known Protestant cou'd be made privy to such a Conspiracy to which if necessary might be added that I was in a Country remote from that where the Design is said to be hatch'd I own my self of so extensive a Charity to love the persons of all honest Men notwithstanding their differing from me in opinion about the Modes and Circumstances of Religion and to be for Liberty of Conscience when consistent with the safety of the state to all quiet and peaceable Dissenters But when 't is urg'd and made use of to other ends or as a Cloak for Rebellion or Treachery I abominate all such Indulgence But I will no longer dwell on this Subject than to mind you of Collonel Mansel's mistake or forgetfulness when he informs this Honourable House That in or about July 1678. I din'd at his Treat for a German Lord in order to a Design of his upon a Foreign Command and that 2 or 3 days after I shou'd advise him against it telling him the Duke wou'd very soon have occasion for such Officers First I do say to have said so was no Crime But I easily see through this Artifice 't is to serve as an argument that I understood somewhat of the Plot of which I am as ignorant as any man living beyond what I have since learnt from the Prints and public Fame In the next place I do utterly deny I ever said the words because I do not know the Duke had any such Design and am certain I cannot invent Besides by many circumstances needless here to mention that Dinner was after the Courts return from Windsor and consequently after the breaking forth of the Plot. I desire the Gentleman wou'd recollect himself at that time he was very great and intimate with a Roman Catholick H. N. from whom if he heard not the words as I am not apt to imagine I am confident he dream'd them He cannot be ignorant that I knew why he was disbanded in Ireland c. and that I always declin'd not only as having no Interest but as unwilling for other reasons to introduce him to the Duke as he often press'd and therefore he made his application to others but with us ill success And now give me leave I beseech you Mr. Speaker to answer an Objection that I have prescrib'd a way how the King shou'd live without Parliaments I am so far from entertaining such a thought that I ever esteem'd the Constitutions of England by King Lords and Commons the happiest kind of Government in the world and if the discourse called The Rise and Power of Parliaments c. be mine of which many will have me the Author the reading it wou'd be of this a sufficient Confutation In that Parliaments are magnifi'd their power rather enlarg'd than lessen'd and their frequent meetings recommended as most convenient In a word whatever Character my Adversaries have given of me I am not a Protestant in Masquerade I can neither Lie nor Dissemble I am really what I profess and as the word is commonly taken no lover of Arbitrary Government in any single or complicated body As to the Letter Subscrib'd by Fitz-James I do sincerely protest I have no Acquaintance with any of the Name nor ever saw the Hand before nor the intended Messenger C. who not finding me left it with the Maid-servant But in this there is nothing Criminal As to the Computations they are a Transcript from a Paper of Sir Peter Petts containing the number of Conformists Non-Conformists and Papists throughout England taken by the Bishops order in or about the time of the General Indulgence and by him produc'd presently after the Plot upon the talk that there were fifty thousand Papists able to bear Arms within Temple-Bar and about Westminster a number near double to what at the taking this survey they were found men women and children in the whole Kingdom For the Copy of my Cousin Wilsons Writing I confess it the only thing I endeavour'd to evade having ingenuously and without reserve answer'd all other questions That individual Paper I never saw before the preceding night when meeting it in the Drawer of my Bed-Chamber always open whether I am at home or abroad I laid it uppermost with purpose of Inquiring how he came by it and whether he knew the Author But not seeing him till next day in presence of the Members sent to search my Lodgings I cou'd not ask him and was surpriz'd to have so Indiscreet and