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A true narrative of the horrid plot and conspiracy of the popish party against the life of His Sacred Majesty, the government and the Protestant religion : with a list of such noblemen, gentlemen and others as were the conspirators, and the head-officers both civil and military that were to effect it / humbly presented to His Most Excellent Majesty by Titus Oates.
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Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.
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Print the same to my great wrong and detriment It was presented to His Majesty the Thirteenth of August last by the means and introduction of that worthy and honest Gentleman Mr. Christopher Kirkby as likewise sworn upon Oath on the sixth of September following before Sir Edmondbury Godfrey by my self and the Twenty eighth of the same Month before the Lords and others of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council and the proceedings afterwards made upon the same being sufficiently known I shall not trouble thee with at present but leave the whole to thy Candid consideration taking my leave of thee at present and will ever appear April the 15th 1679. Thy hearty Well-wisher and Servant in Jesus Christ TITVS OATES A True and Exact Narrative OF THE Horrid Plot and Conspiracy OF THE POPISH PARTY Against the LIFE of His Sacred Majesty THE GOVERNMENT AND THE Protestant Religion Imprimis RIchard Strange Provincial John Keins Basil Langworth John Fenwick and Mr. Harcourt Jesuits did write a Treasonable Letter to one Father Suiman an Irish Jesuit at Madrid in the Kingdom of Spain in which was contained their Plotting and Contriving a Rebellion in Scotland of the Presbyterians against the Episcopal Government In order to which they had employed one Matthew Wright and William Morgan and one Mr. Ireland to go and Preach under the notion of Presbyterians and give the disaffected Scots a true understanding of their sad state and condition in which they were by reason of the Episcopal Tyranny exercised over them and withall to tell them they had now a fair opportunity to vindicate their Liberty and Religion and that it could be done by no other way but by the Sword and that now the King was so addicted to his pleasures that he would and could take but little care in that concern And in the said Letter it was expressed that they had gotten an interest in His Royal Highness but they would deal with him as they thought fit and that they were resolved to use all means to weaken the King of England's Interest by informing his friends of his own intent to betray them into the hands of a Forein Power to wit to send them to fall by the Sword in the French King's Wars against the Confederate Princes which Letter bore date of April 19th Old Style 1677. and 29th New Style Item II. That the persons abovementioned gave the Deponent ten pounds to carry the said Letters to the said Father Suiman into the Kingdom of Spain to Madrid the said Father Suiman being their Procurator general for the Kingdom of England and Ireland and in order to which message the Deponent embarked himself in the Ship called the Biscay Merchant whereof Luke Roch was then Master to go for Bilbao and there took Mules for Valladolyd but staving a day at Burgos in Spain the Deponent broke up the said Letters and found these Contents in the same Item III. That they of the Society of Jesus in the English Seminary at St. Omers sent a mission of twelve Students into the Kingdom of Spain viz. eight to Valladolyd and four to Madrid there being English Colledges in both places in order to study Philosophy and Divinity which Missioners were sent by Richard Ashby Richard Peters Nicholas Blundell and Charles Peters as appeared by the Patents of the several Missioners by which they had power to demand admission in the respective Colledges to which they were sent which Missioners were obliged by the Jesuits of the Colledges to renounce their Allegiance to His Majesty of Great Britain in the hearing of the Deponent and those of Valladolyd were taught by Daniel Armstrong Jesuit Minister of the English Colledge at Valladolyd that the said Oath of Allegiance is Heretical Antichristian and Devilish and that Charles Stuart the King of England is no lawful King but comes of a spurious Race and that his Father was a Black Scotch-man and not King Charles the first this was delivered in a Sermon Septemb. 29. 1677. to the Students there which Sermon the Deponent did hear and in this Sermon the said Daniel Armstrong in plain words did say that the King of England was a Bastard now this Daniel Armstrong goeth in Spain by the name of Joseph Mundford in Spanish P. Joseph Montefortio Item IV. That the said Daniel Armstrong alias Joseph Mundford did bring Letters from St. Omers to the English Colledge at Valladolyd to the Fathers of that Colledge written in Latine they being Spaniards in which it was expressed and related from the Fathers of St. Omers that the Fathers of the Society in London had procured one Father Beddingfield to be Confessor to His Royal Highness but if they law His Royal Highness did not answer their expectations they would dispose of him as they did intend to dispose of his Brother the King which they hoped to effect within a year Which Letters bore date June the 10th 1677. and subscribed by Richard Ashby alias Thimbleby Rector of the English Seminary of the Society of Jesus at St. Omers Richard Peters Minister Edward Nevill Prefect of the Studies Charles Peters Prefect of the Sodality Thomas Fermor Prefect of Manners Which Letters the Deponent saw and read in the month of September at Valladolyd in the Kingdom of Spain Item V. That Father Suiman above-mentioned wrote to the English Colledge to the Fathers there that the King of England was poisoned to the great joy of the English Fathers and that they would serve King James so if he did not give them good assusurance of bringing in of the Catholick Religion and of rooting out Protestant Religion this Letter bore date July the first 1677. and was seen and read by the Deponent at Valladolyd in the month of July near the latter end Item VI. That one Father John Blake alias Cross who went with the four Students to Madrid did bring Letters from Richard Strange Provincial of the Jesuits and one Father Gray a Jesuit and John Keines to Father Suiman above-mentioned in which was specified that all diligence was used by the said Richard Strange Father Gray and John Keines to procure some persons to dispatch the King and to put a period to his daies which Letter bore date June the 10th 1677. Stylo novo And now the Deponent being sent to Madrid in the month of August read it in Father Suiman's Chamber he shewing it also at the same time to James Archbishop of Tuam in the Kingdom of Ireland Item VII That the said Father Suiman received another Letter bearing date July the 20th 1677. Stylo novo from Richard Strange Father Gray John Keines Basil Langworth John Fenwick Father Ireland and Father Harcourt in which they did manifest that they were very sorry for informing him that he might assure himself that the business was done their man William being faint-hearted could not then do it though he had fifteen hundred pounds promised him for his pains of which Letters the English Missionaries were one by one informed
TITUS OATES D. D. the first discoverer of the Popish Plott A TRUE NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid PLOT AND CONSPIRACY OF THE POPISH PARTY Against the LIFE of His Sacred Majesty THE GOVERNMENT AND THE Protestant Religion With a LIST of such NOBLEMEN GENTLEMEN and others as were the CONSPIRATORS And the HEAD-OFFICERS both Civil and Military that were to Effect it Published by the Order of the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in PARLIAMENT Assembled Humbly Presented to His Most Excellent MAJESTY By TITVS OTES D. D. LONDON Printed for Thomas Parkhurst and Thomas Cockerill at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers Chappel and at the Three Legs in the Poultrey MDCLXXIX Die Mercurii 9º Aprilis 1679. UPon Report made by the Earl of Clarendon from the Lords Committees for Examining Matters relating to the Discovery of the late Horrid Conspiracy That Mr. Titus Oates complains That Mr. Basset hath not given him satisfaction for the Printing and Publishing his Narrative of the said Conspiracy imperfectly and desires that he may Reprint his own Narrative thereof which the said Lords Committees judg to be Reasonable It is Ordered by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled That the said Titus Oates be and is hereby Authorized to Print a Perfect Copy of his own Narrative of the said Conspiracy Jo. Brown Cleric Parliamentor BY virtue of this Order I appoint Thomas Parkhurst and Thomas Cockerill Citizens and Stationers of London to Print this Narrative containing Eighty one Paragraphs TITUS OTES April 10. 1679. TO HIS SACRED MAJESTY CHARLES the II. By the Grace of God Of Great-Britain France and Ireland KING Defender of the Faith GREAT SIR THIS Narrative of the present Horrid Plot against Your Majesty and Government which was first heard and narrowly discussed before Your Sacred Majesty and Council and afterwards by Both Houses of Parliament with universal assent to the power of Truth herein is at last to appear abroad for the satisfaction of these Nations and Europe perhaps touching the mystery and consequence of such Designs I hope I have good equity on my side to presume to dedicate the same to Your Royal Name and Patronage and to no other because I am well assured both the rise and progress thereof hath wholly sprung from an inbred indelible love and loyalty to Your Majesty and Kingdoms as its support and success to be owing under Gods extraordinary and miraculous appearance for his people in its defence to Your Majesties Gracious pardon of several human frailties in the management Great and many are the Arts and Hoverings that have been and may yet be used in vain both at home and abroad to suppress and traduce the Evidence by those who are more zealous and industrious not to be thought or suspected rather than really not to be very Traytors and Rebels against their King and Country whose many past Treasons and Encroachments upon several Princes for these last Thousand years in the World will prove their inclinations for future whereof there are as many tragical instances against Your Majesties own Family and Person within fresh memory and to be made out by new proofs out of their own mouths and Records if need as against any other of Gods Anointing and Appointment Your Grandfather King James though he escaped their Powder is well known not to have escaped their Poyson Your other Grandfather Henry the Fourth of France was basely and villainously stabbed in the Heart which he had designed and bequeathed after his death unto them notwithstanding all the Indulgences and Immunities that the heart of man could wish or desire which he had granted them in his life Who besides these were the first Authors and contrivers of the late unnatural War by their known diabolical art of inflaming Parties and Passions against each other and of Your Royal Fathers unspeakable Sufferings and barbarous Usage It was these that brought Him to His end and fourished Swords and triumphed over his dead Body whom they durst not approach when living What shall I say of Him who then cryed out Now is the Enemy of God and of his Church fallen I believe Your Majesty hath been well-informed of the Trayterous Executioners but hardly at all of the Putney-Projectors who were in most if not all the Councels that contrived his ruine What broke the Vxbridge-Treaty but the Romish Interest and Policy Who continued to baffle all designs of peace and settlement to this Nation and prosperity to Your Majesties Family but those Incendiaries It may not be inconvenient to remind with what zeal and interest they did perswade the Scots in 1650 to impose that upon Your Majesty which Your Royal Law hath forbidden others for the effecting whereof some Thousands of pounds were spent and given by them After Your Majesties escape at Worcester how did they above all men endeavour to betray and sacrifice Your Majesty into the hands of Your Enemies And who was it that was to pay the Thousand pound promised for Your being discovered and taken but Father Joseph Simmonds and Father Carleton Compton both Jesuits It 's true that one or two of the Komish perswasion amongst many loyal and faithful Protestants male and female might then have contributed to Your Majesties deliverance But have not such been well lessened and reproached and called Fools by their own party for this grain of Loyalty more owing to their English Blood than Romish Principles The Popish Lord is not forgotten or unknown who brought a Petition to the late Regicides and Usurpers signed by about Five hundred principal Papists in England wherein was promised upon condition of a Toleration of the Popish Religion here by a Law their joint resolution to abjure and exclude the Family of the Stuarts for ever from their undoubted right to the Crown Who more disheartned the Loyalty and patience of your best Subjects than their confident Scriblers White and others And Milton was a known frequenter of a Popish Club. Who more forward to set up Cromwell and to put the Crown of our Kings upon his head than they Give me leave to tell Your Majesty that his new fangled Government was contrived by a Popish Priest and Lambert a Papist for above these Thirty years Who betrayed Your Majesties Secrets and Councels during your Exile but they even the Benedictine Monks whereof a whole Convent was maintained with a large Annuity by the late Usurper for such use and purpose And he * Manning that was caught and executed by Your Majesties Justice for such treachery was of the same Red-Letter and had Masses sung for him after his death as an usual Reward and Plaister After Your Majesties escape from England what promises did they make to Cromwell to perswade the French King for Your banishment out of France and what interest they made use of in order thereunto can be made appear to their disgrace I shall leave it to Your Majesty to call to mind their usage of your