upon the first sight of me required of me Whether the Catholick Religion was established in England this was in the Year 1674. in the Month of April and I told him No Why then said he the Dutch War is to no purpose Why said I was our engaging in a War against the Dutch to bring in Popery Well well saith the Friar you will see in time In some few Days we had notice of a Peace with the Dutch What then said he our great King of France is not at Peace with them and he must do the Work In the Year 1675 I had obtained an Interest with Henry Duke of Norfolk then Earl of Norwich and Earl Marshal of England who was very kind to me upon the Account of my contending earnestly for his Right of Presenting to a Living in the Diocess of Chichester to which Living the then Bishop a turbulent Man pretended a Right of Collating And in the Year 1676 I was made his Chaplain and I call the whole Family of the Norfolk Howards to witness to my Fidelity to him and to his Children tho I am but churlishly used by some of them for my Truth and Fidelity to my Lord and Master but God forgive them for their Ingratitude to me especially Charles Howard who owes me more than I shall mention here but I always had a Thought that Popery rendred a Man incapable of being grateful to his Friend I in the Service of the Duke of Norfolk came acquainted with several Priests and being then resolved upon a strict Inquiry into their Designs against us and our Religion and Laws and Liberties I met with one Berry a Priest that had been a Jesuit but had left that Order through some Discontent and Madness that had seized the poor Wretch as he hath told me He was a Scholar in Cambridg was a Minister in England if he told me the Truth then turned Jesuit and then as before left that Order and became a secular Priest and then came to the Church of England and was a Curate at Berking and since is gone to the Church of Rome again This Berry I found a poor zealous Man whose Zeal was far beyond his Knowledg and he fell upon me to come over to their Church and he brought me acquainted with Mr. Langworth a Jesuit who since is dead as he the said Berry hath told me and with Mr. John Keins a great Jesuit and one Mr. Morgan a Jesuit that lived with the Lord Powis in the Year 1676 1677 1678. till the Plot was discovered where he is now I know not I was by Langworth reconciled to the Church of Rome he was then Confessarius to the Ld Petre and his Family and upon my being reconciled I was brought to Mr. Strange the then Provincial of their Order who admitted me into the Society of Jesus when I was admitted it was resolved by the Jesuits that I should pass the time of my Novitiate abroad in dispatching Business for the Society which I chearfully accepted and therefore accordingly they provided for me When I had paid Mr. Luke Roch Commander of the Biscay Merchant Earnest for my Passage to Bilboa the said Strange then Provincial of the Order gave me 100 Pistols for my Supply in order for my Passage into Spain and for my necessary Expences there and ordered me what Money I should need exhorting me to be as good a Husband as I could for they had great Occasions for Money What Letters they sent by me I have set forth in my Narrative but when I had got a competent Knowledg of the Design I found the great Reason why they would murder the late King was because he had deceived them and in Spain they assured me he had been reconciled to their Church and that upon his Reconciliation the Society in Spain had contributed 3000 Pistols to his Support which was paid in by Father Courtney sometime Provincial of the Jesuits in England I say several Letters written to one Father Knot in which the late King did testify his Zeal for the Catholick Religion and promised to restore it whenever he should come to the Enjoiment of his Right in England and that till he had an Opportunity to do it they should have all the Connivance in the World and if the Case should be so hard with him when he came to the Crown that he could not bring about his Desires to make their Religion to be the Religion of the Government yet they should have an Indulgence that should be equivalent however they should not be excluded out of Offices and Employments under him and that they had his Heart and Soul When I found the late King not inclined to believe that he was to he murdered I did in private tell him these things and that the only reason why they did design to take away his Life was because that he had made such Promises to them and assured them he was theirs and that he was reconciled to the Church of Rome when beyond Sea as I had seen by his own Letters The King commanded me to take no notice of his being reconciled to the Church of Rome and declared to me upon the World of a King that now he did believe they had a Design to murder him acknowledging be had written those Letters I had intimated to his Majesty and withal told me if I had come to him privately and acquainted him with the Plot he could of himself have dashed it and though I designed well yet the Discovery of it had created a Jealousy in the People of him Then I acquainted him with his Letters to the Nuns of Ghent when he borrowed Money of them which they waited for several Years here in England now he in that Letter did declare to them he would restore their Religion when he came to his Right and that was another Reason that provoked the Party against him and that St. Germane a French Jesuit had a hand in the Murder of Killigrew's Man when he lay upon the Couch in his Majesty's Cloak Here the King interrupted me and commanded me to take no farther notice of that Business declaring he knew more than I could tell him in that Affair of Killigrew's Man but withal again repeated the great Jealousy the People had of him and that it was much encreased by ill Men that did labour to possess Peoples Minds against him and said unless an extraordinary Care were taken the Phanatick Party would rebel and very much inveighed against the Dissenters and thought himself in as much danger from them as from the Popish Party That upon the Discovery of several Papers found about January 167 8 9 at one Jolliff a Taylor 's I did observe that the late King Charles the First unless his Hand was counterfeited had commissioned several Irish to rise and withal I saw Instructions given to them to give the English no Quarter and I saw a Letter of his to a Titular Bishop the Bishop of Cassal as
A TRAGEDY CALLED The Popish Plot REVIV'D Detecting the SECRET LEAGUE Between the Late King James and the French King The POPISH CONSPIRACY to Murder His present Majesty King WILLIAM And the wicked Contrivance for Adulterating the COIN of this Kingdom With many other HELLISH PRACTICES Dedicated to Sir Roger L'Estrange the Fellows of St. John's College in Cambridg Non Jurors and the rest of the Jacobite Crew By a sincere Lover of his Countrey London Printed for the Author 1696. To Sir Roger L'Estrange the Fellows of St. John's College and the rest of the Jacobite Crew Gentlemen THAT your as industriously as maliciously embrace every Occasion of venting your Selves to the Disparagement of our Present happy Settlement is undeniably evident to all Men and hath in no particular been more manifest than in your cherishing and fomenting the loud Clamour under which the Government has of late labour'd upon the account of the diminishing and adulterating our Coin The Consideration hereof led me to reflect upon what I remember I had read in Dr. Oates's Narrative of the Popish Plot and turning to it I there find good Ground to charge to the Account of your Party amongst other the manifold Evils under which the Nation groans that which is now so sensibly felt and highly complained of He there told you what now to our Cost we find fulfilled that one Branch of that Horrid Plot was to adulterate our Money and Plate and that to that end the Conspirators had Bankers Brokers Merchants Goldsmiths and other Traders whom they stock'd and set up with Money of the Jesuits Society The Jesuits then boasted that they were promised to have the Management of the Mint and that thereby they should be made the Judges of good and bad Money and manage the same to the best Advantage for their Cause The Case standing thus Gentlemen why will you be so vile as to criminate the Government for the Mischief which you have brought upon your Countrey Will you persist to out-face the Sun and term that a Sham-Plot which has ever since been cultivated and carried on Consider I beseech you in how many Instances what was laid down in that Narrative has been verified He there told you that King Charles the Second was to be removed by Dagger Pistol or Poison and that that was effected by the last is as little to be doubted as it may now be called into question whether the Coin be adulterated He told you that your Adored Duke was a Papist but your Stupidity or Impudence was such that you denied it to the day that he stept into the Throne Nay not only so but some of you in a Pack'd Jury brought in that Prince Not Guilty and gave him the modest Damages of 100000 l. in an Action against the Doctor for declaring that great Truth then so highly necessary to be known Nay further he not only told but foretold the Misery and inexpressible Calamity which like a Torrent was with that unhappy King breaking in upon these poor Nations and ready to bear down our Religion Laws and Liberties But this also was turn'd into Ridicule by that eminent Guide of the inferiour Clergy you I mean Sir Roger that Beautefeu of an Observator Wherefore I shall upon this Occasion take the Liberty to aggravate the Guilt of the unpardonable Infidelity of your Malignant Faction in the Points before touch'd upon and that not by urging against you that what was then declared has since come to pass but by evincing that at that very day there was laid before you irrefragable Evidence of the Truth of that happy Discovery And this I partly collect from Mr. Coleman's never to be forgotten Letters which were never denied or so much as doubted of which to refresh your Memories take here a few Heads For my part says he I can scarce believe my self awake or the thing real when I think on a Prince in such an Age as we live in converted to such a degree of Zeal and Piety as not to regard any thing in the World in comparison of the Conversion of our Poor Kingdom which hath been a long time oppressed and miserably harassed with Heresy and Schism c. Now as to the Duke's being then link'd with that bloody Tyrant the French King read Coleman again Knowing the Interest of our King Charles the 2d and in a more particular manner of my more immediate Master the Duke and his most Christian Majesty to be so INSEPARABLY UNITED that it was IMPOSSIBLE TO DIVIDE THEM without destroying them all His Majesty the French King was pleased to give order to signify to his R. H. MY MASTER that his Majesty was fully satisfied of his R. H's good Intentions towards him and that HE ESTEEMED BOTH THEIR INTERESTS BUT AS ONE and the same The Rooting out the Northern Heresy and enslaving Mankind That my Lord Arlington and the PARLIAMENT were both to be look'd upon as very unuseful to their Interests Father Ferrier begg'd 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 I communicated it to his R. H. says Coleman 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 Majesty's Friendship and that he would labour to cultivate it with all the good Offices he was capable of doing his Majesty the French King that he was fully convinced 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 they should do all they could to dissolve it I did communicate this Design of mine to Monsieur Ravigni who agreed with me that it would be the greatest Advantage imaginable to his Master to have the D's Power and Credit so far advanced IF WE CAN ADVANCE THE DUKE'S INTEREST ONE STEP FORWARD WE SHALL PUT HIM OUT OF THE REACH OF CHANCE FOR EVER Then would Catholicks be at rest and his most Christian Majesty's Interest secured with us in England mark that beyond all Apprehensions whatsoever Our prevaling in these things would give the greatest Blow to the PROTESTANT RELIGION here that ever it received from its Birth If the Duke should once get above them ☞ after the Tricks they have play'd with him they are not sure he will totally forget the Vsage he has had at their Hands We have proceeds Coleman here a MIGHTY WORK upon our Hands no less than THE CONVERSION of three Kingdoms and by that perhaps the utter subduing of a PESTILENT HERESY which hath domineered over great part of the Northern World a long time There were never such Hopes of Success since the Death of our Queen Mary as now in our Days when God has given us a Prince who is
become may I say to a Miracle zealous of being the Author and Instrument of so glorious a Work ☞ That which we rely upon most next to God Almighty's Providence and the Favour of my Master the Duke is THE MIGHTY MIND of his most Christian Majesty I must confess I think his Christian Majesty's TEMPORAL INTEREST is so much attracted to that of his R. H. which can never be considerable but upon the Growth and Advancement of the CATHOLICK RELIGION that his Ministers cannot give him better Advice c. Now Gentlemen might not a Man have concluded that what you then read and find here repeated ought to have weaned your Party at least such of you as pretended to be of the Church of England for I well remember you scoffed at the Name of Protestant from your idolized Popish Successor What I could no King please such Churchmen as you but such AZEALOT as would not regard any thing in the World in comparison of overturning our Religion Could no one content you but a Prince whose Interest was avowed to be inseparably united to that of the Grand Tyrant of the Earth Who declared himself fully convinc'd that PARLIAMENTS were not only VNVSEFVL but very DANGEROVS to the JOINT INTEREST both of England and France None but him by whom the French King's Interest was to be secured in England None but him who undertook to give the greatest Blow to the Protestant Religion here that it ever received from its Birth None but him who should he once get above us after the Tricks we had then plaid him by the way he remembers we have plaid him a worse since WOVLD NOT TOTALLY FORGET the Vsage he has had at our Hands Finally could nothing please you but a King whose MIGHTY WORK as you were forewarned was to be no less than the Destruction of the Nations under the Notion of converting them and who was utterly to subdue our Religion as a PESTILENT HERESY One of whom our inhumane Enemies promised themselves greater Hopes than ever they had since the Death of cruel Queen Mary A Prince whom they boasted was become to a Miracle zealous of being the Author and Instrument of so glorious a Work as that of razing the Foundations of the Church of England Could I now believe that I discourse to rational Creatures and not to Brutes void of all Understanding I should hope to make you blush at your past Frenzies if not perswade you to cease doting on your old Bondage and hankering after the Flesh-Pots of Egypt to give over your Murmuring and no longer to foment Jealousies between the King and his People no longer to be throwing in Sparks of Discontent and endeavouring to blow them up into Flames of Mutinies and Rebellions Allow me to remember you in the Words of a loyal and learned Person that God has given our King a People who tho they may sometimes be practised upon to run into Vproars yet Loyalty is so inlaid in their Tempers and annealed to their Souls that the secret Enemies of our King and Peace could never yet make their Earnings out of them nay that God has converted our Danger into our Security that he has made the People not the Terror of the Government but of its Enemies That some ill Men have an ill and envious Eye upon the Throne but they fear the People Mr. Alsop's Thanksgiving-Sermon at Westminster 8 Sept. 1695. Run not then I caution you headlong to Destruction but be advised to consider what you are doing why will you be helping forward your Countries Ruine by labouring to subject it to that mighty Nimrod the securing whose Interest in England was the wicked Design so long since on foot 'T is evident to all the World that you under the Name of TORIES in which you gloried brought Church and State to the very Door of Destruction gave us the dismal Prospect of Slavery in our Persons Consciences and Estates and by your Procurement we beheld every thing that was dear and valuable to us upon the Brink of Subjection to a foreign Power and all by pleading for and adhering to your darling Popish Successor Nay 't is beyond Contradiction clear that you were blinded deluded and beguiled in that Point by the subtile Jesuits those Firebrands of all Europe Now seeing it has pleased God to bless us with the grateful Surprize of a Deliverance from such great Evils will you be perswaded to become a loyal quiet People disposed to Obedience To inforce this upon you as 't is your Interest as well as Duty I shall recount to you what was in vain laid before you when you first ran a madding after Popery and Slavery A sincere Lover of his Country then argued with you to this Effect You were then truly told that those who were for the Duke of York 's Interest were most certainly for these three Interests viz. 1. For the Popish Interest 2. For the French Interest 3. For Tyranny or Arbitrary Government term it as you will and by Consequence against these other three things 1. Against the Interest of the Church of England and the Protestant Religion 2. Against the Interest of England your native Country 3. Against the Interest of Parliaments and so against your own Freedoms as you were Englishmen You were then exhorted seriously to consider these things your Religion your Lives your Liberties your Estates your All being deeply concerned therein 1. You were rightly admonished that if you stood for the Duke's Interest you did undoubtedly so far stand for that of the Pope and would thereby give the greatest Blow to the Church of England it ever had since it was a Church The Matter was thus expostulated with you Can you once imagine that by bringing in a Popish Successor you will not inevitably set up Popery Will such a King think you have so great a Love for another Religion as his own or for those of another Profession whom he esteems Hereticks as for those of his own Nay then will it not naturally follow that he will advance the one and discountenance and depress the other Will it not be the only way to get into Office or Preferment to turn Papist What will the Effect of this be in a little time think you Will it not be a great weakning to the Church of England to have her Members allured and seduced from her and turn'd and kept out of Places of Trust Profit and Honour whilst her Enemies are placed in them Consider further whether in endeavouring to make a Papist Head of the Church of England you do not labour to make her a Monster for if our Head reckon us his Body rotten Hereticks where 's our Body Where will our Church be What Agreement between the Head and the Body Will it not inevitably run into Confusion Shall we have a Father of our Church who by his own Faith stands obliged to destroy her and is bound by the Romish Principles to deal with her
Beast might be accomplished At the uttering of which words Strange broke out into a great Laughter But said Strange to be short we got 50 or 60 Irish to ply the Work We were also in fee with several Frenchmen who were faithful in the Business Strange told the Deponent that they spent 700 Fire-Balls and when the Fire-Merchants were at work then others were employed to plunder what they could They have communicated what Secrets they can have reveal'd to them of the King which they send over to Le Chese the French King's Confessor This they do by one Smith who daily lurks about Whitehall and in Parliament-time about Westminster-hall and the Lobby And One COLEMAN formerly Secretary to her Royal Highness doth assist this Smith with private Intelligence On the 10th of August the Deponent did meet with Groves who had promised to give him an Account of the Fire of Southwark in 1676 and then told him that he had certain Fireworks made for that purpose and he with three Irishmen his Assistants went to St. Margaret's Hill where they found an Oil-Shop which Groves bragg'd he fir'd He said that Dr. Fogarthy procured the Irishmen for which the Society Richard Strange then Provincial gave them 1000 l. viz. 400. l. to Groves and 200 l. apiece to the three Irishmen and that the Society got at least 2000 l. by that Fire which was also told the Deponent at another time by Richard Strange On the 11th of August the Deponent saw Letters from St. Omers written by Father IRELAND to John Fenwick and Fenwick told the Deponent that if 〈◊〉 lived till Christmass he should see a good Change of Things either that Forty eight the King should be taken from the World or the World especially the little he was concern'd in should be taken from him And ONE THAT WAS A CATHOLICK SHOVLD PLAY SVCH A GAME AS NEVER WAS PLAY'D SINCE THE CONQVEST and Fenwick told the Deponent that this Catholick was the DVKE OF YORK This Plot was to be effected by these Means amongst others By disclosing the King's Counsels to France by Coleman Smith and others By disaffecting his Majesty's Allies Holland Spain the German Emperor and Princes by false Intelligence c. By disturbing Trade By firing and plundering our best Cities and Towns By horrid worse than Jewish Interest Transportation of Trade People Stock and Money ADVLTERATING MONEY AND PLATE To which end they have Bankers Brokers Merchants Goldsmiths and other Traders whom they stock and set up with Money of their Society of which they boast to have 100 thousand Pounds Cash c. I descend now to sum up the whole and descant a little upon some few of the Heads before recounted Great Britain and Ireland were to be reduced by the Sword to the Romish Religion and Obedience In order hereunto the King was to be removed by Dagger Pistol or Poison and they declared 't was high time it were effected And good reason for it He had broke his Word with Madam his Sister in passing the Test-Bill having promised her at the Interview at Dover that nothing should be done to the prejudice of the R. Catholicks And contrary to his Promise to the Papists they remembred his sending the Great E. of Essex into Ireland They well knew also that he had refused to sign Coleman's Declaration for dissolving the Parliament which he had sworn to them to do and that he had been guilty of that never-to-be-forgiven Sin against their Church of receiving the Sacrament in the Church of England and that the same day at Noon on which he had received it in the Morning from Ireland the Jesuit To add no more they knew that they had at hand a more daring Prince who they were assured would stake his Crown for carrying on their Mighty Work The Prince of Orange they had resolved should by no means become Great therefore he must be cut off and in order to effect that mighty and so highly necessary Work Missioners are sent into Holland to stir up that People to mutiny against him upon the wicked Suggestion that he resolved to change their Government and assume a Crown The Emperor is instigated to create a Belief in the States General that that Prince designed to make himself Absolute and they promise themselves that by a Breach between the Prince and States the Protestant Interest would without question fail in Holland Now to reflect a little upon this Matter Why must this Prince be cut off Was he not the Duke of York's Sister's Son 't is yielded What then can we expect that that should avail him No surely for we see his Uncle was converted to such a degree of Zeal as not to regard any thing in the World in comparison of the Conversion of Heretical Kingdoms so his Interests we find were so inseparably united to that of the French King that it was impossible to divide them We are told that by all means the Most Christian King's Interest in England must be secured and that for a weighty Reason viz. Because his and the D. of York 's prevailing would give the greatest Blow to the Protestant Religion here that ever it received from its Birth Then undoubtedly the Prince of Orange who at that time stood within a step or two of the Throne ought in all Policy to be removed You cannot forget that they had a mighty Work upon their hands the Conversion of three Kingdoms and Subduing the Pestilent Northern Heresy They never had such hopes of Success as at that time since the Death of their Queen Mary The Duke was to a Miracle zealous of being the Author and Instrument of so Glorious a Work and they told us they relied upon him and the mighty Mind of the most Christian King and further his Temporal Interest was acknowledged to be highly attracted to that of the Duke 'T is evident they had mighty Work mighty Hopes and mighty Minds employed about it Is it to be admired then that they resolved to pass a Bill of Exclusion upon our Prince who as all the World knew stood ready with all his Might to baffle these mighty Vndertakers Nay further as the French King's Interest was attracted to that of the Duke's so was the Prince's to that of England Holland and the Reformed Churches of Europe or in their words to the Support of that Northern Heresy which these mighty Nimrods were to subdue What signifies a Nephew in such a Case as this But stop a little I pray and take another Reason His most Christian Majesty did most generously offer the Duke the use of his Purse to assist against the Designs of both their Enemies nay he protested that those that opposed the one should be look'd upon as Enemies to the other and withal declared his Opinion that the Parliament of England was not in either of their Interests and the Duke did entirely agree to it and that they were unuseful to both so that in his poor Opinion it was
necessary to make use of both their joint and utmost Credits to prevent the Success of the Parliament's Evil Designs against them both which of his side he promised really to perform Nay which is more do not you remember the Duke tells the French King of a very dangerous Plot against them both My Lord Arlington was incessantly at work to advance the Interest of the Prince of Orange and the Hollanders and to lessen that of the French King and that he and several others were endeavouring to break the good Intelligence between K. Charles the Second the French King and the Duke wherefore his Royal Highness earnestly sollicites the most Christian King to assist with the help of his Purse to prevent such ROGVERIES You see here is a Triple League against a Triple Confederacy The King of England French King and Duke of York against the Parliament of England the States of Holland and his Royal Highness the Pr. of Orange The French is to furnish the Sinews of War Money The Parliament are declared Enemies K. Charles indeed standing only as a Cypher the French King and the Duke put themselves under the most solemn Engagements to perform what was stipulated and strenuously to assist each other against the Designs of both their Enemies and seeing there was a desperate Design to advance the Prince and to lessen the French the Duke puts in his Memorial to that King demanding his Assistance to prevent such Rogueries But to return to our Narrative The House of Commons is no more to sit No nor was it advisable they should they were proclaimed Enemies to France and to the Duke The French King whose Interest was to be secured in England was fully convinced that they were not only unuseful but very dangerous to both their joint Interests may they ever continue so and it much satisfied the Duke to see his most Christian Majesty altogether of his Opinion in the Point Then with what reason could we expect the use of Parliaments would be continued The Protestant Peers as to be destroyed or excluded the House and the Magpy are to be changed for Purple Bishops And who at this day has the effronted Forehead to say that all this was Fiction Did not they embrew their Hands in the Blood of some of our Nobility And were not more threatned to that degree that 8. Years since no true Protestant Lord in England could at any rate have got his Head or his Seat in Parliament ensured to him for one Year Such was the Case of our Bishops We beheld some of their Diocesses visited by those of the Purple Dye and had not Heaven in a miraculous way delivered them we might not at this day have seen a Black and White One in the Nation In order to the Accomplishment of their sanctified Villanies the Jesuits with the Assistance of French and Irish Papists burnt London and Southwark and that they might the more securely carry on that Design without being detected they cunningly draw in a few silly Fifth-Monarchy-Men and fairly leave them in the lurch to be hang'd as they were about April 1666. When any Popish Plot is near the Point of Execution they ever will have the Dissenters at hand to account for their Villanies The burning this Nest of Hereticks had been concerted both at Rome and Paris and the time for putting it in execution approaching in April 1666 a Fanatick Plot is brought upon the Stage and seven or eight were condemned at the Old-Baily for plotting to kill the King and to burn the City on the 3d Day of September following the very Day the Papists afterwards did it For a more full Account of this I refer the Reader to the London-Gazette of April 30 1666. Numb 48. Thus when they were cock-sure of cutting off K. Charles the Second before Christmass 1678. Mr. Claypole Son-in-Law to Oliver was made close Prisoner in the Tower in July 1678. upon an Accusation of conspiring the Death of the King and it is very probable that had not Dr. Oates's Discovery happily interposed he might have died for it the next Term and the King been soon sent after him Then our Counsels are to be betrayed to France that Part is committed to Mr. Coleman the Duke or Dutchess of York 's Secretary and he is to manage it by a Correspondence with Le Chese Confessor to the French King I cannot with-hold my self from remarking here that this Information was given upon Oath on the 27th of September 1678. before Sir Edmond-Bury Godfrey and before the King and Council the 28th and 29th of that Month that hereupon Coleman was taken up on the 29th and his Papers seized which happily furnished the World with irrefragable Evidence had there been no other of that diabolical Intrigue In fine Trade is to be discouraged that so it was I know none will deny Our Coin was to be adulterated I shall not surely be called upon to prove that that was done to purpose and to crown the day King Charles was not to be reprieved beyond Christmas 1678. and then our Popish Successor was to play us such a Game as never was plaid since the Conquest They mistook the time indeed but the Feat was done and then the Gamester came upon the Stage to play his Game but having an unlucky Hand he quickly plaid himself out and therefore I shall not further pursue him I only say to him as the Welshman did to his Horse There 's a Trick for your Trick and a Stone in your Foot still Proceed we now to the further Narrative of this hellish Conspiracy of which it seems requisite to hint these things Dr. Oates after he had endured a long and most cruel Imprisonment upon a Judgment for 100000 l. Damages given against him to the Duke of York for saying the Duke was a Papist now saw that his irreconcilable Enemy upon the Throne and that he with his Jesuits and corrupt Judges were resolved to run upon him with all their Rage as they did in Easter-Term 1685. ordering him to be tried in the Court of King's-Bench upon two several Indictments for two pretended Perjuries in his Evidence concerning the Plot and that upon the Testimony of those very Popish Witnesses who had confronted him in three several Trials of the Conspirators The Case standing thus with him and remembring that his Life had been several times attempted was now under an Apprehension that they were bent upon his Destruction and therefore in the Month of April 1685. he drew up this ensuing Narrative in the Presence of Sir Robert Thomas Baronet John Arnold and John Dutton-Colt Esqs and having signed it with his own Hand deposited it with a Person of Worth and Quality with whom I am well assured it has ever since remained till upon the 21st of January 1695 6. it was put into my Hands Dr. Oates's further NARRATIVE of the Popish Plot 29 April 1685. THE Malice of my Popish Adversaries being so great that I