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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'Strange, 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.
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Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.
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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
will be so foul a Consequence that a Loyal Heart must tremble to consider it I should not have trotbled your Majesty had your Ministers taken my Complaint into Consideration and tho I was not thought worthy of being heard by them yet by their leaves I humbly conceive your Majesty's Proceedings have been so just and good in the executing of those that were in that Hellish Conspiracy that they deserve to be vindicated from these foul Aspersions cast upon them by Roger L'estrange and his Popish Crew and altho by unjust Reports and Misrepresentations I am out of your Majesty's Favour yet I may say if Oates had not been Loyal your Majesty had not been in the Land of the Living whatever the Popish Crew have suggested in their scurrilous Pamphlets against me for discovering their impious Designs against your Majesties Person and the Protestant Religion I sent a Petition to Mr. Secretary Jenkins but could not be heard and I have written to several of your Council but can have no Effects of my just Complaints though I am left to starve yet I may say I have deserved better of the Government than to live in danger of being knockt of the Head as I go along the Streets and for no other Crime but that of the 28th and 29th of September 1678 if I must perish for serving your Majesty and the Government I humbly pray that I may perish quietly and starve in Peace and not be put into a Bear 's Skin in order to be worried to Death by Popish Dogs whose Religion is nothing else but a Cistern of Immorality and their Immorality Treason in the highest Degree Therefore let any Man shew me a Papist and I can shew a Man that is or must when commanded by his Priest be a Traitor especially such a Papist who hath been bred and instructed in the Protestant Religion and is reconciled to the Synagogue of Rome such a Papist I hate and I trust in God to see such ruined unless that Vengeance be prevented by timely Repentance None Sir hath been used like me and this L'estrange hath as I am informed threatned to write against me till he hath writ me out of the World what the meaning is of such an Expression I humbly leave to your Majesty to consider I have in this inclosed a Petition to your Majesty and question not but you will be graciously pleased to take my sad Case into serious Consideration Sir from my Heart and Soul I love your Majesty and the Government established by Law and have I am sure given your Majesty as great Demonstration of my Loyalty and Duty as any one Subject you have in your three Kingdoms and therefore be pleased to give me leave to put your Majesty in mind of the sad Fate of Alphonso the late King of Portugal and how his Ruine was brought about your Majesty knows the Story better than I can express it and a Word is enough to so wise a Prince as your Majesty hath appeared to be I will not trouble your Majesty any farther but that God the King of Kings may bless your Majesty with a long Life and a happy Reign over us is and ever shall be the daily Prayer of SIR Your Majesty's most Dutiful Loyal and Obedient Subject and Servant Titus Oates London April 12. 1684. A Copy of Dr. Oates's Letter to King James the Second Aug. 12. 1688. May it please Your Majesty I Have no Friend that can attend your Majesty with my Petition or else I should not have made my Application to you in this Way it not being usual for Subjects to address themselves in such a Manner to their Prince Necessity drives me to it for contrary to all Law and Humanity I am miserably oppressed by Mr. Ellis the Marshal of your Prison of the King's-Bench who hath within a few Years last past declared himself to be of the Communion of the Church of Rome upon which together with his Authority I humbly conceive he takes Liberty thus to oppress me to revenge himself and those of that Communion upon me He kept my Servant from me tho it 's well known that by reason of my long and miserable Imprisonment I am lame and not able to help my self He stops all People at the Gate from coming at me by which means I must perish because no Succour can come at me unless Care be taken by your Majesty that a stop be speedily put to his Arbitrary Cruel Usage of me I humbly conceive the Causes of my Imprisonment do not lie before him His Business is to keep me in safe Custody and not to oppress me He demands Ten Guineas of me for Civility-Money which is not his due to receive nor in my power to pay for which he threatens me with Irons the Truth is the whole City crys out Shame of his manner of dealing with me and the more because of his Religion I am certain those of the Communion of the Church of Rome pretend to more Humanity than any other People but his Usage of me shews him rather a Turk than a Christian there will be loud Crys against him either at Term or in Parliament for his many Extravagancies in the Execution of his Office What the Causes of his base Usage of me are I humbly beseech your Majesty may be heard Face to Face before Sir Richard Allebone or in such a way as your Majesty shall think fit for at the present I am under great Apprehensions of being murdered by him which you may prevent if you please All which is humbly submitted to your Majesty by Your poor Prisoner Titus Oates Aug. 12. 1688. I am much impaired in my Health and I have done that which a good Subject ought to do so that if I am murdered my Blood will not lie at my Door but at their Doors that should do me Justice for Favour I expect none nor would I be so Ill a Man as to desire any but I cry aloud for Justice that I may not be murthered by a Man who imagines he may do good Service to those of the Romish Church to ruine me while I am in his Custody Therefore once more I pray for Justice POST-SCRIPT HAving affirmed in the foregoing Tract that both the Juries which found Dr. Oates guilty were Men of the same Gang and Kidney to explain my meaning therein I say that most if not every of them were Disciples of L'Estrange and by consequence Tories Children of Passive Obedience Abhorrers of Parliaments Addressers against them Betrayers of Charters and Anti-Exclusioners Nor could it possibly be otherwise for there was at that day a select List of about 200 such Men and no others packt to do the Court's Drudgery as will evidently appear by reading over the Names of the Grand and Petty-Juries which pass'd upon the never-to-be-forgotten Lord Russel Alderman Cornish and Mrs. Gaunt in the second Part of the Display of Tyranny I observe there is not found amongst them one of the Jury which was returned by our Bethel and Cornish and which brought in that honourable Ignoramus upon the Indictment against the Earl of Shaftsbury and I may well say that was in every respect the greatest Jury that was ever returned in England Out of this List were every of the Doctor 's 24 Jury-men pickt and every Man of the first Jury were in the Pannels which North and Rich packt upon my Lord Russel and nine of them were also return'd upon Alderman Cornish and Mrs. Gaunt of the second Jury four were returned upon my Lord Russel Alderman Cornish and Mrs. Gaunt three more upon my Lord Russel singly and the other five upon Alderman Cornish and Mrs. Gaunt divers of them actually served on those Juries and most of those who did not were challenged That I may now set the bloody Tragedy of that day in its true light and shew whence this accursed Practice of packing Juries sprang I shall transcribe a noted Prediction of one of the Guides of the hair-brain'd Tories Heraclitus Ridens who foretold soon after the unhappy Election of Sir John Moore to be Lord-Mayor that at or before 1683 they should have Juries for their turn And then talking to the Whiggs about Hanging told them They must come to 't and they should come to 't I conclude with another very remarkable Prophesy of the Guide of the Inferiour Clergy he at the very Juncture when it was resolved that North and Rich must be Sir John Moore 's Sheriffs foretold the direful Consequences thereof in his Observator of May 20 1682 Number 140 in these words If it should please God to send us SEASONABLE SHERIFFS and fair play for OVR MONEY there are set a foot so many Titles in competition for the Gallows that it would be a hard matter to settle their Claims and say who should go first And in his Observator of May 27 1684. he told us whom he esteemed his Seasonable Sheriffs He says Prithee Whig wilt thou set THEIR CORNISH and BETHEL THEIR PILKINGTON and SHUTE against our NORTH and RICH our DANIEL and DASHWOOD and say which of these Sheriffs are the likelier Men to juggle Protestants out of their Lives Had the poor depressed Whig in that day answer'd the Trepaning Tory this ensnaring Question it had been at the hazard of his Head But now being warranted by Parliament so to do I say that my Lord Russel and Alderman Cornish were barbarously murdered as was good Mrs. Gaunt under pretence and colour of Law which as my Lord Russel well observed is the worst sort of Murder and this I think was juggling Protestants out of their Lives with a witness I also say by the same warrant that the Prosecution of Dr. Oates for Perjury was a Design to stifle the Popish Plot and that the Verdicts against him were corrupt and the Judgments cruel and illegal and all this was accomplished by the same Set of Jury-men Thus to gratify Sir Roger to whom I pay no small deference I have set our Bethel and Cornish our Pilkington and Shute against their North and Rich their Daniel and Dashwood and shew'd him not only who were the likeliest Men to juggle Protestants out of their Lives but who they were that actually did it and so I bid him adieu Imprimatur R. L'S FINIS