have the King of France to protect them during Life Tryal p. 84 as Mac Leigh swears Upon this Contract we have Plunket keeping touch with his promise and undertaking to raise 60 or 70000 Irish to be ready to Joyn with the French as Duffy and Murfey the two main Witnesses attest the said Plunket having taxed the Irish Clergy several Summs of Money for the carrying on of this War and maintenance of this vast Body of Men viz some of them 10 some 20 nay some 40. s. p annum a wonderful Summ for so Vast a Design and himself pitch't upon Carlingford Haven for the French's Landing This Design it seems after some Years collecting for and preparation towards it grew so ripe that as Mr. O Neale swears he heard Bishop Terril in August 78. in the head of 40 Horse alighting at Vicar General Brady's Door give those 40 odd Horsemen an Oath which they took willingly from hand to hand to forward the Plot against the Protestant R ligion and to make an end of them all in one hour from End to End of Ireland and said he I will come within two days with an Order from the Lord Oliver Plunket and you neâ—d not be afraid for the Lord Oliver Plunket and I have sent some Gold and Mâ—nâ—y into France to get Men and bring them from France over Sea and do not fear this will go on in one hour through all Ireland from End to End Tho by his good leave I should have much doubted whether the French Men could have kept pace with these nimble Irish Men for Landing all at Carlingford Haven 't is much to be feared they would have made it above Two Hours work in running through all Ireland This Plot was carried on so far that as Mr. Wyer attests it was to have taken Effect Tryal p. 72. and the Invasion to have been made in 79. a Year after the Discovery of the Plot in England he himself affirming that since Plunket was taken he saw in the time of Plunkets Imprisonment his Commands to his under dignitaries not to be forgetful of the Moneys that were assessed towards the supplying the French Army and that there was no better time to bring in the French than when he was in Prison And for sure Work Mr. Duffey attests that this Invasion was not only to be made by a French Army but by a Spanish Army too that was to land with them Tryal p. 77. For Duffey heard Plunket at a Consult and giving Special Order for some of them to get a List of all the Officers that lost their Estates and that they should be more forwards than they to proceed in that Wicked Design to destroy all the Protestants together which was expresly to be done by an Army of Irish Spanish and French together Plunket at the same time encouraging every one that could dispose of Money to provide some for those Gentlemen that would soon come over into Ireland viz. the French Army and Spanish Army together Duffy having likewise besides the sight of several Orders for to raise Money seen a Letter from Plunket when he lay in Jail signifying that that was the only time for bringing the matter to an end and that the French and Spanish Kings should take the Advantage that now was Offered whilst he was in Prison In all this Irish Plot we have a Model of State Affairs extremely different from those in the English Plot. As first for example we find the French King not half so Generous in Carrying on the Catholick Cause in Ireland as in England In England he was to Lend the Conspirators an Army gratis and help them to make a Conquest for themselves whilst the Vanquisht Crown and Government was to have been disposed of as Bellasis Petres and Arundel and the rest of the Victorious English Generals thought fit But in Ireland he plainly sets up for himself and poorly and mercinarily sides with the 60 or 700000 Irish Champions to conquer and possess their Kingdom nay he is so wretchedly ignoble that he robs the very Spittle and suffers the poor beggarly Vermin the Irish Clergy that were not able altogether to buy Horse and Arms for 20 Men not only to be taxt for the maintenance of their own 70000 Irish but likewise to send over Money and Gold even to the Mighty King of France towards the bringing his Army over Sea Secondly we find the Irish not half so valiant and resolved in carrying on their Heretick Massacre as the more Heroick English Catholicks in theirs For the English as we have read before upon the going off of Pickerings Gun in March 77. were prepared for a Massacre and that too when one Man was to Kill near a brace of Hundreds for his share But the poor Spirited Irish in the other Extreme where the Popish Party are 50 times more numerous than in England with an Army of no less then 70000 Conspirators all ready for the stroke are cowardly distrusting so vast a Strength and Calling in French and Spanish Armies to their Assistance though to the inevitable Enslaving themselves and their Posterity to so known a Tyrant as the King of France The Foresight of which Slavery was the reason that Duffy Discovered the Plot telling us he had been in 77. almost a year in France and seeing there how the poor People are brought in such Slavery by the French Tryal p. 79. he thought of it and had rather the Devil should reign over them than the Frenchman Thirdly we have here the most unpolitick and most sensless conduct in the Spaniard that the Chronicles in all Ages can never parallel viz. We have the King of Spain if there can be such an Animal of a Monarch in Nature at the very moment that he 's courting the Alliance of almost all Christendom to assist him against the French having lost so great a part of Flanders to him and being so much in danger of loosing the rest of it is notwithstanding Lending this very French King an Army to help him subdue Ireland and inlarge the Conquests of his most Potent and most Formidable Enemy Well But that Miracles are not ceast in the Romish Church this would appear most Monstrously strange However for this and the rest of the Extravagancies in the Plot we have all along Substantial Oaths and therefore are bound in Conscience to believe Tho let me tell you for a belief in this case with his Spanish Majesties pardon we must lead our Imagination so far as to lodge the very Soul of a Changeling in the Breast of a King For a Soul of Gods Common handy Work could never be so void of Common Sense But alas this Blockhead of a Spaniard con licenza Signior For I vow I cannot forbear calling him so is not only Blundering this once and Committing this one enormous piece of Stupidity But the English Plot and his Affairs there are of the same Leven with the Irish Conspiracy For this
the Nation but the Plot What has set up so many City Posts and Chains to keep out Spanish Pilgrims and Popish Guards but the Plot And riddle me riddle what made the whole Body of the Antipopish Dissenters in their Highest Enmity and Dudgeon against Plots and Rome desire to be united and incorporated with the Popish Church of England but the Plot What is it arraighns the Laws Libells Courts and Blackens Kings supplies the poyson'd Gall to all Republick Pens prefers a Raree-Show before a Te Deum and sets a Milton above an Evangelist but the Plot The Plot writ the Association and 't was Plots Popish Plots too that install'd the Covenant Plots that pul'd down the Church to set up the Kirk rays'd an Arbitrary Common Wealth to pull down an Arbitrary Legal Monarchy and cut off the Kings Head to make him Glorious What is it that Plots cannot or have not don though never so Romantick or Impossible Have they not made a whole Protestant Church all Popish and the Episcopal Clergy Tooth and Nayle conspiring for their own Destruction Yes and the Mildest and Best of Kings after so moderate an Administration of Government a Raign of above Twenty quiet Halcyon years together a Raign where Law and Justice were never stretch unless into Mercy and Indulgence a Raign where too easy Forgiveness and receiving his pardon'd Enemies the warm ungrateful Snakes too near into the Bosom of Majesty and too high into his Trust and Honours has been the onely fault in the Throne This very Godlike Tempred King after so long a Harmony of Government in so calm a Sphear of Glory by the all-aspersing Libel of a Plot shall nevertheless all of a suddain throw his long golden Reins away and to bring in that unweildy Leviathan Arbitrary Power involve his Gray Haires in inextricable Broyl and Tumult loose all the peaceful Rest of Age and all to turn a Tyrant a Jehu a Phaeton even in the last Race of his Life Nay and to make the Hideous Fantom a little more Gigantick this very Prince if Noyse and Plots may be beleiv'd shall be pensioning and confederating with France though against himself to the betraying of his Crown and Empire But Popery and Arbitrary Power are to be brought in and though by Head and Shoulders though by the most Ridiculous Means as wide from Sense and Truth as North from South 't is all alike 'T is but insinuating into the Brainless heads of the People that the King himself as I told you is leaguing with France to bring in the Pope and though the French King has his Sword in the very Bowels of Flanders against the Faithfullest Son of Rome the King of Spain though he can scarce keep his profane hands even from Italy the Seat of the Roman God himself though he has pyrated the very best Flower in the Popes Garden the Regalias of his Empire and shaken the very Papal Supremacy even to the pulling down of that dreadful Curse of Excommunication had the Pope but Courage to pronounce it nay though he has promoted the Protestant Rebellion in Hungary and brought the very Turk into Christendom possibly not many years journey from the very Gates of Rome yet all this while this very King of France shall be the Popes right Hand his Spear his Shield his every thing and is setting up the Romish Interest with all the Industry and Vigour in the World And to compleat this Mountainous Monster of a Conspiracy the King and Court of England for Plots and Popery make all things go down shall be as deep in it as He. And though God knows there is not so much as the least Signe Appearance or shadow of any thing of this and the Infusers of all this poyson into the unreasoning Multitude are conscious 't is all rank Forgery no matter for that They know whom they have to deal with the Headlong Mobile of England a People of that strange Constitution that they fear nothing that they See but all things that they Hear And those very men that in Visible dangers shall face the Mouths of Cannons yet at the Apprehension of Castles in the Ayre Popery and Arbitrary Power from the Imaginary Thunderbolts from that quarter shall start like Hinds 'T is but winding that Horne and they fall as flat before the sound as the Walls of Jericho and nothing but breathing the Spirit of Rebellion into them can rowze them out of the fright on 't And who at last are the Great First Movers in all these National Enflamings Truly those very Men that bawld lowdest for the Preservation of His Majesties Person against Plots and Popish Swords are the Numerical Persons that Scandalize His Majesty with Popishly affected to the withdrawing the hearts of his Subjects which are his greatest and strongest Guard against all Plots or Swords whatsoever And whilst this Zeal for the King and the Government Establisht brings these mighty leading Nimrods into the Chace 't is much to be feared the Cry of running down Popery is more to call the Hunters together then the Game intended Thus since the Plot is made the Tool for all this Mischief and furnishes all the Fuel for Dissentions and Discords the great Incendiaries of the World I am resolved to bid adieu to it and to leave it as I found it draw the true Picture of that Wonderworking Prodigy that has so long and so highly to astonishment be it spoken put three Kingdoms into a Distraction And now Sir Thomas having shaken hands with that troublesom Companion Whiggism my Conversion as the Divines say of Christianity makes me happy if but in the very Ease of Mind it gives me and the Slavery it rids me of A Whigg being that Owlight sort of Animal that unless in a Coach and six it never looks abroad without being hooted at And I thank my Starrs I shall now be no longer confined but to two perches in a Cage like the Salamanca Doctor just to hop to Amsterdam Coffee-House and then home again But once more venture to walk by Daylight and from this time forward look Sense and Quality in the Face and instead of Shades and Coverts returne to Conversation and the World again And that I may no wayes forfeit those good Graces that Sir from your self and all other Persons of Honour and Loyalty I shall ever ambitiously Covet and study to preserue I shall fully and intirely abjure all Turbulence and Malignity whatever and to avoyd the Crime and Fate of Saphira retain no one part of my unrepented sins about me that might make my whole Atonement Sacrifice unacceptable but persevere with that Integrity and Honesty that may render me so much the more worthy to subscribe my self Sir Your most Obedient and most Humble Servant E. Settle A Narrative c. IN the Year 78 it pleased those Powers that inspir'd them to raise up Mr. Oats Bedlows Dugdale Prance c. to be the Preservers or what properer name you 'l
Root and Brance not so much as a heretick Hewer of wood or Drawer of Water had been left unslaughter'd Now after this damnable Popish Decree and all this Lamentable Tragedy I admire what need the Pope had in his long Bull read by Dr. Oats in Blundels hands after the disposal of Bishopricks Nar. p. 72. Abbotships c. for want of English born Preists enough for all the dignities of the Church of England to decree such and such Spaniards and other forreigners should supply that want and order such and such for reading Philosophy and Divinity in all great Towns and Colledges and such and such to be employed in Preaching catechizing and assisting at the Altar Alas and welladay after so Numberless an Assassination as All the Protestants in England there would have been so little Occasion for Supplies of Spanish priests that there would scarce have been Flock enough left to overstock the very St. Omers Brotherhood Many a great Town in England would have stood in so little need of a Philosophy or Divinity School that there would not have been so much as three souls left alive in 't and three Surviving Families had been more then many a nine Parishes in England could have produced That the Pope one would think might have Spared his untimely provision for his Underchurches for unless his Jagoe Pilgrims and other kind Visitants had repeopled the Kingdom the Underchurches might have e'en stood Idle and the very Cathedral alone in many a fair Town have held the Congregation of the whole County Besides in my Mind 't was mighty ridiculous in the Plotters to trouble their heads about the Succession and as the Dr. tells you to threaten the Duke if he followed his Brothers steps to send him after him For truly when Mr. Dugdales Massacres and Armies had left him no Subjects living but Papists 't was not three Farthings matter what the Successors Religion was nor was it likely he could ever follow his Brothers steps and favor the Protestants when he had not one Protestant left to favor But now after all this dismal and deplorable business methinks I cannot make a livelier Representation of the woful state of England than by fancying I see the distrest and desolate Britannia mourning o're her slaughter'd Sons like the Brentford Kings howling over Lardella's Coffin But now what if by a new turn of State Lardella should be alive at last and maugre this fatal and universal Doom several Thousands of those Sentenced Hereticks should live many a fair Summers day after it And that all this is undeniable truth we have no less then Mr. Bedlow's Reprieve to save them for after his landing an Army of 10000 Men from Flanders at Bradlington Bay to surprize Hull Garrison and the Lord Petre and Powis having another Army to march to Pembrookshire to meet a Third Army of 20 or 30000 Men who were to land at Milford haven being an Army composed of all Religious Men and Pilgrims from St. Jago in Spain Lords Journ 12th day of Nov. 78. and whatever should happen that their Strength as they said might be sufficient they had 40000 Men a Fourth Army ready in London besides those that would on the Alarm be posted at Every Ale-house door to have Kill'd the Soldiers as they came out of their quarters which I suppose at least must make a fifth Army more besides a sixth Army of Mr. Oats's from France expresly to have been let in upon the Kings death but at present forgotten by Mr. Bedlow Irelands Tryal p. 29. Now amongst all these formidable Armies to be commanded by Bellasis Petres Powis c. The edge of Mr. Dugdales Massacre is a little rebated for here as Bedlow tells the House of Lords after Conyers had kill'd the King Keins the Duke of Monmouth Pritchard the Duke of Buckingham Mr. Right my Lord Shaftesbury Mr. O neal my Lord Ossory and one whose name he had forgotten the Duke of Ormond after all these Persons were kill'd the Papists did not question the Power of the rest or their Counsels but that they should out do them for they would give such great Pay that all sorts of Malecontents and People that depended on their fortune Lords Journ ibid 12th of N. would be ready to serve them All this perform'd as he tells you afterward they designed to establish their Government secure enough for they intended utterly to extinguish all sorts of People that would not really be converted to the Church of Rome and to prove it persecute their nearest Relations that were Obstinate Here we have the abovenamed Lords Generals a little more honorably employ'd under Mr. Bedlows Banners than Mr. Dugdales the whole Glory of the Day being now like to be theirs and not only Mr. Dugdales Presbyterians that were to be Massacred by a medley of Papists and Episcopals manifestly rescued from destruction but they and all other Malecontents to be bribed into the Popish Army and vice versâ make a part of the Catholick Forces to cut the Episcopal Throats Here tho all the Protestants at long run were to be extinguisht yet the stream is not half so rapid as Mr. Dugdales for here the Hereticks had time to cry Quarter and have the fair Proffer of Conversion for their Deliverance whilst the destruction of the Obstinate was only to approach by the slower hand of Persecution Thus far I have showed you the many and wonderful Windings and Turnings of French Armies English Armies Flandrian Armies and Pilgrim Armies and all the rest of the Plot Forces that were to destroy the King Subvert the Government and Religion and Subject the whole Nation to slavery and Popery But after all these manifold and various Motions of so many Armies for the Protestant Destruction as Bays his whispering Conspirators wisely observed of the two Brentford Kings viz. When they heard us whisper 2dly What they heard us whisper and lastly whither they heard us at all or no. So likewise in our Conspiracy after we have given you an account by What Armies and When this great Design was to have been accomplisht what if we come to Bays his last point and prove the Work was to have been done by no Armies at all I that would be a Rarity indeed and an Atchievement enough to immortalize the Policy and Glory of Rome Well! As wondrous as this Atchievement may look it is no more strange than 't is true And that too as shall be manifestly made out by the clearest Demonstration through the whole discovery For Example Mr. Oates swears as you have been told before that Pickering and Grove by the Jesuits order had been at Killing the King the March before the April Consult and not only then but several Years before had been dogging the King for the same Murdering purpose nay upon further Examination we may track the Plot upon occasions even to the Firing of London Here it visibly appears that many Years before the April Consult
of Errands no less then the summ of 4000. l. to hire him to Kill Sir Edmond Bury Godfrey and that too when himself was but to be one of the Four or Six that were to do it witness his Oath before the House of Lords William Bedloe saith on his Oath that this Examinant being treated with by Mr. Lephaire and Mr. Walsh Jesuits about the beginning of October last they offer'd him a Reward of 4000. l. if he would be one of the Four or Six that should Kill a Man that was a great Obstacle to their Designs viz. Sir Edmond-Bury Godfrey as it proved afterwards a very round summ together if the other Five were to be as well paid But here the Reader is desired to take notice of the most matchless Example of self Denial in Mr. Bedloe that peâ—haps they have met with and the vast and wonderful Difference of some Mens Consciences Those very Gentlemen to whom 500. l. was less in their Pockets then five pound in Mr. Bedloe's could notwithstanding bite at 20 l. a Man to Murder no less than a King when on the contrary Mr. Bedloe refused 4000. l. to Murder but a poor Justice of the Peace For as we have it in his aforesaid Oath before the House of Lords Thus following he this Deponent promis'd viz. to Lephaire and Walsh to be one to do it upon their giving him notice afterwards viz. the Fryday before Sir Edmond Bury was missing Mr. Lephaire met him this Deponent about Four a Clock in Grays-Inn-Walks and appointed to meet him again the next day at the same place about the same Hour to do that Business that upon his taking the Sacrament to do it he this Deponent should have the Money paid down but he not liking the Design faild of meeting him c. Is not this as I said before a wonderful piece of self denial but as wonderful as 't is here 's the fellow on 't to come After Sir Edmondbury was murdered this Deponent meets Lephaire again and is show'd Godfreys dead Body and upon the spot is offer'd half the aforesaâ—d 4000. l. to be but only one of the Five or Six ibid Jur. 12 N that should carry the body to a place where they had Chose to lay him To which he seemingly agreed but begging their pardon for half an hour telling them he 'd wait on them again he went away and came no more and being charged next day for not coming according to promise Mr. Bedloe gave this Powerful Reason for his Absence viz. he was unwilling to come because he knew the Person that was Kill'd A very cogent Reason indeed But to heighten the Miracle of Mr. Bedloes refusing 4000. l. for a Mâ—rder and 2000. l. for a Porteridge the least of them one would think a very attractive summ the Reader is to Consider that Mr. Bedloe at that very time was none of the squeamishest or nicest conscienc't Men being all along not only privy to all the Popish Designs the Landing of 20 or 30000 Jago Pilgrims at Milford Haven 10000 Flandrians at Hull besides the other Armies to be rais'd in England the Commissions given out and himself to be a Commission Officer and consequently to be engaged in all the Protestant blood-shed intended the Kings only excepted and that this Man should all of a sudden stagger at one poor Hereticks dispatch tho for 4000. l. reward or if that would not down to refuse 2000 l. and all but for the 6th part of the Luggage of one poor Carcase but to Primrose-hill is not take it all together a little stupendious But having enter'd into so sad and deplorable a Story as the Murder of that unfortunate Gentleman nothing methinks can strike a greater Impression on all tender Hearts than the Barbarous Circumstances and Methods used by his Inhumane Butchers for his Destruction Mr. Bedloe for Example in his former Examination before the House of Lords Nov. 12th has him trappan'd into Sommerset-house in this manner Lephaire Walsh and my Lord Bellasis Gentleman meeting Sir Edmondbury about Five of the Clock by the Kings-head-Inn in the Strand and pretending to bring him to a place near St. Clements Church where they would show him a great Company of the Principal Plotters against the King and Surprize both them and the Principal of their Papers they walkt on till they came at Sommerset-house great Gate and there made a Halt desiring him to walk in and take a turn or two with two of them till the Third went and got a Constable here after they had took a turn or two two more Persons came out and shoved him into a Room and when they had him secure They held a Pistol to his Breast threatning to shoot him if he made any noise but if he answered their Expectations they would not hurt him then asking him to send for the Examinatious he had taken about those that were Committed he told them 't was not in his Power for he had sent them to Whitehall upon that and his refusing to answer other Questions they seiz'd him and stifled him with a Pillow and so they thought he had been dead but coming into the Room some time after they found him struggling and then they strangled him with a long Cravat Thus in ample form from the Records of Mr. Bedloe have we the true History of this poor Gentlemans untimely Fate But now after this Barbarous manner of Trappanning him and then Killing him stone dead one would imagine we were come to the last Act of the Tragedy But truly no there 's as bad or worse behind still For the kind Mr. Práce upon his further discovery has more Bloody Scenes of it to come yet Upon his Oath before the King and Council and afterwards confirmed before the House of Lords he says that Hill Lords Journ jur Dec. 24 78 Green and Gerald after a Week or Fortnights dogging Sir Edmond-bury Godfrey they watcht him at last passing from St. Clements till he came to the Water-gate at Sommerset-house about Nine at Night where Hill making some hast before stept within the Wicket which was open and turning soon again called to Sir Edmond as he was passing and said there was two Men quarrelling within who might soon be quieted if once they saw him whereupon he entered through the Wicket and after him Green and Gerald and down all went till they came to a Bench that is at the bottom of the deep descent and joyning to a rail next to the upper end of the Stables on the right hand and that upon the said Bench there was Sitting and Attending their coming the said Examinant Miles Prance and Berry the Porter of the other Gate with an Irishman whose name he knows not and by that time they were come half way down Berry and Prance rose up from the Bench and one went up to the Wicket and the other to the Stone steps going up to the great Court to give notice if any came to
Drs Depositions that on the contrary I should have civilly intreated him first to have Printed them 2dly have petition'd the 3 Kingdoms to read them with Deliberation and lastly have honorably rewarded the kind Dr. for his Discovery with at least a Pension for his Life This way I am sure might have probably saved a great deal of Blood-shed and more Distraction and I am Confident a Pension to the Dr. for this service had been better laid out and better deserved fâ—om the Popish Party then many a round summ expended by them elsewhere for less Consideration This is the Plot the insufficient Prosecution of which as some Sham Patriots please to think or at least call it has Exasperated them into that Gall and Rancor as has made them brand even the Throne it self and make the very Government in the Conspiracy for its own Dissolution and because theâ—e Malecontents either cannot or dare not be plain in reciting all the particular Omissions and Transgressâ—ons committed in that kind for once I 'le do it for them And since the Court and the Court conduct is the great grievance to some of His Majesties true Protestant Subjects I shall endeavor to Muster all the most visible Enormities and neglects either in the detection of the Plot or the Preservation of the Protestant Religion For Example After no less than 30000 Spanish Pilgrims were just in their March towards England were not the King and Counâ—el extremely to blame in such a dangerous Exigence not to dispatch Embassadors to all Forreign Princes to deny passage through their Kingdoms to such a terrible Legion of Blood-thirsty Vagabonds and more especially to break Alliance with the Spaniard for so Treacherous a Conspiracy was it not high time for the safety of the Nation to alarum all the Ports of England and draw down the Militia that way to keep them out But this the true Protestants know was not done Was it not Likewise as great a Neglect in the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in not Issuing out a Lat tat or one and Cry or some such thing against the 25000 Messina Soldiers Landed and Conceal'd in that Kingdom and making a strict search for 40000 Black Bills with a Proclamation likewise of so much reward to bring in either the Smiths Ironmongers or Waggoners concerned either in to ging Lodging or carrying of them Is it not a manifest exposing of his Royal Person to the very great fright of his true Protestant Subjects for the King to venture himself to Windsor or any other of his Country Seats and Possibly but in the head of not above 200 Guards when no less then Four Irish Ruffians have so notoriously attempted hâ—s Life there Can there be a more heinous scandal to the Government and the great Men at the helm after the not only Firing of London and Southwark with 700 Sheeps fat Fire-balls alias Teuxberry Mustard Balls but Likewise such numerous hands hired and posted for the Firing of the rest of the Suburbs first not to make a stricter inquisition after these Jesuitical City burners and 2dly not to have a severe eye upon all Mutton dealers from the Drover to the Butcher nay from the Cook to the Kitchin stuff Maid to prevent the dangerous use of all Sheeps Fat and that for no less then the safety of Englands Metropolis But above all this what more unpardonable Fault could His Majesty commit or what greater neglect could he show both of his own and his Kingdoms safety as not to disband his Guards especially when his Loyal Subjects and the Nations Patriots for the Protection both of the Protestant Faith and the Faiths Defender so humbly and so Seasonably desired it of him And what 's yet more Capital than all the rest neither to resign his Militia nor take his Forts and Cinque Ports from his Friends and commit them to their Trust whom They his Wiser Guardians kind Protectorships thought fit to choose for him Have not the true Protestant Party just cause think you to Exclaim and in the height of their fervent Zeal for their King and Country Launch out now and then into a Libel or so upon so unconscionable a Denyal of these so reasonable Petitions Nay have not the Brethren a yet more severe Complaint against His Majesty for his Weakness of Faith in not sufficiently crediting Dangerfields receipt of 20 Guinneys from his Royal Highness and that too against a Brother and a Prince upon the Single Attestation of one poor Jail Bird a Testimony not sufficient to convict a Corn-cutter nay and all in down right contradiction of all the other Evidence beside who still to the last swore the Duke both Ignorant and Innocent of the Plot. But alas what 's Innocence in the Face of a Bill of Exclusion or what signity such foolish scruples as Non-sence Improbability and Contradiction in the Case of the Descent of Crowns and why should not that Evidence strike at the Birth-right nay lives of Princes and be believed for High-Treason at the C s Bar that at a Quarter Sessions would not have been credited for the Proof of a petty Larceny Ay and very good reason for it too for the true Protestant Cause is a Theme so sublime and so Divine that ipso momâ—nto it consecrates all its Supporters and puts Oracles even into all Mouths and the Devil himself could scarce lye upon that Subject Besides all Errors at Whitehall have not those unnatural Mothers the two Protestant Universities a just Cause to blush to see themselves so much out done by the more generous Academy at Salamanca Is it not a crying Shame they have not celebrated a Commencement on purpose to admit the Reverend Dignified Titus into his Drs. Robes Nay are not the whole Body of the Clergy down right Papists in their Souls that they have not with one Heart and one Voice made it their humble Petition to His Majesty that the so well deserving Pillar of their Religion may be desired to lay by his Amsterdam Jump and do them the Honor to Accept of a Bishoprick Or what more Barbarous Ingratitude could have been shewn to the Preserver of 3 Kingdoms and the Atlas of our Christianity then that this very Person should be so heinously neglected that from not being worth 12 d. and raised afterwards to 12 pounds a Week he should be 700 worse for the Discovery of the Plot. But alas that may very well be for we are all sensible he brought over his Discovery as Whittington did his Cat with no less Expectation then to be made an Alderman by it and as 't is likewise plain it came upon us very like Whittingtons Cat too no less then a Rarity and a perfect Original being the First and the Last either of the Kind or the Price what greater National piece of Injustice can be offered then that he wants both the Reward and Exaltation he deserves 'T is true some ill natur'd Snarlers are apt to lessen the Drs Merit