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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50583	The memoires of Titus Oates written for publick satisfaction.		1685 (1685)	Wing M1674; ESTC R15134	6,698	15

for the raysing the Army so immediately necessary to prosecute the Blow after the Kings dispatch Now in the name of dulness where were Our Witts when all this Hideous pieco of Apocrypha was currant Gospel amongst us And Lastly To bring the Forreign Heroes into Play too Oates swears that upon subduing of England in manner aforesaid the French were to be Lord of be Ascendant the Government of England being designed to have devolved into their hands And pray mark the Riddle of the Business Here was the Spanish King in the Year 78. lending no less a Body of Men then thirty thousand Fighting Pilgrims to help establish the French King in the Monarchy of England at the very same time that he was in actual Wars against him and an utter Enemy to France and so harrast by the French that he was courting allmost all Christendom against him and imploring all Foreighn Aides and Alliances to oppose him yes tho' he had already lost so large and so important a part of his own Country to him and was not over able with his best strength to defend the rest from him yet is this Spanish King forsooth if Oates his Evidence will hold Water ayding and assisting the French King with so vast a Succour for the enlarging the very Victories of his most hated Enemy by so prodigious an Acquisition as the Imperial Diadem of England Oh! The Miracles of a Romish-Plot and the more Miraculous English stomach to digest it This Reader is the great and dreadful Popish Bugbear that once had Power to Fright three Kingdoms out of their Senses and this the Saviour of the Nation that so many almost prostrate Knees and up lifted Hands entertained and saluted with no less than Palm-Branches and Hosannahs The particularizing of all the nonsensical Incongruitys and Contradictions thro' the whole Legend of his Discovery such as his Swearing at one Tryal he was perverted to the Romish Religion and at another that he was still a Protestant and only play'd the Hypocrite amongst the Papists to learn their Secrets and to detect their Plots And then his Swearing before the Council that he knew not Coleman when brought Face to Face before him and yet at his Tryal to Swear he was his most intimate Acquaintance and Co-Plotter in the whole Business of the Four Irish Ruffins and consequently was the main Evidence that Hanged him But most of all this his most egregious Perjury in Swearing before the House of Lords that he had Discovered his whole Plot and had not one Person more to Accuse than what he had named and impeach'd before and yet after all this to bring the very Queen into the Conspiracy to Poyson the King a Princess of that immaculate Virtue and unexampled Piety into so damnable and hellish a Design that most Arrogant of Impostures and Villanies as far from the very shadow of Truth as the Monster that uttered it is from Heaven The particularizing I say of all the egregious and impudent Falsities thro' his whole Fardle of Narratives is a Work too long and tedious Besides the Mystery of Iniquity thanks be to Heaven is already made so tranparent almost to all Eyes and Understandings that 't is almost impossible that any thing but wilfull and hardned Blindness it self cannot plainly see through The only and last tho feeble Argument that his Defenders if 't is possible he can have any left can make for him is to say How is it possible that all his Discovery should be such errant Forgery and Imposture and yet be so universally believed even by the most unanimous and so long Assent of the greatest and most sensible Men of the whole Kingdom Why truly were not an English-Mans Belief one of the greatest Prodigies since the Flood this might be much wondred at And truly it would appear almost stupendious how almost a whole Nation should be so besotted had not woful experience convinced that truly this is but the second Notorious Blot in our English Scutcheon For let us but look back into the dismal Fears and Jealoasies in the first King CHARLES his Raign and we shall find the self same Phantom govern'd then too And just such another as senseless and as ridiculous imaginary Plot of setting up Popery and Arbitrary Power O Monstrum Horendum Blew Three Kingdoms into a Flame and from the dismal Effects of that Epidemical Lunacy has left that stain upon the English Name and Reputation abroad in the World that not whole Ages will wash off And truly we have no Excuse left why we should be so grosly imposed upon again and run into a second as damnable an Errour as the first but frankly confessing that the Frenzy of our Fathers is Hereditary and nothing but their Madness running in our Bloods has been the cause of so enormous a Folly the extravagant Apprehensions of the Danger of Popery being that natural impefection that the generallity of English Men are as much born to as men are to a Club-Foot or a Hunch-Back or any other Deformity and really which they are almost as hardly to be cured of And therefore to draw to an End with our Swearing Master Titus that Hellish Incendiary and chief Visible Original of our so many Years Distractions His Sentence though it seem Severe is much less than he deserves our English Law-makers as never imagining the possibility of so unexampled an Offender having provided no Punishment equal to the Demerits of such unprecedented Villany FINIS Entred according to Order