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grace_n	lord_n	sir_n	william_n	9,182	5	9.4998	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A24391	An Account of a vindication of the English Catholicks from the pretended conspiracy against the life and government of His Sacred Majesty undertaking to discover the chief falsities and contradictions contained in the narrative of Titus Oates, &c.		1681 (1681)	Wing A194; ESTC R6713	36,984	36

over again the old Tales of the Deponents never having been at Madrid c. with all their appertenances and calls upon him at the price of his head and credit to produce the Letter he there speaks of But yet in the rear of this his Squadron of weak and wild Denyals may be found a squinting Quaere that had he been well advised he would never have inserted it amounting upon a reasonable construction to little less than a tacit confession of the whole Charge For If the Lord Arch-bishop otherwise Titular Vsurping Prelate of ●uam or that Jesuite Suiman being Subjects No they have traiterously renounced that Subjection by becoming Feudataries to the Pope of the King of England waited on and proffered their service to his Majesties Embassador they did but their duty They 'll find themselves mistaken And if his Lordship receiv'd them civilly he has no reason to con them Thank for crying Roast-meat however having no direct order The man you see is as intimate with his Lordship as if they were Cater-Cozens to the contrary I hope none are so barbarous I know many that are so honest as to blame him for it But that there ever past any intimate correspondence O have a care of that for Hanging follows Confessing chiefly The man's Conscience flies in his face and spoils all for these Qualifications Ifs and And 's are a contradiction to Attestation A pag. 42. where his Grace swears out-right that he never made unto or heard from the most excellent Lord Sir William Godolphin any publick or private discourse concerning any Religious or lascivious matter whatsoever nor concerning the Government or State of Affairs in England Ireland or Scotland nor received from any person any Letter or Paper whatsoever directed unto or intended for the said most excellent Lord c. relating to any publick concern it is absolutely false forthe mighty reason abovesaid This passage speaks plain enough without the assistance of an Interpreter He rather cavills at then disproves or opposes § 66 pag. 31. but yet pretends to see he knows not how many contradictions in it to what the Deponent has elsewhere delivered and so makes his Triumph as upon a certain Victory demanding How came his Patrons the King Parliament c. to let them the pretended Contradictions pass abroad uncorrected but that in this God blinded them that they might remain to Posterity an everlasting unanswerable Proof of the Injustice of their Judgments This is a pretty round Complement And I see too that a Jesuits Spectacles can magnifie or lessen even to annihilation according to the respective aspects of their Interests for let the places which he here will have to stand so much at Daggers drawing be duly compared and examined and my word for his they may soon be made Friends But a Jesuit will still be a Jesuite and None so blind as they that will not see In Sect. 67 he only says there are six Lyes and that 's all for he puts us to take his word for 'um which truly is but a very slender evidence to say no worse on 't He endeavours to weaken the credit of Sect. 68 by inserting a malicious and irrational Fable which he pretends to have been Conyers's account of what passed betwixt the Deponent and himself in Grays-Inn-Walks pressing it with as much confidence as if he would prescribe to Reason it self and tye the whole world to an implicit Belief in his Figments He continues in the same jocular and abusive mood throughout Section 69 making himself wonderful merry pag. 33. with the Deponents great days work on the two and twentieth of August here in controversie and discovering his own notable proficiency in the laudable and useful Faculties of Calumnyating Falsifying and Burlesquing Now it is impolitique for a body to shew his Teeth when he cannot bite and by this time one may without breach of Charity conclude the Observators Tongue to be no slander Beside I examined as strictly as I could for my life the Items of the Narrative that he makes thus familiar with and shall dare to say all that this Frolicksome Gentleman has insinuated to the contrary notwithstanding that I have not been able to discern any thing in them that may give the least affront to Reason and Probability He only trifles upon Sect. 70 and against Sect. 71 produces his old naked and unsatisfactory Fopperies At Sect. 72 pag. 34. he makes a wonderment and so passes it by Upon Sect 73 he miserably betrays his want of Honesty Prudence and Conscience by witnessing to Impossibilities To Sect. 74. he contents himself with his bold Negatives and pretends a Concern for the Nations wellfare very much in his opinion disturbed by the Fanaticks and tho' contending for this Section to be a Lye yet allowing it to be at least a Profitable one if made use of according to his own Direction All that is remarkable in his Notes upon Sect. 75. is his informing the Deponent Pag. 35. how he should have worded it to have made it acceptable to the pretended Catholicks Now though I suppose he is not over ambitious of such a Favour yet he will needs have it that he has committed a grievous Sin in not casting a Figure to hit upon 't In Sect. 76. he would fain be nibbling at a Contradiction but finding he can make nothing on 't out of mere vexation he falls most bitterly upon Sect. 77 terming it Such incoherent Non-sense as never came from any man in his Wits and all this only for Representing Whitebread as a Person able when his Zeal was in tune to lift up his hand and give the Deponent a Box o' th' Ear for having betrayed him as he call'd it Yet finding this Exception to want weight he is once of the mind to let it pass but however catches at it again before out of his reach for slandering the honesty and prudence of the Provincial with a matter of Truth But beside that he was no great Conjurer even at the very best if a body may take measure of his Abilities by the manner of his Defence it is no wonder neither that that black malice to apply the Observators own words that appeared in him upon sight of the Discoverer of his Treasons and common sense or the use of Right Reason should be inconsistent in the same mind God darkening the understanding when man leaves his will to the workings of malilce c. He next proceeds according to custom to set up his own adulterous Pratings against this sober Account of the Deponents But in the delivery of them makes such unhappy slips as by dint of Argument could never have been extorted from him and are far from advantaging his Cause So true we see is the old Saying A Lyar had need have a good memory But he winds up all with laying it home that because Whitebread was taken napping by neglecting to endeavour his escape till it was too late therefore Posterity ought to