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A53548 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. Oates, Titus, 1649-1705. 1696 (1696) Wing O58; ESTC R7790 47,612 60

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of all Supream Powers to suppress Vice and encourage Vertue which is best done abroad when first and effectually begun at home in your own House and Family by banishing all vicious Livers from your Presence and Converse and advancing the Vertuous in their stead By the neglect of which principal Part of their Royal Trust and Office Princes depose themselves as useless before God and their own Consciences whatever may be their State or Glory in Fact and by humane Laws and Power before Men. Our Royal Patron being thus dismiss'd we are now got to the Narrative it self of which you my kind Reader still may or may not as you choose run over the Heads They are these The general Design in this Plot was the Reformation that is in their Sense the Reduction of Great Britain and Ireland by the Sword to the Romish Religion and Obedience And Besides the Papal there was also a French Plot carried on by Sir Ellis Leighton Mr. COLEMAN and others The King's Person they more especially resolved to remove and that with all possible speed by Dagger Pistol or POISON The Prince of Orange is to be cut off He was designed against and condemned by Name and 12 Missioners sent into Holland had it in charge to put that People in Mutiny against him On the 4th of January stilo novo Letters were sent by Richard Ashby and others Jesuits of the English Seminary at St. Omers to the Father Confessor of the Emperor to advise him that his Majesty of Great Britain had treacherously plotted the Ruine of the Confederates and that his Design was not to keep any Alliance with his Imperial Majesty but only in shew that he might advance his Nephew THE PRINCE OF ORANGE and make him absolute and therefore prayed that the States of Holland might be acquainted with it Letters arrived at London bearing Date Aug. 5. 1678 from Whito alias Whitebread Provincional to John Fenvick from St. Omers in which he did inform the Fathers that he had ordered 12 Jesuits to go for Holland and to inform the Dutch that the Prince of Orange did intend to assume the Crown of a King and that he resolved to bring them under another Government which was designed to beget in the Dutch an evil Opinion of the P. of Orange and to procure a Commotion there against him On the 11th of Aug. John Keines a Jesuit declared that all means were now used to beget a difference between the Dutch and the P. of Orange and if that could be effected there was no question to be made but that the Protestant Interest would fail in Holland On the 12th of Aug. a Pacquet arrived in London from White alias Whitebread the Provincional and other Jesuits to John Fenwick intimating that the twelve Jesuits were got into Holland and would use all their Skill and Interest to make a Commotion there and that APPLE-TREE WILL. meaning the P. of Orange SHOVLD NOT BE GREAT And that they hoped the Fathers in London would follow their Business closely there In order to the Reduction of Ireland it was resolved that the D. of Ormond must be put out of the way and that then the Protestants should be cut off as in 41 and to that end Arms and Money were sent over and the Pope contributed 800 Thousand Crowns and to make all sure the French were to send Forces over to join 25 thousand Irish On the 11th of Aug. John Keines the Jesuit declared that the Provincional had taken great care of keeping alive the Difference between the disaffected Scots and D. Lauderdale and that the Affairs in Ireland went on with great Expedition and that fourty eight would not last long in England for it was high time to hinder fourty nine from being effected That Barly-broth should grow dead and Twelve would be cut off and that Mum and Chocolate should be put down and the Order of Magpyes should be turned into their Primitive Institution and Habit now the Deponent saith that the Words hinder 49 from being effected is an Expression that is used amongst them for cutting off the King that he may not live to be compleat forty nine Years of Age and by Barley-broth is meant the House of Commons which shall be turned out and sit no more and by Mum and Chocolate is meant the Protestant Peers who if not destroyed shall never have any Vote in the House of Peers more after the Death of this King and by Magpyes they understand the Bishops whose Habit in Parliament is Black and white which shall be changed into Purple and by Twelve is meant the Duke of Monmouth Keines on the 12th of August determined to go for Windsor in order to settle some Business there towards the dispatching 48 and told the Deponent that he might chance to fall short of his return again In July 1678. Richard Strange the last Provincial of the Jesuits did encourage the Deponent to go on in assisting the Society in carrying on the Design and told the Deponent that they got 14000 l. in the Fire of London in 1666. The Deponent ask'd Strange how they came to effect that great and famous Business He replyed that himself and Gray Pennington and Barton Jesuits with some others together with Keimash a Dominican Fryar join'd with one GREEN and met at one West's House the Green Dragon at Puddle Dock and there debated about the manner of firing the City and where they should begin and did attempt it in February 1664 5. In January 1665 6 they met with this Green again who closed in with them in the Design and that they might ingratiate themselves with Green they Man and fit for their Purpose And the more to engage him they pretended to bold many of the Fifth-Monarchy Principles which when Green perceived judging them to be real he brought them acquainted with eight others who were zealous in the Business The Jesuits were earnest to have it done in February but Green prayed them to suspend that Resolution because the King would not be much in Town if at all till the Plague was more abated who Green did say must be cut off too when the People were in a hurry by reason of the Fire and this Motion well pleased the Jesuits and Dominican and so it was put off That in a very little time after Green and the rest of those Fifth-Monarchy-Men together with the Jesuits and Dominican were suspected by West and forewarned his House And presently after Green and his eight Acquaintance were clapt up in Prison and upon their Imprisonment the Jesuits and Dominican got away to St. Omers and there remained till the May after the Execution of 8 of these Persons Green dying in Newgate That in the beginning of June being returned to London they began afresh to consult about this Fire which was still carried on by the Society in their absence and they determined to cut off the King in the time of the Fire that the Number of the