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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51030	Mr. Smyth's discovery of the Popish sham-plot in Ireland, contrived to correspond with their sham-plot in England by which it appears that it has been the joynt design of the papists in both kingdoms, to make people believe their real plot to be a sham-plot, and their sham-plot a real plot : necessary for the information of all His Majesties Protestant subjects.	Smith, William, 17th cent.	1681 (1681)	Wing M2275; ESTC R16472	3,947	4

Mr. Smyth's Discovery OF THE Popish Sham-Plot IN IRELAND Contrived to Correspond with their Sham-PLOT IN ENGLAND By which it appears that it has been the joynt Design of the Papists in both Kingdoms to make People believe their Real Plot to be a Sham-Plot and their Sham-Plot a Real Plot. Necessary for the Information of all His Majesties Protestant Subjects The Discourse that past between one Father St. Laurence and William Smyth Gent at the said Smyth's Chamber on or about the 7th Day of July 1681. in the Kings-Arms Marshalsea in Dublin VIZ AFTER many discourses between him and me in which he seemed to be compassionately concerned for my having been a prisoner so long which I told him was nigh Four years both in Waterford and here he adding said he much lamented my misfortunes by reason that my face promised that I was no ordinary person and that there could be no greater torment in the World than for a generous Soul to be debarred of liberty and pent up in a close stincking and loathsome confinement He went on saying I would soon procure you as much Money as will set you at liberty and put you in a good equipage if you will condescend to some things to be by me proposed In answer whereunto I said I should willingly embrace the offer provided it was both legal and possible and so bad him continue his discourse who replyed you must First take an Oath of Secrecy it being a matter of Weight and Consequence and without which he durst not acquaint me with it After a short pause I imagined by his preceding discourse that it might be some grand Design he had to inform me of whereupon seeing me at a stand he then said you seem to be scrupulous of what I endeavour for your enlargement but be assured if you will be rul'd by me you are and shall be a happy Man and so he drew out of his pocket a small Bible or Testament and administred to me this following Oath viz. I Conjure you by our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by his bitter death and passion by the Blessed Virgin Mary and all the Blessed and Holy Saints and Angels by the Holy Mother the Church by this Sacred Scripture and as you hope for Salvation if you do not act what I shall by and by tell you at least that you keep it concealed during life without any Equivocation Dissimulation or mental Reservation so help you God and all his Holy Saints Amen After this he said you cannot but be sensible that the Church of Rome is the only Catholick Apostolick and unfeigned Church and the Pope being God's Vicegerent on earth hath power to pardon and forgive all sinners that are members of the said Church be their sins never so great and heinous I question not but you believe all this and that there is not nay cannot be any Salvation for any one but such as die in the Roman-Catholick faith therefore consequently whoever believes any other than what is allowed by the said Church are not only Heriticks but damned to the pit of Hell as being the just reward of their demerits for as there is but one God so there is but one Church of which the Pope is Christ on earth Now to swear any thing against any of those Hereticks for the Catholick good is to do God service and that Oath being taken upon a Protestant Bible needs no scruple of conscience nor inward remorse it being all one as to swear on an Aesop's Fables Besides what you swear in the behalf of the Catholicks especially in these times though never so false yet by a power from the Pope to every Priest in Orders is fully clearly and absolutely pardoned and forgiven by their absolution after Confession to any such Priest Now what I would have you to do and whereby you shall obtain your liberty is as followeth In primis you must swear that several Heretical Ministers viz. One Parson Jack and Dr. Harrison since your being in Prison here in Dublin came to you and offered to pay your debts and support you with Money to carry on your designs if you would make Affidavit as follows and that they brought it to you in writing and caused you to copy it out and took the original along with them The words That there was a Popish Plot and that they desired you to swear that some Priests and others naming any one that you know told you that the Duke of York was so far concerned in the Plot as that he sided with the Pope and French King to introduce the French to invade the Kingdoms of England and Ireland and to put the King to Death and to murder all Protestants in his Majesties Dominions and to bring in the Popish Religion and that they the said Hereticks should farther require you to say that you have divers times heard Papists declare that they would bring it about to be a Presbyterian Plot and so subborn Witnesses against the Earl of Shaftsbury First and then against the Duke Monmouth and divers other Protestants and bring their Heads to the Block He farther said that the King would easily believe this Information by reason he would gladly have any occasion to destroy them as being the People that murdered his Father Also he said you must swear that the said Ministers viz. Jack and Dr. Harris or Harrison called his Majesty Papist that he designed the Distruction of his Subjects and to establish the Popish Religion in his Dominions and that they plainly perceived his intention was to bring his said Subjects under a Tyrannical Government and that they and the rest of their Brethren intended e're this time to have had him meaning the King in their power and to have disposed of him at their pleasure nay to have made him shorter by the head if he had not condescended to all their designs but failing in their designs were resolved to spend their lives and fortunes to make it out a Popish Plot by which said the above Father we will make the world believe there was no Popish Plot but a Presbyterian Plot and they will be utterly confounded and we cleared and all Presbyterians and other like Dissenters be accused not only of the said Plot but be reputed guilty of all the Blood that hath been spilt If you will undertake this you need not doubt but that you shall have the Prayers of the Catholick Church to prosper you and besides other Witnesses shall be procured to second this your Information without any show or colour of suspicion if by Gold and Silver they may be obtained Further said he the Catholick Lords in the Tower have already given large sums of Money to subborn Witnesses against the Earl of Shaftsbury forty will appear against him and see how it is likely to go with him and you will be assisted beyond expectation for we are all resolved to make it a Presbyterian Plot and it is as easie for you to