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A53380	A display of tyranny, or, Remarks upon the illegal and arbitrary proceedings, in the courts of Westminster, and Guild-Hall London from the year, 1678, to the abdication of the late King James, in the year 1688, in which time, the rule was, quod principi placuit, lex esto : the first part.	Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.	1689 (1689)	Wing O35; ESTC R16065	100,209	272

and upon whom the following Vote passed in the House of Commons December the 24th 1680. Resolved Nemine contradicente That Richard Thompson Clerk has publickly defamed his Sacred Majesty preached Sedition Vilified the Reformation promoted Popery by asserting Popish Principles denying the Popish Plot and turning the same upon the Protestants and endeavoured to subvert the Liberty and Property of the Subject and the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament and that he is a Scandal Reproach to his Function Resolved That the said Richard Thompson be Impeached thereupon Men of this Kidney having made way for its belief We were from this time entertained with a Succession of sham Presbyterian-Plots the first thereof known by the name of the Meal-tub-Plot being happily discovered by Mr Dangerfield both Lords and Commons taking the Alarm did set themselves with double diligence to the Prosecution of the Popish-Plot and to find out ways for the Uniting Protestants and for Easing Dissenters so little had the opinion of a Presbyterian-Plot prevailed within their Walls and the Commons seeing a Dissolution at hand passed these Votes December the 15 th 1680. Resolved Nemine contradicente That a Bill be brought in for an Association of all his Majesties Protestant Subjects for the safety of his Majesties Person the defence of the Protestant Religion and the preservation of his Majesties Protestant Subjects against all Invasions and Oppositions whatsoever and for reventing the Duke of York or any Papist from succeeding to the Crown January the 7 th 1680. Resolved That it is the Opinion of this House that there is no security or safety for the Protestant Religion the King's Life or the well Constituted and Established Government of this Kingdom without passing a Bill for disabling James Duke of York to inherit the Imperial Crown of England and Ireland and to rely upon any other means or remedies without such a Bill is not only insufficient b●… dangerous January the 10 th 1680. Resolved That it is the Opinion of this House that the Prosecution of Protestant Dissenters upon the Penal Laws is at this time grievous to the Subjects a weakning of the Protestant Interest and encouragement to Popery and dangerous to the Peace of the Kingdom The next Moment after the passing this Vote the Parliament was prorogued for ten days and quickly after dissolved A new Parliament was forthwith Summoned to meet at Oxford the 21 st of March following but though the place was changed the Conspirators found there most of the Zealous Protestant Members of the Westminister Parliament who came thither animated to prosecute the Popish Plot the Exclusion of the Duke and the Uniting of Protestants by Addresses from those whom they represented whereof take an Instance To the Honourable Sr Samuel Barnardiston and Sr William Spring Baronets Knights of the Shire for the County of Suffolk Gentlemen WE the Freeholders of this County having chosen you our Representatives in the last Parliament in which We had satisfactory demonstration of your Zeal for the Protestant Religion of your Loyalty to his Majesties Person and Government and of your faithful Endeavours for the preservation of the Laws our Rights and Properties We now return you our most hearty Thanks and have Vnanimously chosen you to Represent this County at the Parliament to be holden at Oxford the 21 th of March next and though We have not the least distrust of your Wisdom to understand or of your Integrity and Resolution to maintain and promote our common Interest now in so great hazard yet We think it meet at this time of eminent danger to the King and Kingdom to recommend some things to your Care and particularly We do desire First That as hitherto you have so you will vigorously prosecute the execrable Popish Plot now more fully discovered and proved by the Tryal of William late Viscount Stafford Secondly That you will promote a Bill for Excluding James Duke of York and all Popish Successors from the Imperial Crown of this Realm as that which under God may probably be a present and effectual means for the preservation of his Majesties Life which God preserve the Protestant Religion an the well Established Government of this Kingdom Thirdly That you will endeavour the frequent Meeting of Parliaments and their sitting so long as it shall be requisite for the dispatch of those great Affairs for which they are convened as that which is our only Bulwark against Arbitrary Power Fourthly That you will endeavour an happy and necessary Vnion amongst all his Majesties Protestant Subjects by promoting those several good Bills which were to that end before the last Parliament And that till these things be obtained which We conceive necessary even to the Being of this Nation you will not consent to bring any Charge upon our Estates And We do assure you that We will stand by you with our Lives and Fortunes in prosec●…ion of the good Ends before recited This Parliament beginning where the former left and being found to adhere unalterably to the Resolution of rooting out the Plot and of Excluding the Duke as the only adequate remedy for all the threatning Evils to the Kingdom they were after a very few days Sitting upon the sudden Dissolved and followed into their own Countries with a Declaration bearing date April the 8 th 1681 pretending to set forth the ●…ses and Reas●… that moved the ●…ng to Dissolve that and the preceed●… Parliament b●…cally designed to expose and blacken those worthy Patriots and to that end it was ordered to be read in all Churches and Chappels throughout the Kingdom which was readily obeyed To wheadle the Nation till it might be noosed that Declaration according to the mode of that Reign spoke and promised fare tho the train was then laid to blow up our Religion Laws and Liberties It exhorted us that the restless malice of Ill Men who were labouring to poison the People might not perswade us that the King did intend to lay aside the use of Parliaments and declared that no Irregularities in Parliaments should ever make him out of love with Parliaments And that he resolved by the Blessing of God to have frequent Parliaments and both in and out of Parliament to use his utmost Endeavours to extirpate he means Establish Popery † Note this was after his Fathers Copy who by a Declaration in the year 1626. to justifie his Arbitrary way of Leveing Money by way of Loane said that his Occasions would not give leave for the calling a Parliament but assured his People that he intended not to serve himself by such ways to the abolishing of Parliaments and yet the Nation saw not a Parliament from the 3 d to the 16 th year of that Reign vide Rushworth's Collections first Part page 418. This Royal Grace or rather Slander upon one of the three Estates was not only proclaimed from the Readers Desks but was promulgated from both Pulpit and Press five days after the emiting this Declaration

part of those Forces with great difficulty caused by them to be Disbanded at the Kingdoms great Expence and it being evident that notwithstanding all the continual endeavours of the Parliament to deliver his Majesty from the Councils and out of the power of the said Duke yet his interest in the Ministry of State and others have been so prevalent that Parliaments have been unreasonably Prorogued and Dissolved when they have been in hot pursuit of the Popish Conspiracies and ill Ministers of State their Assistants And that the said Duke in order to reduce all into his own Power hath procured the Garrisons the Army and Ammunition all the Power of the Seas and Souldiery and Lands belonging to these three Kingdoms to be put into the hands of his Party and their Adherents even in opposition to the Advice and Order of the 〈◊〉 Parliament And as we considering with heavy hearts how greatly the Strength Reputation and Treasure of the Kingdom both at Sea and Land is wasted and consumed and lost by the intricate expensive management of these wicked destructive Designs and finding the same Councils after exemplary Justice upon some of the Conspirators to be still pursued with the utmost devillish Malice and desire of Revenge whereby his Majesty is in continual hazard of being Murdered to make way for the said Duke's advancement to the Crown and the whole Kingdom in such case is destitute of all security of their Religion Laws Estates and Liberty Sad Experience in the Case of Queen Mary having proved the wisest Laws to be of little force to keep out Popery and Tyranny under a Popish Prince We have therefore endeavoured in a Parliamentary way by a Bill for that purpose to Bar and Exclude the said Duke from the Succession to the Crown and to Banish him for ever out of these Kingdoms of England and Ireland But the first means of the King and Kingdoms safety being utterly rejected and We left almost in Despair of obtaining any real and effectual Security and knowing our selves to be intrusted to advise and act for the preservation of his Majesty and the Kingdom and being perswaded in our Consciences that the dangers afore-said are so eminent and pressing that there ought to be no delay of the best means that are in our power to secure the Kingdom against them We have thought fit to propose to all true Protestants an Vnion amongst themselves by solemn and sacred Promise of mutual Defence and Assistance in the preservation of the true Protestant Religion his Majesty's Person and Royal State and our Laws Liberties and Properties and we hold i● our bounden Duty to joyn our selves for the same intent in a Declaration of our united Affections and Resolutions in the form ensuing I A. B. do in the Presence of God solemnly Promise Vow and Protest to maintain and defend to the utmost of my Power with my Person and Estate the true Protestant Religion against Popery and all Popish Superstition Idolatry or Innovation and all those who do or shall endeavour to spread or advance it within this Kingdom I will also as far as in me lies maintain and defend his Majesty's Royal Person and Estate as also the Power and Priviledge of Parliaments the lawful Rights and Liberties of the Subjects against all Incroachments and Vsurpation of Arbitrary Power whatsoever and endeavour entirely to Disband all such Mercenary Forces as we have reason to believe were raised to advance it and are still kept up in and about the City of London to the great Amazement and Terror of all the good People of the Land. Moreover James Duke of York having publickly propessed and owned the Popish Religion and notoriously given Life and Birth to the damnable and hellish Plots of the Papists against his Majesty's Person the Protestant Religion and the Government of this Kingdom I will never consent that the said James Duke of York or any other who is or hath been a Papist or any ways adhered to the Papists in their wicked Designs be admitted to the Succession of the Crown of England But by all lawful means and by force of Arms if need so require according to my Ability will oppose him and endeavour to Subdue Expel and Destroy him if he come into England or the Dominions thereof and seek by Force to set up his pretended Title and all such as shall adhere unto him or raise any War Tumult or Sedition for him or by his Command as publick Enemies of our Laws Religion and Country To this end We and every one of Vs whose hands are here-under written do most willingly bind our selves and every one of Vs ●nto the other joyntly and severally in the Bond of one firm and loyal Society or Association and do Promise and Vow before God that with Our joynt and particular Forces We will oppose and pursue unto Destruction all such as upon any Title what soever shall oppose the Just and Righteous ends of this Association and Maintain Protect and Defend all such as shall enter into it in the just performance of the true intent and meaning of it And least this just and pious VVork should be any ways obstructed or hindred for want of Discipline and Conduct or any evil minded Persons under pretence of raising Forces for the Service of this Association should attempt or commit Disorders We will follow such Orders as we shall from time to time receive from this present Parliament whilst it shall be sitting or the major part of the Members of both Houses Subscribing this Association when it shall be prorogued or dissolved and obey such Officers as shall by Them be set over Vs in the several Countries Cities and Burroughs until the next meeting of this or another Parliament and will then shew the same Obedience and Submission to it and those who shall be of it Neither will we for any respect of Persons or Causes or for Fear or Reward separate our selves from this Association or fail in the prosecution thereof during our Lives upon pain of being by the rest of us prosecuted and suppressed as perjured persons and publick Enemies to God the King and our native Country To which Pains and Punishments we do voluntarily submit our selves and every one of us without benefit of any colour or pretence to excuse it In witness of all which Premisses to be inviolably kept we do to this present Writing put our Hands and Seals and shall be most ready to accept and admit any others hereafter into this Society and Association It is to be observed that this Paper had neither date nor any Hand to it nor did it appear of whose Hand-writing it was but Sr Francis Wythens aggravated the matter saying That tho' the Paper began very plausibly and went a great way so yet in the last clause but one they came to perfect levying of War declaring that they would joyn to destroy the mercenary Forces about London the words by the way were to

purposes of that Juncture THat the Conspiracy to introduce Popery and Arbitrary Government in England took life in the Year 1660. and was from that time carried on is now little doubted by any English-man who was not a well-wisher to it We are not to question the late King Charles the second 's dying a Papist and 't is as true that he so lived but upon his Restoration that the Duke's turn might be served he must not then declare An Act of Parliament was made to forbid our talking of it under most severe Penalties Then another Act put the Sword into his Hands by Vesting the Militia solely in him The Pulpits of the Kingdom generally speaking were filled with Gentlemen who had imbibed the Doctrine of passive Obedience and Non-Resistance An Oath was imposed That it was not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take up Arms against the King or against any commissionated by him About two thousand sober and pious Ministers were thrust from the Churches and Corporations and many of them into loathsome Goals for Non-conformity to that Oath and to a few slight and as they judged unwarranted Ceremonies and the best Members were thrown out of all the Corporations of England by a pretended Regulation much more early then that of the late King James Matters being thus ripened and the Nation sufficiently dehauched by the Court-Example what was wanting but an actual execution This the Conspirators well knowing as they did that the famous City of London was the chief if not the only obstacle to their Hellish design a Resolution was taken to destroy it which they effectually accomplished discovery of this horrid Villany being made not to mention anything of the worthy Sr Robert Brookes Chair-man of the Committee of Inspection into the firing of London Hubert a poor French Papist being thereof Convict the House of Commons knowing that such a contemptible Varlet was not alone in that Fact resolved to take him the next day into Examination for discovery of his Accomplices and Directors but to prevent it that Wretches Mouth was stopt at Tyburn in the Morning before the House met I am conscious that there are Persons now in being who do not only pretend to doubt of this part of the Popish Plot the burning of London but of the Plot it self I shall therefore here subjoyn the Sence of one of the best Houses of Commons which ever met at Westminster January the 10th 1680. Resolved That it is the Opinion of this House that the City of London was burnt in the Year 1660 by the Papists designing thereby to introduce Arbitrary Power Popery into this Kingdom It may also be here observed that at this as at every other juncture when any Popish Plot was near the point of Execution The Papists had constantly the Fanaticks at hand to answer for their Villanies without doubt the Burning this Nest of Hereticks had been concerted both at Paris and at Rome and the time for puting it in execution approaching In April 1666 a Fanatick plot is brought upon the Stage seven or eight were Condemned at the Old-Bayly for Ploting to kill the King and to Burn the City upon the 3 d day of September then following For a more full account of this the Reader is referred to the London Gazette of April the ●0 th 1666. Numb 48. The whole Kingdom bring alarmed and put into a serment by this accursed Enterprize the Plot was post-poned however it was kept alive and the unwearied Conspirators carried it on and in the Year 1678 the blow was ready to be given but then by the Providence of the Almighty Dr Otes detected their Machinations He gave his first Information thereof to that worthy and never to be forgotten Justice of the Peace Sr Edmundbury Godfrey of which the Conspirators having notice for the stifling so fatal a discovery they in a most barbarous manner hurried him out of the World and did with effronted Impudence attempt to perswade the World to believe that that Gentleman was Felo de se but Heaven bringing that matter to light and his Murderers to justice The Plot maugre all oppositions and discouragements began to be searched into and was made out beyond contradiction by some loose Letters and Papers found in the House of Colman the Duke of York's Secretary who had early notice of the discovery and thereupon had carried his most material and as it may be reasonably concluded he thought all Papers which might endanger him or his Master's Cause to the Chamber of Mr Wright a Profligate Lawyer of Lincoln's-Inn where they were burnt for which assistance and good service Wright was afterwards preferred to sit by turns in every of the Courts of Westminster and at length to the place of Lord Chief Justice of England then whom a Person more scandalous and ignorant was never in any Age placed there Well Colman was indicted the Plot proved by Dr Otes and other Witnesses thereby by his own Papers he was convicted and executed as were by degrees several others but for the sake of the Duke and of the Roman Catholick Cause the game must be retrived in order thereto fit Engines were employed some of the Clergy who had long asserted that Popery was more tolerable than Presbytery with their guide the Observator made it their business to decry the Evidence of the Plot impudently affirming as in particular did one Scotred a grand Jury-Man in the Isle of Ely who at the time of the Assizes there began the Pope's health to his Brethren of the Grand Jury That there was no Popish but a Presbyterian Plot. A great part of the unwary and loose Church of England Men throughout the Kingdom appeared to be infected with this mad Doctrine so that to offer Instances thereof may seem impertinent however I shall take the liberty to inform the Reader that upon complaint to the Judge sitting in Court in September 1679. of the above-named Scotred's discourse and drinking the Pope's health a Justice of the Peace then upon the Bench fell upon the Person who made that complaint with great rage and swore By the Name of God there is a Presbyterian Plot. To this I shall only subjoyn that which will be a more authentick Evidence of what is above asserted viz. October the 28th 1680. In the House of Commons Resolved That it doth appear by the evidence this day given to this House that Sr Robert Can is guilty of publickly declaring in the City of Bristol in October 1679. That there was no Popish Plot but a Presbyterian Plot. Ordered That Sr Robert Can a Member of this House be committed to the Prison of the Tower and that he be expelled this House Ordered That Sr Robert Yeomans be sent for in Custody to answer for publickly declaring in Bristol That there was no Popish Plot but a Presbyterian Plot. These easie mis-guided Gentlemen were Disciples of famous Parson Thompson of Bristol whose Breath infected that great City