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The papists bloody oath of secrecy and letany of intercession for the carrying on of this present plot with the manner of taking the oath upon their entring into any grand conspiracy against the Protestants : as it was taken ... from William Rushton, a popish priest / by Robert Bolron. Together with some further informations relating to the plot and murther of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey.
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Bolron, Robert, fl. 1674-1680.
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of Virgins Famous in England for many Miracles Pray for England St Michael Prince of the Church Pray for England St. Gabriel Privy to the Mysteries of God Pray for England St. Raphael Faithful Guide of Travellers Pray for England Holy Angel Prince of England Pray for England St. John Baptist Master and Form of Pennance Pray for England All Holy Patriarks and Prophets Friends of God and Preachers of Truth Pray for England St. Peter Pastor of Sheep and Prince of the Apostles Pray for England St. Paul Doctor of the Gentiles in Faith and Verity Pray for England St. Andrew Friend and Lover of the Cross Pray for England All Holy Apostles and Evangelists and special Increasers of Christianity Faith and Unity Pray for England All holy Innocents slain for Christ Pray for England St. Stephen Pray for England St. Alban Pray for England St. Sophias Pray for England St. German Pray for England St. Kylian Pray for England St. Tancon Pray for England St. Isenger Pray for England St. Lucius King Pray for England St. Amphibale Pray for England St. George Pray for England St. Coleman Pray for England St. Adrian Pray for England St. Ethelred K. Pray for England St. Edmund King Pray for England St. Edward King Pray for England St. Thomas of Canterbury Pray for England All holy Martyrs of England Scotland and Ireland Pray for England St. Fugatius and Damianus Pray for England St. Gregory and St. Augustine Pray for England St. Ethelbert King St. Patrick and St. Columbe Pray for England St. Pethno and St. Cuthbert St. Furseus and St. Malachy Pray for England St. John and St. David St. Brandon and St. Fiaker Pray for England St. Archibald and St. Macarius St. Marianus and St. Alexander Pray for England St. Bennet St. Boniface St. Bede St. Dunstan St. Henry St. Robert Pray for England S. Richard St. Roger St. Hugh St. Gilbert St. Lanfrank St. Anseline Pray for England All holy Bishops and Confessors of England Scotland and Ireland Pray for England St. Helen Queen St. Vrsula St. Agnes S. Bridget S. Buryen S. Tecla Pray for England St. Agatha St. Mechtil St. Maxentia St. Christine and St. Winefred Pray for England St. Ethelred Queen and St. Margaret Queen Pray for England All holy Virgins and Martyrs of England Scotland and Ireland Pray for England All blessed and holy Saints of Places Pray for England Be merciful Spare England Good Lord Be merciful Hear us O Lord. From all imminent perils of Sins and Backslidings Deliver England O Lord From the Spirit of Pride and Apostacy Ambition and Rebellion Deliver England O Lord From all Hardness Blindness of Heart Surfetting Drunkenness Deliver England O Lord From the the Desires and Liberty of the Flesh Deliver England O Lord From Hatred Contempt and Neglect of Sacred Things Deliver England O Lord From Prophaning of Churches and from all Sacriledge Deliver England O Lord From the tyranny cruelty of Hereticks which it now groans under Deliver England O Lord From wicked and pernicious Councils Deliver England O Lord We Sinners O God of pity do beseech Thee to Hear us That thou wouldst direct the Popes Holiness and all Prelates to pacifie and govern the Church O Lord we beseech Thee to hear us That thou wouldst be pleased to bring again into this Kingdom the Antient Catholick Apostolick and Roman Faith O Lord we beseech Thee to hear us That thou wouldst put into the Hearts of all Christian Kings and Princes Unity Peace and Concord and that their fervent Zeal may be stirred up to put their helping Hands to reduce it to the Obedience to the Holy See of Rome O Lord we beseech Thee to hear us That thou wouldst comfort and fortifie all such as suffer Imprisonment loss of Goods or other Affliction for the Catholick Faith O Lord we beseech Thee to hear us That neither by Frailty or Enticements or any Torments thou permit any of us to fall from thee O Lord we beseech Thee to hear us That thou wouldst give us perfect patience in our Afflictions and to make Ghostly Profit of all our Miseries O Lord we beseech Thee to hear us That thou wouldst mercifully hasten the Conversion of England Scotland and Ireland from the Infection of Heresy and Infidelity O Lord we beseech Thee to hear us That thou wouldst deliver and keep in these times of Persecution the Pastor of our Souls from the hands of their Enemies O Lord we beseech Thee to hear us That thou wouldst daily augment in them the Fire of thy Love and the Zeal of gaining Souls O Lord we beseech Thee to hear us That thou wouldst preserve all the Catholicks of this Land in Holiness of Life and from all manner of Sin and Scandal O Lord we beseech Thee to hear us That thou wouldst so adorn us with Holiness of Life and Conversation that our Enemies seeing our good Works may glorifie thee our Heavenly Father O Lord we beseech Thee to hear us That thou wouldst reduce from Error and Heresy our Parents Friends and Benefactors whom thou hast so dearly bought with thy precious Blood O Lord we beseech Thee to hear us That thou wouldst Illuminate the Hearts of all Schismaticks which live out of the Church to see the grievous danger of their Estate O Lord we beseech Thee to hear us That thou wouldst mercifully look down from Heaven upon the Blood of so many Martyrs as have given their Lives to Convert us unto thee O Lord we beseech Thee to hear us Jesus Christ Son of God of the Virgin Mary We beseech thee to hear us Jesus Christ Saviour Redeemer of the world We beseech thee to hear us Lamb of God that takest away the Sins of the world Spare us O Lord. Lamb of God that takest away the Sins of the world Hear us O Lord Lamb of God that takest away the Sins of the world Have mercy on us Lord have Mercy Pater noster c. Christ have Mercy Et ne nos inducas c. Lord have Mercy Sed libera nos a malo About the latter end of October or the beginning of Nvember 1678. my Occasions called me to Leeds-Market within 4 Miles of my habitation and a Market that I frequently used after my particular business was done my curiosity lead me as usually I did to a Coffee house where amongst other News and Reports I heard that one Sir Edmund bury Godfrey a Justice of Peace at London was missing and that it was suspected and feared that he was Murthered or made away by the Papists At my return home I repaired to Sir Thomas Gascoigns House at Barmbow one quarter of a mile from my House and there meeting his Son Thomas Gascoigne Esq I acquainted him with the News I heard at Leedes Who thereupon took a Letter out of his pocket directed to himself which he shewed me which Letter was subscribed J. Corker wherein he acquainted the Esquire in words to this effect That
THE PAPISTS BLOODY OATH OF Sâ—CRECY AND LETANY OF INTERCESSION For the Carrying on of This PRESENT PLOT WITH THE Manner of Taking the OATH upon their Entring into any Grand Conspiracy against the PROTESTANTS As it was Taken in the Chappel belonging to Barmbow-Hall the Residence of Sir Thomas Gascoigne from William Rushton a Popish Priest by Me Robert Bolron Together with some further Informations relating to the PLOT and MURTHER of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey Jovis 16th die Decembris 1680. Ordered That Mr. Robert Bolron have Liberty from this House to Print and Publish the said Oath of Secrecy and Letany William Goldsbrough Cler. Dom. Com. Dublin Reprinted by Jos Ray at College-Green for Sam. Helsham and Jos Howes and are to be sold by the rest of the Booksellers of Dublin 1681. The farther Information of Robert Bolron Gent Containing the Oath of Secresie and Letany with other Matters of Moment in which he was concerned when Engaged in the Horrid Popish PLOT AFter the Antient Piety Zeal and Strictness of Life exemplary in the Primitive Christians had in a measure put the Dominion of this World and the Keys of the next into the hands of the Clergy care of gaining Souls became in a few Centuries Obsoleted The former Illustrious times of Vertue vanished and a gloomy night of Ignorance soon over-spread the Universe The Clergy the Authors of this Unhappiness finding their Religion and Greatness must be maintained by Power and Policy and Conscious to themselves that their Lives and Doctrine held no good Correspondence with the Purity and Poverty of their Predecessors took a course because they had little left of their own to trade with the Piety of the Ages past and prop up their own Ignorance and Sloath by that means To work they go They make Gods of the deceased Propogators of Christianity and Enshrine their Rotten Bones or those of others in cases of Gold and Silver The next thing was to perswade or Compel the people to adore them In this Erecting a new Order of demy-Gods they imitated the Pagans in their Wickedness but not in their Vertue or Valour and clapt the Festivals of these new Pa-Gods into the Calender in places of the old Holy-dayes of Saturn Minerva and Bacchus c. This Project answered expectation they grew greater but not better The Miracles pretendedly wrought at those Shrines and multitude of Ceremonies dazled the Vulgar supported the Reputation and supplied the Defect of the Clergy The glorious Lives Wonders and Martyrdoms of the Antients were made into Mantles to hide the Ignorance Lust and Avarice of worthless Impostors and Laws made every where were made to restrain Men from peeping into the Ark of the Church And to strip Princes privily of their Power and to draw their Subjects to other dependencies numorous Orders and Societies are Conjured up as though the Laity had not groaned enough under the Seculars to Erect a Kingdom in every Kingdom for the Pope and to supply him in every Corner with a Villain Spiritual to Stab or Poison what Potentates he pleases Things thus Jog'd on till the days of our Grand-Fathers when in England the Pope and his Clergy were secluded and it was made death for any Romish Priest to enter the Realm yet since they have not only come hither but by the help of Factors and Proselites acquired great Estates in these Kingdomes and arrived to a height of no less Confidence than of ruling the Rost destroying us 〈…〉 iâ—â—roduceing Popery This is as clear as Noon-day by many Testimonies among which this Oath following is a most Notorious Evidence on which I shall make some Remarks The Oath of Secrecy given by William Rushton to me Robert Bolron the Second of February 1676. + In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen I Robert Bolron being in the presence of Almighty God the blessed Mary ever Virgin the blessed Michael the Arch-Angel the blessed St. John Baptist the holy Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul and all the Saints in Heaven and to you my Ghostly Father do declare and in my Heart believe the Pope Christ's Vicar General to be the true and only Head of Christ's Church here on Earth and that by vertue of the Keys of Binding and Loosing given his Holiness by our Saviour Christ he hath Power to depose all Heretical Kings and Princes and cause them to be killed Therefore to the utmost of my power I will defend this Doctrin and his Holinesses Rights against all Vsurpers whatever especially against the now pretended King of England in regard that he bath broke his Vows with his Holinesses Agents beyond Seas and not performed his Promises in bringing into England the Holy Roman Catholick Religion I do Renounce and Disown any Allegiance as due to the said pretended King of England or Obedience to any of his inferiour Officers and Majestrates but do believe the Protestant Doctrine to be Heretical and Damnable and that all are Damn'd which do not forsake the same and to the best of my power will help his Holinesses Agents here in England to extirpate and root out the said Protestant Doctrine and to destroy the said pretended King of England and all such of his Subjects as will not adhere to the Holy See of Rome and the Religion there professed I further do promise and declare that I will keep secret and private and not divulge directly or indirectly by Word Writing or Circumstance whatever shall be proposed given in charge or discovered to me by you my Ghostly Father or any other engaged in the promoting of this pious and holy Design and that I will be active and not desist from the carrying of it on and that no hopes of Rewards Threats or Pumshments shall make me discover the rest concerned in so pious a Work and if discovered shall never confess any Accessaries with my self concerned in this Design All which I do swear by the Blessed Trinity and by the Blessed Sacrament which I now purpose to receive to perform and on my part to keep inviolable And do call all the Angels and Saints in Heaven to witness my real intention to keep this Oath In Testimony whereof I do receive this most holy and blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist It is manifest that the Grandees of the Roman Church make no more account of Religion than the profit and convenience it brings along with it are able to compence Yet they ever begin with a Holy Canticum In nomine Patris by such means inducing the People to swallow their gilded Pills or Poysons rather to the destruction oftentimes of Body and Soul too In this wicked thing call'd an Oath they Blasphemously set up the Blessed Mary St. Michael St. John St. Peter St. Paul and Rushton the Priest in an equal Classis with God Almighty But mention not Christ till they come to declare the Pope to be his Vicar and that thereby the Pope hath Letters-Patents to impower him to