of hard measure and injustice yet if I have not full time to bring my Records and Witnesses altogether I cannot make my Defence Some were there then some afar off so that it was a miracle that in six or seven Counties they could do so much as they did But they got in seven or eight of them yet there were five or six wanting Therefore I beseech your Lordship that I may have time to bring my Records and Witnesses and then I will defie all that is upon the Earth and under the Earth to say any thing against me L. C. J. Look you Mr. Plunket 't is in vain for you to talk and make this discourse here now you must know that by the Laws of this Kingdom when a man is indicted and arraigned of Treason or Felony 't is not usual to give such time 't is rare that any man hath had such time as you have had five weeks time to provide your Witnesses If your Witnesses are so cautions and are such persons that they dare not or will not venture for fear of being apprehended or will not come into England without such and such cautions we cannot tell how to help it we can't furnish you with Witnesses you must look to get your Witnesses your self if we should stay till your Witnesses will come perhaps they will never come here and so you will escape out of the hands of Justice Do not be discouraged in this the Jury are strangers to you peradventure but they are honest Gentlemen and you shall have no other upon your Jury and you may be confident that if there be not some Fact proved against you that may amount to Treason you shall be discharged they are persons that understand so much and we will direct them so much You shall have as fair a Tryal as if you were in Ireland but for us to stay for your Witnesses or send you back to Ireland we cannot do it Therefore you must submit to your Tryal We heard your Affidavit yesterday and we did then tell the Gentlemen that moved it as much as we tell you You are here to be tried look to the Jury as they are called and except against them if you will Plunk My Lord I desire only to have the favour of time some time this Term. L. C. J. We can't do it Cl. of Cr. Swear Sir John Roberts Plunk I humbly present this to your Lordship I am then in eminent danger of my Life if I cannot get ten days to have my Witnesses over I desire I may have but to the 21th of this month and then if they do not come you may go on L. C. J. We cannot do it you have had five weeks time already Plunk I desire but a few days Cryer Sir John Roberts take the Book look upon the Prisoner You shall well and truly try c. Plunket My Lord I desire to know whether they have been of the Juries of Langhorn or the Five Jesuits or any that were condemned L. C. J. What if they have that is no exception Then the Jury was sworn whose Names follow Sir John Roberts Thomas Harriot Henry Ashurst Ralph Bucknall Richard Gowre Richard Pagett Thomas Earsby John Hayne Thomas Hodgkins James Partherich Samuel Baker William Hardy Cl. of Cr. Oliver Plunket hold up thy Hand You of the Jury look upon the Prisoner and hearken to his Charge HE stands indicted by the Name of Oliver Plunket late of Westminster in the County of Middlesex Dr. of Divinity for that he as a false Traytor against the most Illustrious and most Excellent Prince our Sovereign Lord Charles the second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King and his natural Lord the fear of God in his heart not having nor weighing the duty of his Allegiance but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the Devil the cordial Love and true and due natural Obedience which true and faithful Subjects of our Said Sovereign Lord the King towards him our said Sovereign Lord the King do and of right ought to bear utterly withdrawing and contriving and with all his might intending the Peace and common Tranquillity within the Kingdom of Ireland as also of this Kingdom of England to disturb and War and Rebellion against our said Sovereign Lord the King in the Kingdom of Ireland then being the Dominion of our said Sovereign Lord the King in parts beyond this Seas to stir up and move and the Government of our said Sovereign Lord the King there to subvert and our said Sovereign Lord the King from his Regal Power Government there to Depose and Deprive and our said Sovereign Lord the King that now is to Death and final Destruction to bring and put and the true Worship of God within the said Kingdom of Ireland by Law established and used to alter to the Superstition of the Romish Church the first day of December in the year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second now King of England c. the 32th and divers other days and times as well before as after at Dublin in the Kingdom of Ireland in parts beyond the Seas with divers other false Traytors unknown traiterously did compass imagine and intend the killing Death and final Destruction of our said Sovereign Lord the King and the antient Government of his said Kingdom of Ireland to change alter and wholly to subvert and him our said Sovereign Lord the King that now is from the Crown Government of his Kingdom of Ireland aforesaid to depose deprive and the true Protestant Religion to extirpate and War and Rebellion against our said Sovereign Lord the King there to move and levy And to fulfil and accomplish his said most wicked Treasons and Traiterous compassings imaginations and purposes aforesaid he the said Oliver Plunket the said first day of December in the abovesaid 32th Year of the Reign of our said Sovereign Lord the King that now is with Force and Arms c. at Dublin in the Kingdom of Ireland then being the Dominion of our said Sovereign Lord the King in parts beyond the Seas maliciously devilishly and traiterously did assemble and gather together himself with divers other Traitors unknown and then and there devilishly advisedly maliciously subtilly and traterously did consult and agree our said Sovereign Lord the King that now is to Death and final Destruction to bring and from his Crown and Government aforesaid to depose and deprive and the Religion of the Romish Church into the Kingdom of Ireland aforesaid to introduce and establish and the sooner to fulfil and perfect his said most wicked Treasons and traitorous imaginations and purposes he the said Oliver Plunket with divers other false Traitors unknown then and there advisedly maliciously and traiterously did further consult and agree to contribute pay and expend divers great Sums of Mony to divers Subjects of our said Sovereign Lord the King and other persons unknown to procure
them the said persons unknown our said Sovereign Lord the King that now is traiterously to kill and the Romish Religion into the said Kingdom of Ireland to introduce and establish And that he the said Oliver Plunket and other Traitors unknown afterwards to wit the said first day of December in the two and thirtieth year of the Reign of our said Sovereign Lord the King abovesaid at Dublin aforesaid in the Kingdom of Ireland aforesaid within the Dominion of our said Sovereign Lord the King with Force and Arms c. unlawfully maliciously devilishly and traiterously did receive collect pay and expend divers great Sums of Mony to divers persons unknown to persuade and induce divers other persons also unknown the said false Traytors in their said Treasons to help and maintaintain against the Duty of his Allegiance and against the Peace of our said Sovereign Lord the King that now is his Crown and Dignity and against the form of the Statutes in that Case made and provided To this Indictment he hath pleaded Not Guilty Mr. Heath May it please your Lordship and you Gentlemen of the Jury This is an Indictment of High-Treason against Dr. Oliver Plunket the Prisoner at the Bar and it sets forth that in the 32th Year of the King at Dublin in the Kingdom of Ireland he did compass and imagine the Death of the King and to deprive the King of his Kingdom of Ireland and to raise War to extirpate the Protestant Religion in the Kingdom of Ireland and to establish the Romish Religion there And it sets forth further That for the accomplishment of these Treasons the Defendant with several others did meet together at several places at Dublin in the Kingdom of Ireland and elsewhere and at these several meetings did consult and agree to put the King to Death to raise War to extirpate the Protestant Religion and set up the Romish Religion And the Indictment further sets forth that to accomplish these Treasons the Defendent did raise great Sums of Mony in the Kingdom of Ireland and did get several persons to contribute several Sums for these Treasons and that the Defendent with others did disburse several Sums of Mony to several persons to persuade them and entice them to be aiding and assisting in these Treasons and to recompence them for them To this Indictment the Defendent hath pleaded Not Guilty If we prove these things you are to find him Guilty Mr. Serj. Maynard My Lord we will quickly come to the Evidence But in short You have heard his Charge is as high as can be against the King and against the Nation and against all that is good The Design and Endeavour of this Gentleman was the Death of the King the Destruction of the Protestant Religion in Ireland and the raising of War And to accomplish this we charge him that there was a Confederacy made Assemblies and Consultations had to these ends and raising Mony to accomplish it Gentlemen Dr. Plunket was made as we shall prove to you as they there call him Primate of Ireland and he got that Dignity from the Pope upon this very Design He did by Vertue of that Power which he thought he had gotten make out Warrants Significations I know not what they call them to know how many men in Ireland could bear Arms from sixteen to forty he raises Taxes upon the People and the Clergy there But my Lord the particulars will best fall from the Witnesses that we shall call and prove it by and we need not make any aggravation for such a thing as this cannot be more aggravated than ' t is Mr. Att. Gen. May it please your Lordship and you Gentlemen of the Jury the Character this Gentleman bears as Primate under a Foreign and usurped Jurisdiction will be a great inducement to you to give credit to that Evidence we shall produce before you We shall prove that this very Preferment was confer'd upon him upon a Contract that he should raise 60000 men in Ireland for the Pope's Service to settle Popery there and to subvert the Government The Evidence that we shall give you will prove how it leads to destroy the King and I take it according to the resolutions that have been to raise War in the Kingdom and to introduce a Foreign Power will be certainly Evidence of an Attempt and Machination to destroy the King Assoon as he was in possession of his Primacy he goes about his work There are two great necessaries to be provided Men and Money For men having this great spiritual Jurisdiction whereby indeed all that are under it are become Slaves he issues out his Warrants to all the Clergy of Ireland to give an account and make return from the several Parishes of all the men in them above fourteen and under sixty And Returns were accordingly made by them that he might accordingly take a measure what men to pick out for the Service The next thing was Money my Lord and your Lordship takes notice that when the Mind is enslaved the Purse nay all the Body bows to it He issues out his Warrants to his Clergy to make a Collection of Mony in all parts great Sums were levied and when they were levied we shall give you an accompt by our Proofs that several Sums were issued out and sent into France to further the business There was also provision made of great Ammunition and Arms and we shall prove in particular several delivered out by this Gentleman's Order to carry on this thing and to go through stitch with this business he takes a view of all the several Ports and places in Ireland where it would be convenient to land for they were to have from France an Auxiliary Force and upon his view he pitched upon Carlingford as the place We shall prove the several Correspondencies between Rome and him and France and him and several Messengers imployed and Monies issued out from time to time for their maintenance This will be the course of our Evidence and we shall begin first with some that do not speak so particularly to this Doctor but prove there was a general Design in all parts of the Kingdom of Ireland to bring in the King of France and extirpate the Protestant Religion And then we shall call the particular persons to the particular Facts against him First we call Florence Wyer Who was sworn Mr. Sol. Gen. Are your sworn Sir Wyer Yes Sir Mr. Sol. Gen. Pray give the Court and the Jury an account of what you know of any Plot in Ireland to introduce the Romish Religion or to bring in the French King Wyer Yes I know there was a Plot both before Plunket's time and in his time for it was working in the years 65. and 66. but it was brought to full maturitie in the Year 1667. For then Col. Miles Rely and Col. Bourne was sent to Ireland from the King of France with a Commission to muster as many men as he could promising to
too that instead of drawing their Swords against one another they had better come to promote the Catholick Faith in Ireland These four Witnesses are punctual and precise in every particular circumstance of the Case and against them there is nothing but the common Objection If I had such Records and Witnesses here I could make my Defence that is if he had those things that he has not he might appear to be another man than he is but I am sure as it appears upon the Evidence that hath been given by all the Witnesses there is a plain proof and a full proof of every Treason laid to his Charge Plunket My Lord I desire these Witnesses may be called giving in a Paper Cryer David Fitz-gerard Eustace Commines and Paul Gormar L. C. J. Who gave him this Paper he had it not before Stranger I was told that these were good Evidences for Dr. Plunket and I gave him the Names L. C. J. Where are they Stranger They are hard by Mr. Att. Gen. Where is Eustace Commines for he was one that gave in Evidence against the Prisoner Then Paul Gormar appeared L. C. J. What would you ask him Plunket I desire to know of him whether Mr. Moyer did allure and intice him to swear against me Gormar Indeed my Lord he never did L. C. J. Will you ask him any more Gormar But this my Lord Mr. Moyer and I were in discourse and he said if there was Law to be had in Ireland he would shew Mr. Plunket his share in it L. C. J. Well what of that Gormar My Lord I did come out of Ireland to reveal what Plots the Irish had against the King and as for this Mr. Plunket as I have a Soul to save I never heard of any misdemeanor of him Mr. Just Dolben How came you here to day Gormar I was summoned Mr. Just Dolb. By whom Was it the Attorney General or Plunket that summoned you Gormar Here is the Summons Mr. Serj. Jeff. It is a common Sub Poena Plunket I never sent for him Gormar It was not against you they know I had nothing against you I thought you did more good in Ireland than hurt so I declare it L. C. J. Have you any more Witnesses if Fitz Gerard or Commines will come we will hear them Plunket My Lord I have not any more Witnesses L. C. J. Look you Gentlemen of the Jury This Gentleman here Mr. Plunket is indicted of High-Treason and 't is for Conspiring the King's Death and endeavouring to bring the French Army into Ireland for to Invade that Kingdom and to plant the Romish Religion in that Kingdom You have had Evidence against him that hath been fully examined And these things do seem to be very plain by the Witnesses That he himself hath taken a Commission or a Grant or what you will please to call it from the Pope to be Primate of Ireland that he hath taken upon him to make Laws as the Provincial and that he hath undertaken and endeavoured to settle the Popish Religion in that Kingdom and in order to that he hath invited the Aid of the French Army and that he hath for the better landing of them looked out what places were most convenient for them That he hath set a Tax upon the Clergy within his Province for the facilitating of all this and for the making preparations for the entertainment of this Army This the Witnesses testifie against him and that there were some Towns as Dungannon and another Town that were to be betrayed to the French Now you must consider concerning these Witnesses If you believe the Evidence that hath been given and which hath been repeated by the Kings Counsel and if you believe that he did design to bring in a French Army to establish the Roman Religion there again and that he took upon him to raise mony for that purpose survey'd the Ports and made such provisions as the Witnesses speak of and was in that Conspiracy you must find him Guilty I leave it to you it is a pretty strong Evidence he does not say any thing to it but that his Witnesses are not come over Plunket I can say nothing to it but give my own protestation that there is not one word of this said against me is true but all plain Romance I never had any communication with any French Minister Cardinal nor other Then the Jury withdrew for a quarter of an hour and being returned gave this Verdict Cl. of Cr. Oliver Plunket hold up thy hand How say you is he Guilty of the High-Treason whereof he stands Indicted or not Guilty Foreman Guilty Plunket Deo Gratia God be thanked Then the Verdict was Recorded and the Court rose And the Keeper went away with his Prisoner On Wednesday 15. Junii 1681 Oliver Plunket was brought to the Bar to receeive his Judgment Mr. Att. Gen. My Lord I pray your Judgment against the Prisoner Oliver Plunket Cl. of Cr. Oliver Plunket hold up thy Hand Thou hast been Indicted of High-Treason thou hast been thereupon Arraigned thou hast thereunto pleaded not Guilty and for thy Trial hast put thy self upon God and the Country which Country hath found thee Guilty what hast thou to say for thy self why Jadgment of Death should not pass upon thee and Execution be thereupon awarded according to the Law Plunket My Lord may it please your Lordship I have something to say which if your Lordship will consider seriously may occasion the Courts Commiseration and Mercy I have my Lord for this Fact been Arraigned in Ireland and brought to my Trial there At the day of my Trial all the Witnesses voluntarily absented themselves seeing I had Records and Witnesses to convince them evidently and shew what men they were and the prepensed Malice that they did bear to me and so finding that I could clear my self evidently they absented themselves on the day of my Tryal no Christian appeared but hither over they come and procure that I should be brought hither where I could not have a Jury that knew the Qualities of my Adversaries or who knew me of the circumstances of the Places Times and Persons the Juries here as I say were altogether strangers to these Affairs and so my Lord they could not know many things that conduce to a fair Tryal and it was morally impossible they should know it I have been accused principally and chiefly for surveying the Ports for fixing upon Carlingford for the Landing of the French for the having of seventy thousand Men ready to join with the French for collecting Mony for the Agents in this matter for the assisting of the French and this great Utopian Army A Jury in Ireland consisting of men that lived in that Country or any man in the World that hath but seen Ireland in a Map would easily see there was no probability that that should be a place fit for the French to land in though he never was in Ireland yet by the Map he
send an Army of 40000 men with a Commission upon St. Lewis day in August next following to land at Carbingford to destroy all the true Subjects to destroy the Religion as it was established there and to set up the French Kings Authority and the Roman-Catholick Religion And one Edmond Angle that was a Justice of Peace and Clerk of the Crown sent for all the Rebels abroad in the North to come up into the County of Longford and they marched into the head Town of the County and sired the Town the Inhabitants fled into the Castle then they came up to the Gaol thinking to break it open and by seting the Prisoners free to join them with them but then Angle was shot received a deadly wound and drop'd off his Horse and they fled So then when they were without the Town one Charles Mac Canell alighted and took away all the Papers out of his pocket which if they had been found would have discovered all This occasioned Col. Bourne to be suspected and being so suspected he was taken Prisoner and turned to Newgate in Dublin Then Col. Reiley sled away again to France and the Plot lay under a cloud during the life of Primate Reiley the Prisoners Predecessor This Primate Reiley died beyond Sea Then many of the Popish Religion would have had the Primacie conferred upon one Duffy but the Prisoner at the Bar put in for it which might have been opposed if the Prisoner had not engaged and promised that he would so manage affairs that before the present Government were aware he would surprise the Kingdom provided the Pope and King of France would send a competent Army to join with theirs for the effecting of it So the first Year of his coming over I was in the Friery at Armagh I was an acquaintance of the Friers and they invited me And one Quine told the Prisoner that they thought Duffy would have been Primate Said he 'T is better as it is for Duffy hath not the Wit to do those things that I have undertâ—ken to do meaning that he did undertake to supplant the Protestant Religion to bring in Popery and put the Kingdom under Subjection to the King of France Mr. Sol. Gen. How do you know that Wyer Those were the words and the meaning I knew before because I had heard it talked of L. C. J. Who was the first of these Primates you speak of Wyer Edmund Reiley He set this business on foot first L. C. J. About what Wyer About calling the Rebels together out of the North when they came to Longford L. C. J. What Year was that Wyer It was in the Year 67. L. C. J. When died he Wyer He died a little while afterwards L. C. J. Then Duffy would have it conferred on him Wyer Yes after Reileys decease he would have had it conferred upon him and there was a contention between him and the Prisoner who did engage he would bring things to that full maturity that before the present Government were aware he would do the work L. C. J. How do you know this Wyer I know this because I had an account of it from certain School-fellows that were with me in Ireland then studying in Rome they wrote this to me desiring me I would take a good heart with the rest of my Country-men and assuredly in a short time the Kingdom would be relieved and the Irish restored to their former patrimonies L. C. J. This you speak of their information What do you know of your own knowledge Wyer All that I know of is he coming into the Friery of Armagh L. C. J. About what time Wyer It is either 10 or 11 years ago and there was a Fast there and I was invited by the Friers being their acquaintance one Quine one of the Friers told him L. C. J. Told whom Wyer The Prisoner that he did expect Duffy should have been Primate but the Prisoner made answer 'T is better as it is for Duffy had not the Wit to manage the things that I have undertaken for the general good of our Religion L. C. J. Now tell me this What things were those he had undertaken did he explain himself Wyer No further than those words But I did conceive this was his meaning because I knew partly of it my self knowing of the former Plot. L. C. J. I ask you only what words came from him and you say they were That Duffy had not the Wit to manage what he had undertaken for the general good of their Religion Wyer Yes and then again in his Assembly kept by him he charged his Inferiours to collect such several Sums of Mony as he thought fit according to the several Parishes and Dignities to assist and supply the French Forces when they came over L. C. J. How know you that Wyer I have seen the Mony collected and I have seen his Warrant sub poena suspensionis to bring it in to redeem their Religion from the power of the English Government Again there were those Rebels that went to Longford L. C. J. What time were those Collections Wyer From time to time since he came into Ireland L. C. J. About what time Wyer 9 Year 8 Year 7 Year ago and the last Year of all L. C. J. Then it was several times you say Wyer Yes and he procured the Macdonels a piece of Mony out of the Exchequer pretending to do good Service to his Majesty but he sent them for France meaning they should improve themselves and bring themselves into favour with the King of France and come over with the French King to surprize Ireland This one of the said Rebels told me So I have seen the Prisoners Letter directed to the grand Tory Flemming desiring that they should go to France and he would see them in spight of all their enemies in Ireland safe ashoar And Flemming should return again a Colonel to his own glory and the good of his Country Mr. Att. Gen. Do you know his Hand Wyer Yes I do as well as my own I have seen Capt. O Neal Son of General O Neal coming every year into Ireland and carrying three Regiments to the French King into France and he used to come over to Ireland every year to get a recruit and he did get my Brother to go with him and so much importun'd me that I could hardly withstand him but I did not yield to his desire He told me it was to improve me for my good to improve my self in Military Discipline and then I should return for Ireland a Captain under the French King to surprize the Kingdom and settle the Popish Religion and then I should be restored to my Estate L. C. J. Who told you this Wyer Oapt O Neal. And in the mean while says he I hear Dr. Plunket is the only man entrusted in Ireland to make these preparations and get things ready against the French King 's coming who is to land at Carlingford Mr. Att. Gen. How
would see they must come between the narrow Seas all along to Vlster and the Rocks and such places would make it very dangerous and by their own confession it was a poor Town and of no strength a very small Garrison which had not been so if it had been a place of any consideration And whereas I had Influence only upon one Province as is well known though I had the Title of Primate of all Ireland as the Archbishop of Canterbury hath of all England yet the Arch Bishop of York will not permit him to meddle with his Province and 't is well known by the Gentry there and those that are accustomed to the place That in all the Province of Vlster take Men Women and Children of the Roman Catholicks they could not make up seventy Thousand This a Jury there my Lord had known very well and therefore the Laws of England which are very favourable to the Prisoner have provided that there should be a Jury of the place where the Fact was committed as Sir Thomas Gascoine as I have heard had a Yorkshire Jury though he was tryed at London And then after my coming here I was kept close Prisoner for six Months not any Christian was permitted to come at me nor did I know any thing how things stood in the World I was brought here the third of May to be arraigned and I did petition your Lordship to have some time for my Tryal and I would have had it put off till Michaelmass but your Lordships did not think sit to grant so long but only till the eighth of this month when my Witnesses who were ready at the Sea side would not come over without Passes and I could not get over the Records without an Order from hence which Records would have shewn that some of the Witnesses were indicted and found guilty of high Crimes some were imprisoned for Robberies and some of the Witnesses were infamous people so I petitioned the eighth of this month that I might have time but for twelve days more but your Lordship thought when the motion was made that it was only to put off the Trial and now my Witnesses are come to Coventry yesterday morning and they will be here in a few days and so for want of time to defend my self in I was exposed to my Adversaries who were some of my own Clergy whom for their debauched Lives I have corrected as it is well known there I will not deny my self but that as long as there was any Toleration and Connivance I did execute the Function of a Bishop and that by the second of Elizabeth is only a Premunire and no Treason So that my Lord I was exposed defenceless to my Enemies whereas now my Witnesses are come that could make all appear I did beg for twelve days time whereby you might have seen as plain as the Sun what those Witnesses are that began the Story and say these things against me And my Lord for those Depositions of the seventy thousand Men and the Monies that are collected of the Clergy in Ireland they cannot be true for they are a poor Clergy that have no Revenue nor Land they live as the Presbyterians do here there is not a Priest in all Ireland that hath certainly or uncertainly above threescore pounds a year and that I should collect of them forty shillings a piece for the raising of an Army or for the Landing of the French at Carlingford if it had been brought before a Jury in Ireland it would have been thought a meer Romance If they had accused me of a Proemunire for the exercise of my Episcopal Function perhaps they had said something that might have been believed but my Lord as I am a dying man and hope for Salvation by my Lord and Saviour I am not guilty of one point of Treason they have swore against me no more than the Child that was born but yesterday I have an Attestation under my Lord of Essex's hand concerning my good Behaviour in Ireland and not only from him but from my Lord Berkley who was also Governour there which the Kings Attorney saw But here I was brought here I was tried and having not time to bring my Witnesses I could not prove my Innocency as otherwise I might So that if there be any Case in the World that deserves Compassion surely my Case does and 't is such a rare Case as I believe you will not find two of them in print that one arraigned in Ireland should be tried here afterwards for the same Fact My Lord if there be any thing in the World that deserves pity this does for I can say as I hope for mercy I was never guilty of any one point they have swore against me and if my Petition for time had been granted I could have shewn how all was prepense Malice against me and have produced all Circumstances that could make out the Innocency of a person But not having had time and being tried I am at your mercy L. C. J. Well you have nothing further to say in Bar of Judgment you have said all you can Plunk I have nothing further to say but what I have said Then Proclamation was made for silence while Judgement was passing upon the Prisoner L. C. J. Look you Mr. Plunket You have been here indicted of a very great and hainous Crime the greatest and most hainous of all Crimes and that is High Treason and truly yours is a Treason of the highest nature 't is a Treason in truth against God an your King and the Country where you lived You have done as much as you could to dishonour God in this case for the bottom of your Treason was the seting up your false Religion than which there is not any thing more displeasing to God or more pernicious to mankind in the World a Religion that is ten times worse than all the Heathenish Superstitions the most dishonourable and derogatory to God and his Glory of all Religions or pretended Religions whatsoever for it undertakes to dispense with Gods Laws and to pardon the breach of them So that certainly a greater Crime there cannot be committed against God than for a man to endeavour the Propagation of that Religion but you to effect this have designed the Death of your lawful Prince and King And then your design of Blood in the Kingdom where you lived to set all together by the ears to destroy poor innocent people to prostitute their Lives and Liberties and all that is dear to them to the Tyranny of Rome and France and that by introducing a French Army What greater evil can be designed by any man I mention these things because they have all been fully proved against your and that you may take notice and repent of them and make your peace with God by a particular Application for Mercy for all these Faults For it seems to me that against God your Prince and fellow Subjects you have behaved