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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36344	More shams still, or, A further discovery of the designs of the Papists to impose upon the nation the belief of their feigned Protestant or Presbyterian plot by Thomas Dangerfield.	Dangerfield, Thomas, 1650?-1685.	1681 (1681)	Wing D191; ESTC R24288	25,730	39

Observations upon a late Libel called a Letter from a Person of Quality to his Friend concerning the Kings Declaration c. was rather led by the Custom upon Earth than instructed by Heaven for besides that the work does not seem to be any way inspir'd by reason of its insipidness it has this Paragraph for I shall give it no other Title till I have Dissected it It is said Dangerfeild was a Rogue granted and yet as I hear this Rogue was brought into both houses just before the Debate to whip them up into the Bill of Exclusion but now they tell a very strange thing which is that Dangerfeild is become truly honest It is much and in my Opinion it is a lower kind of Transubstantiation to beleive Dangerfeild is honest when nothing is visible but the Knave That this man should be made honest would be a mighty Cure and such a one as some of his Doctors would be loath to work upon themselves In the mean time I cannot but put them in mind that it looketh a little Popish not only to give a general Indulgence to such a known Sinner but immediately to make a Saint of him If the gathered Churches can do such Miracles it is well but if they should endeavour to put false ones upon the World it might disparage their Prudence and lessen their Reputation of which I am so tender that in kindness to them I give them this Warning of it It is said Dangerfeild was a Rogue granted With Mr. Person of Qualities leave it is not granted I was no Rogue nor was it said so by any but Mr. Person of Qualities Gang. For before that time he talks of I had received mine and his Soveraigns gracious Absolution for my past Transgressions So that it is apparent this Paragraph was jostl'd in by head and shoulders by the Observator to call me Rogue that he might cast an aspersion on both Houses of Parliament then sitting For saith he And yet this Rogue was brought into both Houses to whip them up into the Bill of Exclusion The Paraphrase of which runs thus Dangerfeild then no Rogue though unpardon'd when he was brought up to kiss the D. of Y's hand c. to whip up the Sham Plot afterwards became a Rogue by discovering of the Secret and being brought into both houses to declare the Truth of the business to the end they might be able to justifie such high and national Proceedings against the Party accused he was still the same Rogue from whence that it must be gathered from his words either the Parliament had Rogues brought before them to spur them up to look after the Kingdoms Safety or otherwise that the Grand Counsel of England and the Noblest in the World suffered themselves to be Dog whipped by a Rogue into an ill Act Which is the most scandalous Imputation that ever any Person of Quality could have invented where withal to defile his own Nest Now was it less injurious to the honour of his Majesty to vilify that Pardon which was therefore given me to the end I might be qualified to appear before those great Assemblies the very business for which I am by the Observator call'd Rogue This is the Quondam C. J. S. with the Image of his dear Mrs. Celliers before him all over The unlucky fate of your high flown Observators now a days to be still against Parliaments and consequently against the Rights and Liberties of their Native Country But saith he This Rogue was brought into both Houses just before the Debate And thus the Observator is not only contented to scandalize both Houses but more irreverently to asperse them with an Untruth For the disguised Person of Quality must of necessity in this beleive me in regard the Journals of the House will otherwise correct him wherein he will find that I had not been at the House of Commons Bar not in twelve days at least before the Bill of Exclusion passed save once which was to acquaint the House concerning the defect of his Majesties Pardon to me so that the words just before the Debate to whip them up must needs be looked upon either as an Excursion or Deviation or what ye please to call it from the Truth or else a most Malitious Supposition As to the Imputation upon the House of Lords true it is that I attended several days in expectation of being called in to inform that as I had done the other House how far the D. of Y. had been privy to the Designs of Mrs. Celiers but had for a considerable time failed of admittance and understanding that the Bill was just ready to be brought up I was very importunate to give my Information before the Bill came and accordingly made my Application to a Noble Peer upon whose Motion as I humbly conceive I was called in where I related the whole Truth to the best of my knowledge Now was I a little glad of having the opportunity to deliver my self just before the coming of the Bill as beleiving that nothing could more concern the Preservation of the True Religion and Establish'd Government the Safety of his Majesties Life whom God preserve the ancient and just Rights and Liberties of the Nation than the Bill of Exclusion did and besides I thought it no small honour to my self that it was in my poor Capacity having Truth and Justice on my side to contribute to the warmth of debate about the passing of a Bill in the Lords House which the Commons had passed with so much Vigor and Resolution but just before Now for doing this which I have reason to think was one of the best Actions I ever undertook in my Life here comes an Observator with a farc'd Paragraph and calls me Rogue and Parliament Spurrer And yet if he be the Author who is so reported to be of those Observations he was formerly of another mind what ever Collyrium has cleared the eyes of his Judgment For I well remember that a little before the meeting of the last Parliament which conven'd at Westminster I met with a Person of Quality in a certain place at which time amongst other discourses I took the liberty to give him the Epitome of those Hellish Designs wherein the Papists had engaged me which being done his Lordship did me the honour to make this Reply Verbatim as follows I am so well satisfied that there hath been and stillis a most Hellish Plot of the Papists against the Kings Life our Religion and Government and to enslave us to a Foreign Power and I find such Demonstration attending all the Discoveries thereof that for my part I am satisfied there is none but Fools or Knaves and those must be in it too that at this time of day doubt the truth of a Popish Plot. Nay he that hath but honour and honesty enough to be concern'd for the safety of his own private Affairs cannot but acknowledg himself most highly indebted to the Discoverers for