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A53388	Eikon basilikē, or, The picture of the late King James, drawn to the life in which is made manifest, that the whole course of his life hath to this day been a continued conspiracy against the Protestant religion, laws and liberties of the three kingdoms : in a letter to himself, and humbly dedicated to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, William the Third ... / by Titus Oates.	Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.	1696 (1696)	Wing O36; ESTC R17038	168,273	168

the false and treacherous Jesuits have of late years applied themselves with mighty diligence to serve the Interest and to promote the Grandeur of the French Monarch In which your own Engagements do sufficiently appear for how have you with those first-born of Pride and Treachery kindled those Flames of War which have not only laid the most flourishing Provinces in Europe waste and rendered the Kingdoms of Europe Fields of Blood and with them do still nourish them to the Ruin and the Destruction of so many millions of men For Sir did not you and your Party by the Interests you had in almost all the Courts of the Princes of Christendom influence some Princes to a Neutrality and others to an open Confederacy with France so that now the French Monarchy is in truth become very troublesome to all his Neighbours But Sir give me leave to make this Observation to you that the French King being arrived at this formidable Greatness which he hath for several Years last past stood in you that plotted and contrived the ruin of these three Nations drew him into your Councels and obtained his promise of Assistance to the rooting out of Heresy and nourishing a misunderstanding between the King your Brother and his People and this you and your Conspirators conceived to be a main advance towards the attaining your wicked Ends and Purposes for otherwise you would not have so much laboured the compassing that point by your self and your Servant Coleman who was taken in the midst of his pious Labour and rewarded with the Triple-tree to your great satisfaction for if he had lived he might have told all and some body else might have tasted Death in his place But Sir I must come closer to the Point in hand that is your interesting the French King in your Councils and in your Letter to the said Father Confessor to the French King you say I was much satisfied to see his most Christian Majesty altogether of my Opinion so I made him answer by the same means he used to write to me that is by Coleman who addrest himself to Father Ferier and intirely agreed to his most Christian Majesty as well to what respect he had to the Vnion of our Interests as the unusefulness of my Lord Arlington and the Parliament in order to the Service of the King my Brother and his most Christian Majesty and that it was necessary to make use of our joynt and utmost use of our Credits to prevent the success of those evil Designs resolved on by the Lord Arlington and the Parliament against his most Christian Majesty and my self which on my side I promise really to perform of which since that time I have given reasonable good proof I pray Sir what was your Opinion It was the French King's Opinion which was that your Interests were so clearly linkt together that those that opposed the one should be looked upon as Enemies to the other Did you agree with the French King in any thing else Yes That the Lord Arlington and the Parliament were not in your Interest nor in the Interest of the French King And I agree with you Sir in omnibus but what of this Then the Designs of Arlington and of the Parliament must be prevented What I pray were those They were to engage the King if possible to enter into a League offensive and defensive with the States General of the Vnited Provinces and to joyn with the Confederate Princes and to enter into an actual War with France and to advance the Prince of Orange by marrying your eldest Daughter to him This last was done full sore against yours and your Brother's Will but the other were not done so zealoufly you had engaged your Brother in the French Interest That these were the Lord Arlington's designs and the designs of that Part of the Parliament that gave themselves Leisure to design is apparent from what you say in the same Letter thus Moreover I made some Proposals which I thought necessary to bring to pass what we were obliged to undertake assuring him that nothing could be so firmly established our Interest with the King my Brother as that very same Offer of the help of his Purse by which means I had much Reason to hope to perswade him to the Dissolving of the Parliament and to make void the Designs of my Lord Arlington who works incessantly to advance the Interest of the Prince of Orange and the Hollanders and to lessen that of the King your Master And did my Lord Arlington do so It seems he did and I think it was the only good thing that ever he did for which he was to be destroyed and the Parliament dissolved and every thing that stood in the way of France and your self nay a Parliament that is not in your Interest must not stand We have seen into my Lord Arlington's Designs I pray what were yours and the French King's for which you had made some Proposals and compare them together Yours and the French King's Designs were to ruin the Protestant Religion as Coleman in his Letter to the Pope's Internuncio at Bruxels Aug. 21. 74. But Arlington's was to lessen and if possible he was to destroy the Interest of the French King You had a mighty Work upon your hands no less than the Conversion of three Kingdoms and the utter Subduing of a pestilent Heresie which had for some time domineered over this Northern part of the World and you had never so great hopes of it since your Queen Mary 's Days The Lord Arlington he had a mighty Work in hand too and that was to advance the Interest of the Prince of Orange and the Dutch who were much in danger of being subdued by the French King You for your Designs next to God Almighty you relyed upon the mighty Mind of his Most Christian Majesty for his Aid and Assistance But Arlington did rely upon the mighty Mind of an English Parliament for their Aid and Assistance Your Design was to get the Parliament dissolved and never to have another His design was to have this dissolved and speedily to call another Yours was for advancing the French Interest and his tho he was a Papist was for advancing the Interest of the Confederates and to lessen the Interest of the French King You were for Three hundred thousand Pounds advanced by the French King to give the Protestant Religion such a Blow as it could not subsist but he for nothing was to give the French King and his Interest such a Blow as that should not subsist The French King by La Chaise gives you and your Secretary thanks for your Zeal and Service in order to the promoting the Popish Religion and I do not question but the Prince of Orange and the Dutch were as thankful by their Ministers at our Court to the Lord Arlington and his Party for promoting their Cause and Interest with the Parliament Your design was to establish a good Understanding

and the Rites and Ceremonies required by Law in their Worship and Service of God so that there being little or no jealousy of any danger to the Church of England from the Protestant Dissenters how zealous soever they might be in their way yet the watchfulness of the Prelates and their Curates were chiefly exercised upon those of the Romish Communion But the Protestant Dissenters since are like to the People of Israel in the Land of Egypt very much multiplied to that degree that they are come nearer to the other Party than heretofore they did the main care therefore of the Prelates and their inferior Clergy together with old Roger their Guide did much abate towards their old Friends of the Church of Rome and exerted the same to the Protestant Dissenters 2. But another great Cause of the dividing the Protestant Interest was the very severe but just Entertainment the Prelates with the Scandalous and Ignorant Clergy met with from the Protestant Dissenters in the late Times of Reformation when they were restored by the return of your Brother from Exile they measured the same again to the Protestant Dissenters when they had the Law on their side and your Grace and Favour into the bargain they remembred all the old Scores by which great Animosities and Heats have been between Party and Party the Prelates aiming then at the ruin of the Dissenters for aiming at the reformation of Prelacy and Superstition By this I say a difference is risen that in all humane probability can never be made up We cannot but from hence very easily not only by Reason but by Experience gather the great use you and the rest of the Popish Party made of them to carry on their Designs for the subverting the Religion and Government of this Nation For as the pretence of these Divisions hath been made use of as an Argument to pervert such as knew not that the Divisions of your Synagogue of Rome are more numerous and their Fewds more irreconcileable than ours so subtile have your Conspirators been by winding themselves into all Companies nay mustering themselves in all Parties endeavoured both to heighten the Differences to make their Annimosities not only hotter but more immortal and while the one Party of Protestants have been crying out against the other for their Schism and the other crying out against them for their Superstition and Persecution you and your Party to the reproach of both were undermining that holy Faith which they equally center in and carrying a Design of destroying the one as well as the other they being in you esteem both equally Hereticks 3. A third thing that contributed much to your bringing of Popery and Slavery into these Kingdoms was the general Prophaneness and Debauchery which had overspread these Nations beyond what in any former Reign had been observed Sir You in this by and with the Consent Advice and Example of the King your Brother and your Conspirators followed the Counsel of Cardinal Mazarine in the Year 1654. at Paris when the Popish Party were but at a low ebb in England That the only way to accomplish the Work in England was to debauch them first and make them Atheists and when that was done they would soon make good Papists for this you well knew and so did your Popish Party That a prophane debauched Person is truly of no Religion and therefore indifferent to seem to be of any as Interest and Temptation sways him so it is plain that no man cares to be of that Religion which condemns all those Ways and Practices which he is resolved to pursue with his utmost vigour Do but take notice that the Popish Religion was such as would allow them in all those wicked ways to which their vicious Inclinations led them and doth secure them from the horror and dread of Eternal Wrath and Vengeance for your Religion maketh those to be no Sins tho committed by some against the express Command of Christ himself If they are such things as the Word of God hath set a mark upon as enormous then they are made Venial Offences only and if they are Sins which your Synagogue calls Mortal which are indeed the most daring and prodigious Enormities through their Doctrines of Pennance and Absolutions and Papal Indulgences you are secure from the Pains of the damned in the other World By this means Sir you and your Conspirators increased the number of your Converts and strengthened your hands so far that you boasted to Beddingfield your Confessor That you did not doubt but in a very few years to have such a number of Catholick Gentlemen and others tha you feared not but to have a Catholick Army sufficient to suppress the Factious Protestant Party in case they should rebel this saying of yours Beddingfield the Jesuite communicated to the Jesuites at Wild-House upon the 24th of April 1678. Nay Your Zeal was such for the Popish Religion that poor Mr. Jones your Chaplain-Naval and Domestick for opposing Popery was by you turned out of his Imploy and left as a Sacrifice to that wicked Prelate of Winchester Dr. Morlay for saying That it was his fault that your Dutchess turnest Papist and that the said Morlay might have prevented the Dutchess of York 's being seduced to Popery if he pleased and that her turning Papist was to be laid at his door You therefore would not for a long time pay him his Wages tho that most Christian Prelate had sued him upon the Statute de Scandulis Magnatum to the poor man's utter ruin for his Living was extended and he left to perish for want of Bread And he had never received his Arrears due to him in your Service had I not shamed old Sir Allen Apsley publickly in Westminster-Hall for it you pretending it was referred to him Moreover I told him If he did not pay Jones I would fetch it out of his old Bones it was a time Sir when Men began to observe your steps and perceive your Designs so Jones much against your Will got his Money and after that Jones had suffered several years Famine from that Villanons Old Priest of our Church and he could not hold his Living from him any longer he most Graciously delivered Jones from the extent but Jones being so ill used by Morley he died within a year or two after he had his Living restored but by the way Sir by the Dutchess of York I mean her that was the Daughter of the Earl of Clarendon sometimes Lord Chancellor but the two Ladies your Daughters were by God's Providence saved from being corrupted by you and your Conspirators Now Sir it remains that I tell you or rather put you in mind what Steps your Conspirators took to ruin these Nations they were Sir your Favourites and of the same Religion and of the same Interest with your self for you having made such Advantages from the three Heads before-mentioned and by these means strengthened you Hands to dispose you to do the Three