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A29469
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A brief narrative of the several popish treasons and cruelties against the Protestants in England, France, and Ireland giving a full account of the Popish Plot, and a full discovery of the manner of the murther of Sir Edmund-bury Godfrey.
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1678
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Wing B4616; ESTC R18955
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suddenly Hang'd their Throats cut Drowned in Rivers Bogs and Ditches or else Murthered with exquisite Tortures Wives Ravisht before their Husbands faces Children forced to hang up their own parents others compelled against their consciences to own the Romish Superstitions and swear thereunto in hopes to save their lives and presently Murthered as if they designed to destroy Souls as well as bodies And such beastly Cruelties Acted as the most Barbarous Heathens would blush to practice All which being Acted within these 40 Years I hope is not yet nor ever will be forgot But least it should behold they awake our remembrance with an horrid Plot which in the consequence was like to have proved more Bloody and Barbarous than any that went before it being against the Life of our Lord the King and all his good protestant Subjects the Subversion of the Government destruction of our Religion c. And what kind of Spirits were engaged therein we may see by their Inhumane Murther committed upon Sir Edmund-bury Godfrey who being one of this Majesties Justices of the peace for Middlesex Upon the discovery had the Examination of some Priests and others concern'd whom he committed to Newgate on the 28. of September last But meerly for doing thus his duty others of the Tribe were so devilishly enraged against him that they contrived his death for on Satudray the 12th of October he walking out about 9 a Clock from his House near Charing-Cross on his usual occasions was no more to be seen or heard of till the Thursday following and then was found in a Ditch at a place call'd Primrose-Hill near Hampstead about 3 Miles from London with his Cloaths and Money nothing missing but his Band and a pocket-Book wherein he had taken the said priefts Examination but his own Sword was run through his bdoy and so left in it This the Villains had done intending to Murther his Reputation as well as his person and persuade people that he Muthered himself but in that the Devil made Fools of them for there being no blood to be seen in the place the soles of his Shoes clean and especially a Circle about his Neck that shew'd he was Strangled every body concluded he was killed before and lately carried thither Hereupon the King publisht a Proclamation promising 500 l. reward and pardon to any one concern'd that should discover the rest and at last though rather out of trouble of conscience than the invitation of that reward There is a person come in who acknowledges himself privy to it that on the said Saturday they wheadled in Sir Edmundbury into an Eminent House in the Strand under pretence of bringing him to some that could discover more of the Plot that there they forc'd him into a Room and two Jesuits and one priest flinging him down clapt a pillow on his face and sat thereon till they thought they had Stiffled him but finding still some life with a Neckcloth they Strangled him then 't is said they laid the dead body for some time under their Alter as the securest place but of that there is yet no certainty However afterwards they carried it out in a Sedan to the end of the Town and from thence in a Coach to the place where it was found running his Word through him oh put pose to make people believe he killed himself as aforeraid These are the cursed fruits of Popery the effects of Romish zeal and Charity From which let all good Protestants with a just Abhorrence ever pray to be delivered and that God would still be pleased to preserve our most gracious King and the Religion established against all their Bloody plots and Hellish Conspiracies FINIS