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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60841	Some reflections on the paper delivered unto the sheriffs of London, by James Holloway at the time of his execution entred according to order.		1684 (1684)	Wing S4587; ESTC R17911	5,814	5

SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE PAPER DELIVERED UNTO THE Sheriffs of LONDON BY JAMES HOLLOWAY At the time of his EXECUTION Entred according to ORDER IT cannot be otherwise than matter of astonishment to all Loyal and Ingenuous Men to behold the unquiet and restless Principles of too many amongst us who think it not enough to broach and spread about their Doctrines of disobedience but also to endeavour to debauch the Palates and Understanding of their Pupils so that the Poyson they deliver may be esteemed as the wholsomest Food they receive of such Men and such Principles we have lately met remarkable instances A Horrid Conspiracy hath been a foot a Conspiracy to ruine the Goverment we live under to destroy the best of Kings and the best of Religions and this apparently proved by such pregnant Testimonies that Infidelity it self might have been silenced The Judgment of God hath overtaken many of the Conspirators and justly have they suffered for the same yet hath the Impudence of those men been so extravagant that they have and do endeavour to Ridicule and Sham the same and in plain words tell the World (a) Sir S. Barnardi-stones Letters in his Tryal The Plot is lost here except you find it in the Country amongst the Abhorrers and Addressers It will not therefore be amiss if we examine the Confession of the last Sufferer who at the brink of death when his Soul was ready to launch forth into the Ocean of Eternity and the prospect of Judgment and Immortality was before him freely and voluntarily asserted his knowledge of those Crimes he came to suffer for And tho' we needed nothing of this nature to corroborate the other proofs thereof yet as the same were the words of a dying Man they may prevail on the misled and ignorant to take off that prejudice they have too long lain under and satisfy the whole world that those who pretend the greatest Innocency and deceive mankind with their false and specious pretences of asserting the Liberties and Properties of the People are the very men that in the same breath at the same time intended the greatest Invasions thereupon In order to which examination I shall only take to pieces that Paper Mr. Holloway delivered at the time of his Death to our present Sheriffs wherein he begins To stop the Mouths c. of all Pamphleteers and News-Scriblers who have done more prejudice to His Majesty and Kingdoms by their impudent endeavours to Sham all Plots and to fill the Country with false news than they will be ever able to retrieve and to satisfie all I leave behind me I thought good to draw up a short account of what I knew of the late Protestant-Plot c. Herein the Reader may observe a plain Confession of the Plot in gross the Protestant-Plot as the Sufferer termed it and his Reason for publishing what he knew thereof To stop the mouths of such virulent and impudent Scriblers who endeavour to Sham the same and put a false gloss upon such black and Tremendous Actions nor is he at all out in his opinion that such as these do a greater injury to the King and Kingdom than they are or can be in any Capacity to retrieve for if we consider how great a Providence was seen in the discovery of the Nations worst and most implacable enemies in the midst of their horrid and abominable Contrivances all endeavours to stifle the same must needs be Impious in the highest degree for hereby the Government is slaundered as unjust and cruel for shedding the blood of such who have lawfully suffered in the same Rebellion is covered with the name of Innocence the sentence of the Law duely executed is called Murder Vice wears the mask of Vertue The Wolf is got into Sheeps cloathing and none can discern his Enemy in the disguise of Friendship tho' the Pit be dug to betray us we are led on in a pleasant and enticing Path without fear or apprehension of our danger till the moment of our Ruine confronts our Presumption But farther proceeds the Sufferer to the particulars of his concern in the said Plot wherein he ascribes his first knowledge thereof to his Publick Spirit which led him to attend Affairs beyond that capacity wherein he had been bred in the following of Parliaments for the perfecting some designs on foot in order to the improvement of the Linnen Manufacture c. In which I would observe That men when they leave the Calling that Providence hath allotted them and would soar into a sphere above them they very rarely miss the fate of Dedalus their Molten Wings deceive them and their fall too late gives them notice of their ruine And here adds he in this Attendance upon that Parliament The more I knew the more I was desirous to know and did by some Scriblers and News-mongers constantly know most of the publick affairs that were acted which they undertook to represent according to their own humour many Actions being represented very Illegal much against the Protestant interest in favour of Papists c. Shamming the Popish Plot upon the Protestants abusing the Rights and Priviledges of the Subjects the truth of which I leave to the judgement of all but hearing many such-like things was easily prevailed with to be concerned in the Plot according as it was proposed to me c. When the Devil hath a work to do he usually Employs such Agents as may best deceive the Incautelous and accordingly so disguises them and puts such Words into their Mouths that you would take them rather for Angels of Light than Ministers of the Infernal Lord. The Lying Prophets came in the name of God with as much Zeal in their mouths and appearing Truth as those by God himself appointed nor in like manner was the late faction any thing cautious of cloaking their pretences in the Livery of Heaven Zeal was in their mouth and Treason in their hearts Property and Liberty was their cry Slavery and Bondage their design True Protestant Reformation their pretence Heresy and Schisme the Destruction and Ruine of the Established Religion and Government their last aim and in short knowing they could never perpetrate their bloody and worse than savage intetions if the same were brought in naked they Cloathed their Deformities in a Presbiterian Jump and made Religion the Pander to usher in the Cheat. But further he goes on About July 1682. I met says he a person who gave me an account touching the Election of Sheriffs of London c. and the Illegallity thereof as he represented the same whereupon the Protestant Gentry were resolved to remedy what was designed by an Insurrection in several parts of the Kingdom and if possible to get the King off from his Evil Councellors c. That it should begin at London Bristol Exeter Taunton Chester York New-Castle and therefore desired we might consider how it might be managed in Bristol which they did and concluded that Bristol with about