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The history of the damnable popish plot, in its various branches and progress published for the satisfaction of the present and future ages / by the authors of The weekly pacquet of advice from Rome.
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Care, Henry, 1646-1688.; Robinson, 17th cent.
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1680
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Wing C522; ESTC R10752
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â—â—t to take this advice but remain'd in an obstinate sullen manner till Thursday the 3d. of Decemb. and then was drawn on a Sledge to Tyburn where he declared that he had been a Roman Catholick for many years and thank'd God he died in that Religion which he did not think at all prejudicial to the King and Government And being askt if he knew any thing of the Murther of Sir Edmund-bury Godfrey declared that he did not for that he was a Prisoner at that time Then after some private Prayers he was Hang'd and Quarter'd but his Quarters granted to his Friends to be Buried It was the opinion of most that beheld him as he was drawn along or whilst he was speaking or praying at Tyburn that he was somewhat disturb'd in his mind or under some expectations of a Reprieve and it was confidently reported that he should say that day with great Passion There is no Faith in Man But as to this last Enquiry has been made and no Credible persons have yet appeared to testifie that they heard the words spoken so that it must be left only as a probable rumbur But that the world may take notice of the Insolence of the Popish Crew and what a strange Veneration they pay to the most notorious Traitors of their Party it may we hope be no inexcusable offence to add here the true Copy of a certain Poetical Prayer address'd to this Saint About a Fortnight after Colemans Execution one Nevil alias Pain a reputed Papist being Apprehended for speaking some dangerous words one Mr. Gill a Constable in King-Street Westminster searching him found in his Pocket the following Lines fair written this Copy being faithfully compared with the Original in the said Constables hands To that Glorious Saint and Martyr Mr. EDWARD COLEMAN HAil Glorious Soul To whom the Crown is given All-hail thou mighty Favourite of Heaven Triumphant Martyr From that endless Throne Where thou maist reign with Christ disturb'd by none Look down a while and view upon his Knee An undeserving Friend to Truth and Thee Pardon the boasted Title since that Love Which gave it here must needs Confirm't above For t was a Flaming Charity which sure Since boundless here must endless there endure But ah alas Great Saint I own with shame That Ill I then worse now deserve that Name Whilst here on Earth my Troubles kept me still From Friendships Laws as now my senses will But what you pardon'd then on Fortunes score Be pleas'd on Passions now to pitty more And for that Good which here you did design Without Reward or least desert of mine Obtain me more from our Great Lord and Thine Not that I hope to equal Thee in place Though I could Wish it with the like Disgrace I only hope to view that Holy Ring Where Crowned Souls do Hallelujahs sing Prepare me some low place in that bright Quire Where though I may not sing I may Admire Such stuff needs no descant to render it odious to all true Christians and good Subjects since 't is not only a gross Affront to Government and the proceedings of publick Justice and a kind of abetting Treason against the Magistrate on Earth but even against the Majesty of Heaven too by slighting the invaluable Mediation of the Blessed Jesus to Invocatr such a wretched Impostor with glorious Titles and expect to obtain a place in those Holy Mansions where no unclean thing can enter for the Merit or Intercession of so Flagitious and as 't is justly to be feared Impenitent at Malefactor CHAP. XI An Account of the Proceedings against William Ireland Tho. Pickering and John Grove for Conspiring to Murther the King THE sixth of Decemb. his Majesty taking notice of the bold and open Repair of his Subjects to her Majesties Chappel and the Houses of Forraign Ministers for hearing of Mass and oftentimes Sermons Preached in English there by English Scottish and Irish Priests thought fit to Issue out an Order of Council strictly Prohibiting the same And now on the 17th of December we come to the Tryal of William Ireland and Thomas Pickering both Priests and John Grove a Lay-Brother at the Sessions House in the Old Bailey There were at the same time Arraigned with them Thomas White alias Whitebread and John Fenwick two Jesuits but in the course of the Evidence it not for the present appearing to the Court that there was sufficient Proof against the two last by two Witnesses as our English Laws require The Jury was discharged of them and they returned back to Newgate The other three were Indicted for High-Treason and that of the highest nature imaginable as being actively concerned in carrying on the general Plot for Subversion of the Government but more especially for the horrid design to Murther his Majesties Person Ireland for contriving and consenting to it and Pickering and Grove for having undertaken and attempted actually to effect it The Jury consisted of Persons of very good Quality viz. Sir William Roberts Baronet Sir Philip Matthews Baronet Sir Charles Lee Knight Edward Wilford Esq John Foster Esq Joshua Galliard Esq John Byfield Esq Tho. Eaglesfield Esq Tho. Johnson Esq John Pulford Esq Tho. Earnesby Esq Rich. Wheeler Gent. The sum of the Evidence waving Generalities which were here necessarily repeated and have for the most part been already set forth in this History was as follows Dr. Oates Swears that at a Consult of 40 or 50 Jesuits begun at the White-horse Tavern in the Strand and prosecuted See the Tryal of Ireland c. p. 19. atâ— several Colloquies or lesser meetings at several Chambers whereof Mr. Irelands was one to which they Adjourn'd themselves It was resolved that Pickering and Grove should go on for they had formerly been engaged in their design and attempt to Murther the King and that Grove being a Lay-man should have 1500 l. for his Reward and Pickering being a Priest Thirty-thousand Masses for his which at 12 d. per Mass as they usually value them comes to the same sum 2. That this Resolve was the same day drawn up in writing by one Mico that was Secretary to the Society and Socius or Companion to Whitebread the Provincial at the said Whitehreads Chamber who having Signed it it was carried by the Witness Dr. Oates as being Messenger to the Consult to the rest of the Colloquies to be Signed and that Ireland at his own Chamber did Sign it in his presence 3. That Pickering and Grove consented to such Resolve accepted the Terms and also Signed it the same day at the said Whitebreads pag. 23. Chamber at Mrs. Sanders's at Wild-House where in a little Chappel they and about 40 or 50 of the Consulters heard Mass received the Sacrament administred by one Barton a Jesuit and thereupon took pag. 28. an Oath of Secresie upon a Mass-book which Mico held whilst Whitebread pronounced the words 4. That in pursuance of this resolve and undertaking to Murther the King he did
Apostles for the Original Propagation of the Gospel Are they not most injurious and scandalous to that most holy and innocent Profession of Christianity which hath been always most propagated and glorified by the magnanimous sedate and constant Sufferings of its genuine Professors but always most dishonoured by the furious violent and perfidious practices of those spurious Zealots that abuse it Nay are they not evidently and daily condemned by the Judgments of God disappointing blasting and confounding all attempts of that nature in these Kingdomes for above One Hundred years together What Madness as well as Impiety is it then for you those of the Nobility and Gentry especially to engage in such Undertakings Have you not had sufficient Experience of the Ill-success and unhappy Consequence of such Attempts to your felves and your Party whereby you have only made rods for your own backs provoking and exasperating the Severities of the Laws and the Detestation of all good men against you What got your Ancestors by Caballing with the Spaniard to destroy good Queen Elizabeth their lawful Sovereign Nothing but Danger and Trouble Loss and Infamy What got your Digby your Piercy your Rookwood and the rest that joyn'd in the Jesuits Powder-Plot Nothing but a just ignominious Death and an odious Memory to all Generations What got your Irish Cut-throats your Macguires your Oneals and the rest of your Monsters of Rebellion and Cruelty Nothing but Destruction and an almost utter Extirpation of their Nation had they not like other Vermine of late reviv'd again by the too indulgent Sunshine of Favour perhaps like ungrateful Snakes to sting those hands that so bountifully cherish'd them And when your Romish Agents had lately dissolv'd the Government and brought all things into Confusion what did they advance their Cause by it but only involved themselves in the same publick Calamity wherein they had embroil'd the Nation The Emissaries that wheadle you in designe not in the least your Advantage Spiritual or Temporal but only the Pomp and Grandeur of the Court of Rome whose Creatures they are They are men who have neither Estates nor Fortunes discoverable to lose or hazard nor Wives nor Children to suffer but if their Attempts prove unsuccessful can easily retire into their safe Dens beyond the Seas and their Motions and Actions are steer'd by Forreigners who sit far enough out of danger and in security expect to make their Profit and a Prey of us all so that both these have hopes of vast Advantages without any great hazard only you their hood-winkt Zealots charm'd with their Delusions run the extremest hazards of Souls Lives Fortunes and Reputation without any probability if things be rightly calculated of any way mending your Condition For what shall the Lay Roman Catholicks and their Posterity get by exchanging their natural English-Birthright for Slavery How must they truckle to the then domineering Clergy and be squeez'd and suckt rackt and spung'd upon to supply the insatiate Avarice of the grand Idol at Rome and the smaller Fry of Sharks Friars Monks c. at home Those that have Estates or fortunes here let them promise themselves what they can or be their Religion what it will must infallibly have their shares of whatever publique calamity or mischief is brought upon the Nation And if none of these considerations of the Wickedness Danger and Imprudence of these courses can have the influence on our stubborn Romanists to make them weary of and honestly to Confess their late Guilt and forsake and abominate as well in their hearts and Actions as in words these odious Attempts and that villanous Order that promotes them we hope Iustice ere long will make them such remarkable examples of Punishment as may deter their wiser Posterity and ever preserve our Church and State from the same In the mean time Blessed be He and for ever Glorified that from his high Watch-Tower in the Heavens discerning the crooked ways of perverse and cruel men hath hitherto maim'd and we firmly trust will still infatuate all such damnable Projects Thou therefore that sittest in Light and Glory unapproachable Parent of Angels and Men we implore And next Thee O thou Omnipotent King Redeemer of that otherwise-lost Remnant whose Nature thou didst assume Ineffable and everlasting Love And thou the Third Subsistence of Divine Infinitude Illumining Spirit The Joy and Solace of created things One Tripersonal Godhead Be pleased still to take thine Earthly Image and Vicegerent into the Protection of thine everlasting Arm preserve him from the bloody Malice and the destructive Flatteries of these Sons of Belial Leave us not a Prey to these importunate Wolves but build up this Britannick Empire in a Protestant Suceession to a glorious and enviable Height with all her Daughter-Islands and Plantations about her Guard us from the Forreign Wild-Boar and the Domestick Foxes that would spoil thy Vine and its tender Grapes Unite us entirely to each other and withal appropriate us to thy self tying us everlastingly in willing Homage to the Prerogative of thine eternal Throne May our King live long and happily in thy Faith and Fear and all his Enemies be scattered let Treason vanish like smoak and Idolatry and Superstition be rooted out let Tyranny be blasted and Iustice flow like a mighty Stream let Vnity and Love increase amongst Protestants let our Magistrates rule in Righteousness fearing God and hating Evil. Let our Ministers be burning and shining Lamps of Piety let our Iudges be above the Charms of Bribery or Frowns of Greatness Let our Nobility and Gentry count Religion their greatest Honour and our Citizens esteem Truth their best Treasure and all our Commonalty increase in Virtue Zeal and Piety That there may be an High-way of Holiness throughout these Kingdoms that Wayfaring-men though Fools may not erre therein But all with thankful hearts and new Songs of Praise in our Mouths defying the Malice of Hell and Rome triumphantly sing Surely there is no Enchantment against Jacob neither is there any Divination against the Israel of the Most High Amen AN APPENDIX SHEWING Several Politick Artifices of the Jesuits and Papists for restoring of Popery Discovered in Print in the Year 1663 and ever since punctually pursued by them and their Abettors SECT 1. HAving just concluded the fore-going History we met with a small Treatise intituled Fair warning Printed for Henry Marsh in Chancery Lane 1663. and Licensed by Dr. George Stradling Chaplain to the Reverend Gilbert then Bishop of London March 31. 1663. which being Published so long since and under such legal Authority and finding therein several most remarkable Discoveries relating to the Policies whereby the Romanists were to carry on their Design of reestablishing Popery in these Kingdomes We could not but for the Readers information and satisfaction transcribe and annex some of the most material Passages thereof as follows 1. In page 47 this Licensed Author names the Priest whom we herein before page the 75. mentioned to have