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A54760	Dr. Oates's narrative of the Popish plot, vindicated in an answer to a scurrilous and treasonable libel, call'd, A vindication of the English Catholicks, from the pretended conspiracy against the life and government of His Sacred Majesty, &c. / by J.P., gent.	Phillips, John, 1631-1706.	1680 (1680)	Wing P2083; ESTC R21048	60,667	56

Keines said it was endeavoured to dispatch 48 at Wiudsor that Corker and the Benedictines had promised 6000 l. that two of them own'd it and that their business was to remove the Stuarts out of the way and that Coniers laid a wager that the King should not live to eat any more Chrismas Pies c. This the Vindicator calls Poetry as being one of the Tragical Order himself But whatever is the matter here 's neither ye Lye nor Attestation G surely the man forgot himself or else these two great Cronies of his were tir'd and gone to sleep Only he throws himself upon Corkers acquittal a very slight Bladder to Swim with in such an intended Sea of Blood For though Corker were acquitted it was for want of double Evidence which the Law required Not that the Court believ'd him Innocent and therefore they gave new orders to Detain him which was but sour Sawce to the sweet Morsels of his acquittal Truly this Article great Man of might requir'd a more Garagantua like Vindication You should have rous'd all your ye lyes and 't is falses and now he lyes under Conviction and embodied all your Attestations to have given Battle to this Article and if you could have got all St. Malo's Dogs to have help'd ye all had been little enough Article 61. Keines took the Deponent to an Assembly of the Dominicans where six were met in the name of the rest with their Provincial to comply with the fathers of the Society There also met five Iesuits Keines demanded of the Dominicans money to carry on the business of Killing the King The Dominicans answered They were poor but would give their assistance and Counsel Hence the Deponent was sent with the Proposals to the Carmelites who answered Their prayers to God and the Blessed Lady should not be wanting and that was all they could give What says the Vindicator to all this why since you needs must have it He says All those that know the Emulations that have been and still are between the Dominicans and the Jesuits will scarce believe those would meet to comply with these Oh! Mr. Vindicator you are ill read in History Herod and Pilate could well agree to remove the King of the Iews Though the Dominicans and Iesuits jangle about the Conception of the Virgin they may agree for all that about the Conception of a Plot. Nay the Pope himself could reconcile himself to the Turk and call him into the bowels of Italy to help him at a dead lift You are a whole Dutch League too short of a Vindication yet Art 62. Blundel said his Workmen wanted Oyle which the Deponent supposed to be Sheeps Fat. Coniers said the Hill people were fools to set upon 48 at Windsor but he would speak to his Worship in other Language then in Tormentillo but that if his Shirt on his back should know how he would burn it All this the Vindicator denies and sends ye to Attestation S as the Dice in the Dutch Fortune-book send ye to the Philosopher Pythagoras Art 64. That Fogarthy is a main Agent in this Hellish plot That he told the Deponent he was present when Sir G. W. was contracted with and that he had hir'd four Ruffians to mind the Kings Postures at Windsor To this he says the first is a Lye the second is a Lye and the third is a Lye Most Serene and Polite Vindicator we greet thee Well Cicero himself could have said no more From whence I argue thus He that tells another man he Lyes three times has the better of the Dispute The Vindicator tells the Deponent he Lyes three times Ergo The Vindicator has the better of the Dispute Now to turn the Argument The Vindicator tells me the Pope is not Antichrist I tell the Vindicator he Lyes three times Ergo. The Pope must be Antichrist And so there 's a Rowland for his Oliver Having thus done with the Quintescence of his Ingenuity we shall come to the drossy part of his Wit which lies in his Reflections By which if he knew how he would fain insinuate strange Chimera's into the peoples Heads as Bufalmacco in Boccace frighted his Master with Dor-flies and bits of lighted Wax-candles And to this purpose he terrifies ye with the Inconvenience of Blank Accusations For says he the Deposition concerning four Ruffians was filled up by Jenisons naming four Innocent persons to get a false Witnesses Reward to pay his Debts and supply his want of money There 's now for Mr. Ienison I think he had better have held his Tongue The Vindicator finds another substantial Evidence come in to confirm the Narrative and therefore he must be bespaul'd with his Jesuitical drivel But those Innocent persons never came in to justifie themselves and in regard the Law of the Land supposes them guilty that fly for it it is not for his Pie-Powder-Court at St. Omers to determine who are guilty and who are Innocent in England or to dive into the reasons of other mens Loyalty as if none but the necessitous could be Loyal and none but Fugitives Innocent Or as if the Justice of England accus'd or condemn'd any man to please the Kings Evidence or that the Kings Evidence were so dear to him that he would sacrifice his Justice to their private Interest Brain of a Taylor you are too sawcy He goes on No man can be secure in the way of a Mad-Dog or an Impudent lying Witness such as your Mungrel Attestators as long as the Clamours of the Rabble are so loud that neither Iustice or Reason can be heard He 's mistaken Reason and Justice have both in a good measure been so well satisfyed that I dare say they will never appeal to St. Omers for the redress of their Grievances By the way Gentlemen you are to consider whom this Brain of a Taylor calls the Rabble none but the Lords and Commons of England you your selves and the whole Body of the Nation Those says he were wisest that embraced a voluntary Exile He is mistaken again they are no voluntary Exiles they were Banished by the Law of the Land and were but intruders into the Kings Dominions They were the Pest of the Nation that escaped the provision of divers wholesome Statutes like old cunning Vermine Let them that stay behind look to themselves as well as they can You speak like an Oracle let 'em Fee their Counsellor and take his advice Article 65. That the Deponent at Madrid had seen the Lord Embassador Sir William Godolphin at Mass and was perfectly inform'd by the Arch-Bishop of Tuam that the Embassador held great correspondence with the Arch-Bishop and that a Iesuite had read to him Philosophy and Divinity That Suiman a Iesuite in a Letter to the Deponent the 30th of July Newstile did specifie that Sir William was as industrious as any man could be to answer the expectation of the Society Here says the Vindicator are as many Lyes as Periods For 1 st 'T

Dr. Oates's Narrative OF THE POPISH PLOT VINDICATED IN AN ANSWER TO A Scurrilous and Treasonable LIBEL CALL'D A Vindication of the English Catholicks from the pretended Conspiracy against the Life and Government of His Sacred Majesty c. By I. P. Gent. Humbly presented to both Houses of Parlament LONDON Printed for Thomas Cockerill at the Three Legs in the Poult over against the Stocks-Market 1680. To the Most Renowned and Most Noble SENATE OF EUROPE THE Lords and Commons OF ENGLAND ASSEMBL'D IN PARLAMENT Most Illustrious and Right Honourable A Certain Pamphlet has lately appear'd in the World without any Name which has daringly presum'd to call that Pretended which you have adjudg'd and voted Real I mean the Popish Plot. And indeed it has been one of the chief designs of the Papists ever since the first discovery one of their most laborious endeavours as well by Writing as by slanderous reports to vilifie and render insignificant that Evidence which you have both approv'd and justifi'd though not before you found it fairly fix'd upon the Basis of important Truth However that they might not triumph in the conquests of their Pens as in the success of their busie Councils I undertook this brief Essay to stop the career of the first leaving the greater work to a more mighty Power I have not from hence taken any occasion in the least to wander among other differences among us but kept to the subject firmly believing the Infallibility of your Counsels after such a serious Debate and that it was impossible that your Prudence should be impos'd upon by one single person to weigh and determin as you did And I thought it would be more for the honour of a National concern to dedicate this small Offering to your tribunal then guiltily to put my self forth into the World like the Popish Vindicator in disguise Which is the best Apology I can make for the presumption of this Publick but most humble Address of Your Devoted and Most Obedient Servant I. Phillips Dr. Oats's NARRATIVE OF THE Popish Plott VINDICATED In ANSWER to A Scurrilous and Treasonable LIBEL CALL'D A Vindication of the English Catholicks c. CAtiline in the hight and heat of his Impious Conspiracy at what time he was designing the Murther of the Consul the Massacre of the Roman Fathers and the Destruction of Rome it self by Fire and Sword had yet the Confidence to enter the Senate and with a plausible Harangue to justifie his Innocency An attempt almost as bold as his March to the intended Sack of his Native Countrey In like manner an Imp of the same Brood a Traitor of the same facinorous Principles for the Abettors in such important cases as these are as bad as the Contrivers and Actors after such lucid and apparent Discoveries of Papistical Catilines and Cethegus's after so many Examinations of National Councils and Assemblies so many Convictions and Executions so much unwearied pains and high Expences to disintangle the Guilty from the Noozes of the Law has presum'd to steal into the World a malicious piece of Labour in Vain which he calls in down-right Gibberish A Vindication of the Inglish Catholicks from the pretended Conspiracy against the Life and Government of his Sacred Majesty A specious Title indeed wherein the Venerable Impostor by condescending to allow the King his due and undenyable Epithite of Sacred thinks to charm the Readers Ear and lay the foundation of his Delusion It is a thing very easie to ascribe to the Anointed of God the inseparable Title of Sacred but whether such a Veneration proceed from the real Motives of Duty and Allegiance or from the glozing Inducements of constrain'd and Time-serving Adulation is many times greatly to be question'd And indeed never more to be suspected than at this time from a Person who pretends to write a Vindication of the profess'd Enemies not only of our most Sacred Monarch but of all Protestant or as they otherwise term them Heretical Princes For if his business be not to Vindicate those whom we Accuse his Vindication signifies nothing I must needs say indeed that his Title salutes us with the prospect of a very lame Story and an Enterprize undertaken by halves in regard he only takes up the Cudgels for the Inglish Catholicks as if the Foreigners were Saints But he will find himself under a foul mistake and that he ought to have prepar'd his Fullers Earth and his Rubbing Brush for both alike both being equally sully'd with the same Crimes and stain'd with the same bloody Principles The occasion of the Dispute is Truth The Protestants would have her on their side the Catholicks court her to take their part To which purpose the private aim of their Vindication is to prove there was no Popish Plot the Publick design to render the First Discoverer a meer Caitiffe so not to be believd and consequently that England was at that time and still is govern'd by persons either strangely credulous and stupidly unwary or else as strangely malicious and Bloodthirsty Ponderous Accusations to be thrown upon the Government and Religion of a Nation In the first place therefore it behoves us stricttly to Examine who this Titan of a Vindicator is who so boldly dares to Scale the Heaven of Soveraign Majesty and impeach at once the Prudence and Justice of Three Kingdoms And then for whom all this Bustle is made for whom all this Toyl and Labour is undertaken who these pretended Inhabitants of Salem are that breathe out such complaints of wrong and injury Who if they once appear such as we more than justly suspect them to be will come very far short of their swelling Expectations There is no question then to be made but that this Potent Vindicator is a Roman Catholick what Title he bears or what Order he Musters under it nothing imports For of all those Religious Fraternities confirmed by those Imaginary Vicars of Christ call'd Popes there is little or no difference to be made They are all grown corrupt there is not one doth good no not one Pride was the Foundation of their Humility Impiety of their Devotion and Interest of Ecclesiastical Policy confirm'd and supported their Hypocrisie This is not only one Doctor 's Opinion for take them altogether Higglede Pigglede one with another and then hear the Character which the great and Famous Mezeray an Author of their own Profession bestows upon them On ne sgauroit sans rougir Parler c. We cannot without Blushing sayes he speak of the Vsury the Covetousness the Drunkenness and Dissoluteness of the Clergy in General of the Licentiousness and Villanous Debaucheries of the Monks in particular The Luxury the Pride and Prodigality of the Prelates the shameful Sloth the stupid Ignorance and Superstition both of the one and the other In another place the same Historian speaks in general that Harry the fourth during his Reign detected above Fifty Conspiracies against his Life the most of them contriv'd and