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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47807	A brief history of the times, &c. ...	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.; L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704. Observators.	1687 (1687)	Wing L1203; ESTC R12118	403,325	718

against Sr. W. Scroggs as One Article Ingredient to the making up of his Treasons Now certainly there was something Extraordinary in 't that more then That Number of Noble Lords should be Declared Pernicious Advisers Promoters of Popery and Enemies to the King and Kingdom for only Ioyning with the King Himself in Opinion against the Exclusion And that the Same Persons should Arraign the One that Brought-off the Other So Mortal a Sin was it accounted in Those days to Serve the Crown and the Royal Family and so Venial a Slip to Endeavour the Overturning of the Government I do not remember so much as any One Instance that Vary'd from This Rule And never was any thing so Constant that came by Chance To give These Political Operators their Due there was Nothing Wanting to their Purposes that either Fraud Industry Confidence or Hypocrisy could Furnish They made the People afraid of Infallibility and Arbitrary Power and at the Same Time look'd them in the very Faces while they Assum'd the One and Practis'd the Other Themselves the Former under the Authority of the Wisedom of the Nation and the Latter in the Right of the Commons of England For Every Vote was in Effect a Sentence of Law Reason and Power Sovereign Absolute and without Controll And it was but saying that This or That Is at This Time Grievous to the Subject a Weak'ning of the Protestant Interest an Encouragement to Popery and Dangerous to the Peace of the Kingdom to make the Resolution Authentique with a Non Obstante of never so many Laws to the Contrary If a Vote say that the King Cannot Pardon That Subjects shall not lend him Money Or That the Refusal of the Lords to Proceed in Parliament upon the Commons Impeachments of any Peer or Commoner for Treason or any other Crime or Misdemeanour is a Denial of Iustice and a Uiolation of the Constitution of Parliaments Here 's the King Law and Lords Over-rul'd and the Votes made Presidents Cited and Pleaded for the Prerogative of the House of Commons in all the Clubs or which is the same Thing the Peoples Courts of Iustice throughout the Three Kingdoms And it could not well be Other so long as Green-Ribbon-Committees and Caballs Without doors had such an Influence upon what pass'd Within and that the Principal Managers of Otes'es Plot were the very Oracles that were Consulted for Direction and Resolution upon All the Conspiracies that were then in Agitation These Evidences upon the Transactions of the House it self drawn from the Prints that they Themselves Order'd to be Publish'd and that were Publish'd accordingly as an Appeal to the Whole World in Iustification of their Proceedings and to Prevent False Copies and Reports These very Papers are the Evidences as their Unlucky Starrs would have it that are now Arisen in Iudgment 1against them and Faithfully Deliver'd-over to Succeeding Times as the Only Sure Means of Vnriddling the Mystery of This Wonderfull Intrigue And certainly No better way to let the Reader into the Secrets of This Affair then by the Key it self that was Made Originally to the Cypher I Have by this Time Trac'd the Likelyhoods of a Deliberated Design upon the King Church and State thorough all the Steps of Probability and Strong Presumption up to the Highest Degree of Certainty and Demonstration Were not All the Violent Asserters of the Duke of Monmouth's Pretended Interest and the Opposers of the Indubitable Right of his Royal Highness Embarqu'd in the Same Bottom of Enmity to the Government and of Kindness to the Faction How many were there in Both Houses that had the Same Hearts towards the King in a Committee of Parliament that they had afterward in a Clubb or in an Army And still Otes'es Plot the Support of All their Pretences And what was the Countenance of That Plot at Last but that the King was in Danger of being Assassinated by the Papists and therefore the Posse of the Three Kingdoms was to be Rais'd to Prevent that Murther Now whoever Believes That Story to be True must of Necessity draw this Conclusion from it That the Same People Stickled for the Saving of the King at Whitehall that were for the Killing of him in the West That is to say unless they can Bear the World down that there was No Rebellion Or that None of the Leading Members of Either House were Concern'd in 't but for That there was never any thing made Plainer then This Affirmative not onely from the Mouths of their Confederates but from the Confessions of the very Parties Themselves For the Truth of This I may further Remit my self to Divers Proclamations Declarations and Other Acts of State that have been Issued out by the Order and Authority of the Late Blessed King and of his Sacred Majesty that is now in Being But as a Supplemental Explanatory to All the Rest the Paper of Association that was found in the Late Earl of Shaftsburies Closet and Prov'd upon him if ever Light it self was made Manifest That Paper I say may serve without any Violence to the Text for a Comment upon All the Dark Passages of That History for it is in the Frame Order and Matter of it no other then a Compendious Abstract of the Debates and Resolutions that had pass'd the Commons upon the bus'ness of the Plot and the Succession Insomuch that there is hardly a Syllable of any Moment in the One that is not Answer'd and Eccho'd in the Other and whoever Lick'd it into Form the Project was the Cubb of a Close-Committee and it was kept in Reserve for a Forc'd-Put The French Holy League was look'd upon in those days as a Master-piece but the Devil was as yet a Novice The Scotch and English Holy League and Covenant came an Age Later into the World and Refin'd upon the French One and Then some Forty Year after that came the Noble Peers Association that Out-did them Both. But there 's no Reading upon 't 'till we have the Piece it self Before us in its own Dimensions Words and Colours The Paper which was Seized in the E. of Shaftsbury's Closet by Francis Gwin Esquire One of the Clerks of His Majesties Privy-Council and Read November 24. 1681. at the Old-Baily before His Majesties Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer WE the Knights c. Finding to the grief of our Hearts the Popish Priests and Iesuits with the Papists and their Adherents and Abetters have for several years last past pursued a most pernicious and Hellish Plot to root out the true Protestant Religion as a pestilent Heresie to take away the Life of our Gracious King to subvert our Laws and Liberties and to set up Arbitrary Power and Popery 2. And it being Notorious that they have been highly encouraged by the Countenance and Protection given and procured for them by J. D. of Y. and by their expectations of his succeeding to the Crown and that through crafty Popish Councils his