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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04642	Otes's remonstrance. For the right honourable Sir Leoline Jenkins knight his Majesties principal secretary of state of Whitehall.	Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.; Jenkins, Leoline, Sir, 1623-1685.	1683 (1683)	Wing O51A; ESTC R181137	2,324	3

OTES'S Remonstrance For the Right Honourable Sir Leoline Jenkins Knight His Majesties Principal Secretary of State at Whitehall I Gave your Honour the last Friday the trouble of a few Lines in which I told you that I had business of Importance with the King and Councel your answer was That I must apply my self to a Justice of Peace or Courts of Justice The business I had with the Council is a Complaint against Roger L'Estrange Esq who in several Libels of his called the Observator and other Seditious Pamphlets hath as I humbly conceive Vilified and Ridicul'd the Evidence of the Popish Plot and Arraigned the Proceedings of the Government upon the said Plot And to give himself a reputation in this his Illegal course he pretends in one or more of those his said Observators that he hath Authority or leave from some of His Majesties Ministers for so doing which I dare not believe Your Honour knows that His Majesty was so sensible of the danger he was in by reason of that Horrid Conspiracy that he did not only recommend the strict examination thereof to His Houses of Parliament but also was pleased to acquaint them how unsafe he was till it was searched out to the bottom Besides this three Fasts were Proclaimed Appointed and kept which the King himself strictly kept and commanded all His Loving Subjects so to do several have been Executed and several Parliaments have Voted That there was an Horrid Hellish Popish Plot Now all these things considered I could never have imagined that any private Persons could have been so bold with the Government as to use such Reflections upon their Proceedings and call in question the Veracity of the Testimony of that Evidence which was justified by His Majesties Council and the Parliament and the Courts of Justice I thought I should never have liv'd to have seen the day that the Plot should be call'd in question which the King had own'd in his several Proclamations But since it is so I must pray your Pardon if I cannot apply my self for Redress in that way and method your Honour was pleased to order For I humbly conceive that it is the Government that is abused and therefore in Conscience and Honour it is bound to vindicate its Proceedings from such Aspersions as are cast upon them by the said L'Estrange and his Confederates I would not use any method or way to injure the worst of my Enemies but that the Council will take my hard usage from the said L'Estrange into serious Consideration and cause the said L'Estrange to be Silenc'd and Reparation to be made me To that end I have in this sent a Petition to the King and Council which I would have presented if I might have had the liberty to appear at Court in which I pray for Redress I hope God will put it into your hearts to do me right In the mean time Sir I am Feb. 28. 1683. Your Honours Humble Servant TITUS OTES My humble Request is that this Petition inclosed may be presented to the King in Council so that I may be in some probable way of having Redress OTES'S Remonstrance To the KINGS most Excellent Majesty and to the Lords and others of His Majesties most honble Privy Council The humble Petition and Complaint of Titus Otes SHEWETH THat your Petitioner according to his Duty and Allegiance which he owes and is always bound to pay to your Majesty and the Government Establish'd by Law did in the month of September in the year 1678. Discover a most Horrid Hellish Popish Plot against your Majesty and the Protestant Religion and Government to the satisfaction of your Majesty and the Privy Council as appears by the several Proclamations issued out by your Majesties Order with the Advice of your most Honourable Privy Council which your Petitioner is and will be ready to produce when thereunto commanded by your Majesty That your Majesty was so highly sensible of the great danger your Person was in and your Government by reason of that Conspiracy that you were graciously pleased to proclaim several solemn Fasts and days of Humiliation and did will and require your Loving Subjects to joyn in Hearty Prayers and Supplication with your Majesty unto Almighty God for the Blessings of the Discovery and for the farther Discovery thereof and in several of your Majesties most gracious Speeches to your Houses of Parliament hath been pleased to express How unsafe your Majesty was till the said Plot was searched to the bottom That several of the Conspirators in the Plot were Apprehended and Committed Indicted and Convicted Attainted and Executed upon your Petitioners Evidence together with the Evidence of others the Attainders of which Conspirators remain as your Petitioner believes upon Record That four several Parliaments own'd the same Discovery and pass'd several Votes wherein they did declare That there was an Horrid Popish Plot for the Destruction of your Royal Person and your Government and the Subversion of the Protestant Religion as by Law Established That Roger L'Estrange whom your Petitioner hears is now a Justice of the Peace though turn'd out for several Misdemeanors in the year 1680. hath Defam'd and Arraign'd the Justice of the Nation in Ridiculing the said Popish Plot and the Discovery and the Discoverers thereof in certain Scandalous and Seditious Pamphlets of his call'd the Observator and in several other Pamphlets That the said Roger L'Estrange pretends in some of those Seditious and Scandalous Pamphlets That he is authoriz'd so to do by one or both your Secretaries That the said Scandalous and Seditious Pamphlet appears to countenance Popery in your Protestant Government and the Popish Party have been much encourag'd by the same to Revile and Threaten your Petitioner he the said L'Estrange pretending that he had Authority for so doing That your Petitioner hath born the Scandalous Reflections and Aspersions upon the account of his Discovery of the said Plot from the said L'Estrange this four years with Patience and had the Scandals only touch'd your Petitioner I would not have complain'd to your Majesty and this Honourable Board But since the said L'Estrange Scandalously vilifies the said Discovery and calls in question the Justice of your Government your Petitioner therefore thought it fit to apply himself to your Majesty and this Board for Redress The Premisses consider'd your Petitioner humbly prays your Majesty and this Right Honourable Board to Relieve your Petitioner and his Evidence from the Seditious Calumnies of the said Roger L'Estrange and not suffer your Petitioner to be left to be daily oppressed and destroy'd for those Services which your Majesty and Council and Parliament and Courts of Justice have own'd And your Petitioner shall as in duty bound pray for your Majesties Health and long Life and happy Reign c. Titus Otes