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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

War That Repriev'd the Plot and the Conspirators Was it the Papists that Suborn'd Witnesses against Shaftsbury and College for That 's their Meaning And was That the Case of Subornation that This Address Strikes at Was it the Papists that Ruin'd All for not Yielding to the Exclusion of the Duke Was it the Papists again that they make Answerable for the Bloud and Desolation Threaten'd in This Address because They Would not do the Things which only the King Could do How could Any man Believe These Calumnies and at the same time keep his Thoughts of his Prince within the Bounds of his Duty Or how could any man Disbelieve 'em without the Vttermost Abhorrence of so Diabolical a Practice upon the Honour of their Sovereign They stript the Late King of his Friends too AND the Malice of the Conspirators was not Satisfy'd Here neither unless after the Stripping his Majesty of All Other Means of Supporting Himself they Depriv'd him of the Vse and Service of his Friends too which Friends of his may be Properly Divided into Papists Convict and Suspected or Reputed Papists The Former were Visible and Known The Other were a sort of People of their Own Creation For whoever was not for their Turn they could make such a Papist of him at pleasure We shall see in Good Time how it far'd both with the One and with the Other while the Remaining Body of the Nation was only a Party of so many Vnited or Associated Protestants that were Link'd in One Band of Confederacy and Wag'd War to the Everlasting Reputation of the Plot under Otes'es Banner But to come to the Matter I shall begin with the Former Sort of them and Carry These Two Points Before me First The Story and Secondly The Ground of their Sufferings And bring the Whole into as Few Words as Possible in a Consistence with Candor Truth and Iustice. PApists or so Reputed were to be Banish'd BECAVSE of the Bloudy and Traiterous Designs of Popish Recusants To be taken into Custody and Disarm'd Their Names Taken Rewards given to the Discoverers of their Arms BECAVSE of the Damnable and Hellish Plot for the Destruction of his Majesties Person c. Papists to be Disabled from Sitting in Either House of Parliament BECAVSE of the Restless Conspiracies of Popish Recusants against his Majesties Person c. No Popish Recusants to have a Residence in his Majesties Palace or Access unto his Presence BECAVSE his Person is in Danger at This Time from Popish Conspiracies All Popish Recusants or Iustly Suspected Papists to be Apprehended Disarm'd and Secur'd BECAVSE of the Pernicious Plots and Contrivances of Popish Persons Resolved That if any Popish Recusant Convict shall Receive any Commission he shall be Deemed a Felon And shall be Pursued Apprehended and Executed as such Popish Delinquents to be brought to speedy Iustice BECAVSE of the Manifest Danger to his Majesties Sacred Person c. from the Notorious Conspiracies of Popish Priests and Iesuites Pickering to be Executed and all Papists or Reputed Papists to be Banished Twenty Mile from London and Westminster for Six Months BECAVSE of the Horrid Conspiracies of Popish Recusants London and the Parts Adjacent to be Freed from Popish Inhabitants At this rate they Proceeded against Papists Convict in the Quality of Papists and put That Part of his Majesties Friends out of Condition of either Serving their Master or Helping Themselves But then t●e Distinction of Suspected or Reputed Papists Swept the whole Remainder of t●em to a Single Man for One Wry Word of Otes or of his Works was enough to bring any Mans name into the Black Roll. Whoever Adher'd to the Duke of York Oppos'd the Exclusion was Suppos'd to Advise a Prorogation or Dissolution Deny'd the Plot Spoke Coursly of the Evidence and in fine Whoever was not an Associator or a Friend to That Interest was Popishly Affected But before I proceed to That Part of the Division of the Kings Friends there are Certain Qualifications of Papists and Popery under Other Circumstances that are to be taken in the way An Address to be Presented to his Majesty that his Royal Highness may Withdraw himself from his Majesties Person and Councel Resolved That a Bill be brought in to Disable the Duke of York to Inherit the Imperial Crown of This Realm And then follows immediately The Resolve Nemine Contradicente of the Revenging Vote In the Next Parliament they were at the very same Sport again Resolved Nemine Contradicente That the Duke of Yorks being a Papist and the Hopes of his coming such to the Crown hath given the Greatest Countenance and Encouragement to the Present Designs and Conspiracies against the King and the Protestant Religion The Next Resolve is the Revenging Vote and after That the Disabling Bill These Three Successively So that the Matter and the Order of it were Evidently Fore-laid and the Caball in Both Parliaments agreed upon 't before-hand Nay the Queen her self was brought into the Conspiracy to the Eternal Infamy of the Believers as well as the Reporters of That Sacrilegious Scandal and an Address Resolv'd upon as follows We Your Majesties most Dutyfull c. having received Enformations by Several Witnesses Otes and Bedloe of a most Desperate and Trayterous Design and Conspiracy against the Life of your Sacred Majesty wherein to their Great Astonishment the QVEEN is particularly Charged and Accused In Discharge of our Allegeance and out of our Affections and Care for the Preservation of your Majesties Sacred Person and Consequently of the whole Kingdom do most Humbly beseech your Majesty that the Queen and All her Family and All Papists and Reputed Papists be forthwith removed from your Majesties Court at Whitehall And then follow'd a Resolve of the Same Date That an Humble Address be Presented to his Majesty that All Papists and Suspected Papists within the Several Counties of England and Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed may be Apprehended and Secur'd This was a Ready way now to have a Clear Stage to Themselves And the Wickedness of That Age Stopt at Nothing when the Four Evangelists came once to be made a Stale to the Bus'ness and when Murder was Super-Added to the Hypocrisy and Perjury of the False Witnesses and their Confederate Patrons and Abettors I come now to the Address that was made upon the Revenging Vote WE do humbly Represent to your Majesty that being Deeply Sensible that the Greatest Hopes of Success against our Religion in the Enemies thereof the Papists are Founded in the Execrable Designs which they have laid against the Sacred Person and Life of your Majesty which it is not only our Duty but our Interest with the Greatest Hazzards to Preserve and Defend we have Apply'd our selves to the making such Provisions by Law as may Defeat those Popish Adversaries their Abettors and Adherents c. And while any such Laws are

not Venture upon the Tracing of Particulars thorough All the Turns and Windings of that Diabolical Maz● or so much as Think of Digesting the Inconsistencies and Confusions of That-Story into any Pretence of Connexion or Form it may nevertherless very well stand with the Reputation as well as the Duty of a Sober Man not to let the Whole Truth be Lost for want of here and there an Original Provided that it may come so much as is on 't Pure and Vntainted to Posterity and Carry an Authority in the Face on 't not to be Controll'd Now as This Plot partly in the Sham partly in the Operation of it and Partly again in the Occasions Administer'd by it has furnish'd Matter for a Course of Almost Six Years Papers I cannot do better then to Tack the History to the Reflexions Especially when the One will be found so Needfull to the Expounding of the Other and the Truth laid as Clear and Certain as if it had been Pointed-out by a Beam of the Sun. I Draw All my Water from the Fountain And not One Drop that is not Neat Natural and Syncere and that will not abide the Vttermost Test. That is to say I have for my Authorities The Uotes of Several Parliaments Printed by Order and Publish'd with an Express Design to Enform the World of the very Matters which I am now about to lay open Printing our Votes says one will be for the Honour of the King and the Safety of the Nation If our Actions be Naught let the World Iudge of them If they be Good let them have their Virtue c. Therefore I am for Printing c. The Popish Party Dread Nothing more then Printing what you do This Printing c. is like Plain Englishmen who are not Asham'd of what they do Now over and above the Main Chance in a Complyance with Au●hority and Order I have likewise upon the Publishing of These Papers taken This Thought into my Care That whereas there are many People that would be Glad and Willing enough to be Enform'd in this Intrigue if it might be done without the Incumbrance of buying a Heavy Book for the sake of a Preface Therefore I have so far Consulted the Readers Ease as to Order the Printing of it apart in a Less Volume to the End that it may serve to Both Purposes But for Distinction sake I shall give it a Title by it self however that People may not Confound that which is properly Preface with the Following History A Brief HISTORY Of the TIMES FROM Dr. Otes'es taking his Degree at Salamanca to the Bearing of his Testimony at a Carts-Arse from Newgate to Tyburn THE Devil is never so Dangerous as when he Presents himself in the Shape of an Angel of Light and there 's nothing so Diabolical as a Religious Wickedness When a man Blasphemes the Holy Ghost by Kissing the Book and Defies and Renounces God in the very Act of Appealing to him This was the Case of the Witnesses and the Plot which Plot was in Effect such a sort of Miracle Impos'd upon the People as the Serpents that the Magicians would have Shamm'd upon Aaron But Truth in the End Devour'd the Imposture It was in short a kind of Perverse Creation Made out of Nothing and without any Pre-existence of Matter to Work upon Only a Parliamentary Fiat at last brought it out of the Abysse Resolved Nemine Contradicente That upon the Evidence that has allready appear'd to This House This House is of Opinion that there is and hath been a Damnable and Hellish Plot Contrived and Carry'd-on by Popish Recusants for Assassinating and Murthering the King for Subverting the Government and Rooting-out and Destroying the Protestant Religion This was no more then to say That Otes Bedloe and Tonge Made the Plot and the House of Commons Found it and they could not well do Less at That Time of the Day Considering the Positive Oaths of so many Profligate Villains and the Constitution of That Loyal Parliament who thought they could never Sufficiently Abominate or Revenge themselves on the Papists for so Vnnatural and Vngratefull a Conspiracy against their Prince and their Religion Beside that the Noise of Godfreys Murder the Ferreting of the Monks in the Savoy Langhorn Whitebread Mico Coleman and the Lord knows how many more to be Seiz'd Papists Banish'd and Disabled from Sitting in Parliament the Raising of the Militia c. This Hurry put People out of their Wits and Consequently there was no Place left for Fair Reasoning in the Sober Way of a Cold and Temperate Debate Now he that shall Stumble upon These Papers Five Hundred Year hence and have a mind to be Peeping into the History of a Villany so many Ages before him shall never need to Consult the Records either of Salamanca or St. Omers for the Mystery the Design or the Issue of it Nor to look any farther then to the Two First Parts of These Observators for his ample Satisfaction And so without spending any more Time and Paper upon Preliminaries I shall Hasten to what I am to say upon This Subject without laying any Stress at all upon the Authority of Hearsays and Conjectures without taking any thing upon Trust or Delivering any other Truths over to Posterity then what I have receiv'd in Form from the very Lips of the Oracle it self I Appoint John-a-Nokes and John-a-Styles to Print These Votes Perused and Sign'd by me according to the Order of the House of Commons and that no other Person presume to print them ET CAETERA The History of the Plot. IN Sept. 1678. Otes and Tong Together made a Composition of a Damnable Hellish Story that they call'd the Popish Plot. And such as it was it was Sworn before Sir E. B. G. and Presented with Wond'rous Formalities of Zeal and Caution to his Late Majesty Himself There were Iesuits Letters forsooth to be Seiz'd at the Post-House to Patch up the Credit of a Broken Bus'ness I have at This Instant the Originals by me Five in All and at Least Three of the Five most Vndeniably the Hand-Writing of Otes and Tonge Themselves Briefly the Shot was Manifes●ly Pointed at his Royal Highness and thorough Him at the King his Brother and thorough his Late Majesty at Monarchy it self as will be made Clearer then the Day in the Sequel of this Discourse The Faction that was Resolv'd to make the Most on 't and to Emprove the Imposture wrought such Havock for a Month or Six Weeks upon 't with Frightfull Stories Continual Alarums Fresh and Fresh Discoveries and Enformations that a great many Wise Good and Sober Men were Startled at it and the Common People as Mellow as Tinder to take Fire at the least Spark At the Opening of the Following Parliament of October 21. 1678. His Majesty had This Passage in his Speech I now intend to Acquaint you as I shall allways do with any thing that Concerns me that