of the Faith of the Church of Rome that were not of the Faith of the Court of Rome and therefore though they gave all manner of Encouragement to the Romish Religion yet by great Caution and Vigilance they have very much prevented the undermining the Temporal Authority they had over their Subjects Our former Kings of England though they were of that Faith and did countenance their Subjects in that worship yet they would not let them be enslaved by any pretended Papal Jurisdiction but your Villains were blessed with a man that would not only allow the Bishop of Rome his rascally Worship but also allow him to enslave the Nation with a Power he challenged in the temporal Government this your Cut-throats were assured of and therefore they would not in good manners to your great Zeal be in the least behind hand to joyn with you to hasten the Exit of your Brother who would by no means keep pace with them to their horrid Designs and therefore they judged that he was their only Let or Hinderance in compleating that mighty work 3. You was not only a Papist but a bigotted papist and being such you put your self under the Conduct of the Jesuits this Confederacy of yours with those zealous Sons of the Synagogue of Sâ—than could not be otherwise than very fatal to the Kingdom as to its Religion and Government and the person of the King your Brother for you arriving to that Pitch of Zeal and putting your self under their Conduct they in gratitude to you could not but endeavour the hastning your Accession to the Crown of which you were as ambitious as they were zealous and therefore you both joyned to destroy your Brother that was converted to the Religion of Rome but not zealous enough in driving on the Jesuits Designs had you Brother's Zeal been as fierce as yours he might have been cooling his Heels at St. Germains as well as your self and good Company there It was not for want of good will to your Religion but for want of a galloping Zeal which was no ways consistent with his voluptuous Living that you and these villanous Jesuits and the Popish Party conspired his death these were the three Advantages on which your Cut-throat Party did build their Hopes which made your Jesuits in the most considerable part of the Kingdom and in many places abroad to preach their King murthering Doctrine the better to prepare those of their Communion to joyn with you in the Fatal Blow that you and your Council at St. James's had designed to give the King your Brother 6. A sixth Testimony that appeared against you and your Party was the Trayterous Correspondencies that was maintained in order to carry on a Rebellion in Scotland and Ireland for Scotland your Villains took the Advantage of the great Heats that were created in that Kingdom by the dreadful Tyranny of Duke Lauderdale who acted by your Director and used all those Methods that might provoke a Rebellion and your Servant Coleman who had a great Interest in Lauderdale was often with him by which the Jesuits understood what Measures to take and a Party was appointed to incense the Villainous Bishops of that Kingdom against the poor Protestants there whereby their Lives were made very miserable and the Usage of their Ministers who by providence were driven upon the Coasts of England and came to the House of Lords where an Account was given to the Parliament that sat in the year 1678 in the month of December and the Parliament took their Cause into Consideration and dismissed them of their Irons and Thumckins and addressed your Brother against Lauderdale and as you had a Party of men that acted their part with the Episcopal Party in Scotland thus to vex and torment the afflicted Protestants in Scotland so your Jesuits they entertained another party of Rogues of the same Complexion to assocIate themselves with these poor Protestants in order to keep up their Animositie against the Prelatique Party withal urging them that they at that time had a fair Opportunity to vindicate their Liberty and Religion and that it could not be done but by the Sword and whereas that the King had received many of their Addresses yet he was so addicted to his pleasures that he neither would nor could take little or no care of redressing their intolerable Grievances and the great Cause of their ill Usage proceeded even from the King himself by which Sir it appeared their great Design in Conjunction with you was to weaken your Brothers Interest in that Kingdom for they urged that if they did not stir in time they would be put under some Forreign Force which would be more vexatious to them and you found your Design so well that your Jesuits received an Account from Scotland dated Feb. 7. 1677 that all Diligence was used to put the Potestants in that Kingdom of Scotland upon opposing Duke Lauderdale and his Villains and questioned not but that all things should be so ordered that a Rebellion should be raised in Scotland and a little before you went down to Windsor you knew that Messengers were sent down to Scotland to press the poor people to a resentment of the Tyranny they lived under by the Male-Administration of Duke Lauderdale and such that were of the Ministry in that Kingdom and especially since they could not obtain the Liberty of Conscience notwithstanding all their humble Supplications to the King therefore the Sword must do it a Rebellion at last you obtain'd in order to destroy these poor Wretches the Consequence of which was the total enslaving that Kingdom the better to fit it for its Submission to the Romish Religion As for Ireland I have already at large not only in this but in the first Memorial laid open your Practices in that Kingdom 7. Call to mind Colemans Letters and say that you knew nothing of them if you dare there it is said that you had a mighty work upon your Hands no less than the Conversion of three Kingdoms Come Sir deal freely was it to be brought about by Arguments from the Scripture no Sir I did never find the Knowledge of the Scriptures abound in the most learned of them all we have scarce a Protestant Cobler but is able to cope with if not to baffle a Romish Priest it could not be that these three Kingdoms could be converted by these sorts of Arguments with which your Cut-throats were little acquainted and their preaching is generally too silly and empty to prevail with Protestants to change their Religion unless some few weak Debauchees and weaker Whores Well you were to convert three Kingdom I pray how was not your Conversion and Conviction by enlightening the eyes of the Protestant Party by a Faggot and by the powerful and irresistible Arguments of the Dagger those Letters of Coleman's tell the world that the design prospered so well that there was no doubt but that it would be managed to the utter Ruine of
this was in the Year 1674 in the Month of April I told him No. Why then said he the Dutch War is to no purpose Why said I was our engaging in a War against the Dutch to bring in Popery Well well said the Fryar you will see in time In some few days we had notice of a Peace with the Dutch of which I told the said Fryar What then said he our great King of France is not at peace with him and he must do the work In the Year 1675 I had obtain'd an Interest with Henry Duke of Norfolk then Earl of Norwich and Earl-Marshal of England who was very kind to me upon the account of my contending earnestly for his Right of presenting to a Living in the Diocess of Chichester to which Living the then Bishop a turbulent man pretended a Right of Collating and in the Year 1676 I was made Chaplain to the said Duke of Norfolk I think the whole Family will bear witness of my Fidelity to him and his Children In the Service of the said Duke I came acquainted with several Priests and being then resolv'd upon a strict enquiry into their designs against us our Religion Laws and Liberties I met with one Berry a Priest that had been a Jesuite but had left that Order thro' some discontent and madness that had seiz'd the poor Wretch I found him a poor zealous man whose Zeal was far beyond his Knowledge but this Berry brought me acquainted with Mr. Langworth a Jesuite and John Keins and Will. Morgan that was then Priest to the Lord Powys both Jesuites who gain'd my Consent to go over to the Church of Rome and truly a few Arguments prevail'd with me because I had a deâ—ire to see what they were doing so that in some measure I might prevent that impending danger that seem'd to threaten England with no less than an â—â—recoverable ruine But this as I said before was my great Evil tho' my design in it was honest just and good and Sir you know that it did turn to a good account and would have turn'd to a better account had not I met with your Opposition who was concern'd in all and your Brother in every part but that of his own Life But in short I was by this Langworth reconcil'd to the Church of Rome he was Father-Confessor to the Lord Peâ—re and his Family Upon my being reconciled I was brought to Richard Strange then Provinciate of the Jesuites who admitted me into the Society and when I was admitted it was resolv'd by the Jesuites that I should pass the time of my Novitiate abroad in dispatching business for the Society which I cheerfully accepted as an advantageous Opportunity of doing that for which I was reconcil'd and admitted into their Order and therefore accordingly they provided for me When I had paid Mr. Luke Roach Commander of a Biscay Merchant bound for Bilboa the said Strange the Provincial gave me One hundred Pistols for my supply in order for my passage into Spain and for my necessary Expences there and order'd me what other Monies I should need I then apply'd my self to a certain Nobleman who was privy to my being reconciled to the Church of Rome and had much pressed me to it in order to see what Work your Rogues were at He paid into my hands â—oo Guineas which I chang'd here in England and receiv'd Bills upon Father Swinaâ— the Procurator-General for the English and Irish Jesuiâ—es who paid me in Dollâ—rs â—o my Hearts content What Letters they sent by me you shall have â—n account of in their proper place And when I had got a competent Knowledge of their Design then on foot which was to murder your Brother because he had so often deceiv'd them for they assur'd me he had been reconcil'd to their Church and that upon his Reconciliation the Society in Spain had contributed 3000 Pistols to his support which was paid in by Father Couâ—tney some time Provinciate of the English Jesuits I saw several Letters written by your Brother to one Father Knot in which the King your Brother testified his Zeal for the Catholick Religion and promis'd to restore it whenever he should come to the enjoyment of his Right in England and till he had an Opportunity to do it they should have all the Connivance in the World and if the Case should go so hard wiâ—h him when he came to the Crown that he could not bring about their desires to make their Religion to be the Religion of the Government yet they should have an Indulgence that should be an Equivalent and however they should not be excluded from Offices and Imployments of Trust and that they had his Heart and Soul In a word I was engag'd with the Jesuites two Years and I found it high time to discover what I had learnt from them and your Servant Coleman who you know was a main Agent in this Hellisâ— Design I had a hopeful Prospect of being countenanc'd by your Brother and you and sometimes the thoughts of the Difficulties I was like to meet withal would make me tremble I apply'd my self to my noble Friend of whose Mony I had spent One thousand Pounds in the Discovery and he bid me be of good courage and I should carry my Point to the confusion of them all I also communicated the business to Dr. â—ongâ—â— and â—e to Mr. Christopher Kirkâ—y and Mr Kirkâ—y communicated the same to the King and intrusted the then Lord â—reasurer 〈◊〉 the discovery 〈…〉 that the Discoverer should keep in wâ—th the Jesuites and observe theâ—â— Motions and from time to time discover wâ—at he had learned from them But Kâ—â—kâ—y could not but see your Brother's coolness in the Affair therefore to justâ—â—e himself on the sixth of September he had my Narrative attested by my Oath before Sir Edmund-Bury Goâ—frâ—y and when you and the whole Court came from Windsor I was before Godfrey the 28th day in the Morning being Saturday and swoâ—â— to a compleat Narrative of the Popish Design and at Night I attended the Privy-Council where I gave an account of so much of the whole Affair as was convenient so the whole Board saw that the Jesuites and Papists who were in strict Alliances with the other Conspirators to root out the Protestant Religion and Government And tho' all the Conspirators of the French Interest were in the Grand Plot yet you know there were some of the Jesuites and Priests and Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Romish Communion in conjunction with your self had no Patience to stay the ordinary course to establish Popery and Arbitrary Power which the other Rogues had resolved upon at White-hall to be done in its due time and to go on gradually being well assur'd of your Game if it was not spoil'd thro' rashness and therefore some of your French Pensioners were not made privy to the Secrets of somâ— of the Priests and Jesuites Councels at St. James's Weld-house and elsewhere for you know
yet if you had not come up to the point of killing your Brother you must have been destroy'd as well as he and I do believe that they never was sure of your arriving at that pitch of Courage for I will tell you that there were some of the Blackwan Papists that were for the destroying of you both but their Counsel was rejected for that you were heartily engag'd in that part of the design which related to your Brother's death but they always fear'd that you would not be much capable of their Counsel and Advice whenever you came to the Crown but truly you deceived them all for you Thanks be to God proved as thorow paced a Tyrant as our Hearts and Souls could desire and it was that and only that which did deliver us from you 5thly Give me leave to add a fifth Observation which is well worth your Judicious Consideration for I know you to be a man of great Sense and Ingenuity therefore it will not be amiss to put you in mind and observe to you they did not only preach against all the Princes of Europe in general but against your Brother in particular that he was an Heâ—etick and therefore condemned to what to Death by whom By the Jesuits all over Christendom and the whole Church of Rome for what cause Because he had engaged to set up the Catholick Religion and had broke his word he had received the Sacrament on Easter Day in the morning from Ireland your Jesuit and then from the Church of England at noon he had wounded the Catholick Cause to death by the Test Bill therefore in the first place they declared him a Bastard then a Heretick and then commanded their Young â—ry not to pay Obedience to an Heretical Prince and had I not been Privy to their Design I should have argued thus with my self that since there are so many Protestant Kings and Princes in Christendom why then should they aim thus at the King of England more than the rest of the Protestant Princes but truely I found that it was but a brave Adventure The Jesuits and you well knowing that the rest would follow of Course for they used to say that neither of the two Northern Crowns were worth there contending for till England was gained and if England was once subdâ—ed to the Catholick Faith the rest could not hold out against them therefore as a Prologue to that the war against Holland was commenc'd that with more ease they might extirpate Heresie and had that Potestant State been ruined what could the rest of the Princes of Europe do against France and England these were the Summ and Substance of the debates of your Councellours at St. James's which we had from your Servant St. Coleman you may say what reason had these men to propose to themselves this Advantage whence was this to arise to this I answer 1. You was the next in view after Charles the second that was to sâ—cceed to the Crown and you being a Papist it was no matter of surprize to me nor do I think that it is now to any rational thinking man that they to further and hasten your Succession should with you conspire the destruction of the King your Brother who was the only Obstacle in your way to the Throne I hope thâ—â— you have some about you that are not so unacquainted with the History of England as not to know that your Great Grandmother the Queen of Scots was engag'd with the Popish Party in several Conspiracies against Q. Elizabeth in order to the said Queen of Scots coming to the Crown she being next in descent to the said Queen Elizabeth and truly as long as the Scottish Queen lasted our Queen Elizabeth was never out of Danger Hence it was that our Fore-fathers were so sensible of the Queens Danger which made them to enter into an Association throughout all the Kingdom even in an interval of Parliament in which Association they mutually obliged themselves in case the said Queen Elizabeth should be taken off by any undue means to avenge it upon the Papists and they were not for this taunted at bythe Queen for a parcel of Factious and Rebellious Rogues but received as her dutiful and loyal Subjects and the Parliament passed it into a Law by the Consent of the said Queen Truely Sir your Rogues well knew that should they lose that Opportunity and Advantage of your being a Papist and having Hopes of your Coming such to the Crown for the Re-establishment of the Popish Religion they might never enjoy such an Opportunity again these your Villains perceived that the King your Brother was in all Humane Judgement more likely to live longer than you therefore it was highly necessary to anticipate the course of Nature and not trust matters of such Consequence as the Restoration of the Romish Religion to such a Contingency as your Brothers dying in a natural way before your sweet self nay rather than they would be ouâ— your Popish Astrologer was consulted and the Judgement that he gave was that the King in the Course of Nature would out-live you then you and your Party were resolved that he was to be cut off that his Life might not prevent the great Glory of Englands having a Catholick King which would be of such Advantage to the Holy Chair that you and they purposed to employ such Case harden'd Villains as should not boggle at striking the fatal Blow and though you was pleased to smile at that time upon some that called themselves Proteâ—tants yet they found themselves out in their Accounts when you came to the Crown they saw that they had foolishly sâ—attered themselves with the vain Hopes of having high Church secured for Sir you well knew that it did not become a Man of your Religion to be a Slave to your Word and Faith especially to those you judged Hereticks 2. They well knew that you was not only of the Popish Religion but that you was bigotted to that Religion give me leave to wipe that â—notty Nose of yours with a little passage of your St. Câ—leman God hath given us a Prince said that Holy Traytor who is become to a miracle zealous of being the Author of so glorious a Work Now Sir that Work this great Saint and Martyr of your making Points at was the Conversion of three Kingdoms that was the mighty Work upon your Hands and as you had a mighty work so you had a mighty Zeal for the carrying on that work I am Sir of an Opinion that your Cut-throats would have been contented to have had a Papist of an indifferent Zeal upon the Throne provided they would but have kept him Steady but to have such a Prince that was converted to that degree of Zeal as that he valued nothing in the world in Comparison of his Religion was of far greater Consequence to them than the High Church Cox-combs at that time were sensible of there have been Kings that have been