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Eikōn vasilikē tritē, or, The picture of the late King James further drawn to the life in which is made manifest by several articles that the whole course of his life hath been a continued conspiracy against the Protestant religion, laws, and liberties of the three kingdoms : in a letter to himself : part the third / by Titus Oates ...
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Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.
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that attended the Dissolution of those Parliaments 6ly What Pretences you and your Party used for procuring the Dissolution of those Parliaments with Answers thereto First Your Inclinations shew'd you an Enemy to a Parliamentary Way of Government and this appears in the following Particulars 1. From your Nature and Temper 2. From your Usage even of the Pensioner-Parliament 3. From the Notions and Practices of your traiterous Party in relation to Parliaments 4. From the daily Breaches you made upon our Laws 5. By your Unwillingness to let that Parliament meet and sit 6. By the Opinion you had of their Affection to you 1. From your own Nature and Temper which I shall set forth before you in relation to 1. Your Religion 2. Your Politicks 3. Your Morals 1. Let us consider your Nature and Temper in respect to your Religion and this will prove your Aversion to English Parliaments and that way of Government Your Nature and Temper inclined you to set up the Popish Religion How was this to be done was it by an English Parliament If any of your Party should suppose this let me tell you the Supposition in it self was Nonsense Your Religion was such and I am perswaded you are no Changeling as went not altogether in the Old Primitive Apostolical Way of Preaching and Praying and teaching all Nations c. but Scourging Wracking and Broiling Men into the Fear of God Nay is not your Religion such that for its own Propagation it will make its Champions divest themselves of Humanity and act worse than Devils in order to be Saints Now Sir where could you get a Parliament to have established such a Religion by a Law And can any Man judg you in love with Parliaments who are such Enemies to this excellent Religion of yours I pray Sir reflect upon your Servant Coleman's Words in his Letter to Father La Chaise the French King's Confessor We have a mighty Work upon our Hands no less than the Conversion of three Kingdoms and by that perhaps the utter subduing of a Pestilent Heresy which hath domineered over great Part of this Northern World a long time there were never such Hopes of Success since the Death of our Queen Mary as now in our Days What Reason gives Coleman for this Doctrine when saith he God hath given us a Prince who is become I may say to a Miracle zealous of being the Author and Instrument of so glorious a Work but the Opposition we are sure to meet with is also like to be great so that it imports us to get what Aid and Assistance we can for the Harvest is great and the Labourers but few Here was a mighty Work and a mighty zealous Prince engaged in this Work I pray Sir why did you not apply to your mighty Band of Pensioners in your Long Parliament for Aid and Assistance No your Religion would not comply with that nor their Religion advance your mighty Work tho they were Villains enough in some Sense yet you did not think fit to trust them with the managing this mighty Work or to let them know your mighty Mind and Zeal in this great Work To whom then do you apply your self Why truly to the mighty Lewis the French King for do but observe your Agent 's Words in the same Letter where he saith That which we rely upon most next to Almighty God and the Favour of my Master the Duke is the mighty Mind of his Christian Majesty whose Soul inclines him to great Vndertakings Truly Sir I think the Case is plain that the subtle Jesuits had formed a Design to bring in Popery and to kill the King which they would never have been such Sots to attempt had they not been sure you would engage in this mighty Work Yet you were not privy to it Let who will believe that I cannot for do you think the Jesuits and Coleman would have ingaged in that mighty part of the Conversion had not they seen into your very Heart and Soul Now upon the whole Matter can any one think if there were no such thing in Nature as a mighty English Parliament to have joined with your mighty Zeal in the mighty Work you had upon your Hands that ever the Religion which you profest would incline you to be in love with an English Parliament that was ever averse to Popery and Slavery since the Reformation And because of your Aversion to an English Parliament as an Enemy to your Religion you apply your self to the French King which I am sure was not consistent with a hearty Love to an English Parliament 2. Let us consider your Nature and Temper as to your Politicks and by that I shall shew your natural Aversion to Parliaments and a Parliamentary way of Government As your Religion so your Judgment leads you to Arbitrary Government for it was not only Rome's Religion but the French Mode of Governing that was your Design and the end of all those Counsels you had with your Jesuits and your Servant Coleman who was a main Agent in that Affair yet when your glorious Enterprize was discovered you graciously left him to be hanged for all his good Secret Services done you in furthering the mighty Work you had upon your Hands But some of your Party may say That in opposition to a Parliament it was impossible to bring in Popery and Arbitrary Power it being inconsistent with the Rules of Policy to attempt such a thing in England To this I answer Let the Popish Crew say so if they dare I am certain they must bely their Consciences in this point whatever they do in other Points in their Politicks the hellish Popish Plot being a plain Demonstration that your Cut-throat Papists did believe it possible or else Coleman and others would not have on your Behalf so far engaged the French King's Aid and Assistance in the Affair for you attempted to be restored to all your Commissions and how came it to pass that you did not effect your Restoration It was not saith Coleman hindred by reason of any Aversion they had to your Person What then it was because of the Dissatisfaction the Faction entertained against you Who was this Faction but the English Parliament to whom you were so averse that the Popish Party could make no brisk Attempt on your Behalf for the Parliament then was very sensible that the French King's Interest was much attracted to yours which declared you to be no Friend to them and engaged them to provide for themselves against you and your cursed Party Again Sir by your leave could any thing be plainer than the Design that Coleman and the Jesuits had formed and had Hopes of effecting since they had joined you so close to the French King's Interest I am sure 't was contrary to Reason and Nature it self for them to attempt your Brother's Life and thereby commit the basest of all Murders for Murder-sake and tho natural Affection might interpose in that Design had you
could there be since the Laws of the Land were the Rule of his Government To which I answer 1. Suppose K. Charles had all his days governed according to the Laws of the Land was his having governed according to the Laws already sufficient to discourage you and your Villains from plotting to destroy us And when your Conspiracy was detected did the King's governing according to Law remove the Fears we had of the Popish Party Object But you will say We had an ill Opinion of your Brother and his Government and thence came our pretended Fears and Jealousies Answ Alas Sir you are mistaken our Fears did not proceed so much from our ill Opinion of him as from the sense we had of the implacable Hatred you and your villanous Popish Party had to him and your Resolution to destroy him because he made not such haâ—â—â— to destroy us as you would have had him But suppose we had entertain'd all evil Opinion of the King we had just Cause for it he having left us in the hands of such as were so far from protecting the Nation that not one Law made to preserve the Protestant Religion was put in execution and you had so filled the Courts of Westminster-Hall with a Set of Rogues that perverted the Law to the hazard of the whole Nation that your Traitors escaped those Punishments due to them for their many Treasons 2. Could the Laws we then had without some additional Provision contribute to our safety since you were to succeed him Were not you and your Party then the worst of Men to declare to the World that we were in no danger notwithstanding your vigorous Application to extirpate the Northern Heresy which you were in a more effectual way to effect than ever Hence may appear the Malice of your Party in preaching Peace when they were preparing to make War upon us I might enumerate other Evils that happened on Dissolving those Parliaments but these at present shall serve and therefore I come to the last Particular of the third Head of this Article viz. Sixthly The foolish Pretences you and your Party made for procuring these 3 Parliaments to be dissolved in so reproachful a manner all which prove you an Enemy to Parliaments and that way of Governing I pray Sir let me put you in mind that your Brother hated Parliaments mortally which appears by his Letter to the French King in June 1676. to this purpose That if he could be assured of his Pension that it might continue he should not continue that way of Governing viz. by frequent Parliaments which at the best was but a clamorous Rabble that took upon them to direct Kings but as he was resolved to be like his Neighbours in Riches and Grandeur so he was resolved to be like them in Religion too Thus it seems at the long-run you were both of a mind except that he was not so hardy in observing his own word to ruin the Nation all at once as you were and what your goodly Pretences were for Dissolving three Parliaments to effect the same you have laid before you in these following Particulars 1st The first Pretence was their too vigorous prosecuting the Popish Plot. Now with what colour could you charge this upon them for as I told you before so I must again that those Parliaments were composed of Men of as good Sense and Quality as any in the whole Kingdom who proceeded and managed their debates with as great Moderation and Gravity as became their Place if they went too far in any thing relating to that cursed Design you might have instanced in the Particular and not have suffered your Hell-born Crew to censure their whole Proceeding in it But let me tell you they were so far from going too far that your Brother and you suffer'd 'em not to sit till they could do any thing considerable in any part of the Discovery Now Sir let me ask you one Question Why did not you and your Party rather fall upon the King and his Ministers for those Speeches and Declarations he made concerning the Popish Plot of which you shall have your full in its proper place But pray observe 1. Your Brother did frequently recommend the Prosecution of the Popish Plot to them with a strict and impartial Inquiry and can you think that a Parliament consisting of so many worthy Patriots would be such Traitors to their King and Country as not to comply in â—ome measure with his Commands especially since in his Speech Octob. 21. 1680. he used that prevailing Argument That he neither thought himself nor them safe till the Matter was gone through with Was not the King's Person nor Government safe and would you not have them zealous in inquiry into the said Plot to prevent the threatning Dangers 2. Did not your Brother in his Speech to his Parliament April 30. 1679. assure them of his constant Care to secure our Religion for the future in all Events and that in all things which concerned the publick Security he would noâ— follow their Zeal but lead it Therefore Sir you may see that by making this a Pretence for dissolving three Parliaments you did fly in the very Face of the King and his leading Zeal to have that Plot discovered and the Criminals brought to publick Justice 2ly A second Pretence you and your Banditti had for dissolving the three last Parliaments was because they would give no Money for supporting the Alliance your Brother had made for preserving Christendom in Peace and the keeping of Tangier by which the Nation might see the true Reason for which those Parliaments were called The truth is Sir you had almost perswaded the King not to use that Parliament which sat down Octob. 21. 1680. and in order to that you made Application to the French King for a Sum of 300000 l. Sterling and promised if your Brother was supplied with it the Parliament should not meet The French King agreed and the Money was to be paid at two Paiments Upon this the Parliament newly chosen in August 1679 was prorogued till November following and your great Ally assuring your Brother of the Paiment of the Money the Parliament was further prorogued till October 21. 1680. so that we had no Parliament sitting from May 1679 till October 1680. but the Duke of Buckingham getting Intelligence of this Contrivance and being in danger of his Life by the Subornation of a Villain to whom he had given Bread as also to his whole rascally Family finding his Head must fly for it if a Parliament did not meet makes a Journey over to France and so prevailed with the French King that the Money promised was not transmitted so that of Necessity not of Choice you permitted your good Brother that one time to meet his People in Parliament Well then Supplies were demanded to maintain the Alliance made for the Support of the General Peace of Christendom the Preservation of Tangier and for the Paiment of your