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A54760	Dr. Oates's narrative of the Popish plot, vindicated in an answer to a scurrilous and treasonable libel, call'd, A vindication of the English Catholicks, from the pretended conspiracy against the life and government of His Sacred Majesty, &c. / by J.P., gent.	Phillips, John, 1631-1706.	1680 (1680)	Wing P2083; ESTC R21048	60,667	56

way and accus'd White for desiring the Prayers of his fellow Traytors upon such an accompt he had but made a Discovery and so he did by taking his own Courses So that the Vindicator seems now to be angry at the Deponent not for discovering the Plot but for not doing it that way he would have had him But to make him amends if he will be pleased to come and make any farther and real Discoveries himself he shall have his Liberty to use his own Method The 77 Article contains the Deponents Entertainment at the Provincials Lodging This he calls coherene Nonsence For none says he who knew White in his Vigour will believe he could beat so stout a man as the Deponent considering the weak condition he was in when he came to London What made him venture his weak Carkass at London It must be no ordinary occasion certainly that made him hazard the Inconveniencies of Sea and Land in that weak condition This Vindicator can believe that St. Denis when he was in a weaker condition when he had his Head cut off could run with it in his Hand above a League and yet now he thinks it such a Miracle for the Provincial of the Jesuites to give an Inferior that durst not resist him and yet had so highly incensed him a blow or two of Correction with his Cane And yet his condition was not so weak neither but that he could stand well enough at the Bar long after that to tell a company of flim flam Lyes and Falsities without the assistance of Aqua Mirabiles The rest is onely a Repetition of the words of the Narrative with some few Comments and a Story of his own framing so little to the purpose as if he had made it his business to play the Fool. But at last he concludes that for all their fears of the Deponent White kept his ordinary Lodgings removed no Papers left those under his Conduct in their ordinary Stations c. Which alone to Posterity will be a convincing proof of his Innocency That is to say White believ'd that the Deponent was a Person whose Information would be easily crush'd by the ponderous weight of the Popish Interest and so he resolv'd to go with the Plot. It was not his Innocency but the blindness of his Zeal and the great encouragements and probability of success that hardned him to merited Destruction Quos Deus vult perdere was the Fate that hung over his Head His stay at his Lodgings could be no convincing proof to Posterity of his Innocency in regard that that very act of his render'd him a Criminal by which he had at that very time forfeited his Innocency to the Law of the Land And therefore he could not stay to justifie what he had forfeited by his stay but he had a longing desire to see the utmost of what He had bin so long a Spinning and was snapt in the midst of an insensible Vexation to see the Labour of many Months and Years lost As for his Chapter upon the Commissions given to the Nobility I pass it by in regard the Persons themselves are yet to make their Desences which if they prove no better then what their officious Vindicator present us with is a very Ominous Prospect of their success However to give them an Essay of his Rhetorick He tells them what a wise man said a very bad beginning my Lords for it seems it is not your Advocate that is the Wiseman but another Man and that 's apparent by his thus spoiling his own Market For the Lords will certainly go to the Wiseman and not to the Fool I mean the Vindicator But what says the Wiseman Why this Wiseman concluded That either what Homer and Ovid writ of the Lyes and Aesop of Beasts were no Fables or the English Conspiracy is a Fable Truly the Wiseman did not speak very good sense whoer'e he were He meant that if what Homer Ovid and Aesop wrote were no Fables then the English Conspiracy was no Fable But those were therefore this is This I suppose is the Wisemans Conclusion but with the Wisemans leave all the World allows there was a great deal of truth couch'd under those Fables and that very considerable truth two experienc'd and attested to be so by the Testimony of several Ages So that if the Narrative be so like those Fables it follows that there is a great deal of Truth couched in the Narrative Had not the Vindicator bin a Fool he might have bin as Civil to the Lords as the Wiseman and not have stood outfacing and denying like a Sott in so many Pages what a Wiseman has granted in two Lines And now being in the Company of Lords he is not asham'd to tell ye what he is as good a Traytor and as worshipful a Conspirator as any of the rest Never the less quoth he we suffer for the Truth that is as his Brethren Faux and Ravillac did for the Truth of their Crimes And the Truth shall set us free that is when they have the grace to believe in Christ as the Truth in that place spoken of and not the Popish Plot. However had he bin so ingenuous as to have quoted the Scripture right and put in You instead of Us it had come rightly from him as thus We that is the Vindicator and the Lords suffer for the Truth And the Truth shall set You the Deponent free I would wish the Vindicator to let Scripture alone unless he understood it better And so to his Word of Advice to the Deponent CHAP. X. Word of Advice to the Deponent BUT here you shall find that before he comes to play the Fool he plays the Knave and assumes to himself very arrogantly and audaciously to have convinc'd the Deponent of Evident Vntruths Infamous Perjuries and Shameful Perjuries when he has no more done it than he has remov'd the Southern Tropic into Lapland He has not assign'd one Perjury in all his ribble rabble discourse but only like the lying Products of Smithfield Wit swells his Title to put off his Book Nay he talks so ridiculously so idly of Perjury that he does not seem to know what it means He uses the word to fright Fools as Nurses make use of Raw-head and Bloody-bones to fright Children with yet neither know what they say His Party have been told that Perjurus is one qui male Iurat ex animi sui Sententia That there is this difference between Pejerare falsum jurare For qui Pejerat is sciens ex animi sententia falsum Iurat Qui falsum jurat non decipiendi animo hoc facit sed quia rem ita se habere putat Let him prove that the Deponent hath Sworn any thing through the whole Narrative Scienter ex animo Sententia Nay let him prove that the slips of memory as to names or time were ever accounted Perjury then the Pope shall give him the great Motto of Eris mihi magnus

Dr. Oates's Narrative OF THE POPISH PLOT VINDICATED IN AN ANSWER TO A Scurrilous and Treasonable LIBEL CALL'D A Vindication of the English Catholicks from the pretended Conspiracy against the Life and Government of His Sacred Majesty c. By I. P. Gent. Humbly presented to both Houses of Parlament LONDON Printed for Thomas Cockerill at the Three Legs in the Poult over against the Stocks-Market 1680. To the Most Renowned and Most Noble SENATE OF EUROPE THE Lords and Commons OF ENGLAND ASSEMBL'D IN PARLAMENT Most Illustrious and Right Honourable A Certain Pamphlet has lately appear'd in the World without any Name which has daringly presum'd to call that Pretended which you have adjudg'd and voted Real I mean the Popish Plot. And indeed it has been one of the chief designs of the Papists ever since the first discovery one of their most laborious endeavours as well by Writing as by slanderous reports to vilifie and render insignificant that Evidence which you have both approv'd and justifi'd though not before you found it fairly fix'd upon the Basis of important Truth However that they might not triumph in the conquests of their Pens as in the success of their busie Councils I undertook this brief Essay to stop the career of the first leaving the greater work to a more mighty Power I have not from hence taken any occasion in the least to wander among other differences among us but kept to the subject firmly believing the Infallibility of your Counsels after such a serious Debate and that it was impossible that your Prudence should be impos'd upon by one single person to weigh and determin as you did And I thought it would be more for the honour of a National concern to dedicate this small Offering to your tribunal then guiltily to put my self forth into the World like the Popish Vindicator in disguise Which is the best Apology I can make for the presumption of this Publick but most humble Address of Your Devoted and Most Obedient Servant I. Phillips Dr. Oats's NARRATIVE OF THE Popish Plott VINDICATED In ANSWER to A Scurrilous and Treasonable LIBEL CALL'D A Vindication of the English Catholicks c. CAtiline in the hight and heat of his Impious Conspiracy at what time he was designing the Murther of the Consul the Massacre of the Roman Fathers and the Destruction of Rome it self by Fire and Sword had yet the Confidence to enter the Senate and with a plausible Harangue to justifie his Innocency An attempt almost as bold as his March to the intended Sack of his Native Countrey In like manner an Imp of the same Brood a Traitor of the same facinorous Principles for the Abettors in such important cases as these are as bad as the Contrivers and Actors after such lucid and apparent Discoveries of Papistical Catilines and Cethegus's after so many Examinations of National Councils and Assemblies so many Convictions and Executions so much unwearied pains and high Expences to disintangle the Guilty from the Noozes of the Law has presum'd to steal into the World a malicious piece of Labour in Vain which he calls in down-right Gibberish A Vindication of the Inglish Catholicks from the pretended Conspiracy against the Life and Government of his Sacred Majesty A specious Title indeed wherein the Venerable Impostor by condescending to allow the King his due and undenyable Epithite of Sacred thinks to charm the Readers Ear and lay the foundation of his Delusion It is a thing very easie to ascribe to the Anointed of God the inseparable Title of Sacred but whether such a Veneration proceed from the real Motives of Duty and Allegiance or from the glozing Inducements of constrain'd and Time-serving Adulation is many times greatly to be question'd And indeed never more to be suspected than at this time from a Person who pretends to write a Vindication of the profess'd Enemies not only of our most Sacred Monarch but of all Protestant or as they otherwise term them Heretical Princes For if his business be not to Vindicate those whom we Accuse his Vindication signifies nothing I must needs say indeed that his Title salutes us with the prospect of a very lame Story and an Enterprize undertaken by halves in regard he only takes up the Cudgels for the Inglish Catholicks as if the Foreigners were Saints But he will find himself under a foul mistake and that he ought to have prepar'd his Fullers Earth and his Rubbing Brush for both alike both being equally sully'd with the same Crimes and stain'd with the same bloody Principles The occasion of the Dispute is Truth The Protestants would have her on their side the Catholicks court her to take their part To which purpose the private aim of their Vindication is to prove there was no Popish Plot the Publick design to render the First Discoverer a meer Caitiffe so not to be believd and consequently that England was at that time and still is govern'd by persons either strangely credulous and stupidly unwary or else as strangely malicious and Bloodthirsty Ponderous Accusations to be thrown upon the Government and Religion of a Nation In the first place therefore it behoves us stricttly to Examine who this Titan of a Vindicator is who so boldly dares to Scale the Heaven of Soveraign Majesty and impeach at once the Prudence and Justice of Three Kingdoms And then for whom all this Bustle is made for whom all this Toyl and Labour is undertaken who these pretended Inhabitants of Salem are that breathe out such complaints of wrong and injury Who if they once appear such as we more than justly suspect them to be will come very far short of their swelling Expectations There is no question then to be made but that this Potent Vindicator is a Roman Catholick what Title he bears or what Order he Musters under it nothing imports For of all those Religious Fraternities confirmed by those Imaginary Vicars of Christ call'd Popes there is little or no difference to be made They are all grown corrupt there is not one doth good no not one Pride was the Foundation of their Humility Impiety of their Devotion and Interest of Ecclesiastical Policy confirm'd and supported their Hypocrisie This is not only one Doctor 's Opinion for take them altogether Higglede Pigglede one with another and then hear the Character which the great and Famous Mezeray an Author of their own Profession bestows upon them On ne sgauroit sans rougir Parler c. We cannot without Blushing sayes he speak of the Vsury the Covetousness the Drunkenness and Dissoluteness of the Clergy in General of the Licentiousness and Villanous Debaucheries of the Monks in particular The Luxury the Pride and Prodigality of the Prelates the shameful Sloth the stupid Ignorance and Superstition both of the one and the other In another place the same Historian speaks in general that Harry the fourth during his Reign detected above Fifty Conspiracies against his Life the most of them contriv'd and

World may see Yes and all the World no question by the vanity of this Vindicators attempt by the sordidness of his Defence do plainly see who were the Original cause of all this Commotion not the Deponent for the Enterprize had it not been Truth would have sunk such a mean and despicable Slanderer as he But those aspiring topping Sons of Perdition whose wicked Principles oblige them to lay if they can bring it to pass all the Princes and States of Europe at the feet of a Leud and Prophane Antichrist To the 43 Article That no Messengers were sent by the Names of Moor and Sanders with instructions to carry themselves like Nonconformist Scots c. He says little but seems to be in an Extasie and wonders whom the Deponent means for he never could hear of any Jesuit of those Names A very likely thing indeed that never any English Jesuit at any time bore the common Names of Moor Sanders and Brown so vulgar almost in every Society of Ten. But what needs all this Amazement No body says they were Jesuits nor sent as Jesuits but as Messengers or Emissaries any thing but Jesuits And thus you see what is the main thing impos'd upon the Vindicator to do he is to deny right or wrong at which his fidelity is so nimble that rather then not deny he will deny what was never averr'd You shall see when he finds that his Vindication has done more harm than good He will deny there was ever any such thing written or ever seen in the World To the 44. That the Iesuites communicate the secret Counsels of the King which they purchase with their money to La Chaise the French Kings Confessor c. He sayes positively all this is false and to make it out tells ye There was no need of purchasing Intelligences while the Coffee-houses stood He would make us believe the Jesuits were the arrantest Ideots in Nature as if we thought that Coffee-house Intelligence were the purchase which they Fish'd for with their Silver-hooks No no 't was they themselves who then and still do make those Coffee-houses he prates of the Nurseries of Rebellion by their own Emisaries daily employ'd to divulge their Lies and Forgeries Et ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces on purpose to cast a mist before the Eyes of the people and gather strength to renew their disappointed Villanies So that his Coffee-house Inference is nothing but a meer Smoak The 46 Article deposes That the Letters from St. Omers expressed great joy that Sir G. W. had undertaken the business To which he Replies it is false that ever Sir G. W. undertook the business for why it appears so by the publick Verdict of the Jury at his Tryal An Argument of the Vindicators own Framing against himself for by the same inference it is apparent that all that was Sworn against the rest that were Hang'd was true because the Publick Verdict of the Jury found 'em Guilty See how these fellows glory in one Acquittal and yet it is a thing frequently observ'd That many times the greatest Fellons escape when lesser Criminals are Condemn'd By which the whole Nation may see of what a dangerous consequence it is to shew the least grain of Mercy to the Unmerciful And yet the Argument is not so potent neither when we consider how much men of Reason are dissatisfied with that Acquittal and how the Papists laugh in their Sleeves and sing Jubilate not so much for the escape of the Person as the success of their underhand dealing The rest of the Chapter is so Ridiculous that I pass it over as being unwilling to tire the Reader with Impertinencies that may be avoided CHAP. VIII VVhat he Relates of the Iesuites and others inclusively from the 54 to the 81 Article ART 55. Mr. Jennison said That if the King did not become R. C. he should not be long C. R. This the Vindicator calls a groundless Lye but says withal if any such thing were said It was because of the Presbyterians and not of the Papists So then the Question is not so much Whether Mr. Ienison spoke the words but whither he spoke them of the Presbyterians or the Papists If he spoke them of the Presbyterians they were true If of the Papists they were false What an open piece of Impudence this is to Arraign a whole Deposition for a groundless Lye and yet with the same Breath to confess they might be spoke If he has not been soundly Pickering'd already for this mistake he notoriously deserves it Article 57. Fenwick told the Deponent that he had Writ that the King was gone to Windsor and that honest William and the Fathers were ready to attend the Court. To this he says the first part might probably be true but the latter part is false as also that Fenwick told him of the Contents of the Letter How then came the Deponent to know of the Information given of the Kings going to Windsor 'T is plain he knew it and he Swears Fenwick told him and you Mr. Vindicator must produce some other Intelligencer or else your Vindication will hang o' the Hedge Article 58. Keines Preach'd a Treasonable Sermon to Twelve persons of Quality That Protestant Princes were ipso facto Deposed Nothing more confirms the Truth of the thing then the Subject of the Sermon But this he calls a Train to blow up any man that the Deponent should mark out for Destruction How common a thing it is among the Jesuits to lay Trains against not only the Reputations but the Lives of Great Men they themselves sufficiently know and to requite that knowledge of theirs we know as well how hard a Task it is here for the Deponent to pick and choose the Subjects of his Accusation considering before what Judges he must appear The Vindicator should have done well to have come into England and liv'd half a year or so at Newgate before he began his great work they would have taught him far better pleading then this And yet he has the Effronterie to pretend from hence great inconveniencies if Perjury continue Paramount and Knaves be rewarded Never did Mortal speak more like a Knave then this Vindicator for the Deposition only supposes they were men of Quality and yet he grounds a Perjury upon it See how cursedly this great Atlas of the Catholick cause crickles at the hamms A voice I hear but nothing do I see speak who thou art that we may return thee thanks for thy Learned Paraphrases Article 59. Keines advis'd a Gentleman in or about Westminster to remove thence least God should destroy him with the Sinners of that City Well! what doth the Vindicator say to this why That Keines protested he never said any such thing and any man that knows both will take his word before the Deponents Oath And I would advise Keines rather to croud among the Dominicans under the Virgin Maries Petticoat then come hither to try the Experiment Article 60.