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A full discovery of the false evidence produc'd by the papists against the most reverend and learned Dr. Tho. Tenison
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Lamb, Catharine.
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Wing F2346; ESTC R18424
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in my Name my Husband saying I assented thereto and put the Word Come in place of Go. Now that Mr. Pulton did this without Design is manifest for had He put my Testimony as in the Chamber below I then had Witnessed as now I do That I saw Him not only Go into the Chamber above but also Come in from the Street in the aforesaid manner But now you may ask Was I not there by Mr. Pulton's Appointment or Consent I answer to the Negative for having accidentally heard there was such a Conference to be I sent to know whether it might be allowed that I should go He answered That He knew not where Himself was to go and that He did not desire any One should come there But using the endeavour the Curiosity of my Sex may render pardonable I found means by Enquiry in the Neighbourhood to find out the House Now I do not doubt but the Doctor Himself upon further Consideration will or at least may be Ashamed if any thing can make him so to be publickly to expose a Person for speaking the Truth but the Doctor thinks he hath a Proverb on his side That Truth ought not to be Spoke at all Times and this he thinks a very improper Time for it when it hinders him from catching his Gudgeon and therefore thinks he hath sufficient Reason for his Scurrilous Expressions which will appear otherways to the Reader His Words are in this manner viz. The Doctor begins his Comical Humor For says he In his Book Intituled Mr. P. Consider'd Pag. 2. by way of Caution to Mr. Pulton Let Him from henceforth forbear his Railery against Katharine Boren lest He put Peplein mind of Catharine Lamb who for ought I know may be a Vertuous and True Woman but as she is Represented in Mr. Pulton 's Certificate she is a very extraordinary Person Certainly she must have some Relation to that Famous Dr. Lamb whom the Mobile believed to be a Conjurer But whatever the Mobile believed of Dr. Lamb surely none but that sort of People would take our Learned Doctor for a Conjurer by his Discourse For what Parallel is there betwixt Kate Boren and my Self Who for ought the Doctor knows may be a Vertuous and True Woman but the Doctor pretends no such thing of Kate Boren So that what the Doctor would say if he could speak his Mind is no more than thus Pray Mr. Pulton don't tell me no more of Kate Boren who you say was a Leud Naughty Woman for fear I give you a hint of Catharine Lamb who is a Vertuous and True Woman and as you have Represented Her is an extraordinary Person Now I would fain have another Book of the Doctor 's Considerations to explain this notable piece of Sophistry of His. Says the Doctor If Katharine Lamb did not Certifie this Pag. 3. there is Forgery in it and if she did there is False-Evidence But as I have said before I did Certifie it therefore there is no Forgery in it and according to the Truth of the Matter aforesaid therefore no False Evidence The Doctor continues his pleasant Conceit yet further Pag. 4. For says he on Novemb. 4. Mr. Pulton Published his Remarks that Night the False Certificate of Catharina in Nubibus was Publickly exposed But that the Certificate is True I think sufficient hath been said before And that I am come out of the Clouds where the Doctor by his Hocus Pocus Tricks if his frequent Repetitions to that purpose would have Confined me to Justifie my self and the Certificate from his False Aspersions as these Papers being Publickly exposed will abundantly Testifie to his great Confusion But for a parting Blow Our Satyrical Doctor continues his Merry Conceits against me Page 10. and is resolved to make me a through pac'd Evidence For says he if Catharine Lamb had been there in her Magical Mantle she may I doubt not prove it upon me Had I Doctor the Magical Mantle you were pleased to mention I might perhaps make Discoveries not very agreeable to your Character and make known to the World more than a meer Coaching of it to White-Fryars to present your Salamanca-Narrative to Coffee-Houses There is several other Places to this purpose in this Grand Book of Consideration but I am unwilling to trouble my Reader with such Impertinencies any longer I have indeed been a great Zealot for your pretended Church but the Aspersive False and Fabulous Accounts I have often heard in the most Sacred Places from Men of your Gown most injuriously mis-representing the Catholick Principles seconded by the Experience I have of your own most dis-ingenuous and insincere Proceedings in this whole Matter has intirely convinced me that Truth cannot be where studied Falshood is affectedly Profest I am sorry Doctor that the best Conceit of your Fifteen Sheets is spoyled and that it stood not with my Reputation to Cloak your Malice with a Mantle although I am sensible it is not an ordinary One will do it Whereas Susanna Robinson speaks of a Train following Mr. Pulton who shall be named as she says when there is occasion She is acquainted that there is now occasion since if her Evidence be True I must incurr a contrary Repute The Train she speaks of will be proved not to have belonged to Mr. Pulton but to the Doctor who were stopt below till the Parties were met and Mr. Pulton being now gone up against his Knowledge Appointment or Will was I believe followed not long after by that Train and the Famous School-Master in the mid'st of them But perchance my Reader will Censure me for not expressing my self sometimes so Respectively to the Doctor as I ought For that whatever he is now his Reverence hath been accounted a modest Man but if ever he was so it is certain he doth now very much Degenerate which is too plain by the way which he takes in vilifying and defaming Others Whereas if there had been any Fault yet in my Judgment the Doctor ought not to have taken such a method to Reprove it but seeing so Grave a Doctor hath prescribed this Method I hope he nor no one else will take it amiss especially from a weak Woman if she to Vindicate her self make use in a manner of his own Language FINIS
A FULL DISCOVERY OF THE False Evidence Produc'd by the PAPISTS Against the most Reverend and Learned Dr. Tho. Tenison VVith Allowance LONDON Printed for John and Thomas Lane at the Golden-Anchor the Corner of Wilde-Street next Duke-Street 1688. Dr. Tenison's Invisible Evidence Unclouded By CATHARINE LAMB With a further Account of the said EVIDENCE HAving heard a Pamphlet industriously cryed about Streets Entituled Mr. Pulton Consider'd by Dr Tenison I was led by Curiosity and the Strangeness of the Title to give my Self the trouble of seeing if according to my Apprehension there were any thing considerable therein But before I had read out the First Page I was very much surprized to see my Name in the very Front of the Book and for no other Reason as I could perceive or imagine but to Confront the Evidence I gave by my Certificate Published with Mr. Pulton's Remarks about the Long-Acre Conference betwixt Mr. Pulton and the Reverend Doctor Which Certificaâ—e as it concerns my Self is my chief Design to Maintain and Justifie which I doubt not but will appear to be done in the Sequel to any unprejudiced and unbyass'd Reader And since my only business is to maintain my former Certificate I must acquaint my Reader That I shall meddle with nothing but what concerns That or this Grave Doctor 's Reflection upon my Self As for the other Part of the Book I question not but 't will be fully Answered by Mr. Pulton notwithstanding the great Conceit our Doctor hath of His own and His Fellow Labourers great Undertakings in this His Grand Book of Considerations And though this Design be a Work somewhat Improper for a Woman yet that the Doctor may not hugg Himself in his old musty Opinion that Roman-Catholicks are altogether led in Ignorance I shall give Him some Reason to think if He can Think as well as Consider as He calls it that those Absurdities of His relating to my Self I though a Woman have Sense enough to take Notice of by a just Resentment and also to put the Doctor in mind though one would think for His Godly Consorts sake He should not have forgot It is ill Provoking our Weaker Sex. First therefore Before I come to the Matter of the Certificate I must take notice of the Learned Doctor 's Quarrelling at the manner of Certifying which the Doctor says Mr. Pulton terms Testimonies in Favour of A. P. And the Doctor because he will not pass by the least opportunity of shewing His Profound Parts Wittily observes to be a New Stile in Certificates which says He ought to be Written without Fear Affection or Favour Now by the Doctor 's Leave however New his Reverence may fancy the Stile to be yet with Submission I think 't is proper enough to Stile a Certificate so which nevertheless may be Certified without Fear Affection or Favour to the Party on whose behalf the Truth appears to be For where there is a Question about Matter of Fact as in our present Case and the Fact is to be evinced by Certificate on whosoevers side the Truth does appear to be by the Certificate that Certificate may very well be term'd to be in Favour of the Party that so Affirms the Truth and yet be Certified without any Partiality as the Doctor would by all this Jargon to use His own Word for it slily Insinuate to prepossess His Long-Acre Admirers But to pass to what is most Material There was says the Doctor as little necessity of any of these Certificates as there is Sincerity in some Now though there was not an Indispensible necessity yet I think 't was absolutely convenient to satisfie the World if possible by Certificates that this Gyant of Dispute and Monster at an Argument had not knock'd down Fifteen Jesuits as this Renowned St. Martins Oracle or some of His Brazen Acquaintance had Malitiously and Falsly reported for I do not believe our modest Doctor has as yet a Forehead of Brass since He can afford a Blush upon occasion as it 's said He did upon viewing Himself in the Soldier 's Speculum though some are prone to believe it was only the Reflection of the Soldiers Red-Coat in his shining Face But that I may not forget my Design or at least seem like the Wise-Man in my Lord Bacon's Essays quoted by our Doctor who reserves His great Business for a Postscript I think 't is time without keeping my Reader any longer in suspence to acquaint Him That notwithstanding the Doctor and His Adherers sly Insinuation to the contrary I do again Insist on it for an Absolute Truth without any Equivocation or Mental Reservation whatsoever That I was in the Room below whether the Doctor 's Friend Mrs. V. calls it a Chamber or by any other Name I know not and saw Mr. Pulton come in and go up Stairs And as I said in my former Ceâ—tificate He had only one Gentleman in His Company and a Third Person who follow'd them I also went up Stairs immediately after them and was in the Room where the Conference was before Mr. Pulton and the Doctor had exchanged one Word and I think the Doctor 's Comical School-Master may very well remember me there by my desiring him in the mid'st of his Comedy not to Interrupt the Conference with his several Monkey-Tricks shown upon that occasion And it is well known that very Night I came home to my House after the Conference was ended discoursing about it and several things which past thereat in the Presence of several People of good Repute I declared all those Circumstances when it was not so much as thought of at least by me it ever would as it now is have been Publickly exposed in Print Besides were it for the satisfaction of any one that deserves it I am ready to make Affidavit of the Truth of what I now Insist on as to my Certificate before any Person that can Legally Administer an Oath to me for that intent and purpose All which I hope may satisfie the World of the Truth of my Evidence in this particular Now the Occasion of the mistake of putting the Chamber where the Conference was held in place of the Chamber below and at which the Doctor seems to take so great an Advantage though he 'll find it quite contrary for by obliging me to give Him this more plain Account the Truth of my Evidence appears more clear as also His most Injurious Proceeding in this Case however it is as followeth Understanding the fine mis-representation of the whole Matter of Fact in the Doctor 's Account as being an Eye-Witness to the contrary I signified by my Husband to Mr. Pulton That I was willing to Attest if He pleased how I had seen Him Go into the the Chamber where the Conference was held with only One Gentleman in His Company and a Third who follow'd them Mr. Pulton told my Husband He was sorry the other Certificate was gone to the Press however in hast he Wrote it