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A53548 A tragedy called the Popish Plot reviv'd detecting the secret league between the late King James and the French king, the popish conspiracy to murder His present Majesty King William, and the wicked contrivance for adulterating the coin of this kingdom : with many other hellish practices : dedicated to Sir Roger L'Strange, the Fellows of St. John's College in Cambridg, non jurors, and the rest of the Jacobite crew / by a sincere lover of his countrey. Oates, Titus, 1649-1705. 1696 (1696) Wing O58; ESTC R7790 47,612 60

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Executed upon your Petitioner's Evidence together with the Evidence of Others the Attainders of which Conspirators remain as your Petitioner believes upon Record That four several Parliaments owned the said Discovery and passed several Votes wherein they did declare that there was a horrid Popish Plot for the Destruction of your Royal Person and your Government and for the Subversion of the Protestant Religion as by Law established That Roger L'estrange Esq whom your Petitioner hears is again a Justice of the Peace tho turned out for several Misdemeanours in the Year 1680 hath defamed and arraigned the Justice of the Nation in ridiculing the said Popish Plot the Discovery and Discoverers thereof in a certain Seditious and Scandalous Pamphlet of his called the Observator and in several other Pamphlets That he the said Roger L'estrange pretends in some of those Seditious and Scandalous Pamphlets that he is authorized so to do by one or both your Secretaries That the said Scandalous and Seditious Pamphlet appears to countenance Popery in your Protestant Government and the Popish Party hath been much encouraged by the same to revile and threaten your Petitioner That your Petitioner hath born those Scandalous Reflections and Aspersions upon the account of his Discovery of the said Plot from the said L'estrange these four Years with Patience and had the Scandals only touched your Petitioner he would not have complained to your Majesty and this Board but since the said L'estrange scandalously vilifies the said Discovery and calls in question the Justice of your Government your Petitioner thinks fit to apply himself to your Majesty and this Board for Relief The Premises considered Your Petitioner humbly prays your Majesty and this Honourable Board to relieve him and his Evidence against the Seditious Calumnies of the said Roger L'estrange and not suffer your Petitioner to be left to be daily Oppressed and Destroyed for those Services which your Majesty and Council and Parliaments and Courts of Justice have owned And Your Petitioner shall as in Duty bound pray for Your Majesty's Health and long Life and happy Reign c. Titus Oates A Copy of Dr. Oates's Letter to the Arch-bishop of Canterbury March 15. 1683. May it please your Grace I Having received several Kindnesses from you when I was at Lambeth-House do upon that Score think that this may not miss your Hand nor I lose my end in writing at this Time in which my Lord be pleased to understand that for my own Vindication I have written to Mr. Secretary Jenkins and in his Letter I have inclosed a Petition and Complaint to the King 's most Excellent Majesty and to the Lords and Others of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council against one Roger L'estrange who in several of his Pamphlets called the Observator and other Seditious Pamphlets hath vilified the Discovery of the Popish Plot and in that I humbly conceive he doth arraign and reflect on the Justice of the Government And God having called you to the Great Office of an Arch-bishop and Privy-Counsellor I thought my Application to your Grace would not at all be Improper and therefore I thought I might lay before your Grace the hard usage I have received from the said L'etrange and his Confederate Villains that neither fear God nor reverence Man Your Grace I suppose hath not forgot that Four Parliaments did enter upon the Examination both of Witnesses and Criminals concerned in the Popish Conspiracy I was the first that appeared to detect that Villany and received the Thanks of the Council and the Lords in Parliament and it was looked on as such a piece of Service that Your Grace was of the Opinion that some Mark of Favour should be conferred on me But I was not studious of my own Interest but was always careful for which I bless God to do my Countrey Justice and have reaped the Fruits thereof even the Testimony of a good Conscience And whereas I have been hardly used for the Service I did in the Discovery of that Plot I think the Government is bound in Honour and Conscience and Justice and Truth to maintain their own Proceedings and justify me from the scurrilous Reflections of so vile a Fellow as L'estrange appears to be in those his Pamphlets He pretends in one or two of them that he hath leave from one or both his Majesty's Secretaries for so doing that I think ought to be reason enough for his being stopt in his Career and Scribling and be for ever Silenced together with Argument of his Fallacy upon the whole Government in that particular Certainly my Lord the Church must be in a sad Condition that stands in need of L'estrange for a Supporter the Religion Established by Law will be very contemptible if Roger's Penny Observator must give it Life I am sure our Bishops have given such Testimonies of themselves and their Power that there is no need of his scurrilous and scandalous Pen to maintain their Authority and Reputation Our Clergy must be judged by the Popish Party to be Men of little Understanding if they stand in need of him to be their Guide Hath he not fallen upon the most considerable Clergy-men in the City Men that do not stand in need of his Trash to equip them for the work of the Ministry I dare by your Grace's leave be bold to say that your Grace upon Consideration will abhor and loath such a Fellow upon the account of these and other Aggravations and seeing I have been useful in my Day I beg your Grace would be instrumental in doing me the Justice that is due to a Man a Christian and a Minister of the Church If I have done any Man wrong let me suffer if I am innocent as I must be accounted till convicted of some Enormity or Irregularity then let me be protected and not left to be oppressed and destroyed by my Enemies for the Services that your Grace hath formerly owned in Council and in Parliament and likewise his Majesty in several Proclamations to his People and Speeches to his Parliament My Lord I shall say no more but beg your Grace's Pardon and Blessing and tho I have misrepresented to your Grace I shall study to appear My Lord Your Grace's most Affectionate Servant Titus Oates March 15. 1683. My Lord I would have waited upon your Grace but since the Dissolution of the Parliament at Oxford your Servants have put Affronts upon me of which I unwillingly take notice which have hindred my paying my Respects to your Grace And likewise I understand that some Evil Instruments by lies and Falshood have endeavoured to lessen me in your Grace's Affections which I have patiently born rather than put your Grace and my Self to the unnecessary trouble of a fruitless Vindication of my Innocency A Copy of Dr. Oates's Letter to the Bishop of London March 15. 1683. My Lord WHen the Popish Plot was first discovered your Lordship was very zealous in the prosecuting Popery and I