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A60497	No faith or credit to be given to Papists being a discourse occasioned by the late conspirators dying in the denyal of their guilt : with particular reflections on the perjury of VVill. Viscount Stafford, both at his tryal, and in his speech on the scaffold in relation to Mr. Stephen Dugdale and Mr. Edward Turbervill / by John Smith Gentleman ...	Smith, John, of Walworth.	1681 (1681)	Wing S4128; ESTC R12871	58,333	38

of Plunket and in the confessing that himself was guilty of the crime for which he was condemned yet we may be justly confident that his applications prevailed with Plunket and that through Bradys persuasions he dyed obstinate in the denial of what was not only proved against him but what himself had before acknowledged The other instance mentioned in the same Letter is a Narrative how that one Neile O Neile an Irish Papist being tryed before Sir Richard Reynell one of the Judges of the Kings-Bench in that Kingdom upon a Commission of Oyer and Terminer for a murther committed at Rathrum in the County of Wicklow and the fact clearly proved upon him for which he was accordingly condemned did nevertheless notwithstanding the fullness of the Evidence against him and that he himself had both in Prison and at his Tryal owned the fact to several persons at the Gallows utterly deny it § 7. But that it may more evidently appear that there is nothing in the Exit and manner of the late Traitors taking their farewell of the world that should surprise any true English man or thinking Protestant we shall endeavour to give an original Copy of it in the Practices of others who suffered for the like crimes in a former Reign And we will at present take it upon the acknowledgements of our adversaries that there was such a Conspiracy as the Gunpowder-Plot Though by the way it may be observed as an argument of what sincerity the Romish Party is of and how that all they say or print is only accommodated to the posture of times and seasons and calculated in subserviency to depending Designs in that many of the Papal Communion have had the Confidence to obtrude upon the World oftner than once that the Gunpowder Conspiracy was only a State Trick and Contrivance to make them seem guilty and criminal who were truly innocent But besides that none of all those who were then convicted and executed for it did so much as ever pretend that they were wheedled into it by the cunning and dexterity of a publick and Protestant State-Minister so it must be acknowledged that they were well disposed and prepared by vertue of Romish Principles and throughly inclined of themselves to the committing of Treason otherwise they had never entertained nor complyed with so horrid an overture as the destroying at once the King Parliament and Kingdom But that which I shall insist upon is the denial of their Guilt upon their Examinations and the falshood of their asseverations at their very death though there was unquestionable Evidence both of the Treason and how far the whole Papal Party was interested in it not only by the seisure of some of them when ready to accomplish the execrable villany and by the insurrection of others in Arms to have protected themselves from the Law and commenced a Rebellion but by the discoveries which had been made from their own scanty and partial Confessions upon Examination and by the freer discourses which they were overheard to use one to another in Prison when they little apprehended that there were any near to observe what they said And I shall the rather insist upon this because they who have been condemned for the late Plot and such who have undertaken the justification of their Innocency are pleased to tell us That those executed for the Powder-Treason did confess their fact at the time of their execution whereas they that have been executed for the present Conspiracy have at their deaths denied the fact and resisted all temptations of Pardon and Reward Nay the late Lord Stafford was pleased to alledge at his Trial that as it was so horrid a thing that it cannot be expressed or excused So he had been told that all who were engaged in that wicked fact were heartily sorry for it and repented of it before they dyed and that he never heard any of the Church of Rome speak a good word of it and that the men concerned in it did all acknowledge and confess it and begged pardon of the King and God and all good men for it and that therefore he thought it was not the interest of Religion but a private Interest put them upon it In which words there are no fewer than four egregious Falshoods which whether they be excused upon the account of the smallness of his Converse with men and Books or upon the score of the weakness of his aged memory or whether they be not chargeable upon the badness of his Conscience intoxicated by ill Principles I leave the Reader to judge and determine The first is That he never heard any of the Church of Rome speak a good word of it Whereas Widdrington assures us that Garnet had his Picture soon after his Execution set up in the Jesuits Colledge at Rome with this Inscription over it Verus Christi Martyr And if this be not enough to convince after ages what Opinion the Jesuites have and still maintain of that Plot we will farther add that both Ribadewira hath reckoned Garnet Southwell and Oldcorn all Gun Powder Traitors among the Martyrs of the Society of Jesus And Alegambe hath likewise inserted Garnet's and Oldcorn's names amongst the Martyrs of the Catholick Church and that Order Yea not only Father Parsons Rector of the English Colledge at Rome speaking of Father Garnet saies He was an innocent man and suffered unjustly and that he lived a Saint's life and accomplished the same with a happy death But the Pope himself preferred Greenwell and Gerrard two of the Conspirators that escaped the one to be a Confessor in St. Peters in Rome and the other to be his Penitentiary Now whether these were Testimonies of a detestation of the Plot or Evidences of the approbation which nothing but its miscarriage Prevented their declaring more publickly I leave all mankind to judge The second is That he hath been told that all who were engaged in that wicked act were heartily sorry for it and repented of it before they died Whereas Thuanus tells us that some of the Traitors having escaped to Calice and being pittied and assured by the Governour of the French King's favour and that though they had lost their own Country they might be received there how that one of them thereupon replyed that the loss of their Countrey was the least part of their grief but that which sensibly afflicted them was that they could not accomplish so brave and generous a design Nay Sir Everard Digby even when a Prisoner in the Tower for the Plot stiles it in one of his Papers since come to light a good Cause and that if it had succeeded there would not have been three worth the saving that should have been lost and that he had some friends who would have been in danger but that he had prevented it The third is That he thought it was not the Interest of Religion but a private interest put them upon it Whereas not

reason but believe that they who labour to suborn bribe and persuade others to swear falsly for the safety of Persons to whom they have no relation and the hopes of some small rewards which they propose unto them will be ready to perjure themselves for their own sake the advantage of their posterity and the interest of the Catholick cause and whole Papal party He that swears falsly or labours to have another to do so for the taking away of his neighbours life will not scruple to perjure himself in order to avoid infamy upon his name and to divert ruine from his own person and offspring For however offensive it be to God to preserve ones self by unlawful means it is both much more provoking to the Lord and prejudicial to the World first to frame and then support a Plot by Perjury wherein so many thousand innocent persons must have suffered as in all probability would have done in that which Mr. Dangerfield was suborned and imployed about § 9. As all the Conspirators have been ingaged in the same Treason and influenced thereunto by the same Principles So it is not unreasonable to conceive that they should be all instructed to act a like part in the denial of it for they that could enter into so bloody a design as to destroy their lawful King ruine their native Country and cut the throats of many of their Kindred as well as of their friendly and innocent neighbours may very well be supposed to reckon themselves discharged from all those ties of Divine Laws and Obligations of Conscience which should restrain them from lying and Perjury But the holy God who sometimes leaves men to such wickedness and obduracy for ends alwaies righteous but often hidden seldom fails to display his Power and Wisdom in affording such means and opportunities of detecting their Villanies as may be improved and managed to the preserving the Peace and securing the safety of Nations and Societies if Magistrates and People be not wanting to themselves And accordingly hath the allseeing Majesty over-ruled and strongly infatuated the minds of all the Traitors who have suffered for the late Plot that though they have had the impudence to deny their guilt yet they have left Evidences of it either in their own Papers which have come to light or in the very particulars which they have alledged for the asserting of their Innocency For to begin with Coleman it is to be rationally believed that having established a correspondence with the French King's Confessor in order to so mighty a work as the Conversion of three Kingdoms and the utter subduing of a pestilent Heresie which had domineered over a great part of this Northern World a long time should immediately give over all forreign Correspondence subservient to so blessed a work after the writing of those Letters 1675. Alas it was enough that he discovered what he knew his own hand attested by his Servants would betray and detect him in but this man of so seigned Candor and Ingenuity thought it meritorious as well as lawful to deny whatsoever he saw could not be proved against him by his own Papers And had not his former Letters been taken he would have denied all kind of Correspondence with the Confessor as well and with much more probability than that any such communication was afterwards maintained betwixt them Nor Secondly would the Consult April 24. 1678. have ever been acknowledged but that it was mentioned in a Letter written by one Peters a Jesuite to one Tonstal of the same Society to meet at the said Consult which Letter was taken among Harcourt's Papers when his Chamber was searched For had it not been for the finding of that Letter they would have confidently denied the whole thing and I am sure with more reputation to their wisdom than by the endeavouring now to impose upon the World that the said Consult was only upon the score of a trivial Meeting For had that been all the reason for their Assembly what necessity was there for these words Every one is also to be minded not to hasten to London long before the time appointed nor to appear much about the Town till the Meeting be over lest occasion should be given to suspect the design Finally secrecy as to the time and place is much recommended to all those that receive summons as it will appear of its own nature necessary The whole strain of the Letter intimates that there was more then to be transacted than it is for their Interest to have known What less doth the Judication of design which was to be industriously concealed and the giving an account that the nature of the thing which they were to meet about required the utmost secrecy impart and signifie to all Impartial men than what Dr. Oats had declared to be the business of that Consult long before this Letter was found Thirdly When some things which men have affirmed with the highest Asseverations shall be found notoriously false it is a just ground of suspecting their Truth and Integrity in other things though the Evidence upon which we disbelieved them be not so apparent and palpable Now did not Gavan acquit all the Jesuits save Mariana from allowing King-killing Doctrine and that in near as positive and emphatical as those wherein he expressed and declared his own Innocency with reference to the Plot because the Jesuits saith Gavan are so falsly charged for holding King-killing Doctrine I think it my duty to protest to you with my last dying words that neither I in particular nor the Jesuits in general hold any such Opinion but utterly abhor and detest it And I do assure you that amongst the vast number of Authors which among the Jesuits have Printed Philosophy Divinity Cases or Sermons there is not one to the best of my knowledge that allows of King-killing Doctrine or holds this position that it is lawful for a private person to kill a King although a Heretick although a Pagan although a Tyrant there is not I say one Jesuit that holds this except Mariana the Spanish Jesuit and he defenas it not absolutely but only problematically for which his book was called in and that Opinion expunged and censured Let us now joyn Issue with Gavan on this point and refer it to the Readers to judge of this Jesuits sincerity and truth in all the rest that he said by his falshood in this particular What! not one Jesuit that allows the King-killing Doctrine when Father Campian tells us expresly That all the Jesuits have entred into a Covenant to destroy all Heretical Kings by whatsoever waies and means they are able best to effect it What! not one Jesuit but Mariana that maintains this and that his Book was called in upon that account whereas that Book of Mariana was never called in by the Authority of the Church And that Sanctanellus is known to have written a Book containing the same principles which was therefore