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A59348
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A supplement to The narrative in reply to the dulness and malice of two pretended answers to that pamphlet / written by E. Settle.
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Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724.
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1683
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Wing S2720; ESTC R37374
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Remarker makes short work and indeed as much as the Cause would bear and tells you He 'll say no more to 't but that if the King of Spain was a Block-head in it and the King of France a Lunatick as the Irish Plot makes them they ought to come to E. Settle to learn Politicks And for his part because Settles Romantick Objections depend upon Plunkets Trial upon which he was condemnd he shall not troubl◠himself to make any further defence for Courts of Judicature T is true the Reflecter is a little more Prolix upon this business but so abominably lew'd is the ignorance or impudence of this nameless Wretoh that he doubts not but the Spanish King had 30 thousand Pilgrims ready Mustered and to be Landed at Bradlington 〈◊〉 and Ten thousand Flandrians at Hull tho when he wanted Hands to save his own Kingdoms and another Army to joyn with the French King tho to make his most mortal Enemy King of Ireland nay tho not one of these Martial Pilgrims were ever seen in the World from that day to this yet all these Armies were rais'd and this stupendious Alliance of France and Spain was undeniable truth and why as he says because the Spanish King is Priest-ridden and the Jesuits rule his Ascendant There he has hit it Popery Plot and Jesuites can do every thing Incorporate even Fire and Water and make confederacies between the greatest and most implacable of Enemies nay it can unman Kings and make the Wise and Politick French King be for bringing a Royal Navy into that very Port of Ireland where a Fisherboat can scarce live and Maugre that foolish obstacle call'd impossibility neither the King of France can forbear attempting all this nor the Reflecter believing it Nay the most Hellish hideous Masterpiece of all Dr. Oats his Discovery his Information to the Parliament that the French had already landed a great Army of 25000. Messina Soldiers in Ireland goes as inoffensively down with the Reflecter as the least puny exploit in the whole Plot. Nay to outdo the Doctor a Bow-shoot the Doctor only brings them on but let the Devil bring them off again but the Reflecter both lands and unlands them INVISIBLE For page 14 he says why might not their designs be disappointed upon the discovery of the Plots and they RETIRE again or forbear acting till better strengthen'd and prepared for bringing their Designs about That is why may not a Body of no less than 25000. men Land in a foreign Kingdom and come go or stay from that day to this without so much as one Mothers Son of 25000 being seen by Human Eye Heaven what a GORGE has the Reflecter to swallow such unprecedented PLOT-ROMANCE or what Impudence to vindicate such Execrable FORGERY Quanta est ficti Constantia Vultus The next thing we come to is Sir Edmundbury Godfreys Murder and there the Reflecter to vindicate Mr. Bedlows wonderful Refusal of 4000 l. to be one of the six to Murder Sir Edmund and afterwards 2000 l. to be one with them to carry off the Body Makes answer that such is the generosity of some mens tempers how meanly soever born that they cannot be bribed nor wrought into an ill thing So generous a man was Bedlow and so averse to any thing that 's ill that only the greatest part of his Life was spent in Horsestealing Cheating and Pocketpicking or rather the providence of God who had otherwise ordain'd might make him make use of the Proposal of that very act to create a reluctance in him and to work him to a Discovery of that and the rest This last point indeed is unanswerable but possibly upon a review His Discovery to give Providence no trouble in it might come a shorter Journy than from Heaven only from the Prince of the Air by the way But Elkanah is a little Satyrical on the strange and different account of the whole continued contradiction in Bedlows and Prance's Testimony Sir Edmund by Bedlows Evidence being stifled with a Pillow in a lower Room of the great Court in Somerset-house between four and five in the Afternoon and the Murderers Walsh Lephaire my Lord Bellasis 2 Gentlemen c. but by Prance Evidence he was strangled with a twisted Handkerchief at 9 at Night by the stablus in the outward Court of Somerset-house by Green Girald Hill Kelly Berry and Prance c. To reconcile with contradiction the Reflecter tells you page 16th that Miles Prance owns to have been present and to have had a hand in that Murder Mr. Bedlow knows it only by a Relation and by a Relation of a thing which he had already refused to have a hand in and at a time he was so much suspected by that Party as that they made him take the Sacrament twice a day for fear he should reveal Now he being a suspected Person and knowing the Murder to have been committed by Papists they varyed in their Account of his Death from the Truth to baulk his Evidence in case he should fail them Now observe how Bedlow only swears to a Relation In his Testimony before the House of Lords he swears that Walsh and Lephairé two Jesuits proffer'd him 4000 l. to be one of the 4 or 6 that were to Kill Sir Edmond-bury Godfrey and that upon his taking the Sacrament to do it he should have the Money before hand paid where or to whom to himself or what Friend he thought fit Thus far Mr. Bedlows I hope was not suspected by them neither was this only a Relation for he had the proffer of present payment and of a swinging summ too Besides supposing that the concern of Walsh Lephaire and his Cut-throats was only a Sham and that no such Persons were concern'd in the Murder put the Supposition that Bedlow had accepted the Money and Sacrament as t' is stupendious he did not how must Walsh and Lephaire have excused this Sham must they have cryed peccavi and said Sir we beg your pardon we are concern'd in no such Murder and tho we have given you the Sacrament and 4000 to no purpose in the World we have no service to desire of you for it 't is an inconsiderable trisling sùmm and it burnt in our Pockets and therefore much good may do you with it Also that very Night that Sir Edmund was carryed out from Sommerset-house Bedlow swears that at the hour of 9 he was showed the Body at which were present Walsh Lephaire my Lord Bellasis Gentleman Mr. Atkins Mr. Pepys Clerk and one Irish Man more here was he offer'd half the 4000 l. to be one with these very numerical Men to help to carry off the Body and this but two hours before it was carryed forth And yet these very Men it seems were none of the Persons engaged and upon Bedlows acceptance of the two Thousand pound they must have still excused themselves by saying Sir we have told you a notorious Lye the Body is to be conveyed out by a