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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48038	A Letter from Amsterdam to a friend in Paris		1679 (1679)	Wing L1439A; ESTC R43388	9,588	12

A LETTER FROM AMSTERDAM TO A FRIEND IN PARIS Steriles dominantur auenae S R. I never complyed more chearfully with your commands then at present since I have the occasiō to discharge a debt I owe to the Christian World You desire to be satisfied concerning this so much talked of Plott in England which you say is the only subiect of all Discourses and as it hath alarmed all the King of Great Brittains Kingdomes and Dominions so it hath struck with astonishment the greatest part of Europe Iudicious People find them selues in great perplexity on the one side they cannot cōprehend how so many Religious Persons whose education hath been in the spirit of Meeknesse Humility so many men of Quality who have given such vnquestionable Proofs of their Loyalty and exposed both Fortunes lives to maintain the life and Autority of the late present Kings of England so many of all degrees and conditions hitherto reputed honest in their Actions and sincere in their words should vpon à suddaine bee engaged in à Diabolicall and Damnable Conspiracy to take away the life of the King subvert the Government On the other side if there bee noe plott how comes à whole Kingdome to be so imposed vpon as to believe it And then to use such severityes and Rigours far different from the vsuall temper of the Nation This is the Riddle which you desire to bee solved I shall doe it in brief and plainly for Truth never appears better then in downright and vnartificiall expressions Sr. I can assure you there is no such thing as à Plott of the Catholicks no designe against his sacred Majestyes Person Government or Laws of the Land If any particular Person has transgressed let him suffer for it Anima quae peccaverit ipsa morietur This is the desire of all good Christians and I am credibly informd that the Generall of the Iesuits vpon the first bruit of this Conspiracy should say of his Religious si se miscuerint istiusmodi Rebus dignum luant supplicium But as à bare Accusation without manifest proofs is deem'd a mere Calumny so a bare deniall is a slender Apology to take of a prejudicate opinion I shall therefore make it out with vndeniable Reasons You have rightly described the partyes accused I shall decypher the Accusers and then appeal to your Iudgment whether they bee Persons that deserve any Credit Sergeant Mainard in Mr. Colmans Triall pag. 8. saith Mr. Oates was the first man that wee heare of that discovered this Treason Hee was the single man that discovered so many Active Agents in so great a Treason It is worth the pains to informe you what this Oates is His Father in his younger dayes was a devoute silck weaver but in the late Rebellion found it more for his advantage to turn an Anabaptisticall Preacher After the Returne of his Majesty hee became a Minister and was beneficed in or near Hastings at present he is an old fornicator in Kingstreet southampton Buildings He trained vp his son Titus to the Pulpit and having him selfe procured a better living resigned that to his son but whether he was baptized or no is a great question though the son saith he was christened at seventeen yeares of Age yet I presume it was done after the Anabaptisticall forme His debaucheries are notoriously knowne in and about Hastings I shall not defile my paper with them yet I must not omitt to tell you how hee accused an Innocent man of Sodomie but was convicted of Perjury The Conviction stands vpon Record and was clapt in Prison but hee brake it Sometime After hee was embarcked for Tangers hee fell to his old Tricks of Sodomy in the ship and was taken in flagranti to escape hanging according to his demerit he adventured drowning and stole away narrowly to shore in the Cockboat But this you will say is not to the purpose his Majesties Indulgence has granted him a plenarie impunitie his infamous life does not de grade him from a capacity to bear wittnesse for the King nay his Patrons allow this and like him the better the more wicked he is the fitter instrument to make discoveries of wicked designes for who more proper to vnkennell a Fox then the Terrier that is part of him And as to his legall conviction of Perjury recorded In perpetuam rei memoriam tho it disables him from making a Legall Testimony yet it implyes only a Presumption semel malus semper praesumitur malus And not a necessity of allwayes lying from that time forward and who can Tell but heemay speake truth at present be it so yet it must bee granted that the Infamy of the Accuser takes of from his Credit with the Iudicious and obligeth a consciencious Person to waue his Iudgment untill better proofs bee produced as all so that every one must bee looked vpon as Innocent by the eye of the Law if there bee no allegation against him besides the testimony of a Person perjured vpon Record Iustice then and Charity That is the law of God and man maintaine a man in possession of his Innocency vntill he is either outed by the evidence of his owne Acts or ejected by a Legall formality This Argument must bee allowed to conclude thus far and I pretend no more This you say is too general and not to your entire satisfaction J will therefore descend to the particulars of the Accusation and make out with evidence that they are groundlesse and false On sonday 29. September 1678. stil v. his Majestye being present in Councell Titus Oates deposed vpon oath how hee had been employed by the Iesuits to Treat with Don Iohn of Austria and that hee did actually treat with him at Madrid about this Conspiracy and mentioned severall other passages happened at Madrid Hee repeats also his benig at Madrid Iuly 77. in his depositions taken by order of the house of Commons How wel he knew Don Iohn may be seen by the description hee made of his Person to his Majesty and Councell I report myselfe to those that were present That he never was at Madrid is thus made out Hee was not acquainted with the Iesuits before April 1677. This he cannot deny His great friend and acquaintance that first introduced him can testifie as much Towards the end of April hee was on shipboard in the downs as apears by his letter dated there As to his arrivall in spaine his stay there and returne for England I shall give you the Depositions of severall Persons vpon oath before a publick Notary Don Duarte sal Michael Hore and Iohn Grace Merchants of Bilbao deposed how they knew very wel Titus Ambrosius alias Oats an Engishman that hee landed at Bilbao on the 16. of May 1677. stilonovo brought from London in the ship called the Merchant of Biscay Lucas Roach Master hee stayd there 10. dayes or there abouts And thence went the nearest way to vagliadolid with Martin Lornitz Espinosa a Guide to