England should ever be reconciled At which words Bishop Gulston took offence and departed There were others of the same Kidney but your inferiour Clergy were without number there was your Thompson of Bristol and your rascally Chaplains and others Rogues of a deep dye These I say Sir were your reverend Assistants in the mighty Work upon your hands though they did not foresee the evil Consequences of this their Carriage in reference to the Interest of England both as to its Religion and Government Nay I hope they did not fully see into your Designs if they did you I hope will judge of them according to their Merits 5. You being so well guarded and regarded you were in a little time resolved to set up and shew your self and wicked Party what you would be at but Sir I took pity upon you and would not let you discover your self and therefore I laid it open and the Design of your Pope French King General of the Jesuites and the Society and your Brother and your self which was the reduction of England Scotland and Ireland by the Sword to the Romish Religion and the French way of Government To effect this glorious Design you and your Brother gave the then Pope Authority to entitle himself to the Kingdoms of England Ireland and Scotland to have the absolute Power and Government of the Church In order to this he dispatched his Legate into Ireland and Cardinal Howard was to have come for England and your Brother 's trusty and well-beloved Cuckold and Councellor was to have had a Cardinals Hat and was to have gone for Scotland to have taken Possession of the Ecclesiastical State of that Kingdom in the behalf of the Bishop of Rome the two others were to do the like in England and Ireland Moreover sir by your Brother and you it was contrived and agreed on that the General of the Jesuites should derive a pretended Power from the Bishop of Rome with which Project the French King was highly pleased According to this Project the Bishop of Rome did grant a Commission to the said General of the Jesuites and this Authority the said General did derive to Thomas White the Provincial to issue forth the Commissions of him the said General of the Jesuites and accordingly be with the Counsel of the Jesuites in London did issue forth such Commissions to Captain-Generals Lieutenant-Generals and Colonels Lieutenant-Colonels Majors Captains and the Advocate-General Richard Langhorn and to your Secretary of State Coleman you have a whole List of them in my Narrative already printed and published for your special service altho' not by your Royal Command Further to carry on your wicked Designs your Jesuites by the same Authority consulted concerning your Brother and because he was not a Galloper in your Cause he was by them condemned to death and that was to be executed either by stabbing shooting or poysoning him To this your Servant Coleman was privy and say you know nothing of the matter if you dare to this part of the Conspiracy The Court of Claims in Ireland if they had then been sitting would have declared him Innocent upon your Letter as they did the Marquis of Antrim upon your Brother 's nay Sir if they had carried their Point then you were to have received the Crowns as forfeited by your Brother to the Pope as of his Gift and you was to have been obliged to have such Prelates and Dignitaries in the Church and such Officers in Commands and Places civil naval and military as he had and should commissionate and you had agreed both with him and the French King to extirpate the Protestant Religion and to consent to the Assassination of the King your Brother and to massacre by the help and assistance of the French King the Protestants to Fire our Towns that stood in opposition to these cruel designs of yours You agreed to pardon the Assassines Murderers and Incendiaries and in case you died without Issue male these three Kingdoms were to be made three Provinces of France and become Subjects of that Crown for ever Here your Brother and you were engaged to the French King And that the Prince of Orange might not pretend to the same he was also condemned and designed against by Name by the Proviso and Consent of the Pope French King your Brother and your self and how you appear'd in the Design against him I have already set forth in my first Memorial to you Truly you your self must not have escaped if you had not heartily comply'd to follow such Steps and Counsels as should have been at any time proposed by your Counsellors at St. James's You have here laid before you the design in short and it was a black one God knows and What say you to it now Sir if you will let the little Gentleman of Wales learn to read I have a good Schoolmaster for him he may see here the true Picture of your sweet self which he may spell over by degrees for I would not have the Boy have too much load at a time laid upon him lest he should be disabled from serving the Tyler his true Father with a Hod of Mortar or so in order to its conformable Livelihood 6. Concerning the discovery of this Plot of yours 't is fit a word should be spoken to that point because I believe the revival of this Story will much oblige you and your ragged Crew at St. Germain's and your Saints you have left behind you You may remember that your design prosper'd so well and your damnable Arâ—y were so insolent that notwithstanding the fair pretences your Brother and you used for the keeping them up and your old Parliament briber put your Brother upon the asking of more Mony and no War with France notwithstanding they had so largely paid for the War they had advised to be begun with that mighty Monarch and they consider'd that an Army without a War would be of dangerous and pernicious consequence to the Nation therefore they agreed to this Vote in answer to your Brother's Speech made to them some time before Resolved That the House taking into consideration the state of His Majesty's Affairs and the great charge and burthen His Majesty and the Nation lies under by the Army now in being we humbly are of opinion that if His Majesty pleases to enter into a War with the French King the House is and always will be ready to support and assist in that War but if otherwise then they will proceed to the consideration of providing for the speedy disbanding of the Army And truly dear Sir you could not well blame the Parliament for this Vote for your design in general did to them appear notwithstanding the plausible Arguments your Villains used for the keeping up of that Popish Army tho' you know this disbanding the Army was not the thing you aimed at for you never designed it from the first moment that it was raised for it being Officer'd to your
Bastard endeavour'd by a Book under the counterfeit name of Doleman by the Approbation of Cardinal Allen and Sir Francis Inglefield to disprove his Title to the Crown but he being in despight of all the Contrivances of the Papal Vermin establish'd on the Throne they shew'd the First fruits of their Loyalty to him they welcom'd him with a Conspiracy contriv'd by Watson and Clark two secular priests but wheedled into that Contrivance by the Jesuites but this scribbling Conspiracy of theirs failing the Jesuites who were unwearied Enemies to the peace of Mankind and are so still they I say commenc'd another Plot and that was one that was to all intents and purposes an evident demonstration of their Principles and a Testimony of their Good-will to the Protestant Interest in England therefore that they might do all their business at once they attempted the blowing up of the King Lords and Commons and were quickned in this Design in two Breves from your Roman Grandsire but you know they were disappointed in that piece of Villany the greatness of which awaken'd the Kingdom to provide against that Party of Men by many wholsome Laws made in the Reign of the said King James your said Grandfather And tho' the whole World stood amaz'd at the blackness of this Conspiracy and many of the Papists in a most hypocritical manner expressed their detestation of the same and of the Principles that produced it but it was indeed because it wanted the success they desir'd yet the Pope and Court of Rome took all imaginable care to have the Traytors magnified and honour'd especially Garâ—et the Provincial of the Jesuites who tho' he confessed under his own Hand that he dy'd for Treason yet his Name was inserted in the Book of their Villanous Martyrs and precious Relicks made of his Bones and his miraculous Picture kept at St. Omer's and a glorious Picture of his set over their Altars And two other Principal Jesuites that escap'd the Halter were by the then Pope caresâ—ed with Preserments at Rome And when upon this occasion the Oath of Allegiance was enacted to be impos'd upon the Subjects of your said Grandfather Pope Paul the Fifth publish'd several Bulls against the said Oath and several of the Româ—sh Communion wrote against it as Becanus and Bâ—llarmin c. Another Instance of their villanous practices was against your Father who tho' he had been a Bosom friend of theirs yet he was not thought sit to live as you may see in Habâ—râ—field's Discovery to Sir William Boswell then your Father's Ambassador at the Hague And who but men of such Villanous Principles could have engag'd your Mother to have fomented that unnatural War in your Father's ancient native Kingdom of Scotland which was the Foundation of the never to be forgotten Civil War in England And wheâ— the King your Father was by the just Judgment of God brought to Prison because he made some Concessions not out of Choice but of Necessity against that party of Men the Jesuites condemn'd him before he was brought to his Tryal and when dead Dr. Gâ—ffe a Priest of the Oratory brandish'd his Sword over his Head saying Now is the Enemy of God fallen But that of the Massacre in Ireland was a bloody demonstration of their Faith and Zeal there was no other reason that ever they could give but that those whom they murder'd were Protestants and that in killing them the Cathâ—lick Cause was promoted for at no time did thâ— Irish enjoy their Estates and the exercise of their Religion with greater peace than when they broke out into that dreadful Rebellion Nor was that Quiet and Security they possess'd the fruits only of a Connivance but the effects of many Acts of Grace which had a little before passed in favour of them They attempted the betraying your Brother in his escape at Worcester and to root out your whole Family if the then Protector would have but given them liberty by a Law they would have murder'd him at Bruxels too to have obliged you with the Crown Is not this Evidence enough against them that they had in conjunction with your self their Head design'd as well to destroy his Person as his Government and our Religion I pray consider this Topick while you are in the peaceable enjoyment of your Apartment at St. Germains before you are forced to take up your Bed and walk 3. A third Witness that appear'd to prove the Popish Conspiracy is the impudent Claims that the Bishop of Rome makes to the Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland It is noâ— Sir unworthy of your Observation what your Bellarmine hath written upon that point The King of England â—aith he is subâ—â—ct to the Pope by a twofold Right first by reason of his Apostolick Power and secondly by right of proper Dominion Sir your Rascally Crew do not only plead Henry the second 's submitting his Crown to the Pope but also King John's resigning his Crown to the Pope and receiving it again as a Fee oâ— the Church of Rome And as for Scotland you know that Pope Boniface the Eighth did make a Claim to that Kingdom And at Madrid in the Year 1677 there was a Scotchman that was Robed and call'd the King of Scotland and he in the Jesuites College there resign'd into the Hands of James Lynce the pretended Archbishop of Tuam of the Kingdom of Ireland and took the Crown of the Kingdom of Scotland from the said Archbishop to revive the Claim of Pope Boniface over that Kingdom all which was done by vertue of a Bull from Innocent the Eleventh for that purpose And as for the Kingdom of Ireland it is matter of Fact that Henry the third did swear Homage to the Bishop of Rome for that Kingdom and did oblige himself to pay him Tribute for it in recognition of the Right of that Prelate You may mimp up those Canvas Chaps of yours but it is certain that you promis'd to your Jesuites to hold the Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland as a Fee of the Papacy or else they would have made bold to have sent you the same way they design'd to send your Brother and did at last accomplish their Design by your gracious aid and assistance And had Popery been establish'd in England in the time of your gracious Tyranny and had the People been brought under the Soul-sanctifying Conduct of the Jesuits who as they have been true Dragoons to the Chair of Rome in the pervertion of the Nation we should have found how they would have improv'd these Claims for the service of the Romish Antichrist In case any difference should have risen between him and you your Bellarmine tells you roundly That these Kingdoms are the Dominions of the Church of Rome and that the Pope is our natural Lord and that the King at best is but his Vassal And in the time of the Rebellion you cannot but have heard that Innoceâ—t the Tenth did not only claim these three
the Frauds and Devilish Artifices the Jesuits use in their practice and teaching their Politic Interest and industrious Self-seeking all under the Hypocritical Zeal and Characters of Religious though none so Irreligious you would not wonder why all secular Priests are against them and the Pope for upholding them and their Practices and Principles Mr. Jenison replied thereunto he believed they were crafty Men upon which this Informant asked him how he came now to say they were crafty Men having formerly spoke so much of their Sanctity He replied because he had considered several odd and suspicious Expressions Mr. Ireland had spoken to him whereupon this Informant replied you will only give the King and Country Satisfaction in declaring the odd and suspicious Expressions of Mr. Ireland who is now imprisoned for the Plot but also discharge the Duty of a Christian and Obligation of a Subject urging many other reasons to perswade Mr. Jenison to make a full discovery to the Councel whereunto Mr. Jenison replied he doubted the Jesuits would prove as black as their Habits adding that his Brother Mr. Thomas Jenison the Jesuit told him there was a design in Hand in which if he plaid his Part he might with ease and safety raise his Fortune and that he answered his Brother he would use all lawful means and that he thereupon replied the means were not only Lawful but Meritorious otherwise their Body and the cheif Catholics in England would not herein be concerned as now they were whereupon this Informant asked him what he understood by his Brothers discourse and whether he did not understand that the Jesuits and Papists had some Design against the Protestant Religion who answered he might well understand and suspect they had some such Design in hand and thereupon this Informant again pressed him to make a full discovery to the Councel when he came to London if his Evidence were judged material And this Informant told him that he held himself bound in Conscience to Discover all that he heard from him if he omitted to do it himself urging that his Evidence would at least-wise be fortifying to others Testimony and this Informant very well remembers that coming about a week afterwards with Mr. Robert Jenison from Mr. Fenwicks House at Beywel Mr. Bowes met them and drew Mr. Jenison aside and discoursed Mr. Jenison sometime after which Mr. Jenison singled out this Informant and told him he believed his own Brother Mr. Thomas Jenison would be hanged and several other Persons of Quality who were concerned in this horrible Design thereupon this Informant asked why Who answered a handful of Jesuits could not carry on such a Design without the assistance of Persons of Note and Power and the Pope himself must be in because of his Purse and he believed the Plot was Universal because his said Brother had told him the greatest Catholics in England were concerned in that Design wherein he would have had him to have plaid his part declaring he had reason to believe it was to destroy the King and Government whereunto this Informant replied can you swear it who answer'd I will not swear it now and therefore this Informant repied Will and Can are two things Mr. Jenison further added he was once in Company of five or six Jesuits and that all their discourse was then tending to the destruction of the King and the Government all agreeing to the self same end but himself but that he had not contradicted them in regard he was Young and Inferiour in Scholarship and this Informant asked him what he meant by Persons of Note and Power engaged in the Plot he answered the cheifest Catholics in England but would name none saying in a Passion do you think I am Privy to it but added by God they will have about with the Duke whereby this Informant believed there was a Hellish Plot and that the greatest Catholics of England were in it and that Mr. Robert Jenison knew more of it than he did at any time lay open and this Informant speaking something of the Popish Emissaries engaged in the Plot meaning Jesuits and Monks Mr. Jenison asked him whether he was not a Popish Emissary whereunto this Informant replied no he did abhor the Name and that he was a Preacher after the Ancient Apostolical way which teacheth all Men to Fear God and Honour the King and to be Obedient to all Superiour Magistrates to which Mr. Jenison replied the Jesuits hold it Lawful to Deposeâ— and Murther any Heretic Kings and to dispose of their Kingdoms and this Informant further saith That Mr. Jenison told him also at Walworth that Mr. Ireland had lent him Twenty Pounds which he desired the Informant to send him to London to pay Mr. Ireland again and further saith not Jurat coram me Edm. Warcupp John Smith There are in this Information several things worthy of your Observation in this Evidence of Mr. Smith and if you will cast but those Orient eyes of yours upon this Account given in upon Oath and not glout upon it as the Devil did upon the Chimney Sweeper but let it have your gracious Consideration 1. This account strongly Corroborated Mr. Jenisons Testimony for all these Dicourses past between this Mr. Jenison and Smith whilest Jenison was a Papist before ever he entertained a thought of changing his Religion or telling his knowledge of your Plot and truly after this that Man must be impudently incredulous that would not believe Mr. Ireland was in Town in the month of August and at that part of the Month to which I did Swear since Mr. Jenison that conversed with him had acquainted so many Credible Witness within so few days after and that which is most remarkable all this was declared to his Father Sister and Mr. Smith when that neither he nor any Man alive could apprehend that ever there would be an occasion of bringing that Matter in doubt and the Controversie upon the Stage this being so plâ—inly made out none but such a Bigot as your self and your rascally Conspirators would either endeavour to perswade the World to question the Truth of this Conspiracy or to give Credit to your villainous Party in any thing they say nor could there be a greater Evidence of that Plot to destroy our religious Laws and Liberties then that rather than their Design should miscarry they would Sacrifice their Souls and Consciences in the Justification of a most palpable Lye but the Truth is they had a Vertuous King and a Pious Duke to save and rather then they would Expose them they would venture their eternal State on your behalf 2. Though you had wedded your self to that faction of the Roman Synagogue the Jesuits I mean yet they never forgave your appearing a Protestant for they were resolved upon your Ruin as soon as they had fixed their business and had settled the French interest and power unless you would to all intents and purposes go through with them in those Designs of
your Nose and say nothing and let them Play the Game as they lifted and when they were strengthened by your Interest and the French Kings Power they could send you Trudging into the Kingdom of Darkness as you did your Brother But to come home to your Jesuits Sir let me put you in mind that upon the fifth of April we had notice from Thomas VVhite and the Fathers in London that a General Consult was to be held on April the 24th and the Fathers of Leige and Ghent and VVatton and St. Omers were ordered to attend the said Consult and the Summons was to this effect Thus all that had Jus Suffragij was to be there and that they were not to hasten to London long before the time appointed nor to appear much about the Town till the meeting was over least occasion should be given to suspect the Design and Secrecy as to the time and place was much Recommended to all those that were Summoned as it would appear of its own Nature necessary this was the Summons and to this Summons we all obeyed and to London we came and there met about 50 or 60 of the Society from all parts of the Kingdome who before the Consult was disolved did resolve upon the Death of the King either by Shooting Poysoning or Stabbing Conyers the Benedictin was pitcht upon and four Irish Russians to Stab him and Pickering and Grove were pitcht upon to shoot him and Sir George VVakeman to Poyson him thus your Brothers death was resolved upon and what they could not effect in 1678 they did in 1684 and to this of 78 your Servant Coleman was not only Privy too but was aiding and advising and consenting and how could you be Ignorant of it then For what you did in 1684 you had long designed of which Sir no doubt in the least can be made and therefore it s in vain for you or any of your Villains to dispute it can you deny that you sought the Destruction of the Prince of Orange whilst he was in that Station only because he had Married your Daughter can you or your Brother of France deny that the Papists were to have your Aid and Power to subdue the Northern Heresy Can you deny that Coleman laboured for a Peace that the French King might be at leasure to assist you here in England And that you might not have one to hand a Party against you was not the Duke of Monmouth kept under the Hatches by you and your Party And was not the Parliament to be disolved And by the Dissolution of the Parliament a Peace could be procured upon more Advantageous Terms to the French and in order to your regaining your Power and Interest which was hurt by quitting the Office of Lord High Admiral it was contrived that you should be restored and that the King your Brother should put the Fleet into your Hands as the only Person that could give a good account of it and farthermore that for all the Places of importance of the Kingdom put into his Hands till the Popish Religion and Arbitrary Power was fixed and you at the Hand of it in which Post you were to be but a Royal Tool to serve their base Ends and Purposes and if you did not comply they knew how to dispose of you even in no worse way than they designed upon your Brother which I say through Gods Mercy to England and your Clemency they did effect and then Popery had but two Legs whereas in his time she had four such as they were Objection That it was objected against me that I was not in Town in the Months of April and May this was one main Objection against my Discovery and to this end the Jesuits produced a Number of rascally Boys from St. Omers to prove my being there those Two Months nay some of them Swore from December till June And to answer this Objection I brought in Seven or Eight Witnesses to prove my being in Town which gave the Court great Satisfaction 1. The first Witness I called was Mr. Walter sometimes Vicar of Rainham in Kent who did declare that he had known me several Years and had met me in Newgate Market and in the Month of April he saw me in a Disguise in a grey Serge Coat and a grey Hat at the first Sight this Minister did not know me to be the Man but upon due recollection he found me to be the Man that he had seen and to confirm his Judgment in it he went to a Gentlewoman whose Name also he did not know he went to her because he had seen me at her House to enquire of her what was become of me and how I did and the Gentlewoman not knowing the End of my going beyond the Seas answered him thus Oh says she he is an undone Man he is turned to the Church of Rome and Absconds and hides himself I know not where Can all this be true Then Mr. Walter told her That he had seen me later than she had done for he had seen me the Day before at the upper end of St. Martin's Lane near Leicester House 2. Sarah Ives was another Witness in the Case to confirm what Mr. Walter had said this was the Woman of whom he enquired concerning me who owned she had not seen me but my Friends had told her that they judged me about the Town Incognito and she proved that Walter had the aforesaid Discourse with her concerning me and that he had told her that he had seen me the Day before and she tells you a particular Token That my Father came then unto her House to see her and she did ask my Father to eat some thin Cheese that was newly come in and the first she had come in and she enquired of my Father when he did see me my Father told her That he had not seen me of late then said she I can tell you News of your Son here was one Mr. VValter in my Shop that says he met him in Leicester Fields but in a Disguise and that he had told her what Habit I was in 3. A third Witness that proved me in Town at that time was one Butler that was Coach man to Sir Richard Barker who said That he was about his Coach which stood in the Gate-way and that I came in and asked him whether Dr. Tonge was within and he answered No At the first Sight he did not know me by reason of the Disguise that I was in but had known me well before because that I wore a Minister's Habit as I did then at the Tryal of the Jesuits but upon calling to mind who I was he did bid me welcome into England again but he said I took no notice of him but went on forward into the House But I made but little stay in the House because a young Fellow had affronted me for the sake of the Habit I was then in and this he swore was in the Month of May
you service For my part I don 't but if you believe it you may then imagine that by him you may accomplish your restoration without putting your friend Lewis to the charge of an hard Onion or a round Coal in the said service if they cannot rely upon him the fools will brag that they have some friends that are in place I confess I do see some of your old Villains yet employed but the boast that is made by your Crew of their aid and assistance is rather noisie than dangerous I am more affraid of the men of Brains Quality and Reserve that manage in the dark I am sure we cannot be too wary of such Instruments I looked upon Sir Timothy Stiff-Jaws and Sir Formal the younger to be more dangerous instruments for your service than ever Sir Simkin could pretend to be and they would have appeared in their colours could your old hanged Excise-man have carried his point for you know four thousand Horse at command is a pretty Post and might have done something I 'll assure you towards your changing your French air of which I suppose you are pretty weary But what next what are we to do now Truly since Betraying and Plotting is pretty well out of fashion Sir Simkin sets up a Mercury Office to help men to places and values himself much upon his last calling how long the trade will last I can't tell but if I thought it would hold any considerable time I would put a friend of mine an apprentice to him for seven years provided he might be free of the Trade when he comes out of his time I ll warrant you now that you have a great desire to know of Sir Simkin's good health and when I saw him Truly Sir I see him often and he hath his health well but he hath left off the use of his Beads and leaving them off at an unseasonable time it was of some prejudice to the little reputation he had amongst some of your friends as for Mother Church she hath left him as an out-cast and what game he is playing the Dee'l and John a Cumber knows best his office doth take pretty well as I hear I have not had occasion to make use of him you may have a cast of his Office if you will trust him again 2. I am to observe a second thing to you concerning your willing friends here and that relates to their Pamphlets which I must tell you Sir are spitefully dangerous that it is death to touch them and so dear and tedious to spread them that they are of little or no use to your Cause and Interest For example Scotch Robin's Great Britains Groans by reason of the depredation of the Dutch The lying Rascal should have confessed that the English had been very remiss on the one hand and the Dutch very diligent on the other that hath been indeed the cause of our decay and their interest in Trade but the Book had not there been too much of it was only to rail at King William s supposed mis-management of his Affairs and thereby he would imply that he was a Tyrant but the Rogue durst not for his Ears say that King VVilliam was an Usurper for if he had he might have been hanged for his pains without Madam VVilkinson's interposition to save him But you may imagin that it may be for your service to have King William s management of his Affairs exposed to the scorn and contempt of the World Well suppose it be I believe he doth as little value it as the Feversham men did your Worship when they clapt your Arse I do not find he is afraid to let a Parliament inspect his Management and thanks be to God he lets them have time enough to call delinquents to an Account but how in the name of an old Oyster-wench is this for your service For to publish his miscarriages to the world would be a notorious reflexion upon your Brother s Government and yours for your Scribblers as Scotch Robin and his friend old Hodge and his inferiour crew writing against K. VVilliam for the cause aforesaid they write against you and directly murther your sweet self in compliment to James Stuart late of VVestminster Labourer These fellows when they write of our King William they arraign him as a Tyrant with little or no imputation upon him as an Usurper so that the clamour they make is about his Male administration so that tacitely they admit of his Authority and so wound you through his sides In a word all they drive at is that our King is not so good a man as your sweet self I pray Sir is not their reflecting upon our King a publication that you was a man that did break your Faith and Word with the people of England with this difference only that King William hath done it as well as you Well I think King William hath justified his Government and the management thereof to three Legal Parliaments and if you could but have done as much but to one you needed not to have ambled to St. Germains But Sir see what a pack of Rascals you rely upon since all the subjects on which they treat and propositions in their Books by them laid down are as contrary to the interest they pretend to as light is to darkness nay Simkin himself could not have done your business more effectually than these scoundrels have done it for here they betray your Title and Honour and sink your Prerogative that if ever you should return you would not have enough to piece the knees of your Breeches withal and that would be a sad thing my friend to have that Royal business reduced to so low an ebb surely these men are in hopes of Sir Simkin's getting them places They write so wickedly for you and as little to the purpose as if they were disposed rather to six you in Rome than in England what is this but betraying you and betraying is betraying let it be to St. Germains or the Hague it 's all one in the Original 3. I would observe to you a third thing if my Landlady and this little Cub would give us leave and that is the Cabaâ—ling of your Party which is no more than their meeting in so many Clubs for what I pray you truly to stuff their Guts make good Chear drink your good Health and my Gammer Sweetapple your young Cubs Health one would have thought they had been all the disciples of Sir John Greasy Guts nay they do drink to your speedy Restoration but the Devil a bit of Counsel or contrivance was there of restoring of you and my Landlady or drawing one single Soul to their Party nay they meat and drink it away as if the 80000 Pound that was forgiven to Sir John had been divided amongst them to make them hearty merry in truth Sir their Expences one time were so lavish that one would have thought that a Band of Pensioners had sat at St. Germains
and your Popish Councellors gave to your party to undertake the same 1. I will put you mind of what happened to encourage the Popish Party in undertaking of their villainous designs against the Protestant Religion and the Government and this is necessary to be done that you may remember how you and your party have treated this Nation by way of recompence for the restoring your Brother to his Throne and you to your Native Country which well considered we may see what a Blessing you both were to this Nation Therefore Sir observe 7. Another Argument against the Bill of Exclusion was that it would have led the Parliament to attempt other great and considerable Changes and thereby endangered the whole Government and the peace of the Nation Now what your Villains would have had the Nation to understand by this change is worthy consideration Therefore first if by a change they meant a change of the constitution of the Government let me tell you that he could never have forged a more villainous Lye than those wicked Wretches did that they might in conjunction with you instil such thoughts into the mind of the King as might effectually alienate his Soul from the use of Parliaments It is evident even to these Holbourn Wretches that there was no Vote or Proposition in either of these Parliaments that could give any ground for such a malicious reflection and thefore in this matter we that were lookers on might reasonably charge your Brother and you and your whole party with a malicious design against all Parliaments in thus arraigning the whole body of the Nation upon these ill grounded and malicious suggestions I am sure this did not become the grandeur and justice of Princes nor was agreeable to the measures of Prudence and Wisdom by which you should have governed your selves And Now Sir I will give the true reason why you thus delighted in these men viz. your hating Parliaments being afraid they should have called you and them to account for your high Crimes and Misdemeanors by this means together with the inclinations of your dear Brother you so sway d him that you could never want grounds to dissolve not only three such Parliaments but threescore if there had been occasion In the second place Sir if you and your admirers had understood by attempting great and important changes that the Parliament would have besought the King that you might no longer have the Government in your hands that your villainous Conspirators should no longer preside in his Councils nor possess all the great Offices of Trust in the Kingdom that our Ports Garrisons and Fleet should no longer be governed by those that were at your Devotion that marks of Favour and characters of Honour should no more be placed upon such as the wisdom of the Nation had adjusted favourers of Popery or Pensioners to the French King These I must confess were great and important changes such as became English Protestants to believe were designed by those Parliaments and would have been by any other Parliament your Brother should have called in his time and such as the people of England would have prayed for and left the success to Almighty God who governs the hearts of Kings and Princes Truly without these changes the Bill of Exclusion would have signified little it might have provoked but not have disabled your wicked party Nay the money the Nation must have paid for it would have been used to hasten your return upon us 8. Another Argument used against the Bill of Exclusion was your great Grace and Favour for your Country and the excellency of your Temper and Vertue Surely Sir if you heard these men magnify you for your excellent personal qualifications you would have spit in their Faces and told them they ly'd for the violence of your natural Temper was sufficiently Known and your vehemency in exalting the prerogative in your Brother's Reign beyond its due bounds and the principles of your cursed Religion which carried you to all imaginable excesses of Cruelty convinced all Mankind that there was a necessity of excluding you rather than to leave you the name and place the power in a Protector For in good truth they must have looked upon it as the greatest folly to have made such a change in the Government which would have been a means to destroy and not to preserve the Government Sir they saw your Temper that was bred up in such principles of Politicks as made you in love with A bitrary power and bigotted to that Religion which always propagates it self by Blood could never bear with such shackles as would even disgust a Prince of the meekest disposition This was your Temper and how it is amended since you placed your self at St. Germains I suppose your followers can tell better than I. But what a regard and favour you have born to this Nation was well seen from your first return to England 1660. to your leaving it in 1688. You engaged it in two wicked Wars with the Dutch and a third with France I would not have your Cattle love too much of your Grace and Favour But truly if you had any for this Nation you was pleased to conceal it except in two things in which you did England the most signal service that ever man did the one was destroying your Brother and the other your running away and if you will keep on the other side of the small River that parts France from us we will forgive you all the faults of your life But notwithstahding all the noise your party have made about you exclusion I think they are now fully satisfied or at least may be that those three Parliaments that did proceed to exclude you had just grounds for it so that all your pretences stand convict as foolish and impertinent And these things being thus can any man judge you otherwise than an Enemy to Parliaments and that way of English Government which made you and your Traytors so much to inviegh against your most just proceedings 1. You may remember that the Nation could not be redeemed from that Bondage and Slavery that threatened it by the Arbitrary Government of Charles your Father but by the Long Parliament that sat down in the year 1640 and by the mismanagement of affairs by those to whom the guardianship of this Nation had been committed they thought nothing would bring on a new Heaven and a new Earth and repair the breaches in the Nation occasioned by the confusion rage and distraction they laboured under which were the consequences of the aforesaid mismanagement of affairs but by the restoring King Charles the second to gratifie this expectation the Convention which met on the 25th of April 1660 hand over head without any Preliminaries of asserting the right and priviledges of the people of England so manifestly violated by your Grandfather and Father and so restored your Brother to his Throne without the least opposition The hopes of the
of Commerce the said Lord Protector had made to the great advantage of the English Nation and graciously left his people to be treated in their trade to France at the pleasure of the French King In a word your Brother was no sooner sixt at Whitehall and you at St. James's but the French King was become your Confident and the King of Spain slighted which as it was against justice and humanity so it was against the maxims of Policy and Prudence the French Nation being natural Enemies of the English and the next Neighbour to it and of all Nations the most formidable all these considerations should have made you to have made a firm alliance with Spain at that time for their condition was very low being brought to that sad state in a great measure upon the account of your Family both in your Grand fathers and Fathers Reigns insomuch that notwithstanding the largeness of the Dominions of that King yet out of them all he could not find an Army to fight against the Portuguese this I must say that God did visit that Crown with severe Judgments for their unjust dealings with the Americans both in respect of the War they made with them and the cruelties they exercised towards them You will say the King of Spain was poor yes so he was and the Proverb was good That Vermin will quit a falling house you well knew that the Popish party could not bear up in their undertakings in the design of changing our Religion into Popery nor our Government into Slavery upon the Credit Purse and Interest of the King of Spain but upon the Purse Interest and Credit of the French King your party thought they might with the better success and with more ease accomplish their wicked designs and purposes against the Religion Laws and Liberties of these three Kingdoms Let me tell you Sir that notwithstanding all the efforts the Popish party made in the years 1660 and 1661 they all proved abortive for they have not their expectation fully answered for they wanted some considerable person to head them but you know your Brother and you thought it convenient to be plaguy Godly for a little time and therefore the Red-Letter-men were to expect a little longer 4. That all might not be lost for want of looking after your Mother comes from France to give those of the Church of Rome some countenance and to be head of that Council that was appointed to sit at Somerset-house you know the pretence of her coming over was a Treaty with her Son about the Marriage of Madam her Daughter with the Monsieur of France but the real cause was to make earnest solicitations on the behalf of the Popish party that they might in some measure receive the benefit of those promises your Brother and you had made to them and to most of the Popish Princes in Christendom upon their account and though you could not engage your self to appear bare-faced you at that time wearing a Protestant face as did also your dear Brother the King so that she to encourage them came over and resided here in England for some time and that the interest might be strengthened the Marriage of her Son the King with the Daughter of Portugal was no less designed than that of her Daughter with Monsieur Give me leave to tell you in this affair the Queen your Mother did testifie more love to her Daughter your Sister than she did to the King your Brother and more like a Daughter of France than a Queen Mother of England by her coming over she did not only secure the interest of France in England but she secured all the Popish party to be true to the French interest and secured the French King to be their great friend that would not cease to do all good offices between them and his dear Brother the King of England and they might be assured of you in a short time and also by her coming a great number of Priests Jesuits Monks and Fryers came over who were caressed with part of the Treasure of the Nation amongst whom was one Kirton a Fryar that had two hundred pound a year Pension given him the pretence was that he was an excellent Chocolate-maker for your Brother the King She also spurred on the Council that sat at Somerset-house to use that diligence that became them that they might answer those ends that their meeting together required This plainly shews what encouragement the Popish party received by the coming of your Mother from France 5. Your Brothers Marriage with the Daughter of Portugal was another considerable encouragement for though she brought no considerable Fortune to the Crown yet still she strengthened the French interest the French King in order thereunto proposed and promoted the Match for never was one word said of it till the Arrival of the Queen Mother and then you know that affair was driven on with all the Zeal imaginable insomuch that if any of the Church of Rome that were of the Spanish Faction had offered any thing against the Match with Portugal he or she or they were in danger of being forbid the then Court at Somerset-House Sir Kenelm Digby was one of the Council at Somerset-House and he was in danger of losing your Mothers favour and his place at that board only for expressing himself not with the due respects that she expected to the intended Match with Portugal and the Lord Castlehaven was forbidden her presence for asserting that Match could never tend to the Honour and Advantage of the English Nation and the late Duke of Norfolk though he was a Papist and Loyal enough yet because he was not of the French Interest and was against the Match your Mother did but look sowrely upon him nay you may remember that for some time all the Honour he could get was but to be made the Son of a Duke and it was some time before he could obtain that mark of Royal Favour The Match was concluded on and over came that peice of Portugal Flesh for His Majesty's use and she was no sooner arrived and fixed at St. James's but behold another Council was appointed there upon the account of the Catholicks and so they had now two Councils one at St. James's and one at Somerset-House and truly all things run on merrily on their side they having two Queens to Espouse their Cause then finally you were reconciled to the Church of Rome and so your Brother and you being both of a Religion what greater incouragement could that villainous party of Men expect and then came all the Ambassadors Envoys Agents they had the Priviledge of open Chapels so that London it self was made a Nursery for Popery 2. You now may see what encouragements the Popish party had to engage in the design of changing our Religion and Government in order to bring in Popery and Arbitrary power when you being reconciled to the Church and See of Rome did establish a third Council
on the behalf of the Popish party which became wholly yours they owning you for their head your business therefore was to strengthen their interest at Court by having the King your Brother always ready to heap his favours upon them and to enlarge their Interest in the Country by obtaining such Immunities for them as no Protestant Dissenter could ever obtain in all your Brother's Reign notwithstanding they were more quiet under their pressures and provocations than the other were under your Brother's favours and caresses your party before your arrival at your last reconciliation to the Church of Rome had met with these encouragements to engage men in this design I pray Sir let us compare Notes a little and let us see what encouragement you gave those that were ingaged in the design of subverting our Religion and Government give me leave to put you in the mind of these in their order 1. The first encouragement that you gave them you procured them employments in the Government nay if it were a place but of 20 l. per Annum a poor Catholic was preferred before another if he stood in competition with him you did espouse that party with that zeal which put your friend Coleman into a sort of a Religious extasie when he considered what a Prince God had given them who was become to a miracle zealous of being the Author and Instrument of so glorious a work of converting three Kingdoms and by that perhaps the utter subduing of a pestilent Heresy which hath domineered over great part of the Northern part of the World a long time and that there were never such hopes as in this time notwithstanding the opposition you were like to meet withal and truly Sir I could not blame Coleman for this rapture of his for the providing for your friends was a good sign of your conversion to that degree of Zeal that Secretary of yours spake of Now Sir the getting of your friends into employments did strengthen their hands that they might be fit for business or else Sir Patrick Trant might have continued in the Black-guard for ought I know to the day of his Death but your conversion converted him not only to your Church but also converted him from being a Black-guard-boy to wear a great name and place I pray Sir to what end was Sir George Ratcliffe to have had a Patent for to be a Baron of England but that the Popish party might be more strengthened in the North that the little ones might be encouraged and their numbers encreased by the protection he might give them in your name you were so successful in this that you boasted to Beddingfield and to others before him that were your Confessors that you did not question but that in a short time you could raise an Army of your Cotholick friends to establish the Catholick Religion Obj. Why might not the Son of Charles the First shew himself greatful to Roman Catholicks and procure them an Interest at Court had not they an universal esteem for their Loyalty to Charles the First and Charles the Second Why in such a heat good Sir where was the Loyalty of your Servant Manning where was the Loyalty of those that petitioned Cromwel for Liberty of Conscience and promising in lieu of so great a favour to destroy your Family alas Sir here is Loyalty for you besides all this behold it was they that had a hand nay a great hand in your Fathers death where was the Loyalty of the Irish murderers that renounced your Fathers Authority after they had performed his Gracious Command of murdering of one hundred and fifty thousand Protestants 'T is true they went into your Fathers Interest but not to serve him but to be protected by him from the Justice the Parliament would have inflicted on them for the wicked War they had in conjunction with that Villain Laude fomented against the Scotch and had also contributed to the same and not only so but had commenced that wicked War of the King your Father against the Parliament of England they were the Authors of our Civil War But Sir suppose they had been great sufferers upon your Father's account was that an argument why they were so well provided for alas Sir if that were an argument why was it not an Argument for the old Cavaliers no they were too generous to engage in any design against the good English Government for they thought that when they engaged with Charles the First that they had fought for the Protestant Religion and Liberties of England and therefore many times wondered the Papists herded with them and were much displeased to see Popish Councils and Councellors perferred before their Faces and they scarce suffered to have the Kings Ear therefore Sir you know well enough these men were not sit for your work and service on the other hand you were sure of the faithfulness of your Popish crew their Religion being security enough to you that they would engage in the design with you and therefore they were to be encouraged These Rogues had not one drop of Cavalier Blood in them no not one drop of any Blood but that of the Whore of Rome the poor Cavaliers were therefore to be starved and these fellows suffered to Revel and Surfeit upon their calamities this was the first encouragement they received from you viz. their Interest at Court 2. Your second encouragement you gave them was the check that you gave to those who opposed them especially the old Cavaliers for Sir you may remember that upon the coming in of the King your Popish party made them themselves very fine nay they resolved that none should be so fine as they but the old Cavaliers were resolved not to be out-done but they would be as fine though they did not live to pay the Taylors but when they showed themselves at Court your Brother and you scarce knew them though the Papists at that time had all the demonstrations of affection shew'd them to the great astonishment of the poor Cavaliers but when they had recovered themselves they fell into a desperate rage with the Papists asking them what they did there and began to arraign them for their former Rogueries but you was pleased to tell one that had signalized himself in your Father's service that it was not for him nor any other to malign the Roman Catholicks who had been your Brother's best friends and therefore we might easily see since that few or none durst appear so against them to suggest any thing that might bring them under the least jealousie lest they should be said to asperse the only friends of the Government and I truly have stood amazed that the little Credit the Papists had got by shrouding themselves under the protection of the King your Father should be so highly improved nay it was scarce credible till the World saw the design in which with you they were engaged then we plainly discovered the reason why they that
opposed them were severely treated by your Brother and your self not for any service they had done but for some future villany they were to perpretate the reducing the Nation to the yoke of France and Rome this was the reason why they were so dear to your Brother and you and upon this account you thought they were men that were not to be opposed by any 3. You gave them a third encouragement which was the peace they enjoyed in their Persons and Estates in the Countries where they lived so that they did not only escape those legal arraignments upon the account of their Religion but also upon the account of their many Traiterous designs against the Nation and they lived in peace and quietness notwithstanding their being obnoxious to many penal Statutes so that since the return of your Brother till their damnable design was discovered who lived more comfortably in the enjoyment of themselves and their Estates than they and truly none but the poor old Caalviers envied them for when we saw the end for which they had this countenance that it was that in time they might the more easily engage with you in the destruction of the King s person and the Government of England then all Protestants began to look about them and no other expedient could be found but the extirpation of those that were in such a damnable design as this and led to it by villainous principles suck'd in from their Priests and Jesuites the Parliament address'd several times for the restraining the number of those Vermin but you know for the peace and quietness of the best friends of yours few of them were put in execution nay Sir when they were indicted for not coming to their Parish Church once a month a noli pros was obtained on their behalf that they might not be disturbed in the profession of their Religion 4. A fourth encouragement you gave them was your strengthening them with the favours and friendship of several Prelates of the Church and your Brother's Ministers of State but as for the former they were very careful to engage their Clergy not to preach against Popery but against the Fanaticks for that the Papists and the Church of England did differ but in things nd points that were not material hence it was Sir that your first Dutchess was seduced to the Synagogue of Rome by the filthy treachery of Bishop Morley and Bishop Shelden by the help and aid of the fantastical quibbles of old Gunning There were three that seeing the insolency of the Church of Rome did make bold to give her a scratcht face and wrote both learnedly and severely against that filthy Whore and therein did the Protestant Religion very great and signal service for which reason none were by your Brother or you made Bishops in the Church but died unproffered excepting one who out-lived both you villainous Reigns and is now a Prelate of the Church I would fain know of that man whether or no he was not sometimes Brow-beaten by your Brother or you your Brother twice in my hearing said he should never be a Bishop in his Reign he made his words good and if you had said it it would have been never the worse But thanks be to God we have neither a Portsmouth nor a Cleveland to be Bishop-makers in our Court Our King hath made several and none of them a Scandal to their profession you made not half so many and what they were I will not here say any thing but only this that they are older now than they were ten years ago one of them I suppose knows the price of a Bowl of Grains but after all by restraining the Clergy from preaching against Papists and Popery gave them great incouragement to engage with your design levelled against the Religion Laws and Liberties of these three Kingdoms and the Death of the King your Brother Deny this if you can and let any of your Patriots stand forth and answer what I now write and convince me of any untruth if they can 5. Another incouragement you gave the Popish Party that they might engage in the said design was that you and they had Created in the King such a trust in you that he committed the administration of affairs to your self and the leading men of your Popish party and what they durst not advise the King of at Whitehall that they would advise you at St. James's and there were very few of their projects that related to Popery and the French interest but were readily put in Execution as the first and second War against the Dutch and many other things shall in their proper places be insisted on and as for your power with the King it is so plain that all the Nation saw that there was nothing done without your approbation and consent 6. Another incouragement you gave the Popish party was that if any male content should happen to discover your Wicked designs of Subverting the Government and of killing the King your Brother he would by no means believe them and so that they would all of them come off with impunity which made that villainous party grow very bold and daring and to carry themselves with that insolency that they were not to be suffered to live in a Protestant Kingdom this I say will be further made appear in its proper place 2. I come now in the second place to put you in mind what steps you took to effect your design of changing the Government into downright Slavery and the Religion of the Nation into downright Popery and for the destruction of the Kings person this is worthâ—y of your consideration since God in his mercy to this Nation hath placed you in that admirable Climate at St. Germains where you have time enough to consider of these things I pray that if the little Welsh Gentleman can understand any thing that he may be taught these things it may be he may have as much a regard to you as if he were your own dear Child 3. The first step you took for the effecting your cursed designs was the debauching of the Nation this I have touched upon in the first part of this memorial you may remember that upon the 11th of May 1660 both Houses sent Commissioners to invite your Brother home and Admiral Montague with the Royal Fleet to convoy him over and in his Company came your self and your younger Brother and such a Crew along with you as if you intended to take up with Newgate for your head quarters rather than St. James's or Whitehall truly Sir this I may say and call God to Witness that I never heard an oath sworn in all my Life till the day of your blessed restoration truly the day that you arrived in London was rather a day of madness than of prudent mirth and rejoicing for your being delivered from your low estate and entring into a state of luxury and ease you presently began to change the face of the
Nation the Poor Cavalier party under the persecution of their adversaries the Parliamenteers lived quietly upon that part of their Estates which was permitted them after their composition and there was a face of Religion in the Nation whereas upon your return all sortâ— of men even some professors themselves did too much imitate the prodigality and luxury of the Court which scarce entertained any but upon these terms then to Crown all to humour the King your Brother the publick Theatres were stuffed with the most obscene and filthy actions and interludes one would have thought that Laude had been raised from the dead and his Brother Mazarine to have written Books on the behalf of these proceedings to prove that for the King's comfort they might be more obscene to justifie that two Priests had the management of the Play-house and to grace the business had engaged their new Gracious Master to be present at the first opening those Scenes of filthiness persons brought to such a degree of prophaneness and ungodliness came in little time to be of no Religion whatever their profession was before and therefore indifferent to seem to be of any further than Interest and Temptation should incline them so no man will have much list or any considerable propensity to be of that Religion that shall condemn those practices they are resolved upon now it is evident that there is no perswasion in the World that so much countenanceth debauchery and prophaneness as the Religion of the Church of Rome and so you had the success you expected in debauching the Nation for how many turned Papists to gratify their own and your lusts at once but enough of this in the sixteenth Article 2. The second step you took was a wicked Oath you imposed upon the Nation the Oath was in these words I A. B. do declare and believe that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take Arms against the King and that I do abhor that Traiterous position of taking Arms by his Authority against his person or against those who are Commissionated by him so help me God Truly Sir you are a pretty Gentleman I pray let me have you pretty picture with this Oath coming out of your Mouth and I do believe it would make a pretty show and if I should be so happy as to see such a sight I would say that this well contrived Test was of the first impression for I never met with any of our antient Laws that ever obliged any to swear to an opinion or belief for I humbly conceive not without some reason that if swearing could determine all Controversies and beliefs all learning reasonings and instruction would be at an end I wonder therefore our Prick-eared Priests would ever ascend a Pulpit or our Bishops in Charles s time took so much pains in the alterations and additions of that useful Book that takes up its quarters so near the Bible in the Churches if swearing to beliefs and opinions was of such use in your Brother's Government since he that swore the most had the Mastership of more Logick and Religion than his non-swearing Brethren you designs could not well have gone on till you had sworn the members of Corporations not to give your Crew any opposition for they had been so often beaten by the Non-swearers of those times that they never love fighting and because they were a parcel of cowardly fellows they were resolved to forswear fighting and that they might not meet with such rugged exercise from others they instead of fighting made them take up this more gentle trade of swearing that they would not fight and when you had tied up their hands from that sort of practice by this new Oath you go to work to destroy us believing that none would give you any opposition since they had so lustily promised to be quiet by this pretty Oath they had taken and in time Sir you had improved the point to such a pitch that a Member of Parliament could scarce enter upon any debate of any expedient for the defence of the Laws and Liberties of his Country but his Nose was wiped with this Oath and looked upon as criminal if he should vote for an Act of Parliament to borrow the Militia of the King it looking like entering into an actual War against the King you and your Traiterous party thought to have done wonders with this Oath and truly they went a great way with it but it never did a Tyrants business yet nor never will For do but remember that there was a Test that passed the Convocation in the short Parliament that met in April 1640 to preserve the Hierarchy of the Church of England your Companions you have with you will tell you that it did not for the very next Parliament within the compass of a Year dismiss'd the Bishops sitting in the House of Lords at which some of them gnashed their Gums they having no Teeth to exercise that gift withal for which they caged a goodly Troop of them in the Tower with his Majesty's Lyons not for their Lamb-like carriage in the high Commission Court or their Dove-like behaviour in the Star Chamber nay the poor Deans and Arch-deacons they had a share in their favour for the Parliament eased them of all Temporal Jurisdiction nay here was worse than all this England and Scotland entring into Covenant to extirpate that order of Men the Covenant that was crowded out by the engagement the engagement made its exit upon the Protector 's assuming the Government truly a Man that had but an Irish understanding might have thought that Men had sworn so long till they cared not what they swore or to whom Old Monk before he came out of Scotland caused all the Scots to renounce and abjure your whole Family and so he did the Irish Brigade at his coming to London nay the abhorring and detesting of your Family was a great part of the last Speech and Confession of the dying Rump and within a short time in came your Family with several squadrons of Oaths as if your Government had been to have been supported with those Forces truly you made them serve to adorn your Government but this little Whipper Snapper of an Oath was to be its sweet Anchor but it did not do the business for though you had taken that Oath to your Brother it proved no antidote against his being poisoned nor you from being walked out of the Kingdom by your high Church Crew but to give you your due you and your Popish crew went as far with this Oath in your Conspiracy against the Lives and Liberties of England as Men could do for all men you judged were to obey and not to resist therefore you would give all diligence to secure the point to Pox us all with your French Power and Romish Religion there were several other Tests not worth the notice of any Man 3. A third Step you made to effect your design was the
inflaming the differences that were amongst Protestants you had as great a talent at this sort of business as any man could be supposed to have had your party kept pace with you to a hairs breadth for at your coming how did you endeavour to heighten the difference between the Conforming and Nonconforming parties how watchful were the Good men of the Episcopal party over the Dissenters judging them to be greater Enemies to their cause and Quarrel than the Papists because of their great numbers and being in a bodily fear that the Dissenters would not only out-live but out-preach them this was a great crime Sir in the poor Protestant Dissenters which high Church would never forgive for some of them cared as little for preaching as you did for fighting unless it were with an honest Protestant at the Old Baily or the Kings-Bench Court where you were always sure to get the better of them and then you very seldome gave quarter to any that lay at your mercy nay did not Castlemain pâ—ess the Bishops to revenge themselves upon the Dissenters for their severe usage of them and their Clergy for their scandalous lives and ignorance in the word of Righteousness nay he did not only advise in the matter but pusht on their taking revenge with Head and Horns together rather than the poor Dissenters should go unpunished or that the division should not be widened to the utmost therefore upon the whole let me ask you or any of those Traytors that were with you at St. Germains whether these differences thus influenced was not to betray us into the hands of your villainous Popish party for it was not your Province I suppose to strengthen the Protestant Interest against the Conspiracies of the Papists no you will not pretend to that for that would be a solicism with a vengeance or did you judge that the Papists could by their plottings do any great damage to a Protestant Interest firmly united truly it is plain that because of the strength of a united Protestant Interest you could have but a poor account of your well-laid designs in a word therefore it was the weakening the Protestant Interest you aimed at and nothing could weaken them but dividing them and then this point being gained to work you and your Rogues went to destroy both and had effected your design had you not met with an unlucky fellow that discovered all 4. There was a fourth step taken to effect your Popish and Trayterous designs and that was the engaging the high Church party to run in with the Popish party in arraigning the Dissenters for Traytors and Rebels nay tho several of them who had with much zeal fought under the late King your Father and your Papists were somenters of the said War and would have fought against the King in the service of the Parliament if their services might have been accepted of and if any of them did fight for the King it was because his Cause was like to the Gallows received all and refused none it is well known that it was the folly of some of those you aspersed that brought your Brother home for which I think they have well paid for it but what doth all this tend to why they were to be battered at by the Church and Popish party together but that they might the more effectually be destroyed and then the Popish party with reason might expect the more easily to carry their point against high Church it self whom they judge Hereticks as much as they do the Dissenters and this I must say that our high Church if they had been destroyed by you and your party they might have thanked themselves for their ruine though I must confess I should have been sorry that so great a number of men should so heartily contribute to their own destruction and reject our Brethren that would so heartily have joyned in with them to have destroyed you and your villainous party in order to have preserved the Protestant Religion 5. There was a fifth step you made to effect your design by creating in many unthinking people especially in many of our Baal's Priests that the Kingdom did enjoy a sufficient security for our Laws Liberties and Religion and therefore how your party used to quarrel with those men that were apprehensive of our dangers in those cases your Brother apprehended that our Religion and Laws tho I should have thought that his apprehension of the danger of the Protestants had risen from Nell s wanting of Money to buy Cloaths to wipe down her Mistresses Stairs or from her Mistresses wanting some new rigging if none had thought of the danger that we were in but himself but we had four Parliaments that saw the danger as well as himself and did not only see the danger with which we were encompassed but with what great difficulty we were like to meet withal in order to prevent it till their eyes were opened you went on with a full career in your Plots and Conspiracies and met with great success suitable to that zeal to which you were as Coleman saith converted in a very high degree the plain truth is that you had a mighty work in hand and a mighty mind to it and therefore it was fit you should take mighty steps to effect the same 6. Another step you took to effect your wicked design on foot was to create and preserve a Jealousie in the King of the faithfulness and loyalty of the People and a jealousie in the People of the sincerity and good affection of the King to them so that they seeing they could not keep up a War between the King and the States General yet they would maintain a War between the King and the People of England and truly they had their ends for they brought your Brother in a manner to set up his Standard and proclaim a War against his honest Subjects by the frequent Rapes he committed in the time of his Reign upon the Laws and Liberties of the people witness his quitting his legal power and setting up of a French mode of Government and laying aside those Laws by which he was to have governed his people so that he became universally hated by the honest party of the Nation and thereby the more exposed to the vengeance of your cut-throat Crew who to destroy him would ordinarily expose his Government that they might so divest him of friends in such a measure as that none might appear to avenge his death but rather rejoyce in his destruction as you and your party did when you had done his business and I must say this of him he died more lamented than you thought for and less lamented than most Kings of England that died before him 3. I come now to show you who assisted in this Conspiracy you could not carry on any design without some great assistance therefore it is necessary that they should be pointed out that the World may know them from other men and
that the World may see my plainness and sincerity in this particular that your wicked party may be left without excuse that always admired you and would not have had your Crimes detected But Sir it was attempted though in vain by several Parliaments to have called you to an account whilst you was James Duke of York but the King your Brother at your procurement broke up those Parliaments that would have done the Nation and you too that right that become the Patriots of their Country but since it was so I think it necessary to remind you of those great assistants you had to support you in order to carry on your wicked designs of changing our Religion into downright Popery and the well establisht Government into downright Slavery and of these in their order 1. Lewis the French King was your main support in this affair it was he that gave you his friendship and the use of his Purse to assist you against those who had reason to cry lowdly against you though they could not be heard these you called your Enemies because they opposed Popery and the French interest and these were looked upon not only Enemies to your self but also to the French King nay the band of Pensioners thought they had gone as far with your as they durst and when they could not for their own sakes keep your Company any farther you presently Proclaimed War against them as being neither in the French King's interest nor yours and therefore you stuck close to him and for what reason you can best tell he did desire you to make what propositions you should think fit in the then conjuncture of affairs your main agent there was Sir William Throgmorton who was much obliged to you for the good opinion you had of him for you acquainted Old Le Chaise the French Kings Confessour that the said Sir William was a very honest Man one of great veracity though he was not a Lord Chancellour that held Correspondence with Coleman one of your Family in whom you had great confidence and what then truly you took the French King at his word and made such Proposals to him as you thought necessary to bring your designs about I pray Sir what were those Proposals I remember they were these Seven 1. That it was necessary that your Catholick Friends should be without the least noise formed into Troops for which there would be a Sum of Money necessary to put at least two Months pay into their Pockets 2. That his Majesty would heartily come into the design if 300000 l. were paid for Three Years by which he might bridle the Impertinency of the then Parliament 3. That in case the thing should take wind and that design should reach any of their Credits that all Commissions should run in the Name of Johannes Paulus de Oliva to render the thing very improbable if any discovery should be made 4. That his most Christian Majesty should set apart such Sums of Money from time to time as should be necessary for the Landing of an Army in Ireland 5. That his most Christian Majesty should prevail with the King your Brother to lay aside Arlington and several other Ministers of State that were not in his Interest and yours and dissolve the Parliament 6. That all Correspondence that he the said French King should maintain with you should not come by the way of Barrillon but by the way of the Portugal Ambassador and under a cover to Coleman and that no Correspondence should be held with the King your Brother but what you were to be acquainted with but not he with yours but when you pleased 7. That what Money there was transmitted was to be in the names of this Coleman and Sir William your honest Man and they accountable to you every thing was agreed to but that of the Three Hundred Thousand Pound per Annum for Three Years to your Brother 't is true since all Sums were transmitted but the French King's Opinion and yours was the same with yours that he could not mend his pace in the Design and therefore not a penny could be got till he could give the French King reasonable good proof of his Stability and Sincerity as you had done these Seven Propositions were the then Propositions what other Propositions there were made when the design was ready for Execution you shall have them in their proper place but these Propositions were such as when the Popish Plot was discovered would have proved fatal to you and much to the discredit of your Brother the King if Coleman had not been Hanged in England and Peter Talbot Poisoned in Ireland for both of them would have come in Witnesses against you and Honest Dick Talbot your trusty Tyrconnel would have been a Third and being Covetous of gaining a Fourth which was Old Plunket the Popish Primate whose Death you hastned as a gracious reward of his telling them the design he saved you from Suffering the public Justice of the Nation due for your then Treasons and you got him hanged for his pains an admirable piece of gratitude Some may inquire why the Lord Arlington was to be had aside I have told you already in the first part of my Memorial to you but I must tell you now one thing more that is I will put you in mind of it for you know it well enough it so nearly concerned you be pleased therefore to observe that the Lord Arlington was once the only Minister in Credit and he thought himself out of all danger of the Parliament for once you know that he had burnt his fingers with you in your Popish and French designs and was in danger of being impeached but came off you know how and being so fairly delivered he faced about and was always for the sitting of the Parliaments and to recover and increase his Reputation with the Parliament and to become their greatest Favourite he exerts his power in appearing an Enemy to the Popish Party tho' at that very time was a Papist in Masquerade himself and not only so but opposed the French Interest to show his Zeal against your Popish Crew he revived certain Orders for prohibiting the Papists from coming into your Brothers presence and put them in Execution at his first coming to be Lord Chamberlain nay he did what he could to strengthen his hands against your mighty Ally the French King and your self for he prevailed with the King your Brother that he and the Earl of Ossory who had Married two of Min Heer Odyke's Sisters might go into Holland with the said Odyke to make a visit as they did pretend to their Relations there but to your great Sorrow you found that they went to propose the then Lady Mary your Eldest Daughter as a Match for the Prince of Orange a Match with whom you always abhorred for you was in a very great rage not only with Arlington and Ossory for that presumption of theirs of offering at such a
assured the Fathers of the Society here in England that the then Pope would not be wanting when any considerable progress was made in that undertaking you know what it was and it shall be laid before you in its proper place that you might not fail of the Popes assistance you had Sir Henry Tichhorne whom you constituted an Agent at Rome to negotiate your affairs with the Pope and Cardinal Howard was always ready to do his part but was much concerned to see that you made such use of Peter Talbot who was an impudent false fellow and always spoiled the business in which he was engaged and that the Pope did not much approve of Talbot's being made privy to any thing of weight but alas nothing could wean you from him and therefore it was to no purpose to perswade you but come to the point there was never yet any Conspiracy carried on but that Romish Prelate hath been at one end or another of the same I pray observe Sir what disturbances and fatal mischiefs the claim and exercise of the Papal Authority and Jurisdiction hath occasioned both to Princes and People that were of the Church of Rome therefore you might have reasonable hopes that the Pope would give you his assistance to convert three Kingdoms that had so long groaned under the burthen of Heresie and Schism for certainly when you were pleased to communicate your zeal to accomplish so mighty a work he had the same mighty mind which he expressed by his Tears when he read your Letters not for Grief but for the great Joy that the good old Gentleman had conceived for the great progress you had made in the advancement of the Catholick Religion and withal engaged to write to the French King to persevere in his good intention of furthering so good a work which Letters were carried by Tichborne and were graciously and most humbly received by Lewis your friend who was much encouraged when he saw your Brother and you blest with such an Ally Barrillon acquainted your Brother with the Pope's zeal for his being delivered from the Parliament it is well known that he closes in with every part of the design but that of his own life that your party did not communicate to him lest he shauld have begged their pardon and not have consented to be so far engaged I dare say you could not blame him it is necessary to put you in mind that Coleman made the same propositions to Cardinal Howard as you had done to the French King and he by your direction signified the great sence you had of the friendship of Lewis your Ally and of the great readiness there was in you to make such improvements of that his friendship with all those good Offices that you were capable of all which was by him the said Cardinal to be communicated to the Bishop of Rome nay he pressed the said Cardinal to use his Interest with the Pope to press the French King to engage the King of England if possible to dissolve that Parliament that was so great a Bar to your carrying on your design for the advancement of the Catholick Religion and in order to this work the Pope was accordingly pressed and he wrote to the French King to press the King your Brother to dissolve the Parliament and further to encourage him with the offer of his Purse as he had done to you but the Pope when the Cardinal discoursed him concerning a new Parliament judged no Parliament of England would ever engage in the design of restoring the Cotholick Religion therefore he thought that what was to be done must be without a Parliament and that the French King ought to consider what an advantage it would be to his greatness to be liberal in a work of this importance for whereas an old Parliament hath been hurtful to the Catholicks a new Parliament can never be supposed to do them any good therefore the good old Gentleman would by no means hear of a Parliament and so his opinion and yours was much alike but wondered at the Earl of Arlington concerning whom he was pleased to say in his Letter to the French King that he was represented to him to be a good Catholick notwithstanding the heavy charge you brought against him the said Arlington to his most Christian Majesty and withal the Cardinal by the express command from his Holiness did assure you of his Holiness his Friendship and withal he sent you his Benediction And when your design was ripe and almost ready to be put in execution the Fathers were assured that the Bishop of Rome would supply you with a competent summ of Money when he was satisfied that you had made some progress in the mighty work that you had upon your hands and truly Sir it was an expression of very great zeal in the Bishop of Rome if you will consider how he supplied the Emperour against the Male-contents in Hungary tho the Apostolic Chamber was then much in debt as it was a signal manifestation of his zeal to stand by you with his Purse so it is a proof not to be denyed that he was a mighty assistant to you in this mighty work 4. You had the Crown of Spain for your assistance in this mighty work for though Don John of Austria and the then Queen Regent of Spain was at difference about some things in relation to the Government and their own private interests yet they both agreed to joyn with you in this work of changing both the Religion and Government of this Kingdom and Circular Letters were by them both dispatched throughout the dominions of Spain and with some difficulty they raised two hundred thousand Dollars for the service of that part of the design which was to be carried on in Ireland and was paid by some Irish Merchants residing at Galloway at which Coleman was angry and thought that you ought to have had the management of the Money since that you were at the head of the design of restoring the Catholick Religion in the three Kingdoms but you reprehended Coleman since the Merchants there had paid in the Money to the Popish Arbhbishop of Dublin who was ready at your command to transmit the Money whenever you should see iâ— necessary and besides all this your Brother had a great desire at that time to borrow that very Money of you which you could the more readily deny whilst it was out of your power 5. Another support you had for the carrying the mighty work upon your hands was the Crown of Portugal and Russel the English Bishop of Portlegrah pressed the Prince of Portugal to contribute to the carrying on of the great design then in hand and had his Messengers sent about to the Religious of that Kingdom when you had raised for you the summ of fifty thousand pounds and a certain Lady was much concerned that no greater summ could be raised thence since she had prevailed with the Generals of the respective
Religious Orders to write to their Provincials and Guardians to contribute largely to so pious a work but Perrot a Secular did pacifie the said Lady and did assure her that he had more reason to wonder that so much came since the Jesuits had wrote so many notorious lies not only to Portugal but also to many other places in Europe of the state and condition of the Catholic Religion in England and Sir what he said was true he told you that he doubted the Jesuits run too fast and it would do well that you obtained of the King your Brother Liberty of Conscience for the Catholicks it was as much as could be expected but Sir you may remember that Beddingfield did endeavour to incense you against the Secular Clergy who were much influenced by the said Perrot he being their Superiour here in England and told you that Perrot and the Secular Clergy were a sort of Rascally fellows that had neither Wit nor Courage to manage such a design but at length a small spell being thrown in amongst the Secular Clergy they prostituted themselves to your Cause and Watkins that was Superiour of the English Colledge at Lisbon was written to by Perrot and another attempt was made upon Prince Peter but your design was discovered and so all that attempt turned to no account to you at that time 6. You had most of the Princes of Christendom that were of the Popish Religion and of the French Interest to support you in your design by the means of the Popes Internuncio then at Bruxels with whom Coleman your trusty Secretary held a great Correspondence and if you please you may remember that Coleman in one of his to the Internuntio that ✚ the design prospered so well that he doubted not but in a little time the business would be managed to the utter ruine of the Protestant party which Letter bore date Aug. 21. 1674 but these Princes being engaged in Wars they could not contribute but if the design had prospered you know they had all engaged whenever there should be a General Peace to assist your Brother and you in that good work of advancing the Catholick Religion but upon the discovery of the business the whole face of affairs of Europe were changed and whether you could get any Money from them I never learned so much you know best and so did your Traytor Coleman But so much may serve for the point in hand to wit a short account of those who had engaged their assistance from abroad 4. I come now to put you in mind of those who were engaged here at home and as I said before so must I say again that it was not the old Cavaliers that you had engaged in this villainous design for they were better natured and had a greater regard to our Religion and our Liberties than to be drawn into this Conspiracy nor were they those alone that professed communion with the Church of Rome for then our danger had been the less but there were some that seemed to be of the communion of the Church of England and were Papists in Masquerade but that I may be plain and particular with you I will lay them forth to the world in these following particulars 1. You had your Papists in Masquerade I bring them in foremost and these were the wicked Ministers that notwithstanding their mighty pretences to the Church of England as by Law established to preserve her yet at that time they were pensioners to France and abettors of the Popish party and promoters of the French Interest and thereby rendered themselves Enemies of the Government and of the whole Kingdom These were a set of Rogues that had not one drop of Cavalier Blood in them but revelled and surfeited upon the ruins of those men who had done much on your Father's behalf and had undergone great sufferings upon his account and your Brother's and no care was taken but of their starving for want of Bread such was your Grace and Favour to them Your Scotch Ministers of State gave great proof of their heartily being engaged with you in the Conspiracy for they did what in them lay to ruin the Protestant Interest in that Kingdom they over-turned the Laws and Liberties of that antient Kingdom and so reduced the Laws to the Will of the King your Brother that none could tell the difference between the condition of that People and the Subjects of the French King excepting him that the Scotch were by them made the greater Slaves and it was a rule that your Conspirators at St. James's laid down that in Scotland Slavery and Debauchery was the surest way to bring in Popery as Popery and Debauchery would certainly bring in Slavery upon the English Nation both which was to be effected or all would be lost Your wicked Ministers at Court in England good men they plied their business with as much zeal as possibly they could to make all things ready against you mounted the Throne and truly they met with little or no opposition in their progress for the then Parliament through their being corrupted and bribed by the Ministers then employed they had lost much of their authority and esteem so that though they sometimes made a little noise about Popery and Arbitrary power they durst not be over bold because that then they would have endangered their being dissolved which was worse to them than death it self so that by these means your wicked Conspiracy went on with impunity and few or none were called to an account till the discovery of the Plot. It is true they now and then roared against Lauderdale they got Buckingham removed from being a Councellor they it may be might have an aching Tooth at several but I know nothing they did against any of them but make a noise till your true friend appeared then they did talk with some of your Conspirators and would gladly Sir have spoken with you but that you went to take a little Air in Flanders 2. You had the Popish party that were engaged with you in a bare-faced manner and with as much impudence as your Heart and Soul could desire Priests Noblemen Gentlemen throughout the whole Kingdom so that you were in a very hopeful way of doing your business had not God in his mercy prevented it they were all ready they wanted but the word and the business had been done to all intents and purposes and I doubt without any possibility of retrieving 3. You had your Army ready at hand and if they might have been secured to be a standing Army they would have done what you commanded and you had your Irish villains in Ireland that wanted nothing but your word and they were ready to have engaged in any thing that should have contributed to the advancement of the Religion to which you were so miraculously Converted that your zeal was such that you valued it above all things in the World and therefore your design could not but
surrender'd and to aggrandize the Merriment there comes over some great Personages from France and were very much pleased with the Court and the secret Devices suddenly to be put in execution after the next meeting of Parliament was agreed on all was well with you the Whores â—risking about Nell and her Mistris and the rest were as merry as the Maids and all your roguing Banditti hugg'd themselves with the great Happiness they were to enjoy Well Sir I do believe they were merry about their Mouths and they had a great deal of reason for all things went on in a sweet harmony and so it did at Belshazar's Feast till the Hand appear'd writing upon the Wall and then they were all confounded and amazed So it was with you for in the midst of all your Merriment in the Month of August all on a sudden a black Cloud appear'd which did prognosticate a Storm to fall upon you even in the height of all your Expectations and tho' it seem'd to you and your Cut-throats to be but a Triâ—le and small at the beginning yet by degrees it encreased extreamly and that was the most secret Devices of you and your Conspirators for your introducing Popery and Arbitrary Government came in some small measure to be discover'd by an old hearty Friend of yours but you had your Penniworths out of his Carcass for his Service in that particular Well to be plain with you it was my own dear self that makes this modest Address to you and if any one say that ever I gave you one good word in my Life I will be his humble Servant that proves it Before I quit this Point I must answer two Questions that have been ask'd me by several persons 1. What was the Opportunity I had of making this Discovery and 2. Why or to what end I made the Discovery 1. What the Opportunity was that I had of making the Discovery And truly this I must say and take Shame to my self the course I took to get into the Secrets of the Jesuites was no way warrantable from the Word of God for I dissembled my self to be a Papist and yet was none one that pretended Zeal for their Religion and at that time was an avowed Enemy to them and their Religion I have asked God forgiveness and all true Protestants I am sure God hath pardon'd the Sin of his Servant since he had no other thing before his Eyes but the Good of his Country and the Honour of God tho' I confess to do the least Evil that the greatest Good might come of it is unlawful and I am sure there is no true Protestant in England but what will not only forgive my doing that Evil in joyning with the Church of Rome to discover the Designs carried on by you and your Conspirators but will stand by my Truth that I did at that time discover I have reason to bless God for that they have given good Testimony of their Zeal for the Cause of God upon my account and reliev'd my Necessities and visited me when sick and in Prison and were not asham'd of my Chain But I would not have any man to think that tho' God was pleas'd to bless my poor Labours for the good of the Publick to follow my Example in joyning with that cursed Communion tho' his design be never so honest lest God in Justice leave him to the Counsel of their own Wills But it may be you are impatient and therefore I shall hasten to my intended business which is to declare my self fully to you concerning the Opportunities I had of discovering the cursed Intrigues of the Jesuites and the cursed Plot you carried on for the destruction of our Laws Liberties and Religion I must tell you that the acquaintance I had with some considerable Papists in the Year 1670 made me suspect a Design carried on by them to advance their Religion and to pull down ours but I little thought they had a design of murdering the King which in process of time I found out there was one Cotton that was at Mr. Guildford's in Kent this Gentleman was a free-spoken man and would be often tempting me to come over to their Church For said he it will not be long before you must either burn or turn therefore come over to us in time that your Coming may be meritorious This Cotton I in time found out to be a Priest of the Jesuites Order and one that was engaged in the Popish Plot and when I was engaged Sir with your Coleman and the Society I had with him a better acquaintance From him at first I found that the Popish Party had a Design then on foot to promote their Religion and were making what Proselytes they could in order to enlarge their Interest and Power in this Kingdom I from that time had a great desire to get into them to see whither their Designs tended being very fearful that they design'd no less than the total subversion of our Religion and Government for this Cotton had the Impudence to tell me That your Brother was engag'd with you and the Catholick Party to advance your Cause and Religion and was resolv'd to bring in Popery it being a Religion that was most consistent with Monarchy and that your Brother was resolv'd to be like his Neighbour Princes This was in the Year 1670 about Christmas which Discourse I discover'd to Mr. Walter Drury whom I did assist in the Service of his Cure at Sandhurst in the County of Kent and he told me that Mr. Cotton had talked as plainly or rather worse to him but he had sufficiently told him his own so that Cotton was shy of having any farther Discourse with him about those matters and withal Mr. Drury having threatned to complain of him Mr. Cotton did withdraw from that Family and another came in his room In the Year 1672 I was acquainted with one Keimash who used very perswasive Arguments to me to have brought me over to their Church he then frequented Arundel House in the Strand and was a Fellow that had insinuated himself into the acquaintance of several Divines of the Church and bragged That he had reconciled above thirty Ministers of the Ch. of England but I found him a debauch'd lewd fellow and so my acquaintance ceased with him for it was a hard matter unless in a Morning to find him â—ober I found him afterwards to have been Chaplain to the old Countess of Arundel with whom he liv'd several Years under the notion of her Steward In the Year 1672 I left Mr. Drury's Cure and held a Living of my own upon which I resided for some time call'd Bobbing in Kent and from thence I went and serv'd the King at Sea as a Chaplain where I found many difficulties by reason of sickness of Body I refreshed my self at Tangier where was one Gerard an Irish Dominican that upon the first sight of me enquir'd whether the Catholick Religion was establish'd in England
this was in the Year 1674 in the Month of April I told him No. Why then said he the Dutch War is to no purpose Why said I was our engaging in a War against the Dutch to bring in Popery Well well said the Fryar you will see in time In some few days we had notice of a Peace with the Dutch of which I told the said Fryar What then said he our great King of France is not at peace with him and he must do the work In the Year 1675 I had obtain'd an Interest with Henry Duke of Norfolk then Earl of Norwich and Earl-Marshal of England who was very kind to me upon the account of my contending earnestly for his Right of presenting to a Living in the Diocess of Chichester to which Living the then Bishop a turbulent man pretended a Right of Collating and in the Year 1676 I was made Chaplain to the said Duke of Norfolk I think the whole Family will bear witness of my Fidelity to him and his Children In the Service of the said Duke I came acquainted with several Priests and being then resolv'd upon a strict enquiry into their designs against us our Religion Laws and Liberties I met with one Berry a Priest that had been a Jesuite but had left that Order thro' some discontent and madness that had seiz'd the poor Wretch I found him a poor zealous man whose Zeal was far beyond his Knowledge but this Berry brought me acquainted with Mr. Langworth a Jesuite and John Keins and Will. Morgan that was then Priest to the Lord Powys both Jesuites who gain'd my Consent to go over to the Church of Rome and truly a few Arguments prevail'd with me because I had a deâ—ire to see what they were doing so that in some measure I might prevent that impending danger that seem'd to threaten England with no less than an â—â—recoverable ruine But this as I said before was my great Evil tho' my design in it was honest just and good and Sir you know that it did turn to a good account and would have turn'd to a better account had not I met with your Opposition who was concern'd in all and your Brother in every part but that of his own Life But in short I was by this Langworth reconcil'd to the Church of Rome he was Father-Confessor to the Lord Peâ—re and his Family Upon my being reconciled I was brought to Richard Strange then Provinciate of the Jesuites who admitted me into the Society and when I was admitted it was resolv'd by the Jesuites that I should pass the time of my Novitiate abroad in dispatching business for the Society which I cheerfully accepted as an advantageous Opportunity of doing that for which I was reconcil'd and admitted into their Order and therefore accordingly they provided for me When I had paid Mr. Luke Roach Commander of a Biscay Merchant bound for Bilboa the said Strange the Provincial gave me One hundred Pistols for my supply in order for my passage into Spain and for my necessary Expences there and order'd me what other Monies I should need I then apply'd my self to a certain Nobleman who was privy to my being reconciled to the Church of Rome and had much pressed me to it in order to see what Work your Rogues were at He paid into my hands â—oo Guineas which I chang'd here in England and receiv'd Bills upon Father Swinaâ— the Procurator-General for the English and Irish Jesuiâ—es who paid me in Dollâ—rs â—o my Hearts content What Letters they sent by me you shall have â—n account of in their proper place And when I had got a competent Knowledge of their Design then on foot which was to murder your Brother because he had so often deceiv'd them for they assur'd me he had been reconcil'd to their Church and that upon his Reconciliation the Society in Spain had contributed 3000 Pistols to his support which was paid in by Father Couâ—tney some time Provinciate of the English Jesuits I saw several Letters written by your Brother to one Father Knot in which the King your Brother testified his Zeal for the Catholick Religion and promis'd to restore it whenever he should come to the enjoyment of his Right in England and till he had an Opportunity to do it they should have all the Connivance in the World and if the Case should go so hard wiâ—h him when he came to the Crown that he could not bring about their desires to make their Religion to be the Religion of the Government yet they should have an Indulgence that should be an Equivalent and however they should not be excluded from Offices and Imployments of Trust and that they had his Heart and Soul In a word I was engag'd with the Jesuites two Years and I found it high time to discover what I had learnt from them and your Servant Coleman who you know was a main Agent in this Hellisâ— Design I had a hopeful Prospect of being countenanc'd by your Brother and you and sometimes the thoughts of the Difficulties I was like to meet withal would make me tremble I apply'd my self to my noble Friend of whose Mony I had spent One thousand Pounds in the Discovery and he bid me be of good courage and I should carry my Point to the confusion of them all I also communicated the business to Dr. â—ongâ—â— and â—e to Mr. Christopher Kirkâ—y and Mr Kirkâ—y communicated the same to the King and intrusted the then Lord â—reasurer 〈◊〉 the discovery 〈…〉 that the Discoverer should keep in wâ—th the Jesuites and observe theâ—â— Motions and from time to time discover wâ—at he had learned from them But Kâ—â—kâ—y could not but see your Brother's coolness in the Affair therefore to justâ—â—e himself on the sixth of September he had my Narrative attested by my Oath before Sir Edmund-Bury Goâ—frâ—y and when you and the whole Court came from Windsor I was before Godfrey the 28th day in the Morning being Saturday and swoâ—â— to a compleat Narrative of the Popish Design and at Night I attended the Privy-Council where I gave an account of so much of the whole Affair as was convenient so the whole Board saw that the Jesuites and Papists who were in strict Alliances with the other Conspirators to root out the Protestant Religion and Government And tho' all the Conspirators of the French Interest were in the Grand Plot yet you know there were some of the Jesuites and Priests and Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Romish Communion in conjunction with your self had no Patience to stay the ordinary course to establish Popery and Arbitrary Power which the other Rogues had resolved upon at White-hall to be done in its due time and to go on gradually being well assur'd of your Game if it was not spoil'd thro' rashness and therefore some of your French Pensioners were not made privy to the Secrets of somâ— of the Priests and Jesuites Councels at St. James's Weld-house and elsewhere for you know
that your being a Papist and the Hopes you gave the Popish Party of coming such to the Crown had encouraged them in this wicked Conspiracy and though in Civility to your Brother they did not impeach you for your Treasons yet they thought it necessary to prevent your coming by a Bill of Exclusion but on the contrary had not your Designs been discovered the Nation must have sunk by your Trayterous Designs and have been ruined without any impossibility of recovery but tho' the discovery had not its desired Effect yet it did so much affect you that when you invaded the Throne by the murther of your Brother that you could not make that considerable Progress in your Work for then you saw plainly you had received a deadly wound of which you could by no means be cured for the Nation saw who they were you had espoused and therefore they were aware both of you and them and made your own Conspiracy to be a Plague to you Obj. But you may say how can this be a good Ground or Reason for the discovery of such a design When there was but few that believed it and that the King your Brother laught at the Plot as a matter wholly Fabuloâ—s and that the Parliaments were but a parcel of Factious Men and therefore what could the Nation judge of those Men that I espoused since the matter of Fact was false with which they stood charged To this I answer 1. It is well known that your Brother laughed at the Plot and would have made some to have believed that it was Fabulous but he well knew that he was engaged in every part of it but that of his own Life and that he was too conscious to himself he had disobliged you and your party by being so loose and negligent in the performance of those promises he had made to you and your Party and to get a sum of Money from the Paliament he would let the Parliament worry your Friends nay rather than go without it he would himself give your Cause a gentle Stab witâ—ess his passing the Test Bill in the year 1673 and refusing to sign Coleman's Declaration in the â—â—rs 1674 1675 1676. But suppose that he did laugh at the Plot he hath laugh'd at the Sacrament of the Altar and would be witty upon the Superstition of the Church of Rome yet at that very time he was a Papist and had receiv'd the Sacrament of the Church of Rome nay he was many times prophanely witty upon the Gospel it self and would speak very slightly of Religion you know he was a witty man and could make a Jest of any thing in the World But who shall we believe Charles Stuart or Charles King of England Shall we take notice of what he said in his private Capacity before what he said in his publick Capacity I tell you Sir I must and so must any man in the World that hath but a grain of Sence take that to be his that he spake in his publick Capacity and this well consider'd will satisfie any thinking man Ans 2. I pray observe your Brother's Proclamation Octob. 30 1678 where he called your Conspiracy a Bloody and Trayterous Design of Popish Recusants of which Sir you were the Head against his Person and Government and the Protestant Religion Again in his Proclamation of November the 20th 1678 did he not declare That the Popish Priests and Jesuites lurking within the Realm had contrived and set on foot divers trayterous Plots and Designs against his Person and Government and the Protestant Religion by Law establish'd Again observe Sir his Proclamation for a Fast March the 28th 1679 where he declar'd That through the impious and malicious Conspiracy of the Popish Party there was a Plot not only intended to the Destruction of his Royal Person but the total Subversion of the Government and of the true Protestant Religion within the Realm by Law establish'd Obj. There might be a Conspiracy against the Religion and Government of England but not against the King's Person Ans That is a Contradiction in plain terms for how could the Religion of a Nation and the Government be subverted but by the destruction of its Head See what my Lord Chancellor saith in his Speech to both Houses of Parliament Mar. 6. 1678 9 wherein he assures both Houses That His Majesty's Royal Person hath been in danger by a Conspiracy against his sacred Life maliciously contriv'd and industriously carried on by the Seminary Priests and Jesuites and their Adherents who thought themselves under some Obligation of Conscience to effect it and having vow'd the Subversion of the true Religion amongst us found no way so likely to compass it as to wound us in the Head and kill the Defender of the Faith Can any one that believ'd the King your Brother to be a Protestant think that a number of Men should conspire against his Religion and not destroy his person that was a Defender of it And on the other hand those who knew him or judged him a Papist had incurr'd the Displeasure of that Party by his notorious Miscarriage to them in his many breaches of Word and Royal Promise as I have mention'd before Ans 3. to the main Objection That few believed the Popish Plot Which is as false as any thing can be true for the Plot was believ'd as I shall shew in its proper place And as for the Parliaments being a number of factious Men it was your usual Dialect and we know what Love you had for Parliaments therefore what you say in that case you may wipe your Sâ—out and hold your Tongue for what you or your Party says against them passes for nothing So that I may again say that there was a necessity of discovering of that Plot in order to shew to the whole Nation what those men were with whom you herded and were engag'd in order to our destruction and I insist the more upon it because of the great Loyalty to which they pretended and for which they were countenanc'd by your Brother and you in opposition to all Law and Reason whilst other faithful men with their Families were left to perish for want of Bread who had serv'd your Father your Brother and you without the least recompence for their Service and that the Nation might be undeceiv'd in that respect as well as in others that they might see they were no Changelings but were full of the same Devil their Forefathers had and if they did conceal him it was for want of an Opportunity and they were about to shew what they would be at but I was beforehand with them and then the Nation was fully satisfied concerning their Loyalty What! do you grin and shew your Teeth I am sure you cannot bite no more than your dead Dog Mumper I pray let us have your Thought for once I warrant you you have some impertinent Question to ask it may be you still insist upon being satisfied why
if it were so necessary to have it known that your Crew were not men of that Loyalty they pretended why then were not the Witnesses better receiv'd by the King your Brother who the last moment of his Life was satisfied of the Innocency of the Roman Catholicks Truly Sir there were several reasons why the King your Brother it may be might not receive the witnesses so well and believe them as he ought to have done 1. Because he was engag'd in the whole Conspiracy of introducing Popery and Slavery but was not privy to that part which related to his own Life 2. Your Brother lov'd to appear a Prince of Mercy and Clemency tho' he had not one dram of those Princely Virtues but what his meer Cowardice compel'd him to 3. The Nature of the Evidence given 4. The Interest of the Conspirators These you shall have in due time and not before tho' you cry your Eyes out 3 Reason why it was necessary that your Conspiracy should be discover'd was to prevent your coming to the Crown for certainly it could be neither safe nor proper to set a Popish Head over a Protestart Interest especially since you had made so many Attempts upon the Protestant Religion to destroy it and in order to its destruction made such an Alliance with France as I have at large already made out in which I think you are as fully expos'd as your Heart and Soul can wish and therefore Sir I think you noâ— your Party can never blame those Parliaments that intended and attempted your Exclusion when you was Duke of York 4 That I might discharge a good Conscience and that such Malefactors might be brought to publick Justice It is well known Sir that the King your Brother was a Favourer of the Popish Interest as being the greatest Favourers of Monarchy and he was pleas'd himself to offer to reconcile me to that Party and told me That if I would engage upon the word of a Minister not to bear any Testimony against those I had accused before the Council but would be rul'd by him I should have Ten thousand pounds to buy me an Annuity and if I would I should retire to any College in either University and live there quietly urging to me that a Parliament would never gratifie me and that it was in his power only to shew me Favour and therefore advised me to follow his Directions and if I did it would be impossible for me to miscarry To this I thus reply'd I humbly thank your Majesty for your Grace and Favour and I should willingly accept of your Royal Offer were it not the highest Breach of Trust reposed in me by your Commons in this Parliament besides Sir said I your Nobles in the House of Peers must and so will all Mankind judge me the worst of Men if I should so basely desert my Cause It is plain that the Popish Party have a Design against your Majesties Life and all our Lives Liberties and Religion and therefore by the Grace of God I will stand by the Cause to the uttermost of my power to the last minute of my Life I bless God for the Grace of Perseverance I have discharg'd a good Conscience and tho' I was left by your Brother and persecuted by you yet your Villains were some of them brought to publick Justice and made Examples for their many notorious Treasons against the Religion Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom 7. I now come to shew you what Evidence there was to prove this Conspiracy that you were engag'd in for the destruction of the Person of the King and for the bringing in of Popery and Aâ—bitrary Power Your Popish Traytors were so impudent in their ways that there was no manner of difficulty of finding Proof against them had but your Brother and you stood Neuters but you were both equally engag'd with Lewis the French King to bring in Popery and Slavery But that it may appear to all the World that the Popish Plot was not short of being duly proved but on the contrary it was made so plain and evident that the Lords and Commons of England did receive the Proofs and the Evidence upon no terms could be contradicted therefore now I shall produce the Evidence of the Guilt of those who were accused to be concern'd in the same 1. The constant bloody Principles of the Church of Rome was a Testimony sufficient to have convicted them of being guilty of such a horrid Conspiracy for do but remember how that Apostatical Synagogue of Satan will not bear with any Kingdom Common-wealth or Community of Men that differs from them in Matters of Religion and declares against them as Antichristian and Idolaters but those who so declare are immediately pronounced Hereticks and de jure they are excommunicated as such according to the Council of Lateran in the time of Pope Innocent the third and by an Edict of Pope Paul the fourth in the Year of our Lord 1558 and if that be not sufficient you may remember that we are in the Bulla Coena Domini which your Holy Father at Rome causeth to be read every Maunday Thursday and there we are solemnly cursed and thereupon Sir your bloody Party and your self and all other Papists living under the Dominions of Protestant Princes were not only discharg'd from all Allegiance to Protestant Princes but all of you were and still are bound by the strictest Bond of Conscience upon pain of being damn'd to depose such Heretical Princes And Vrban the third hath taught you and them that they are so far from being guilty of Murder that they are obliged to kill any who stand excommunicate and are bound to extirpate Hereticks as they would be esteem'd Christians themselves Nay further do but observe the Bull of Clement the tenth wherein you may if you please see plainly that it is a Crime of the deepest dye for a Roman Catholick to be loyal to a Protestant Prince nay such are publickly cursed in the view of the World so that it is apparent that no Protestant Government can be safe where such a number of Men have a Being and are in any manner countenanc'd Again Bellarmin your great Cardinal tells you in words at length and is so impudently plain that a man of an Irish Understanding may know his meaning his words are these Hereticks are to be destroy'd Root and Branch if it can possibly be done but if it appears that the Catholicks are so few that they cannot conveniently with their own safety attempt such a thing then in such a case it is best to be quiet de Laicis Lib. 3 Ep. 22. Lest upon opposition made by Hereticks the Catholicks should be worsted And from hence Bannes another of the Supporters of your murdering principles hath no other Apology to make for the English Papists why they do not forcibly rise up against a King and his Subjects proâ—essing the Protestant Religion but that they are not powerful enough for such an
Undertaking and therefore the Attempt would be to their own prejudice and damage So that ever since the English Nation was blest with the enjoyment of your happy return to England the whole Protestant Party only held their Lives at your Courtesie and the Courtesie of your Cut-throat Papists till you were in a condition by numbers and strength to destroy and extirpate them I cannot by this time but admire your good-natur'd Bloodhounds that did for seventeen Years together forbear to destroy us it was because that one of our Lives would have cost three of yours You may remember Sir that in the Year 1678 you had got at several times from 1674 to that Year about 20000 Men that were able to draw the Sword of your own Religion to reside in and about London who were under your pay to rise as soon as the word was given which word was the Death of your Brother the King they being Officer'd with your Popish Crew were to have joyn'd with your Army that was encamp'd at Hoâ—nslow-Heath and in order to this the French King had promis'd you to land an Army in Ireland and another in England at the same time when you were resolv'd to push for it and then we should have tasted of the Good nature of your Popish Crew as our Friends in Ireland did in your Father's Reign It is to be observ'd that you wanting numbers at home and knowing that 20000 men were not sufficient to do the mighty Work upon your hands which was the extirpation of Hereticks and the ruine of the Protestant Party but wanting a back for your edge you therefore applied your self to France for his Aid and Assistance which you had obtain'd sooner had not that bloody Monster been engag'd in a villanous War with his Neighbors but as soon as he had made a peace with them then you were resolv'd upon the aforesaid mighty Work but by that time your Designs were discover'd and the French King was obliged for that time to change his measures and so were all the Popish Princes of Christendom Your villanous party of the Synagogue of Rome did at that time judge it convenient to draw in their Horns and conceal these foregoing principles or suffer them for a season to lye dormant by them Yet to give you your due you never suffer'd us to be any considerable time without some Testimony of your Good-will to us to shew us how ready you and your Cut-throats were to do thâ—â—e meritorious Offices of converting us with a Baptism of Blood and of Fire But God I hope will keep this Land from the one and London from the other 2. This brings me to the villanous Practices of your Church and your Party in all Ages which are living Testimonies against your villanous Crew to this day I pray call to mind the vast numbers of Christians that have been butcher'd by the Roman Inquisition of which it is reported that Pope Paul the fourth should say That the Authority of the See of Rome depended upon it and that it was settled in Spain by the Inspiration of the Holy Ghost not that which came down from Heaven but that which was sent to Rome in a Cloak-bag Remember what infinite slaughters were committed upon the Servants of Christ by the Crusades and Holy Wars Authentick Authors tell us That in France alone Ten hundred thousand Persons were slain in the persecution against the Waldenses and upon no other occasion but their dissenting from the Church of Rome What think you of the Parisian Massacre by which in a few days there were murder'd above Forty thousand persons for no other reason but because the Church of Rome had adjudg'd 'em Hereticks I could give you â— thousand Instances of their Attempts abroad but my point is to put you iâ— mind of their Attempts here at home I pray call to mind that upon the Reformation of Religion in the time of King Edward the sixth how many Rebellions were raised against the King and the then Government at the instigation of the Priests and Fryars It would not be amiss for you to read at your leisure the Chronicles of England that testifie the same the number of the Rebels may be judg'd by the account we have of those that were slain and those that were taken Prisoners at some of the Defeats that were given unto them Of those that did rise in Devonshire and Cornwal about Five thousand were slain and taken Prisoners and in the Râ—bellion in Norfolk and Suffolk about Five thousand were slain that were in Rebellion in those Counties besides those who were taken Prisoners and the Rebellion in Yorkshire in which many were destroy'd After the death of King Edward the sixth you may remember that Queen Mary mounted the Throne tho' some say that she was in her own nature merciful yet her Religion obliged her to those Cruelties which left an indeleble stain upon her Memory For her sake as well as for your own the Commons of England endeavour'd to exclude you We remember also that tho' her Reign was but short yet like yours it was very bloody for in the campass of three or four Years there perish'd in the Flames near Three hundred and as many if noâ— more perish'd in Prison through Torment and Famine and all barely upon the score Religion Upon her Death and upon the accession of Queen Elizabeth to the Crown Religion was again reform'd and notwithstanding the hard usage she had met withal from the Popish Party and the Cruelty that had been us'd upon the poor Protestants she not only buried all resentments but was willing to suffer the Papists to live quietly both in the enjoyment of their Estates and in the private exercise of their Religion Surely you then cannot but with the greatest Horror consider by how many ways the Pâ—pists attempted to destroy her Person and overthrow the Government by Assassinations Conspiracies Rebellions at home and Invasions from abroad In pursuance to their bloody Designs Pius the Fifth did not only excommunicate and damn her and all her Protestant Subjects but likewise curst all the Papists that should give any Obedience to her or her Laws the whole Bull proceeded upon her being a Heretick and the said Pius in a most holy and reverend manner deprived her of all her Dominions and Dignities and absolved all her Subjects from any Obligation of Allegiance and included them under the same Curse tho' Papists that should yield any subjection to her And have not your villanous Crew exemplified this Doctrine by their Practices obeying the Commands of their Roman High-Priest for I may say the Treasons against that great Queen were more in number than the Years of her Reign but through the Goodness of God all their wicked Designs and Purposes were defeated and she died in peace much lamented by all her Protestant Subjects King James your Royal Scotch Grandfather succeeded her the same course they took with him Parsons that impudent
and let him read over the Canoâ—s and Decrees of your Church and Councils see the Decree of Pope Vrban We do not esteem them Murtherers saith that godly Prelate who shall happen to kill a person that is excommunicate out of Ardour and Zeal to thâ—â—r Mother the Catholick Church 2dly Gâ—ve me leave to observe to you what impudent Lyars your trusâ—y and well-beloved Councellors and Conspirators the â—ive Jesuites were that blest the Gallows in the Year 1679 and danced a singular Courant when they came to Tyburn They said that there was but one Jesuite that ever maintain'd that Doctrine and that was Mariana Truly Sir you knew that was an impudent Lye with which they jump'd out of the World and the People that saw them take their last Leaves of old England believ'd them much alike in other parts of their last words for they that would dye with so great a Lye as that would not make bones of twenty more rather than fail for Aâ—dâ—rton the Rector of the College of Rome and Campton the Minister of the College and Green the Procurator and Souâ—hwell that was Assistant to Father Oliva the then General Father Buckley good man that was like to have been hang'd for Buggery in Spain not because of the Sin but because it was made publick these you will say were Preachers only but none ever wrote for it but Mariana Was not Tolet a Jesuite And I pray see what he saith he was an honest man I assure you these are his sweet words That Subjects are not bound to maintain invâ—â—aâ—e their Oath of Allegiance to an excommuâ—icate Prince Was not Bellarmin a Jesuite and doth not he affirm that the Pope hath the same Right and Power over Kings as Jâ—â—â—jâ—dâ— had over Athaliah Was not Greâ—â—lentâ—a a Jesuite and doth not he in his Writings affirm That the Pope may deprive Heretical Kings of all dominion and superiority over their Subjects Was not Creswell a Jesuite and doth not he affirm that if a Prince be not of the Romish Religion he loseth all right and title to govern and that his Subjects are discharg'd from all Obligation of Obedience and that he may be proceeded against as an â—nemy of Mankind Was not Francisâ—â—s Varona Constantinâ—s a Jesuite doth not he in his Apology for John Chastele who wounded Henry the fourth of France your Grandfather tell us That it is lawful for a private man to destroy Kings and Princes condemn'd of Heresie Is not this point so evident that de Haâ—lâ—y the first President of the Parliament of Paris who both knew the Doctrine of the Jesuites and had seen the woful Effects of it in the murder of two Kings of France publickly avow'd it to be their common Doctrine in all their Writings That the Pope hath a Right to excommunicate Kings and thereupon their Subjects may with Innocence assault and destroy them What a sort of a weak Memory you may have I know not but of this I am sure that our English Nation which thro' God's Blessing you may â—ever see more unless it be to a very glorious purpose have not with your five hang'd Jesuites learnt the knack of Forgetfulness so as not to remember that Cardinal Aâ—en wrote a Book to prove that Princes excommunicate for Heresie not only might but were to be deprived of their Kingdom and Life And was not William Parry thereby provoked to kill Queen Elizabeth which tho' before at Rome he had resolved to do yet he was hesitating in his Mind about it till encourag'd by that Book Do you think that England hath forgotten that Father Gifford instigated one John Savage to kill the same Queen upon the Bull of Pius quintusâ—â— And to conclude this second Observation it was remarkable at the same time that they might be the less suspected and that Queen the more secure they wrote a Book wherein they admonish'd the Papists in England not to attempt any thing against their Princess but to fight against their Adversaries only with Christian Weapons viz. Tears Spiritual Reasonings Prayers Watchings and Fastings 3dly Give me leave to recommend a third thing to your consideration and that is Tho' this be a common Doctrin in the Church of Rome yet in the years 1672 73 74 75 76 77 78. it was more earnestly pressed than at any time before and indeâ—d they had then great occasion to put that Doctrin in practise And since it was with speed to be transacted it was not sit their Votaries should go about the Work uninstructed Thus when the Murther of your Grandfather Henry the Fourth of France was determin'd Father Generâ—t a Jesuite instructed John Chastele in this damnable Doctrin of your Hell-born Church and Father Fayre did the same by Francis Veron to dispose his godly Soul for the same work yea when they were ready to perpetrate the same Villany upon that great Prince the very Sermons of the Jesuites were all framed to instigate Men to such an impious Attempt so that Ravilliac when examin'd about the causes why he stab'd the King answer'd That he might understand them by the Sermons of the Preachers I pray call to mind how that twelve Missioners in the year 1677 were sent into Spain and were by the Jesuites oblig'd to reâ—ounce their Allegiance to the King your Brother and were taught by Daniel Armstrâ—ng that the said Oath was heretical antichristian and devilish and they having resolv'd upon your Brother's death with you the said Armstrong did on the 29th of September 1677 in his Sermon to the said Missioners declare That Charles the second King of England was no lawful King but came of a spurious race that his Father was a black Scotchman who by Trade was a Taylor and not Charles the first and that he was a Bastard And you may remember that George Coniers the Jesuite was order'd to preach upon the day dedicated to Thomas Beckâ—t to preach against the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and that he should exhort the Fathers to stand by the new Provincial in the Great Work that you and the Society had in hand And your old Friend Blundâ—l had his places where he against the good time taught several young Men treasonable and mutinous Doctrines against the Interest and Person of the King your Brother John Keins on the 13th of August 1678 preach'd a Sermon to twelve Men in poor habits yet Men of Quality by the whiteness of their Hands in which Sermon he deliver'd this villanous Doctrine That Protestant and other Heretical Princes were ipso facto deposed because such and that it was as lawful to destroy them as an Oliver Cromwel or any other Usurper At which Sermon Sir I was present not designedly but by chance 4thly I must observe that a Man that is not thorow paced in all the points of these Villains is in danger of being expos'd to the Vengeance of their Cruelty for I find that tho' they knew you in all points to be a Roman Catholick
yet if you had not come up to the point of killing your Brother you must have been destroy'd as well as he and I do believe that they never was sure of your arriving at that pitch of Courage for I will tell you that there were some of the Blackwan Papists that were for the destroying of you both but their Counsel was rejected for that you were heartily engag'd in that part of the design which related to your Brother's death but they always fear'd that you would not be much capable of their Counsel and Advice whenever you came to the Crown but truly you deceived them all for you Thanks be to God proved as thorow paced a Tyrant as our Hearts and Souls could desire and it was that and only that which did deliver us from you 5thly Give me leave to add a fifth Observation which is well worth your Judicious Consideration for I know you to be a man of great Sense and Ingenuity therefore it will not be amiss to put you in mind and observe to you they did not only preach against all the Princes of Europe in general but against your Brother in particular that he was an Heâ—etick and therefore condemned to what to Death by whom By the Jesuits all over Christendom and the whole Church of Rome for what cause Because he had engaged to set up the Catholick Religion and had broke his word he had received the Sacrament on Easter Day in the morning from Ireland your Jesuit and then from the Church of England at noon he had wounded the Catholick Cause to death by the Test Bill therefore in the first place they declared him a Bastard then a Heretick and then commanded their Young â—ry not to pay Obedience to an Heretical Prince and had I not been Privy to their Design I should have argued thus with my self that since there are so many Protestant Kings and Princes in Christendom why then should they aim thus at the King of England more than the rest of the Protestant Princes but truely I found that it was but a brave Adventure The Jesuits and you well knowing that the rest would follow of Course for they used to say that neither of the two Northern Crowns were worth there contending for till England was gained and if England was once subdâ—ed to the Catholick Faith the rest could not hold out against them therefore as a Prologue to that the war against Holland was commenc'd that with more ease they might extirpate Heresie and had that Potestant State been ruined what could the rest of the Princes of Europe do against France and England these were the Summ and Substance of the debates of your Councellours at St. James's which we had from your Servant St. Coleman you may say what reason had these men to propose to themselves this Advantage whence was this to arise to this I answer 1. You was the next in view after Charles the second that was to sâ—cceed to the Crown and you being a Papist it was no matter of surprize to me nor do I think that it is now to any rational thinking man that they to further and hasten your Succession should with you conspire the destruction of the King your Brother who was the only Obstacle in your way to the Throne I hope thâ—â— you have some about you that are not so unacquainted with the History of England as not to know that your Great Grandmother the Queen of Scots was engag'd with the Popish Party in several Conspiracies against Q. Elizabeth in order to the said Queen of Scots coming to the Crown she being next in descent to the said Queen Elizabeth and truly as long as the Scottish Queen lasted our Queen Elizabeth was never out of Danger Hence it was that our Fore-fathers were so sensible of the Queens Danger which made them to enter into an Association throughout all the Kingdom even in an interval of Parliament in which Association they mutually obliged themselves in case the said Queen Elizabeth should be taken off by any undue means to avenge it upon the Papists and they were not for this taunted at bythe Queen for a parcel of Factious and Rebellious Rogues but received as her dutiful and loyal Subjects and the Parliament passed it into a Law by the Consent of the said Queen Truely Sir your Rogues well knew that should they lose that Opportunity and Advantage of your being a Papist and having Hopes of your Coming such to the Crown for the Re-establishment of the Popish Religion they might never enjoy such an Opportunity again these your Villains perceived that the King your Brother was in all Humane Judgement more likely to live longer than you therefore it was highly necessary to anticipate the course of Nature and not trust matters of such Consequence as the Restoration of the Romish Religion to such a Contingency as your Brothers dying in a natural way before your sweet self nay rather than they would be ouâ— your Popish Astrologer was consulted and the Judgement that he gave was that the King in the Course of Nature would out-live you then you and your Party were resolved that he was to be cut off that his Life might not prevent the great Glory of Englands having a Catholick King which would be of such Advantage to the Holy Chair that you and they purposed to employ such Case harden'd Villains as should not boggle at striking the fatal Blow and though you was pleased to smile at that time upon some that called themselves Proteâ—tants yet they found themselves out in their Accounts when you came to the Crown they saw that they had foolishly sâ—attered themselves with the vain Hopes of having high Church secured for Sir you well knew that it did not become a Man of your Religion to be a Slave to your Word and Faith especially to those you judged Hereticks 2. They well knew that you was not only of the Popish Religion but that you was bigotted to that Religion give me leave to wipe that â—notty Nose of yours with a little passage of your St. Câ—leman God hath given us a Prince said that Holy Traytor who is become to a miracle zealous of being the Author of so glorious a Work Now Sir that Work this great Saint and Martyr of your making Points at was the Conversion of three Kingdoms that was the mighty Work upon your Hands and as you had a mighty work so you had a mighty Zeal for the carrying on that work I am Sir of an Opinion that your Cut-throats would have been contented to have had a Papist of an indifferent Zeal upon the Throne provided they would but have kept him Steady but to have such a Prince that was converted to that degree of Zeal as that he valued nothing in the world in Comparison of his Religion was of far greater Consequence to them than the High Church Cox-combs at that time were sensible of there have been Kings that have been
of the Faith of the Church of Rome that were not of the Faith of the Court of Rome and therefore though they gave all manner of Encouragement to the Romish Religion yet by great Caution and Vigilance they have very much prevented the undermining the Temporal Authority they had over their Subjects Our former Kings of England though they were of that Faith and did countenance their Subjects in that worship yet they would not let them be enslaved by any pretended Papal Jurisdiction but your Villains were blessed with a man that would not only allow the Bishop of Rome his rascally Worship but also allow him to enslave the Nation with a Power he challenged in the temporal Government this your Cut-throats were assured of and therefore they would not in good manners to your great Zeal be in the least behind hand to joyn with you to hasten the Exit of your Brother who would by no means keep pace with them to their horrid Designs and therefore they judged that he was their only Let or Hinderance in compleating that mighty work 3. You was not only a Papist but a bigotted papist and being such you put your self under the Conduct of the Jesuits this Confederacy of yours with those zealous Sons of the Synagogue of Sâ—than could not be otherwise than very fatal to the Kingdom as to its Religion and Government and the person of the King your Brother for you arriving to that Pitch of Zeal and putting your self under their Conduct they in gratitude to you could not but endeavour the hastning your Accession to the Crown of which you were as ambitious as they were zealous and therefore you both joyned to destroy your Brother that was converted to the Religion of Rome but not zealous enough in driving on the Jesuits Designs had you Brother's Zeal been as fierce as yours he might have been cooling his Heels at St. Germains as well as your self and good Company there It was not for want of good will to your Religion but for want of a galloping Zeal which was no ways consistent with his voluptuous Living that you and these villanous Jesuits and the Popish Party conspired his death these were the three Advantages on which your Cut-throat Party did build their Hopes which made your Jesuits in the most considerable part of the Kingdom and in many places abroad to preach their King murthering Doctrine the better to prepare those of their Communion to joyn with you in the Fatal Blow that you and your Council at St. James's had designed to give the King your Brother 6. A sixth Testimony that appeared against you and your Party was the Trayterous Correspondencies that was maintained in order to carry on a Rebellion in Scotland and Ireland for Scotland your Villains took the Advantage of the great Heats that were created in that Kingdom by the dreadful Tyranny of Duke Lauderdale who acted by your Director and used all those Methods that might provoke a Rebellion and your Servant Coleman who had a great Interest in Lauderdale was often with him by which the Jesuits understood what Measures to take and a Party was appointed to incense the Villainous Bishops of that Kingdom against the poor Protestants there whereby their Lives were made very miserable and the Usage of their Ministers who by providence were driven upon the Coasts of England and came to the House of Lords where an Account was given to the Parliament that sat in the year 1678 in the month of December and the Parliament took their Cause into Consideration and dismissed them of their Irons and Thumckins and addressed your Brother against Lauderdale and as you had a Party of men that acted their part with the Episcopal Party in Scotland thus to vex and torment the afflicted Protestants in Scotland so your Jesuits they entertained another party of Rogues of the same Complexion to assocIate themselves with these poor Protestants in order to keep up their Animositie against the Prelatique Party withal urging them that they at that time had a fair Opportunity to vindicate their Liberty and Religion and that it could not be done but by the Sword and whereas that the King had received many of their Addresses yet he was so addicted to his pleasures that he neither would nor could take little or no care of redressing their intolerable Grievances and the great Cause of their ill Usage proceeded even from the King himself by which Sir it appeared their great Design in Conjunction with you was to weaken your Brothers Interest in that Kingdom for they urged that if they did not stir in time they would be put under some Forreign Force which would be more vexatious to them and you found your Design so well that your Jesuits received an Account from Scotland dated Feb. 7. 1677 that all Diligence was used to put the Potestants in that Kingdom of Scotland upon opposing Duke Lauderdale and his Villains and questioned not but that all things should be so ordered that a Rebellion should be raised in Scotland and a little before you went down to Windsor you knew that Messengers were sent down to Scotland to press the poor people to a resentment of the Tyranny they lived under by the Male-Administration of Duke Lauderdale and such that were of the Ministry in that Kingdom and especially since they could not obtain the Liberty of Conscience notwithstanding all their humble Supplications to the King therefore the Sword must do it a Rebellion at last you obtain'd in order to destroy these poor Wretches the Consequence of which was the total enslaving that Kingdom the better to fit it for its Submission to the Romish Religion As for Ireland I have already at large not only in this but in the first Memorial laid open your Practices in that Kingdom 7. Call to mind Colemans Letters and say that you knew nothing of them if you dare there it is said that you had a mighty work upon your Hands no less than the Conversion of three Kingdoms Come Sir deal freely was it to be brought about by Arguments from the Scripture no Sir I did never find the Knowledge of the Scriptures abound in the most learned of them all we have scarce a Protestant Cobler but is able to cope with if not to baffle a Romish Priest it could not be that these three Kingdoms could be converted by these sorts of Arguments with which your Cut-throats were little acquainted and their preaching is generally too silly and empty to prevail with Protestants to change their Religion unless some few weak Debauchees and weaker Whores Well you were to convert three Kingdom I pray how was not your Conversion and Conviction by enlightening the eyes of the Protestant Party by a Faggot and by the powerful and irresistible Arguments of the Dagger those Letters of Coleman's tell the world that the design prospered so well that there was no doubt but that it would be managed to the utter Ruine of
by their seditious and false Constructions of what we had so candidly and sincerely done for their Good and surprised with a Vote of our House of Commons against our Writs of Elections which we intended for their Satisfactions against many presidents of ours or without any colour of Law of their side denying our power to Issue out such Writs addressing to us to Issue out others Which we consented to do at their request choosing rather to yield to our Subjects in that Point than to be forced to Submit to our Enemies in others hoping that our Parliament being sensibly touched with that our extraordinary Condescention would go on to consider the public Concern of the Kingdom without any further to do But we found another use made of our easie Compliance which served to encourage them to ask more so that soon after we found our Declaration for indulging tender Consciences Arraigned voted Illegal though we cannot to this day understand the Consistences of that Vote with our undoubted Supremacy in all Ecclesiastics recognizing by so many Acts of Parliament and required to be Sworn to by all our Subjects and Addresses made to us one after another to recal it which we condescended to also from hence they proceeded to us to weaken our self in an actual War and to render many of our Subjects of whose Loyalty and Ability we were well satisfied inoapable to serve us when we wanted Officers and Souldiers and had reason to invite as many experienced Men as we could to Engage in our Arms rather than to Incapacitate or Discourage any yet this also we gratified them in to gain their Assistance against our Enemies who grew high by these our differences rather than expose our Country to their Power and Fury hoping that in time our People would be confounded to see our concessions and be ashamed of their Errours in making such demands But finding the unfortunate Effects of our Divisions the following Summer we found our Parliament more Extravagant at the next meeting than â—ver Addressing to us to hinder the Consummation of our dear Brothers Marriage contrary to the Law of God which forbideth any to separate any whom he hath joyned against our Faith and Honour engaged in the solemn Treaty obstinately persisting in that Address after we had acquainted them that the Marriage was then actually ratified and that we had Acted in it by our Ambassadour so that we were forced to separate them for a while hoping they would bethink themselves better at their meeting in January instead of being more moderate or ready to consider our wants towards the War they Voted as they had done before not to Assist us still till their Religion were effectually secured against Popery Aggreivances redressed and all obnoxious Men removed from us which we had reason to take for an absolute denyal of all Aid considering the Indefiniteness of what was to proceed and the Moral impossibility of effecting it in their Sences for when will they say their Religion is effectually secured from Popery if it were in Danger then by reason of the insolency of Papists When our House of Commons which is made up of Members from every corner of our Kingdom with invitations publicly posted up to all Men to accuse them has not yet in so many years as they have complained of them been able to Charge one single Member of that Communion with so much as a Misdemeanor or what security câ—â—ld they possibly expect against that body of Men or their Religion more than we had given them Or how can we hope to live so perfectly that Study and Pains may not make a collection of Grievances as considerable as that which was lately presented to us than which we could not have wished for a better Vindication of our Government or when shall we be sure that all obnoxious Men are removed from us when common Fame thinks fit to call them so which is to every body without any proof sufficient to render any Man obnoxious who is Popishly affected or any thing else that is ill though they have never so often or lately complyed with their own Tests and Marks of Distinction and Discriminations finding our People thus unhappily disordred we saw it impossible to prosecute the War any longer and therefore did by their advice make a Peace upon such conditions as we could get hoping that being gratified in that darling Point â—hey would at least have paid our Debts and enabled us to have built sâ—me Ships for the future security of our Honour and their own Properties but they being transported with their success â—n asking were resolv'd to go on still that way and would needs have us put upon the removing of our Judges from those charges which they have always hitherto heâ—â— at the wâ—â— and pleasure of the Crown out of our Power to alter the ancient Laws of trying of Peâ—â—s and to make it a Premunire in our Subjects in a case supposed not to sight against our self nay some â—ad tâ—e heart to ask that the Hereditary Succession of our Crown which is the Foundation of alâ— our Laws should be changed into a sort of Election they requiring the Heir to be qualified with cerâ—ain conditions to make him capable of succeeding and out-doing that Pâ—pish Doctrine which we have so long and so loudly with good reason decryed that Heresâ—â— incapacitates Kings to Reâ—gn They would have had that the Heir of the Crown marrying a Papist though he continued never so orthodâ—x himself should forfeit his Right of Inheâ—itance not understanding this paradoxical waâ— of securing Râ—ligion by destroying it as this would have done that of the Church of England which always taught obedience to their Natural Kings as an indâ—spensable duty in all good Christians let the Religion or Deportment of their Pâ—ince be what it will and not knowing how soon that impediment which was supposed as sufficient to keep out an Heir might be thought as fit to remove a Possâ—ssâ—ur And comparing that Bill which would have it a Prâ—muniâ—e in a Sheriff not to raise the Posse Comâ—â—atus against our Commission in a case there supposed though we our self should Assist that our Commission in our Person for not being excepted is â—mpâ—â—ed with the other made by this very Parliament in the 14th year of our Reign which all our Subjects or at least many of them were obliged to Swear viz. That the Doctrine of taking up Aâ—ms by the Kings Authority against his Person was detestable and we soon found that the design was level'd against the good Protestant Religion of our good Church which its Enemies had a mind to blemish by slâ—â—ing in sâ—â—â—y thâ—se daâ—â—nable Doctrines by such an Authority as that of our Parliament into the profession of our Faith or Practices and to expâ—se our whole Religion to the Scorn and Reproaâ—h of themselves and all the World we therefore thought it our duty to be so watchful as to prevent the enemy
Peace with Holland that I urg'd all the Arguments I could which to me were Demonstrations to convince your Court of that Mischief and press'd all I could to perswade his most Christian Majesty to use his uâ—most endeavour to prevent that Session of our Parliament and proposed Expedients how to do it But I was answered so often and so positively that his most Christian Majesty was so well assured by his Embassador here our Embassador there the Lord Arlington and even the King himself that he had no such apprehensions at all but was fully satisfied of the contrary and lookt upon what I offered as a very zealous mistake that I was forced to give over arguing though not believing as I did but conâ—idently appealed to time and Success to prove who took their measures rightest When it happened what I foresaw came to pass the good Father was a little suprized to see all the great men mistaken and a little one in the right and was pleased by Sir William Throckmorton to desire the continuance of my correspondence which I was mighty willing to comply with knowing the Interest of our King and in a more particular manner of my more immediate Master the Duke and his most Christian Majesty to be so inseparably united that in was impossible to divide them without destroying them all Vpon this I shewed that our Parliament in the circumstances it was managed by the timerous Councels of our Ministers who then governed would never be useful either to England France or Catholick Religion but that we should as certainly be forced from our Neutrality at their next meeting as we had been from our Active Alliance with France the last Year That a Peace in the Circumstances we were in was much more to be desired than the continuance of the War and that the Dissolution of our Parliament would certainly procure a Peace for that the Confederates did more depend upon the power they had in our Parliament then upon any thing else in the World and were more encouraged from them to the continâ—ing of the War so that if they were Dissolved their measures would be all broken and they consequently in a manner necessitated to a Peace The good Father minding this Discourse somewhat more then the Court of France thought fit to do my former urg'd it so home to the King that his Majesty was pleased to give him Orders to signify to his R H my Master that his Majesty was fully jaâ—isfyed of his R. H's good intention towards him and that he esteemed both their interests but as one and the same that my Lord Arliâ—gton and the Parliament were both to be lookt upon as very unuseful to their interest That if his R H. would endeavour to dissolve this Parliament his most Christian Majesty would assist him with his Power and Purse to have a new one as should be for their purpose This and a great many more expressions of kindness and confidence Father Ferryer was pleased to communicate to Sir William Throckmorton and Commanded them to send them to his R H. and withal to beg his R. H. to propose to his most Christian Majesty what he thought necessary for his own concern and the advantage of Religion and his Majesty would certainly do all he could to advance both or either of them This Sir William Thorckmorton sent to me by an Express who left Paris the 2d of June 1674. Stilo novo I no sooner had it but I communicated it to his R. H. To which his R H. commanded me to answer as I did on the 29th of the same month That his R. H. was very sensible of his most Christian Majesties friendship and that he would labour to cultivate it with all the good Offices he was capable of doing foâ— his Majesty that he was fully convinced that their Interests were both one that my Lord Arlington and the Parliament were not only unuseful but very dangerous both to England and France That therefore it was necessary that they should do all they could to Dissolve is And that his R. H's opinion was that if his most Christian Majesty would Write his thoughts freely to the King of England upon this Subject and make the same proffer to his Majesty of his Purse to Dissolve this Parliament which he had made to his R. H. to call another he did believe it very possible for him to succeed with the assistance we should be able to give him here and that if this Parliament were Dissolved there would be no great difficulty of getting a new one which would be more useful The Constitution of our Parliaments being sucâ— that a new one can never hart the Crown nor an old one do it good His R. H. being pleased to own these propositions which were but only general I thought it reasonable to be more particular and come closer to the point we might go the faster about the work and come to some issue before the time was too far spent I laid this for my Maxim the Dissolution of our Parliament will certainly preâ—ure a Peace which proposition was granted by every Body I Conversed withal even with Monsieur Rouvigny himself with whom I took liberty of discoâ—rsing so far but durst not say any thing of the Inteligence I had with Father Ferryer Next that a Sum of Money certain would certainly procure a Dissolution this some doubted but I am sure I never did for I knew perfectly well that the King had frequent Disputes with himself at that time whether he should dissolve or continue them and he several times declared that the Arguments were so strong on both sides that he could not tell to which to incline but was carried at last to the continuance of them by this one Argument If I try them once more they may possibly give me Money If they do I have gain'd my point If they do not I can dissolve them then and be where I am now so that I have a possibility at least of getting Money for their Continuance against nothing on the other side But if we could have turned this Argument and said Sir their Dissolution will certainly procure you Money when you have only a bare possibility of getting any by their Continuance and have shewn how far that bare possibility was from being a foundation to build any reasonable hope upon which I am sure his Majesty was sensible of and how much 300000 l. sterl certain which was the Sum we propos'd was better than a bare possibility without any reason to hope that that could ever be compassed of having half so much more which was the most he design'd to ask upon such vile dishonourable terms and a thousand other hazards which he had great reason to be afraid of If I say we had had power to have argued this I am most confidently assured we could have compassed it for Logick in our Court built upon Money has more powerful Charms then any other sort of
was impossible that Godfrey had murdered himself because his Neck was broke before his Sword was run through his Body nay your good Brother the King saw you so earnest that he was ashamed at your Zeal which made the Prince swear to the D. of Buckingham that you carryed your self with that heat that a small Evidence would make him if you were brought to a Tryal to find you guilty of the said Murder Sir your behaviour in that particular was so nauseous your actions so plain and yet so pernicious that I stand amazed that your hand stopt there in short Sir the Sence I have of your guilt in that base Murder hath hardened my Heart against you and your villainous party for the many Insolencies that they at that time did offer and the secret Murders they Committed and were by you countenanced that all Men cryed shame and stood more amazed that you were not called to an Account for that Murder than they did at the impudence of the Murder it Self though God he knows that that Murther was of it self astonishing enough but to conclude this Head I pray take two things along with you which I shall leave you as my Legacy 1. What greater Satisfaction can the World have of your Guilt in this Affair if the Sons of Men will but give themselves a little time to consider these Circumstances that I have laid before you had I been so unfortunate as to have been privy to the Murder I would have been no more affraid to have charged you with it than your murdering Crew was to strangle that innocent Magistrate you will do well now to acquit your self of it if you can 't is true you are now out of the reach of the Law and since it is so I pray God keep you so during your Life but this I will tell you that these Circumstances entitle you to the Guilt of that Fact and whilst this Gentleman's Blood lies upon you I cannot forbear observing to you that in what you did to him you gave the world a Specimen of what you would have done to others and made many Men believe That the Earl of Essex came to his end by that way of Charity so that we have had great Testimony that for promoting your Cause you would not stick at the Protestants Blood you began with that honest Gentleman and you did not end in the Earl of Essex you killed Godfrey in his Person but the whole Nation in him was murdered in â—ffigie your hands were imbrued in his Blood but your black Hell-born Soul was dipt in the Blood of us all and since we are convinced that you murdered him and Essex I cannot but be convinced that you poysoned your Brother and had you had but time you would have made all away that stood in the way of your damn'd Religion you would have converted us with Blood and baptized us with Fire your nature and actions testifyed the one and London in a dreadful manner felt the other 2. Let me observe to you the Folly of your murdering this Magistrate certainly Sir it was one of the greatest pieces of Folly that you and your Party could be guilty of for what could be your end in it did you think that if Sir Edmund Bury Godfrey could not escape your murdering Crew that we could not find one in his room yes Sir to your great comfort there was a Gentleman that succeeded him that Harazed your Rogues to as good purpose as a Mans heart and soul could wish and if a Man could but have seen into your cursed Soul we might have found that you had the same Grace and Favours for and intended the same act of Charity to him as you did to Justice Godfrey but he escaped your Blessing and is yet alive to give you an Account of his Stewardship in Print if he pleases and of some of your Royal Misdemeanors into the bargain I pray Sir how do you And how do you like your self by this time how will you come of Therefore to conclude all Is there not here a monstrous Evidence of your whole Popish Plot For in truth we cannot prove it better than by such Practices as these that this Man was killed why either he knew or had discovered to him something that you and your Villains would not have him tell or you did it in defiance of Justice and in Terror to all them that then durst execute it upon them which I say is a great Evidence in its self I leave it with you after you have mumbled over your Mattins you may consider it whilst you have opportunity and leisure 9. I shall in proof of your Popish Plot offer to your consideration the Oral Testimony that was given so that you may see that we were not overhasty in our Proceedings upon those Malefactors that were charged to be in that villainous Conspiracy therefore I will give you their Names in order as follows 1. You have Richard Gastrel of the Grange in Gloucestershire I pray look upon him and see how you like him well sit down and hear what he saith to you in an Examination taken before the Lord Bishop of London a zealous Protestant I assure you and a Justice of the Peace so that you may see we had more good Justices besides Sir Edmund Bury Godfrey and this Richard Gastrel's Information was as follows THIS Deponent saith That in the year 1675 he travelled to Râ—me and being there he was by many arts and perswasions inveighled into the Romish Religion after which he was entertained by Cardinal Barbarini as one of his Gentlemen where after he had continued about five Months he was pervailed withal by several English there and by the said Cardinal to put himself into the English Seminary where after he had continued about two years and a half he returned home but whilst he continued in the said Colledge viz. in Lent last he discâ—ursed with Gerrard Ireland and William Dormour Priests now in England the said Iâ—eland told him that the Catholicks of England had expected long enough from his Majesty withâ—ut Effect and that it was in vain to expect any longer That the King had been much obliged to the Catholics and that he had now forgot their Kindness That he did no Good in England nor did deserve to be King but was a shame to all Princes and that it was no Sin to Kill him to which one Sergeant a Schollar replied Why The said Ireland answered bâ—cause it would be for the Good of the whole Church if the King were Dead the Catholic Religion would soon be brought into England And discoursing further of their going into England the said Ireland and Dormour said they hoped each of them to get a good fat Parsonage there this Dâ—ponent further saith That having an Audience of the Pope in the company of â—our Priests and another secular Gentleman all Students of the same Colledge the Pope understanding they were going for England and
a Man that had faithfully served his Countrey as Mr. Jenison did in this Point and truly Sir he stands much Obliged to you and your damnable Crew for it I trust the Government that now is will cast a favourable Eye upon that wretched Person and not let him perish for want of Bread 4. You may Observe the particularity of that Discourse that passed between Mr. Ireland and Mr. Jenison upon the 19th which shews to the World what a case hardened Villain Ireland was when he at the Gallows was pleased to say That he returned not from Staffordshire till the 14th of September and that he was out of Town the Month of August but the Evidence not only of Mr. Jenison shewed the Nature of the Man but the poor Wench Sarah Paine made it out by a better Circumstance by which Scroggs himself was satisfied that Ireland was in Town for the said Paine swore she went to live at the Lord Arlingtons on the week after the King went to Windsor and she saw Mr. Ireland the week before she went to the Lord Arlingtons for which piece of Service your Brother and you forbid the Lord Arlington to retain the said Sarah Paine in his Service and therefore the Lord Arlington turned her out of doors to Starve if it had been in his power that this Sarah Paine knew Ireland is notorious for she was Servant to John Grove one of your Fire Merchants and used to carry Letters to Mr. Ireland that were directed for him to her aforesaid Master John Grove that was Hanged with Ireland 5. You may see the Zeal you and your Party had for the Propagation of your Religion you cared not what you did to advance Holy Church 't is true you were strangly converted and therefore no wonder if you did not make it your business to Ruine all that stood in your way So Mr. Jenison's Zeal to have the World to beware of your Zeal was as great and durst never to flinch from his Cause though you made him to fly his Country and engaged his Father to disinherit him of his Birth-right and to give it to a Son that yet remains a Member of your cursed Synagogue but as for Mr. Jenison here concerned in this Testimony he is still alive to make good what he hath said and I am sure he is of Age to speak for himself and can tell how he hath been treated by your Party for this his Zeal 6. His Brother Mr. Thomas Jenisons activity in these Affairs is also worthy of your Remembrance and Mr. Jenisons impartiality was such that he would not spare him though he had a tenderness for him as he was his Brother which made him delay the Discovery of them yet he did at last Discover them though to the exposing of his Brother he was willing to save his own Brother yet he was unwilling to endanger the Government but at last you see he came to a Resolution notwithstanding the many Fluctuations of his Mind of shewing himself a true English Man and he appeared and gave the aforesaid Testimony and iâ— any thing be to be objected against it I suppose you have Rogues enough ready but let them be great or little Rogues let them come forth and they shall be heard but in the mean time I pray Sir how like you all this is it not Plain that you had a design to levy War upon the People for Jenison was to have a Popish Commission from you by the means of his Brother the Jusuit but of this in its proper place 5. I come to a Fifth Witness and that was Mr. Dugdale who fully declared the great Design that your Father Whitebread had of destroying the King your Brother he was one that was engaged in your mighty work and by this Whitebread was Dugdale imployed to choose out Lusty and Couragious Men for the Work the mighty Work that you all had of killing the King they were to be hardy and desperate as befitting their Apostolical power by which the Nation was to be converted nay rather then fail there was to be a Masacre to root out the Protestant Religion and truly Sir you were much in the right for it would have been a thing impossible to have rooted out the Protestant Religion without destroying the Protestants this was the use you were to make of your Hardy Stout and Desperate Apostles which Dugdale was to find out and it seems those who could not Convert the Nation by their handy Labour they were to Exercise their Tongues therefore you had a set of Tongue Padds to stir up your Popish Party to be active in this glorious Design of yours Mr. Dugdale was not only engaged by your wicked Jesuites to destroy the King but he was also intrusted with their Trayterous Correspondences both Forreign and Dâ—mestic and further considering his State and Condition he had largly contributed to them but here I shall observe to you these three things 1. The Impudence of your Apostolical Men who were to Assist you in your mighty Work that you had upon your hands that in their Common Post-letters they should write in Words at Length that the King was to be destroyed but Sir the Post Office was yours and so they might be the more bold and you in the Design and who was it at that time durst open their Letters who were Men of such Value with you that on them the hopes of England did depend but your Villains made strang of it but it was not more Strang then True for they had as good a Salvo for that as they had for the Fire of London viz. to â—hrow it upon the Protestants which brings me to a second particular 2. That it was impossible for you and your villainous Party to do any thing towards the Advancement of your Cause without Murder your Church is founded upon Blood and therefore your design was written in Characters of Blood so plain that any Man might run and read them this was the way that you were to subdue the Northren Heresie that had so long domineered in this Parâ— of the World it was for this that you had such a mighty Zeal that it made your Servant Coleman to question whether he were asleep or awake when he thought on it your Father had his Irish Apostles in his time and you were to have had not only Irish but French Dragoons that were to teach our English Nation the Articles of your Roman Faith truly this was and still is the Method of the Whore of Baâ—ylon by which she converted the Kingdoms of Europe to her Obedience and in recompence for the same she hath made â—heir Kings and Princes drunk with the Blood of the Saints of God 3. You were to charge this upon the Protestants as you did the Fiâ—e of 〈◊〉 for which eight Men were hang'd the ninth was lustily promised but 〈◊〉 â—y 〈◊〉 â— pray remember that it was in the Month of August 1678 that the â—â—â—d 〈◊〉 â—â—s taken
theirs that might tend to the fixing of their Religion upon such a sure Foundation as should not be in the Power of any number of Men to destroy and in good sooth Landlord you was resolved to keep pace with these Villains rather than you would hazard the destroying an old rotten Carcase by any remisness in obeying the commands and following the Councels of your Ghostly Hell-born Crew 3. That your Prosecution of me for Perjury upon that Point was most illegal and unjust and could never have been contrived against an English Gentleman but by a parcel of Villains that valued neither what they said or swore and incouraged by your self that had vowed a revenge against me for discovering and breaking the neck of so fair a Design in which you and they were ingaged but God hath pretty well rewarded you for your Grace and Favour to me in that point in this World what he may do in the next he knows best you would do well to sit down and consider with your self the charge and pains you were at in that Affair and if you would have turned but a Jew for half the Money with the help of your lewd Priest that prates in the Neighbourhood of that Religion you might have convicted me of being a circumcised Mahumetan 7. Another Testimony that I shall produce is Mr. Oliver de Fequett and Francis Verdier concerning Colombiere a Jesuit and Preacher to Mrs. Modena your old Comrade who acquainted the Parliament that he had communication with Coleman who endeavoured to pervert Fiquett to the Popish Religion saying that he knew the King to be a Catholick in his Heart and that the Parliament should not always be Master but in a little time all England should change and furthermore he diverted Fiquetâ— from going to Oxford to his Study promising to recommend him to Father Lachaise the French Kings Confessor he further testifyed that you good Sir expressed much satisfaction in it at which this Fiquett was much surprised but my old Landladies Priest told him that he ouâ—ht not to wonder at that seing you were a Roman Catholic and often received the Sacrament which was confirmed by this said Câ—lombiere his Servant with many other Particulars and Verdier was perswaded to become a Roman Catholick by the saying that the King was a Papist in his heart this Evidence was given to the House of Lords by these two Men. 8. Another Testimony that was produced to prove this Devilish Design of yours was Captain William Bedloe who testified that several of your Jesuits with Coleman and others were in frequent Consultations about the introducing of Popery and he named several Jesuits as Whitebread Ireland Fenwick Harcourt all which he charged home and your Servant Coleman in a most especial manner for whom he carried over a Packet of Letters to Father Lachaise to which he brought an Answer this Coleman did say in the hearing of Mr. Bedloe that he would venture any thing to bring in the Popish Religion and that if he had a â—undred Lives and were to go through a Sea of Blood he would venture all to further the Cause of the Church of Rome that itâ— Religion and Worship might be Established here in England and that he valued not the destruction of one hundred Herâ—tical Kings and if the said Bedloe had lived he would have given the World an Account of a Consult held at Sommerseâ— House at which were several Persons which would have turned up your Plot by the roots you know there was a little Woman concerned there as well as you but a Word is enough to the Wise But since it pleased God to take the poor Man out of the World its fit but you should have an Account of what that villain of Cheif Justice S. Francis North I mean was pleased to bless us withal but as it is I pray take it he tells you that at his first coming to one Mr. Rumsey's House where he was to lodge at Bristol upon Munday 16. of August 1680. in the afternoon being the first day of the Assizes Sir John Knight came to the Judge and said that Mr. Bedloe lay dangerously ill of a Feavor and had little hopes of Life and desired him that he would give him a visit that he might impart something of great Consequence before his death and the Judge â—â—ld Sir John that he would give Mr. Bedloe a visit that night after Supper about nine of the Clock provided that he might be Satisfied of two things 1st that there was no infection in his Distemper 2ly that the time would not be Inconvenient but that Mr. Bedloe might discourse him the Judge without prejudice to his Condition after some time two Physitians came to the Judge and assured him that there was no danger of infection and that the time he had appointed would be most proper for commonly he took his repose in the Afternoon and at nine a Clock he would in all probability be refreshed and fit to discourse with him thereupon the Judge declared his resolution of going and desired the Company of the two Sheriffs and his worthy and trusty Brother Roger North and ordered his Marshal William Janes to go with him as these Persons were upon the way Mr. Grossman a Minister in that City acquainted this Judge that Mr. Bedloe desired him to wait upon the Judge to this Mr. Bedloes House the Judge said it was very well he should be glad of his Company whereupon they went altogether and being come into the Room where Mr. Bedloe lay the Judge saluted him and said that he was extream sorry to find him so ill assuring him that he came to visit him upon his own desires and did Imagin that Bedloe might have something to impart to him as a privy Councellour and therefore if he thought fit the Company might withdraw but Bedloe told the Judge that needed not yet for he had much to say that was proper for the Company to hear and having saluted the Sheriffs and Mr. Crossman he discoursed to this effect or purpose That he looked on himself as a dying Man and found within himself that he could not last long but must shortly appear before God to give an Account of all his Actions and because many Persons had made it their business to baffle and deride the Plot he did for the Satisfaction of the World there deâ—lare upon the Faith of a dying Man and as he hoped for Salvation That whatever he had testified concerning the Plot was true and that he had wronged no Man by his Testimony but had testified rather under than over what was Truth and that he had nothing that lay upon his Conscience upon that Account he said that he had many Witnesses to produce who would make the Plot as clear as the Sun and that he had other things of great importance â—o discover These dying Words of Mr. Bedloe did go a great way with all true Protestants and indeed some of your own
that related to yourself and that was put in by trusty Ned your own Secretary after that you had perused the Memorial with whom you had been very rash with him about an affront he had put upon Sir Allen Apsly in relation to Religion of which he had complained to you for Coleman was as Impudent on the one hand as you were short in your Judgment on the other which many times did much prejudice your Design and truely it was his impudence and your Folly that helped to deliver the Nation 2. That this Lord Arundel of Wardour did give Money to pervert several of the Subjects of England under the notion of Charity which was distributed by Fenwick and Ireland for the use of Poor Converts and no other need I did see the Mony distributed to several Persons perverted as the Lord Arundel's mony in the Month of December 1677 and in the Month of June 1678 in Drury-lane at Fennicks Chamber that Money in June 1678 was 160 l. that was given to about 80 People that Fenwick had Perverted to the Church of Rome 3. That the Lord Arundel of Wardour was privy to the Consult held in April and May in which the Death of the King your Brother was determined for in the beginning of May this Fenwick gave that noble Lord a full account of the unanimous Resolution of the Fathers of the Society in that Point and it was at the same time this noble Lord signed a Bill of 250 l. for the use of the Societies in carrying on their Design 4. This Lord Arundel as mighty as you appear to be had the chief managing of the Affairs of the Popish Party and the Negotiations between you and the French King both as to War and Peace and between the Pope and you in reference to Religion was manag'd by him and you could never have Obtained the Kingdom till that in the Month of June 1678 you had engaged to the French King and the General of the Jesuits who acted with you on the behalf of the Bishop of Rome to take the Kingdom upon the termes the Pope and the French King would allow of and then you fully complied and Arundel was made choice of and was to have been your chief Minister of State and your trusty and well beloved Cuckold and Councellour was to have had a Cardinals Hat with which Sir I suppose you will at this time be content and be glad if you can come of so fairly 5. The Lord Arundel of VVardour did take a Commission from the General of the Jesuits to be high Chancellor of England which was delivered to him by one of Langhorn's Son and to my Knowledge he owned the Receipt of the said Commission in Colemans presence and also by a letter to Fenwick who shewed me the Letter by which the World may see what a Dogs-turd of a King you were like to be for you durst not for your Ears have granted that Commission therefore to Skreen you from the imputation of a Traitour and the French King of an Invader you and he agreed to put it upon the General of the Society who with some difficulty undertook the Province and was on the Popes behalf to choose your Officers both Civil and Military and the Dignities of the Church had not the Design been Discovered which made all of you that did not suffer the Justice of the Nation to alter your Measures 6. That your Servant Coleman having held a long Correspondency with the See of Rome and finding that the Pence he Received did not answer his expectation he began to flag and complain of the same to the Lord Arundel of Wardour but the Lord Arundel was resolved that Coleman should not be discharged and therefore the Lord Arundel writ to the Fathers of the Society and complained of the slowness of the Court of Rome of remitting Mony to England and in the Letter to the Fathers of St. Omers was one inclosed to Cardinal Howard of which there was answer that the Cardinal did not question but that he should obtain a good Pension from the Pope for Coleman and after some time did obtain the said Pension for honest Ned and then he went on briskly and you know that at that very time your Pacquet went a Copy of which Coleman Communicated to the Fathers in London which I had the opportunity of seeing and it did farther appear to me by the constant Correspondence that they held with the Jesuits at St. Omers in the Year 1675 76 77 1678. that he had been a great support to Coleman in those his Correspondences with the General of the Jesuits and Lachaise 7. This Lord Arundel of VVardour by your especial Direction did acquaint the Fathers at St. Omers in what awe you kept the Justices of Wiltshire insomuch they durst not appear to put the Laws in Execution against the Roman-Catholicks and told some that they were more forward than they had thanks for their Paines and that they must expect that if they were more mild they would find that which was Sauce for a Goose was Sauce for a Gander and in that Letter expressed much Joy that there was every day a fine increase of the number of Roman Catholicks especially in VVales Herefordshire and Staffordshire 8. This Lord Arundel of VVardour told Mr. Fenwick at his Chamber in my hearing that he did not question but to have Berwick upon Tweed put into the Hands of the Scotch Roman Catholicks and that it would be a good refuge for the Scotch Party which Scotch Party you know a parcel of Scotch Highlanders Cut-Throats that were to molest all the North Parts of England and the Fife in Scotland and that the Castle of Edenburgh was to be put into the Hands of the then Marquiss of Huntly so that you were sure of doing your business in the North without much Opposition you by your Tool Lauderdale having brought that Kingdom intosuch Slavery that the Poor Protestants had but little hopes of Recovering their Liberties and I do believe they would have chosen rather to have fallen into the Hands of the Popish party than to have continued under that Slavery they groaned under by the Tyrany of Lauderdale and his Villanous Scotch Prelates but how they could have mended their Condition by falling into their Hands I am yet I confess to learne 9. That the Lord Belasys the Lord Arundel of VVardour the Lord Powis the Lord Stafford and the Lord Baltimore met and held a Committee at VVild-House and this Lord Arundel was in the Chair and Mivo the Jesuit sat Secretary to them at that time and a letter was drawn up to Coleman to Communicate to you and the Import of the said Letter was this that whereas Peter Talbot the Arch-Bishop of Dublin had informed them that the Duke of Ormond then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland would endeavour to raise the Revenue of Ireland to be two Hundred thousand Pounds Per annum for ever over and above all the
his Cypher and with all acquainted them that Father Lachaise had acquainted him that notwithstanding his Receipt 20000 l. of which he had given no manner of accompt he was still urgent for Money which did cause a suspicion in the French King that Coleman sought rather his own then the French Kings Interest and that Lachaise had written to him that the French King would not be wanting to supply the Nobility of England that were engaged to advance his Interest and design here in England and at the time of the Concell the Lord Powis did Chide Coleman for his being so open in his Correspondence least he Smarted for it without hopes of Reliefe and told him it was a peice of Vâ—â— Glory in him and that he would prejudice himself and Friends of which â—â—iding Coleman told Whitebread and Whitebread in my hearing did tell Mr. Coleman that it was good to be prudent in affaires of such moment as those were 6. In Letters of August 1678 to the Fathers at St. Omers he wrote that he Longed till the Blow was Given I suppose Sir I shall not need to Explain those Expressions to you though your Cattel then did Vindicate your Innocency that when the Worke was done their Mouthes were Stopt and some did observe that after you Usurped the Crown you never could hold up your Head but like Cain carried about you such a guilt of his Blood in your Countenance as made several stand amazed but whether I may make a wrong Judgment or they â—hat did observe you nothing can be more plaine then that your Brother came to an Untimely end and who was called to an account for his or Shorts Murder who to his dying Day did say that he was Poysoned so as Powis longed for the Blow I do not question but that you longed to and if you did you had your longing Gratified And so much for Powis LORD PETRE I could have put you in mind of several other passages relateing to the Lord Powis but they were not very materiall and so I let you pass for the present and come to this noble Lord Petre who was not a man of such Contemptible parts as some men would make him he was much of your own Standard both as to Courage and Cunning and therefore as sit to engage with the Jesuits to destroy your Brother Charles as your self and he might as well serve for a Lieutenant Generall and to as much purpose too under the Banner of the French King as ever you served under the King of Spain the Lord Petre differed onely from you in this Point that where he did Espouse a Cause he never left it as you did the interest of your Master the King of Spain that kept your Brother and you from Starving and for his Recompence your Brother and you Sold him into the Hands of the French King but to the point in Hand 1. This Lord Petre was constituted one of the Lieutenant Generals of your Popish Army the Patent I saw in Mr. Langhorn's Chamber in the Month of May 1678. and in the Month of June the Lord Petre received this Commission and I heard a Priest whose Name was Langworth wish him much Joy of the said Commission and this Langworth was Priest in the House of the Lord Petre and was of the Order of the Jesuits and at the Consult at Wild-house where the grand Consult was held in April 1678. And you planted Langworth in the Lord Petre's House as you had Mr. Morgan in the House of the Lord Powis 2. That the Lord Petre was privy to that Consult for this Langworth gave the Lord Petre an exact Account of the said Consult in my own Hearing and that Coleman had another to shew you and I suppose honest Ned would not be behind hand of letting you know how the World did swing and he swung for it to your great Joy So the Lord Petre had the same Account from his Priest that you had from your Secretary in these Particulars 1. That Cazy was sent from England to Rome and that this Cazy was a substantial Man fit for Business 2. That Pickering and Groves were appointed to kill the King and the said Langworth telling the Reward that Pickering was to have Petre's laught heartily and said That a little ready Mony would not have been amiss And also telling the Reward that Groves was to have said It was too little for such a considerable piece of Service but said If they like it I do But this I say That I know Groves to be a stout Fellow But in the Conclusion of the whole Story the Lord Petre was for poysoning the King as the more safe way 3. That by your Direction the Lord Petre kept several Men in Pay which were to be ready to joyn in with the French when ever they should Land and that Portsmouth and Plimouth were in safe Hands in Men that were the avowed Friends of the French King and your self and Petre did agree with Langworth and the Consul who said That they had expected long enough and could no longer bear his Usage of them for he had put many Things upon them which he had promised to the contrary when he was at Bruxels And the Lord Petre did say That he thought the Fool would have more Wit when he came in 4. That the Lord Petre did say That notwithstanding he had received 10000 l. from you yet he had expended 3000 l. more than ever he had received and that he expected that he should have received more from you for that you had received 300000 l. from the French King twice told and that he could not continue your Men upon Pay without Money and that you had put him off to the Lord Arundel of Wardour who would acquaint him with the Pacquet that Sir Henry Titchburn had brought both from Rome and France But when the Lord Petre discoursed him about them and having received no Directions from the Lord Arundel Petre pressing the Lord Arundel with too much Importunity he huss'd him the Lord Petre and called him Fool and asked him what he would have and this the Lord Petre took as a great Affront and complained of it to your self and all the Answer he received from you was That the Lord Arundel was a great Man and was old and that you could advise the Lord Petre to nothing but Patience and in due time all things would be accommodated to the Lord Petre's Content and withall told the Lord Petre that he must obey the Lord Arundel's Directions the French King putting great Trust in him and the Lord Powis and the Lord Belasys This Discourse was at the Lord Petre's House in Covent Garden and thus far the Lord Petre. LORD BELASYS Thus the World may see what a Creature of yours the Lord Petre was But like to like as the Devil said to the Collier you were not at all unequally yoked and I having refreshed your Memory concerning him let me give
War he was then ingaged in against the Consederate Princes but when he had obtained a Peace his Aid and Power should not be wanting And further he promised to pitch upon some convenient Person that should appear at the Head of the Design that should please all Parties both French and English And this was the present Thought because that he should appear very obnoxious to all the Princes of Europe if he should ingage in that Particular And in the Conclusion of the Letter he advised you and your Council at St. James's not to be too hasty in pressing on Things too far till he was in a Condition to assist you Upon the Receipt of this you diâ—patcht away Coleman to the Pope's Internuncio then at Bruxels to whom you wrote for his Advice and to whom you also communicated the Advice of the French King which was approved by the Pope's Internuncio but with this Exception That you ought to have a Man in your Eye of whom you might be sure and truly he advised That the General of the Jesuits should be made use of as the fittest Man in that Affair and it was necessary to be done this way that the Pope should grant him his Bull and by Virtue of that he should be impowered as a Substitute of the See of Rome to do that Business Câ—leman travels from Bruxels to Paris where he discoursed with Father Farrier who then was indisposed but when Father Farrier heard him named the General of the Jesuits was much concerned and said It would make the whole Thing appear Ridiculous to all Christendom and be laughed at as the vainest Thing that ever was attempted and so Coleman returned home and upon his Return you called your Cattel together and Coleman's Negotiation was communicated to the Council and they thought that a Consult of the Jesuits should be summoned and accordingly they were summoned and met and they resolved to write to the Father General about it and the Answer you had from the Geneâ—al That the Motion was very strange that it was worthy of Consideration and within a Month you should have an Answer with that respect that became him to so great a Prince Well what was next Truly when the Month was expired you had an Answer That he had consider'd of it and that he found himself not only incapable of doing you Service but it would be very inconvenient for him to engage in such a thing for that the whole concern of the Society lay upon him and he was Old and could not well do the Duty of his place he approved of your Resolutions of using the name of an indifferent Person and therefore humbly advised you to find out some other Person and he thought that some Prince Cardinal would be very fit to be applied to in such a Case as that You were much concerned at this Answer and the Death of Father Farrier who died in a small time after and you was in a great strait what to do but upon a Letter you received from the French King you were much raised in your hopes that the Confederates would be brought to Reason and that as soon as he had done with them that he would push your Design on with all vigour that he had great Thoughts of obtaining the Pope to substitute some Person of ote Nthat should be the Head of it and that he himself would Commission his own Officers that should be sent to your assistance that you should have a sufficient Force to do your busines in this Letter he acquainted you how unfaithful your Brother the King had dealt by him a Copy of this Letter was given to the Fathers at London by Coleman and I had the good fortune to see it when I came amongst them for by that time they had Translated most of the Letters that passed between you and the French King and entered them down upon their Books at large You know that in the Yeare 1675 the French King made Choice of Father Lachaise for his Primier Father Confessor which whom he advised very much in Relation to the busines he designed to push in England and this Father Lachaise was the Man that was Tooth and Nail for carrying on the Work in the Summer you and Coleman fixed a Correspondence with him and it was agreed that he should have an Abstact of the Correspondency that you and Coleman had held with Father Farrier in his Life-Time which was a bout three Years Correspondence which Coleman did to your great Satisfaction and to the Satisfaction of your whole Council and to whom you were also pleased to Write This Lachaise was very Zealous to have the General of the Jesuits Engaged and Engaged the French King to Write to the then Pope to lay his Command upon the said Father General to undertake the Province of Commissionating the Offices both Civil and Military yea and Ecclesiastical too the Pope consented and the Father General was importuned by the Pope but he desired the Pope that his Age and great busines in which he was engaged in relation to the Affairs of the Scociety might be considered so it was put off till 1676 and the Pope pressing the General very hard in the Month of December 1676 he undertook the Affair and Cardinal Howard was extremely displeased that he was not applied to for his Council in that Affair but the Legantine Power and the Archbishopâ—ick of Canterbury and 40000 Crowns Pension stopt his Mouth You cannot forget that Coleman told the King your Brother that Cardinal Howard would make as good an Arch-bishop as Dr. Shelden but the King told him that he was very busie about that which would hang him if he had not a great Care hanging would be his end and thought that the Duke made to much haste in his busines for Sir your Brother was for doing that by Degrees which you would have done at once and told Coleman further that till this Parliament had enabled him with a good Sum of Money he could not put them off and all the Ships that were taken whilst it was in being would prove to be in Vain and that it would be a much better Employment for him and Friends to make such an Interest in the House of Commons that he might have Money enough to subsist without them than to employ himself in these Foreign Negotiations as would ruin all But Poor Ned Coleman turned a Deaf Ear to this discourse of your Brothers to him not believing that the Gallows would have been his Fate Well you were now sure of the General to whom you had recommended several but you saw no Commissions appear which put you under some concern and Judged your self slighted but the Reason the General gave you that at present he had not received his Power from the Pope then you pressed the Pope both by Sir Henry Titchburn and Cardinal Howard but it was 1677 till the General received the Popes Bull for that Work and when the
Bull was obtained then in the latter part of 1677 Commissions began to appear pretty rife and in the year 1678 to the time the Plot was Discovered to your Brother which was some little time before you went to Windsor But to conclude this particular observe 1. that you were not to appear aâ— the head of the Conspiracy for fear of being Exposed to the Parliament 2. that if the thing were Discovered it should appear an unprobable Story and so not be Believed 3 That your Allie of France might not Expose himself to the Princes of Christendom 4 That the General of the Jesuits unwillingly engaged in the Affair of granting Commissions 5. That when he had undertaken the Province aforesaid the whole Body of Jesuits were engaged in the Work 6. And more closly Linckt to the Interest of the French King their General being his Creature to all Intents and Purposes 8. What Credit the Discovery of the Popish Plot obtained in the Nation this did not only obtain Credit in the Nation but might have been of great use to Charles your Brother and I am sure it was very Fatal to you and your Party but that which you sneer at were the Reasons why the Witnesses were so ill treated at Court and were not beloved by your Brother to this I must give you these two Answers 1. By way of Concession that is possible he might not be pleased to give that Credit to the Discovery of the Popish Plot and therefore its true he did not give the Witnesses that kind Treatment at Court the Nature of their Cause required and there where four Reasons for it 1. Your Brother was well acquainted with the new Government and the new Religion that was to be brought in but you were not so Civil as to acquaint him with the Design that was against his own Life so that when that part of your Design was Discovered you almost prevailed upon your Brother not to believe this part of the Plot because that you had so freely acquainted him with all the other Part of your Design and engaged him in it so that he being persuaded by you and your Party not to give Credit or at leastwise to own that he did believe that the self same Party with whom he himself was in a Conspiracy should have such another Plot against his Life the King your Brother was in the Design against the Religion and Government of the Kingdom because he was sold into an opinion that the Religion and Government thereof was inconsistant with Monarchy as he told the King of Poland by old Sir Cutbook Lockrom Jaws alias Mapleface quondam his Envoy then and that Rascal of a Book-Cutter had got such a notion of the uniting of the Church of England with the Church of Rome that I think it was as great an argument to induce you to prefer him as well as the cheating of your dear Brother by reason of his excellent Talent in the work of Book-Cutting and also at the destroying of the Discovery of the Popish Plot. 2. Another Reason why the King your Brother might not bee inclined to give the Witnesses that Credit and Reception they did deserve because of his affection to the Popish Crew tho I must tell you that had I been of your Brothers Council I should have given him this Advice viz. That if he would have preserved himself from a Conspiracy was obliged in Policy to have had an Eye upon those for whom he hath done the greatest Kindnesses rather than upon those to whom he hath been unkind for those that were disgusted they made not such frequent Opportunities nor such easy Accesses to him as your favoured Villains had and the Conspiracy that was begun against his Life was by you and those Popish Lords and Jesuits that had been most familiar with him for was it not his own only Life that kept you from the three Kingdoms and that you were in danger every day to turn your Party destroyed by the Parliament therefore it stood you in much stead to dispense with the Sixth Commandement rather then your Negotiations with the Cardinal Howard the French King and Father Farrier and Father Lachaise and Oliva General of the Jesuits and the Popes Internuncio at Bruxels nay with the Pope himself should fall to the Ground and you know that you found him but loose in his Religion which was that of Rome if he had any at all and that he had neither Resolution nor Courage nor Constancy and Popery was the thing you now Resolved upon and Arbitrary Government he was Privy to all this and liked the Project but would not run the hazard you did therefore because he was a Trotter only and not a Galloper you were resolved to destroy him and to blind him so that he might not see your Design nor believe it you and your Party urged this for a main Reason his Affection to them and his laying so many Obligations upon them was an Argument sufficient to support your Party against the Credit of the Witnesses that appeared to accuse them 3. Because the King your Brother was Swallowed up in the Pleasures of his Lusts he preferred the Amorous Glances of his Whores before the safety of the three Nations who were most of them of the Popish Religion and they having his Ear and his Heart did much prevail with him to discountenance the Discovery of the Popish Plot and the Discovâ—rers thereof as Portsmouth in particular who in Conjunction with you and your Party carried the King and his Ministers that were up to the Ears with you in all the other Parts of the Design and you know that when I appeared I stood a single Witness a great while and notwithstanding you and the Court Whores and Court Pimps and Court Bawds set your Faces upon me to destroy me nevertheless I stood like a Rock against all your Attempts 1. You know who it was that was acquainted with the Conspiracy by Order from the King your Brother and he was so far pursuing the Discovery that he chose rather to let the Conspirators have time enough to convey away their Person and their Papers and Madam Remarkable was as diligent a cast Whore as any in that Affair 2. Your Italian Comrade you know made a visit to the Princess of Orange in Flanders and by that Opportunity many of the Traytors had an opportunity to escape as also when you was sent to take the Air in that Country you took along with you several of your Villains 3. You know how Coleman's last two years Letters were Conveyed away 4. You bribed Scroggs to baffle the Testimonies of the Witnesses you and the Whores thus prevailing upon the King you might dispose him not to give the Witnesses that reception their Cause and Service did deserve 2. I answer in the second Place that notwithstanding the usage the Witnesses met withal from your Brother in private Capacity as he was a Man Wedded to his Pleasures and
Party 10. A great number of Officers that were Papists had been imployed and several under half Pay and many other Things of the like Nature All which Particulars laid before your Brother in this Address justify the Credit the Evidences of the Popish Plot had in Parliament But that I may not leave you so I pray peruse the Address it self it was a Swinger I 'll assure you and much to the purpose The humble Address of the Commons in Parliament assembled Presented to his Majesty Munday the 29th of Nov. 1680. May it please your most Excellent Majesty WE your Majesty's most Obedient and Loyal Subjects the Commons in Parliament assembled having with all Duty and Regard taken into our serious Consideration your Majesty's late Message relating to Tangier cannot but account the present Condition of it as your Majesty is pleas'd to represent in your said Message after so vast a Treasure expended to make it useful not only as one Infelicity more added to the afflicted Estate of your Majesty's faithful and loyal Subjects but as one result also of the same Counsels and Designs which have brought your Majesty's Person Crown and Kingdoms into those great and imminent Dangers with which at this Day they are surrounded and we are the less surprised to hear of the Exigencies of Tangier when we remember that since it became a part of your Majesty's Dominions it hath several Times been under the Command of Popish Governors particularly for some Time under the Command of a Lord impeach'd and now Prisoner in the Tower for that execrable and horrid Popish Plot that the Supplies sent thither have been in a great Part made up of Popish Officers and Soldiers and that the Irish Papists amongst the Soldiers of that Garison have been the Persons most countenanced and encouraged To that part of your Majesty's Message which expresses a Reliance upon this House for the Support of Tangier and a Recommendation of it to our speedy Care we do with all Humility and Reverence give this Answer That although in due Time and Order we shall omit nothing incumbent on us for the Preservation of every Part of your Majesty's Dominions and advancing the Prosperity and flourishing Estate of this your Kingdom yet at this Time when a Cloud that hath long threatned this Land is ready to break upon our Heads in a Storm of Ruin and Confusion to enter into any further Consideration of this Matter especially to come to any Resolutions in it before we are effectually secured from the imminent and apparent Dangers arising from the Powâ—r of Popish Persons and Counsels we humbly conceive will not consist either with our Duty to your Majesty or the Trust reposed in us by those we represent It is not unknown to your Majesty how restless the Endeavors and how bold the Attempts of the Popish Party for many Years last past have been not only in this but other your Majesty's Kingdoms to introduce the Romish and utterly to extirpâ—te the Protestant Religion The several Approaches they have made towards the compassing this their Design assisted by the Treachery of perfidious Protestants have been so strangely successful that 't is matter of Admiration to us and which we can only ascribe â—o an over-ruling Providence that your Majesty's Reign is still continued over us and that we are yet assembled to câ—nsult the Means of our Preservation This bloody and restless Party not content with the great Liberty they had a long time enjoyed to exercise their own Religion privately among themselves to partake of an equal Freedom of their Persons and Estates with your Majesties Protestant Subjects and of an Advantage above them in being excused from chargeable Offices and Employments hath so far prevailed as to find Countenance for an open and avowed Practice for their Superstition and Idolatry without controul in several Parts of the Kingdom Great swarms of Priests and Jesuits have resorted hither and have here exercised their Jurisdiction and been daily tampering to pervert the Consciences of your Majesty's Subjects their Opposers they have found means to disgrace and if they were Judges Justices of the Peace or other Magistrates to have them turned out of Commission and in contempt of the known Laws of the Land they have practised upon People of all Ranks and Qualities and gained over divers to their Religion some openly to profess it others secretly to espouse it and most conduced to the Service thereof After some time they became able to influence Matters of State and Government and thereby to destroy those they cannot corrupt The Continuance or Prorogation of Parliaments has been accommodated to serve the Purposes of the Party Money raised upon the People to supply your Majesty's extraordinary Occasions was by the prevalence of Popish Counsels imployed to make War upon a Protestant State and to advance and augment the dreadful Power of the French King though to the apparent Hazard of this and all other Protestant Countries Great Numbers of your Majesty's Subjects were sent into and continued in the Service of that King notwithstanding the apparent Interest of your Majesty's Kingdoms the Addresses of the Parliament and your Majesty's gracious Proclamations to the contrary Nor can we forbear to mention how that at the beginning of the same War even the Ministers of England were made Instruments to press upon that State the acceptance of one Demand among others from the French King for procuring their Peace with him That they should admit the publick Exercise of the Roman Catholick Religion in the Vnited Provinces the Churches there to be divided and the Popish Priests to be maintained out of the publick Revenue At home if your Majesty did at any time by the Advice of your Privy Council or of your Two Houses of Parliament command the Laws to be put in due Execution against Papists even from thence they gained Advantage to their Party while the Edge of those Laws was turned against Protestant Dissenters and the Papists escaped in a manner untoucht The Act of Parliament enjoining a Test to be taken by all Persons admitted into any publick Office and intended for a Security against Papists coming into Employment had so little effect That either by Dispensations obtained from Rome they submitted to those Tests and held their Ofces themselves or those put in their Places were so favourable to the same Interests that Popery it self has rather gained than lost Ground since that Act. But that their Business in hand might yet more speedily and strongly proceed at length a Popish Secretary since executed for his Treasons takes upon him to set a foot and maintain Correspondencies at Rome particularly with a Native Subject of your Majesty 's promoted to be a Cardinal and in the Courts of other foreign Princes to use their own form of Speech for the subduing the pestilent Heresy which has so long domineer'd over this Northern World that is to root out the Protestant Religion out of England and