was order'd to acquaint Mr. Langhorn in the Temple of the MINUTS past at the said Consult by which he understood of Grove's and Pickerings employment and Reward That Mr. Langhorn with lifted up hands and eyes for the good successe did then sign also the Consult and told him That he had Receiv'd about fifty Commissions from Rome and among others shew'd him the Commissions for my L'd. Arundel Powis Stafford Bellassis and Peters as also Mr. Langhorn's own to be Advocate of the Army which were all Sealed with the Jesuits Cross or Cipher and signed by their General the Seal and Hand being the same as that of the Patent which Oates had then in Court viz. a Pattent constituting F. Stapleton Rector of St Omers and found it seemes among the Jesuits Papers That He the said Oates saw those Commissions in his Study upon his Desk when as Mr. Langhorn appeals in his Memoires to all that great Company which frequented his Chamber whether any of them ever saw a Desk in his Study That Mr. Langhorn gave him several Originals from F. Anderton and La Chaise who did assure them of his Constancy in carrying on the Cause and that the French King would stand by them with Men and Money That Mr. Langhorn being Sollicitor for the Jesuits did Communicate the Design to the Benedictins who promis'd 6000 l. That Mr. Langhorn call'd Sr. George Wakeman a narrow soul'd Phisitian for not being content with 10000. l. That he the said Oates never stir'd out of the Colledge of St. Omer from December till his coming away in April except a Night or two at Watten and when he went to Paris 'T was here some two questions before that Mr. Langhorn began to be Nice about the time of his coming to St. Omers c. whereupon the Court answer'd That all the Defences of the Papists lay in Catches about time a thing which no man living could be positive in which heartned Oates not a little for he being presently askt by Mr. Langhorn when he return'd in April into England he answered about the middle of that moneth and that he stay'd under twenty dayes a Latitude which he would now have fain granted him by reason of his ill success in the former Tryal though the Court never then pretended as you saw to extend it to above eight or ten and because he fear'd Mr. Langhorn he desired the Court to ask the Questions adding that he knew they would be so kind as to ask him such Questions as were reasonable After this Mr. Langhorn demanded whether he came with Hildestey from Dover by Coach or on Horseback to which Oates after much hesitation answer'd That the Question was so sudden that he could not be positive but at last said that as near as he could remember It was by Coach This strange uncertainty amaz'd many but more smild at it considering that in truth he had reason for what he did as not knowing the question was casual but that Mr. Langhorn might have Witnesses ready to prove how Mr. Hildesley made that journey nay he would not tell Mr. Langhorn positively whether he lay at Grove's the first night of his coming to London or no though he 〈◊〉 directly sworn in Irelands Tryal as has bin mention'd before That he was commanded to lie close at that House so that if he had had such Instructions it was impossible for him not to remember whether he broke them or no and more especially at his first Arrival about so dangerous and great an affair Bedlow brought up the Reer and after he had also produc't as Oates had done before a private Patent of the Jesuits found by him in the search of Mr. Arthur's House and which Reader you must know is written forsooth in the same Hand and seal'd with the same Seal as the Commissions were he had seen at Paris I say after this he askt fearing there would be Witnesses to what he said whether a Papist might take Notes The Court at first thought not But when they understood that the Scribe was the Marchioness Dowager of Winchester 't was answer'd That a Womans Notes would signifie no more than her Tongue and then he thus began That Coleman carried him about three Years ago to Mr. Langhorn's Chamber who in his presence register'd several Treasonable Letters for La-Chaise c. some of which had been read in Court at Coleman's Trial That there was no a penny of money receiv'd or paid or the least thing done in relation to the Plot that was not registered by Mr. Langhorn That a year and a half ago he carried a Pacquet from Hartcourt to be registred That he was registred by the name of Captain Williams and not by his own which he wondring at Hartcourt Answer'd That this was but a blind Register and that there should be a new one That one of these Letters was from the Rector of the Irish College at Salamanca who desir'd the Lords and the rest here to be ready for that he had provided at the Groin as Pilgrims several Irish cashier'd Soldiers and Bandits as also a great many Lay-Brothers who landing at Milford should be joyn'd with the Army my Lord Powis was to raise That in May 76. he carried a Letter to Mr. Stapleton the Benedictin to raise money for England That Pritchard told him That Mr. Langhorn had Commissions That Sir H. Tichbourn shew'd him three at Paris sign'd by the General of the Jesuits and seal'd with their Seal like the before-mention'd Patent That he knows only by report of Mr. Langhorn's being privy to Grove's and Pickering's design of Killing the King for having a mind to go to Windasor to see what the Assassines did he askt Hartcourt leave as if he went to a friend at Plimouth who Answer'd He could not be spared till they knew how the Gentlemen had succeeded and that he the said Hartcourt was going to Mr. Langhorns to take the MINVTES which was the contrivance of sending down the Assassines to New-Market That the Letter which he saw Mr. Langhorn Register to the Benedictins beyond Sea was to Sollicit them to get their contributions ready since the Hearts and Arms of the party 〈◊〉 ready here and That in the French Letter to F. La Chaise Registred also by Mr. Langhorn there were invitations to that King to invade us Now upon Mr. Langhorn's saying that he understood only Law-French as an Argument that he could be no Register and upon Bedlow's confessing he never heard him discourse in French Oates to salve the difficulty cry'd out and thereby made not a few laugh That he himself could neither write not read French but he could Translate it And when Bedlow was askt by Mr. Langhorn whether Mr. Coleman's Letter Transcrib'd by him were long like those in the Narrative or no the said Bedlow Answer'd The best part of half a sheet of Paper for
be well considered of and digested by me and that all mistakes might be prevented as far as may be I say in regard of this I have in the present Paper reduced what I have to declare as to my Innocence and Loyalty and 't is in these following Words I Do solemnly and sincerely in the presence of Almighty God profess testify and declare as followeth That is to say 1. That I do with my heart and soul believe and own my most Gracious Soveraign Lord the Kings Majesty King Charles the Second to be my true and lawful Soveraign Prince and King in the same sence and latitude to all intents and purposes as in the Oath commonly called The Oath of Allegiance His said Majesty is expressed to be King of this Realm of England 2. That I do in my soul believe That neither the Pope nor any Prince Potentate or Forreign Authority nor the people of England nor any Authority out of this Kingdom or within the same hath or have any Right to dispossess His said Majesty of the Crown or Government of England or to depose him therefrom for any Cause or pretended Cause whatsoever or to give licence to me or to any other of His said Maâ—esties Subjects whatsoever to bear Arms against His said Majesty or to take away his Life or to do him any bodily harm or to disturb the Government of this Kingdom as the same is now established by Law or to alter or go about to alter the said Government or the Religion now established in England by any way of force 3. That I neither am nor ever was at any time or times guilty so much as in my most secret thoughts of any Treason or misprision of Treason whatsoever 4. That I did not in the Month of November or at any other time or times whatsoever say unto Mr. Oates or unto any other person or persons whatsoever in relation to my Sons in Spain or either of them or in relation to any other person or persons whatsoever That if they did continue in the World as Secular Priests of otherwise they should suddenly have great promotions in England for that things would not last long in the posture wherein they then were nor did I ever say any words to that or the like effect to any person or persons whatsoever 5. That I did never in all my life-time write any Letter or other thing whatsoever unto or receive any Letter or other thing from Father La Chese or any French Jesuit whatsoever or from Father Anderton or Cardinal Barbarino or any other Cardinal nor did I ever see any Letter or the Copy of any Letter or other paper or other thing written or purporting to be written unto the said La Chese or unto the said Father Anderton or the said Cardinal Barbarina by any person or persons whatsoever other than the printed Letters printed in the Narrative of the Trial of Mr. Coleman lately executed which I never saw otherwise than in the said printed Narrative nor did I ever hear any mention made by any person whatsoever of the Name of La Chese or Father La Chese before I read the said printed Narrative 6. That I did never in all my life-time make any Entry or Entries into any Book or Books or take or make or write or cause to be written into any Book or books or otherwise any Letter or Letters or any Copy or Copies of any Letter or Letters written by the said Edward Coleman to any person or persons whatsoever 7. That I did never in all my life-time enter or register into any Book or books Paper or papers whatsoever or take or make or Write or cause to be written any Copy or Copies of any Act or Acts Consult or Consults Determination or Determinations Order or Orders Resolve or Resolves or other matter or thing at any time made determined resolved passed decreed or agitated at any Congregation or Congregations Consult or Consults Chapter or Chapters Assembly or Assemblies of the Society or Order of the Jesuits or of any other Religions Order whatsoever nor did I ever see read or heard read nor did any person or persons at any time whatsoever ever Communicate unto me any such Act Consult Determination Order Resolve Matter or Thing whatsoever 8. That I did never in all my life-time to my knowledg belief or remembrane see or speak with Mr. Bedloe who gave Evidence against me at my Tryal until I saw him in that Court wherein he gave Evidence against me 9. That after the moneth of November which was in the year of our Lord 1677. I did never see or speak with Mr. Titus Oates before named until I saw him in the same Court where he gave Evidence against me at my Tryal 10. That I did never see in all my life-time to my knowledge belief or remembrance any Commission or Commissions Pattent or Patents Grant or Grants Order or Orders Instrument or Instruments Writing or Writings or other matter or thing whatsoever under or pretended to be under the Hand and Seal or the Hand or the Seal of Johannes Paulus de Oliva or any other General of the Jesuits whatsoever other then the Paper or Instrument produced and shewed unto me in the said Court at my Tryal which whether it was signed or sealed by the said de Oliva I do not know 11. That I did never in all my life-time write or cause or procure to be written any Treasonable Letter or Letters whatsoever or any thing which was or is Treason or Treasonable in any Letter or Letters Book or books Paper or papers or otherwise howsoever 12. That I believe that if I did know or should know of any Treason or Treasonable Design that was or is intended or should be intended against His said Majesty or the Government of this His Majesties Kingdom or for the Alteration by force advice or otherwise of the said Government or of the Religion now established in this Kingdom and should conceal and not discover the same unto his said Majesty or his said Majesties Council or Ministers or some of them that such concealment would be in me a sin unto Death and Eternal Damnation 13. That I do believe that it is no ways lawful for me to lye or speak any thing which I know to be untrue or to commit any sin or do any Evil that Good may come of it And that it is not in the Power of any Priest or of the Pope or of God himself to give me a Licence to Lie or to speak any thing which I know to be untrue because every such Lye would be a sin against Truth And Almighty God who is perfect Truth cannot give me a License to commit a sin against his own Essence And I do solemnly in the presence of God Profess Testify and Declare That as I hope for Salvation and expect any benefit by the Blood and Passion of my dearest Saviour Jesus Christ I do make this Declaration
Religions sake or in short for the sake of all that is Good and Holy put a stop to this present Tempest which bearing up Perjury has not only destroy'd all Trade and Commerce among us but render'd us a Laughing-stock to the whole world and shaken the very Basis and Foundation of our Island FINIS The Certificate of the City of St. Omer concerning Titus Oates WE the Mayor and Sherifs of the City of St Omer being surpris'd at the Report That the English Fathers residing with us had about the beginning of the Present Year by the Negotiation of one Titus Oates in France and England contrived and Plotted a wicked and bloody Treason against their natural Lord the most excellent King of Great Britain and being the more amazed at it since they had given through a long â—cries of Years a rare example among us not only of Learning and Piety in particular but of Obedience in general to all Civil Magistrates and Governors a thing which makes the whole Society of Jesus highly respected and esteemed by most of the Christian Princes of the World We say that being surpris'd at this report we took as far as we could the Examination of the matter into hand and therefore certify That it has appeared to us by the Oaths of several of the best and antientest Scholars of that Seminary the whole College having offer'd to make the same Oath That the said Titus Oates was not only effectively in the said Seminary at the end of April and beginning of May 1678 but did constantly reside there from the tenth of December 1677. to the twenty third of June following without ever being absent from thence except one night in January at which time he was at Watten two Leagues distant from us The said Deponents also have alledg'd as a reason of this their knowledge That they Lodg'd Convers'd Drunk and Eat with the said Oates in the said Seminary all that while he being at a distinct table alone and did partiâ—ularly take notice that he was there in April and May as abovesaid as having seen him at that time constantly perform the Office of Reader in the Sodality of the Students in the said Seminary and as being present at the departure of one Killembeck alias Pool an English Scholar who went from this City the fifth day of the said Moneth of May New Stile to take his journey into England In Witness whereof we have caus'd the Seal of the said City to be hereunto put this 28 of December 1678. Loco Sigilli ✚ J. Ganon The Certificate of the City of Liege in Relation to Sir Thomas Preston WE the Eschevines of the high Court of Justice of his most Serene Highness in the City and Countrey of Liege To all those to whom these presents shall come greeting do certify and attest That a Petition being presented to us in our ordinary Consistory in the Palace of his said Highness on the behalf of Sir Thomas Preston Knight and Baronet residing at the English College of this City That whereas the said Sir Thomas Preston during the greatest part of the Year One Thousand Six Hundred Seventy and Eight and more especially in the Moneths of March April May and June did constantly reside in the said College be the said Sir Thomas Preston having petition'd that we would in favour of the Truth hear a great many Witnesses which he had to produce we condeseended unto his said Petition as reasonable and just and have accordingly heard upon Oath fourteen creditable persons who have all unanimously upon their respective Oaths declared and attested that the said Sir Thomas Preston Knight and Baronet did reside all the time aforesaid at the College aforesaid and particularly in the Moneths of March April May and June in the Year 1678. and that he was not absent sâ— much as one-night during the said time and they further have attested that they knew this to be true in that they resided all in the said College and there saw and convers'd dayly with Him Given at our Court of Justice this 28 of March 1679. By Order of the High Court of Justice abovesaid Locus Sigilli ✚ De Bernimolin per Bonhomme THe like Certificate came from Watten about Sir John Warner the Witnesses names being Albert Bapthorpe William Bitchfielt Tousaint Vanden Cruys F. Caeles Augustin Elmers Jaques Broos Nicholas Willaert Thomas Higgenson Marc. Bartolet Charles Verons FINIS * Vid. Trial. Pag. 17 18. †pag. 19. ‖ pag. 20. * pag. 28. †pag. 21 ‖ pag. 29. * pag. 22. †pag. 23. ‖ pag. 72. * pag. 24. †pag. 25. ‖ pag. 26. * pag. 27. †pag. 30. ‖ pag. 40. * pag. 39. †pag. 16. ‖ pag. 72. * pag. 80. and 96. †pag. 30. ‖ pag. 38. * pag. 30. †pag. 32. ‖ pag. 31. pag. 40. †pag. 80. ‖ pag. 38. * pag. 41. †pag. 42. †pag. ib. †pag. 43. ‖ pag. 44. * pag. 72. †pag. 68. ‖ pag. 57. * pag. 73. †pag. 16. ‖ pag. 69. * pag. 72. ‖ pag. 102. ‖ pag. 102. 103. * Pag. 70. * pag. 68. †pag. 66. ‖ pag. 69. * pag. 80. ‖ pag. 161. * Bedlow †Vid. Trial. ‖ pag. 35. Pag. 19. * pag. 36. †pag. 34. ‖ pag. 60. * pag. 22. †p. 19. ‖ p. 26 * pag. 47. †pag. 19 26. ‖ pag. 23. * pag. 24. †pag. 22. ‖ pag. 30. * pag. 32. †pag. 20. * pag. 47. ‖ pag. 46. * pag. 41 44. †pag. 49. ‖ pag. 67. * pag. 25. †pag. 56. * pag. 59. ‖ pag. 62. * pag. 65. †pag. 56. ‖ pag. 56 62. * pag. 65. †pag. 57. ‖ pag. 12. ‖ pag. 14. ‖ pag. 16. ‖ pag. ib. ‖ pag. 18. ‖ pag. 19. ‖ pag. 20. †pag. 22. * pag. 21. ‖ pag. 44. ‖ pag. 29. ‖ pag. 28. †pag. 29. ‖ pag. 30. ‖ pag. 31. ‖ pag. 32. ‖ pag. 33. * pag. 32. * pag. 32. ‖ pag. 33. †pag. 14. ‖ pag. 40. * pag. 41. †pag. 49. * pag. 46. * pag. 47. †pag. 23. ‖ pag. 71. * pag. 26. †pag. 24. ‖ pag. 25. * pag. 71. †pag. 70. ‖ pag. 52. * pag. 53. †pag. 54. * pag. 56. ‖ pag. 58. * pag. ib. * pag. 56. †pag. 54. ‖ pag. 55. * p. 56 57. †pag. 59. ‖ pag. 61. * pag. 67. †pag. 62. ‖ pag. 63. * pag. 64. †pag. 65. ‖ pag. 65. * pag. 70. †pag. 68. ‖ pag. 69. * pag. 48. ‖ pag. 43. * pag. 60. †pag. 40. ‖ pag. 49. * pag. 50. * Vid. Trial. Pag. 3. †p. 4. 5. ‖ pag. 6. * pag. 12. †pag. 13. ‖ p. 14. 15. * pag. 15. ‖ pag. 16. * pag. 17. ‖ pag. 21. * pag. 22. ‖ pag. 29. * pag. ib. †pag. 44. ‖ pag. 29. †pag. 23. ‖ pag. 24. * pag. 25. ‖ pag. 26.
an Artifice to cheat the World and manifestly to damn their Souls even according to their own profest Doctrine and Tenets Besides do not our Adversaries by this wild Dream show not only their own Barbarity and Ignorance but affront and call Villains the greatest and the most eminent parts of the Civiliz'd World and certainly should one of them say to a Knight of Maltha or to a Teutonick Knight or to any other Catholick Cavalier That he was not to be belieâ—ed since he might by his principles lye anâ— forswear at pleasure he would I must tell him be soon Kick'd and bastanado'd for it But my Lords and Gent if this Calumny which carrys some Alleviation in it as having the Ignorant and Rabble for it's chief Abettors be never the less shocking what must the Aspersion do which is reviv'd by a Nobler and Learneder hand I mean by the present Bishop of Lincoln Yet if it be a breach of CHRISTIANITY to crush the bruised Reed and of GENEROSITY also to Trample on the Oppressed I wish his Lordship may be found Guilty of neither and that there never rise any such who in hopes of Applause shall contrary to the Light of their own Consciences reprint a Martyn-Marprelate a Cobler of Glocester or any Scandalous Pasquil should EPISCOPACY by some foolish Accident or Misfortune fall again within the Fury of the people But who could think that his Lordships heat against us should force himeven to a TITLE that has confuted his whole Book viz. That Popish Principles and Positions when really believed are destructive and dangerous to all Kings especially Protestants for he cannot Term them Principles of Faith because they were never thus believ'd by any Catholick nor never thus approved of by the Church and consequently nothing to his purpose But if on the other side he means that there have been Popish Doctors of the Opinion That Princes might be deposed upon the Account of Religion what advantage I would fain know can that be to his Lordship or his Treatise since not onlyall the prime Leaders of the REFORMATION as Luther Calvin Zainglus Beza c. have in express Termes held the same and in pursuance of it rais'd Rebellions and Confusions in all Countrys where they had footing but also since very great Pillars of the Church of England it self have taught it too as appears in Queen Mary's Case in that of the Queen of Scots who was at least the Vndâ—ubted Heir and in later Efforts also of the same nature and doubtless he that believes he can disinherit a Lawfull Successor with Justice upon the account of Religion will hardly find Arguments of Force to keep the Prince in being on his Throne when ever this happen's to be imputed to him Nay we have several Protestants here who cry up the Bishop of Lincoln's Book at a strange raâ—e and yet avow this printed Doctrine That God not only rais'd Johu to purge the Idolaters of Ahab's House c. but That there is no Reformed Church from the first Waldenses to this Day that have not held such a Procedure lawful These things consider'd as they have been often I dare say by his Lordship he expected not certainly of us to think that he believ'd what he writ for then we should he knew have requir'd him to shew us at least some Catholick Potentate or other nor want they Worldly Wit or Inclinations we see abandoning this pretended dangerous and troublesom Religion either out of Ambition or Safety No my Lords and Gentlemen that is now a thing hardly within the reach of Speculation for Who find themselves so Flourishing and Great as they Or can it be said That the Monarchy of England has gotten by the Reformation when Protestants acknowledge and what desperate Enemies that has Created us may be easily imagin'd That nothing but Popery or at least its Principles can make it again emerge or lasting Does not his Lordship therefore play at Cross-purposes with us and is not his Meaning in truth this That Protestant Principles when really believ'd are-destructive to all Kings and especially to Catholick ones since we see that the Lawful Monarchs and Princes of England Scotland Swedland Denmark the Vnited Provinces Transilvania Geneva c. have been actually Depos'd by their Protestant Subjects not only as Florimundus Raimundus and Popish Writers shew us but as Dr. Heylin and other Protestants have laboriously made it appear Nor has the Pope in all that time pretended to the giving away of any Crowns except those of France and England For the Defence of which several zealous and noted Catholicks appear'd as well with their Swords as Pens Nor could this Imputation have been worse timed as to his Lordships purpose by him seeing there was a Protestant Rebellion then actually in Hungary to the great Danger of Christendom and another newly broken out in Scotland for the Subversion of the English Monarchy and this also usher'd in by the Barbarous Murther Of the Arch-Bishop of St. Andrews What Parity then is there between VS and our Adversaries either in our Actions or Books of this Nature And truely we are so far from holding the Deposing Power of the Church an Article of Faith that the Greatest Defenders of it have absolutely declared the contrary For does not Cardinal Peron in his famous Speech to the Nobility of France tell us That the Proposition is PROBLEMATICAL and does not C. Bellarmine the Pope's great Champion in his Answer to Barclay who writ so smartly against it call the Assertion only ARROGANT and TEMERARIOVS In short There is no Writer though never so zealous for the Opinion that sayes That Men of the contrary Sentiment are out of the State of Grace as in truth they are that asseâ—t not to Articles of Faith This also plainly shews that no Council ever impos'd it on our Belief seeing it has been and is still without Censure denyed even by those that would dye for the Pope's Supremacy Nay besides former Authors the Catholicks â—f England have written four Books since the King's Restauration to this very purpose I say the Catholick's of England have done it who are so scrupulous in Doctrines of Faith that they deem it Damnation to deny the least Article and therefore will not you see to save their Lives and Estates profess one thing and believe another But his Lordship which adds nothing to his Ingenuity is so far from answering these Authors by shewing their Fallacies and Errors that he never so much as cites them to this purpose so that we must conclude them unanswerable for he could not but have heard of them when we find him pretending to so great an Insight in all our Books that to shew his Reading he has quoted our very Almanack But since his Lordship has mention'd this notable Tome I hope he will not take it ill if I say That his whole Work has been already answered by a Treatise of the