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A48038
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A Letter from Amsterdam to a friend in Paris
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Masses Colemans Triall pag 27. In the moneth of may last new stile April old stile I think within a day after our Consult I was at Mr Langhornes Chamber He had several Commissions which he cald Patents Amongst his CoÌ„missions I saw one from the General of the Society of Iesus by vertue of a brief from the Pope by which hee was enabled for Coleman to be Secretary of state Iustice Wilde What other Commissions were there in Mr. Langhornes Chamber Oats Agreat many I cannot remember all there was a Commission for my Lord Arundel of Warder The Lord Powis and several others Lord chief-Iustice Ibid. p. 28. When did you see the Commissions Oates In the moneth of April old stile May new stile Lordchief Iustice What time did you come over from S. Omers Oates In the moneth of April Ibid. pag. 29. Oates speaks Mr Langhorne I hear you have received the Commissions from Rome He said hee had shall I have the honour to see some of them He said I might hee thought hee might trust mee and so hee might for that very day I gave him an account of the Consult Most of the said particulars are mentioned likewise in Oates his depositions taken by order of the house of Commons As the several Consults held at LoÌ„don in April and May at which he was present about assassinating the Kings Person The Commissions of Military and Civil Offices as also for the Bishopricks seen by him in Mr Langhornes Chamber These are the two main branches of the Plott Destroying the King Person and subverting the Covernment How absurde and ridiculous this Fable is to a man of indifferent Capacity I leave to your CoÌ„sideratioÌ„ J have not leasure to make glosses I must tell you in one word Oates came to S. Omers on y 10. December stilo novo 1677. and stayed there vntill 23. Iune 78. stilo novo all that Time hee never lay out of the Colledge but one or 2. nights at a place two leagues distaÌ„t there is an Authentical instrument vpon that subject made by the Eschevins of the place having examined 20. wittenesses vpon Oath for that Purpose There are a hundred more ready to testifie it in the same manner How was Oates then at London present at the foresaid Consults and saw the CoÌ„missions in a Chamber of the Inner Temple in April or May Are you satisfied that hee is perjured He swore that hee delivered a CoÌ„mission to Sr. Francis Ratcliff in Wilde garden the summer 1678. where as it was made out that Sr. Francis had not been in London within four yeares Hee swore that Pierson my Lord Powis his Secretary in the month of Iune 78. receiued a CoÌ„mission for his Lord in Wilde street and brought there in a Coach 300.l in exchange for it where as it can be proved by 500. wittnesses that Mr Pierson was not in London nor within 80. miles of it from Aug 9. 1677. vntil October the 5. 1678. Hee swore that one Preston a married man of many years was a Priest and how hee had been several times at Confession with him the Contrary was proved to his Face My Lord Chanceller can Authenticate it Hee swore before the Lords that hee could accuse no other member of their house nor any Person of Consideration out of their house yet within few dayes after hee swore in the same place that the Queen was deeply engaged in the Plot my Lord Salisbury will Iustifie it who caused the Iournal to be inspected and asked the opinioÌ„ of the house whether the Queen was a Person of Consideration or no I should alleadge his false accusations of Mr. Ireland for words and Actions done and spoke at London when it is deposed by many Honorable and worthy Persons that he was far distant from the place which shall bee made out with euidence in a treatise a part All the other particulars are canvassed and found false in the same degree so that Oats had great reason to say Colemans Trial 30. pag. Prisoners may supplant Evidence when they know it and bring Persons to such circumstances as time and Place J hope you are fully satisfied that the Plott is a Diabolicall Fiction of this Oates that himselfe is a pure compound of Lyes forgeries and Perjuryes J hear there is a statue preparing for him as preserver of the Kingdom I shall adorne it with an Epigraphe for his sake Vpon this fellows Testimony is grounded the whole Machin of the Plott others are brought in as butteresses to support a weak foundation Vpon his single testimony the Lords and many Gentlemen of Quality and fortune besides Priests and diuers others are committed to Prison and some of them most barbarously treated Catholiks houses are searcht in all parts for arms and Priests All Catholiks in lesse then seven dayes warning are banisht out of London and Ten miles about Others in the Country confined within five miles of their habitation so many forced to take Oaths against their Conscience The train bande vp in London watch and ward thorough all the Kingdom Many severe Bills prepared in Parliament against poor Papists An vniuersal consternation in all places And what is beyond all admiration both houses of Parliament vote that there is a plott Others I say are brought as Buttrâ—sses In the first place comes in a second to Oates a knight of the Post ready to sweare what you please one Bedloe a Fidlers son It s hard to give a Character of him in a short letter he is wel known over most parts of England Low countreyes France and Spaine for debaucheries cheats Robberyes and Rogueries Guzman and the english Rogue were meere novices to him but it is no marvell for J am credibly informed by a Person of worth that hee carries a familiar devil about which he cals his Patrimony and if he were well searcht it might be found Hee hath disgraced many honorable names in his Travells as Lord Cornwallis in France and Lord Gerard not him of Gerards Bromley in Spaine but all these are pardonable crimes Hee cheated even his owne Friend Titus Oates alias Ambrosius in Vagliadolid yet Oates has sworn that hee never saw Bedloe before and brings it as a great proof of the truth that his Depositions should be confirmed by a meere stranger I have in my Custody to attest it Titus his owne Letter dated at Vagliadolid September 3. 77. to Mr. Grace a Marchant I am sorry for Mr. Franklin's misfortune by the pretended Lord Gerard hee should first have demanded of the said Lord three things his Patent of honour his licence vnder the great seal of England to travel and Letters of Credit for his Reception If the said person were my Lord Gerard I assure you that hee 's an errant Rogue and is outlawed in England for a murder committed vpon a boy whose neck he broke Villanously basely Proclamations are out against him His complice was tried for his life but was quitted the fault lying on the said