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A34574	Stafford's memoires, or, A brief and impartial account of the birth and quality, imprisonment, tryal, principles, declaration, comportment, devotion, last speech, and final end of William, late Lord Viscount Stafford, beheaded on Tower-hill Wednesday the 29. of Decemb. 1680 whereunto is annexed a short appendix concerning some passages in Stephen Colledges tryal / the whole now again set forth for a more ample illustration of that so wonderfully zealous pamphlet entituled The papists bloody aftergame, writ in answer to the said Memoirs, and published by Langley Curtis, 1682.	Corker, James Maurus, 1636-1715.; Curtis, Langley, fl. 1668-1725.	1682 (1682)	Wing C6306A; ESTC R40876	92,519	237

way of Presents from some great Persons by taking of Jesuits and Printing of Narratives But did not all these Gains accrue unto him on the account of the Plot On what other score were these Presents made by Great Persons Had he any other Trade or Livelyhood then that of the Kings Evidence Is it not too manifest those Gifts were bestowed on him as a Reward of Past and Encouragement of Future Swearing Would to God such great Persons would duly consider the Dismal Consequences which necessarily follow such Rewards THe second Exception made by my Lord against Oates's Evidence was That the said Oates had Perjur'd himself in two Depositions directly contradictory to each other For proof of this my Lord appealed to divers of the Lords themselves who were present at both the said Depositions amongst whom the Earl of Berkley being required to speak what he knew Attested That my Lord Chancellour did ask Dr. Oates at the Bar of the House this Question viz. My Lords desire to know if you can accuse any other Person or Persons of what quality soever And you are encouraged by their Lordships to Accuse them Oates his answer was My Lords I have no more to Accuse in Relation to England Notwithstanding which Deposition he afterwards in another with unspeakable Insolence expresly Accused the Queen in a matter as he thought of no less then High Treason From hence my Lord concluded if the first Deposition was True Oates was Perjured in the Latter If the Latter was True he was Perjur'd in the First So that which of the two soever is True or False he is guilty of Perjury UPon this proof the Managers made these Observations First Doctor Oates having said much and having many things in his Head could peradventure not remember on a sudden this particular of the Queen Secondly The Evidence which Doctor Oates gave afterwards of the Queen was not positive nor of his own knowledge but words which he heard spoken in a Room in which he was not himself but coming in afterward he saw the Queen there Thirdly It might not be so clear to Dr. Oates whether the Queen was a Person capable of an Accusation so as to be Tryed for Treason To which the Papists answer To the first 'T is an evasion contradictory to common Sense that a Man whose Business and Study it was to Discover a Plot against the Life of the King and who by several long premeditated Depositions had as he said discharged himself of all he knew should notwithstanding all this while never remember the most Essential part viz The Inhumane Murder of the King Designed and Consented to by his own Royal Consort To the second Oates Deposed upon Oath he heard such words and circumstanced them with such particulars of Time and Place as plainly denote he intended a full and home Accusation against the Queen And granted his Evidence was not positive yet the matter was of such dangerous consequence as ought not to be concealed especially at a time when he was upon his Oath to speak all he knew and when he pretended by Discoveries to Save the Life of the King To the third Though Oates left to himself be very Stupid yet he could not be so Ignorant us not to know that a Queen designing to Murder the King her Husband is guilty of Treason And whether She was liable to a Tryal or no. Oates was guilty of Perjury In that being Commanded and Encouraged by the Lords to make an entire Discovery of all he knew against any Person of what Degree or Quality soever he expresly Swore He had no more to Accuse in England Indeed the Transcendent Lustre of the Queens Vertue Innocence and Endeared Affection to His Majesty leaves no place for Calumny to fix upon And the bare Charge of so soul a Crime upon so Renowned a Goodness is of it self Independent of other Contradictions a more then sufficient Conviction of Oates's Perjury THe third Exception made by my Lord against Oate's Evidence was That though Oates in his several Depositions particularly those taken before the Privy Councel and House of Lords did often affirm he had given an entire and Faithful account to the best of his rememberance Of all whatsoever he knew as to the matters and Persons concern'd in the Plot And though he had then also time and opportunity to reflect and deliberate upon what might any wise relate to my Lord Stafford in that affair yet he never accused him of any other thing then only That he had seen beyond the Seas some Letters Signed Stafford wherein the Writer had testifyed his Zeal for the Catholick Design But when afterwards consulting with himself and possibly with some others he found this slam of his would not amount to any thing material whereon to ground an Impeachment he Invented and Imposed upon my Lord a Commission of Pay-Master-General to the Army a device he never once thought on before From which proceeding my Lord argued If there were such a Commission receiv'd by my Lord at Fenwick's Chamber in such a manner as Oates relates this Commission being a matter of so grand Importance and the Delivery of it accompanied with so many remarkable circumstances in the very presence of Oates It is impossible that the said Oates who as he said on purpose for Discovery had taken Notes and Memorials even of Trivial Occurrences should forget and by consequence omit a thing of this high concern in his former Depositions But if there were no such Commission as most assuredly there was none then is Oates Perjur'd in his present Evidence And verily added my Lord if it be permitted to this man daily to frame New Accusations If easie credit be given to all his Fables and whatsoever he shall from time to time Invent may pass for good Evidence Who can be secure At this rate he may by degrees Impeach the whole Nation for Crimes which neither he nor any man else ever yet dream'd on UPon these Arguments and Inferences made by my Lord the Managers would not and the Papists say They need not make any Remarks THe fourth Exception made by my Lord against Oates his Evidence was That whereas Oates now declares He never was really a Roman Catholick but only Feigned himself to be so My Lord often and strongly insisted That a Protestant of the Church of England who convinced in his Judgment of the Truth of his Religion shall nevertheless on what pretence soever Provoke God belye his own Conscience and violate all Sacred things So as to make a solemn Abre●untiation of his Faith and Church to profess himself a Roman Catholick to live amongst them to practice Religious duties with them for three years together and this to such an height of Sacriledge as frequently to receive the Sacrament and perform daily external Worship to it which in the Judgment both of Protestants and Catholicks was to him so believing direct and gross Idolatry

for crimes detested by God and Nature This man surely can never die without such Conflicts of horrour and despair as will almost prevent the hand of the Executioner yet there appeared in my Lord no other Symptoms then those of a most pleasing Tranquility as if Innocence had Guarded him As if the Injustice of others had secured him As if the Holy Ghost had fortified him As if Christ Jesus had united him to his Sufferings and undertaken his conduct and defence THat very morning he was to dye he writ a Letter to his Lady which afterwards he delivered on the Scaffold to a Friend there present the contents whereof are these My Dear Wife I Have I give God humble thanks slept this night some hours very quietly I would not dress me until I had by this given you thanks for all your great Love and Kindness unto me I am very sorry that I have not deserved it from you God reward you Were I to live numbers of years I assure you I would never omit any occasion to let you know the Love I bear you I cannot say what I would nor how well and many ways you have deserv'd God of His most infinite mercy send us an happy meeting in Heaven My last request unto you is that you will bear my Death as well as you can for my sake I have now no more to do but as well as I can though not so well as I would to recommend my sinful Soul unto the mercy of the Holy Trinity who through the Passion Bloud and Merits of our Saviour I hope will mercifully grant me a place though the lowest in Heaven God grant it And bless you and Ours Your truly loving Husband W. H. St Thomas of Canterbury 's day 1680. past six in the Morning The Manner and Circumstances of my Lord 's Final End WHen the hour appointed for his Death drew near he expected with some impatience the arrival of Mr. Lieutenant telling his Friends that were about him he ought not to hasten his own Death yet he thought the time long till they came for him A Gentleman then with him in his Chamber put him in mind that it was a cold day and that his Lordship would do well to put on a Cloak or Coat to keep him warm He answered He would For said he I may perhaps shake for cold but I trust in God never for fear After some time spent in Spiritual discourses at length about Ten a Clock word was brought him That Mr. Lieutenant waited for him below upon which he sweetly saluted his Friends bidding them not to grieve for him for this was the happiest day of all his Life then he immediatly went down and walked along by the Lieutenants Chair who had the Gout through a lane of Soldiers to the Barrs without the Tower There the Lieutenant delivered him to the Sheriff● and they from thence Guarded him to the Scaffold erected on Tower-Hill All the way as he passed several thousands of People crowded to see him many civilly saluted him and few there were amongst that vast ●ber whose hearts were not a li● ●ched and mollified with Compassion for him Having mounted the Scaffold there appeared in his Countenance such an unusual vivacity such a Chearfulness such a Confidence such a Candor as if the Innocence of his Soul had shined through his Body Nothing of that Mortal paleness Nothing of those Reluctances Convulsions and Agonies incident to persons in his condition could in the least be perceived in him He looked death in the ●a●e with so undaunted a Resolution as gave many occasion to say Gr●e had left in him no Resentment●●f ●ature After a short pause viewing th● People and finding them attend●●o what he should say he step● to one side of the Scaffold and with a Graceful Air and intelligible Voice pronounced his last Speech as followeth My Lord's last Speech BY the permission of Almighty God I am this day brought hither to Suffer Death as if I were Guilty of High Treason I do most truly in the presence of the Eternal Omnipotent and All-knowing God protest upon my Salvation that I am as Innocent as it is possible for any Man to be so much as in a thought of the Crimes laid to my Charge I acknowledge it to be a particular Grace and Favour of the Holy Trinity to have given me this Long time to prepare my self for Eternity I have not made so good use of that Grace as I ought to have done partly because not only my Friends but my Wife and Children have for several days been forbidden to see me but in the presence of one of my Warders This hath been a great trouble and distraction unto me but I hope God of his Infinite Mercy will Pardon my Defects and accept of my good Intentions Since my long Imprisonment I have considered often what could be the Original Cause of my being thus Accused since I knew my self not Culpable so much as in a thought and I cannot believe it to be upon any other account then my being of the Church of Rome I have no reason to be ashamed of my Religion for it Teacheth nothing but the Right Worship of God Obedience to the King and due Subordination to the Temporal Laws of the Kingdom And I do submit to all Articles of Faith believed and taught in the Catholick Church believing them to be most consonant to the Word of God And whereas it hath so much and often been objected That the Church holds that Soveraign Princes Excommunicated by the Pope may by their Subjects be Deposed or Murdered As to the Murder of Princes I have been taught as a Matter of Faith in the Catholick Church That such Doctrine is Diabolical Horrid Detestable and contrary to the Law of God Nature and Nations As for the Doctrine of Deposing Princes I know some Divines of the Catholick Church hold it but as able and Learned as they have Written against it But it was not pretended to be the Doctrine of the Church that is any Point of Catholick Faith Wherefore I do here in my Conscience declare that it is my true and 〈◊〉 Judgment That the same Doctrine of Deposing King● is contrary to the 〈◊〉 a● Lawpunc of this Kingdom Injurious to Soveraign Power and consequently would be in me or any other of his Majesties Subjects Impious and Damnable I believe and profess That there is One God One Saviour One Holy Catholick Church of which through the Mercy Grace and Goodness of God I die a member To my great and unspeakable grief I have offended God in many things by many great Offences but I give him most humble thanks not in any of those Crimes of which I was Accused All the Members of either House having liberty to propose in the House what they think fit for the good of the Kingdom accordingly I proposed what I thought fit the House is Judge of the fitness or unfitness of it and I

of Sorbon in the Vniversity of Paris against a Book of Anthony Sanctarelus treating of Heresie Schism c. Particularly against the 30 th and 31 st Chapters of the said Book The Censure of the Faculty my Lord produced in Court and is as followeth Upon the first of April in the year of our Lord 1626. after Mass of the Holy Ghost the usual Assembly of Doctors being met in Solemn manner in the Hall of the Sorbon Colledge was heard the relation of the Masters of the same Faculty deputed for that end who declared That in those two above-mentioned Chapters these propositions were contained That the Pope can punish Kings and Princes with Temporal Penalties and Depose and Deprive them of their Kingdoms for the crime of Heresie and free their Subjects from their obedience And that it had been always the custom in the Church And for other causes also as for faults if it le expedient If the Princes be negligent For the insufficiency and unprofitableness of their Persons Likewise that the Pope has right and power over Spirituals and all Temporals also and that both the Powers Spiritual and Temporal are in him by Divine right That it was to be believed that Power was granted to the Church and its Chief Pastors to punish with Temporal Penalties Princes the transgressors of Divine and Humane Laws especially if the Crime be Heresie They said likewise that the same Sanctarelus did affirm That the Apostles were subject to secular Princes de facto non de jure by Fact not by Right Moreover That as soon as the Pope is installed all Princes begin to be subject unto him Lastly they related that he Sanctarelus expounded the words of Christ Whatsoever ye shall bind upon Earth c. To be understood not only of the Spiritual but of the Temporal Power That he imposes upon St. Paul changing his words by withdrawing the Negation and upon many Authors cited by him They related many other things out of the said Sanctarelus which seemed to them very well to deserve the grave Animadversions and Censure of the Faculty The matter therefore being brought in to debate by the Dean the mature deliberations of all and every Master being heard the Faculty hath dissapproved and condemned the Doctrine contained in these propositions and other like expressions in the same Chapters as new false Erroneous contrary to the word of God drawing hatred upon the Pontificial Dignity giving occasion to Schism Derogatory from the Supreme authority of Kings dependent on God alone hindering the conversion of Heathen and Heretical Princes disturbing the publick Peace Destructive to Kingdoms States and Common-wealths withdrawing Subjects from Obedience and Subjection and exciting to Factions Rebellions Seditions and Murder of Princes Given in the Sorban the 4 th of April 1626. Taken out of the Archives of the aforesaid Faculty by me Secretary thereof the 26th of September 1679. MASSIN MY Lords fifth Testimony was taken from a little Treatise writ as my Lord said by a Priest of the Church of Rome and entituled Roman-Catholick Principles in Reference to God and the King The chief Contents of which Treatise Because it in short explains the above-named Principles and clears the Objections usually made on this Subject I shall here insert in the Authors own Words for the Readers more ample satisfaction IS it not strange and severe saith this Author That Principles of Treason Rebellion Murder c. and those pretended of Faith too should be imposed upon Men which they themselves renounce and detest If the Tu●k's Alcoran should in like manner be urg'd upon us and we hang'd up for Mahometans all we could do or say in such a Case would be patiently to die with Protestation of our own Innocence And this is the posture of our present Condition We abhor we renounce we abominate such Principles We protest against them and Seal our Protestations with our Dying Breaths What shall we say What can we do more To accuse Men as guilty in matters of Faith which they never own'd is the same thing as to condemn them for matters of Fact which they never did You press the Question and say some of our General Councils several Papal Decrees and many of our Doctors and Divines assert the forementioned Principles Sir I have been instructed in the Articles of my Faith and I acknowledge the lawful Authority of General Councils Yet I profess I never learnt or found asserted in any of them any such Principles And I propose unto you this plain and short Dilemma Either the above-named Principles are esteem'd by us as matters of Faith or not If they be what further can be required of us then to deny and forsake such a Faith And this we constantly do But if they be not matters of Catholick Faith nor owned by us as such why are Catholicks as Catholicks punished for them why is our Religion persecuted on that account Let those in God's Name if any there be of what Religion soever who hold such Tenents suffer for them Why should the Innocent be involv'd with the Guilty there is neither Reason nor Justice in it Hereunto some Persons I hope out of zeal and mis-information rather than malice stick not to say that Dispensations and I know not what Indulgences and Pardons whereby to legitimate the Crimes of Lying and Forswearing when the Interest of our Church requires it is a main part of our Religion and by consequence the denial of our Principles is no sufficient Justification of our Innocence I answer First It is in the highest measure censorious in any one to impose upon all our Ancestors and the greatest part of mankind who are or have been so long together Members of our Religion such an excess of Folly and Wickedness as must needs have perverted all Humane Society Secondly If we could lawfully deny the Principles of our Faith when Interest requires why have we lost our Estates our Liberties our Lives for the profession of it To what purpose are Oaths and Tests devised to entangle us How impertinently is the frequenting the Protestant Church and Receiving the Communion proposed unto us and refused by us Thirdly Though many men may be induced to Lie and Forswear when they have some hopes or prospect thereby of Temporal Advantage yet that Persons dying for their Conscience and Religion as divers have done and those no Fools even by the Confession of our Adversaries should be so stupendiously sottish and mad either to imagine that Lies and Perjuries for concealment of Treason Murder Massacre and Destruction of others by Fire and Sword should be Acts of Virtue pleasing to God dispensable by the Pope and Meritorious of Heaven or that on the contrary knowing and believing as needs they must such Monsters and Horrours to be odious and detestable in the sight both of God and Man they should nevertheless upon the very brink of Eternity wittingly and willingly cast themselves headlong into an assured

Damnation and this at a time when they might have saved both Bodies and Souls by meerly discharging a good Conscience in acknowledging the Truth and becoming honest men This I say is Inhumane and contradictory to all sense and reason to believe Now therefore I come to what you so often and so earnestly press me to viz. To satisfie the world and clear myself my Fellow Sufferers and my Religion from the imputation laid upon us on pretence of such Principles by a true and candid Explanation of my Belief and Judgment in the main points of Faith and Loyalty controverted between Catholicks and Protestants as they severally relate to God and the King PARAGRAPH I. Of the Catholick Faith and Church in General 1. THe Fruition of God and Remission of Sin is not attainable by man otherwise then in and by the Merits of Jesus Christ who gratis purchased it for us 2. These Merits of Christ are not applied to us otherwise that by a Right Faith in Christ 3. This Faith is but One entire and conformable to its Obiect being Divine Revelations to all which Faith gives an undoubted assent 4. These Revelations contain many Mysteries transcending the natural reach of Humane Wit and Industry Wherefore 5. It became the Divine Wisdom and Goodness to provide Man of some way or means whereby he might arrive to the knowledge of these Mysteries Means visible and apparent to all Means proportionable to the Capacities of all Means sure and certain to all 6. This way or means is not the reading of Scripture interpreted according to the private Reason or Spirit of every disjunctive Person or Nation in particular But 7 It is an Attention and Submission to the Doctrine of the Catholick or Vniversal Church established by Christ for the Instruction of all Spread for that end throughout all Nations and visibly continued in a Succession of Pastors and People throughout all Ages From which Ghurch Guided in Truth and secured from Error in Matters of Faith by the promised Assistance of the Holy Ghost every one may and ought to Learn both the Right Sense of Scripture and all other Christian Mysteries and Duties respectively necessary to Salvation 8. This Church thus Spread thus Guided thus visibly Continued in One Vniform Faith and Subordination of Government is that self same which is termed the Roman Catholick Church The Qualifications abovementioned viz. Vnity Indeficiency Visibility Succession and Vniversality being applicable to no other Church or Assembly whatsoever 9. From the Testimony and Authority of This Church it is that We Receive and Believe the Scriptures to be God's Word And as She can assuredly tell Us This or That Book is God's Word so can she with the like Assurance tell us also the True Sense and Meaning of it in Controverted Points of Faith The same Spirit that Writ the Scripture Enlightning Her to Understand both It and all Matters Necessary to Salvation From These Grounds it Follows 10. All and only Divine Revelations deliver'd by God unto the Church and proposed by Her to be Believed as such are and ought to be esteem'd Articles of Faith and the contrary Opinions Heresie And 11. As an Obstinate Seperation from the Vnity of the Church in known declared Matters of Faith is formal Heresie So a wilful Separation from the Visible Vnity of the same Church in Matters of Subordination and Government is formal Schism 12. The Church proposeth unto Us matters of Faith First and chiefly By the Holy Scripture in Points plain and Intelligible in it Secondly By Definitions of General Councils in Points not sufficiently Explained in Scripture Thirdly By Apostolical Traditions deriv'd from Christ and his Apostles to all Succeeding ages Fourthly By her Practice Worship and Ceremonies Confirming her Doctrine PARAGRAPH II. Of Spiritual and Temporal Authority 1. GEneral Councils which are the Church of God Representative have no Commission from Christ to Frame new matters of Faith these being sole Divine Revelations but only to explain and ascertain unto us what antiently was and is received and retained as of Faith in the Church upon arising Debates and Controversies about them The Definitions of which General Councils in matters of Faith only and proposed as such oblige under pain of Heresie all the Faithful to a Submission of Judgment But 2. It is no Article of Faith to believe That General Councils cannot Err. either in matters of Fact or Discipline alterably by circumstances of time and place or in matters of Speculation or Civil Policy depending on meer humane Judgment or Testimony Neither of those being Divine Revelations deposited in the Catholick Church in regard to which alone she hath the promised Assistance of the Holy Ghost Hence it is deduced 3 If a General Council much less a Papal Consistory should undertake to depose a King and absolve his Subjects from their Allegiance no Catholick as Catholick is bound to submit to such a Decree Hence also it followeth 4. The Subjects of the King of England lawfully may without the least breach of any Catholick Principle Renounce even upon Oath the Teaching Mantaining or Practising the Doctrine of Deposing Kings Excommunicated for Heresie by any Authority whatsoever as Repugnant to the Fundamental Laws of the Nation Injurious to Soveraign Power Destructive to the Peace and Government and by consequence in His Majesties Subjects Impious and Damnable Yet not properly Heretical taking the Word Heretical in that connatural genuine sense it is usually understood in the Catholick Church on account of which and other Expressions no wise appertaining to Loyalty it is that Catholicks of tender Consciences refuse the Oath commonly called the Oath of Allegiance 5. Catholicks believe That the Bishop of Rome is the Successor of St. Peter Vicar of Jesus Christ upon Earth and Head of the whole Catholick Church which Church is therefore fitly stiled Roman Catholick being an universal Body united under one visible Head Nevertheless 6. It is no matter of Faith to be believe That the Pope is in himself Infallible seperate from a General Council even in Expounding the Faith By consequence Papal Definitions or Decrees though ex Cathedra as they term them taken exclusively from a General Council or Universal Acceptance of the Church oblige none under Pain of Heresie to an interior Assent 7. Nor do Catholicks as Catholicks believe that the Pope hath any direct or indirect Authority over the Temporal Power and Jurisdiction of Princes Hence If the Pope should pretend to Absolve or Dispence with His Majesties Subjects from their Allegiance upon account of Heresie or Schism such Dispensation would be Vain and Null and all Catholick Subjects notwithstanding such Dispensation or Absolution would be still bound

in Conscience to defend their King and Countrey at the hazard of their Lives and Fortunes even against the Pope himself in case he should invade the Nation 8. And as for Problematical Disputes or Errors of particular Divines in this or any other matter whatsoever the Catholick Church is no wise responsible for them Nor are Catholicks as Catholicks justly punishable on their Account But 9 As for the King-Killing Doctrine or Murder of Princes Excomunicated for Heresie It is an Article of Faith in the Catholick Church and expresly declared in the General Council of Constance That such Doctrine is Damnable and Heretical being contrary to the known Laws of God and Nature 10. Personal Misdemeanors of what Nature soever ought not to be Imputed to the Catholick Church when not Justifiable by the Tenents of her Faith and Doctrine For which Reason though the Stories of the Paris Massacre the Irish Cruelties Or Powder-Plot had been exactly true which yet for the most part are Notoriously mis-related nevertheless Catholicks as Catholicks ought not to Suffer for such Offences any more then the Eleven Apostles ought to have Suffered for Judas's Treachery 11. It is an Article of the Catholick Faith to believe That no Power on Earth can Licence Men to Lye to Forswear and Perjure themselves to Massacre their Neighbours or destroy their Native Countrey on pretence of promoting the Catholick Cause or Religion Furthermore all Pardons and Dispensations granted or pretended to be granted in order to any such ends or Designs have no other validity or Effect then to add Sacriledge and Blasphemy to the above-mentioned Crimes 12. The Doctrine of Equivocation or Mental Reservation however wrongfully Imposed on the Catholick Religion is notwithstanding neither taught nor approved by the Church as any part of her Belief On the contrary Simplicity and Godly Sincerity are constantly recomended by her as truly Christian Vertues necessary to the Conservation of Justice Truth and Common Society PARAGRAPH III. Of some Particular controverted Points of Faith 1. EVery Catholick is oblig'd to believe that when a Sinner Repenteth him of his Sins from the bottom of his Heart and Acknowledgeth his Transgressions to God and his Ministers the Dispensers of the Mysteries of Christ resolving to turn from his evil ways and bring forth Fruits worthy of Penance there is then and 〈◊〉 otherwise an Authority left by Christ to Absolve such a Penitent Sinner from his Sins which Authority Christ gave to his apostles and their Successors the Bishops and Priests of the Catholick Church in those words when he said Receive ye the Holy Ghost whose Sins you shall ●orgive they are forgiven unto them c. 2. Though no Creature whatsoever can make Condign satisfaction either for the Guilt of Sin or the Pain Eternal due to it This satisfaction being proper to Christ our Saviour only yet Penitent Sinners Redeemed by Christ may as members of Christ in some measure satisfie by Prayer Fasting Almes Deeds and other works of Piety for the Temporal Paine which by order of Divine Justice sometimes remains due after the guilt of Sin and Pains Eternal are gratis remitted These Penitential Works are notwithstanding satisfactory no otherwise than as joyned and applyed to that satisfaction which Jesus made upon the Cross in vertue of which alone all our good Works find a grateful acceptance in God's Sight 3. The Guilt of Sin or Pain Eternal due to it is never remitted by Indulgences but only such Temporal Punishments as remain due after the Guilt is remitted These Indulgences being nothing else than a Mitigation or Relaxation upon just causes of Canonical Penances enjoyned by the Pastors of the Church on Penitent Sinners according to their several Degrees of Demerit And if any abuses or mistakes be sometimes committed in point either of Granting or Gaining Indulgences through the Remisness or Ignorance of particular Persons contrary to the ancient Custom and Discipline of the Church such Abuses or Mistakes cannot rationally be charged on the Church nor render matter of Derision in prejudice to her Faith and Doctrine 4. Catholicks hold there is a Purgatory that is to say a Place or State where Souls departing this Life with Remission of their Sins as to the Eternal Guilt or Pain yet Obnoxious to some Temporal Punishment still Remaining due Or not perfectly freed from the Blemish of some venial Defects or Deordinations as Idle Words c. not liable to Damnation are purged before their Admittance into Heaven where nothing that is defiled can enter Furthermore 5. Catholicks also hold That such Souls so detained in Purgatory being the Living Members of Christ Jesus are Relieved by the Prayers and Suffrages of their Fellow-members here on Earth But where this place is Of what nature or quality the Pains are How long each Soul is detained there After what manner the Suffrages made in their behalf are applyed Whether by way of Satisfaction or Intercession c. are Questions Superfluous and Impertinent as to Faith 6. No Man though just can Merit either an Increase of Sanctity or Happiness in this Life or Eternal Glory in the next Independent on the Merits and Passion of Christ Nevertheless in and by the Merits of Christ Jesus the good Works of a Just Man proceed●ng from Grace and Charity are acceptable to God so far forth as to be through his Goodness and Sacred Promise Truly Meritorious of Eternal Life 7. It is an Article of the Catholick Faith That in the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist there is Truly and Really contained the Body of Christ which was delivered for us and his Bloud which was shed for the Remission of Sins The substance of Bread and Wine being by the powerful Words of Christ changed into the Substance of his Blessed Body and Bloud the Species or Accidents of Bread and Wine still remaining Thus 8. Christ is not present in this Sacrament according to his natural way of Existence that is with extension of parts in order to place c. but after a Supernatural manner one and the same in many places and whole in every part of the Symbols This therefore is a Real Substantial yet Sacramental Presence of Christ's Body and Bloud not exposed to the external Senses nor Obnoxious to corporeal Contingences 9. Neither is the Body of Christ in this Holy Sacrament Separated from his Bloud or his Bloud from his Body or either of both disjoyned from his Soul and Divinity but all and whole living Jesus is entirely contained under either Species so that whosoever receiveth under one kind is truly partaker of the whole Sacrament and no wise deprived either of the Body or Bloud of Christ True it is 10. Our Saviour Jesus Christ left unto us his Body and Bloud under two distinct

Bedlow though no compartner in the Murder could tell there were Four Thousand Pounds ordered of which Two Thousand Pounds were proffer'd to him alone if he would but assist the rest to convey away the Corps This Murder is affirm'd to have been committed on Saturday the twelfth day of October 78 at nine a clock at night and the Body convey'd away on the Wednesday following about Midnight In direct opposition to which Hill Green and Bury who were Accus'd Tryed and Executed for this Fact produced these Witnesses One Mrs. Tilden and Mrs. Broadstreet attested that Hill who dwelt with them never kept ill hours but always came in by Eight of the Clock That he could not go out afterwards because he waited at Table and the Maid Catherine Lee lock'd up the doors and the Family went not to Bed till Eleven That particularly he was at home on Saturday night when Sir Edmundbury Godfrey is said to be Kill'd and on Wednesday night when carry'd away James Warrier attested That Green his Lodger was in his House and company on Saturday October the 12 th from seven till after ten at Night and that he exactly remembred it by his Work Three Centinels who Successively kept strick Guard on the aforesaid Wednesday Night at the great Gate at Someset-House through which 't is affirm'd the Body was carried out in a Sedan declar'd there went out that way no Sedan at any hour whatsoever from seven a Clock that Night to four the next Morning The Amplitude of which Testimony includes at least three hours immediately before and after the time Sworn to by Prance and Bedlow Berry's Maid attested That her Master came in that same Wednesday in the Dusk of the Evening went to Bed about 12. and could not well after that go out again without her knowledge the passage to his Chamber being through hers And it is most worthy of observation that this Bury was and professed himself to be both during his Imprisonment and at his very Death a Protestant of the Church of England Yet this Man though after Condemnation he was proffer'd his Life if he would own the Fact Nevertheless absolutely deny'd it to his last Breath And when the very Cart was drawing away from under him he lifted up his Hands and said As I am Innocent so receive my Soul O Jesus wherefore if the last words of a dying Protestant who might but would not live by a false accusation of himself or others may be credited The Papists were Innocent of this Murder and the forenam'd Witnesses Perjur'd in their Evidence As for what is objected about a Letter sent from London to Tixal c. It is answer'd supposing such a Letter was really sent and receiv'd That a Letter intimating the Murder of a Justice of the Peace might well be Writ from London on Saturday when Sir Edmundbury Godfrey was known to be missing and arrive at Tixal in Staffordshire by the common Post on Munday following and thereupon Dugdale might tell the news the self-same day to divers Gentlemen at Tixall What of all this Where 's the Inferrence against the Papists Yet this is all some Gentlemen seemed to attest whilst others denyed and all can be necessarily deduc'd from the receipt of such a Letter But that this Justice of the Peace was Sir Edmundbury Godfrey and that the Papists had Murder'd him is proved only by the Common tract of Dugdales peremptory Swearing without any rational motive of credibility Thus much of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey As for the Narratives and from them deduced Stories of Firing the City Burning the Navy Black-Balls Fire-Balls Sham-Plots Wild-Irish Spanish-Pilgrims with other the like innumerable Fopperies and known contradictions to wise men though they make a dreadful sound amongst the Mobile yet carry along with them such an excess of Gross and Ridiculous Non-sence that to sober understandings they only serve to demonstrate the Perjury of the Witnesses and need no Confutation in Equitable Courts such as ours are no wise disposed per fas nefas without appearence of Justice to oppress the Innocent And whereas it is alledged as a main Argument of Popish Guilt That the two Houses of Parliament have declar'd it a Plot and several Persons in several Courts of Judicature have been Tryed Condemned and Executed for it The Papists answer with all due Submission to the Government in defence of Innocence That it is not Impossible nor altogether without President That a Lawful Authority proceeding Secundum allegata Probata should be abused and consequently drawn into a mistake by the Malice and Perjury of Wicked Men. Those who make it their study and Trade to frame Artificial Lyes and have time assistance and all imaginable encouragement and opportunity for it may easily invent plausible Stories with more coherence then any hitherto divised such as may amuse and deceive the most just and prudent Persons especially in a conjuncture when a transporting Zeal to the Protestant and as Papists say a misconceived prejudice to the Catholick Religion influenceth the Nation Nor have all been Convicted who were Impeached and Tryed upon the Plot but as some have been Condemned so others Impeached upon the same Evidence and in the same Courts of Judicature have been acquitted the wickedness and forgery of the Witnesses detected and their Depositions rejected as unworthy of Credit It is further hoped the Wisdom Justice and Integrity of the State will at length discover the whole Imposture vindicate the Innocent and Punish the Injury herein done to God to the King to the Nation and to almost all Europe To the Instances given of Popish Malice and Bloodiness from former examples viz. Queen Mary's Cruelties the Powder Plot the Irish Barbarisms the French Massacre c. Committed by Profest Papists It is answered that by the same reason and to as good purpose the Trayterous Seditions and Outrages in Germany France Bohemia and Holland Authorized and Fomented by Calvin Swinglius B●za and other Reformers The late Bloudy Wars in England the almost yesterday's Remonstrances and Practices in Scotland The even now actual Rebellion in Hungary raised and managed by Protestants for Protestanizm But above all that never to be paralelled Hellish Murder of the Lords Annointed Our glorious Soveraign CHARLES the I. in cold Blood by outward form of Justice on pretence of Reformation might be imputed to the Protestant Religion For all these now mentioned Horrid Villanies were committed by Protestants Protestants who gloried in being more then ordinarily refined from Popish Errors and Superstitions If it be said as most justly it may the Church of England never taught such Practices the same say and protest the Papists in behalf of their Church But because meer recrimination is no justification on either side And for that a full decision of this heavy charge dependeth much on the right understanding of Roman Catholick Principles in matter of obedience to God and the King We shall treat of

this Subject apart by it self when we come to examine the Principles of My Lords Faith and Religion Reflections upon the several above cited Depositions of Smith Dugdale Oates and Jenison LAstly The above-cited Depositions respectively made by Smith Dugdale Oates and Jenison in proof of the Plot in general are liable also to divers remarkable Exceptions And the Papists stick not here to say They wonder how so many and gross Incongruities and Falsehoods attested only by Infamous Men could pass for current Truths amongst Persons of Justice Worth and Prudence For instance Smith in his Deposition gives us to understand That being as yet a Protestant but troubled it seems with some doubts in matters of Religion He applyed himself for satisfaction to certain Priests in France They to settle his mind told him They would shortly bring in their Religion into England Right or Wrong a notable argument to convince a well-meaning Protestant But neither this as you may well think nor all the Jesuits could say or do would prevail with him so that he lived and studied with them several years a likely story remaining still a professed Protestant At length the Jesuits desponding as well they might of their own abilities herein sent him to be Converted by Cardinal Grimaldi and he it was did the Feat which none of the Priests or Jesuits could compass The Cardinal to remove all Scruples from the tender Conscience of his new Convert and further to convince his Judgment in the truth of his Religion entertain'd him one day with this Learned and Pious discourse viz That he had great assurances the Popish Religion would prevail in England and that there was but one in the way and that to accomplish their Designs they must take him out of the way Thus the young Man being now well confirmed in his Faith was made a Priest and sent into England with Instructions to teach his Countrey-men They were not obliged to obey their King and that to Murder him was a Meritorious Act. But the misfortune was that arriving in England he quite mistook his Errand And though he continu'd firm in the belief of the Popish Doctrine and Principles yet made it his whole business to root out the Jesuits the Popes chief Emissaries and disswade Roman Catholicks from sending Moneys to Colledges beyond Seas Dugdale tells us All the Jesuits Letters containing Damnable Treason and sent for the most part by the Common Post came to his hands most of which he saw and read but could never produce one single Letter He informs us also of dreadful Oaths and Sacraments of Secrecy administred to the Conspirators before they were made privy to any Dangerous Design yet with the same breath declares there were whole Armies both Privy and Ready to a Design no less then of Cutting all the Protestants Throats throughout the Nation at an hours warning Nay he assures us there was a Free Pardon of all Sins Proclaimed every where at the Chappels to all Persons Men and Women whosoever would be active in Killing the King a notable way of concealing Secrets Is it possible this Fellow should find credit in such gross such palpable Forgeries Oates likewise relates How that whilst he was Chaplain to the Duke of Norfolk the Priests attempted the utmost of their skill to perswade him out of his Religion by telling him The Church of England was upon it's last Legs Surely the Priests took him to be either a notorious Fool or Knave for otherwise they might doubtless have devis'd some more plausible and less dangerous Argument to convert a Protestant Minister Yet he feigned to be convinced by their reasons and was hereupon presently entertain'd by the Jesuits the sottish careless Jesuits who on a suddain intrusted this Neophite with all their concerns made him privy to all their most Damnable-Intrigues And in short 't is most certain nothing of Treason Murder or Villany was contrived or even thought on by them without him By this means he became acquainted not only with the strange adventures of Pickerings loose Flint Whipping Thirty Thousand Masses c. But also with the manner of Firing the City Introducing Chimerical Armies French Irish Spanish c. Mustered up in the Deposition Nor is it a wonder the Jesuits should be so rash in discovering their Secrets to Oates Seing he himself if you will believe him here also deposeth that some of them were so desperately mad as to Preach a publick Sermon before a company of Students wherein the Kings Legitimacy was vilified and abused and it was declared His Majesties Religion entituled him to nothing but sudden Death and Destruction Is it credible a Jesuit or any other in his Wits should publickly Preach such Black Treason to a Company of Boyes But what shall we say of the Doctor 's tender Conscience and Zeal in preserving the King He tells us here he only seigned himself a Catholick on purpose to make Discoveries Alas good Man It was to save His Majesties l●fe made him seem to the Papists what he really was not Yet O prodigious Impudence he owns at the same time he was conscious for above a year together of the daily attempts made by Groves and Pickering to Shoot the King He hourly expected for several Months the horrid effects of Sir George Wakeman's Poyson He was privy as he ad's else-where to the designed Assassination of the King at Windsor He knew the Ruffians were actually upon the Place and ready for the Villany He saw the Money sent to them for their Encouragement and every moment waited to hear the Fatal stroke was given Nevertheless this Man of Conscience whose watchful Eye so carefully guarded the Kings Life all this while made no Discovery Though he knew for certain that the Pistols were already even at the King's Breast The Cup of Poyson at his Lip And the Dagger almost at his very Heart Yet he never cryed out Murder upon the Lords Annointed never called for Immediate Succour never warned the King of his Imminent danger never diverted the Impending Mischief never so much as opened his Mouth to disclose any of these Horrid Treasons until such time as the King might have been killed a thousand times over Is this the Doctors Vigilancy Or rather is it not perfect Demonstration that all he hath Sworn of the Plot is Damnable Perjury Jenison declares That though he often expressed to Mr. Ireland An Horrid detestation of Treason and Blood-shed Yet Ireland as if he had a mind to Hang himself was still urging this Consciencious Man to Murder the King and when he could not prevail with him herein he would needs have him at last to nominate some Irish Ruffians whom he judged most proper for this Execrable Villany And thus far indeed Jenison acknowledgeth he condescended Now one would think a Man who had taken so deep an Impression of horrour and detestation of Bloodshed should have had some scruple in concealing so Hellish a Design and much more in