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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53145	News from Ireland, touching the damnable design of the papists in that kingdom to forge a sham-plott upon the Presbyterians being the declaration of William Smith Gent. maintaining his late evidence against St. Lawrence, a Popish priest, who would have suborn'd him to have sworn the same.	Smith, William, 17th cent.	1682 (1682)	Wing N975; ESTC R13178	5,965	2

Absolvo c. shall cause me to go from the truth And here by way of digression I very well remember some time after the happy Discovery of the Damned and Hellish Popish Plot by Dr. Titus Oats c. I was then held in great Estimation by several Papists in a certain place in this Kingdom and one day one of their Priests and I being in Company together I told him that I much admired any Roman Catholick would appear as an Evidence against those of their own Religion who replyed You know not the mistery of it time will make you more sensible and this at last will be fathered upon Shaftsbury and his Gang meaning the Presbyterians c. We had other Discourses at that time which I shall here omit till a more apt opportunity and the rather since I intend nothing more by this but only to give a general Satisfaction that I Swore nothing against the said St. Lawrence but what was truth and from which I will never Recede For I had rather Perish nay worse if any thing can be for truths sake than by denying it obtain innumerable Riches For what shall it profit a man to gain the whole World and lose his own Soul And although the Papists are pleased disingeniously as also dishonestly to slander and reproach me yet do I take but little notice of them because if we do but look back into their Actions 't is easily discovered how many Tricks and Contrivances they have both Studied and Practised and to no other end intent or purpose than to disparage and make Invalid real Evidence that so they might obscure from being made known their Notorious Inhumane and Hellish designs for certain it is those that Act any thing in Defence of his Majesty or preservation of the Protestant Religion or to detect their black Designs are either brought upon the Stage and Witnesses Suborned to Swear against them that they Conspired the Death of the King and to introduce an Arbltrary Government c. Or else they are Barbarously Murder'd as was that Worthy and late English Martyr Sir Edmondbury Godfrey who for all the Pretensions they have made use of to blind the Eyes of the vulgar sort by saying he was accessary to his own Death by running a Rapier through his Body yet was his Life undoubtedly taken away by those bloody Miscreants For those that are so Impious to be culpable of such Contrivances will be so cunning as to Study some Shift or Equivocation to evade it if their Villanies should come to be called in question yet let them use all their Shifts Sham-plots Subornations and likewise Imploy all the help and Subtilty of their Crafty and King-killing Jesuits to put the burthen and weight of their Diabolical Confederacies upon the poor Protestants I say notwithstanding all those devices the Omnipotent God is so just that in due time he will unmask all their Proceedings and Paint them and their Rogueries out in their own Colours in the interim let us content our selves with this ordinary Gramatical saying Quicquid sub Terra est in Apricum proferet Etas 'T is strange to think what Assurances these Caterpillars of the Earth proposed to themselves for the Extirpation of the Protestant and Reestablishment of their bloody Romish Religion and albeit so many of their Fathers have Suffered by the hands of publick Justice the just rewards of their Demerits yet how confidently do they endeavour to wipe off their too too deep dyed Guiltiness by Proclaiming it a Presbyterian Plot and that the Dissenters of the Church of England were dissatisfied with the Kingly Government and their old Rebellious tricks of raising a Civil War was beginning again To that I answer If it were so they Condemn the gravest Senators that ever were and upbraid them with Injustice I mean the Learned and Judicious Judges c. of England for had there been no Popish Plot Coleman Langborn Whitebread and the rest would not have taken their last Farewells at Tyburn for it But some Simple Ignorant People will object that such Learned men as they would not have wrong'd their poor Souls just at their going out of the World by Protesting themselves as free as the Child newly born from those Crimes they died for if they knew any thing to the contrary To such Objections I say thus that not long since my self and a worthy Gentleman who dyed very lately being together in Company with a Popish Priest and discoursing this point of those that dyed in England which I just now mentioned without a general acknowledgment of the Crimes they died for the said Priest told us that just before their Executions they Confess all and every thing to some Father Confessor or other who immediately Absolves them from all their Sins whatsoever and gives them power to deny all in publick at their said Executions the Priest that told me this was one Vicar Mackaw and the Gentleman then in my Company Dr. Wyat and for so doing they are assured to be Cannonized for Saints and Recorded as Martyrs in their black Registers at Rome I presume Persons of Loyal and honest principles well wishers of his Sacred Majesty and the Protestant Religion needs not require much time to understand and dive into the mystery of their Endeavouring to throw off the whole Plot upon the Presbyterians as is aforesaid by reason 't is so near of Kind to the usual and Accustomed pollicies of those sort of Cattle I mean the infamous famous Jesuits who aim at nothing so much as to breed a Dissention betwixt our Dread Soveraign and his Subjects which God grant never may be that they may like Wolves appear in Sheeps Cloathing and inwardly Smile at our Misfortunes and on a sudden Strike home that blow they have so long desired nay endeavoured to Accomplish but I do not doubt at least I hope that the People of England are so firmly grounded in their Loyalty and Obedience to their most Gracious King and also so sensible of the Miseries that attended them in the late unhappy and unnatural differences that they will Sacrifice their Lives and Fortunes in the Defence and Right of his most Sacred Person against all Rebellions and Plots whatsoever I suppose I need not say anymore at present concerning the Inveteracy of the Papists in general against the Protestants it being well known in these Times yet I thought it necessary to Insert this that by reason of Dean Burges's coming to visit me and confirm me in the Protestant Religion they have been pleased since to say that he was something too busie with me about St. Lawrence's Business and that they believed he much Encouraged me in it To such Reports I answer as followeth viz. The said Dean Burges never came to me but he Discoursed much to the ensuing purpose That if the Information given in by me against St. Lawrence were true in the Name of God I should go on with it on the contrary said he if it be a thing of your own devising Confess it humbly before God and ask him Forgiveness perhaps he may Forgive you if it be a false thing you will be a miserable Creature and oftentimes he said As he would not Encourage me in an unjust Action so would he not Discourage me in a Just however mind you have a Soul which must once render an Account to God for all your Actions both good and bad And how far the same Dean was from setting me on to form my Information against St. Lawrence let the Reader judge for I take God to Witness he knew nothing of it till after the said Priest was in Custody and if I am not much mistaken he was at that time in the Countrey where his Benefits lyes Another thing of the aforesaid Dean comes afresh into my Memory viz. He told me several times before he Administred the Blessed Sacrament of the Lords Supper to me that it was better for me to Eat and Drink so much Poyson if I had Injured St. Lawrence and should come to the Table with such Guilt upon my Conscience In the next place these Papists declare that what I did was to get my Enlargement and that I was hired to it by the Presbyterians which is like the rest of their Aspersions for God who knows the Secrets of all Hearts and before whom I must one day give an Account well knows that I neither did it in hopes of a Liberty or any other temporal Reward nor was I set on advised to it or had the least Encouragement from any Soul breathing but that it was my free and voluntary Act and that I had no other end in doing of it than to discharge a good Conscience and that I may be the better understood I beseech God that I may never enter into the Kingdom of Heaven nor to enjoy Everlasting Bliss if ever I saw Mr. Harrison or Mr. Jack the Persons that St. Lawrence would have Suborned me to Swear against from the time of my Creation to this very day to the best of my knowledge neither did I ever so much as receive a Letter from them or either of them I further hereby Certifie and Declare that I know nothing of any Plot Contrivance or Design against our most Gracious King or the Government either in Church or State but that of the Papists whose devilish treacherous and bloody Stratagems I humbly beseech that God in his due time will Convert to their own Destructions Should I write ten times as much more as is contained in this Paper it would all be tending to one and the same Effect therefore I shall conclude but first humbly Pray the Almighty to send length of Dayes Health Wealth and Prosperity to our Soveraign Lord King Charles c. And in Testimony of the truth hereof I have hereunto set my Hand this 11 th day of February Anno Dom. 1681. William Smith Witness George Harrison William Boswell William Stuart Nathaniel Dancer Quintin Moore London Printed for Richard Janeway in Queens-Head-Alley in Pater-Noster-Row 1682.