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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59348	A supplement to The narrative in reply to the dulness and malice of two pretended answers to that pamphlet / written by E. Settle.	Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724.	1683 (1683)	Wing S2720; ESTC R37374	28,150	21

affirm that Pickering presented the Gun but that finding the defect of the Flint he deferd the Action till another time Besides he forgets that there was a very thick Grove at the end of the Pell-mell where His Majesty might have made his unfortunate Approaches And the Reflecter upon the same passage wisely observes the Traytor might sculk behind one of those great Trees between which he might have used his Hat or Cloak or Twenty other things for the hindering a Discovery But Settle with his Brambles and Bryars could not see Wood for Trees That is to say a Couple of fellows with each of them a Screwd-Gun could shelter themselves in a Grove without one Branch of Underwood where the Trees stand three or four yards asunder and the largest of those Trees have publick walks all round them in a place too where no Man is suffered to wander out of the common walk but the very Centries shall call him back Oh but they concealed their Guns behind their Hats Cloaks or Twenty other things But surely when the Gun miscarryed once for want of powder in the Barrel and another time in the Pan Was the Gun under the Hat or the Cloak or were the Silver Bullets to go through Hat Cloak Trees and all But now for the Massacre The Discoverers give you an account of Commissions given out an Army to be raised and Elkanahs Narrative makes it apparent that Army could consist of none but Papists it being impossible as they had managed it to have drawn in any other Malecontents into the Conspiracy Well and where 's the wonder of all this says the Reflecter Is it not possible to list a Popish Army in a Protestant Country without being Discovered till they themselves think convenient being Tongue-tyed awed and spirited by superstition Oaths c. All this granted how will the Reflecter reconcile that Concession of his p. 19th in which he yeilds that there were some of the Papists in the Old Kings Reign some Thousands he might have said that ventured their Lives Estates and Freedoms in the Royal Cause for in the most Barbarous Nations continues he there are some Persons found who are JUST UPRIGHT HONEST and LOYAL Now if this Popish Army was listed in England as the Discoverers Swear the blow being ready for striking I wonder how the Conspirators did to single out and list only those Disloyal Papists fit for their turn and not unluckily communicate their intended Rebellion to so much as one man of those Thousands of Just Honest Upright and Loyal Men of that Religion that consequently with all those good Principles would not have fordorn to have detected the Conspiracy The Papists were not Gods and 't is not a little miraculous that as but Men they should have that assurance of all the Hands and Hearts they trusted as not to be mistaken even in one false Brother through a whole Army Besides the Reflecter is very unlucky in this point for as Elkanah affirms and the Reflecter does not deny that the Papists by computation are not the 150th part of the Nation and therefore in the Heretick Massacre one Man must have Kill'd near a Brace of Hundreds for his share if as there are so many Loyal Men amongst the Party that would have stood Neuter at least if not resisted them the Reflecter has unfortunately put them to the push of each mans Killing at least twice as many and the Possibility of all this the Reflecter does not at all doubt it being as feazable an Archievement as the Knaves of Popeland ere contrived or the Fools of Whigland ere believed Nay to make the Motions of the Jesuits a little more wondrous Bedlow Swears before the House of Lords that the Papists had an Army of Forty Thousand strong all ready to rise in London at 24 hours warning besides those that should have been posted at every Ale-house Door to have Kill'd the Soldiers as they come out of their Quarters and Lord Petre and Powis were to have Marcht with another English Army through Pembroke-shire and yet as the Devil and ill luck would have it 't is undeniably manifest that all the Papists in England are so far from forming so many terrible Armies that they are not 40000 in all Men Women and Children through the whole Kingdom Yet all this we are obliged to believe as true as the Evangelists and he that dares deny it flies in the face of Kings Lords and Commons and arraigns the whole Justice of the Nation Besides to eternize the Memory of this glorious Preserver of the Nation tho t is notoriously known he died Raving yet the true blue Bristol Protestants could honour him with no less an Inscription on his Herse than Testimonium quod vivens exhibuit moriens constanter obfirmavit But now to leave Mr. Bedlows Armies and take a view of Dugdales Plot-Forces the best Jest we have in all the Reflections for 't is all but Farce we meet in the 11th Page Settle gives an account how preposterous nay how impossible an undertaking 't was for the Papists to have laid the Kings Murder upon the Presbyterians as Dugdale Swears and to have engaged the Episcopal party in the Massacre upon the issue of Pickerings Gun the said Pickering being too shallow a Headpiece for so great a Masterpiece of Cheat and Villany as to lay it on the Dissenters and too known a Popish Face to pass for a Presbyterian To this the Reflecter answers for there is nothing so Chimerical but he finds an expedient for Seeing the Papists were ever hovering about the Kings Person upon the Blow given might not they out of a pretended officious Zeal fall upon the Assassinate mangle him in such a manner as to render him altogether unknown again for the person he was and then lay it at whose door they pleas'd either by real or forged words forged words I understand not that execrable Murder and upon this the Church of England Men out of a just Resentment and Indignation for the loss of their All in so Divinely good a Prince are reasonably to be supposed would revenge it with all the Heat and all the vigour imaginable Now one would think we had had Popish Plots enough in all conscience but this subtle Reflecter has wonderfully detected one Popish Plot more and Heaven knows an Heroical one being no less than a Plot of the great and mighty Popish Nobles against the poor little Popish Pickering Lord what will not Popery do and Reflections find out But dear Mr. Little Plot what if the Protestant Nobility about the King which I fancy are always much stronger than his Popish Courtiers had stopt these Lordly Popish Hands from Carbonading the poor desperado and preserved him for a Gibbet and if they could not have stept in time enough to have prevented a Popish stab yet at least have snatch'd his Carcase from those bloody Popish Mince-meat-makers and kept his Physnomy unmangled to have discovered the Assassinate in