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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39587	The narrative of Mr. John Fitz-Gerrald late of the order of St. Francis, in the kingdom of Ireland ...	Fitz-Gerrald, John.	1681 (1681)	Wing F1074; ESTC R18280	24,168	36

King Countrey Church and Government of these three Nations which indeed there is many a Soul that joynes with them in so doing at least in their wishes and thoughts they would willingly assist and back them for they could do it without being seen in it so that they are loath otherways to be Concerned but in their Clandestine way they stir up others to blow the fire and they kindle it themselves which is a thing easily proved if it had been throughly and narrowly examined but for my part I do not intend to press my Evidences to that effect upon any man though that I may safely say and not only say but firmly aver that I have performed the duty of an honest Subject a zealous Christian and a loving Country-man And having so done as is manifestly seen that I am readier to serve than people are to receive me which the old Proverb being performed which is called Propriate Service is not accepted But to hint a little more of my purpose to let you see as a Confirmation to your own understandings how this contrived Contradiction of the verity of a Plot was contracted by the above Persons and I do not question but they had many Assistants in these their Undertakings of Blemishing and Disgracing the King's Subjects and Laws of these three Nations as surely they would have been made privy to by the Lurkers and Peepers officious and busie Persons that lurk and peep from forth their Windows listening and waiting whether they could hear any such Rumors or Reports as the contradicting and discrediting of the Popish Plot and upon the other hand expecting likewise to cast it over upon the heads of Protestants in hopes to clear themselves and lay the Guilt upon them these I say and such other Reports as would relish best their Pallates with such a savory taste as to say that There is no Plot It is proved there is none The Kings and Council are convinced to the contrary of the being of any Plot in agitation at all and that it is but a slam and Captain Elie Sympson Tonge and John Crawley maintained it so to be and therefore he that saith there was a Plot in agitation shall not be the better thought of Alas I say this is the long wished and languishing Desire of the Church of Rome and all Members thereunto belonging That they may hear such a general and unanimous Contradiction of the Plot and indeed Reason will shew us not to blame them in that respect for it is no marvail that the People should defend their great Interest and keep it as pure and blameless as possible they can but I must say it is not for their Care of so doing if they had taken it in an honest way we blame them But for their evil accustomed practises for conniving and contracting Massacre Murder Rebellion upon all whosoever that contradict their Tenets Governments or Laws and after having so done by their fiery Instruments of devillish Exploits they do absolve them and dispense with such abominable Wickedness as hath been Recorded of them in several Ages Which would be tedious to instance them or some of them in this and such like little pieces of Paper by reason that the Matter doth require to be more spaciously handled than I can well at present bestow time upon But I say we can expect no less of any people which are so manifestly proved to be Guilty and Criminal but that they would with all their Endeavours hide their Guilts and Crimes and imploy their best Wits how to recall the Reputation by famed Honesty and Innocence which we see daily that they that is to say the Roman Catholicks do practise and use all means whatsoever to get themselves into a renewed Favour and procure them the title of harmless people but I judge that what they can do to that purpose cannot yield them such Reputation as they have lost by their several sundry and manifold Connivances and Contrivances for they are by several Authors Recorded in old Ages remarkably to be a people that continually harbour an Antipathy against Protestants which I would let you see by several Instances but as I have excused my self in the foregoing lines that I must wait till another Opportunity and expecting upon such Considerations which I shall thus reason unto you hereafter and shall in the Interim recommend you to your own reading in several approved Authors which I question not but you may be furnished with them and if you be not you may borrow of others who are so concerned to be curious in keeping for the reviving of their Memory such Books as may confirm the Truth of what I do tax Popery to be guilty of in many Ages Reigns and Governments though that the Roman Catholicks do unjustly assert that the very first Ofspring of Protestants proceeded from Luther and Calvin in King Henry the Eighth's time about one hundred and fifty years ago Whereupon Papists may take occasion to contradict me in claiming an Interest in the knowledge of their Error in many Ages For they are a people that are apt to purchase all Demurrs whatsoever that they can light of quoted in any Writings against them for I know they say that Protestants are but new upstart Apostates and that they can claim no Rights in the Primitive Record much less they say in the Apostolical Church-Government and the reason they produce for that false Assertion of theirs is this That the Primitive Records and the Apostolical Church-Governments were established for many hundreds of years before the Name or Government of Protestants was invented or published yet we find we believe great many stedfast and well-grounded Authors that Protestants were for some hundreds of years before that time that they take to be first dissenting of Protestants from the Roman Catholick Church which I shall undertake to maintain to the Contrary on some other Occasion And well understanding that you may be as acquainted with the truth of it as I am I take it as one of the Reasons or Considerations as above mentioned for not further satisfying you with preambled Instances at present The next Reason I have as to that matter of my silence in letting you see more of the Transactions of the Popish Party is this that I intend to make use of Opportunity which shall be with as much Expedition as I can to give you a larger account of their Malice against Protestants And upon these Considerations I leave you to your thoughts of these Matters And shall only tell you that the old Spirit of Popery and Envy is much revived now adays and I am afraid in this City Suburbs Court and Kingdom which I could wish with all my heart that the said City and Country might not feel the burthen Smart Strength and multiplicity of the said Party I do also pray to the Lord that my King as his Subjects could been purged from their long burning Sedition that they cast in between