ΕΙΚΩΠΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ ΤΕΤΑΡΤΗ OR THE PICTURE OF THE Late King James Further drawn to the LIFE In which is made manifest by several Articles That the whole Course of his Life hath been a continued Conspiracy against the Protestant Religion Laws and Liberties of the Three Kingdoms In a Letter to Himself The Fourth Part. By TITVS OATES D. D. LONDON Printed and are to be sold by Richard Baldwin 〈◊〉 the Oxford-Arms Inn in Warwick-Lane MDCXCVII TO His most Excellent Majesty WILLIAM III. By the Grace of God And the Choice of the Good People of England Of Great Britain France and Ireland Rightful and Lawful KING Defender of the Faith and Restorer of our LAWS and LIBERTIES As well as the Victorious PROTECTOR of Oppress'd Europe TITVS OATES D. D. His Faithful Dutiful and Loyal Subject and Servant most humbly dedicates this ensuing MEMORIAL ΕΙΚΩΠΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ ΤΕΤΑΡΤΗ Or The Fourth Part of the Picture of the Late King JAMES SIR I Know you expect I should be as good as my word and truly so I will to the utmost of my poor power because of the great regard I have for your Person Cause and Interest and before I enter upon any more lines of your sweet face in order to perfect your Picture let us take a dish of drink together and give you a true state of your interest here in England and when we consider the excellent qualifications of your Hell-born Crew here you may easily conclude what a nasty pickle you and my old Landlady are in and that I shall do in these six particulars 1. Your Cattel here have acted their parts in tampering to make parties against the present Government which parties were to have been made either of your Friends or your Enemies the former are such a parcel of Cowardly Rascals that to tell you the truth as they quitted your Father in the time when he had most occasion for them so they did you witness your friends both here and in Scotland too notwithstanding the application they made by your especial direction to Sir Timothy Stiff-Jaws when old Preston's hopeful design was baffled by the vigilance of the present Government nay I doubt not but that they might by Scotch Robin have made some effort of that nature upon some of our Dissenters but alas it was to no purpose for they understood their Interest as well as an old friend of yours did of cheating your Brother of a tickling summ you know for what use and therefore all attempts if ever any were to all intents and purposes fruitless and vain well I pray what tools did you make use of very sorry ones upon my word a sort of people whose persons were neither known nor had they credit for a two-penny Loaf persons not able to make you a party worth the mentioning nor can I by the best enquiry I can make tell who set them on work or what Warrant or Authority they have for what they do for if one should ask Sir Timothy Stiff-Jaws to whom as I said before they were to make application he would swear by my Landlady's white hand that he knew never a Rogue of them all and would not lose his good Preferment as long as there was a shilling to be got though I must tell you that in spight of the Whore his neighbour he hath quitted his Post since a penny could not be got in it with any great matter of content he is now at Grass and waits dear Sir for a comfortable minute that he may have my Landlady by the hand again without disturbance I suppose he might make you under-hand half a dozen poor Curs and these the Rogues call a Party and a Party for you and upon the strength of these Fellows impudence your nonsensical Crew shamm'd a simple Declaration from you bearing date from St. Germains which did you more hurt than the Fishermen of Feversham could do for their hearts blood Well when your gracious Declaration came Lord What a stir they made with it and publish it they would hand over head without any regard had for the Publishers and disposers of the same or the least thought of making any provision for those willing Vermin that lay at the mercy of our Government to be drawn hang'd and quartered for such an eminent piece of service and some of them have taken a civil swing tho much ado before they could be perswaded to it You was not pleased to put us off with one Declaration but a second and a third was issued forth bearing date from St. Germains in which you lovingly declared what great and good things they should have the Lord knows when if they would but meet you the Lord knows where But I pray Sir why did you reflect upon the ingratitude of some of your old Friends Alas alas you did not well consider that they might be got into good employments in which they were to Battle their sweet Bodies for a convenient season or it may be if some of them had been so scandalous that they could not get into an employment of considerable trust they were got behind the Hangings with a comfortable Pension to the end that they may use King William in that Post as they did you when you employed them Nay sweet Sir now I think on 't there is your old Friend Sir Simkin you know who turned Whig to betray the Whigs to your Brother and then he turned Tory to betray your Brother to the Whigs then turned Papist to betray your good Worship what could you do with such a Spark if he should take the other turn but keep him behind the Hangings to do some job or another tho it cost you two or three thousand pounds per annum for Secret service for in my conscience Rhiming Jack Carryl and the rest of your doughty Crew at St. Germains would scarce sit at Council-board with him he would be so scandalous he saith he is a man of good parts and wouâ—d himself sign a Certificate even upon Oath since honour hath so long been a stranger to him yet none of your poor humble Curs now with you would be seen in his company for forty shillings a man lest he should betray you once more Come let me ask you one civil question if you should be King of Poland or Jerusalem or Ushant or Bell Isle Would you ever admit him so much as Clerk of your Kitchen truly you must have the Grace of a great deal of good Nature to believe him worthy of such an Employ for since he hath made so many turns let him have nothing with you but that of a Turnspit he being too lend for any else yet for all this this Case-hardened Coxcomb that brags of doing great feats for the support of our Government hath pretended to such an Interest with you and my very good Landlady that one would think that he was ready to make another turn and some of your Cattle here would fain make us believe he is doing
inflaming the differences that were amongst Protestants you had as great a talent at this sort of business as any man could be supposed to have had your party kept pace with you to a hairs breadth for at your coming how did you endeavour to heighten the difference between the Conforming and Nonconforming parties how watchful were the Good men of the Episcopal party over the Dissenters judging them to be greater Enemies to their cause and Quarrel than the Papists because of their great numbers and being in a bodily fear that the Dissenters would not only out-live but out-preach them this was a great crime Sir in the poor Protestant Dissenters which high Church would never forgive for some of them cared as little for preaching as you did for fighting unless it were with an honest Protestant at the Old Baily or the Kings-Bench Court where you were always sure to get the better of them and then you very seldome gave quarter to any that lay at your mercy nay did not Castlemain pâ—ess the Bishops to revenge themselves upon the Dissenters for their severe usage of them and their Clergy for their scandalous lives and ignorance in the word of Righteousness nay he did not only advise in the matter but pusht on their taking revenge with Head and Horns together rather than the poor Dissenters should go unpunished or that the division should not be widened to the utmost therefore upon the whole let me ask you or any of those Traytors that were with you at St. Germains whether these differences thus influenced was not to betray us into the hands of your villainous Popish party for it was not your Province I suppose to strengthen the Protestant Interest against the Conspiracies of the Papists no you will not pretend to that for that would be a solicism with a vengeance or did you judge that the Papists could by their plottings do any great damage to a Protestant Interest firmly united truly it is plain that because of the strength of a united Protestant Interest you could have but a poor account of your well-laid designs in a word therefore it was the weakening the Protestant Interest you aimed at and nothing could weaken them but dividing them and then this point being gained to work you and your Rogues went to destroy both and had effected your design had you not met with an unlucky fellow that discovered all 4. There was a fourth step taken to effect your Popish and Trayterous designs and that was the engaging the high Church party to run in with the Popish party in arraigning the Dissenters for Traytors and Rebels nay tho several of them who had with much zeal fought under the late King your Father and your Papists were somenters of the said War and would have fought against the King in the service of the Parliament if their services might have been accepted of and if any of them did fight for the King it was because his Cause was like to the Gallows received all and refused none it is well known that it was the folly of some of those you aspersed that brought your Brother home for which I think they have well paid for it but what doth all this tend to why they were to be battered at by the Church and Popish party together but that they might the more effectually be destroyed and then the Popish party with reason might expect the more easily to carry their point against high Church it self whom they judge Hereticks as much as they do the Dissenters and this I must say that our high Church if they had been destroyed by you and your party they might have thanked themselves for their ruine though I must confess I should have been sorry that so great a number of men should so heartily contribute to their own destruction and reject our Brethren that would so heartily have joyned in with them to have destroyed you and your villainous party in order to have preserved the Protestant Religion 5. There was a fifth step you made to effect your design by creating in many unthinking people especially in many of our Baal's Priests that the Kingdom did enjoy a sufficient security for our Laws Liberties and Religion and therefore how your party used to quarrel with those men that were apprehensive of our dangers in those cases your Brother apprehended that our Religion and Laws tho I should have thought that his apprehension of the danger of the Protestants had risen from Nell s wanting of Money to buy Cloaths to wipe down her Mistresses Stairs or from her Mistresses wanting some new rigging if none had thought of the danger that we were in but himself but we had four Parliaments that saw the danger as well as himself and did not only see the danger with which we were encompassed but with what great difficulty we were like to meet withal in order to prevent it till their eyes were opened you went on with a full career in your Plots and Conspiracies and met with great success suitable to that zeal to which you were as Coleman saith converted in a very high degree the plain truth is that you had a mighty work in hand and a mighty mind to it and therefore it was fit you should take mighty steps to effect the same 6. Another step you took to effect your wicked design on foot was to create and preserve a Jealousie in the King of the faithfulness and loyalty of the People and a jealousie in the People of the sincerity and good affection of the King to them so that they seeing they could not keep up a War between the King and the States General yet they would maintain a War between the King and the People of England and truly they had their ends for they brought your Brother in a manner to set up his Standard and proclaim a War against his honest Subjects by the frequent Rapes he committed in the time of his Reign upon the Laws and Liberties of the people witness his quitting his legal power and setting up of a French mode of Government and laying aside those Laws by which he was to have governed his people so that he became universally hated by the honest party of the Nation and thereby the more exposed to the vengeance of your cut-throat Crew who to destroy him would ordinarily expose his Government that they might so divest him of friends in such a measure as that none might appear to avenge his death but rather rejoyce in his destruction as you and your party did when you had done his business and I must say this of him he died more lamented than you thought for and less lamented than most Kings of England that died before him 3. I come now to show you who assisted in this Conspiracy you could not carry on any design without some great assistance therefore it is necessary that they should be pointed out that the World may know them from other men and
Religious Orders to write to their Provincials and Guardians to contribute largely to so pious a work but Perrot a Secular did pacifie the said Lady and did assure her that he had more reason to wonder that so much came since the Jesuits had wrote so many notorious lies not only to Portugal but also to many other places in Europe of the state and condition of the Catholic Religion in England and Sir what he said was true he told you that he doubted the Jesuits run too fast and it would do well that you obtained of the King your Brother Liberty of Conscience for the Catholicks it was as much as could be expected but Sir you may remember that Beddingfield did endeavour to incense you against the Secular Clergy who were much influenced by the said Perrot he being their Superiour here in England and told you that Perrot and the Secular Clergy were a sort of Rascally fellows that had neither Wit nor Courage to manage such a design but at length a small spell being thrown in amongst the Secular Clergy they prostituted themselves to your Cause and Watkins that was Superiour of the English Colledge at Lisbon was written to by Perrot and another attempt was made upon Prince Peter but your design was discovered and so all that attempt turned to no account to you at that time 6. You had most of the Princes of Christendom that were of the Popish Religion and of the French Interest to support you in your design by the means of the Popes Internuncio then at Bruxels with whom Coleman your trusty Secretary held a great Correspondence and if you please you may remember that Coleman in one of his to the Internuntio that ✚ the design prospered so well that he doubted not but in a little time the business would be managed to the utter ruine of the Protestant party which Letter bore date Aug. 21. 1674 but these Princes being engaged in Wars they could not contribute but if the design had prospered you know they had all engaged whenever there should be a General Peace to assist your Brother and you in that good work of advancing the Catholick Religion but upon the discovery of the business the whole face of affairs of Europe were changed and whether you could get any Money from them I never learned so much you know best and so did your Traytor Coleman But so much may serve for the point in hand to wit a short account of those who had engaged their assistance from abroad 4. I come now to put you in mind of those who were engaged here at home and as I said before so must I say again that it was not the old Cavaliers that you had engaged in this villainous design for they were better natured and had a greater regard to our Religion and our Liberties than to be drawn into this Conspiracy nor were they those alone that professed communion with the Church of Rome for then our danger had been the less but there were some that seemed to be of the communion of the Church of England and were Papists in Masquerade but that I may be plain and particular with you I will lay them forth to the world in these following particulars 1. You had your Papists in Masquerade I bring them in foremost and these were the wicked Ministers that notwithstanding their mighty pretences to the Church of England as by Law established to preserve her yet at that time they were pensioners to France and abettors of the Popish party and promoters of the French Interest and thereby rendered themselves Enemies of the Government and of the whole Kingdom These were a set of Rogues that had not one drop of Cavalier Blood in them but revelled and surfeited upon the ruins of those men who had done much on your Father's behalf and had undergone great sufferings upon his account and your Brother's and no care was taken but of their starving for want of Bread such was your Grace and Favour to them Your Scotch Ministers of State gave great proof of their heartily being engaged with you in the Conspiracy for they did what in them lay to ruin the Protestant Interest in that Kingdom they over-turned the Laws and Liberties of that antient Kingdom and so reduced the Laws to the Will of the King your Brother that none could tell the difference between the condition of that People and the Subjects of the French King excepting him that the Scotch were by them made the greater Slaves and it was a rule that your Conspirators at St. James's laid down that in Scotland Slavery and Debauchery was the surest way to bring in Popery as Popery and Debauchery would certainly bring in Slavery upon the English Nation both which was to be effected or all would be lost Your wicked Ministers at Court in England good men they plied their business with as much zeal as possibly they could to make all things ready against you mounted the Throne and truly they met with little or no opposition in their progress for the then Parliament through their being corrupted and bribed by the Ministers then employed they had lost much of their authority and esteem so that though they sometimes made a little noise about Popery and Arbitrary power they durst not be over bold because that then they would have endangered their being dissolved which was worse to them than death it self so that by these means your wicked Conspiracy went on with impunity and few or none were called to an account till the discovery of the Plot. It is true they now and then roared against Lauderdale they got Buckingham removed from being a Councellor they it may be might have an aching Tooth at several but I know nothing they did against any of them but make a noise till your true friend appeared then they did talk with some of your Conspirators and would gladly Sir have spoken with you but that you went to take a little Air in Flanders 2. You had the Popish party that were engaged with you in a bare-faced manner and with as much impudence as your Heart and Soul could desire Priests Noblemen Gentlemen throughout the whole Kingdom so that you were in a very hopeful way of doing your business had not God in his mercy prevented it they were all ready they wanted but the word and the business had been done to all intents and purposes and I doubt without any possibility of retrieving 3. You had your Army ready at hand and if they might have been secured to be a standing Army they would have done what you commanded and you had your Irish villains in Ireland that wanted nothing but your word and they were ready to have engaged in any thing that should have contributed to the advancement of the Religion to which you were so miraculously Converted that your zeal was such that you valued it above all things in the World and therefore your design could not but
Bastard endeavour'd by a Book under the counterfeit name of Doleman by the Approbation of Cardinal Allen and Sir Francis Inglefield to disprove his Title to the Crown but he being in despight of all the Contrivances of the Papal Vermin establish'd on the Throne they shew'd the First fruits of their Loyalty to him they welcom'd him with a Conspiracy contriv'd by Watson and Clark two secular priests but wheedled into that Contrivance by the Jesuites but this scribbling Conspiracy of theirs failing the Jesuites who were unwearied Enemies to the peace of Mankind and are so still they I say commenc'd another Plot and that was one that was to all intents and purposes an evident demonstration of their Principles and a Testimony of their Good-will to the Protestant Interest in England therefore that they might do all their business at once they attempted the blowing up of the King Lords and Commons and were quickned in this Design in two Breves from your Roman Grandsire but you know they were disappointed in that piece of Villany the greatness of which awaken'd the Kingdom to provide against that Party of Men by many wholsome Laws made in the Reign of the said King James your said Grandfather And tho' the whole World stood amaz'd at the blackness of this Conspiracy and many of the Papists in a most hypocritical manner expressed their detestation of the same and of the Principles that produced it but it was indeed because it wanted the success they desir'd yet the Pope and Court of Rome took all imaginable care to have the Traytors magnified and honour'd especially Garâ—et the Provincial of the Jesuites who tho' he confessed under his own Hand that he dy'd for Treason yet his Name was inserted in the Book of their Villanous Martyrs and precious Relicks made of his Bones and his miraculous Picture kept at St. Omer's and a glorious Picture of his set over their Altars And two other Principal Jesuites that escap'd the Halter were by the then Pope caresâ—ed with Preserments at Rome And when upon this occasion the Oath of Allegiance was enacted to be impos'd upon the Subjects of your said Grandfather Pope Paul the Fifth publish'd several Bulls against the said Oath and several of the Româ—sh Communion wrote against it as Becanus and Bâ—llarmin c. Another Instance of their villanous practices was against your Father who tho' he had been a Bosom friend of theirs yet he was not thought sit to live as you may see in Habâ—râ—field's Discovery to Sir William Boswell then your Father's Ambassador at the Hague And who but men of such Villanous Principles could have engag'd your Mother to have fomented that unnatural War in your Father's ancient native Kingdom of Scotland which was the Foundation of the never to be forgotten Civil War in England And wheâ— the King your Father was by the just Judgment of God brought to Prison because he made some Concessions not out of Choice but of Necessity against that party of Men the Jesuites condemn'd him before he was brought to his Tryal and when dead Dr. Gâ—ffe a Priest of the Oratory brandish'd his Sword over his Head saying Now is the Enemy of God fallen But that of the Massacre in Ireland was a bloody demonstration of their Faith and Zeal there was no other reason that ever they could give but that those whom they murder'd were Protestants and that in killing them the Cathâ—lick Cause was promoted for at no time did thâ— Irish enjoy their Estates and the exercise of their Religion with greater peace than when they broke out into that dreadful Rebellion Nor was that Quiet and Security they possess'd the fruits only of a Connivance but the effects of many Acts of Grace which had a little before passed in favour of them They attempted the betraying your Brother in his escape at Worcester and to root out your whole Family if the then Protector would have but given them liberty by a Law they would have murder'd him at Bruxels too to have obliged you with the Crown Is not this Evidence enough against them that they had in conjunction with your self their Head design'd as well to destroy his Person as his Government and our Religion I pray consider this Topick while you are in the peaceable enjoyment of your Apartment at St. Germains before you are forced to take up your Bed and walk 3. A third Witness that appear'd to prove the Popish Conspiracy is the impudent Claims that the Bishop of Rome makes to the Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland It is noâ— Sir unworthy of your Observation what your Bellarmine hath written upon that point The King of England â—aith he is subâ—â—ct to the Pope by a twofold Right first by reason of his Apostolick Power and secondly by right of proper Dominion Sir your Rascally Crew do not only plead Henry the second 's submitting his Crown to the Pope but also King John's resigning his Crown to the Pope and receiving it again as a Fee oâ— the Church of Rome And as for Scotland you know that Pope Boniface the Eighth did make a Claim to that Kingdom And at Madrid in the Year 1677 there was a Scotchman that was Robed and call'd the King of Scotland and he in the Jesuites College there resign'd into the Hands of James Lynce the pretended Archbishop of Tuam of the Kingdom of Ireland and took the Crown of the Kingdom of Scotland from the said Archbishop to revive the Claim of Pope Boniface over that Kingdom all which was done by vertue of a Bull from Innocent the Eleventh for that purpose And as for the Kingdom of Ireland it is matter of Fact that Henry the third did swear Homage to the Bishop of Rome for that Kingdom and did oblige himself to pay him Tribute for it in recognition of the Right of that Prelate You may mimp up those Canvas Chaps of yours but it is certain that you promis'd to your Jesuites to hold the Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland as a Fee of the Papacy or else they would have made bold to have sent you the same way they design'd to send your Brother and did at last accomplish their Design by your gracious aid and assistance And had Popery been establish'd in England in the time of your gracious Tyranny and had the People been brought under the Soul-sanctifying Conduct of the Jesuits who as they have been true Dragoons to the Chair of Rome in the pervertion of the Nation we should have found how they would have improv'd these Claims for the service of the Romish Antichrist In case any difference should have risen between him and you your Bellarmine tells you roundly That these Kingdoms are the Dominions of the Church of Rome and that the Pope is our natural Lord and that the King at best is but his Vassal And in the time of the Rebellion you cannot but have heard that Innoceâ—t the Tenth did not only claim these three
some Reputation with these Coxcombs he hath flattered several people into a vain attendance and dependance upon Risings and Descents till the poor Dogs have spent themselves to their Shirts in waiting and preparing for their days of Jubilee and after many disappointments upon the back one of another they have brought themselves under a fatal despondency of any Relief at all and since Sir your contest is at an end I will tell you that had I been of your Party and Interest I should in spight of Scotch Robin and all his Politicks have advised you to have taken the Counsel of Sir Sweetface Tellpenny who would have told you the vanity of applying to wrong persons and in wrong methods and by wrong instruments You thought the method you used would take but alas instead of that some of your Rogues have been taken and made wry mouth at the West end of the Town for their pains and old Sir Timothy Stiff-Jaws if your people had but made due application to his Worship he would have told them that you ought to have retrenched your number at St. Germains and inspected into their Ability Credit and Morals and that you ought to have drawn your Commissions into fewer hands and fixed upon some men of Honour Quality and Interest to order and communicate in chief and not leave themselves to the mercy of so many forward and impertinent pretenders and hangers on who would certainly betray you as soon as they were pinched Now Sir you may remember that you bless'd us with two or three Declarations but all to no purpose but if upon the declaration of War between us and the French your mighty Ally instead of your Declarations had himself published a Manifesto to all the Princes of Europe in your favour and if he had protested that he aimed at nothing but your Restoration and to settle you in the legal possession of your Throne without the least encroachment upon the Laws of the Land or the Religion Liberties and Properties of the people without proposing to himself any other recompence than in the Conscience of so meritorious a work this might have gone a great way I 'le assure you had he and you but reputation in Europe but of two ordinary Porters especially if it had been so explicitly and exactly drawn as to make no room for a Reserve but the truth of it is you and he had so often violated your Words and Oaths that such Declarations would only have served for Bum-fodder and would have signified as little as your pimping Manifesto's did to the Popish and Protestant Princes of Europe You would have me deal plainly with you I suppose if you would not 't is all one I shall not be afraid to proceed to the Thirtieth Article therefore sit down and hear your charge with all the patience that becomes so foul a Criminal and then the World will abhor you as a detestable Wretch and England will be pittied by all the Princes of Europe in that we would not exclude you from inheriting the Imperial Crown of this Realm Your Villains do threaten me but I shall not be afraid to lay down the truth with all freedom and if I suffer for it it is no great matter for it is no new thing for me to suffer for acting the part of an honest man ARTICLE 30. 30. You stand charged with the fomenting a Popish Plot or Conspiracy for the Alteration of the Religion and Government and Countenancing those that were charged to be in that part that did relate to the life of your Brother Charles the second for the management of this Article 1. I will show what was done in order to this incouraging men to undertake and to engage in this design 2. What steps were taken in the design in order to effect it 3. Who assisted in it 4. Who were engaged here at home 5. The design it self 6. Concerning the discovery of it 7 I shall show you what evidence there was to prove it 8. What Credit it obtained in the Nation 9. Of what great use the discovery might have been to King Charles the Second if he had pleased to have managed himself according to the Counsel of Parliament and the Patriots of the Protestant Religion 10. What were the consequences of the discovery of the Popish Plot and how fatal it was to their Popish party 1. I will shew you what was done in order to the encouraging men to undertake and engage in this design the design bespoke it self for nothing but a cursed Jesuit and men of the same principles who might to all intents and purposes be the more paced in this holy undertaking of that villanous party The Jesuits that in conjunction with your self and wicked party of Papists and Popishly affected persons undertook this affair You know Sir that you no sooner was by the providence of God and the earnest desire of the people of England restored to the Land of your Nativity but the Popish party began to bestir themselves for the restoration of their Religion therefore they apply themselves to the Jesuits and Jesuited Priests and men of Arbitrary principles and protested their zeal for the Restoration of the Catholic Religion but they durst not enter upon any design in the years 1660 and 1661 till they were sure how the Parliament would steer their Course in relation to the uniformity of service here in England who should carry the point whether the Bishops or the Dissenting Protestants and therefore it was resolved by the Jesuits that nothing should for that present time be undertaken but the drawing in of some men into Conspiracies and to provide Rogues lustily and heartily to swear Treason against them in order to the destruction of some and to bring others into disrepute with the Parliament that they might be kept under by some severe Laws that might be made against them to the end that they might be in no condition to give any opposition to them in their designs that should be by them formed for the effecting so blessed a work besides all this they at that time were not sure of your Countenance because for several years you made a sort of profession of the Protestant Religion and received the Sacrament of the Lords Supper according to the usage of the Church of England with the King your Brother and he himself was not married and they thought it convenient that nothing should be so much as proposed till they might have the countenance of some Popish Consort and then it was thought that they might act the more safely if the King could be engaged in a War against the Dutch which they longed for with much impatience But Sir I must descend into some particulars and therefore I will undertake these two things 1. I will put you in mind of what happened to encourage the Popish Party in undertaking their villainous designs against the Protestant Religion and Government 2. I will shew you what encouragements you
Parliament had very often Checked your Proceedings nay so often and to that degâ—â—e that they without the help of any further discovery had endangered the destruction of your hopful Plot and therefore it was highâ—ime to disband them and none but Coleman was thought fit to draw up this Declaration The DECLARATION which Mr. Coleman prepared thereby Shewing his Reasons for the Dissolution of the PARLIAMENT WE having taken into our serious Consideration the Heats and Animosities which have of late appeared among many of our very Lâ—yal and Loving Subjects of this Kingdom and the many Fears and Jealousies which some of them seem to lye under of having their Liberties and Properties invaded or the Religion alteâ—ed and withal carefully reflecting upon our own Government since our happy Restauration and the End and Aim of it which has always been the Ease and Security of our People in all their Rights and Advancement of the Beauty and Splendor of the true Protestant Religion established in the Church of England of both which we have given mâ—st Signal Testimonies even to the striping our self of many Royal Prerogatives which our Predecessours enjoyed and were our undoubted due as the Court of Wards Purveyances and other Things of great Value and denying to our Self many Advantages which we might reasonably and legally have taken by the Forfeitures made in the Times of Rebellion and the great Revenues due to the Church at our return which no particular Person had any Right to Instead of which we Consented to an Act of Oblivion of all those baâ—barous Vsages which our Râ—al Father and our Self had met withal much more Fâ—ll and Gracious than almost any of our Subjects who were generally become in some Measure or other â—bnoxious to the Laws had confidence to ask and freely Renouncâ—d all our Title to the profit which we might have made by the Church Lands in Favour of our Bishops and other Ecclesiastical Ministers out of our Zeal to the Glâ—ry of our Protestant Church which Clemenâ—y towards all and some even high Offenders and Zeal for Religion we have to this day constantly continued to Exercise Considering all this we cannot but be sensibly Afflicted to see that the frowardness of sâ—me â—â—w tumultuous Heads should be able to infect our Loyal and good People with Apprehensions Destructive of their own and the general quiet of our Kingdom and more especially their Perverssness should be powerful enough to Distract our very Parliament and such a Parliament as has given us such Testimonies of its Loyalty Wisdâ—m and Bounty and to which we have given as many Marks of our Affection and Esteem so as to make them Misconster all our Endeavours for to Preserve our People in Ease and Prâ—sperity and against all Reason and Evidence to Represent them to our Subjects as Arguments of Fear and Disquiet and under these specious Pretences of securing Property and Religion to demand unreasonable things manifestly Destructive of what they would be thought to Aim at and from our frequent Condescentions out of our meer Grace to grant them what we conceived might give them Satisfaction though to the actual Prejudice of our Royal Prerogative to make presume to propose to advance such Extravagances into Laws as they themselves have formerly declared Detestable of which we cannot forbear to give our truly Loyal Subjects some Instances to undeceive our innocent and well-minded People who have many of them of late been too easily misled by the factious Endeavours of some turbulent Spirits For Example we having judged it necessary to declare War against the States of Holland during a Recess of Parliament which we couldnot defer longer without losing an advantage which then presented it self nor have done sooner without exposing our Honour to a potent Enemy without due preparation we thought it prudent to unite all our Subjects at home and did believe a general Indulgence of tender Consciences the most proper Expedient to effect it and therefore did by our Authority in Ecclesiasticks which we thought sufficient to warrant what we did suspend Penal Laws against Dissenters in Religion upon Conditions expressed in our Declaration out of reason of State as well as to gratifie our own Nature which always we confess abhorred rigour especially in Religion when tenderness might be as useful After we had engaged in the War we Prorogued our Parliament from April to October being confident we should be able by that time to shew our People such Success of our Arms as should make them chearfully contribute to our Charge At October we could have shewn them Success even beyond our own hopes or what they could possibly expect Our Enemies having lost by that time near 100 strong Towns and Forts taken in effect by us we holding them busy at Sea whilst Our Allies possest themselves of their Lands with little or no resistance and of which the great advantage would most visibly have been ours had not the Feuds we now complain of which have been siâ—â—e unhappily started and factiously improved disunited our People distracted our Councels and render'd our late Endeavours vain and fruitless so that we had no reason to doubt of our Peoples ready and liberal concurrence to Our assistance in that Conjuncture Yet Our Enemies proposing to us at that time a Treaty for Peace which we were always ready to accept upm Honourable Terms and considering with Our self that in case that Treaty succeeded a far less Sum of Money would serve our Occasions than otherwise would be necessary we out of Our tender regard to the ease of Our People prorogued our Parliament again to February to attend the Success of our Treaty rather than to demand so much Money in October as would be fit to carry on the War But we soon finding our Enemies did not intend us any such just Satisfaction saw a necessity of prosecuting the War which we designed to do most vigorously and in order to it resolved to press our Parliament to supply us as speedily as may be to enable us to put our Fleet to Sea early in the Spring which would after their Meeting grow on apace and being informed that many Members were dead during the long Recess we issued out ouâ— Writs for new Elections that our House of Commons might be full at the first opening of the Sessions to prevent any delay in our public Affairs or dislike in our People as might possibly have risen from the want of so great a Number of their Representatives if any thing of moment should be concluded before it had been supplyed having governed our Actions all along with such careful respect to the Ease of our Subjects We at the Meeting of our Parliament in February 1672 expected from them some suitable Expressions of their Sense of our Favours but quite contrary found our selves alarm'd with clamorous Complaints from several Cabals against all our Proceedings frighting many of our good Subjects into strange câ—nceits of what they must look for
Plot And though the Time of our Sitting abating what must necessarily be spent in the chusing and presenting a Speaker appointing grand Committees and in taking the Oaths and Tests appointed by Act of Parliament hath not muâ—h exceeded a Fortnight yet we have in this Time not only made a considerable Progress in some Things which to us seem and when presented to your Majesty in a Parliamentary Way will we trust appear to your Majesty to be absolutely Necessary for the Safety of your Majesty's Person the effectual Suppression of Popery and the Security of the Religion Lives and Estates of your Majesty's Protestant Subjects But even in relation to the Tryals of the Five Lords impeached in Parliament for the execrable Popish Plot we have so far proceeded as we doubt not but in a short Time we shall be ready for the same But we cannot without being unfaithful to your Majesty and to our Country by whom we are intrusted omit upon this Occasion humbly to inform your Majesty that our Difficulties even as to these Tryals are much encreased by the evil and destructive Counsels of those Persons who advised your Majesty first to the Prorogation and then to the Dissolution of the last Parliament at a Time when the Commons had taken great Pains about and were prepared for those Tryals And by the like pernicious Counsels of those who advised the many and long Prorogations of the present Parliament before the same was permitted to sit whereby some of the Evidence which was prepared in the last Parliament may possibly during so long an Interval be forgotten or lost and some Persons who might probably have come in as Witnesses are either dead have been taken off or may have been discouraged from giving their Evidence But of one mischievous Consequence of those dangerous and unhappy Counsels we are certainly and sadly sensible namely That the Testimony of a material Witness against every of those Five Lords and who could probably have discovered and brought in much other Evidence about the Plot in general and those Lords in particular cannot now be given Viva voce Forasmuch as that Witness is unfortunately dead between the calling and the sitting of this Parliament to prevent the like or greater Inconveniences for the future we make it our most humble Request to your Excellent Majesty that as you tender the Safety of your Royal Person the Security of your Loyal Subjects and the Preservation of the true Protestant Religion you will not suffer your self to be prevail d upon by the like Counsel to do any thing which may occasion in Consequence though we are assured never with your Majesty's Intention either the deferring of a full and perfect Discovery and Examination of this most wicked and detestable Plot or the preventing the Conspirators therein from being brought to speedy and exemplary Justice and Punishment And we humbly beseech your Majesty to rest assured notwithstanding any Suggestions which may be made by Persons who for their own wicked Purposes contrive to create a Distrust in your Majesty of your People that nothing is more in the Desires and shall be more the Endeavours of us your faithful and loyal Commons than the promoting and advancing of your Majesty's true Happiness and Greatness In which the Parliament laid before the King your Brother these following Particulars 1. The grateful Sense they had of his Care in his Message to them by Jenkins his Secretary inviting the Parliament to expedite the Matters that were then before them relating to Popery and the Plot. 2. That they were convinced that it was a Duty incumbent upon them to suppress Popery and to bring to Justice all such as should be found Guilty of the horrid and damnable Popish Plot. 3. That the King by his frequent Prorogations and Dissolutions of his Parliaments had rendered the Tryals of the Popish Lords more difficult by reason that a material Witness was dead 4. That the Person of the King your Brother was not safe till the Criminals in the Popish Plot were brought to Justice 5. That notwithstanding the wicked Suggestions of your self and villanous Party they were resolved to be true and faithful to the King your Brother 8. Observe the Address of the House of Commons to the King your Brother on the 29th of Nov. 1680. upon the Message he sent to the House of Commons about the Affair of supplying Tangier in which they laid before the King these following Particulars worthy of your remembring 1. They laid before the King that since Tangier had become part of his Dominions it had been formerly under the Command of Popish Governours but more particularly it had been for some time under the Command of a certain Lord that stood impeached by Parliament and a Prisoner in the Tower for the execrable and horrid Popish Plot. 2. That the Supplies sent thither were made up of Popish Officers and Irish Papists and that the Popish Party there were the Persons most countenanced and incouraged 3. The restless Endeavours of the Popish Party within this Kingdom to introduce the Romish Religion and to extirpate the Protestant Religion 4 The Assistance they had received from some perfidious Protestants in the Approaches they made for the Compassing their Designs viz. The Devil's Brokers and their nasty Passive Obedience Vermine that it was a Wonder of Wonders they had not dispatched old Pious for some time before 5. That the Popish Party made use of their being discharged from Offices by their not taking the Test to give themselves up to the practising their Idolatry and Superstition without controul in many Parts of the Kingdom and great Swarms of Priests and Jesuits had resorted hither in order to carry on the Plot and exercised their Jurisdiction and had been daily tampering to pervert the Consciences of the Subjects of England and the Judges and Justices of the Peace that had opposed them were in disgrace and turned out of the Commission in contempt of the known Laws of the Land and if they could not corrupt Men they attempted nothing less than to destroy them 6. That several Papists to serve a Popish Turn had not only taken the Oaths but subscribed the Test and held the Offices themselves or else there were those put in that were so favourable to the Popish Interest insomuch that Popery had rather gained Ground since the making the Test Act than lost 7. The Correspondences that your Secretary held with Cardinal Howard and the Courts abroad 8. That when the Plot began to be discovered the Popish Party began to smother it by the Murther of a Justice of the Peace within one of the King's Palaces 9. That the Papists reckoned the Life of the King your Brother the only Obstacle in the way and having you in their Eye whom they had gained to their Religion and Interest they were resolved to begin with the Assassination of the King your Brother and to carry it on with the Murther of the Protestant
Party 10. A great number of Officers that were Papists had been imployed and several under half Pay and many other Things of the like Nature All which Particulars laid before your Brother in this Address justify the Credit the Evidences of the Popish Plot had in Parliament But that I may not leave you so I pray peruse the Address it self it was a Swinger I 'll assure you and much to the purpose The humble Address of the Commons in Parliament assembled Presented to his Majesty Munday the 29th of Nov. 1680. May it please your most Excellent Majesty WE your Majesty's most Obedient and Loyal Subjects the Commons in Parliament assembled having with all Duty and Regard taken into our serious Consideration your Majesty's late Message relating to Tangier cannot but account the present Condition of it as your Majesty is pleas'd to represent in your said Message after so vast a Treasure expended to make it useful not only as one Infelicity more added to the afflicted Estate of your Majesty's faithful and loyal Subjects but as one result also of the same Counsels and Designs which have brought your Majesty's Person Crown and Kingdoms into those great and imminent Dangers with which at this Day they are surrounded and we are the less surprised to hear of the Exigencies of Tangier when we remember that since it became a part of your Majesty's Dominions it hath several Times been under the Command of Popish Governors particularly for some Time under the Command of a Lord impeach'd and now Prisoner in the Tower for that execrable and horrid Popish Plot that the Supplies sent thither have been in a great Part made up of Popish Officers and Soldiers and that the Irish Papists amongst the Soldiers of that Garison have been the Persons most countenanced and encouraged To that part of your Majesty's Message which expresses a Reliance upon this House for the Support of Tangier and a Recommendation of it to our speedy Care we do with all Humility and Reverence give this Answer That although in due Time and Order we shall omit nothing incumbent on us for the Preservation of every Part of your Majesty's Dominions and advancing the Prosperity and flourishing Estate of this your Kingdom yet at this Time when a Cloud that hath long threatned this Land is ready to break upon our Heads in a Storm of Ruin and Confusion to enter into any further Consideration of this Matter especially to come to any Resolutions in it before we are effectually secured from the imminent and apparent Dangers arising from the Powâ—r of Popish Persons and Counsels we humbly conceive will not consist either with our Duty to your Majesty or the Trust reposed in us by those we represent It is not unknown to your Majesty how restless the Endeavors and how bold the Attempts of the Popish Party for many Years last past have been not only in this but other your Majesty's Kingdoms to introduce the Romish and utterly to extirpâ—te the Protestant Religion The several Approaches they have made towards the compassing this their Design assisted by the Treachery of perfidious Protestants have been so strangely successful that 't is matter of Admiration to us and which we can only ascribe â—o an over-ruling Providence that your Majesty's Reign is still continued over us and that we are yet assembled to câ—nsult the Means of our Preservation This bloody and restless Party not content with the great Liberty they had a long time enjoyed to exercise their own Religion privately among themselves to partake of an equal Freedom of their Persons and Estates with your Majesties Protestant Subjects and of an Advantage above them in being excused from chargeable Offices and Employments hath so far prevailed as to find Countenance for an open and avowed Practice for their Superstition and Idolatry without controul in several Parts of the Kingdom Great swarms of Priests and Jesuits have resorted hither and have here exercised their Jurisdiction and been daily tampering to pervert the Consciences of your Majesty's Subjects their Opposers they have found means to disgrace and if they were Judges Justices of the Peace or other Magistrates to have them turned out of Commission and in contempt of the known Laws of the Land they have practised upon People of all Ranks and Qualities and gained over divers to their Religion some openly to profess it others secretly to espouse it and most conduced to the Service thereof After some time they became able to influence Matters of State and Government and thereby to destroy those they cannot corrupt The Continuance or Prorogation of Parliaments has been accommodated to serve the Purposes of the Party Money raised upon the People to supply your Majesty's extraordinary Occasions was by the prevalence of Popish Counsels imployed to make War upon a Protestant State and to advance and augment the dreadful Power of the French King though to the apparent Hazard of this and all other Protestant Countries Great Numbers of your Majesty's Subjects were sent into and continued in the Service of that King notwithstanding the apparent Interest of your Majesty's Kingdoms the Addresses of the Parliament and your Majesty's gracious Proclamations to the contrary Nor can we forbear to mention how that at the beginning of the same War even the Ministers of England were made Instruments to press upon that State the acceptance of one Demand among others from the French King for procuring their Peace with him That they should admit the publick Exercise of the Roman Catholick Religion in the Vnited Provinces the Churches there to be divided and the Popish Priests to be maintained out of the publick Revenue At home if your Majesty did at any time by the Advice of your Privy Council or of your Two Houses of Parliament command the Laws to be put in due Execution against Papists even from thence they gained Advantage to their Party while the Edge of those Laws was turned against Protestant Dissenters and the Papists escaped in a manner untoucht The Act of Parliament enjoining a Test to be taken by all Persons admitted into any publick Office and intended for a Security against Papists coming into Employment had so little effect That either by Dispensations obtained from Rome they submitted to those Tests and held their Ofces themselves or those put in their Places were so favourable to the same Interests that Popery it self has rather gained than lost Ground since that Act. But that their Business in hand might yet more speedily and strongly proceed at length a Popish Secretary since executed for his Treasons takes upon him to set a foot and maintain Correspondencies at Rome particularly with a Native Subject of your Majesty 's promoted to be a Cardinal and in the Courts of other foreign Princes to use their own form of Speech for the subduing the pestilent Heresy which has so long domineer'd over this Northern World that is to root out the Protestant Religion out of England and
humble Answer to your Majesty's Gracious Speech we hope no evil Instruments whatsoever shall be able to lessen your Majesty's Esteem of that Fidelity and Affection we hear to your Majesty's Service But that your Majesty will always retain in your Royal Breast that favourable Opinion of us your Loyal Commons That those other good Bills which we have now under Consideration conducing to the great Ends we have before mentioned as also all Laws for the Benefit and Comfort of your People which shall from time to time be tender'd to your Majesty's Royal Assent shall find Acceptance from your Majesty If this be not Demonstration that the Discovery of the Popish Plot had an universal Credit over all England I will never undertake to make any out for the future And this I must say That it is beyond Contradiction no Man of Sense ever standing in Opposition to that which is as plain as the Sun shining at Noon Day Therefore I will proceed in the tenth Place 10. The Judges of England gave it Credit Let me put you in Mind of what Judge Scroggs said at Irelands Tryal in his Charge to the Jury he saith thus It is most plain the Plot is Discovered and that by these Men that it is a Plot and a most Villanous one nothing is more plainer and when the Jury had found Ireland Pickering and Grove Guilty observe what he said to them you have done Gentlemen like very good Subjects and very Good Christians that is to say like very good Protestants and now much good may their thirty Thousand Masses do them Again in the Tryal of the Five Jesuits he saith thus This Gentlemans Blood lies upon you speaking of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey and some have being Executed for it it must be yet further told you that in what you did you have given us a Specimen of what you would do we have a Testimony that for promoting your Cause you would not stick at the Protestants Blood the Letter saith he that was found in Harcourts Papers doth farther confirm Oats in all the great and considerable Matters that he says that there was a Plot and that that Plot was called by the name of a Design which was to be keep Close and Secret This is an Evidence that cannot Lye 2. Observe what your never to be forgiven Villain Jefferies said upon the Justices finding the five Jesuits Guilty of Treason Gentlemen you of the Jury There hath been a long Evidence given against the Prisoners at the Bar they were all Indicted Arraigned and farely Tryed and fully heard for High-Treason depending upon several Circumstances they can none of them pretend to say and I take the Liberty to take notice of it for the satisfaction of them and all that here present and all the World that not a Person among the Prisoners at the Bar were either wanting to themselves to offer or the Court to them to hear any thing that they could say for themselves but upon a long Evidence and a full Discussing the Objection made against it and a Patient hearing the defence they made they are found Guilty and I think every honest Man will say they are unexceptably found so and that it is a just Verdict you have given Again upon his giving Judgment upon Langhorne and the five Jesuits he said thus But your several Crimes have been so fully proved against you that truely I think no Person that stands by can be in any doubt of the Guilt nor is there the least room for the most Scrupulous Men to doubt of the Credibility of the Witnesses that have been examined against you and sure I am you have been fully heard and stand fairly conviâ—ced of those Crimes you were Indicted for I could give farther instructions of this Nature but I now come to an Eleventh instance which is the Credit the Witnesses had with the Lord Chancellour Finch who at Staffords Trial when he gave Judgment upon that Traytor he told him that now it was out of dispute who fired London and who it was that Murthered Sir Edmundbury Godfrey Answer Give me leave to observe a third thing to you by way of answer look back a little and reflect upon the Behaviour of the King your Brother in that Affair mistake not your self Sir the King your Brother did believe the Popish Plot and issued forth several Proclamations made several Speeches in Parliament that did shew his belief but Sir if he did not believe it his discourse of it was sutable to his Company he kept but this I must say that had he joined in with his Parliament in the discovery of it he might have been much more easâ—y in his Government and might have been upon the Throne and your head upon London Bridge for ought I know but this I will say your Villanous Party could never recover the blow they received by the discovery of that Plot and it was the first and chief moving Cause of the late Revolution and the bringing our King to the Throne and delivered the Nation from Popery and Slavery and notwithstanding my ill Usage I have received from unreasonable Men I shall not Repent of any thing that I have said or done concerning the Testimony I have given relating to the Villanous Rogues and Traytors therein concerned and your Worship was the chief of those never to be forgotten and never to be forgiven I say I shall not Repent though I have received the worst of Villanous usage from this best of Government and have been left to Starve I having been now deprived of the greatest part of my Pension these five or six Years against all manner of Justice to please one malevolent Rogue who never did one good Act in all his Life unless it were to cheat the old Rogue his Father out of an Estate 2. I come to answer a second Question and that to shew you to what end I made the discovery and 1. The first Reason was that the Body of Mankind might be undeceived concerning your self and Party that the impudent Lies of your Baals Priests made in your Praise and Commendation both as to your Religion Royalty and Love to the Nation might sufficiently be laid open so that they might not any longer deceive the People in that Point as they had done in the Doctrins of Passive-Obedience and Non ressistance 2. That the Nation might be so awakned to provide in a legal way for its own security and the security of its Laws and Religion for in Truth the Lethargy that the generality of this Nation then lay under which amazed some thinking Men and encouraged you and your vigilant Villains for some thought that upon the discovery of the Gun-powder Treason and upon the late Restoration of your Brother that the Popish Party had laid all their Designs aside but alas they pursued their designs more industriously since we were Cursed with your Brothers Company and yours than ever before and your Red-Letter'd Scoundrels had so started
their Case that there was no room left for a Retreat and rather than you and they would miss your Hopes you were resolved to stake your Lives and Fortunes and all upon a Venture You had taken so much Pains in the forming your Designs that you were resolved not to loose your Labour and thanks be to God you did not loose your Labour for you are well rewarded with the pleasant Air at St. Germains where you may abide till by the way of Avignon you may be obliged to trot to some other Place where you may spend the Remainder of your admirable Life These two Reasons are sufficient to justify any Man's Ends in such an Undertaking as this and as for the Undertaking it self to discover I am only accountable to God and my own Conscience though thus much I may say That in complying with the Church of Rome in her Worship and Service I nor no Man else can justify himself notwithstanding the Righteousness of those Ends I proposed to my self in the Management of that Affair And I therefore do tell you I would have no Man to follow my Example In doing Evil that the greatest Good may come thereof I do avow the Truth of my Testimony that I delivered but on the other hand I disavow all those Principles that I pretended to hold and maintain whilst I was as to outward appearance in Communion with that detestable Strumpet for I was in Judgment always a Protestant of the Reformed Religion and by the grace of God through Strength of Christ Jesus I will Live and Dye so This may satisfie you and all Men of my Truth in the Discovery and of my uprightness in the Delivery of my Testimony and of my Sincerity in this charge I have given here against you and your Villanous Party and had I not complied with your cursed Synagogue I would not in any measure have come at the knowledge of those things that I have formerly given in against the Criminals concerned in the Design nor have acquainted the World and refreshed your Memory with several Particulars in these four parts that I have Written that the Kingdom may both learn to watch against you and your Hell-born crew therfore I hasten to a ninth Particular proposed in the management of this Article I proceed to show you of what great use the Discovery of the Popish Plot might have been to King Charles the second if he had managed himself according to his Parliament and the Patriots of the Protestant Religion And that you shall see in these following Particulars as 1. We had been rid of all the Court Whores who by their Lewdness and Baseness had drawn the Heart of the then King your Brothe from his People which the Parliament plainly saw and therefore were very unwilling to part with any Money for to supply the vain and Exorbitant Expences of those impudent Womem who Consumed the publick Treasure of the Nation as fast or faster than then it could be given by Parliament or raysed and Collected when given and by this fair riddance of such Carrion the then King for ought I know might have enjoyed his Crown with Peace and Honour to this Day 2. You had been Excluded from inheriting the Imperiall Crown of this Realm which Exclusion had turned to a better Account to your self then the being an humble Slave and a pittifull Beggar a Fugitive and a Vagabond but you by opposing the full Discovery of the said Plot and Conspiracy carried on by you and your wicked Party carried your Point against the said Bill by which you was Emboldened in all and every of your wicked Practices against the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom but you have received in part the Wages of your abominable and unparalell'd Unrighteousness and much good may they do you with all my Heart I know no body that in the least that envies your blessed State and Condition into which by the providence of God you have put your self 3. The Nation had been discharged from the French Interest that mightily Prevailed in your Brothers Reign to the great danger and damage both to the Strength and Trade of the Nation and the Laws and Liberties and Religion thereof for as long as that Interest was Supporâ—ed and the Religion of Rome Countenanced it was impossible that England could be a Protestant Nation or her Inhabitants a free People This the Parliament long saw before your Plot was Discovered and had your Brother incouraged the Discovery thereof he had secured to himself the Glory of restoring to us our Liberties and making himself a Terrour to all his Enemies both at Home and Abroad but he joyning in the Conspiracy he became their Scorn and Contempt and as his Reign was wicked so his End was Miserable 4. Your Popish Party might have infallibly been destroyed and Rooted out from being a People but the said King not joining with his Parliament in making such an improvement of the discovery of the Popish Plot did Embolden that party to Exert it self almost to the ruin of the Protestant Religion and Interest and at last to Poyson the King himself to make way for you to Enslave the Nation and Subjugate it to Rome and France 10. I now come to show you how Fatal the Discovery of the Popish Plot was to your Popish Party notwithstanding the Villanous Usage the Nation received from that Party of Men by which it was much weakened both to its Strength and Wealth yet the Discovery of the Popish Plot put a new Life into the honest Party so that they became Unanimous to a high Degree the Dissenters that were then much Divided did in a great Measure unite against the common Enemy and joyned with the moderate Church Party in order to Extirpate that Romish Heresy that had so much inlarged its Borders and the Eyes of all Men were so opened that even in your Government Popery had been so maul'd that it could not stand upon its Legs notwithstanding the many cordial Incouragments it had received from you and your mighty Allies in order to its recovery again Nay the Princes of Christendom have Joyned as one Man to deliver England so that they themselves might not be swallowed up by you and your mighty Nimrod What a Sweat you are in Well have a little Patience my good Landlady will rub you down at Night What would you be at now What you would say a Comfortable Word on the Behalf of your Popish Crew and would have the World believe they were Innocent and so you mump those lockrom Jaws of yours and in Speaking one Word in the Behalfe of your Rogues you intend ten for your self Come speak out Man and tell us what you would have the Protestant Party of England believe concerning the Innocency of your self and Party we have a Sett of high Church Protestant Whelps that are blinded yet as not to give the Discovery of the Popish Plot its due Credit but they are a