might well expect that the Execution of this Sentence would have destroyed him as in all Probability it had if a very honest and able Chyrurgion Mr. James Wass had not with the Hazard of his own Life undertaken the Cure of him and under God preserved him I say he carried that Cure through with the Hazard of his Life and that gratis tho he was wholly a Stranger to the Doctor for there was another skilful Chyrurgion and very honest Man Mr. Charles Bateman who had promised to undertake it but at that very Instant was clapp'd into Newgate and soon after murdered He suffered some thousands of Stripes to his unspeakable Torture and was ten Weeks under Mr. Wass's Hands Their Malice and Cruelty did not cease here but because through the Mercy of God supporting him and the extraordinary Care and Skill of his judicious Chyrurgion he was like to outlive that barbarous Usage some of them whilst he was weak in Bed got into his Chamber and attempted to pull off the Plaisters from his Back threatning to destroy him And That nothing might be wanting to compleat his Misery and Ruine they procured him to be loaded with Irons of excessive Weight for a whole Year without Intermission and that when his Legs were swollen with the Gout and to be shut up in the Hole or Dungeon of the Prison whereby he became impaired in his Limbs and contracted Convulsion-Fits to the Hazard of his Life To conclude now see here the Sense of the House of Commons upon this wicked Prosecution and cursed Sentence as it appears by the following Vote Martis 11th Junii 1689. Resolved That the Prosecution of Titus Oates upon two Indictments for Perjury in the Court of King's-Bench was a Design to stifle the Popish Plot and that the Verdicts given thereupon were corrupt and that the Judgments given thereupon were cruel and illegal A Brief ABSTRACT of Dr. Oates's Narrative of the POPISH PLOT as it was made upon Oath on the 27th of September 1678 before Sir Edmund-Bury Godfrey one of the Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex and before the King and Council on the 28th and 29th of the same Month and after publish'd by Order of the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled in April 1679. With Remarks thereupon Kind Reader THO I accost you in this familiar Way and use a friendly Appellation here 's no Plot upon you no not so much as a Design to draw you in to read this Pamphlet Nay should I perceive you so much as start at the very Title I should esteem you yet more kind if you throw it away for if you read on and are then found to snarl at me we may have the ill Luck to sall together by the Ears and it ever was my Choice to live in a whole Skin That I may so do I give you not the advantage of saying I was the first Aggressor I do not I will not commend the Thing No I will not so much as recommend it to your Perusal I will not so much as tell you what is in it No I will not so far gratify you as to declare why I do emit it further than to say that 't is my Will and Pleasure so to do And Now if not invited not encouraged you will read on 't is at your Peril if upon those Terms you dare adventure further you must know that the following Narrative was ushered into the World under an Address to K. Charles the II. to the Effect following viz. Great Sir This Narrative of the present Horrid Plot against our Majesty and Government which was first heard and narrowly discussed before your sacred Majesty and Council and afterwards by both Houses of Parliament with universal Assent to the Power of Truth herein is at last to appear abroad for the Satisfaction of these Nations and Europe perhaps touching the Mystery and Consequence of such Designs How little the Criminals concerned in this Plot deserve from your Majesty the World will better judg if they will but consider how graciously your Majesty has dealt with them and connived at them while the Rigour of the Law was let loose upon your other dissenting Subjects who yet continued more quiet and loyal under their Pressures and Provocations than these under Favours and Caresses Hath not your Majesty hazarded the Hearts and Affections of your best Subjects and much of Royal Honour in appearing for the late Indulgence with Frustation to win and oblige if possible these Everlasting Holy Cut-throats How can your Majesty expect Truth and Sincerity where Treasons and Lies are Vertues and Merits I question not Great Sir but that he in whose hands are the Hearts of Princes will in time fully convince your Majesty of all their unworthy Principles and Practices and of my Integrity too how strange soever some open or secret Papists whom time also may discover have endeavoured to represent me Till that time I commit my Cause to the most Righteous and All-seeing Judg with a Resolution to persevere through his Assistance in my Truth and Testimony against all Discouragements or Terrors or Blandishments either to the last Gasp I cannot forbear to pray to God out of my Sincerity and Zeal for publick Peace and Concord between King and People That seeing your Majesty must highly trust some or other for your necessary Ease and Help that God would put it into your Majesty's Heart more to trust and rely upon your two Houses of Parliament who will be most true to your Laws and consequently both to you and your People than to any single Minister or Ministers whatsoever unaccountably who may pretend to more Loyalty or more comply with any Humour or humane Frailty of your Majesty's but are not true Friends to your Majesty or their Country or themselves therein but erect and prefer an Imperial Paramount Self-end or Lust before all which your Majesty by their Art must be brought unworthily to serve and promote to publick Disturbance always and the Confusion of themselves and their Posterity most an end by God's just Vengance It is a false Suggestion which some Tempters use that a King that rules by Will is more great or glorious or strong than a King that rules by Law The Quality of the Retinue best proves the State of the Lord the one being but a King of Slaves while the other like God is a King of Kings and Hearts No Prince was ever more absolute to have what he wished than Queen Elizabeth who wished for nothing more than her Subjects Rights and Welfare Nothing will make your Majesty so amiable and acceptable in the Eyes of God and Man and your Name and Memory blessed and glorious for ever as the Copying of the Laws of our Saviour in your Life by a decent Paternal Example before the Sons and Daughters of your People to increase the Fear of God and its Consequences amongst us It being the chief End and Work
A TRAGEDY CALLED The Popish Plot REVIV'D Detecting the SECRET LEAGUE Between the Late King James and the French King The POPISH CONSPIRACY to Murder His present Majesty King WILLIAM And the wicked Contrivance for Adulterating the COIN of this Kingdom With many other HELLISH PRACTICES Dedicated to Sir Roger L'Estrange the Fellows of St. John's College in Cambridg Non Jurors and the rest of the Jacobite Crew By a sincere Lover of his Countrey London Printed for the Author 1696. To Sir Roger L'Estrange the Fellows of St. John's College and the rest of the Jacobite Crew Gentlemen THAT your as industriously as maliciously embrace every Occasion of venting your Selves to the Disparagement of our Present happy Settlement is undeniably evident to all Men and hath in no particular been more manifest than in your cherishing and fomenting the loud Clamour under which the Government has of late labour'd upon the account of the diminishing and adulterating our Coin The Consideration hereof led me to reflect upon what I remember I had read in Dr. Oates's Narrative of the Popish Plot and turning to it I there find good Ground to charge to the Account of your Party amongst other the manifold Evils under which the Nation groans that which is now so sensibly felt and highly complained of He there told you what now to our Cost we find fulfilled that one Branch of that Horrid Plot was to adulterate our Money and Plate and that to that end the Conspirators had Bankers Brokers Merchants Goldsmiths and other Traders whom they stock'd and set up with Money of the Jesuits Society The Jesuits then boasted that they were promised to have the Management of the Mint and that thereby they should be made the Judges of good and bad Money and manage the same to the best Advantage for their Cause The Case standing thus Gentlemen why will you be so vile as to criminate the Government for the Mischief which you have brought upon your Countrey Will you persist to out-face the Sun and term that a Sham-Plot which has ever since been cultivated and carried on Consider I beseech you in how many Instances what was laid down in that Narrative has been verified He there told you that King Charles the Second was to be removed by Dagger Pistol or Poison and that that was effected by the last is as little to be doubted as it may now be called into question whether the Coin be adulterated He told you that your Adored Duke was a Papist but your Stupidity or Impudence was such that you denied it to the day that he stept into the Throne Nay not only so but some of you in a Pack'd Jury brought in that Prince Not Guilty and gave him the modest Damages of 100000 l. in an Action against the Doctor for declaring that great Truth then so highly necessary to be known Nay further he not only told but foretold the Misery and inexpressible Calamity which like a Torrent was with that unhappy King breaking in upon these poor Nations and ready to bear down our Religion Laws and Liberties But this also was turn'd into Ridicule by that eminent Guide of the inferiour Clergy you I mean Sir Roger that Beautefeu of an Observator Wherefore I shall upon this Occasion take the Liberty to aggravate the Guilt of the unpardonable Infidelity of your Malignant Faction in the Points before touch'd upon and that not by urging against you that what was then declared has since come to pass but by evincing that at that very day there was laid before you irrefragable Evidence of the Truth of that happy Discovery And this I partly collect from Mr. Coleman's never to be forgotten Letters which were never denied or so much as doubted of which to refresh your Memories take here a few Heads For my part says he I can scarce believe my self awake or the thing real when I think on a Prince in such an Age as we live in converted to such a degree of Zeal and Piety as not to regard any thing in the World in comparison of the Conversion of our Poor Kingdom which hath been a long time oppressed and miserably harassed with Heresy and Schism c. Now as to the Duke's being then link'd with that bloody Tyrant the French King read Coleman again Knowing the Interest of our King Charles the 2d and in a more particular manner of my more immediate Master the Duke and his most Christian Majesty to be so INSEPARABLY UNITED that it was IMPOSSIBLE TO DIVIDE THEM without destroying them all His Majesty the French King was pleased to give order to signify to his R. H. MY MASTER that his Majesty was fully satisfied of his R. H's good Intentions towards him and that HE ESTEEMED BOTH THEIR INTERESTS BUT AS ONE and the same The Rooting out the Northern Heresy and enslaving Mankind That my Lord Arlington and the PARLIAMENT were both to be look'd upon as very unuseful to their Interests Father Ferrier begg'd his R. H. to propose to his most Christian Majesty what he thought necessary for his own Concern and THE ADVANTAGE OF RELIGION and his Majesty would certainly do all he could to advance both or either of them I communicated it to his R. H. says Coleman to which his R. H. commanded me to answer as I did on the 29th of the same Month that his R. H. was very sensible of his most Christian Majesty's Friendship and that he would labour to cultivate it with all the good Offices he was capable of doing his Majesty the French King that he was fully convinced their Interests were both one that my Lord Arlington and the Parliament were not only unuseful but very dangerous both to England and France that therefore it was necessary they should do all they could to dissolve it I did communicate this Design of mine to Monsieur Ravigni who agreed with me that it would be the greatest Advantage imaginable to his Master to have the D's Power and Credit so far advanced IF WE CAN ADVANCE THE DUKE'S INTEREST ONE STEP FORWARD WE SHALL PUT HIM OUT OF THE REACH OF CHANCE FOR EVER Then would Catholicks be at rest and his most Christian Majesty's Interest secured with us in England mark that beyond all Apprehensions whatsoever Our prevaling in these things would give the greatest Blow to the PROTESTANT RELIGION here that ever it received from its Birth If the Duke should once get above them ☞ after the Tricks they have play'd with him they are not sure he will totally forget the Vsage he has had at their Hands We have proceeds Coleman here a MIGHTY WORK upon our Hands no less than THE CONVERSION of three Kingdoms and by that perhaps the utter subduing of a PESTILENT HERESY which hath domineered over great part of the Northern World a long time There were never such Hopes of Success since the Death of our Queen Mary as now in our Days when God has given us a Prince who is
and Mr. Hanses The last of whom was Sir Roger your Assistant in your malicious Scriblings and your Brother-Burgess in K. James's Parliament for Winchester They produced for Witnesses about 20 Jesuits and Students of St. Omers who all testified that the Defendant came to St. Omers in December 1677. and went not from thence until June 1678. I shall here observe how these Jesuited Sparks were caressed and cherished both by the Court and Counsel Their Evidence was received without the least Interruption not one cross thwarting or doubting Question being put to any one of them Nay there was not found so much Temper as to permit the Defendant to propose his Questions to them which made him with undaunted Courage cry out That his Defence was under a very great Prejudice and that there was a Turn to be served and therefore he was not admitted to ask the Witnesses Questions and said I do verily believe that at this rate it is more safe for Papists to be Traitors than for any Protestant to discover a Popish Plot. It seems also worth the noting that to insinuate that Oates's Evidence was not always true and credited the King's Counsel produced the Earl of Castlemain and Sir George Wakeman who declared that what he swore against them at their Trials was false Here Jeffries observing the Doctor 's Undauntedness said I wonder to see any one that has the Face of a Man carry it at this rate when he hears such Evidence brought against him To which the Doctor replied I wonder Mr. Attorney will offer to bring this Evidence Jeffries whose Character with K. Charles the Second was that he had the Impudence of ten Carted Whores in a raving Fit retorted Such Impudence was never seen in any Christian Nation you are a Shame to Mankind To which the Doctor 's Reply was No my Lord I am neither a Shame to my self nor to Mankind What I have sworn is true and I will seal it with my Blood if occasion be Ah Ah my Lord I know why all this is and so may the World but THIS WILL NOT DO THE WORK to make the Plot to be disbelieved things are not to be done by great Noises I will stand by the Truth He observed in his Defence that the Indictment against him was six Years after the pretended Perjury That most of the Witnesses who now gave Evidence against him were those who were brought to confront him at the Trial of the five Jesuits and tho there were some fresh Witnesses the Evidence of all of them was the same as then but their Testimony rejected as it was at Langborne's Trial and that the Jury upon convicting the Jesuits were told by the Court that their Verdict was unexceptionable and this by Jeffries himself And Then he produced four or five Witnesses who clearly proved his being in London as he had sworn at the time of the White-horse-Consult in April 1678. After this he offered Objections to the Validity of the Evidence against him As 1. That a Papist in a Cause of Religion is not to be received and believed as a good Witness Here Wythens interposed saying Is not a Papist as good a Witness as a Dissenter Which was answered by citing Bulstrode's Reports Part 2. 155. A Popish Recusant is not to be admitted a Witness between Party and Party which was also my Lord Coke's Opinion Wythens replied May a Presbyterian be a good Witness Mr. Oates And Holloway who had assisted the Blood-hounds to murder Colledge said Or would Colledge have been a good Witness Mr. Oates Most certainly by the Rules of Law the Testimonies of these Persons ought not to have been offered in this Case to delude the People and the Civil Law so fully concurs with our Common Law in rejecting Enemies to be Witnesses in the Cause of their Enemy that it denies Credit to what they may testify in the Cause of their Enemy with their dying Breath after they have received the Eucharist This is the general Conclusion of the Doctors of the Civil Law Inimicus etiamsi in Articulo Mortis constitutus accipisset Eucharistiam repellitur à Testimonio Causa sui Inimici He then urged the Judgments of Papists in Case of Conscience whereby they maintain the vilest Wickedness to be lawful for the Church's Service And they acknowledg they have Dispensations to swear Lies for promoting the Catholick Cause Then he concluded to this effect My Lord this I say The Evidence for which I am indicted is the same which I delivered six Years ago where there were 16 Witnesses against me but what Credit did they receive I do avow the Truth of the Popish Plot and will stand to it whilst I live Was ever Man dealt with as I am or had such Evidence offered against him My Lord this I am sure of if I had been a Witness against those who suffered in the late Fanatick Plot as 't was called I had never been called in question if my Evidence had been false but 't is apparent the Papists have now a Turn to serve and these St. Omers Youths are brought to falsify my Evidence and to bring off the Lords who stand impeached of High Treason for the Popish Conspiracy My Lord 't is not me they indict but the whole Protestant Interest is aimed at in this Prosecution For my own part I care not what becomes of me the Truth will one time or another appear Upon the Day following May 9. 1685. the Doctor was tried upon an Indictment for another supposed Perjury but that Prosecution being of the Complection with what is here presented I trouble not the Reader with it farther than to lay before him the Names of the Jury Sir Thomas Vernon Nicholas Charleton Thomas Langham Thomas Hartop Francis Griffith John Kent George Toriano Henry Loades John Midgley John Pelling Thomas Short and George Peck All Men of the same Kidney still The Juries having according as directed by that Man of Blood Jeffries brought the Doctor in guilty of both the Perjuries comes the Abhorrer of Parliaments the tender-hearted good natur'd Protestant Judg Wythens to pronounce the Sentence previous to it he tells the Defendant that no Christian 's Heart can think of the Innocent Blood which was shed by his Oath without bleeding That every knowing Man believed and every honest Man grieved for it He proceeds God be thanked our Eyes are now open The Judgment besides Imprisonment Fine c. was that on Wednesday next he be whipt from Aldgate to Newgate and upon Friday from Newgate to Tyburn This says Wythens I pronounce to be the Judgment of the Court upon you and I must tell you plainly If it had been in my Power to have carried it farther I should not have been unwilling to have given Judgment of Death upon you This cruel Sentence was executed with all the Circumstances of Barbarity so that tho which Wythens lamented the Law did not allow them to condemn him directly to Death they
cannot but judg that they design nothing less than my Ruine in Revenge for that Service I did my Country in discovering their more than abominable and hellish Conspiracy against the Life of the late King the Protestant Religion and the Government as by Law established both in Church and State I thought it my Duty in case of any harder Usage than I have yet met with to put something in Writing which my Friends I hope will publish for the Satisfaction of my dear Country-men for whose Cause I have been a living Martyr exposed to the Rage and Reproach of a Generation of Men who neither fear God nor reverence Man whose Religion is either the worst of Religions or their Morals so debauched that they are fit to be of any Religion except that of Christ Therefore in the first place I do declare my self to be a Protestant of the Church of England as by Law established both in Doctrine and Discipline yet I must confess she stands in need of a further Reformation and it would be happy if that by the Removal of some Ceremonies useless and dangerous a way might be made for a more perfect Union amongst all English Protestants that our Hands might be strengthned against the Common Enemy the Papists in order to the rooting out of Superstition and Idolatry from amongst us that we may avert those Judgments from this Nation that do so highly threaten our total Destruction It hath been the greatest Grief of my Heart to see Protestants contending one with another about the meaner Parts of Religion and Worship whilst the Enemy the Popish Party stands by and adds Fuel to our Flames and nourishes the Quarrel till we have exposed our selves to be devoured by them and have wounded those amongst us who are weak in the Faith I could likewise wish that our dissenting Brethren would lay aside their Scruples in some things and comply with their Brethren in those Ceremonies that are innocent and harmless and not inconsistent with the Word of God and the Law of our great Lord Jesus Christ and that they that can conform for Christ's sake do not persecute their Brethren who through Tenderness of Conscience cannot partake with them in those Advantages that some of them have enjoyed to their Hearts Content Truly I have been so far from being inclined to persecute any for Conscience sake that I would not have had the least Thought of having or advising the Prosecution of Popery or molesting of any that are in Communion with the Church of Rome but that the Religion of Rome is a Conspiracy against God and Christ and Mankind for shew me a Papist that is thorow-paced I will shew you a Murderer of the People of God a Firer of Cities a declared Enemy to the Peace and Tranquillity of the Sons of Men. Now Men that are so united together against God and all Goodness our Religion Lives and Liberties must be rooted out and not suffered to continue amongst a well governed People for they make it their Business to debauch our looser sort of Christians and reproach and calumniate those whose Firmness to their God and the Gospel of Christ renders them Men above their Temptations tho by their Allurements some have been seduced to their Destruction Therefore as for the Popish Religion I do declare that I do detest and abhor it as a Religion whose whole Foundation is Blood Cruelty Murder and Rapine a Religion that stands in opposition to the Rule and Law of Jesus Christ And the Bishop of Rome whom they call Pope I believe to be Antichrist that exalts himself in the Temple of God above God and all that is called God the Son of Perdition and everlasting Wrath. But that which is expected of me is that I do declare my self fully concerning the damnable Plot carried on by the Popish Party for the Destruction of the late King and the Protestant Religion I must confess the Acquaintance I had with some considerable Papists in the Year 1670. made me to suspect a Design carrying on by them to advance their own Religion and to pull down ours but I little thought that they had a Design of murdering the King which in process of time I found out There was one Cotton that was at Mr. Guilfourd's in Kent that was often very pleasingly tempting me to come over to their Church for saith he it will not be long before you must either burn or turn therefore come over in time that your coming over may be looked upon as meritorious This Cotton since I understood to be a Priest of the Society of Jesus and one that was ingaged in the Popish Plot and with him I had a better and more intimate Acquaintance From him at first I found that the Popish Party had a Design of promoting their Religion and making what Proselytes they could in order to the inlarging their Interest and Power in this poor Nation I from that time had a great Desire to get into them to see whither their Designs tended being very fearful that they designed no less than the Ruine of our Religion and Government Nay this Cotton had the Impudence to tell me that the King was engaged with them to advance their Cause and Religion and was resolved to bring in Popery it being a Religion that was most consistent with Monarchy and that his Majesty was resolved to be like his Neighbour-Princes this was in the Year 1670 about Christmass Which Discourse I did discover to Mr. Walter Drury whom I did assist in the Service of his Cure at Sandburst in the County of Kent and he told me that that Mr. Cotton had talked as badly or rather worse to him but he had sufficiently told him his own so that Cotton was shy of having any farther Discourse with hâ—â— about those Matters and withal Mr. Drury having threatned to complain of him Mr. Cotton did withdraw from that Family and another came in his room In the Year 1672 I was acquainted with one Keimash who was very perswasive in his Arguments to have brought me over to their Church he then frequented Arundell-house in the Strand and was a Fellow that had insinuated himself into the Acquaintance of several Divines of our Church and bragged that he had reconciled above thirty Ministers of the Church of England but I found him a debauched lewd Fellow and so my Acquaintance ceased with him for it was a hard Matter unless in a Morning to find him sober I found him afterwards to have been Chaplain to the old Countess of Arundell with whom he lived several Years under the Notion of her Steward In the Year 1672 I left Mr. Drury's Cure and held a Living of my own which I resided upon for some time called Bobbing in Kent and from thence I went and served his Majesty at Sea as a Chaplain where I found many Difficulties by reason of Sickness of Body I refreshed my self at Tangire There was one Gerard an Irish Dominican that
court his own Ruine the most of any Man I know and advised me not to meddle nor make with any thing of that nature for saith the Prince either he will cheat and expose you or if he be real there is an old Wife in the Case who will be set on you to draw you off from the good Work you have begun or perhaps which is worse I do farther declare That whereas I have accused the Lord Powis the Lord Bellasis the Lord Arundel of Warder the late Lord Petre the late Lord Stafford I did nothing but what became a good Christian to Almighty God and a good Subject to my Prince and a good English-man to my Countrey for what I have said or sworn of those Lords is the Truth and nothing but the Truth as I shall answer before God another day the same I declare of all my Evidence I gave in to the King and Council and to the two Houses of Parliament And I do declare to all the World That I have not in the least directly or indirectly for the hopes of Gain or any other Reason inducing me thereunto spoken any thing of any Man that I charged to be guilty of the Popish Plot but those who were guilty and those against whom I bore Testimony at the Old-Baily or at the King's-Bench Court I swore nothing but what was true This I declare as I shall answer it before God in the next World And whereas it hath been reported by the Popish Party and published by Roger L'Estrange in his Pamphlet called the Observator that I swore against the Jesuits because they would not admit me to be of their Society I do declare that that Order did receive and admit me a Jesuit and that they were always the most obliging Persons to me in the World till they found that I had discovered those vile Designs of Murdering the late King and Subverting the Protestant Religion and Government as by Law established both in Church and State and though maliciously they did and do still aver I was never admitted Doctor of Divinity at Salamanca I do declare solemnly to all the World I was admitted Doctor of Divinity at the said University of Salamanca and did all my Exercise for the said Degree that was required of me The Enemies of the Protestant Religion have endeavoured to blast me with many infamous Crimes to render me useless in my Testimony relating to the Popish Plot the Grand Adversary Roger L'Estrange being ready to print in his vile Pamphlet the Observator any thing that might tend to my Disadvantage But I bless God I was never sly in my Conversation so that the several Lies by him printed have been detected and Gainsayers silenced I thought it not inconvenient to let the World know that the late King was a mortal hater of Parliaments for in his Letter to the French King bearing date in June 1676 he wrote thus That if he could be assured of a Pension that might continue he should not continue that way of Governing viz. by frequent Parliaments which at the best was but a clamorous Rabble that took upon them to direct Kings but as he was resolved to be like his Neighbours in Riches and Grandieur so he was resolved to be like them in Religion too This was the Effect and Purport of that Letter a Copy of which was shewed me by John Keynes and Basiâ— Langworth but said Keynes the French King was too old to be cullied out of his Money by a Man that was so uncertain I do in the last place declare That I am ready to seal with my Blood the Truth of my Evidence that I have given in relation to the Substantial Part and Circumstantial Parts thereof I have done no Man wrong that I have charged and as I have done Right to the World in relation to the Popish Plot so I protest I did discharge a good Conscience in the Discovery of that Vile Sham called the Oxford Plot for which poor Colledg was basely murdered there in a form of Law and Justice and that I look on as the worst of Murders I renounce all Anarchical Levelling Principles and detest all the Practices of those who have held and maintain'd those Principles I judging them as dangerous to our English Monarchy as Popery is to the Protestant Religion All this I declare together with my Narrative that is printed to be true April 29 1685. I declare I have signed every Page of these Papers with the Day and Year above-written in the Presence of Sir Robert Thomas Baronet John Arnold Esq and John Dutton-Colt Esq and the same Day I delivered it to them Titus Oates April 29 1685. TO this foregoing Narrative I shall now subjoin Copies of several of Dr. Oates's Letters to King Charles and King James the Second and to divers of the Ministers of State in that time and of his Petition to King Charles and submit it to the Reader 's Judgment whether his undaunted and never to be shaken Stedfastness in adhering to and avowing the Truth of his Discovery his plain Dealing with those Princes his gallant Resistance of the highest Temptations and his just Regard to the Interest and Rights of his Countrey and to the brave Assetors thereof all which are before made evident did not equal the unparallel'd Tortures and heavy Oppression under which he so long groan'd and from which he had no prospect and very little hope of Deliverance Now let the Reader reflect upon the two first of these Letters and wonder if he can when he finds the Doctor thrown off by King Charles I do not say when he sees him out of his Favour for he never had it but as it appears by the foregoing Rerlation of his Troubles what he there gained so I shall here observe what he lost and both by his uncorruptible Integrity This cannot be done but by beginning where he began at his first Discovery That no way pleased the King nor could it for it spoil'd a well-laid Plot to which he was no Stranger save to that part which touch'd his Life therefore that he might stand as far as possible out of the reach of Suspicion he dissembles himself alarm'd presses the searching the Plot to the bottom appoints Mock-Fasts and what not and as to the Doctor assigns him an Apartment in Whitehall allows him daily a Table of six Dishes Wine and every thing proportionable and also 40 s. per Week This was continued till April 1679 then besides the 40 s. his Allowance was changed to 10 l. per Week which he received till Midsummer 1680 when a stop was put to the Paiment thereof But in November following upon the Address of the House of Lords the King gave him 200 Guinea's for his Arrears and ordered him the Allowance of 10 l. per Week which was constantly paid till the Dissolution of the Oxford-Parliament at which time the King taking a Resolution not to be further troubled with unuseful and