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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65566	The honesty and true zeal of the Kings witnesses justified and vindicated against those unchristian-like equivocal protestations of Dr. Oliver Plunkett, asserting in his last speech his own innocency being as great damnation to his soul, as any of his former trayterous and hellish practices against his King and countrey, as breathing them upon the point of death, without any time of repenting the enormity of them with true contrition / by Florence Weyer, Gent.	Weyer, Florence.	1681 (1681)	Wing W1525; ESTC R8013	10,331	16

in Ireland would no more believe him then they would believe that he had flown in the air from Dublin to Holy-head Which is an extraordinary Hyperbolical lye for that the Jury there such as he would have himself tryed with all did believe and as Guilty of the Fact was well satisfied in their hearts of the one though they would proceed contrariwise but of the other could not be satisfied by proof or otherwise Yet Plunket must not be a Slave to his word In his said last Speech he denies to have been ever acquainted with the Four Laymen of the Witnesses viz. Florence M. Moyer the two Neals and Hanlon meaning me the first of the Four to that point I can say nothing my Sirname being Weyer and not Mac Moyer with whom Plunket was very well acquainted since first he went to Ireland which I could make good by a thousand Witnesses if requisite the first time that ever I met him was in the Fryery of Ardmagh where was no less then three or four hundred Speculators he did discourse with me aside In his going away I conveyed him a good piece of his Journey he further discoursed with me in several Assemblies held by him at the House of George Blyke of the Fives in pursuance of contriving that his detested conspiracy and very often made much of me in his own house which kindness I conjecture to have rather extended from fear that I should appear against him then from any hearty good will I pray how could this man have the Impudency of denying to be acquainted with me Because he must not be a Slave to his Word Yet I shall pass over all further Justification on my own account he having vomited as grand Lies as that arguing the Judges of Injustice done to him which I leave to the Judges themselves to vindicate or forgive He adds further that there was a Judas among the Twelve Apostles and a Wicked man called Nicholas amongst the Seven Deacons by which expressions it may be easily understood how that sweet Traitor pretends to be another Christ on Earth calling the Witnesses another Judas and another Nicholas deeming himself to be convicted by the Jewish Law which property of Judas he should of all right attribute to himself and his confederates who did intend although by Gods Providence obstructed to betray his true and lawful King to the hands of his Enemies and to Massacre all his true Subjects wherefore I may boldly return him that which he tells of Judas and Nicholas for Exemplo tangi non propriore potest Yet this man who thus fabricated the death of his Sacred Majesty to subvert the present Government the tranquility of His Majesties true and Loyal Subjects who caused so many disorders among those of the Roman Catholick Clergy committed to his Charge so much misgovernment within his districts living by Treachery and Symony even to the depriving of their rights many an honest and worthy Prelate not by him corruptible must dye a Sanctified Martyr redoubling Guilt upon Guilt till the pangs of death overcame his last Breath Gentle Reader I have here made apparantly appear unto the whole world how undeservedly the Kings Witnesses were Impeached by that Speech of Dr. Oliver Plunket I have justified their innocency with what true zeal and integrity they proceeded Yet Plunket pretending nothing to be so purgative as a Dying mans last protestations upon which principle equivocally and with secret Evasions asserting to have never acted any thing impugnant to His Majesties Laws Crown Dignity nor Regal Government there are Thousands in England and Ireland and those to be ingeniously multiplied by none of the vulgar Arethmeticians who will not scruple abounding with his accustomary indulgences to swallow the greatest of all Oaths to attest the unquestionable verity of those protestations and that for the ensuing reasons 1st To purchase their own Necks from the Halter 2d For that it is their impregnable opinion that it is more meritorious to dye involved with Mr. Perjury then to discover the Guilt of their disloyal and factious Crew ambitious to advance arbitrary Government and that even to the utter extinguishing of the Royal Line 3d To darken the worth and repute of the Discoverers of the Plot who may be Justly termed the second Ark prepared against that execrable intended deluge and devastation 4th Thinking to vilifie the many good Services to be yet accomplished by them 5th To render them ridiculous bring them into a general Odium and that which is the grandest Policy to discourage all true loyal Hearts for the future from attempting any such bold and resolute undertakings as the preservation of the royal Progeny and His Majesties unfeignedly true Subjects However let them censure the Witnesses as they will certainly they cannot be indued with so much impudency as to averr that the supporting of an Agent in Rome to introduce Popery and Forraign Forces to disenthrone His Majesty is not High Treason and punishable by the Kings Laws that the enacting of several Statutes to the same purpose produced under his hand and confessed by him to be his own hand writing is not likewise high Treason and punishable c. My dear Souls what fervency of revenge and what direful frency of antipathizing and instigating the insatiable Fury of the rest of the Traitors against the Witnesses possessed this Traitors heart so stifly even at the point of death to deny those things which being on his Trial he confessed when he should stand most on justification I leave to Judge as well by the Partial as the Impartial But whereas the devotedly religious at Tyburn the first of this instant had not their minds generally satisfied as wanting Blood enough of Martyr Plunket to colour their Handkerchiefs I hope if their devotion will still continue that before condign punishment be executed on the rest of the Traitors in general in Ireland if they will but take paines to repair thither they may attain to the full of their desires by dipping the rest of their Handkerchiefs in the Blood of many more of the reformed fellow Martyrs of Plunket dying still with a Lye in their mouths till they breath their last Gasp Now to be brief I protest by the Faith of a Christian I could insert a great deale more of both the Treachery and Perniciousness of Dr. Plunket apt to infect curious Ears but thinking this to be sufficient to confute his Lyes and satisfy the stupidity of the indifferent I do not desire to bellow farther time on the Object 'T is well known that in general we have many implacable Enemies in our own Country and I my self most of all so that we need not undeservedly have any more in this Country yet we are generally hated by many as suspected to be of the number of the Earl of Shaftesbury his Prosecutors Therefore these are to declare that Mr. Moyer Mr. Duffy I my self nor none of our Society would spare his Lordship had we but known him Guilty of any high Treason to our knowledge and further that we have never known him to have infringed His Majesties Laws neither do we use of course to accuse any but this infamy we know to have extended from a certain Parisite who for great summs of Money received promised to invalidate our evidence to the saving of Plunkets life who failing therein indeavoreth to obscure our Names to bring upon us the high Displeasure of the Nobility and Commonalty of this Kingdom and laboureth to foment all turbulency by attesting his own Fidelity but I hope that within short time he shall receive his Quietus est by the hands of Katch at the foot of Mount Tyburn but let Charon then have a care of Sinking his Boat by ferrying over the Stygian streams to Prince Beelzebub that inconsiderable draught the master Piece of all the Europian Knaves And we do now before the divine Majesty of Heaven further and lastly declare that what we have done in discovering the late horrid Plot was neither for self preservation nor expectation of any worldly Lucre but from the real and sincere Allegiance we owe unto His sacred Majesty and our natural Love unto His Loyal Subjects from which the very fear of death the contriving devices of my Enemies nor the greatest tortors of Execution shall never withdraw me nor mine but will expose my self and mine with all my Soul Heart Hand and Substance to all imaginary hazards in pursuance of His Majesties Service and maintaining of his Laws and Government Pulchrum decorum est pro Patra mori multo vero pulchrius pro Rege And for my tuition I throw my self on the mercy and providence of the Almighty and the wanted care of His Sacred Majesty of Great Britain c. All which is most humbly represented to the candid sincerity of the impartial by their most humble and most faithful Servant Florence Weyer July 26th 1681. FINIS