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A53554	A true narrative of the horrid plot and conspiracy of the popish party against the life of His Sacred Majesty, the government and the Protestant religion : with a list of such noblemen, gentlemen and others as were the conspirators, and the head-officers both civil and military that were to effect it / humbly presented to His Most Excellent Majesty by Titus Oates.	Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.	1679 (1679)	Wing O59; ESTC R26889	44,385	83

Keines to the Deponent in his own Chamber But the said Keines did not go down to Windsor so soon as afterwards it appeared to the Deponent LIII Item That Smith within mentioned lieth in Drury Lane at one Mr. Lowds a Taylor in Cock-pit Alley in the aforesaid Lane and is also imployed to go from house to house to see how the Catholicks stand affected And Jennison said That if the Catholicks had Courage enough they might Rise and Cut the Throats of a hundred thousand Protestants in London which Expression of the said Jennison's the said Smith did tell the Deponent asking the Deponent's Opinion of the same To which the Deponent did say That Mr. Jennison talked like a Person that had more Heat than Light The said Smith did at the same time tell the Deponent that the Society did give him fifty pound per annum for his Intelligence that he getteth of the Affairs of the Court and of the King's Actions Words and Counsels and transmitteth the same to John Fenwick which the said Fenwick transmitteth to St. Omers and there it is translated into the French Tongue and sent to Father L' Chaise the the French King's Confessor Which daily Intelligence the Deponent did daily see from the said Smith he lodging in the same house with the Deponent And the said Smith did at the same time tell the Deponent that he was a Lay-brother of the Society of Jesus and was of the Order of the Politians as they term it and attended Father Blundel to New-gate in order to convert the Prisoners All which the said Smith did tell the Deponent on August the 12th 1678. And likewise the said Blundel did say as much to the Deponent who hath seen the said Blundel and Smith go together to Newgate LIV. Item That one Matthew Medburn a Player in the Duke's Theater and Mr. Penny Mr. Mannock Mr. Sharp Mr. Seddon Will. Smith School-Master at Islington and Mr. Edw. Everard meeting in a Club on Thursday Nights and Sunday Nights with one Jones a Priest and Kemash within mentioned and all these are employed by the Jesuits to villify the House of Commons and go about the City of London to incense the People against them and against the Bishops of the Nation And they deliver this Treasonable Position That the Commons Assembled in Parliament are the Devil 's Representatives and not the Nation 's Which Treasonable and detestable words the Deponent did hear in the said Club which is kept at the Pheasant in Fullers Rents near Grays Inne in the Month of August And the Deponent was ordered by the Jesuits in London to give the said Persons great Respects and in their Names to thank the Club for their faithfulness to them in that particular LV. Item That Mr. Jennison did on the 12th August say and boast that he had put several out of Love to the King's Interest and would so continue if that the King did not turn a Roman Catholick and if the King did not become R. C. he should not be C. R. long LVI Item That a Pacquet on Aug. 20th New Style arrived in London from Thomas White Provincial Mr. Stapleton Mr. Nevil Mr. Peters Mr. Busby Procurator together with the Masters of the Humanity-Schools to John Fenwick in which it was specified That the twelve Jesuits were gotten into Holland and would use all their Skill and Interest to make a Commotion there and that Apple-tree Will. which the Deponent saith is meant the Prince of Orange should not be great and that they hoped that the Fathers in London would follow their Business closely there Which Letter the Deponent saw and Read LVII Item That a. Pacquet went from London dated August 12 in which the Provincial was informed by John Fenwick and the rest that the King was gone or going for Winsor and that the Fathers and honest William were ready to attend the Court there as the Deponent was informed by John Fenwick above-named LVIII Item That on August 13 in the afternoon about six of the Clock a Sermon was preached by John Keines to twelve persons Men in poor Habits yet men of quality as the Deponent doth suppose by the whiteness of their hands in which Sermon he delivered That Protestant and other Heretical Princes were ipso facto deposed because such and that it was as lawful to Destroy them as an Oliver Cromwel or any other Usurper At which Sermon the Deponent was present not designedly but by accident LIX Item That on the 15th of August John Keines and John Fenwick went to a Gentleman in or about Westminster and perswaded him to remove from his quarters lest God should destroy him with the Sinners of that City for God had raised him and others of that Society to do such things against that City as should make a man's Ears ring that should hear it The same day towards the Evening the said John Keines and John Fenwick told the Deponet the said story and laughed to think what a fright the said Gentleman was put into And they told the Deponent the Name of the said Gentleman but he hath forgot it LX. Item That John Keines came to the Lodgings of the Deponent on Saturday August 17 and said it was endeavoured to dispatch Forty Eight at Windsor if possible by which number the Deponent saith they mean the King and withal told the Deponent That Mr. Howard Prior of the Benedictines and Mr. Hitchcock Subprior and Mr. Skinner Mr. Corker and other Benedictines had promised to assist them with 6000 l. in order to the design The said Monks did then lye at or near the VVardrobe behind the Savoy which report the Deponent did believe because the said Mr. Howard Prior of the Benedictines and Mr. Hitchcock Sub-prior told the Deponent in the morning August 17 that they had promised such a summe and withall that the securing of his Majesties person in his Flight from Worcester was the worst days work that ever simple Jack Huddlestone did in all his Life But now it was their business to get the Stuarts out of the way which the Deponent related to John Keines and then Keines did tell the Deponent that if he would undertake to assist in the dispatching of the King he should be well rewarded if not here in Heaven and the Deponent replyed that he never shot off a Gun in his Life and withal told Keines that he could not be guilty of such a thing for the World And then the said Keines did further inform the Deponent that Mr. Coniers a Benedictine Monk was resolved to pursue the Design of dispatching the King which did appear to be evidently true to the Deponent because he did hear the said Coniers on the 14th of August lay a Wager of a 100 l. with a Gentleman not known to the Deponent in the Benedictine Convent in the Savoy ten Guinies were deposited in the hands of Hitchcock Subprior of the Benedictines Now the wager which Coniers did lay was That the

TITUS OATES D. D. the first discoverer of the Popish Plott A TRUE NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid PLOT AND CONSPIRACY OF THE POPISH PARTY Against the LIFE of His Sacred Majesty THE GOVERNMENT AND THE Protestant Religion With a LIST of such NOBLEMEN GENTLEMEN and others as were the CONSPIRATORS And the HEAD-OFFICERS both Civil and Military that were to Effect it Published by the Order of the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in PARLIAMENT Assembled Humbly Presented to His Most Excellent MAJESTY By TITVS OTES D. D. LONDON Printed for Thomas Parkhurst and Thomas Cockerill at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers Chappel and at the Three Legs in the Poultrey MDCLXXIX Die Mercurii 9º Aprilis 1679. UPon Report made by the Earl of Clarendon from the Lords Committees for Examining Matters relating to the Discovery of the late Horrid Conspiracy That Mr. Titus Oates complains That Mr. Basset hath not given him satisfaction for the Printing and Publishing his Narrative of the said Conspiracy imperfectly and desires that he may Reprint his own Narrative thereof which the said Lords Committees judg to be Reasonable It is Ordered by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled That the said Titus Oates be and is hereby Authorized to Print a Perfect Copy of his own Narrative of the said Conspiracy Jo. Brown Cleric Parliamentor BY virtue of this Order I appoint Thomas Parkhurst and Thomas Cockerill Citizens and Stationers of London to Print this Narrative containing Eighty one Paragraphs TITUS OTES April 10. 1679. TO HIS SACRED MAJESTY CHARLES the II. By the Grace of God Of Great-Britain France and Ireland KING Defender of the Faith GREAT SIR THIS Narrative of the present Horrid Plot against Your 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 I hope I have good equity on my side to presume to dedicate the same to Your Royal Name and Patronage and to no other because I am well assured both the rise and progress thereof hath wholly sprung from an inbred indelible love and loyalty to Your Majesty and Kingdoms as its support and success to be owing under Gods extraordinary and miraculous appearance for his people in its defence to Your Majesties Gracious pardon of several human frailties in the management Great and many are the Arts and Hoverings that have been and may yet be used in vain both at home and abroad to suppress and traduce the Evidence by those who are more zealous and industrious not to be thought or suspected rather than really not to be very Traytors and Rebels against their King and Country whose many past Treasons and Encroachments upon several Princes for these last Thousand years in the World will prove their inclinations for future whereof there are as many tragical instances against Your Majesties own Family and Person within fresh memory and to be made out by new proofs out of their own mouths and Records if need as against any other of Gods Anointing and Appointment Your Grandfather King James though he escaped their Powder is well known not to have escaped their Poyson Your other Grandfather Henry the Fourth of France was basely and villainously stabbed in the Heart which he had designed and bequeathed after his death unto them notwithstanding all the Indulgences and Immunities that the heart of man could wish or desire which he had granted them in his life Who besides these were the first Authors and contrivers of the late unnatural War by their known diabolical art of inflaming Parties and Passions against each other and of Your Royal Fathers unspeakable Sufferings and barbarous Usage It was these that brought Him to His end and fourished Swords and triumphed over his dead Body whom they durst not approach when living What shall I say of Him who then cryed out Now is the Enemy of God and of his Church fallen I believe Your Majesty hath been well-informed of the Trayterous Executioners but hardly at all of the Putney-Projectors who were in most if not all the Councels that contrived his ruine What broke the Vxbridge-Treaty but the Romish Interest and Policy Who continued to baffle all designs of peace and settlement to this Nation and prosperity to Your Majesties Family but those Incendiaries It may not be inconvenient to remind with what zeal and interest they did perswade the Scots in 1650 to impose that upon Your Majesty which Your Royal Law hath forbidden others for the effecting whereof some Thousands of pounds were spent and given by them After Your Majesties escape at Worcester how did they above all men endeavour to betray and sacrifice Your Majesty into the hands of Your Enemies And who was it that was to pay the Thousand pound promised for Your being discovered and taken but Father Joseph Simmonds and Father Carleton Compton both Jesuits It 's true that one or two of the Komish perswasion amongst many loyal and faithful Protestants male and female might then have contributed to Your Majesties deliverance But have not such been well lessened and reproached and called Fools by their own party for this grain of Loyalty more owing to their English Blood than Romish Principles The Popish Lord is not forgotten or unknown who brought a Petition to the late Regicides and Usurpers signed by about Five hundred principal Papists in England wherein was promised upon condition of a Toleration of the Popish Religion here by a Law their joint resolution to abjure and exclude the Family of the Stuarts for ever from their undoubted right to the Crown Who more disheartned the Loyalty and patience of your best Subjects than their confident Scriblers White and others And Milton was a known frequenter of a Popish Club. Who more forward to set up Cromwell and to put the Crown of our Kings upon his head than they Give me leave to tell Your Majesty that his new fangled Government was contrived by a Popish Priest and Lambert a Papist for above these Thirty years Who betrayed Your Majesties Secrets and Councels during your Exile but they even the Benedictine Monks whereof a whole Convent was maintained with a large Annuity by the late Usurper for such use and purpose And he * Manning that was caught and executed by Your Majesties Justice for such treachery was of the same Red-Letter and had Masses sung for him after his death as an usual Reward and Plaister After Your Majesties escape from England what promises did they make to Cromwell to perswade the French King for Your banishment out of France and what interest they made use of in order thereunto can be made appear to their disgrace I shall leave it to Your Majesty to call to mind their usage of your