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

Governours of these three Kingdoms are who narrowly search the truth of all things before they pass it by as credited or contradicted So that we have more reason to accept and receive for currant what they confirm than what three false Suborners would fain blow up unto our understanding to the contrary whose Designs Intents and Purposes are as above cited and as I shall more amply give you an account of These said three Suborned Witnesses that falsely and contumeliously contradict the King's Evidences who passed through such Purificatory of Tryals as they have done I say it is very hard if such Enormities committed against King and Government should pass without Correction Now I must turn to give you an account of the said three Suborned Witnesses or Evidences whose names are above cited I am acquainted with two of them but one whose name is Elie is a stranger to me but I find by a relative account I have had of him how he designed to carry on this Subornation which is the last of many monstrous and horrible cheats he hath committed controled and contracted this many years in England But of this particular you shall hear more at large in the ensuing part of this Treatise And now I must come to hint of his two Confederates who are my Acquaintance and of the said two I do intend to treat who thought to invest themselves with a pretended Coat of Loyalty to his Sacred Majesty of Great Britain France and Ireland But the said Coat being but a second-hand one and bare-thread worn and the Colour of it being Black and as the nature of the colour Black is to wear or rot away sooner than any other Colour shall by reason that it is too much boyled in the dying But I shall not insist to give an accompt of a Trade that I have no more skill in than the above three Gentlemen had in choosing such a rotten Garb which wore out so soon and tore so unexpectedly that the rent appeared so strangely as that soon their Nakedness were espyed and discovered which more plainly to let you understand it their Knavery and Subornation was descryed and as it is thought afterwards may ensue that their Iniquity shall not pass uncorrected But now in the Interim notwithstanding their great dependency upon the mainest supporters of Subornation as that we see for all the Combination of the Pope and the Devil their Iniquity shall be brought to light to their shame and Confusion So as that they will be glad to make them Aprons of Figtree Leaves to hide the iniquity and wickedness of their sinful devilish and malicious undertakings which to my understanding I cannot term it better for whoever he or they be that are led away by the wicked instigation of Satan are hired or bribed to take false Oaths and bind themselves in Covenant with the Devil irrevocably and that in as much as they will ransack their Consciences and make a shipwrack of them as these three Suborners have done though indeed I must confess they were put on so to do by the Counfounders of Christianity Religion Godliness Holiness and Piety and all other Christian Laws and Governments to use all means whatsoever with a general Indulgence for so doing for to Confound the King the Church Government and Kingdoms of these three Nations expecting that this late most Abominable and Horrible Plot should be placed as a perpetual stain over the heads of Protestants The proposals of the which Contrivance being thus That if the said three Suborners could or would whether right or wrong take their Oaths that they knew such Contracts in the Writings of the chiefest and strongest Evidences the King hath as that what they several times deposed upon Oath and manifestly proved in such a through and Emphatical manner as that all Persons of whatsoever Degree Dignity or Quality durst not nor will scruple that is to say such as are endued with common Sense Reason or Understanding but the said Evidences of the King spoke nothing but real and manifest truth in what they have declared or deposed as to the proof of the Plot. But the Ancient antipathy and Malice of Rome is still bent and ever will be during the Reign of the Romans to do all the mischief to the Protestant Religion and Government to the utmost of their power and to this end they thought to make themselves more drunk with the Cup of Abomination and then to vomit it out upon the heads of English Irish and Scottish Protestants when they seeing that the Lord was pleased to break the Vail that covered and hid their untolerable wickedness and let their shameful deeds be seen in and through the World But they who much may be compared to the Magicians of Egypt as often as Moses through and by the power of God turned the Rod to several vivificant or lively Postures of twelve Creatures so the Egyptian Magicians by the Power of the Devil worked a formal resemblance to that which the man of God and by his power Acted which thus implies that as the Lord was pleased to discover to let the people of England see the malicious naked Sword of Rome that was ready to cut their Throats so the Popish party on the other hand with their Magical Spells of Money thought to raise such perverse perjured Suborners for to swear that the Plot was first contrived and hatched by the Protestant Party upon the which Sound of the Magick Money Art the above mentioned Captain Elie Sympson Tongue and John Crawley contrived together and thought it a great prey and cryed one to another Come let us go to the Popish Party and swear three Oaths That Doctor Tonge Doctor Oats Captain Bedloe c. were the first Contrivers of the Popish Plot and that they have so contrived it as that they made the King averse against his Subjects and expells some of them into forreign Countries banisht some of them that were in great Favour at Court and deprived them of the privilege of bearing Office or Commission of Magistracy under him within his Jurisdiction or Dominions I say as to the said Suborners that their Hands were greased and their Lips anoynted for to exclaim against the King's Evidences in hopes they may procure more people to compact with them in Perjury and Subornation and they would share with them in what moneys they could receive upon that account I have given you thus far an account of the Subornation of these three Persons and now I will let you understand what three Persons they are their Intents Designs and Purposes as I have promised in the beginning of my foregoing lines That Captain Elie who was the Chiefest Ringleader of the other two is frequently termed a great States-man and a Jesuitical Contriver which may very well be seen in the Method he took to manage his Business when he went about to raise a Company of Suborned Witnesses to serve the Devil against his King as I shall