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A47862 A further discovery of the Plot drawn from the narrative and depositions of Dr. Titus Oates, and fairly submitted to the consideration of all indifferent readers. L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704. 1680 (1680) Wing L1251; ESTC R21550 7,097 8

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A Further DISCOVERY OF THE PLOT Drawn from the NARRATIVE AND DEPOSITIONS OF Dr. Titus Oates And Fairly Submitted to the Consideration of all Indifferent Readers No man so blinde as he that will not see LONDON Printed for Henry Brome at the Gun in S. Pauls Church-yard 1680 A Farther Discovery of the PLOT AS it cannot be deny'd but that the Kings Witnesses have ventur'd as far and done as much as men could do under their Circumstances to make out the Truth of a Damnable and Hellish Popish Plot upon the Life of his Sacred Majesty our Religion and Civil Government So neither must it be deny'd on the other hand but that the Justice and Wisdom of this Nation have emprov'd all Discoveries by the strictest Inquisition and scrutiny imaginable and done all that was possible also toward the suppressing of the Conspiracy by the highest Instances of Political zeal and Rigour Insomuch that after so many Priests and Jesuits and other Leading men of that Party removed by the stroke of Publique Justice so many of them under Confinement so many more reduced to shift for themselves beyond the Seas beside the severe Penalties of the Law upon the rest with all sorts of Encouragement both for their detection and punishment After all this care taken I say to tear up the accursed Plot by the Root We are yet assured that all this notwithstanding the Plot is still carried on with Confidence and Vigour And this we have even from those very Persons themselves that formerly wrought in the same Mine with the Conspirators till through the Grace of a better Light they came to govern themselves by other Measures This is a truth no more to be doubted then that of the Plot it self which has stood the Tryall of so many Solemn and Publique Tests Beside that we have the same Authority for the One as for the Other only the Circumstances not being brought into Proof the matter of Fact lies a little more in the Dark Whether or no the Plot goes on still after all this Havock made of the Papists is the Common subject of every Coffee-house Discourse They that must be presum'd to know best are of opinion that it does and those that are upon the Negative reason the point after this manner What say they Is it a Plot that will work without hands Where are the Papists the Instruments that should drive it on Are they in the Aire or under Ground or are they Invisible For as they are now dispers'd and broken beside the Terrour that overawes them there are at least three Thousand Protestants in sight to one Papist But do they ask where they are because we cannot see them Why do they not rather ask where they are Not because they may be any where and we not know them For as I have been told by persons of Great Quality they 'l indue all shapes and Exercise all Professions They speak of one Jesuit that cry'd work for a Cooper another that wrought upon the Trade of a Shoomaker Priests in Red coats Innumerable And it is observ'd that upon the bringing of the Late Plot to Light all the little Frenchmen with their Marionets or Puppet-shows vanish'd in a trice which gave a suspition that they were only a kind of Itinerant Agents for the Faction To say nothing of their skill and Industry in the managing of all our Divisions and discontents to the advantage of their own Party These are stories I know that are much more easily Contradicted then Prov'd and therefore without laying any stresse at all upon Common Fame or Hearsay I shall now apply my self to that farther Discovery of the Plot which I have promis'd in my Title and support my undertaking upon the Authority of Dr. Oates himself with a respect both to the Validity of his Testimony and to the weight of his Observations being a Person that hath dived deeper into the Mystery of this Iniquity with favour of the rest then any other man As to the Hellish Design upon the Life of our Gracious Sovereign by Pistol Sword or Poyson we hope that the Neck of that Particular Plot is broken to all Intents and purposes But we are beholden also to Dr. Oates for the Discovery of Other and of Farther Plots that are still carry'd on by the same restlesse Party tending to the defaming of his Majesties Person and Government the Subversion of our Establish'd Religion and the Disturbance of the Publick Peace So that unless the remaining and the still growing Difficulties and Hazzards be encounter'd with Timely and Effectual Remedies the work of our Deliverance is but half done and we shall yet run a risque of being ruin'd at last even in the very Port. Dr. Oates tells us in his Narrative Printed by Authority of Parliament that the Pope Society of Jesus and their Confederates in this Plot have a Design to reduce England Scotland and Ireland to the Romish Religion and Obedience by the Sword Pag. 63. which they hope to accomplish among Other means by disaffecting the Kings best Friends at home and abroad and Subjects against his Person and Government charging him with Tyranny and Designs of Oppressing Governing by the Sword and without Parliaments Pa. 67. By Aspersing Deriding Exposing and declaiming against his Person Councils and Actions in Parliaments and elsewhere by Mis-reporting and raising False News of his Affairs by disaffecting his Majesties Allyes Holland Spain the German Emperor and Princes by False Intelligence By Seditious Preachers and Catechists set up sent out Maintained and directed what to Preach in their Own or other Private or Publick Conventicles and Field-Meetings By setting up false pretended Titles to the Succession of the Crown and Animating Different Parties one against another on this or such like False pretences to Arm and put the People in blood upon the Kings Death We have found Dr. Oates's Observations as to these particulars so punctually true that every syllable of what he has here deliver'd is from point to point the very matter now in Agitation For there 's not a day passes without a Libell upon his Majesties Authority Administration Designes and solemn Resolutions of State and Council belying the Condition of his Affairs and endeavouring to create Distsrusts and Jelousies among Forreign Princes and States by False Intelligence animating and Exciting of Turbulent Factions and anticipating of Confederacies to involve us all in Blood upon a Remote and Undutifull SUPPOSITION of the KINGS DEATH And finally we have Sedition Preach'd as well as written and our Conventicles both instructed themselves and instructing Others in the Methods and Principles of Rebellion this may suffice for the Doctors Judgment upon the present State of things which in truth looks liker a Revelation then a Conjecture As to his Reflexions upon the Interest which the Papists had in our Past troubles these are his words in his Preface to the aforesaid Narrative Who beside these were the First Authours and Contrivers of the late