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A53538 To the honourable the knights, citizens and burgesses, in Parliament assembled; the deplorable case and humble petition of Dr. Titus Oates. Oates, Titus, 1649-1705. 1696 (1696) Wing O56A; ESTC R214443 1,981 1

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To the Honourable The Knights Citizens and Burgesses in PARLIAMENT Assembled The Deplorable Case and Humble Petition of Dr. TITVS OATES SHEWETH THAT your Petitioner in the Year 1678 discovered a horrid Popish Conspiracy for the Destruction of King Charles the Second and his present Majesty and the Protestant Religion within these Kingdoms and proved it so fully that several Parliaments and Courts of Justice before whom he gave his Testimony declared their belief of it by publick Votes and the Condemnation of several of the Conspirators THAT upon this Account the Popish Party pursued your Petitioner with an implacable Malice attempting several times to take away his Life and being defeated in that Attempt they first procured the said King Charles the Second to withdraw that Protection and Subsistance that the said King had allowed him at the Request of several Parliaments which was 40 l. per Month and then instigated his Royal Highness the Duke of York to prosecute your Petitioner in an Action of Scandalum Magnatum for speaking this Notorious Truth viz. That he the said D. of York was Reconciled to the Church of Rome and that it is High-Treason to be so Reconciled wherein a Verdict and Judgment for 100000 l. Damages were obtained against your Petitioner and your Petitioner committed to the King's Bench Prison AFTER this the Popish Party obtained leave from King Charles the 2d to prefer two several Indictments against your Petitioner for two pretended Perjuries in his Evidence concerning the said Conspiracy which they brought on to a Trial in the Reign of King James the Second and your Petitioner upon the Testimony of these very Witnesses who had Confronted him in three former Trials and were disbelieved through the partial Behaviour of the Chief Justice Jefferies in brow-beating your Petitioner's Witnesses and misleading the Juries was Convicted of the said pretended Perjuries and received this Inhumane and unparallel'd Sentence viz. To pay 2000 Marks to the King to be divested of his Canonical Habit to be brought into Westminster-Hall with a Paper upon his Head with this Inscription Titus Oates Convicted upon full Evidence of two horrid Perjuries to stand in and upon the Pillory two several Days for the space of an hour to be Whipt by the Common-Hangman from Aldgate to Newgate on Wednesday and Friday following from Newgate to Tyburn to stand in and upon the Pillory five times every Year of his Life and to remain a Prisoner during Life THIS Sentence as your Petitioner believes was to murder him and was executed accordingly with all the Circumstances of Barbarity he having suffered some thousands of Stripes whereby he was put to unspakeable Tortures and lay ten Weeks under the Chirurgions Hands neither did their Malice and Cruelty cease here but because your Petitioner through the Mercy of God supporting him and the extraordinary Skill of a Judicious Chirurgion outlived that barbarous Usage some of them got into his Chamber whilest he was weak in his Bed and attempted to pull of the Plaisters applied to cure his Back and threatned to destroy him THAT nothing within their Power and Malice might be wanting to compleat your Petitioner's Misery they procured him to be loaded with Irons of excessive Weight for one whole Year without any Intermission even when his Legs were swollen with the Gout and to be shut up in the Hole or Dungeon of the said Prison whereby he became impaired of his Limbs and contracted Convulsion-Fits to the Hazard of his Life All which Illegal Proceedings and Barbarous Inhumanities were not only intended against your Petitioner as a Revenge upon him but likewise to cast a Reproach upon the Wisdom and Honour of four successive Parliaments who had given him Credit and upon the publick Justice of the Nation DURING the Time that this Prosecution was upon your Petitioner several Noblemen and Gentlemen Citizens and others contributed 4000 l. per Annum for his Support and Maintenance which your Petitioner enjoyed till his present Majesty King William at the request of both Houses of Parliament restored to him your Petitioner the foresaid Pension of 40 l. per Mensom after having been deprived thereof nine Years to his loss above 5000 l. THAT your Petitioner enjoyed the said Allowance of 40 l. per Month from September 1689. till Lady-day in the Year 1692. after which time your Petitioner had not his Pension paid him to the undoing of your poor Petitioner his Friends withdrawing their Bounty from him when his Majesty restored your Petitioner to his said Pension they judging him to be provided for during his Life so that your Petitioner is ruined he having in the time of his Sufferings and since his allowance of 40 l. per Month was taken away contracted Debts for which he hath bin sued by his Creditors and hath bin Arrested and his Goods taken in Execution and must have perished had not the Lords of the Treasury relieved your Petitioner with the Sum of 350 l. with which Sum your poor Petitioner did pay his Creditors in part but will be sued for the Remainder of his Debts which amounts to 500 l. and his poor Wife and Family must perish and your Petitioner starve at last in a Prison unless this Honourable House do take your poor Petitioner's deplorable Case into their tender Consideration his said Pension of 40 l. per Month being his whole and only Subsistance he having no Estate to live upon THE Premises considered your Petitioner throws himself at the Feet of this Honourable House and pray your Honours to take his deplorable Case into your tender Consideration so that your Petitioner may receive the Arrears of his Pension to discharge his Debts and that he may be restor'd to his Pension of 40 l. per Month that he and his distressed Family may not starve for Want of Bread And your Petitioner shall ever pray c.