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Great news from the north of England being a detection of a late plot (or conspiracy) against the present government.
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1690
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Wing G1735G; ESTC R43868
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GREAT NEWS FROM THE North of England BEING A DETECTION OF A LATE Plot. or Conspiracy Against the Present Government LICENS'D And Entered according to Order HIS Most Sacred Majesty King William ever since His Accession to the Imperial Crown of these Realms rightly considering that Mercy is one of the most splendidst Gems that truly adorns a Crown has extended his Clemency even to the greatest of Offenders Amongst a number of other Instances particularly to the Officers and Souldiers of the Lord Dunbarton's Regiment after every Soul of them had forfeited their Lives by their Notorious Defect or rather Rebellion near the Isle of Ely And his Majesties so often recommending to the Last Parliament and his taking Care to have presented to the Present a Bill of Indemnity that if possible He would oblige the most Obdurate of his Subjects to Acts of Loyalty and Obedience yet notwithstanding all this Princely Condescension it s too too plain and evident that there are many Roman Catholicks and other Jacobites so notoriously disaffected to our present happy Constitution that they are not to be allowed or drawn by the Chords of Mercy and Clemency which is plainly demonstrated from their late detected secret Cabals and Treasonable Conspiracies in the North of England to disturb the Government in His Majesty's Absence but let them have a care least it should befall them what the Lord Chief Justice Scroggs told Coleman ne Catalus qui dem relinquendus for Orders are already gon down to have several taken into Custody Likewise their almost daily Paper Plots or Treasonable Pamphlets which by their Factors they secretly disperse to endeavour if possible to poyson the Minds of many of His Majesty's well-meaning Leige People for the prevention an some Measure of the said design of theirs I reccommend the Reader to the following Admonitions How much Europe in general and this Kingdom in particular has suffered by the Bloody Zeal of Furious and Cruel Papists is known to every man of common Understanding amongst Us Therefore it behoves Us of this Nation to consider our Danger and former Sufferings and grow so Wise as not to run the same Hazard again as we were lately like to be brought into in the Days of James the II or trust they will prove more kind than they have been heretofore We may assure our Selves if Experience has not taught us to use all means to avoid their Cruelty it has now taught them how more effectually to work our Destruction All the Repentance that ever I heard they have shewn is only that they did not more throughly Root out their Adversaries when they had the Power in their own Hands and that is all we must look for if ever God for our Sins should suffer Abdicated King James to prevail again For whatever fair or specious Pretences may be alledged against our present happy Constitution and Settlement by the Jacobites and other more Slyer Enemies King James's General Liberty of Conscience was but the Guilded Bait to delude us 'T was really our Religion our Estates Liberties Lives and Fortunes which that Prince and his Popish Crew thirsted after For if ever they should prevail the Liberty they promise us would end in Slavery the Wealth in Beggary and the Happiness in Confusion The Horrour of Queen MARY's Days the several Bloody Plots and Conspiracics in Queen Elizabeths and King James the First the Massacre in France and the Rebellion and Horrid Massacre in Ireland 1641. are not yet blotted out of our Minds and the late and Inhumane bloody Practices of King James and his bloody French and Irish Crew since his Landing There we have daily Instances of almost before our Eyes neither have we forgot the lamentable Miseries and Destructions of our late Civil Wars which were chiefly fomented and stirred up by them If therefore the Preservation of our Holy Reform'd Religion our Estates Lives and Fortunes the Benefit of our Posterity the true Peace of the Kingdom the preventing of Popery Athesm and Confusion and the common Rules of Justice be any Motives to work upon Us I hope it will be the Endeavours and constant Care of all true English-men to keep out Tyranny and Popery and heartily maintain the Religion and Government which is now established amongst Us. LONDON Printed for W. Sturt in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1690.