is true it is to be Supposed thà t a Traytor engaged in a Conspiracy during the time of his Faith and Truth to that Conspiracy might never preserve any such thing as a Commission Patent or any other Treasonable Paper and consequently the Dr. in times past might not take care to furnish himself with any such visible Proofs against them But from that very day that he repented of his Crimes abjur'd their Treasons and sided with them only to trepan and betray them making it his whole business and study to furnish the World with Invincible Proofs of their Villanies and yet thus egregiously to let slip such numerous Advantages and dayly offered Manifestations of their Rogueries yes and for this very Discoverer to be introduced to the King with no other Credentials about him than the bare Tale of a Plot and that too in the very height of his giving out dayly Commissions for raising of Armies c. Nay after the Dr. was plainly sensible if he believes as he swears that he had seen Pacquets to the Fathers at St. Omers bearing date January 1. new Style in which the Fathers were assured that His Majesty of great Brittain was brought to that pass Nar. par XVIII that if any Malecontent amongst them should not prove true to their Design His Majesty would never give ear to their Information c. and yet after such fair Warning for this very Patriot that knew he had so much Difficulty and Infidelity to cope with to come thus unprovided with not one scrap or scraul out of all those Infinite Manuscripts and Undeniable Records against them dayly trusted in his hands for this Plot-swearer I say to be thus zealous for the Protection of the King and three Kingdoms and yet to come so empty handed to his Discovery is such a Riddle Prodigy or what else you please to style it as certainly never had nor will have the Fellow on 't So that through the whole Series of the Plot we find not only the Motions of the Jesuits but likewise the very Discoverers too so notoriously excentrick that the Liveliest Representation of the Whole is If one Pack of Phaetons were setting the World on Fire another Pack stept out to quench it But that the Jesuits have such roving Head-pieces that no Man can fix them to one Point we might be extremely astonisht at all the Infinite Diversities we meet in the Popist Plot and yet as numerous and as Mysterious as their Methods have been for the Introduction of Popery viz. sometimes by Massacres another while by no Massacres first by Killing all and then by saving half one while by one Army and then another Army and afterwards no Armies c. with all the rest of the forementioned Yariety what if at last we find out a new Projection for 't still a Projection not so much as resembling any of its Fellows and possibly the very best in the whole Bundle This Projection we find in the 23 paragraph of the Drs. Narrative verbatim as follows That the Fathers of St. Omers viz. Richard Ashby Rector Edward Hall Edward Nevil and others of the English Seminary did write to Thomas Whitebread and other Fathers in which was exprest that it was now apparent that the Catholick Religion was to be brought in the same way that they had used for the Destruction of the Father of this King and as that could not be effected till much Blood was spilt on both sides so this must be effected by Effusion of Blood c. Here 't will be worth our while to inquire what that way was the Roman Catholicks used for the Destruction of the old King and for that wee 'l go no further than the Authority of the Dr. himself in the Epistle to his Narrative dedicated to His Majesty where after many other Allegations against the Popish Party he says Who besides These were the first Authors and Contrivers of the late unnatural War by their known Diabolical Arts of Inflaming Parties and Passions against each other and of your Royal Fathers Sufferings and Barbarous Osage It was those that brought him to his End and flourish't Swords and triumphed over his dead Body whom they durst not approach when Living c. This Assertion granted the Means they used for his Destruction and the Effects that follow'd can be no other then these viz. the Papists who under the Reign of the old King by the Indulgence of so Merciful a Prince had a private Toleration of their Religion with a full and perfect Enjoyment of all the Liberties Priviledges and Immunities Peace and I ranquillity of any of the rest of His Majesties Prâ—testant Subjects weâ—e notwithstanding privately enflaming a Crew of Fanatick Traytors to Murder their Prince destroy the Monarchy and set up a Common-wealth to their own inevitable Ruin and the more artfully to pull down that Ruin they were most of them in actual service for that very Prince they were plotting to destroy thereby not only hazarding their Lives in his cause but likewise forfeiting both their Freedoms and Estates to the Rapine and Revenge of the Victorious Rebels for their defending him And all this for the Advancement of Popery An Odd sort of Advancement but let that pass Now to summ up all if the Fathers at St. Omers were unanimously agreed that the apparent means of bringing in their Religion was the way used for the old Kings Destruction and 't is likewise as apparent this only was the said means How can we make the Conspiracy and Byass of Affairs in that Age run with this but by concluding the Papists or their Brethren in Iniquitie for them are a blowing the old Coal again fâ—â—â—â— to raise a false Out-cry against Popery and Arbitrary Power to exasperate the Kingdom into a Civil War then mount the Fanatick into the Saddle and the King to the Block whiln my old Patrons late Association was but a Bird of their own hatching the second part of the old Covenant to have plaid the old Game over again And faith all things considered Papists or no Papists in the Cabal this may be the most probable of all the Intrigues we have met yet and how unwilling soever some People may be to grant this point if our Dr. ever swore truth the Inference falls so pat and several late Passages look so much that way that 't is the very Top of all his Discovery This unlucky piece of Intelligence so mis-matcht to all the rest of his Evidence however it got into the crowd and slipt into Print I know not but I am certain his good Patrons the Brethren were mightily overseen at the perusal of his Papers in not castrating this Luxuriant Branch and the Dr. Himself deserv'd no less then a True Protestant Pennance for 't and to be turn'd over to Satan to be buffeted But the Plot it self is not more Extraordinary than Mr. Oats his good Fortune and Escape to prove it for on the 3d. of September
Forgetfulness we have him a Person of that prodigious Memory that through his whole Examination before Sir Edmond-bury Godfrey in LXXXI Paragraphs the whole Subject of above Fifty of 'em is the contents of Pacquets and innumerable Letters too and fro from the Jesuits from all parts and almost all of them excepting two or three of them broken open by himself read only in other Mens hands yet I say we have him so compleat a Remembrancer as besides the wonderful variety contained in them to give us their express date of the day of the Month even to the nice distinction of Stylo novo Stylo Vetere A tast of which unexampled Memory I 'le instance in paragr LXXII where he says as follows Item this Deponent saith that the Pope hath issued out a Bull a Copy of which Mr. Blundel showed this Deponent on the 30th of August in which the Pope was pleas'd to Order and Dispose of the Bishopricks in England and other Dignities of the same as follows CANTERBVRY Cardinal Howard with an Addition of 40000 Crowns per annum for maintaining a Legantine Power and Authority YORK Perrot Superior to the Secular Priests who hath power of probate of Wills Licences for Marriages and all Episcopal Jurisdiction except Ordination and Confirmation c. In this manner the Dr. goes on with Bishops and Abbots to the number of about 30 without forgetting one single Name or the Latitude of their Jurisdictions with a further account by whom the lesser Dignities of the Church were to be managed c. And all this ad unguem from only the sight of the Copy of a Bull showed him by Blundel But lastly to draw towards a Conclusion for his last Entertainment I shall give my Reader the most profound piece of the whole Diabolical Plot. The Dr. you must understand and his Epistle to the Reader in his Narrative tells you as much made the Discovery of the Plot to His Majesty on the 13th of August 78. by the Means and Introduction of that Worthy and Honest Gentleman Mr. Christopher Kirby And mark ye after that very 13th of August 24 of his 81 Paragraphs of his Narrative are the business of the Plot still carrying on to September the 7 following from p. 37 to p. 57. In which last part of his Narrative and all after his Discovery to the King we have the greatest Transactions and Consults of the whole Conspiracy Particularly that very 13th of August Nar. par LV. II. at 6 at Night was the Dr. not designedly but by accident at a Sermon Preached by John Keins to 12 Men poor in habit yet Men of Quality as the Deponents supposes by their white hands in which Sermon was delivered that Protestants and other Heretick Princes were ipso facto deposed because such and that it was as Lawful to destroy them as an Oliver Cromwel or any other Vsurper August 18. the Dr. was at a Consult where Mr. Vincent Nar. par IXI Joseph David Keymash Mr. Dominick Mr. Collins Mr. Fedding Mr. Mansell and Mr. Laumsdale all Dominicans met and consulted with John Keins Father Hartcourt Father Fenwick Father Wright Father Blundel Jesuits about Killing the King and Carrying on the Design at which Consult Oats was present too and fro and afterwards employed by them to carry the Proposals of the Consult to the Carmelites viz. Dr. Hanson Mr. Kimbal and Mr. Trevers par LXIII c. On Wednesday the 21 of August was another Consult held by the Jesuits and Benedictines about the Irish Affairs and a 3d Consult at Mrs. Saunders-house of which the Dr. had notice before the meeting of it by John Grove Nay the Irish Ruffians were all Hired and sent down to Windsor not till after the 13 of August Par. LXVII and the Dr. by at the telling out and sending the 80 l. after them expresly the 22d of August Besides Conyers and Anderson too were not engaged in the Kings Murder till now for Conyers on the very same 22d of August showed the Dr. his Dagger of a Foot long in the Blade spick and span new bought of the old Cutler in Russel-street and the same 22d day does the Dr. meet Mr. Blundel with a Bag of Fire-balls under his arm and the 30th following is showed by the said Blundel at Fenwicks Chamber being invited thither to see it a Paper Sign'd by Whitebread in the name of the whole Society containing a Scheme of the manner of Firing of Westminster Tooly-street St. Thomas Apostle and the Kings Ships at Wapping Besides we have the Dr. at every turn at his old sport of reading of Letters Packets Memorials c. one time a Catalogue of the Popes disposal of all the Dignities of the Church seen August 30. Par. 72. on the 2d of September a Pacquet directed to John Grove from the Fathers at Edinburgh to tell the Fathers here that they had 8000 Catholicks ready to rise when the business grew hot to joyn with the disaffected Scots These Plot Papers cum multis aliis too tedious here to recite did the Dr. peruse and went hand in hand still with the rest of his Brother Plotters In all these many Consults and Matters transacted since the 13th of August we find first this wonderful ill fortune that the Jesuits should meet consult c. with as much or more vigor than ever without the least Breath or hint of a Discovery made to His Majesty from the very 13th of August to the 3d of September following Secondly we have the Doctor all along as deep in the Plot and as much trusted by the Jesuits as ever and tho he had been with the King to discover it and not extremely Credited by him endeavored to give him all the satisfaction and Confirmation of the Plot that he could possible yet he neither keeps seizes or causes to be seiz'd any one of these Letters Pacquets Memorials Proposals or Commissions seen or carried too and fro by him nor so much as endeavors to apprehend either the Jesuits Dominicans Benedictines c. at any of their foremention'd Consults tho in the height of all their Plotting with all their treasonable Schemes Pacquets Papers and Resolves before them Now some unreasonable dissatisfyed Critiques have been apt God forgive them sor't to make this unlucky Dilemma viz. that either there were no such Treasonable Packets Papers c. seen read or carryed by the Dr nor to be seiz'd or produced nor any such Consulters to be apprehended or else that Titus Oats instead of his pretended Zeal for the King and Protestants Preservation is the unhappy or rather execrable Betrayer of both whilst neither the safety of his Prince Country or Religion could prompt him to make use of such favorable and many opportunities tho for the full Confutation of all Objections whatever and the Plain and Visible Detection of the King and Kingdoms Enemies by such convincing Testimonies as might have confronted even Malice Impudence nay Hell it self 'T
Root and Brance not so much as a heretick Hewer of wood or Drawer of Water had been left unslaughter'd Now after this damnable Popish Decree and all this Lamentable Tragedy I admire what need the Pope had in his long Bull read by Dr. Oats in Blundels hands after the disposal of Bishopricks Nar. p. 72. Abbotships c. for want of English born Preists enough for all the dignities of the Church of England to decree such and such Spaniards and other forreigners should supply that want and order such and such for reading Philosophy and Divinity in all great Towns and Colledges and such and such to be employed in Preaching catechizing and assisting at the Altar Alas and welladay after so Numberless an Assassination as All the Protestants in England there would have been so little Occasion for Supplies of Spanish priests that there would scarce have been Flock enough left to overstock the very St. Omers Brotherhood Many a great Town in England would have stood in so little need of a Philosophy or Divinity School that there would not have been so much as three souls left alive in 't and three Surviving Families had been more then many a nine Parishes in England could have produced That the Pope one would think might have Spared his untimely provision for his Underchurches for unless his Jagoe Pilgrims and other kind Visitants had repeopled the Kingdom the Underchurches might have e'en stood Idle and the very Cathedral alone in many a fair Town have held the Congregation of the whole County Besides in my Mind 't was mighty ridiculous in the Plotters to trouble their heads about the Succession and as the Dr. tells you to threaten the Duke if he followed his Brothers steps to send him after him For truly when Mr. Dugdales Massacres and Armies had left him no Subjects living but Papists 't was not three Farthings matter what the Successors Religion was nor was it likely he could ever follow his Brothers steps and favor the Protestants when he had not one Protestant left to favor But now after all this dismal and deplorable business methinks I cannot make a livelier Representation of the woful state of England than by fancying I see the distrest and desolate Britannia mourning o're her slaughter'd Sons like the Brentford Kings howling over Lardella's Coffin But now what if by a new turn of State Lardella should be alive at last and maugre this fatal and universal Doom several Thousands of those Sentenced Hereticks should live many a fair Summers day after it And that all this is undeniable truth we have no less then Mr. Bedlow's Reprieve to save them for after his landing an Army of 10000 Men from Flanders at Bradlington Bay to surprize Hull Garrison and the Lord Petre and Powis having another Army to march to Pembrookshire to meet a Third Army of 20 or 30000 Men who were to land at Milford haven being an Army composed of all Religious Men and Pilgrims from St. Jago in Spain Lords Journ 12th day of Nov. 78. and whatever should happen that their Strength as they said might be sufficient they had 40000 Men a Fourth Army ready in London besides those that would on the Alarm be posted at Every Ale-house door to have Kill'd the Soldiers as they came out of their quarters which I suppose at least must make a fifth Army more besides a sixth Army of Mr. Oats's from France expresly to have been let in upon the Kings death but at present forgotten by Mr. Bedlow Irelands Tryal p. 29. Now amongst all these formidable Armies to be commanded by Bellasis Petres Powis c. The edge of Mr. Dugdales Massacre is a little rebated for here as Bedlow tells the House of Lords after Conyers had kill'd the King Keins the Duke of Monmouth Pritchard the Duke of Buckingham Mr. Right my Lord Shaftesbury Mr. O neal my Lord Ossory and one whose name he had forgotten the Duke of Ormond after all these Persons were kill'd the Papists did not question the Power of the rest or their Counsels but that they should out do them for they would give such great Pay that all sorts of Malecontents and People that depended on their fortune Lords Journ ibid 12th of N. would be ready to serve them All this perform'd as he tells you afterward they designed to establish their Government secure enough for they intended utterly to extinguish all sorts of People that would not really be converted to the Church of Rome and to prove it persecute their nearest Relations that were Obstinate Here we have the abovenamed Lords Generals a little more honorably employ'd under Mr. Bedlows Banners than Mr. Dugdales the whole Glory of the Day being now like to be theirs and not only Mr. Dugdales Presbyterians that were to be Massacred by a medley of Papists and Episcopals manifestly rescued from destruction but they and all other Malecontents to be bribed into the Popish Army and vice versâ make a part of the Catholick Forces to cut the Episcopal Throats Here tho all the Protestants at long run were to be extinguisht yet the stream is not half so rapid as Mr. Dugdales for here the Hereticks had time to cry Quarter and have the fair Proffer of Conversion for their Deliverance whilst the destruction of the Obstinate was only to approach by the slower hand of Persecution Thus far I have showed you the many and wonderful Windings and Turnings of French Armies English Armies Flandrian Armies and Pilgrim Armies and all the rest of the Plot Forces that were to destroy the King Subvert the Government and Religion and Subject the whole Nation to slavery and Popery But after all these manifold and various Motions of so many Armies for the Protestant Destruction as Bays his whispering Conspirators wisely observed of the two Brentford Kings viz. When they heard us whisper 2dly What they heard us whisper and lastly whither they heard us at all or no. So likewise in our Conspiracy after we have given you an account by What Armies and When this great Design was to have been accomplisht what if we come to Bays his last point and prove the Work was to have been done by no Armies at all I that would be a Rarity indeed and an Atchievement enough to immortalize the Policy and Glory of Rome Well! As wondrous as this Atchievement may look it is no more strange than 't is true And that too as shall be manifestly made out by the clearest Demonstration through the whole discovery For Example Mr. Oates swears as you have been told before that Pickering and Grove by the Jesuits order had been at Killing the King the March before the April Consult and not only then but several Years before had been dogging the King for the same Murdering purpose nay upon further Examination we may track the Plot upon occasions even to the Firing of London Here it visibly appears that many Years before the April Consult
the Design was Ripe for Execution and the King for Falling and consequently the Subversion of the Government and destruction of the Protestants that were always to attend it must necessarily and inseparably have Succeeded his Murder This granted and that upon further Inquiry we find the Commissions for the Army to be rais'd in England not so much as delivered out till the Months of May June July August 78. and the Forreign Armies from Jago Flanders c. Expresly to come over to joyn the English Forces under the Command of Bellasis Petres Powis c. Which Joyning of Armies Mr. Bedlow assures us was just ready to put in Execution Lords Journ 12th Nov. 78. when the Design against the Kings Person was discovered Besides when Pickerings Gun Miscarried in January or at any time Winter or Summer for all those Years that Pickering followed the King it was morally impossible for either the French or Spanish King to have always Armies ready to March and Navies to Land them so that upon the whole 't is unanswerably Evident that the stroke was to have been given without the least Limb of any Army whatsoever either Forreign or Domestick Upon these undeniable Demonstrations mark the prodigious Prowess Strength and Courage of the Sons of Rome Here to follow their first Blow viz. the Kings Murder must the Popish hands in England without any assistance whatever have made a Massacre and to have kept their ground either Killd or Subjected the whole Body of the Protestants throughout the Kingdom Alas What were the Foolish insignificant Irish Piedmont and Parisian Massacres compared to This There the Religion of the Countries was Popish the Strength and Government Popish and the Majority of lhe Peoqle all Papists and what with the help of Surprise their Strength and advantages treble to those of their unarmed Enemies But the State of England has quite another Face here the Strength and Government of the Nation is in Protestants hands and upon several Scrutinies made of the number of the Papists throughout all England upon Computation they are not found to be the hundred and fiftieth part of the Nation So that as the Old poor Groveling Cutthroats in their ignobler Enterprizes went on with those cowardly encouragements of Hope Reason and Possibility on their side The bolder English High-flyers lay all these duller inglorious trifles aside resolved to assume the Souls and Strength of Hercules each Man an Almanzor or Cousin German to him at least whilst the vast Bulk of a Hundred and Fifty to one odds had been to have faln no doubt like a second Goliah with the strength of a Pebble from a Roman hand So that put but the Kings Murder and the Protestants Massacre together and examine the strange Methods of the Jesuits for effecting them and we shall plainly see that as God hath restored His Majesty by Miracle so the Pope and the Devil were resolved to destroy him by Miracle too But suppose after all that this Immense and Supernatural Courage had not been in them and that really they knew they had not been able to atchieve all this why truly that had been no hindrance to the business nor any part of their Consideration for a Jesuit in a Plot when his hand is in like Sr. Martin on the Lute plays on and never stops at all and in Season or out of Season troubles not his head For Example The Jesuits Fired London with an Intention to Kill the King in the hurry and Massacre the Protestants upon 't and yet see the oddness of the Design Nar. par XXXIV they laid London in Ashes and yet were not at all provided to go through with the Work And why as the Dr. expresly tells us they were not secured of the Duke a wonderful Impediment when from the beginning of the Plot to the end they never were nor hoped to be secure of him the Duke being wholly a stranger to their Design and no part of their Trust but the whole Family of the Stuarts being possitively to be cut off Root and Branch Nar. pag 64. And the next Obstacle to their Design was the King was industrious about the Fire that they could not find in their hearts to do it a very odd Qualm of pity in a Plotter and an extraordinary stop to a Conspiracy of almost a Hundred Years growth Besides in this Fire they used 700 Fireballs and those made of Sheeps Fat Nar. par XXXIV no more an Ingredient to my knowledg for the Composition of a Firebal than for a Sack-posset and might as honorably have been sworn into one as the other But the Reader may remember that about the great Fire-time and some Years after there were a sort of Thieves had got a trick of Killing Sheep by Night and stealing the Fat as being a more portable more profitable and less dangerous Luggage than the Mutton it self and this Thievery commencing about the Fire of London came pat in the nick for the Fright and Ignorance of the Rabble to fancy it stoln for Fireballs and the Jesuits that can improve Fables into Records found out an Art of putting the Whim into Execution Besides in this Fire they pilferd Holland Cambricks fine Cloth some considerable Quantity of Plate and a Box of Jewels in which were One Thousand Carracts of Diamonds Nar. ibid. lâ—pt up in several Papers for several Goldsmiths A wondrous stock for one Mans keeping and a vast Treasure especially of that Lightness to be carelesly left behind to the Rapine of Thieves or Flames And what 's still more remarkable so Infinite was the Wealth of London that amongst so many several Goldsmiths concerned not one of them from that day to this has mist them or made inquiry after them The PLOT in IRELAND BUt here let us take our leave a while of the Rebellions Assassinations Massacres and Fireworks in little old En land and see how the Posture of Affairs stands in Ireland for the doing of which we can have no greater Light than from the Tryal of Oliver Plunket late Titular Arch Bishop of Ireland where indeed we find the whole Irish Plot so to admiration made out that even Infidelity it self must tremble at such undeniable Proofs and unanswerable Demonstrations and to the Confusion of Rome all this undoubted Truth delivered by Oracles sworn home by no less then the very Oaths of Members even of the Popish Clergy it self The whole summ of which Conspiracy is as follows Oliver Plunket was made I rimate of Ireland by the Election of the King of France and upon his Election he made those Conditions with the King of France Tryal p. 84. to raise Men to joyn with the French to destroy the Protestant Religion the said Plunket having Engaged to get Dublin London-Derry and all the Sea Ports into their own hands to Levy War and Destroy the Protestant Religion a Vast undertaking for a Titular Bishop to go thorough with and that they should
long after his being with the King he tells us Nar. par 75. That he saw a Letter from the Provincial specifying that the Provincial had been Inform'd of some Discovery made at which he was somewhat surpriz'd Pa. 76. the same day at Night Mr. Oats went to Visit the Provincial at his Lodging and was order'd to come again the Morning following Par. 77. the next Morning being the 4th of September according to the aforesaid Orders he went to the Provincial who upon sight of him askt him with what Face he durst look on him since he had played them such a Treacherous Trick and struck him 3 blows with his stick and a Box on the Ear and charged him with being with the King and a Minister with him whom he suspected to have Informed the King of these things c. the Provincial having had Intelligence by a Letter from Father Benningfield that had suggested some such thing to him and therefore judgâ—d it must be he that had Discovered and was drawn in by some Parson to the same c. But at last the Provincial told him he was willing to be reconciled to him if he would discover who the Parson was and his Name and Place of Abode to the end he might be secured of him and were resolved to Kill him and in the mean time the Dr. was order'd to go beyond Sea within 14 days as the Provincial said and that the Deponent might not Cheat them they were to pay for his Coach-hire and order'd him entertainment at Sittingbourn and other places on the Road to Dover and there Mr. Conyers at the Kings head was to pay for his passage to Callice and the Master of the Feathers in Callice to St. Omers where he was to remain till farther Order from the Provincial Aftâ—r all this Paragr the 78 on the 6 of September we have the Dr. and Pickâ—ring conferring Treasonable Notes together and the same Night we have him coming again to visit the Provincial That about night the Dâ—ponent attending the Provincials d or and about to go in he heard White and some others whom the Deponent supposes by their Voices to be Father Michâ—â— and one Mr. Poole consulting about the disposing of a Person he supposes to be himself their words wâ—re these This Man has betrayed us and therefore we will give a Coachman twenty pound to take him up and carry him directly to Rochester to Eâ—quire Lees house who lived near the Town and from thence to Dâ—ver by some bye way because he was acquainted at Sâ—â—tin bourn and said if they could get him on t' other side the Water they would torment him till he had confest to them who it waâ— had been with the King and Inform'd him of the business When the Deponent heard those Worâ—s he made hast away and durst not lye that Night in his own Lodgings In all this is remarkable that Dr. Oats who not many days after durst not trust himself abroad without half a score stout Beef-eaters to defend him from Popish Assassinates yet here after his Discovery to the King and reading a Letter from the Provincial expressing his intimation of the Discovery like a bold Knight-errant ventures himself alone at the Provincials own Lodgings Sept. 3d yes and upon further Orders waits on him again the next day nay and what 's yet the greatest piece of Herculean Courage that e're I met with after not only being tax'd with it and handsomly cudgelled into The Bargain but the very Minister that drew him in was fairly threatned to be murder'd The undaunted Dr. ventur'd again the 6 day to the Provincials door tho for nâ—â—usiness in the World with him and had went in had not his fortunate over-hearing the Consult about him made him troop off in a whole Skin secondly we are to observe that the Provincial that suspected him before and sent for him to tax him with it at the same time he had him safely alone with him and with no less thoughts about him then Killing the Minister that drew him in which is supposed was Dr. Tongue to prevent a farther Discovery yet on the otherside just at the critical minute of unravelling all those Jesuitish Intrigues that had been an Hundred Years in hatching foolishly even to hazarding their whole Cause le ts go the very Man who had it in his Power to undo them all a Person more dangerous ten times than Dr. Tonge and for his falsehood â—o the Jesuits in such a Discovery ten times more deserving to be secured and to havâ— his Mouth stopt with a Dagger than he nay what 's more lewdly foolish than all the rest at the very Minute he designs to pack him beyond Sea to prevent farther danger he gives him 14 days time in Town before he sets out for Dover Good Heavens that the Principal of the Jesuits in England that one would think should have a little more Wit one not only so highly concerned in the Plot and so industrious for the Popes Restoration but so bloodily principled that Murders Regicides and Massacres were his dayly Study should so ridiculously loose so fair an opportunity of dispatching or at least securing one poor Renegado tho for the Preservation of the Lives and Fortunes of himself and his whole Party Well! nothing but Folly and Madness reigns and therefore 't was impossible such a Thought should enter into his Head Besides as the Drs. Discovery take it altogether was wholly Miraculous so 't was ordain'd that Miraculous should be his Preservation to make it POST-SCRIPT THis and this only is the Popish Plot as the Discoverers give it us and these the particular true Methods taken by the Jesuits and their Engines for both the Murder of the King the Massacring the Protestants and Subverting the Religion and Government In this Narrative of the Plot how light soever some may interpret the Style I have used I defye the severest Plot-hunter and the most angry Liberty and Property Morger in England to tax me of one false Quotation out of the Records of Titus Dugdale Bedlows or any other of the Discoverers However if my Inferences displease them and any of them have read the Plot with other Opticks then mine and in fine can kick it into any better shape than I have done I heartily beg he would set Pen to Paper and mend the faults I have made For I declare I should willingly hear Reason and stand Convicted by it But in them an while to return to the Plot. The greatest part of this Discovery is comprized in those fatal Examinations taken before that unhappy Gentleman Sir Edmond-bury Godfrey But having named thâ—t uâ—fortunate Martyr I cannot but make one reflexion more on the Jesuits Infatuation in that piece of ill timed Cruelty If I had been one of their Consult I should have been so far from giving my Vote for his Murder or one 10th part of 4000. l. a piece to his Assassinates and all to suppress the Formidable