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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	kingdom_n	majesty_n	subject_n	3,349	5	6.8187	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60497	No faith or credit to be given to Papists being a discourse occasioned by the late conspirators dying in the denyal of their guilt : with particular reflections on the perjury of VVill. Viscount Stafford, both at his tryal, and in his speech on the scaffold in relation to Mr. Stephen Dugdale and Mr. Edward Turbervill / by John Smith Gentleman ...	Smith, John, of Walworth.	1681 (1681)	Wing S4128; ESTC R12871	58,333	38

himself upon Besides it is not to be thought that any one would pretend to discover a Plot of his own framing till he had before hand secured persons that should vouch and confirm all that he should say For as the whole that a single Testimony could amount unto was only to awaken the Government to a watchfulness in reference to it self and an enquiry into the actions and after the Papers of those that were complained of so he could not be unsensible that the very bringing under a suspicion of Treason Persons of that Quality and Temper that he had taken upon him to accuse would infallibly bring him into manifold dangers and expose him to eminent hazards And yet it is plain that this honest Doctor whom the World doth so traduce was so far from concerting with any before hand the matter which he appeared about that he knew not whether there was one man whom fear or conscience would influence to confess acknowledge or any way confirm what he had said Besides were the Doctor an Impostor as the Papists represent him to be he hath acted with as much imprudence as falsehood in taking upon him to depose such a vast number of Particulars and all of them relating to matter of Fact whereas could he be but disproved in any one of them there would be reason and cause for disbelieving him in all the rest And if we do but consider how impossible it is to lay so many Accusations against any sort of men and those declarative of things done at different times and distant places without leaving some one particular incoherent with the rest if not inconsistent with the whole we must necessarily conclude that the Doctor is no Impostor seeing among all the things which he hath Deposed there is not any one that interfers with or weakens the belief of another Whereas had this Plot been a forgery of the Doctors it had been as effectual to the design of ruining the Papists and more fafe for himself as well as more agreeable to common prudence to have charged them only with two or three Articles importing a Conspiracy against the King the Government and the Protestant Religion and not to have ventured to give a History of so many years Transactions of the Papal Party name so many Consults instance in so many matters of Fact and mention the places and persons where and by whom such Designs were debated and resolved upon Besides some of those whom he undertook to Charge and Impeach have been found by their own Papers which were seized not only to be guilty of all he charged them with but of a great deal more than he pretended to know or accuse them of And some others whose Conspiracies fell not within the Acircle of the Doctors knowledge and of whom therefore he presumed to say nothing have been detected by their own Letters to be guilty of the Plot which is both an argument of the Doctors Modesty and Conscience in not Impeaching men at peradventure meerly because they are Papists and an infallible assurance of his sincerity in reference to all whom he hath Impeached and a convincing proof of the truth of those things which he hath deposed against them Moreover whatsoever he hath said that is either any way material in it self or most severe against the Romish Faction hath been confirmed by others whom he had neither foreknowledge of correspondence with or influence upon yea these very things which were most improbable and of the truth whereof his Friends were most suspicious and concerning which his Adversaries have taken occasion to Ridicule and Expose him namely his intimacy with and his esteem among the Jesuits his having been in Spain and in favour with the Archbishop of Tuam and his integrity in reporting my Lord Castlemain to be in Sacred and Religious Orders have all of them been confirmed by other Witnesses and his Credit fully cleared and vindicated in those matters that were most unlikely to be true and which occasioned some to take so great advantage not only to traduce but lampoon him And whereas there was one particular wherein they ventured their whole cause towards the overthrowing his Reputation namely that he was at St. Omers all Aprill May and till towards the latter end of June 1678. and consequently could not have been at the Consult in London April 24 as he had positively Deposed and Sworn it is remarkable that the Striplings who were brought from St. Omers to testifie that he had not stirred out of that Colledge all those months differed greatly among themselves some affirming that he left St. Omers the 10th of June others saying that he came from thence about the latter end of it and one proffering to swear that he was there in July who being told that he varied from the rest cried out he was sure he was there till after the Consult which served to discover what they were pre-instructed to speak unto by the Jesuits whose Morality can dispense with a thousand lies when the interest of the Catholick Church or the preserving the honour of their Society doth bespeak a kindness at their hands But besides there were no less than seven Witnesses of unsuspected credit and who cannot be supposed to have been under the impression of any inducements influencing them to appear in favour of Dr. Oats that deposed upon Oath his being in London both in Aprill and May the time that the Popish Youths had averr'd his being at St. Omers And whensoever Mr. Dudley's Depositions who is both a Papist and a Gentleman of good Quality and of an ancient Family which lye at present before his Majesty having been transmitted to one of the Secretaries by the Justices of the Peace who took them in the Countrey come to be published and communicated to the Kingdom it will then more fully appear what a horrid Plot hath been carried on by the Papists against the life of the King the Protestant Religion and the safety of his Majesties best and most Loyal Subjects and how much the Nation is indebted to Dr. Oats for the timely and seasonable detection of it and by consequence for preventing the Execution of their Hellish Treason against his Majesty and the glutting their brutish rage in the blood of his Innocent and at that time secure an unapprehensive People And it is to be hop'd that if this unthankful age should not reward him in some proportion to what he doth deserve that yet our Posterity will if not erect Monuments unto him at least Record him in History as a signal Instrument whom God hath made use of and honoured to save his Countrey And I am not yet sunk into that despondency but that I both hope to see him receive the acknowledgements and participate of the rewards which the Kingdom oweth him and that some elegant Pen will Enroll his Memory in the Registers of Time and thereby leave a Pattern to succeeding Generations of the Loyalty which Dr. Oats hath