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<HEAD>A TRVE CONFVTATION OF A FALSE AND LYING PAMPHLET <HI>ENTIT&V;LED, A Diveli&s;h de&s;igne by the Papi&s;ts to blow up the Citty of</HI> OXFORD <HI>with Gunpowder, on</HI> <DATE><HI>Thur&s;day the</HI> 13. <HI>of January</HI> 1641.</DATE></HEAD>
<P>_TO All to whom the&s;e pre&s;ents &s;hall come. Whereas there have lately been diver&s;e fal&s;e reports in printed Pamphlets, and other|wi&s;e rai&s;ed, &amp; di&s;per&s;ed, of <HI>a Divelli&s;h de&s;igne by Papi&s;ts to blow up the Citty of Oxford with Gunpowder.</HI> And that for the effect|ing thereof, there were found upon a &s;earch by Officers at the &s;igne of the <HI>Starre</HI> neere <HI>Carfoxe,</HI> two and twenty Barrels of Gunpowder, two Barrels of Shott and Bullets, and great &s;tore of Warlike Amunition, as Shovells, Spades, Pick-axes and the like, with com|pleat Armes for one hundred and fifty men. The&s;e are to certifie, that upon examina|tion of the premi&s;es, We can find no foundation of truth for the &s;ame, neither was there found at the &s;aid &s;igne of the <HI>Starre,</HI> any powder, &s;hott, Bullets, or other warlike Amunition, but &s;uch as was placed there by the Lord Lieve-tenant, and Deputie Lieve-tenants of the Countie of <HI>Oxford,</HI> whereal&s;o the Magazin and &s;tore of pow|der, and Amunition for the &s;aid County, hath for many yeares before been kept, nor doth any cau&s;e appeare to &s;u&s;pect, that the &s;aid Gunpowder and Amunition, was intended to be di&s;po&s;ed of, or imployed, but according to the direction of the Lord Lieve-tenant, and Deputie Lieve-tenants of the &s;aid County. And whereas the&s;e fal&s;e reports may tend to the great Injury, and prejudice of M^r <HI>Thomas Willi|ams</HI> who keepeth the &s;aid Inne. The&s;e are moreover to certifie that the &s;aid M^r <HI>Thomas Williams</HI> is of very good repute within the &s;aid Citty of <HI>Oxford,</HI> and con|formable to the Prote&s;tant Religion of the Church of England, no way addicted to Popery, and mo&s;t unlikely to comply, or confederate with any bad or popi&s;h de|&s;igne, again&s;t his King or Country. And whereas the &s;aid reports have by &s;ome been pretended to be founded on &s;ome letters or &s;peeches of one <HI>Martin Wright</HI> Al|derman of the Citty of <HI>Oxford,</HI> the &s;aid Alderman doth utterly di&s;claime to have given any colour to the &s;aid reports by his &s;ub&s;cription hereunto.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>In Witne&s;&s;e whereof, We have &s;ub&s;cribed our names. Dated at <HI>Oxford</HI> <DATE>the &s;eventh day of <HI>February</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
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<ITEM><HI>Io. Tol&s;on</HI> Vicecan. Oxon. deput</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Leonard Bowman</HI> Major.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Samuel Fell</HI> Deane of Chri&s;t|-Church.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robert Pinck</HI> Warden of New Colledge.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chri&s;topher Potter</HI> Provo&s;t of Queenes Colledge.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Gilbert Sheldon</HI> Warden of All|&s;oules Colledge.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Saunders</HI> Principall of S^t Mary Hall.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Henry Sowtham</HI> Alderman.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Martin Wright</HI> Alderman.</ITEM>
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