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<HEAD>AN ANSWER TO <HI>Blundell</HI> the Je&s;uits LETTER; That was taken about him at <HI>Lambeth,</HI> on <HI>Munday</HI> the <HI>23d.</HI> of this In&s;tant <HI>June.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Directed to the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> at <HI>Cambra</HI> in <HI>Flanders:</HI> Wherein he gives them an Account of &s;everal Notorious Untruths, concerning the Proceedings in Court, again&s;t the Five <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> lately Executed: with &s;everal other Prepo&s;terous Relations. The which being duly weighed, it was thought fit to Exhibit this Re&s;pon&s;ary to confute his errors, and for Vindication of the whole&s;ome <HI>Laws,</HI> and Impart<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">al Judicature of this Our <HI>ENGLISH</HI> Nation, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>No Wonder if the <HI>Je&s;uitick</HI> Order can Di&s;&s;em|ble thus with their own Friends, and &s;end them Fallacies to keep them Ignorant of their Diabo|lick and mo&s;t unheard of Villanies; the which in open Day have &s;hew'd their di&s;mal heads in this our Native Land: nay, and not only here, but through the Chri&s;tian World, that they can Equivocate with us for their own Intere&s;t, whom they mark out as mortal Foes. What Nation has not heard &s;ince fir&s;t that cruel Order took its birth of Rapes and Ma&s;&s;acres, and Murdered Kings, Poy&s;oning and Deva&s;tations, Tortures, and all the Cruel rage that the Infernal Legions arm'd with fatal coun&s;els e're could prompt them to; for they the barbarous Executioners of Tyrant <HI>Rome,</HI> di&s;|per&s;e them&s;elves abroad throughout the Earth, and gather in the Slain to fill her <HI>Babiloni&s;h</HI> Cup with reaking Blood from Tender Hearts of Innocents di&s;till'd&mdash;This when they rove like thir&s;ty Tygers in their uncontrouled paths, but if re&s;train'd from their pernitious Deeds by interpo&s;ing Ju&s;tice arm, they never look back to view what they have done to others, but cry, them&s;elves are &s;ore oppre&s;t for tho&s;e, who in &s;teeming &s;laughter do delight: &s;o they them&s;elves are not concerned, love not to undergo the lea&s;t of pain. And here among the re&s;t I &s;hall expo&s;e unto the World, the ob&s;erva|tion of which being well weighed and con&s;idered, the which is an Erronious <HI>Letter</HI> or <HI>Lybill</HI> that was found in the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of one <HI>Richard Blundell,</HI> an Arch and notorious <HI>Je&s;uit,</HI> and a great In&s;tru|ment for the carrying on of the late Diabolick Plot: when he was taken &s;ome few days &s;ince at <HI>Lambeth,</HI> and now remaineth in the County Goal, the which reflecting upon the Ju&s;tice of our Nation, with many notorious untruths, the which in order: Fir&s;t, Denying that there was any Plot, and that the Five <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> lately Executed, were wrongfully condemned, and that they had not priviledge to &s;peak for them&s;elves. The which notorious and &s;candalous Objecti|ons may be an&s;wered: That the&s;e Parties being Apprehended for High-Trea&s;on in de&s;igning the Death of his Sacred Maje&s;ty, and for the endeavouring to &s;ubvert the true Prote&s;tant-Religion, had during the time of their Impri&s;onment, all the favours and priviledges ima|ginable, to bring proof if they had or could produce any for the bet|ter clearing of them&s;elves, and that when they came to their Tryals their witne&s;&s;es (the which it was probably conjectured, were &s;uborned and &s;ent by their Tutors from St. <HI>Omers,</HI> and other places, being mo&s;t of them young Students to validetate the a&s;&s;ertions of Dr. <HI>Oats,</HI>) yet notwith&s;tanding were mo&s;t patiently heard: The often Laughter cau&s;ed in the Court, which he objecteth was by their confounding them&s;elves in their Averrations, for they not being well ver&s;ed in <HI>Ro|man</HI> Lyes, or that their premeditated Doctrine being not well dige&s;t|ed, they baffled one another mo&s;t erroniou&s;ly in their Di&s;cour&s;es, for one &s;aid this, the next being asked denyed it, and &s;aid it was af|ter another manner; &s;o that their Atte&s;tations proved not only Ine|ffectual, but al&s;o prejudicial to the Pri&s;oners. Their main point they in<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;ted on, was to prove that Dr. <HI>Oats</HI> was him&s;elf at St. <HI>Omers</HI> at the &s;ame time he had given in upon Oath he was at the Society of <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> in <HI>London,</HI> on the 24th. of <HI>April</HI> 77, and thereupon by rea&s;on their Rable affirmed it, though many of them never &s;aw him, nor in Court had not known which was he unle&s;s they had been &s;hewed. Upon this abortive rea&s;on, this adaucious <HI>Ie&s;uit</HI> affirms that Dr. <HI>Oats</HI> was per|jur'd: The material of the Witne&s;&s;es was a <HI>Taylor</HI> belonging to the Colledge afore&s;aid, who if he had denyed to come over upon this account, how fal&s;e &s;oever, had certainly lo&s;t the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> Work, and peradventure all his Tools, except he had conveyed them out of the Colledge by Moon-light; &s;o that for his being con&s;cious in atte&s;ting a known untruth, the poor Fellow had been undone for ever. The next was the Butler, who was Seque&s;tred of his place, and made to Swear be would never Lye with any <HI>Nun</HI> in <HI>France,</HI> nor Fa&s;t a whole <HI>Lent</HI> together, till he had performed the Rectors Will, who put him in remembrance of the brave Atcheivements of tho&s;e <HI>Hero's,</HI> who were &s;ent over in King <HI>James's,</HI> Time, &s;uppo&s;ing to excu&s;e Father <HI>Garnet</HI> and the re&s;t of the <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> in the daring <HI>Powder-Plot.</HI> The Gardener &s;eeing this, thought it was time for him to &s;tand out, le&s;t his <HI>Pala|zados</HI> &s;hould be overthrown, and all his Trinks thrown about, he Volentarily con&s;ented; &s;o that they with the re&s;t, being by the publick Confe&s;&s;ion ab&s;olved for what they &s;hould &s;ay or Swear, came merrily over, but went as &s;hamefully home after they had Di&s;gorg'd their <HI>Popi&s;h</HI> Element, vowing never to bring any more Lyes into <HI>England,</HI> &s;eeing they were no better accepted, and no more regard taken of them; they being Mint of the <HI>Popes</HI> own &s;tamp, for Dr. <HI>Oats</HI> bringing in four Witne&s;&s;es, one of them being a Dominican <HI>Fryer,</HI> a Chicken of the <HI>Popes</HI> own Hatching; and Three more hone&s;t Prote&s;tant Atte&s;tators, who both &s;aw, Spoke, and Drank with him on that Day, their Oaths being ab&s;olutely depo&s;ed upon the &s;ame; Had all the <HI>Roman</HI> Conclave with each of them a Bull in his Hand, that could have Roared the contrary as loud as tho&s;e of <HI>Ba&s;on,</HI> the judicious Court would &s;carcely have credited them if but for Di&s;pen|&s;ation &s;ake; But to the purpo&s;e, farther he &s;ays, that during the time of their Tryals, they behaved them&s;elves like Apo&s;tles, but were not come to be the Sons of Thunder, becau&s;e the Plot took no effect, for if it had, each of them then had been a <HI>Boanerges,</HI> and would have Thundred down both Church and State. Again, he objects mo&s;t fal|&s;ly, That during the time of their Tryals, the Court &s;houted as if it had been a Bear-baiting, the which if there was any di&s;turbance or incivility from unruly &s;pectators, their fooli&s;h Witne&s;&s;es, as afore|&s;aid, were the cau&s;e of it. But give me leave to ask the Mon&s;ieut <HI>Je|&s;uit</HI> what Bear-baitings were in <HI>Ireland</HI> committed in 41. by the barbarous and bloody <HI>Papi&s;ts,</HI> when 300000 innocent Prote&s;tants unju&s;tly fell, not being &s;uffered &s;o much as to &s;peak for them&s;elves, but were inhumanely &s;acrific'd by their devili&s;h rage. In the &s;ame ca&s;e had we been e're this time, had not Omnipotence prevented it. And farther let him know, that had they not been concerned in the Plot, (as unque&s;tionably they were) that there is a Law forbidding all <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> and <HI>Romi&s;h-Prie&s;ts</HI> to avoid the Land on pain of Death; the which they knowing, and pre&s;umptuou&s;ly offending, by that contempt had forfeited their lives, but Prote&s;tants are merciful, and will not act the rigour again. It is a que&s;tion whether the Earl of <HI>Shaftsbury</HI> offered them any &s;uch Grace from his Maje&s;ty, during their Impri|&s;onment, knowing them to be Prie&s;ts, and therefore irreclamable: Farther 'tis objected, that they went joyfully to the place of Executi|on, &s;o did the <HI>Monk</HI> that Stab'd King <HI>Henry</HI> of <HI>France,</HI> the Dagger being Con&s;ecrated, dipped in the <HI>Euchri&s;t,</HI> and wrapt in the reliques of a Saint, to make it more forcible for Execution, and then with &s;o|lemn Oaths to deny is the property of the <HI>Romi&s;h</HI> Faction. As to the Reprieve that is related to be tendered them at the place of Execu|tion, is mo&s;t erroniou&s;ly fal&s;e, and no man can be produced that &s;aw any &s;uch thing, but that is &s;ugge&s;ted to note to the world how little they feared death, and to animate tho&s;e that remain to imitate them in their Diabolick practices, trifting with Eternity, and dye with lyes in their mouths, which lying and equivocating may be &s;een at the late Apprehending of this <HI>Blundell,</HI> about whom (as it is credibly re|ported) this Letter was found; who both to the Ju&s;tice Dr. <HI>Oates,</HI> and the Con&s;table, for&s;wore him&s;elf, his Name, and Function; and that he was a poor man ready to &s;tarve, and had not a Shilling in the world: with many other dire Prote&s;tations, when upon &s;earch they found about him 60 peices of Gold, this letter and many other Sedi|tious Writings; &s;o that now as he was &s;o officious to his Brethren in Iniquity, &s;ome of the re&s;t may Execute the &s;ame for him.</P>
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<P>Princed for <HI>F. F.</HI> in the Year. 1679.</P>
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