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<P>A GREAT DISCOVERIE OF A PLOT IN SCOTLAND, By a Miraculous meanes.</P>
<P>Two great ACTORS in the &s;ame being &s;o taken with the &s;weet di&s;po&s;ition of tho&s;e Worthies, again&s;t whom they Plotted; that their troubled Con&s;ciences would not permit them to proceed in their wicked Intents.</P>
<P>As al&s;o, the Names of tho&s;e Lords, that &s;hould have bin cut off in this Plot of <HI>Scotland.</HI> And the Names of the Con&s;pirators.</P>
<P>VVith the COPY of a LETTER &s;ent to the Paipi&s;ts in LONDON.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>Bernard Al&s;op,</HI> MDCXLJ.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<PB REF="2">
<HEAD>A LETTER Sent to Mr. PYM.^&amp;^c^.</HEAD>
<P>SIR, things were lately in a very hopefull way of Ac|commodation. But on Munday night la&s;t, there fell out a great interruption, for upon information given to Marquis <HI>Hamilton,</HI> the Earle of <HI>Argile,</HI> and the Earle of <HI>Lanericke,</HI> that there was a de&s;igne to &s;eize upon their per&s;ons that night, they removed pre&s;ently from their Lodgings, and &s;tayed in the City all night, and the neut morning, the Rela|tion being made to the Parliament, there was pre&s;ent order given for the &s;hutting of the Ports, &amp; &s;etting of the Guards of the Towne, which continue &s;o &s;till, and the &s;ame day, the Marqui&s;&s;e <HI>Hamilton,</HI> the Earle of <HI>Argile,</HI> and the Earle of <HI>Lanericke, departed hence to a hou&s;e of the Marque&s;&s;es, about</HI> 12. <HI>miles of, where they continue &s;till.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Edenburg Ca&s;tle</HI> <DATE><HI>Octob.</HI> 14. 194.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Sir Wee are your Friends and Servants
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<ITEM><HI>Iohn Hambden,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Nath. Fines.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>N. Axmine.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Phil. Stapleton.</HI></ITEM>
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<HEAD>THE REPORT OF <HI>The Di&s;corery of a PLOT in SCOTLAND.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WHy doe you &s;eeke to worke &s;uch mi&s;chiefe! O yee mi&s;chievous Sons of <HI>Rome,</HI> doe ye not know, that God will finde you out, what though you have thou&s;ands in readine&s;&s;e to &s;urprize tho&s;e Noble Worthies: yet is your policy but as chaffe before the wind.</P>
<P><HI>Though the wretched Papi&s;ts in Scotland were agreed, in a moment, on a &s;udden, to call their Forces at unawares to fall upon tho&s;e Starres, which &s;hine &s;o cleare in our Horizon.</HI></P>
<P>With powder, wild-fire, men, and armes, and had by great &s;utlely got together, and with great Co&s;t, and toyle provided in readine&s;&s;e, and thought al&s;o to have cut off. tho&s;e honourable &amp; worthy Peeres, who were entred into <HI>Covenant with the Lord,</HI> Such is their bloudy de&s;igns, no more, but a word &amp; a blow. Nay, more no more but a word and blood, life, liberty, and utter ruine: but con&s;ider, ye fond Je&s;uits, and treacherous Papi&s;ts; for it is mo&s;t cer|taine, that God who &s;itteth in the highe&s;t Heavens, doth &s;ee you, and doth certainly laugh you to &s;corne, and your &s;elves &s;hall fall into the &s;ame Pit, which you have digged for the Righteous.</P>
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<P>The day was appointed, wherein the blood-thir|&s;ty hoped to &s;ee the Lambes &s;laine before them, the Honourable <HI>Covenanters of Scotland cut off,</HI> and the be&s;t of them bla&s;ted in the Ayre, &amp; da&s;ht to peeces; O mo&s;t cruell Satyrs. <HI>But &s;uch is the goodne&s;&s;e of Al|mighty God, that the Righteous are pre&s;erved, and the Wicked are taken in their owne nets.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Two of their Agents, whom they thought were as true to them, and faithfull to their unfaithfull Plots, even as their owne hearts; yet were they &s;mitten in Con&s;ci|ence.</HI> What (&s;aith the one) &s;hall I embrue my hands in the blood of tho&s;e who never thought on ill, &s;hall Ibe confederate with traytors, and Rebels, to &s;lay the Innocent. And &s;aith the other, what &s;hall I plot and bloodily &s;eeke to take away the life of &s;uch Peeres as the&s;e, who&s;e Noble gifts de&s;erve &s;o much honor, who are admired for their worth; and are become e|ven the very wonder, and <HI>Admiration to all Europe.</HI> Who can but love them; it were great cruelty to wi&s;h them any harme: what would it then bee, to con&s;pire in cruelty to work their utter De&s;truction? How lamentable a &s;pectacle would it be, to &s;ee tho&s;e Stars which &s;hine &s;o cleare in our <HI>Parliamentary A&s;&s;embly,</HI> &s;o torn and rent to peeces with powder, and trodden under the feet of Rebels! Surely it were a mo&s;t unchri&s;tian thing to be &s;o treacherous again&s;t tho&s;e who have adventured both <HI>life, liberty, honour, goods, E&s;tates,</HI> &amp; all that they have, for the perpetuall good of our Nation, and &s;till make it the uttermo&s;t of their indeavour to pitch upon our happy being, and to make us an happy Nation. Did we plot a|gain&s;t
<PB REF="3">Rogues, and Vagabonds, again&s;t Tyrants, and cruell Pagans, it were more tolerable. Nay more, were it again&s;t furious Zoilis &s;pirits, or mercile&s;&s;e, uncharitable, envious Ra&s;cals, it might &s;educe us: <HI>&s;hall we &s;o treacherou&s;ly plot, to de&s;troy &s;uch Nobles, as the&s;e: who&s;e &s;weet, courteous, affable, loving di&s;po&s;itions, would prick the heart, and wound the Con&s;cience of the fierce&s;t Turke, or Pagan, if any &s;parke of humanity hath biding in him. Having thus con&s;idered with them&s;elvs the&s;e two imparting, each their minds to one another, and thereupon advi&s;ing what to doe.</HI></P>
<P>It be&s;eemed at fir&s;t too impo&s;&s;ible a work to di&s;|cover without great prejudice, many thoughts they had, how to wind them&s;elves out, and little hope of finding any cour&s;e plea&s;ant, or any re&s;olution to give them any &s;atisfaction. Such were the i&s;&s;ues of their former de&s;ignes, with the Plotters in their Evill wayes, that now they were brought into a thou&s;and &s;traites what to doe. If they proceed, a thou&s;and to one, but in the end they will be found out, and dye like Traytors; or if they leave of, now they have begun, they are yet in a great &s;trait.</P>
<P>Jf <HI>wee</HI> leave off, and reveale nothing; then <HI>wee</HI> are in danger, that the &s;ame Con&s;pirators with whom <HI>wee</HI> wrought, will con&s;pire again&s;t us.</P>
<P>Jf we reveale part, and not entirely, we may bee trapt; and &s;o without further delay dye Traytors.</P>
<P>If we reveale all, we are to an&s;wer a great matter, and our lives, E&s;tates, and all wee have may be taken from us, and we liue all our dayes in ignominy and di&s;grace.</P>
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<P>Now the Lord-by his all-ruling hand directed there cour&s;e to take the &s;afe&s;t way, both for them&s;elves, and the Kingdome.</P>
<P>They addre&s;&s;e them&s;elves to the King and Par|liament, there they di&s;cover what they know, and lay open what is plotted again&s;t them, ca&s;ting them|&s;elves upon their mercies, expo&s;ing them&s;elvs rather to fall into their hands, then to goe on, and lye at Sa|tans mercy, or di&s;&s;emblingly to lye &s;till, between hot and cold, continually under the burden of a troubled <HI>Con&s;cience.</HI></P>
<P><HI>ow may we &s;ee, how gratiou&s;ly &s;till the Lord is plea&s;ed to worke for his People, and to overthrow the evill Plottings, and Con&s;piracies, of the Papi&s;ts, and all ungodly Blood-thir&s;ty Rebels.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The Names of tho&s;e Lords that <HI>&s;hould have been cut off</HI> in this Plot of <HI>Scotland.</HI></HEAD>
<P>The Marqui&s;e <HI>Hamilton.</HI> The Earle of <HI>Argile.</HI> The Lord <HI>Balmerido.</HI> The Lord <HI>Lowdon.</HI> Generall <HI>Le&s;ly.</HI> The Lord <HI>Lind&s;ey</HI> the Marqui&s;&s;es Brother, &amp; &s;ome others.</P>
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<HEAD>The Con&s;pirators Names.</HEAD>
<P>The Earle of <HI>Craford.</HI> The Lord <HI>Aymond</HI> Lieute|nant Generall. The Lord <HI>Carre.</HI> The Lord <HI>Craford</HI> committed as a Pri&s;oner.</P>
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<HEAD>A coppie of a LETTER brought to <HI>LONDON.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>T, C. Y. W. A. Ne.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>MA&s;ter <HI>Lee</HI> with much griefe and &s;orrow hath this di&s;coverie come to us, we feare &s;ome fal&s;e brethren among you at <HI>London,</HI> or in <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> therefore be carefull, and &s;weare all as wee ordered you, and bee &s;ure you &s;et the right, <HI>IHS</HI> and the true word before you therefore take the oath, and &s;eeing the former will not take that happie &s;ucce&s;&s;e and ef|fect much wi&s;hed by all true hearted Catholikes, yet wee entreate you to put in practice your worke, and according to Sir <HI>S, H,</HI> his order, and divide your companies to tho&s;e parts of the City as you had the la&s;t direction, let the Tow|er be the chiefe aime, draw the prople from the Tower by the fir&s;t and &s;econd commotion, and wee will warrant Ma&s;ter <HI>B, G.</HI> will third you, for he of all, lea&s;t of all will be &s;u&s;pected. At 9. in the morning is the time, fall on, if we die, ye die together, but having begun, hold on till death which will at the lea&s;t will bee Honourable martyrdome, Now the better to proceed, make no noi&s;e, le&s;t the proud
<PB REF="5">City Captains prevent your de&s;ignes, for now or never, if now then ever. Therefore publi&s;h it to the true mem|bers, the &s;ign-perfit to all the Actors, you &s;ee we are pre|vented, now let no feare make you faile in this &s;o good a worke, you all know our lives lye at the &s;take, therefore now fight for life and Relgion.</P>
<P>Money for pay, you &s;hall have in full, as wee agreed now remember what is to be done, make readie the 300. at M. gate, and all with Pi&s;tolls and Swords, and for the <HI>C. W.</HI> dit with m. rn. &s;uddenly, as we appointed, and &s;ee you faile not as you love your lives.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>In the meane time Pray, And &s;o I re&s;t. Your &s;ervant <HI>T.W.S, M.N.</HI> Amicus certus in certi cernitur.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The Po&s;t&s;cript of the letter which was &s;ent to <HI>London</HI> being in the fir&s;t Impre&s;sion left out.</HEAD>
<P>VVE mu&s;t be revenged on this ba&s;e City, wee now mu&s;t not de&s;i&s;t, be valiant for &s;ome (that is not the lea&s;t) in this Kingdome is verily for us, I have coun|ternamed my hand lea&s;t it &s;hould mi&s;carie, therefore bee carefull, and when you have read it, and &s;hewed the five Captains, take it and burn it, &s;oe lea&s;t all our events bee wi&s;hed</P>
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