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<P>OATES'S Manife&s;to; OR, THE COMPLAINT OF TITUS OATES AGAINST THE Doctor of Salamanca; AND, The &s;ame DOCTOR AGAINST TITUS OATES: COMPRIZED in a DIALOGUE Between the &s;aid PARTIES, On occa&s;ion of &s;ome Incon&s;i&s;tent EVIDENCE Given about the Horrid and Damnable POPISH PLOT.</P>
<Q><HI>De Ore tuo Te Judico.</HI></Q>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>R. L.</HI> Anno Dom. MDCLXXXIII.</P>
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<HEAD>To the READER.</HEAD>
<P>IF the Publi&s;her had not been too ha&s;ty, the <HI>Preface,</HI> and the <HI>Book</HI> &s;hould have come out together; For the Reader is to be advertis'd, that the <HI>Contradictions</HI> and <HI>Incon&s;i&s;tencies</HI> which are here expos'd in this following <HI>Dialogue</HI> betwixt <HI>TITUS</HI> and <HI>OATES,</HI> are only a <HI>General Ex|tract</HI> out of the <HI>MASS</HI> of his EVIDENCE, without any &s;pecial regard to <HI>This</HI> or <HI>That</HI> Parti|cular <HI>Ca&s;e,</HI> or <HI>Tryal.</HI></P>
<P>It was no hard matter for Him to Impo&s;e upon <HI>Publick Ju&s;tice,</HI> for a <HI>Tryal,</HI> Two or Three, before he was known, and before he had laid him&s;elf open to the World, in &s;o many <HI>Ab&s;urdities,</HI> and <HI>Incohe|rences</HI> in <HI>Print:</HI> But &s;ince that gro&s;s Di&s;covery of his <HI>Impudence,</HI> and <HI>Folly,</HI> He hath <HI>Printed</HI> him&s;elf quite out of his <HI>Title, Dignity,</HI> and <HI>Credit.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Reader</HI> is de&s;ir'd al&s;o to take further notice, That it is not the <HI>Que&s;tion</HI> of the&s;e <HI>Papers,</HI> whe|ther OATES &s;poke any thing <HI>True,</HI> or <HI>Not?</HI> But the <HI>Impo&s;&s;ibility</HI> of Reconciling &s;ome <HI>Pa&s;&s;ages</HI> that do here occur, and the high <HI>Improbability</HI> of many Others, which is here recommended to the Impartial Con&s;ideration of all lovers of <HI>Truth</HI> and <HI>Ju&s;tice.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>A DIALOGUE BETWEEN Titus &amp; the Doctor.</HEAD>
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<SPEAKER>TITUS</SPEAKER>
<P>VErily; &s;incerely; In the pre&s;ence of God and Man; as I am a <HI>Mini&s;ter of the Go&s;pel,</HI> and <HI>Saviour of the Nation;</HI> I think I mu&s;t leave the Town. <HI>In verbo Sacerdotis,</HI> Our affairs go down the wind extremely. The <HI>Pope, Priests</HI> and <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> joyn'd to the <HI>French-Pen|&s;ioners, Yorkists, Court-Magi&s;trates,</HI> and <HI>Church of England-men,</HI> have &s;o &s;tupify'd the people, that none (<HI>(except &s;ome politick Citizens)</HI>) but can quietly go to bed, without &s;earching their bed-&s;traw for <HI>Fire-balls,</HI> or &s;o much as dreaming their Throats will be cut with <HI>Con&s;ecrated Knives,</HI> their Brains knock'd out with <HI>Black-Bills,</HI> and their Wives and Children tran&s;ported to <HI>Compo&s;tella</HI> by <HI>Spani&s;h Pilgrims,</HI> before morning.</P>
<P>The time was, when we could have Impri&s;on'd, Hang'd drawn and Quarter'd, whom we pleas'd, though never &s;o Innocent, and for what We pleas'd, though never &s;o <HI>impo&s;&s;ible</HI> or <HI>ab&s;urd,</HI> by Our meer <HI>breath</HI> and <HI>ki&s;s of a Book;</HI> not a Man, from the highe&s;t to the lowe&s;t, daring openly &s;o much as to que&s;tion Our <HI>Veracity,</HI> under pain of forfeit|ing his <HI>Reputation,</HI> and <HI>Fortune,</HI> if not his Life, by the force of Our <HI>Affidavit.</HI></P>
<P>But (ala&s;s!) <HI>The ca&s;e is alter'd;</HI> Either the Devil, or <HI>King of Poland</HI> or <HI>Both, (I will not be po&s;itive)</HI> have left us in the lurch; Every one &s;ees through Us; Nay, <HI>(So help me God)</HI> &s;tick not, in plain terms, to call us, <HI>bloody perjur'd Villain; Mon&s;ter of Nature; plague of Our Conntry; Dete&s;tation of Heaven,</HI> and <HI>Horrour of Man-kind.</HI> Well, there will come a <HI>Parliament,</HI> and then&mdash;</P>
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<SPEAKER>Doctor.</SPEAKER>
<P>And <HI>then,</HI> or <HI>before,</HI> we &s;hall doubtle&s;s receive a Reward proporti|onable to our merit. Prithee what can we hope from any <HI>hone&s;t A&s;&s;em|bly?</HI> We have &s;hamefully abus'd the Authority of the Nation; We have &s;acrilegiou&s;ly violated all Divine and Humane Laws; We have provok'd both God and Man to the utmo&s;t Vengeance. What can we rely on? 'Tis a wonder the very Earth doth not open, and &s;wallow Us alive. We have long abjur'd all Goodne&s;s; We have &s;trugl'd hard with &s;omething within us, to &s;hake off and aboli&s;h the dreadful Senti|ments and Belief of a Deity, a Judge, an Eternity, engraven in our Soul, 'Tis true, (ala&s;s!) we have found tho&s;e <HI>Characters</HI> indeleble. Our <HI>Sacriledge;</HI> Our Lu&s;ts; Our innumerable <HI>Villanies,</HI> in de&s;pight of our hearts, pur&s;ue us. The <HI>Blood of Innocents;</HI> The <HI>Cries of Orphans;</HI>
<PB N="2" REF="3">The <HI>hideous guilt of blacke&s;t Crimes</HI> flie in our face, cleave to our very Entrails, and whether we will or no, render us in a manner <HI>Devils to our &s;elves:</HI> And happy it were, if (like <HI>true Fiends</HI>) we only carried <HI>Hell in our Bo&s;oms;</HI> But our Folly hath at la&s;t betray'd us to <HI>publick Infamy;</HI> As thou &s;ay'&s;t, <HI>Every one now &s;ees through us:</HI> And like Cur|&s;ed <HI>Cain,</HI> we bear about us Marks for all humane Creatures to know us by. In &s;hort, <HI>The Gallows groans for us,</HI> and it is Thou ha&s;t utterly ruin'd both <HI>Thy &s;elf</HI> and <HI>Me.</HI></P>
<P>Let us a while debate the matter &s;eriou&s;ly: What a &s;trange height of arrogance was it in thee, to &s;wear Me <HI>Doctor of Salamanca?</HI> as if thou had&s;t on purpo&s;e de&s;ign'd to render my <HI>Stupidity</HI> and <HI>Ignorance</HI> a Te&s;timony of <HI>Perjury.</HI> Why, thou know'&s;t I was never at <HI>Salamanca</HI> in all my life; nor doth that famous
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">See the At|te&s;tation of the <HI>Do|ctors</HI> of <HI>Sa|lamanca</HI> ci|ted by the <HI>Ob&s;ervator.</HI></NOTE> Univer&s;ity u&s;e to admit of &s;uch <HI>Blockheads</HI> as Me to &s;o high a <HI>Degree.</HI> Thou might'&s;t have remembred whil'&s;t I was at St. <HI>Omers,</HI> the very Boys derided me for my <HI>&s;otti&s;h Dulne&s;s;</HI> Yet I, for&s;ooth, mu&s;t be <HI>Doctor of Salamanca.</HI> Had&s;t thou &s;worn me <HI>Muphti to the Emperour of Morocco,</HI> it might have &s;trength|ned my <HI>Evidence</HI> again&s;t Mr. <HI>Elliot:</HI> But (ala&s;s!) neither my <HI>Learn|ing</HI> nor <HI>Behaviour</HI> hath any coherence with a <HI>Christian-Clergy-man.</HI> What could this <HI>&s;ham</HI> of thine conduce to our Invention of the <HI>Plot?</HI> Thou might'&s;t ea&s;ily have for&s;een, thy folly herein would make us ri|diculous to the Scholars and Students of <HI>Oxford</HI> and <HI>Cambridge:</HI> Nay, thou could'&s;t not imagine but that the <HI>long Gown</HI> and <HI>Scarf</HI> would give people an occa&s;ion to enquire more narrowly into our <HI>&s;candalous Life.</HI> What can&s;t thou &s;ay for thy &s;elf? Art not a&s;ham'd to let thy <HI>Pride</HI> thus over-run thy <HI>Wit?</HI> Now mu&s;t I (&s;corn'd and rejected by all men of <HI>Learning</HI> and <HI>Hone&s;ty</HI>) turn <HI>Holder-forth,</HI> and exerci&s;e my <HI>Letchery, Riot, Forgery</HI> and <HI>Impudence in a &s;hort Ca&s;&s;ock</HI> at <HI>Carolina,</HI> and this too at an <HI>under, rate,</HI> and all through thy <HI>Doctor&s;hip Sir-Reverence,</HI></P>
<P>But it is like the re&s;t of thy tricks: Thy arrogance is &s;uch, thou can&s;t not contain thy &s;elf within any limits or compa&s;s. Who but a <HI>Mad-man</HI> would have fallen foul upon his be&s;t Friends? Thou ha&s;t vomited out thy &s;pleen, in de&s;pight (as I may &s;ay) of <HI>Truth, Sen&s;e, Gratitude,</HI> and <HI>good Manners,</HI> upon the very Per&s;ons that fir&s;t created and &s;upported thee in the <HI>Title</HI> and <HI>Profit</HI> of the <HI>King</HI>'s <HI>Evidence.</HI> By my troth, I begin to &s;u&s;pect the <HI>Devil</HI> hath got &s;o entire a po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of thy Heart and Mouth, thou art longer thine own Ma&s;ter. What if our pre&s;ent Patrons the <HI>Whigs</HI> &s;hould for&s;ake us; Or what if They them&s;elves &s;hould mi&s;carry (as is much to be feared they will) in their De&s;ign of a <HI>Commonwealth?</HI> What cour&s;e wilt thou take? Whither wilt thou go? <HI>Scotland</HI> is now clear of the <HI>Cargilites,</HI> and <HI>Ireland</HI> is already over-&s;tock'd with the <HI>loath&s;om V rmin</HI> of our <HI>Trade:</HI> Nor is there a Nation in <HI>Europe,</HI> whom the rancour of thy Calumny hath not provok'd to execute Ju&s;tice on Thee. See therefore to what thou art come: For my part, I tell thee plainly, if I be forc'd to extremeties, I will follow the example of my Fore-father <HI>Judas,</HI> and <HI>Hang my &s;elf.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Titus</SPEAKER>
<P>Thou think'&s;t now to &s;ilence me, by crying <HI>Rogue</HI> fir&s;t; but that will not do: Since thou art &s;o hot, I am re&s;olv'd thou &s;halt hear of &s;ome of <HI>thy mi&s;carriages.</HI> Come, an&s;wer me directly, there is no <HI>&s;huf|fling</HI> or <HI>lying</HI> will &s;erve the turn between <HI>Thee</HI> and <HI>Me;</HI> Had&s;t thou
<PB N="3" REF="3">not the be&s;t advice Dr. <HI>Tonge</HI> and others could afford thee, towards the <HI>cunning Contrivance</HI> of our <HI>Plot</HI> at <HI>Lambeth</HI> in <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 1678? was it nor again and again modell'd and revis'd by Per&s;ons of a <HI>higher &s;tation?</HI> was ever <HI>Bear-whelp</HI> lick'd over with greater diligence, to bring it into &s;hape? had&s;t thou not all the <HI>A&s;&s;i&s;tance</HI> and <HI>Encourage|ment</HI> thy very Heart could wi&s;h? Did not the <HI>Papists</HI> lie under a <HI>ma|nife&s;t prejudice?</HI> were they not de&s;poiled of all ways or means of vin|dicating their <HI>Innocence,</HI> otherwi&s;e than by a <HI>(morally impo&s;&s;ible)</HI> Proof of a <HI>Negative?</HI> In fine, was there any thing left to thee, but <HI>bare Swearing</HI> and <HI>Impudence?</HI> Notwith&s;tanding all which <HI>advantages helps, props</HI> and <HI>in&s;tructions,</HI> what &s;hame and confu&s;ion hath thy ra&s;h|ne&s;s and exorbitance brought upon our heads! Thou ha&s;t foi&s;ted in|to our <HI>Evidence</HI> &s;uch <HI>incredible Fables,</HI> &s;uch gro&s;s and <HI>palpable Contra|dictions,</HI> &s;uch enormous <HI>obvions Forgeries,</HI> &s;uch <HI>ab&s;olute Impo&s;&s;ibilities</HI> &s;uch <HI>irreconcilable Circum&s;tances,</HI> &s;uch <HI>impracticable Chymoera's,</HI> &s;uch <HI>heaps of Non-&s;ence</HI> and <HI>Ab&s;urdities,</HI> that the whole World, <HI>Papists, Prote&s;tants, Friends</HI> and <HI>Foes,</HI> cry out upon Us, with amazement and horrour.</P>
<P>For in&s;tance: How unluckily ha&s;t thou tim'd thy <HI>Plot!</HI> How un|towardly circum&s;tanc'd it!
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">See <HI>Staffords Mem.</HI></NOTE> The whole body of <HI>Roman Catholicks,</HI> among&s;t whom, many at lea&s;t are acknowledg'd and experienc'd by the <HI>be&s;t of Protestants</HI> to be men of <HI>Worth, Prudence, Virtue,</HI> and <HI>un|blemi&s;h'd Reputation:</HI> The&s;e mu&s;t be engag'd by <HI>Vows</HI> and <HI>Sacraments</HI> in a <HI>De&s;ign</HI> &s;o <HI>Black</HI> and <HI>Execrable,</HI> that God and Nature abhor to think on it: They mu&s;t hazard their <HI>E&s;tates,</HI> their <HI>Families,</HI> their <HI>Bodies,</HI> their <HI>Souls,</HI> their <HI>All,</HI> in an Enterprize &s;o de&s;perate and &s;ot|ti&s;h, that none but <HI>Mad-men</HI> would <HI>Attempt</HI> it, and nothing le&s;s than a <HI>Miracle</HI> could effect it; And this too at a time when they had no rea&s;on or motive to &s;eek a change; They mu&s;t kill the <HI>King,</HI> by who&s;e <HI>merciful Indulgence</HI> they liv'd in peace. They mu&s;t wade through Bloud, to an uncertain <HI>Liberty</HI> which they already &s;ufficient|ly enjoyed. <HI>They</HI> mu&s;t overthrow the Government, for the Re-e&s;ta|bli&s;hing of <HI>which,</HI> they &s;o frankly and unanimou&s;ly, in the <HI>late Wars,</HI> ex|po&s;ed their Lives and Fortunes. How could'&s;t thou imagine the&s;e <HI>monstrous Impostuers</HI> &s;hould long find credit?</P>
<P>Then again, what <HI>Per&s;ons</HI> and <HI>Parties</HI> ha&s;t thou mu&s;ter'd into <HI>Thy Plot?</HI> Tho&s;e very
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Narrat</NOTE> <HI>Nobelmen,</HI> who, above almo&s;t all others, had &s;ignaliz'd their <HI>Loyalty</HI> in the Service and Defence both of <HI>This</HI> and <HI>the late King;</HI> and who now, through Age and Infirmities, were retir'd from publick bu&s;ine&s;s, and weary of the World; <HI>The&s;e</HI> mu&s;t be the <HI>grand actors</HI> in thy Rogui&s;h Con&s;piracy. Why man, &s;uppo&s;e the&s;e <HI>Peers</HI> had been really engag'd in a <HI>Trayterous De&s;ign:</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibidem.</NOTE> who can believe that they would de&s;cend &s;o low as to conver&s;e with, much le&s;s reveal deep and dangerous Secrets to <HI>&s;uch Scoundrels as Thee?</HI> Indeed being, as thou wert, wholly ignorant both of the Affairs and true Genius of any <HI>Roman Catholick</HI> of worth, thou ha&s;t been &s;o prepo|&s;terou&s;ly ra&s;h and &s;tupid, as to impo&s;e upon &s;everal Per&s;ons &s;everal Offices and Dignities directly <HI>Oppo&s;ite</HI> and <HI>Repugnant</HI> to their &s;everal Qualifications. <HI>One,</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Narrat.</NOTE> <HI>becau&s;e he could &s;eldom go, &s;tand, or feed him&s;elf,</HI> mu&s;t be a <HI>General; Others, becau&s;e they had never &s;een a Battel, or Ar|med Campaign,</HI> mu&s;t be <HI>Lieutenant, Major,</HI> and <HI>Commi&s;&s;ary-Generals;</HI>
<PB N="4" REF="4">A <HI>Third, becau&s;e an ill Accomptant,</HI> mu&s;t be general <HI>Pay-ma&s;ter; Some</HI> again, <HI>becau&s;e they were never train'd up in Warfare, nor &s;o much as ever trail'd a</HI> Pike, mu&s;t be <HI>Captains, Colonels,</HI> and chief <HI>Commanders</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Staf|ford</HI>'s Tryal.</NOTE> Nay, the <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> a regular &s;ort of <HI>Popi&s;h Clergy,</HI> they mu&s;t &s;ign, &s;eal and deliver Commi&s;&s;ions for Military Imployments; And though all men of Reading, Travel or Sen&s;e know the <HI>Jo&s;uits</HI> to be by their Vow and in&s;titute incapable of Prelacy, yet mu&s;t <HI>They</HI> likewi&s;e (together with others who&s;e Talents entitled them to nothing but their <HI>Beads</HI>) be enrolled in the Li&s;t of thy <HI>Engli&s;h Bi&s;hops.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">o Ibidem.</NOTE> How is it po&s;&s;ible the&s;e gro&s;s Fopperies of thine &s;hould not at la&s;t come out? This it is to attempt a Villany, and want Brains to accompli&s;h it.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Doctor.</SPEAKER>
<P>What tell'&s;t thou me of mi&s;timing, mi&s;placing, and wrong circum|&s;tancing of things, contrary to known Practice, Vows, and In&s;titutes? Did&s;t not thou po&s;itively &s;wear, That
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">At their &s;everal Commit|ments.</NOTE> Mr. <HI>Gowen</HI> Mr. <HI>Pre&s;ton,</HI> and others, known by all their Neighbours to be ancient Hou&s;e-keepers and Married-men; Did&s;t not thou, I &s;ay, &s;wear, in expre&s;s contra|diction to the acknowledged Practice, and Laws of the Church of <HI>Rome,</HI> That they were Prie&s;ts; And that thou had&s;t &s;een them &s;ay <HI>Ma&s;s,</HI> admini&s;ter the <HI>Sacraments, &amp;c.</HI> in the publick Chappels; Did&s;t thou not al&s;o &s;wear, That <HI>John Smith</HI> (likewi&s;e a Married-man) was <HI>a Lay brother of the Order of the Politiciani,</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Narrat</NOTE> (an Order in the Moon, out of which this <HI>&s;trange Lay-brother</HI> dropt down hither; for all the world knows <HI>there is no &s;uch Order in the</HI> Roman Church.) By a like contrivance thou mad'&s;t
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibidem.</NOTE> Twelve <HI>Benedictine Monks, Canons of Wind&s;or,</HI> whom thou might'&s;t as wi&s;ely have made <HI>Knights of the Garter.</HI></P>
<P>And now thou put&s;t me in mind of prepo&s;terous Timing, Naming and Circum&s;tancing:
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Irelands</HI> Tryal.</NOTE> Could'&s;t thou find none whereon to fix the Mur|ther of the <HI>King,</HI> but harmle&s;s <HI>Pickering;</HI> a man <HI>&s;o remarkably Meek and Innoffen&s;ive,</HI> he would not have killed a <HI>Mou&s;e;</HI> A Man <HI>who was never &s;o hardy as to let off a Pi&s;tol, or handle any other weapon than his Needle;</HI> He (for&s;ooth) mu&s;t be the Per&s;on de&s;ign'd for the de&s;perate horrid Action of Killing His Maje&s;ty, <HI>by the loud &s;hot of a large Gun; In the open day; In the mid&s;t of His Courtiers; In the publick Park.</HI> This grand Engineer, on who&s;e Military Skill and Artifice depended the whole Machine of the <HI>Plot,</HI> had indeed a <HI>Silver Bullet</HI> (in com|plai&s;ance, it &s;eems to the <HI>King</HI>) but was &s;till at a lo&s;s in his other <HI>Imple|ments</HI> for the Fact; Sometimes the Flint of his Gun was loo&s;e; Some|times there was no Powder in the Pan; and &s;o he continually mi&s;&s;ed his aim, for which he mu&s;t (like a <HI>School-boy</HI>) be whipt, and la&s;tly, have <HI>Thirty Thou&s;and Ma&s;ses, (when he was Hang'd)</HI> &s;aid for his Hire. Is not this plea&s;ant matter to be brought before an High Court of Ju&s;tice, again&s;t the Life of an <HI>Innocent?</HI></P>
<P>Such-another of thy Inventions is that of
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Coleman</HI>'s Tryal.</NOTE> Sir <HI>George Wakeman</HI>'s Poy&s;oning, and the <HI>four Ruffians</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Wakem</HI>'s Tryal.</NOTE> &s;tabbing the <HI>King.</HI> Sir <HI>George</HI> mu&s;t have 15000 <HI>l.</HI> in all, and 5000 <HI>l.</HI> in hand for his &s;hare; but the <HI>Gen|tlemen-Ru&s;&s;ians</HI> (tho' mo&s;t of them <HI>Per&s;ons of Quality</HI>) could only be allowed each Twenty Guineys, &s;ent them by <HI>Coleman</HI> to <HI>Wind&s;or</HI></P>
<P>And here al&s;o mark how palpably thou ha&s;t betray'd thy own Ro|guery. Thou po&s;itively &s;wor'&s;t, Thou never wa&s;t
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Staff</HI>'s Tryal.</NOTE> <HI>Really</HI> a <HI>Roman
<PB N="5" REF="4">Catholick,</HI> but only <HI>feign'd</HI> thy &s;elf to be &s;o, on purpo&s;e to di&s;cover <HI>Popi&s;h Intrigues,</HI> and by that means <HI>Save His Maje&s;ty</HI> from other|ways inevitable Death and De&s;truction; Yet (&s;ee thy prodigious Impudence!
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">See <HI>Staf|ford</HI>'s Me|moirs.</NOTE> at the &s;ame time, and with the &s;ame breath, thou owned&s;t thou wert con&s;cious for above a year together of the daily Attempts made by <HI>Groves</HI> and <HI>Pickering</HI> to &s;hoot the <HI>King;</HI> Thou hourly expected&s;t for &s;everal Months the horrid effects of Sir <HI>George Wakeman</HI>'s <HI>Poi&s;on;</HI> Thou wert privy to the de&s;ign'd A&s;&s;a&s;&s;ination at <HI>Wind&s;or;</HI> Thou knew'&s;t the <HI>Ruffians</HI> were actually upon the place, and ready for the Villany; Thou &s;aw&s;t the Guineys &s;ent them for their Encouragement, and every moment waited&s;t to her the fatal Blow was given: Neverthele&s;s thy <HI>Watchful Eye, Loyal Care, Holy Zeal</HI> and <HI>Tender Con&s;cience</HI> would not let thee make a Di&s;covery, though (thou &s;aid'&s;t) thou knew'&s;t for certain, the Gun was already even at the <HI>King</HI>'s Brea&s;t; the Cup of Poi&s;on at his Lip, and the Daggers almo&s;t at his very Heart: Yet thou never cried&s;t out, <HI>Mur|ther upon the Lord's Anointed;</HI> never called&s;t for immediate Succour; never warned&s;t the <HI>King</HI> of His eminent Danger; never diverted&s;t the Impending Mi&s;chief, nor &s;o much as opend&s;t thy mouth to di&s;|clo&s;e any of the&s;e horrid Trea&s;ons, until &s;uch time as the <HI>King</HI> might have been kill'd a thou&s;and times over. What can judicious Per|&s;ons think of this? Will they not &s;ay, Had thy Stories been true, thou might'&s;t and ought'&s;t to have taken the Criminals with their Tools about them: To have cau&s;ed <HI>Pickering</HI> with his <HI>Gun,</HI> and the <HI>Ruffians</HI> with their <HI>Daggers</HI> in their hands, to be &s;eized; Thus thou had'&s;t di&s;charged a good Con&s;cience; Sav'd the <HI>King</HI>'s Life, and given &s;ome proof of thy prodigious Evidence: But, as matters &s;tand, thou ha&s;t demon&s;tratively convinc'd the world, Thou art ei|ther an Execrable Villain, in <HI>Swearing</HI> &s;uch things, or wor&s;e, in &s;o long <HI>concealing them.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Titus.</SPEAKER>
<P>There was a nece&s;&s;ity for me to nominate &s;ome particular per&s;ons, el&s;e tho&s;e who modell'd our <HI>Plot</HI> for us, could not have put it into right &s;hape; and I not knowing any body among&s;t the <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> likely to commit &s;uch horrid Crimes, named at <HI>random</HI> tho&s;e who fir&s;t came to my mind. But Thou, as if on purpo&s;e to make all <HI>Europe,</HI> by the knowledge of its own Innocence, experimental Witne&s;&s;es of thy <HI>Perjury,</HI> ha&s;t Impeach'd by whole-&s;ale, and pronounced Univer&s;ally Guilty of the PLOT, mo&s;t or all <HI>Roman Catholicks,</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Narr.</NOTE> both Princes and People, not only of <HI>England, Scotland</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> but al&s;o of <HI>France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Flanders,</HI> &amp;c. (an Affront and Scandal to almo&s;t all <HI>Chri&s;tendom.</HI> Now tell me, Is it po&s;&s;ible that any in their &s;en&s;es &s;hould long believe,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Staffords</HI> Memoirs.</NOTE> that among&s;t &s;o many Thou&s;ands of <HI>both Sexes,</HI> of <HI>&s;everal Nations,</HI> of <HI>different Intere&s;ts,</HI> of <HI>all &s;orts, &s;tates</HI> and <HI>conditions,</HI> as mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily have been privy to, and Partners in thy pretended Ma&s;&s;acres, Trea&s;ons and Villanies, none &s;hould have any remor&s;e for &s;o Bloudy, &s;o Unnatural and Dete&s;table a Wickedne&s;s; None Worth, Wit or Grace to reveal it; No inter|vening Accident; No conviction of Judgment; No levity of Mind; No change of Religion; No Temporal Advantage; No Friend&s;hip, or Relation; No di&s;agreement of Parties, happen to detect it, for
<PB N="6" REF="5">divers years together, till at la&s;t Thou, and after Thee, thy other Companions, <HI>Bedloe, Dugdale, Dangerfield,</HI> &amp;c. (the Scum and Refu&s;e of Mankind, rak'd out of Goals, Whipt, Pillory'd, and one way or other branded with Infamy,) made this grand di&s;covery, (good Men!) out of tenderne&s;s of Con&s;cience? Is it po&s;&s;ible, I &s;ay, that any in their Sen&s;es &s;hould believe this?</P>
<P>Then, to &s;econd the&s;e incredible Lies with greater, thou inven|ted&s;t huge formidable Armies, compo&s;ed of
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Narr.</NOTE> 20000 <HI>Presbyterian Scots;</HI> 40000 <HI>Wild Iri&s;h;</HI> 20000 <HI>Engli&s;h Papi&s;ts,</HI> &s;ub&s;tantial Fight|ing Men, in the very City of <HI>London;</HI> a proportionable number in other Counties, the Total, by Computation, amounting to a matter of Two or Three hundred Thou&s;and, Hor&s;e, Foot and Dragoons, &s;ome <HI>above,</HI> &s;ome <HI>under</HI> ground, (be&s;ides <HI>Spani&s;h Pilgrims,</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> <HI>French, Flemi&s;h,</HI> and other Foreign Confederates) equipped and ready, mo&s;t of them within 24
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> hours, and all of them within le&s;s than ten days time, for immediate Service. The&s;e va&s;t Swarms (thou tell'&s;t us) were provided with corre&s;pondent Stores of
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid. 5 <HI>Je&s;.</HI> Try.</NOTE> <HI>Ammunition, Weapons, Black-Bills, Fire-Balls, Granadoe-&s;hells, Daggers, Screw'd-Guns, Mortar pieces,</HI> &amp;c. Now then thou could'&s;t not imagine but that the <HI>King</HI>'s Officers, (unle&s;s diverted by the Incredibility of thy <HI>Fables</HI>) would make diligent &s;earch where the&s;e Millions of Men, and Mountains of Magazines were: And that, not finding, either by thy directions, or their own &s;crutiny, the lea&s;t Foot-&s;teps of any &s;uch thing, it mu&s;t needs bring an unavoidable confu&s;ion to our Evi|dence; E&s;pecially &s;eeing all men knew it was impo&s;&s;ible the&s;e huge Armies and Armouries could be invi&s;ibly di&s;pers'd, or convey'd a|way, upon &s;o &s;udden and unexpected a Di&s;covery, made in the very nick of time when (thou pretended&s;t) they were to have been u&s;ed.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Doctor.</SPEAKER>
<P>Well, and was thy Impudence le&s;s, when thou expre&s;ly &s;wore&s;t thou had&s;t &s;een
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Stafford</HI>'s Memoirs.</NOTE> &s;ome Hundreds, and deliver'd&s;t with thine own hands not a few, of Commi&s;&s;ions for all Military-Offices, as,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Narr.</NOTE> <HI>Gene|rals, Adjutant, Advocate-Generals,</HI> &amp;c. Divers Patents granted for Dignities of State, as
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> <HI>Chancellor, Trea&s;urer,</HI> &amp;c. all Signed and Sealed <HI>(O Ridiculous!)</HI> by the General of the Je&s;uits: Many Bulls and Briefs for Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Preferments, and numberle&s;s Volumes of Letters and Pacquets, containing Damnable Trea&s;ons, of all which thou knew'&s;t the exact Dates, and could'&s;t tell, when, and where read, to, and from whom writ and directed; Not only &s;o, but thou could'&s;t recite upon thy Fingers-ends the expre&s;s words of almo&s;t every Letter. Nay, thou had&s;t the confidence <HI>(though a Leud, Beg|garly, Ca&s;hier'd Blockhead, and a Vagabond)</HI> to affirm thou had&s;t a
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Coleman</HI>'s Tryal.</NOTE> Patent of thy own, authorizing thee to be a Grand Councellor in Civil, Military, and Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Affairs.</P>
<P>Now, could'&s;t thou not fore-&s;ee the Papi&s;ts would ince&s;&s;antly cry out [
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Stafford</HI>'s Memoirs.</NOTE> <HI>Let him produce</HI> One &s;ingle Commi&s;&s;ion, One Patent, Bull, Brief, or &s;o much as a Scrip of Paper, <HI>&s;igned as he pretends; Let him bring</HI> &s;ome Umbrage of Rea&s;on or Argument, di&s;tinct from his <HI>Bare Swearing;</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">5 <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> Tryal.</NOTE> <HI>There were</HI> many Thou&s;ands of Letters, <HI>together with</HI> &s;eve|ral Bonds, Bills and Writings, for con&s;iderable Sums of Money, <HI>&s;eized</HI> on a &s;udden <HI>in the Chambers and Clo&s;ets of the</HI> Con&s;pirators:
<PB N="7" REF="5"><HI>Now,</HI> if the&s;e Men were not &s;urprized, Why did they not &s;ave their Indentures and Trea&s;ures? <HI>But,</HI> if they were, How could they pre|&s;erve their Trea&s;onable Papers?</P>
<P><HI>The</HI> Plotters, (if what <HI>Oates</HI> &s;wears be True) <HI>were not very Canti|ous, or</HI> &s;hie of their Secrets: <HI>And indeed</HI> it is wholly Impo&s;&s;ible, <HI>in</HI> &s;uch a Conjuncture of Circum&s;tances, &s;uch a Multiplicity of Com|mi&s;&s;ions, Bulls, Letters, <HI>&amp;c. but &s;ome</HI> Original Writing <HI>&s;hould be extant, and forth-coming.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Why did not this</HI> Oates, <HI>this</HI> Man of Tru&s;t and Intrigue, <HI>produce at lea&s;t</HI> That
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Coleman</HI>'s Tryal.</NOTE> Patent he &s;aid he had to be of the Grand Con&s;ult? <HI>It would have been</HI> of mighty Force to &s;trengthen his Te&s;timony. <HI>Why did he not immediately carry to the</HI> King, Councel, or &s;ome Magi&s;trate, <HI>whil&s;t it was in his Cu&s;tody,</HI> That Damnable Paper or
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">5 <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> Tryal.</NOTE> In&s;trument <HI>drawn up</HI> (as he &s;aid) <HI>at the</HI> White-Hor&s;e-Tavern, wherein the Con|federates &s;tood engag'd to pur&s;ue the Murther of the <HI>King? Which</HI> Paper, <HI>he &s;aith, He him&s;elf carried from</HI> Club <HI>to</HI> Club: <HI>And &s;aw, and</HI> procur'd it to be &s;ign'd by each re&s;pective Con&s;pirator under his own hand. <HI>This would have been an</HI> Undeniable Evidence; <HI>E&s;pecially, produc'd by a Per&s;on who made it his bu&s;ine&s;s</HI> to di&s;cover a <HI>Plot, and</HI> &s;ave the <HI>King</HI>'s Life.] But becau&s;e (as thou well know'&s;t) there was not any thing of Truth in what thou &s;wor'&s;t, nor by con&s;equence could be any thing of &s;olid Proof to make it out: the conclu&s;ion at la&s;t, though after much mi&s;chief and <HI>Blood-&s;hed,</HI> mu&s;t needs be Fatal to us Both.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Titus.</SPEAKER>
<P>Were not thy <HI>Chymoera's</HI> as ab&s;urd, and in all points as pernicious to us as Mine? Did&s;t thou not in expre&s;s terms &s;wear, the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> became <HI>True-Prote&s;tant-Holders-forth,</HI> and preach'd Sedition and Trea&s;on in <HI>Presbyterian Conventicles?</HI> Never fore-&s;eeing or regar|ding, that when the Government had once found out our Impo&s;tures, and accordingly di&s;carded us, the <HI>Presbyterians</HI> were of all others mo&s;t likely to become (as now they are) our main Support and De|fence. Mark the effects of thy Ra&s;hne&s;s herein; The&s;e very <HI>Conven|ticles</HI> are now &s;earch'd, as the <HI>Ne&s;ts of Je&s;uits,</HI> and <HI>Nur&s;eries of Re|bellion;</HI> Our pre&s;ent Friends di&s;turb'd in their <HI>Religious Cheats,</HI> and their <HI>real De&s;igns, A&s;&s;ociations,</HI> and <HI>Treacheries,</HI> di&s;cover'd and pre|vented, through thy Shams and Fictions.</P>
<P>Nay, on my Con&s;cience, (if I had any) a body would &s;u&s;pect thou thy &s;elf art a <HI>Conventicling Emi&s;&s;ary</HI> of the <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> &s;et on by them, on purpo&s;e to embroil the Three Kingdoms, to fix an Infa|my upon the face of Ju&s;tice, and render the Mame of <HI>Prote&s;tant</HI> odious to all Nations.</P>
<P>Such another Foppery was that of thy &s;wearing, The <HI>Je&s;uits</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Narra.</NOTE> had 60000 <HI>l.</HI> a year, and 100000 <HI>l.</HI> in bank, out of which they made 50 <HI>l. per cent</HI> Intere&s;t; And that they practiced in <HI>London</HI> the Trades of <HI>Merchants, Tobacconi&s;ts, Gold&s;miths, Scriv'ners,</HI> &amp;c. which Trades they engro&s;&s;ed to them&s;elves and Partners in &s;o high a degree, as to gain an exact e&s;timate of the Riches and Strength of the whole Nation. Now, into what a &s;trange <HI>praemunire</HI> ha&s;t thou here brought the City? If the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> can, and do (as thou &s;ai&s;t) upon occa&s;ion profe&s;s them&s;elves <HI>Presbyterians,</HI> and at the &s;ame time
<PB N="6" REF="6">likewi&s;e exerci&s;e the above-named beneficial Trades: Who knows but all, or mo&s;t of the <HI>Presbyterian Merchants, Scriv'ners</HI> and <HI>Gold|&s;miths</HI> in <HI>London,</HI> (for Example, <HI>Bethel, Player, Pilkington, Ward, Wilmore,</HI>) are really <HI>Je&s;uits?</HI> Why may not the <HI>King (if He will believe thy Te&s;timony)</HI> upon ju&s;t grounds &s;eize on the Per&s;ons and Effects of all the <HI>Presbyterian Citizens,</HI> (who now maintain Thee) as <HI>&s;u&s;pected Traytors,</HI> and <HI>Managers of the</HI> Plot? E&s;pecially, &s;eeing thou &s;wor'&s;t a Dangerous Matter, (though a Lie at both ends) That there were as many
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> in <HI>London,</HI> as might &s;uffice to cut the Throats of 100000 <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> in it. Now, where and how &s;hould people imagine the&s;e invi&s;ible Swarms of <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> could he &s;hrowded and hid, if not under the ma&s;que of <HI>Prote&s;tant Di&s;&s;enters?</HI> And in|deed, no mortal Man can can give a Rea&s;on why thy pre&s;ent Patrons the <HI>Di&s;&s;enters</HI> are not <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> and <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> now, as well as they were when (according to thy Evidence) <HI>They</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Preface</HI> to the Narrat.</NOTE> <HI>brought His late Sacred Maje&s;ty's Head to the Block.</HI></P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Doctor.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why might not I turn the <HI>Presbyterians</HI> into <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> as well as thou ha&s;t metamorpho&s;ed the &s;ame <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> into <HI>Fifth-Monarchy-men?</HI> The <HI>Religion</HI> and <HI>Intere&s;t</HI> of the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> are much con&s;onant to the <HI>One</HI> as the <HI>Other;</HI> The probability of Complotting dangerous In|trigues; The Tru&s;t and Fidelity in keeping each others Secrets; The advantage to be gain'd by Succe&s;s, (to wit, <HI>mutual De&s;truction</HI>) are likewi&s;e the &s;ame. Yet thou po&s;itively &s;wor'&s;t, That
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Narra.</NOTE> Mr. <HI>Strange, Grey,</HI> and other <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> meeting with one <HI>Green,</HI> and Eight more <HI>Fifth-Monarchy-men,</HI> at <HI>Puddle-Dock,</HI> and fir&s;t clo&s;ing together in <HI>Doctrinal Points,</HI> they at length combined in a Damnable Contri|vance of <HI>Firing the City.</HI> And mark thy notable Policy here; The&s;e <HI>Fire-Merchants</HI> (as thou call'&s;t them) mu&s;t be a&s;&s;i&s;ted by 50 or 60 <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> and &s;everal <HI>French,</HI> (be&s;ides the above-mention'd <HI>Je&s;uitical Trades-men,</HI> who thus became Incendiaries to their own Hou&s;es,) They mu&s;t be furni&s;hed with <HI>Magazines of mon&s;trous Fire-works</HI> in
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid,</NOTE> <HI>Granadoe-&s;hells,</HI> and Thou&s;ands of <HI>Fire-balls,</HI> of which 700 were made u&s;e on, (though no Reliques or Foot&s;teps of any &s;uch <HI>Machines</HI> or <HI>Balls,</HI> upon &s;edulous enquiry, ever had been, or could be pro|duced.) During the <HI>Conflagration,</HI> multitudes of Men and Women, <HI>(privy to the Secret)</HI> mu&s;t be employed to ran&s;ack and plunder the City, and carry the Spoil of
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> Cloth, Plate, Boxes and Bundles, in|to certain Ware-hou&s;es in <HI>Wild-&s;treet</HI> and <HI>Somer&s;et-hou&s;e, (though no &s;uch Per&s;ons were ever di&s;covered, nor any &s;uch Goods or Ware-hou&s;es ever known.</HI>) Among&s;t other Booties, they got at one clap, and of one Man, no le&s;s than
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> 1000 <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">haracts of Diamonds,</HI> which were afterwards &s;old for 3500 <HI>l. (though none ever yet either complained he lo&s;t, or owned he had any &s;uch Jewels.)</HI></P>
<P>But all this while (as the <HI>Devil</HI> would have it.) thou never re|membred&s;t what thou had&s;t immediately before expre&s;ly &s;worn, <HI>(viz.) That the main Drift and De&s;ign of the</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> Je&s;uits <HI>and</HI> Fifth-monarchy|men <HI>in burning the City, was, during the Combu&s;tion, to Murder the</HI> King, <HI>and make a general In&s;urrection.</HI> Now, who will believe the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> would bu&s;ie them&s;elves, and imploy multitudes of the their Pro&s;elytes in pilfering of Cloaths, Boxes and Lumber, ju&s;t in the
<PB N="9" REF="6">very nick of time, when they were <HI>to kill the King; to ri&s;e in open Rebellion; to cut all the Prote&s;tants Throats; to en&s;lave Three Nations,</HI> and manage <HI>an Army of at lea&s;t Two or Three hundred Thou&s;and Men.</HI></P>
<P>Moreover, if the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> intended to <HI>kill the King,</HI> &amp;c. How came they to let &s;lip <HI>&s;o favourable an advantage?</HI> Why did they let fall their De&s;ign? A body would think <HI>They could never hope for a fairer oppor|tunity. The City was burning; Its Government relaxed; The People all in con&s;ternation; The King among&s;t them; and nothing &s;eem'd wan|ting to compleat their Enterprize:</HI> Yet after all, <HI>no Murder, no Trea|&s;on, no Rebellion, no Di&s;turbance</HI> en&s;ued. What will wi&s;e Men from hence conclude, but <HI>that the Fire it &s;elf was an effect of God's Judg|ment; And the pretended Murder, Trea&s;on, Rebellion,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>the meer product of thy Villanous Brain?</HI></P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Titus.</SPEAKER>
<P>But I put a <HI>Salvo</HI> to that Objection, by &s;aying,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Narrat</NOTE> <HI>The Je&s;uits were not then &s;ecure of the Duke,</HI> who about that time was but a well-wi&s;her to them. Be&s;ides, <HI>They &s;eeing the King &s;o indu&s;trious in extingui&s;h|ing the Fire, could not find in their hearts to kill him.</HI></P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Doctor.</SPEAKER>
<P>Wor&s;e and wor&s;e; Why &s;hould the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> attempt a De&s;ign be|fore they were ready for it? Why &s;hould they begin an Enterprize which they already knew ought not to be pur&s;ued? Did the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> &s;et fire to the City, and in the mid&s;t of the Flames bethink them&s;elves whether the <HI>Duke</HI> were &s;ecure to them, and whether they had taken right mea&s;ures, or no? Oh! but <HI>They could not find in their hearts to kill the King, when they &s;aw him &s;o bu&s;ie in putting out the Fire.</HI> Mark the incon&s;i&s;tence of thy <HI>Perjuries.</HI> Did&s;t thou not frequently &s;wear, That the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> accounted it an high Act of Virtue, and meritorious of Heaven, to murder an <HI>Heretick,</HI> e&s;pecially the <HI>King?</HI> That they determined, without Pity or Remor&s;e, to cut the Throats of all, even the mo&s;t Innocent Prote&s;tants in <HI>England, Scotland</HI> and <HI>Ireland?</HI> That they u&s;ed to Con&s;ecrate Swords, Knives and Daggers for &s;uch purpo&s;es? That they looked upon the King as a
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> <HI>Ba&s;tard,</HI> and <HI>Traytor to the Pope,</HI> and chief ob&s;tacle to their Pretences? That therefore they encourag'd and hir'd &s;ome to <HI>&s;hoot Him,</HI> &s;ome to <HI>poi&s;on Him,</HI> &s;ome to <HI>&s;tab Him,</HI> &amp;c? And la&s;tly, That they fir'd the City on purpo&s;e to gain an opportunity to <HI>take him off,</HI> (as thou term'd&s;t it.) But now, when the&s;e mercile&s;s <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> had him in their Clutches, ready for the Slaughter, and all their Confederates wai|ting for the Blow: ju&s;t then <HI>(O miracle!)</HI> comes a qualm of tender|ne&s;s upon them, and <HI>they could not find in their hearts to kill him.</HI> Why? <HI>Becau&s;e he endeavoured to quench the Fire which they them&s;elves had kindled, on purpo&s;e to de&s;troy him.</HI> This is fine &s;tuff, is it not think'&s;t thou? and a worthy Subject for an In&s;cription on the <HI>Monu|ment.</HI></P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Titus.</SPEAKER>
<P>If my Sham of the <HI>Papi&s;ts Firing the City</HI> was ab&s;urd and incredi|ble, Thy Figments of <HI>Firing Southwark,</HI> and <HI>Burning the Navy,</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Narra.</NOTE> were no le&s;s ridiculous and non-&s;en&s;ical; So there's a double <HI>Row|land</HI> for thy <HI>Oliver.</HI> And now give ear to other matters of the &s;ame Leaven: Did&s;t thou not &s;wear, That one
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Narr.</NOTE> <HI>John Smith,</HI> a Porter or
<PB N="10" REF="7">Letter-Carrier, <HI>(a fit Per&s;on for a Mini&s;ter of State)</HI> gave <HI>Intelligence</HI> to the King of <HI>France,</HI> of all our <HI>King</HI>'s Intrigues and Policies; How he &s;tood affected for <HI>Peace</HI> or <HI>War,</HI> and what daily pa&s;&s;ed in the <HI>Cabinet Councel, (whereby &s;urely this State-Interloper engro&s;&s;ed all the Trade from the</HI> French-Pen&s;ioners) for which al&s;o he had (as a Re|ward proportionable to the Grandeur and Importance of his Office) no le&s;s than 500 <HI>l. per annum?</HI> Di&s;t thou not likewi&s;e &s;wear, It was plotted by the <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> The <HI>Emperour</HI> &s;hould be told, That the King of <HI>England</HI> (abounding in Money) had &s;ent under-hand great Sums to the <HI>Hungarian Rebels</HI> to go on <HI>(as an encouragement, it &s;eems, for his own Subjects to do the like,)</HI> in their Rebelion; And that a <HI>Latine-Letter,</HI> importing thus much, was &s;ent by a <HI>Lay-Brother, (a proper Emba&s;&s;ador)</HI> to the <HI>Emperour?</HI> Did&s;t thou not moreover &s;wear, That <HI>Twelve</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> <HI>Engli&s;h Je&s;uits</HI> were &s;ent into <HI>Holland,</HI> (be|cau&s;e the <HI>Flemi&s;h Je&s;uits</HI> were not &s;o well known, and capable of acting Trea&s;on in their own Country) to inform the <HI>Dutch</HI> (tho&s;e States being wholly guided and influenced by the &s;aid <HI>Je&s;uits</HI>) That the Prince of <HI>Orange</HI> would make him&s;elf King over them. Be&s;ides,&mdash;</P>
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<SPEAKER>Doctor.</SPEAKER>
<P>Stop a little, and take &s;ome of thy own Farces along with thee. Did thou not &s;wear, That <HI>one Single Je&s;uit,</HI> and he a * <HI>Spaniard,</HI> had promi&s;ed 10000 <HI>l.</HI> (which doubtle&s;s he never had, nor could pro|cure) for an hire to tho&s;e that would kill our <HI>King?</HI> And that a <HI>French Je&s;uit</HI> al&s;o (out of a tran&s;port of Zeal) had given before-hand the like impo&s;&s;ible Sum for the &s;ame end? The&s;e <HI>Je&s;uits,</HI> e&s;pecially Strangers, are wonderful Prodigals of their money.</P>
<P>Again, Did&s;t thou not &s;wear, That a certain
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Narrat.</NOTE> <HI>Drummer</HI> had Ten Royals of Eight, for carrying &s;ome Trea&s;onable Lettes from St. <HI>Omers</HI> to <HI>Paris?</HI> And one
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibidem.</NOTE> <HI>Arm&s;trong</HI> a <HI>Je&s;uit</HI> had allowed 200 <HI>l.</HI> for the like Portage from <HI>Valadolid</HI> to <HI>Madrid?</HI> (though both the&s;e Coun|tries were <HI>Catholicks,</HI> and thou &s;aid&s;t) <HI>Coufederate in the Plot.</HI>) Yet, at the &s;ame time, thou affirmed&s;t, The&s;e, and innumerable others, the like, or wor&s;e Letters, containing in expr&s;s terms the blacke&s;t Crimes of Murder and Trea&s;on, were daily &s;ent from <HI>London</HI> to St. <HI>Omers, Paris, Madrid,</HI> &amp;c.
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> and from thence al&s;o to <HI>London,</HI> and &s;o up and down <HI>England,</HI> (though a <HI>Prote&s;tant Country,</HI> and <HI>de&s;igned Scene of the Tragedy</HI>) by the Common-Po&s;t, &s;ome for <HI>Two-pence,</HI> and others at mo&s;t for <HI>Eight-pence apiece.</HI> Nay, the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> were &s;o care|le&s;s of their Trea&s;onable Letters, as to
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> carry them about in their Pockets, and drop them in their Walks and Diverti&s;ements. Was it not pity, that Thou, their Cabinet-Councellor (for&s;ooth) and then al&s;o imperceptibly to them, contriving a Di&s;covery, could'&s;t never find, &s;teal, intercept, or di&s;cover &s;o much as <HI>One</HI> of the&s;e almo&s;t every where obvious Letters? What Inferences, think'&s;t thou, will Intel|ligent Per&s;ons make from the&s;e on all &s;ides &s;o incon&s;i&s;tent <HI>Fables?</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Titus.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why do&s;t thou object to me the Incongruities of filling the <HI>Po&s;t-Offices;</HI> and &s;tuffing mens Chambers and Pockets with invi&s;ible Letters of Trea&s;on? Thou ha&s;t made the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> as lavi&s;h of their <HI>Tongues,</HI> as I have of their <HI>Pens.</HI> Did&s;t thou not &s;wear, That the&s;e <HI>Je&s;uits (&s;otti&s;h &s;tupid</HI> Je&s;uits!) were &s;o regardle&s;s of their own In|tere&s;t;
<PB N="11" REF="7">&s;o Mad, Bewich'd, and Infatuated, as to Preach
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> in pub|lick Sermons, before a Company of Boys, (who &s;eldom keep Secrets, and who might &s;ome of them, at lea&s;t, for any thing they knew, in time become <HI>Prote&s;tants,</HI> and tell all,) <HI>That</HI> Charles Stuart <HI>is no Lawful King, but a Ba&s;tard, come of a Spurious Race; And that His Father was a black</HI> Scotch-<HI>man, and not King</HI> Charles <HI>I.</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Stafford</HI>'s Tryal.</NOTE> <HI>And that His Maje&s;ty's Religion entituled Him to nothing but &s;udden Death and De&s;truction?</HI> Nay, thou affirmed&s;t, the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> were &s;o &s;trange|ly Impertinent and Non-&s;en&s;ical, as that, notwith&s;tanding they were certain of one anothers knowledge to the contrary, yet, di&s;cour&s;ing privately among them&s;elves, they would often, to no manner of purpo&s;e, po&s;itively averr,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Narr.</NOTE> <HI>That</HI> Charles <HI>I. was not King</HI> James<HI>'s Son, but a Ba&s;tard, begotten on the Body of</HI> Ann <HI>of</HI> Denmark <HI>by her Tayler; And that this pre&s;ent King was al&s;o a Ba&s;tard, and endea|voured to rule by the Sword.</HI></P>
<P>At this rate al&s;o thou &s;wor'&s;t. That
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Narra.</NOTE> one <HI>Blundel</HI> a <HI>Je&s;uit</HI> was dig|nify'd with a Patent of a wonderful Tenor; Fir&s;t, con&s;tituting him <HI>Ordinary at Newgate:</HI> his Office there being to Retrieve condemned Thieves and Rogues from the Gallows, on purpo&s;e to make them Fellow-Con&s;pirators, and Managers, (for want of <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> willing and apt to &s;uch Exerci&s;es) in burning of Hou&s;es, cutting of Throats, and the like wicked and mi&s;chievous De&s;igns; Secondly, authori|zing him to keep &s;everal <HI>Catechi&s;tical Schools</HI> in the City of <HI>London:</HI> where, in&s;tead of <HI>receiving,</HI> he was to
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> <HI>give</HI> Money, (a <HI>Je&s;uitical Craft</HI>) to Parents, (being <HI>Prote&s;tvnts,</HI> for <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> &s;urely needed not to be brib'd) to permit them to teach their Children the <HI>Popi&s;h Se|cret</HI> of <HI>Trea&s;on again&s;t the Life and Intere&s;t of the</HI> King.</P>
<P>Again, thou imprudently &s;wor'&s;t, That, notwith&s;tanding Mr. <HI>White|bread</HI> was a&s;&s;uredly inform'd that thou had&s;t made, both
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> to the King and a Mini&s;ter of State, <HI>an ample Di&s;covery of all the Plotters Bloody De&s;igns;</HI> Yet <HI>Whitebread,</HI> In&s;tead of running away him&s;elf, or advi&s;ing others his Confederates to do &s;o,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> ordered thee (for &s;urene&s;s to find him) to come to his Chamber; and there the petti&s;h old Man (as if he had a mind to hang Him&s;elf and Friends, by irrita|ting one at who&s;e Mercy they lay, and who had already abandoned them,) fell on chiding and beating thee, (poor Child) giving thee three blows with his Cane, and a box on the Ear; After which, <HI>(O Wonderful!)</HI> this <HI>Whitebread</HI> and his Companions &s;till continued &s;o &s;upinely negligent of their own Safety, &s;o regardle&s;s of the Affront given, and what might follow this Ba&s;tinadoe: that they not only remained in their &s;everal Lodgings, (when a body would think it had been more than high time to have betaken them&s;elves to their heels) but one of them, two days after, doubtle&s;s to help out thy <HI>In|formation</HI>) told thee,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> <HI>Coniers</HI> was gone to <HI>Wind&s;or</HI> to &s;tab the King. Are not the&s;e likely Stories?</P>
<P>But then, for thy quaint Devices of <HI>C. R. R. C. Black-boy, Ap|ple-tree-Will, Barley-broth, Mum, Chocolat, Order of Magpies, Fire|bals of Sheeps Fat, Tormentilio's,</HI> and <HI>Tewxbury-Mu&s;tard-balls:</HI> The&s;e indeed are &s;o Sublime Notions, &s;uch Quinte&s;&s;ences of Wit and Art, that nothing under the Degree of <HI>Doctor of Salamanca</HI> could either invent or under&s;tand them.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Doctor.</SPEAKER>
<P>What a clutter thou keep'&s;t about a few <HI>Peccadilio's</HI> whil&s;t I have &s;till heaps of mon&s;trous Contradictions and Perjuries to lay to thy charge. People a long time, &s;ome out of Zeal, others out of Policy; &s;ome out of deference to Higher Powers, and the re&s;t following the Stream, without examining <HI>why?</HI> or <HI>wherefore?</HI> gave implicite Faith to whatever thou impo&s;ed&s;t on them; And might have done &s;o &s;till, had not thy Folly, tran&s;ported by &s;ucce&s;s, become &s;o Rampant and Audacious, that no Bounds or Limits could hold thee. Did&s;t thou not, in the Hou&s;e of Lords,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Stafford's</HI> Tryal.</NOTE> upon mature Deliberation, po&s;itively &s;wear, <HI>Thou had&s;t now wholly di&s;charged thy Con&s;cience, and declared all thou knew'&s;t again&s;t any Per&s;on or Per&s;ons, of what Degree or Qua|lity &s;oever in</HI> England? Yet afterwards, finding encouragement, and precipitated by malice, Did&s;t thou not, <HI>in the &s;ame Hou&s;e of Lords,</HI> with an unparallell'd In&s;olence, accu&s;e our <HI>Gracious</HI> Queen <HI>of mo&s;t Damnable High-Trea&s;on?</HI> What, in the Devil's Name, made thee thus to <HI>Contradict and Perjure thy &s;elf,</HI> &s;o publickly and palpably, in the very Pre&s;ence, and to the Face of &s;o Honourable an A&s;&s;embly? Could'&s;t thou not &s;ee, (be&s;otted Mi&s;creant) <HI>That the Tran&s;cendent Lu&s;tre of the</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Staffords</HI> Memoirs.</NOTE> Queens <HI>Virtue, Innocence, and endeared Affection to His Maje&s;ty, leaves no place for Calumny to fix upon? And that the bare charge of &s;o foul a Crime, upon &s;o Renowned a Goodne&s;s, is of it &s;elf, Independent of other <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ontradictions, more then enough to proclaim thee a Villain?</HI> Wretch that thou art! What was it thou propo&s;ed&s;t of advantage to thy &s;elf by this <HI>more than Sacrilegious Temerity?</HI> What was it thou hoped&s;t from <HI>the Calumniation of an Heroick Prince&s;s; In Birth and Fortune; In Courage and Con&s;tancy; In Meekne&s;s and Patience; Piety and Prudence, Superlatively Great?</HI> What could'&s;t thou di&s;cern in the <HI>Fpitome of all the Graces, In the Trea&s;ury of all Conjugal Faith and Love, Obnoxious to Obloquy?</HI> Surely thou af|fected&s;t hereby to be reputed in Villainy the Second of Mankind; and to &s;hew all the World, <HI>There could be found among&s;t Mortals, none, but</HI> Judas <HI>and</HI> Oates, <HI>wicked enough to betray the Life of</HI> Chri&s;t <HI>and the</HI> Queen.</P>
<P>Little le&s;s was thy Impudence; Little le&s;s the fatal Con&s;equence; Little le&s;s thy dete&s;table Villainy, in &s;wearing
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Depo|&s;ition a|gain&s;t the <HI>Duke.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Thou &s;aw'&s;t the</HI> Duke <HI>at Ma&s;s, through Two or Three &s;everal Walls, and as many double Doors, in an Oblique part of a Clo&s;et.</HI> Why, in the Name of <HI>Belial,</HI> did&s;t thou give ear to tho&s;e Malignant Spirits that in&s;tigated thee to this In&s;upportable Arrogance again&s;t the Be&s;t, and mo&s;t Accompli&s;hed of Princes? What did&s;t thou mean, thus to &s;ham thy own <HI>Plot,</HI> and by Out-&s;wearing all Po&s;&s;ibility, to become <HI>an Evidence again&s;t thy &s;elf?</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Titus.</SPEAKER>
<P>Thou &s;halt get little advantage by rubbing up my old Sores. Do&s;t thou not remember how thou
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Depo|&s;ition at the <HI>Council.</HI></NOTE> di&s;owned&s;t (and truly) all per&s;onal knowledge of Mr. <HI>Coleman?</HI> And being brought face to face at the Council-Board, at a time too when the De&s;ign of the King's Murder, and whole Sy&s;teme of the <HI>Plot,</HI> was under examine: Did&s;t thou not there po&s;itively a&s;&s;ert, <HI>Thou knew'&s;t him not, nor had&s;t ever &s;een him before;</HI> No, nor had&s;t any thing to alledge again&s;t him, but certain
<PB N="16" REF="8">Fictitious Letters (of thy own framing,) no re&s;emblance of which, upon &s;earch, ever appear'd among&s;t <HI>Coleman</HI>'s Writings? Neverthe|le&s;s, about a month after, when thou perceived&s;t that Zeal for Re|ligion; Hatred of Popery; Tenderne&s;s for the King's Life, and Danger of their own Throats, had di&s;po&s;ed Men (deluded and frighted by thy Fables) to give credit to all thou &s;aid&s;t: Then, di|rectly contrary to thy former a&s;&s;ertion at the Council, thou pre|tended&s;t long and great
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Coleman</HI>'s Tryal.</NOTE> intimacy with this &s;ame <HI>Coleman.</HI> (Fair, Tall, Don <HI>John</HI> him&s;elf was no better known to thee at <HI>Madrid,</HI> then thou wa&s;t to <HI>Coleman</HI> at <HI>London.</HI>) Thou charged&s;t him al&s;o,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> to have been privy and aiding to the intended A&s;&s;a&s;&s;ination of His Maje&s;ty at <HI>Wind&s;or;</HI> To have con&s;ented to the &s;hooting of the King by <HI>Groves</HI> and <HI>Pickering,</HI> and to the poi&s;oning of Him by Sir <HI>G. Wake|man;</HI> To have been at certain Trea&s;onable Con&s;ults at the <HI>Savoy</HI> in <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> (when indeed <HI>Coleman</HI> was in <HI>Warwick&s;hire;</HI>) To have re|mitted into <HI>Ireland</HI> 200000 <HI>l.</HI> (&s;toln, I warrant, by the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> at the firing of <HI>London,</HI> and &s;ent over together with the 40000
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> <HI>Black-Bills;</HI> From whence el&s;e can people imagine &s;o va&s;t a Trea&s;ure &s;hould ari&s;e? or how be privately remitted into <HI>Ireland?</HI> for car|rying on the Rebellion.</P>
<P>Well; But did not <HI>Coleman</HI>'s Letters and Writings, containing real matters offen&s;ive to the State, and for which he &s;uffer'd, put &s;uch a varni&s;h upon my Forgeries, that his
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> Projects and my Im|po&s;tures were promi&s;cuou&s;ly taken for the &s;ame thing? Believe me, the finding of tho&s;e Letters, and the
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Hills,</HI> &amp;c. Try.</NOTE> Death of Sir <HI>Edmondbury Godfrey,</HI> happening both during the Se&s;&s;ions of a favourable Parlia|ment, were the luckie&s;t Jobbs we ever had, &s;ince our fir&s;t commen|cing <HI>Swearing-Ma&s;ters.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Titus.</SPEAKER>
<P>The more thou &s;tirr'&s;t in defence of thy Villainy, the wor&s;e it will &s;tink. Tho&s;e very
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Stafford</HI>'s Memoirs.</NOTE> Writings of <HI>Coleman,</HI> however in them&s;elves offen&s;ive to the State, were yet &s;o far from confirming a Plot, &s;uch as thou pretended&s;t to di&s;cover, that they directly evince the con|trary; For the whole Subject and Context of the Letters, bear a plain and open face of what the Author de&s;igned; And the Writer was a Per&s;on &s;o qualified and circum&s;tanced, as that, had there been a Plot, he would in all likelihood have been a main Engine and Con|triver of it; Neverthele&s;s, there is not one &s;ingle word or &s;yllable in them, from whence may be drawn any rational Inference favourable, but rather, every Period candidly under&s;tood, in diameter oppo&s;ite and de&s;tructive to thy <HI>Chymaera's:</HI> The &s;ub&s;tance of tho&s;e Letters being only &s;ome over-weening Conceits and Policies of an A&s;piring Man, willing to be <HI>Great,</HI> or at lea&s;t to be <HI>thought &s;o;</HI> and de&s;iring, perhaps, in &s;ome mea&s;ure, a <HI>Liberty of Con&s;cience,</HI> without <HI>Confron|ting,</HI> much le&s;s <HI>De&s;troying</HI> the King or Government, as thou wicked|ly forged&s;t; wherein al&s;o (as far as appears by the Letters) he was no wi&s;e &s;econded by the <HI>Papi&s;ts in general,</HI> nor much countenanced by tho&s;e who&s;e favour he &s;eem'd to affect; So that, upon the whole matter, <HI>Coleman</HI>'s Writings, Proclamations and Intrigues, are rather (as is &s;aid before a <HI>manife&s;t Vindication of the Papi&s;ts Innocence,</HI> than any <HI>Proof or Conviction of a Popi&s;h-Plot.</HI> In &s;hort, what connexion
<PB N="14" REF="9">is there between an Univer&s;al Combination of all Papi&s;ts, to Murder the King, to Introduce <HI>French</HI>-Armies, to cut all the Prote&s;tant Throats in the Three Kingdoms: And an imaginary fancy of one private Per&s;on, to procure the King Money, to work an Alliance with <HI>France,</HI> and di&s;po&s;e the Parliament to a Moderation on account of Religion? The fir&s;t is the &s;um of thy <HI>Helli&s;h Plot;</HI> The &s;econd, the &s;cope and purport of <HI>Coleman's unwarrantable Writings and Letters.</HI></P>
<P>And, as for the Death of Sir <HI>Edmundbury Godfrey;</HI> Our Brother <HI>Prance</HI> him&s;elf (the <HI>Chief Evidence</HI>) hath &s;poil'd all our
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">On the Anniver&s;. of Q. <HI>Eliz.</HI></NOTE> Try|umphs and Pageantry on that &s;core, with his
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Hills,</HI> &amp;c. Tryal.</NOTE> many <HI>Self-contradicti|ons;</HI> His <HI>ab&s;urd and impo&s;&s;ible Circum&s;tances;</HI> His <HI>Imprecations</HI> and <HI>Execrations</HI> over and over before the
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Depo&s;it. at <HI>Council.</HI></NOTE> King and Council, <HI>pro &amp; con</HI> to the &s;ame thing; His
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ob&s;ervat.</NOTE> <HI>Silver-Tankards</HI> and <HI>Bra&s;s-Screws;</HI> His <HI>Sham-cauterizing of</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The D's Picture at Guild-hall.</NOTE> <HI>Pictures;</HI> His
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ob&s;erv.</NOTE> <HI>Oaths</HI> and <HI>Bla&s;phemies;</HI> His <HI>Sacraments</HI> and <HI>God-damn-me's.</HI> As if he de&s;ign'd to render him&s;elf Dete&s;table and Infamous, on purpo&s;e to make void his Te&s;ti|mony, and clear the Papi&s;ts of <HI>that Imputation.</HI></P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Doctor.</SPEAKER>
<P>Now &s;tand fair, and let me be <HI>Plaintiff.</HI> How could it be po&s;&s;ible, but that thy <HI>rank Perjuries</HI> &s;hould at la&s;t be detected: &s;eeing thou did&s;t &s;o de&s;perately run on, without Fear or Wit; never regarding either <HI>Time, Place, Matter, Manner,</HI> or <HI>Per&s;ons; when, where, what, how,</HI> or <HI>again&s;t whom</HI> thou &s;wor'&s;t? Did'&s;t thou not aver, Thou &s;aw'&s;t Mr. <HI>Ireland,</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Ireland</HI>'s Tryal.</NOTE> and held'&s;t Trea&s;onable Di&s;cour&s;es with him in <HI>London,</HI> between the 8th. and 12th. of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 78. when as no le&s;s than Twelve Witne&s;&s;es, (and, if required, Twelve times that number might have been brought) Per&s;ons of unque&s;tionable Worth,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">5. <HI>Je&s;.</HI> Try.</NOTE> Hone&s;ty and Cre|dit, were produced, (in oppo&s;ition to whom, neither <HI>Thou,</HI> nor <HI>Thy fellow Knight of the Po&s;t, J&mdash;n,</HI> could procure any other than <HI>one &s;ingle Wench,</HI> and &s;he a Pa&s;&s;ant-Evidence) who all unanimou&s;ly atte&s;ted they were in the Company and Conver&s;ation of Mr. <HI>Ireland,</HI> partly in <HI>Stafford&s;hire,</HI> and partly el&s;ewhere, out of <HI>London,</HI> day by day, and every day re&s;pectively, from the 4th. of the &s;ame <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> till the 2d. of <HI>Sept.</HI> following.</P>
<P>Again, Did&s;t thou not &s;wear, thou cam'&s;t over from St. <HI>Omers</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> about the middle of <HI>April</HI> 78. to <HI>London,</HI> where thou lodged&s;t at <HI>Grove</HI>'s hou&s;e, (invi&s;ibly, for the whole Family atte&s;ted <HI>they never once &s;aw thee there;</HI>) And having manag'd and di&s;patch'd in a few days time divers horrid Trea&s;ons, returned&s;t again to St. <HI>Omers</HI> to|wards the end of the &s;ame month. In direct contradiction to which frontle&s;s Impudence,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> an whole <HI>Cloud of Witne&s;&s;es,</HI> (and tho&s;e &s;uch who&s;e <HI>Youthful Innocence</HI> cannot rationally be pre&s;um'd to have fram'd, learn'd, or even been entru&s;ted with notorious Treacheries and Lies) all gave <HI>Clear</HI> and <HI>Concordant Evidence, That they &s;aw thee, lived with thee, eat with thee, conver&s;ed with thee, at St.</HI> Omers, where thou wert entertain'd upon Charity) <HI>every day, without di&s;continuance, excepting two days, when thou went'&s;t to</HI> Watten) <HI>from</HI> Decemb. 76 <HI>till</HI> June 78. After which time, indeed, thou wert, (as thou know'&s;t) for thy two eminent Qualities of <HI>Dulne&s;s of Wit,</HI> and <HI>Di&s;&s;olution of Manners,</HI> civily <HI>Expelled the Colledge;</HI> in requital for which <HI>Di&s;|mi&s;&s;ion,</HI> and gratitude for <HI>pa&s;t Charities</HI> exhibited, thou piou&s;ly pro|mi&s;ed'&s;t <HI>to be Reveng'd.</HI></P>
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<SP>
<PB N="15" REF="9">
<SPEAKER>Titus.</SPEAKER>
<P>Well; But did not I bravely &s;hift off the weight of all the&s;e Te&s;ti|monies, by in&s;inuating <HI>the Witne&s;&s;es were Papi&s;ts;</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> And then, bring|ing in a <HI>Coach-man,</HI> a <HI>Kitchen-wench,</HI> an acknowledged <HI>Frantick Old Man,</HI> and <HI>Two others,</HI> whom I and my A&s;&s;i&s;tants (e&s;pecially <HI>Tru&s;ty</HI> Sir <HI>William</HI>) pick'd up, to &s;wear, <HI>They thought they &s;aw me here in</HI> March, April, <HI>and</HI> May; the only Months, as to matter of Time, could fall under debate?</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Doctor.</SPEAKER>
<P>Tho&s;e very Witne&s;&s;es of thine, (be&s;ides their being, both in <HI>Num|ber</HI> and <HI>Credit,</HI> much inferiour to the others) granting them Steady and Coherent in their Depo&s;itions, (as they were not) are yet &s;o far from <HI>&s;trengthening thy Forgeries,</HI> or <HI>weakening the contrary Te&s;timonies,</HI> that Thou thy &s;elf ha&s;t contradicted their Evidence, and <HI>They Thine;</HI> For thou publickly profe&s;&s;ed&s;t, That thou remained&s;t all <HI>March</HI> at St. <HI>Omers,</HI> and cam'&s;t not from thence into <HI>England</HI> till the 24th. of <HI>April</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Narr.</NOTE> <HI>New &s;tile,</HI> that is the 14th. <HI>Old &s;tile;</HI> That thou landed&s;t at <HI>Dover</HI> on the
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">5 <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> Tryal.</NOTE> 17th. and coming from thence by Coach, arrived&s;t not, (by con&s;equence,) at <HI>London,</HI> till at lea&s;t the 19th. following; That thou wert pre&s;ent at a certain Trea&s;onable Con&s;ult (<HI>with</HI> 50 <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> crowded together) at the <HI>White-hor&s;e-Tavern</HI> near <HI>Charing-Cro&s;s</HI> on the 24th. of the &s;ame <HI>April, Old &s;tile;</HI> And that within three or four
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Narrat.</NOTE> days preci&s;ely after, that is, at farthe&s;t, on the 27th. or 28th. of the &s;ame month, thou returned&s;t with the <HI>Fathers</HI> (as thou term'&s;t them) back to St. <HI>Omers:</HI> So that, by thy own calculation, thou could'&s;t not have been above 8 or 9 days in Town; and this within, and towards the latter end of the month of <HI>April.</HI> Now, thy <HI>a-la-mode Witne&s;&s;es</HI> depo&s;e, <HI>They &s;aw, and &s;poke with thee in</HI> Lon|don, <HI>&s;ome in the latter end of</HI> March, <HI>or beginning of</HI> April; <HI>Others in the beginning or middle of</HI> May. Wherefore, unle&s;s thou can&s;t prove, (by
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Coll.</HI> Tryal.</NOTE> <HI>Maberry</HI>'s <HI>Almanack</HI>) that <HI>March, April</HI> and <HI>May</HI> hap|pened that year all at one individual time; or at lea&s;t, that the latter end of <HI>March</HI> or beginning of <HI>April,</HI> and the beginning or middle of <HI>May,</HI> was all within the compa&s;s of <HI>Nine days,</HI> and tho&s;e from the 19th. to the 28th. of <HI>April</HI> inclu&s;ive: Thou mu&s;t confe&s;s, either <HI>Thou,</HI> or <HI>Thy Witne&s;&s;es,</HI> or <HI>Both,</HI> and <HI>All,</HI> are <HI>Perjured Per&s;ons.</HI></P>
<P>Yet more. Thou &s;wor'&s;t,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">5 <HI>Je&s;.</HI> Tr.</NOTE> Thou cam'&s;t over from St. <HI>Omers</HI> with one <HI>Hil&s;ley,</HI> on the 13th of <HI>June Old &s;tile;</HI> whenas <HI>Hil&s;ley</HI> him&s;elf atte&s;ted, <HI>Thou never cam'&s;t over with him;</HI> and it was proved by at lea&s;t 15 &s;ub&s;tantial Witne&s;&s;es, <HI>Thou remained&s;t at St.</HI> Omers <HI>&s;everal weeks after.</HI> In like manner, thou &s;wor'&s;t, Thon cam'&s;t over into <HI>England</HI> in the Company of
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> Sir <HI>Thomas Pre&s;ton,</HI> Sir <HI>John Warner</HI> and Mr. <HI>Pool,</HI> on the 24th of <HI>April.</HI> whenas it was likewi&s;e proved, by Irrefragable Te&s;timonies, <HI>That the bir&s;t of the&s;e Per&s;ons was at</HI> Watten; <HI>The Second at</HI> Leige; <HI>and the Third at St.</HI> Omers, <HI>that very day, and &s;ome time immediatly after.</HI> Al&s;o thou &s;wor'&s;t,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> Mr. <HI>Gaven</HI> was at <HI>London</HI> in <HI>July:</HI> whenas <HI>Gaven</HI> &s;ufficiently proved, (though the Proof was &s;tifled) <HI>He was then in</HI> Stafford&s;hire.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Titus.</SPEAKER>
<P>But Thou, as if it were not &s;ufficient to be proved <HI>Perjur'd</HI> by <HI>others Evidence,</HI> mu&s;t needs prove <HI>Perjury</HI> upon thy &s;elf, by <HI>Thy own
<PB N="13" REF="10">po&s;itive Te&s;timony.</HI> For, (abating thy various undeniable <HI>Self-Per|juries</HI> heretofore mentioned) thou expre&s;ly
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Cole|man</HI>'s Tryal.</NOTE> &s;wor'&s;t at <HI>White-hall,</HI> Thou &s;aw'&s;t Mr. <HI>Turner</HI> at a Con&s;ult at <HI>Wild-hou&s;e;</HI> But at his Tryal thou &s;wor'&s;t it again, and &s;aid'&s;t it was at Mr. <HI>Fenwick</HI>'s Chamber. So likewi&s;e, thou po&s;itively &s;wor'&s;t at <HI>Coleman</HI>'s Tryal, Thou never &s;aw'&s;t
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Lang|horn</HI>'s Tryal.</NOTE> Mr. <HI>Langhorn</HI> after <HI>April</HI> 78; Yet at <HI>Langhorn</HI>'s Tryal, Thou &s;wor'&s;t thou &s;aw'&s;t him twice or thrice in <HI>July</HI> following. That was a Rapper.</P>
<P>Moreover, thou &s;wor'&s;t in &s;everal
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Staff</HI>'s Tryal.</NOTE> Depo&s;itions, (particularly tho&s;e taken before the Privy-Councel and Hou&s;e of Lords) thou had&s;t given an Entire, Exact, and Faithful Account of all thou knew'&s;t of any Per&s;on what&s;oever concern'd in the <HI>Plot,</HI> among&s;t whom thou only alledged&s;t again&s;t the Lord <HI>Stafford,</HI> That thou had&s;t &s;een be|yond-Seas &s;ome Letters &s;ign'd <HI>Stafford,</HI> wherein the Writer had te&s;ti|fied in general his Zeal for the <HI>Catholick De&s;ign;</HI> But when after|wards thou and thy Abetters found this Flam would not &s;uffice to draw Innocent Bloud, (not once regarding thy former Oaths) thou wickedly impo&s;ed&s;t upon my Lord new-invented Trea&s;ons, never mentioned, or thought on before.</P>
<P>The&s;e, and innumerable other <HI>Perjuries</HI> of thine own production, are &s;o convincing, they cannot be deny'd, and &s;o apparent, they cannot be conceal'd; And however a tran&s;porting Fervour might, for a while, as it were hood-wink even a Ju&s;t Court, and well-mea|meaning Jury; (for what Humane Judgment is not, in Moral matters, liable to be abu&s;ed, and by con&s;equence mi&s;-led, by the Malice and Perjury of Impious Men?) Yet at la&s;t the cry of Innocent Bloud hath awakened Heaven and Earth, And the Ju&s;tice of the Nation; The Injured Government; The Laws of God and Man, Barbarou&s;ly Prophaned and Violated by Thee, will a&s;&s;uredly overtake thee, and inflict upon thee Puni&s;hments <HI>adequate</HI> to thy demerits.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Doctor.</SPEAKER>
<P>I might &s;till have run on in a Deluge of Bloud, and continued my Impo&s;tures, as it were in de&s;pight of God and Man, had&s;t not thou expo&s;ed our Evidence to open &s;hame at the fatal Tryal of Sir <HI>George Wakeman,</HI> Mr. <HI>Mar&s;hal Rumley,</HI> and <HI>Corker.</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Wake|man</HI>'s Tryal.</NOTE> There it was we lo&s;t our Dominion, by thy blind Mi&s;carriages; There it was thy rank Contradictions, Perjuries and Non-&s;ence de&s;poiled us of Credit, and rendred us odious and dete&s;table to all hone&s;t thinking Men. Did&s;t thou not, when thou wert called before the King and Councel, and &s;et face to face with Sir <HI>George,</HI> po&s;itively affirm, thou knew'&s;t nei|ther his <HI>Per&s;on</HI> nor his <HI>Hand-writing,</HI> nor had&s;t any thing to alledge again&s;t him, but a Letter writ by a third per&s;on, wherein Sir <HI>George</HI> was mention'd? And being a &s;econd time cited, and asked by the Councel, whether thou had&s;t any thing more whereof to accu&s;e Sir <HI>George?</HI> Did thou not again lifting up thy hands and Eyes to Hea|ven, deliberately and di&s;tinctly an&s;wer,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> <HI>No! God forbid that I &s;hould &s;ay any thing again&s;t Sir</HI> George Wakeman, <HI>for I know nothing more again&s;t him?</HI> Notwith&s;tanding which po&s;itive and publick A&s;&s;ertion, did&s;t thou not afterwards, at Sir <HI>George</HI>'s Tryal, &s;wear, to the horrour of the whole Court,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> That thou had&s;t been acquainted with him? That thou knew'&s;t the Character of his hand, and had&s;t
<PB N="17" REF="10">&s;een a Trea&s;onable Letter of his writ to Mr. <HI>A&s;hby?</HI> (which Letter Sir <HI>George</HI> proved, both by Witne&s;&s;es and Circum&s;tances, he neither <HI>did,</HI> nor <HI>could</HI> write.) That he had a Commi&s;&s;ion to be Phy&s;ician-general to the Army? That he had undertaken to poi&s;on the <HI>King,</HI> and long bartered with the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> about the Price? That they had profer'd him 10000 <HI>l.</HI> which Sir <HI>George</HI> refu&s;ed, as too little: but at length they &s;truck up a bargain for 15000 <HI>l?</HI> (as if, in a matter whereon the Overthrow of the Government, Laws, Liberties, Lives, and Religion of Three Nations depended, and whereof the main, if not the whole I&s;&s;ue, was committed to Sir <HI>George</HI>'s Artifice, 5000 <HI>l.</HI> could ballance either &s;ide.) Thus, without any regard either to thy <HI>former Prote&s;tations,</HI> or po&s;&s;ibility of the thing, thou &s;wor'&s;t and un&s;wor'&s;t, as if thou intended&s;t to de&s;troy thy Credit, Body and Soul together.</P>
<P>The <HI>like,</HI> or <HI>wor&s;e,</HI> (if wor&s;e could be)
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> Contradictions and Ab|&s;urdities thou &s;wor'&s;t again&s;t Mr. <HI>Mar&s;hal</HI> and <HI>Corker;</HI> For when, like <HI>Judas, thou cam'&s;t with a Band of Men and Officers, with Torches, Lanthorns, and Weapons,</HI> to take <HI>Pickering</HI> in the <HI>Savoy,</HI> thou found'&s;t <HI>Mar&s;hal</HI> and <HI>Corker</HI> there in the &s;ame hou&s;e; Thou viewed&s;t them; Thou long &s;tudied&s;t and debated&s;t who they &s;hould be; The Officers often demanded if thou had&s;t any thing to lay to their Charge? To which, after demurring upon the matter, thou at la&s;t po&s;itively an&s;wered'&s;t,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> <HI>I know not the&s;e Gentlemen; I never &s;aw them before; I have nothing to &s;ay again&s;t them.</HI> Now, a body would think, after the&s;e &s;erious A&s;&s;everations, <HI>Mar&s;hal</HI> and <HI>Corker</HI> had been (as in|deed they were) ab&s;olute Strangers to thee. Neverthele&s;s, about a Forthnight or Three-weeks after, when, pumping thy Judgement, thou conjectured&s;t by the place where they were they might be <HI>Be|nedictines,</HI> impudently &s;wallowing thy former A&s;&s;everations made before the Con&s;tables, Officers, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> thou depo&s;ed&s;t, <HI>Thou had&s;t &s;een them; Thou had&s;t known them; Thou had&s;t conver&s;ed with them; Thou had&s;t been bellow-Plotter with them in the Lord knows how many damnable impo&s;&s;ible Trea&s;ons again&s;t the</HI> King <HI>and State.</HI> Nay, thou wert &s;o intimate an
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> Acquaintance, Bo&s;om-friend, and Councellor to <HI>Corker,</HI> that he &s;hewed thee a Patent from <HI>Rome</HI> for his being Bi&s;hop of <HI>London,</HI> and told thee of great Sums of Money he had to di&s;tribute, towards carrying on the Con&s;piracy. Thou farther a&s;&s;erted&s;t,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> That <HI>He</HI> and <HI>Mar&s;hal</HI> were both of them guilty of the <HI>Plot;</HI> Both privy to the De&s;ign of <HI>Pickering</HI>'s &s;hooting the <HI>King;</HI> Both willing enough the bu&s;ine&s;s &s;hould be done, but only excepted again&s;t the Per&s;on to do it; And why? Becau&s;e (for&s;ooth) whil'&s;t <HI>Pickering</HI> (being a <HI>Lay-Brother</HI>) attended upon the Altar, <HI>an Op|portunity might be lo&s;t;</HI> (as if whil'&s;t <HI>Pickering</HI> was imploy'd in &s;o Mighty a Work, the Prie&s;ts could find none to &s;erve them at Ma&s;s.)
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> Thou &s;wor'&s;t al&s;o, That they both agreed to the Payment of 6000 <HI>l.</HI> out of the <HI>Benedictines</HI> E&s;tates, towards driving on the De&s;ign. <HI>(a likely &s;tory, that the</HI> Benedictines, <HI>who, as His Maje&s;ty often acknow|ledged, had contributed what they were able, to &s;upply His Nece&s;&s;ities du|ring His Exile, without other hope or pro&s;pect of Advantage, then the &s;atisfaction of having di&s;charged their Duty and Loyalty to their di|&s;tre&s;&s;ed Soveraign: &s;hould now give</HI> All, <HI>and probably</HI> More <HI>than they have, to take away His Life.)</HI></P>
<PB N="18" REF="11">
<P>Furthermore,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Narrat</NOTE> thou atte&s;ted&s;t, in thy <HI>fir&s;t Depo&s;itions</HI> again&s;t <HI>Corker,</HI> That he, on the 17th of <HI>August</HI> 78. actually lodged, toge|ther with other <HI>Benedictines,</HI> near the Wardrobe behind the <HI>Savoy;</HI> and did <HI>then</HI> and <HI>there</HI> engage to a&s;&s;i&s;t the <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> with 6000 <HI>l.</HI> in order to the De&s;ign. But afterwards, finding by <HI>Corker</HI>'s Examination be|fore the Committee, That he had declared, and could prove upon Oath, he had been beyond-Seas from the 5th. of the &s;ame <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> till towards the end of <HI>September</HI> following: Thou quite renver&s;ed&s;t at his
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Wake|man</HI>'s Tryal.</NOTE> Tryal all thy former Depo&s;itions, and &s;wor'&s;t, That he went in <HI>June</HI> or <HI>July</HI> to the far-end of <HI>Germany,</HI> and had been with <HI>Mon&s;ieur la Che&s;e</HI> and others at <HI>Paris,</HI> (the almo&s;t direct contrary way) to give them an account how matters &s;tood in <HI>England;</HI> That whil'&s;t he thus remained beyond-Seas, he writ and &s;ent a Letter to <HI>London</HI> in the latter-end of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> wherein,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> as Pre&s;ident of the <HI>Benedictines,</HI> he gave his con&s;ent for the payment of the above men|tioned 6000 <HI>l.</HI> which Letter thou &s;aw'&s;t and read'&s;t, being (as thou fooli&s;hly &s;aid'&s;t, but could'&s;t not prove,) well acquainted with his Hand. Now, &s;ee how thou ha&s;t here embra&s;&s;ed thy Evidence with manifold Contradictions and Perjuries. For <HI>Fir&s;t, Corker</HI> was never one day out of the <HI>Savoy,</HI> throughout the whole months of <HI>June</HI> and <HI>July</HI> in the year 78. as tho&s;e who then lived, and daily conver|&s;ed with him in the &s;ame place, have atte&s;ted; And thou wilt find it an hard matter to make People believe he could be both in the <HI>Savoy</HI> and in <HI>Germany</HI> at the &s;elf-&s;ame time. 2dly. If <HI>Corker</HI> went beyond-Seas (as thou &s;wor'&s;t) in <HI>June</HI> or <HI>July,</HI> and &s;taid there, and writ a Letter from thence the latter-end of <HI>Augu&s;t:</HI> Thou art Perjur'd in thy <HI>fir&s;t Depo&s;itions,</HI> wherein thou &s;wear'&s;t, He was then in the <HI>Sa|voy.</HI> But if he liv'd and lodg'd in the <HI>Savoy</HI> (as thou al&s;o &s;wor'&s;t) on the 17th of <HI>August,</HI> thou art Perjured in thy Evidence at his Tryal, wherein thou &s;woar'&s;t, He was then beyond-Seas; So that which of the two &s;oever is <HI>True</HI> or <HI>Fal&s;e,</HI> thou art <HI>Self-Perjured.</HI> 3dly. Thou &s;wor'&s;t, That <HI>Corker</HI> writ and &s;ent that Letter from be|yond-Seas, wherein he gave his con&s;ent to the rai&s;ing of 6000 <HI>l.</HI> be|cau&s;e being Pre&s;ident of the <HI>Benedictines,</HI> it was nece&s;&s;ary he &s;hould give his Suffrage. Now, if <HI>Corker</HI> was (as thou formerly &s;wor'&s;t) per&s;onally pre&s;ent at the <HI>Savoy</HI> on the 17th. of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> and then and there gave his con&s;ent for the rai&s;ing of that Money: What nece&s;|&s;ity, or even &s;en&s;e, was there, he &s;hould a week or ten days after &s;end his Suffrage by a Letter from beyond-Seas? 4thly. Thou putt'&s;t the whole Stre&s;s of thy Evidence upon <HI>Corker</HI>'s being Pre&s;ident of the <HI>Benedictines,</HI> for that, as &s;uch, the 6000 <HI>l.</HI> could not be given without him: Now, <HI>Corker,</HI> prov'd by Three (and could have prov'd by Three-&s;core,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibidem.</NOTE> if the Court had required it) That <HI>not He,</HI> but Mr. <HI>Stapilton,</HI> then was, and had been for &s;everal years before, Pre&s;ident of that Order; So little wa&s;t thou conver&s;ant in the Af|fairs of the <HI>Benedictines,</HI> and &s;o Ra&s;h and Head&s;trong in &s;wearing to matters whereof thou wert wholly Ignorant.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Titus.</SPEAKER>
<P>Could any body &s;wear either more blindly to what they <HI>knew not,</HI> or more fal&s;ly to what they <HI>knew,</HI> then thou did&s;t at the &s;ame Tryal of <HI>Mar&s;hal</HI> and <HI>Corker?</HI> Thou &s;wor'&s;t
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Wake|man</HI>'s Tryal.</NOTE> that <HI>Corker</HI> was at the <HI>Je&s;uits
<PB N="19" REF="11">Con&s;ult</HI> at the <HI>White-hor&s;e-Tavern</HI> in the <HI>Strand</HI> on the 24th. of <HI>April;</HI> whenas <HI>Corker</HI> declar'd, and &s;hew'd by probable Arguments, He was that very time Thirty miles out of Town. Thou &s;wor'&s;t
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> that <HI>Mar|&s;hal</HI> was at another Con&s;ult in the <HI>Savoy</HI> on the 14th. or 16th of <HI>Au|gu&s;t;</HI> whenas he offered, under forfeiture of his Life, to prove by a whole Train of good Witne&s;&s;es, He was tho&s;e very particular days in <HI>Warwick&s;hire.</HI></P>
<P>Nay, thou could'&s;t not contain thy &s;elf within the limits of &s;erious Lies; thou mu&s;t needs play the <HI>Jack-Pudding</HI> upon the Sacred <HI>Bible,</HI> and &s;wear matters of Farce and Drollery, with Pies and Cu&s;tards to make Sport for the <HI>Mobile.</HI> Was it not a wonderful refined Conceit and Invention of thine, to &s;wear
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Narra.</NOTE> Mr. <HI>Coniers</HI> laid a Wager at the <HI>Savoy,</HI> of 100 <HI>l.</HI> with thou knew'&s;t not whom (in which Wager
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Wake|man</HI>'s Tryal.</NOTE> <HI>Mar&s;hal</HI> went half with <HI>Coniers</HI>) That the Villain the <HI>King</HI> &s;hould not live to eat any more <HI>Chri&s;tmas-Pies?</HI> Surely thou &s;tudied&s;t hard and long at <HI>Salamanca,</HI> before thou could'&s;t attain to the&s;e elevated Notions.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Doctor.</SPEAKER>
<P>Thou had&s;t not be&s;t in&s;i&s;t much upon my Mi&s;carriages at the <HI>Sa|voy;</HI> I &s;hall retort it home to thee.
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Wake|man</HI>'s Tryal.</NOTE> Was it not thither thou cam'&s;t with Rags on thy Back, and Stockens out at heels, to beg <HI>Six-pence</HI> for a poor di&s;tre&s;&s;ed <HI>Catholick?</HI> Wa&s;t not thou there, as well as at other Hou&s;es of <HI>Roman Catholicks,</HI> turn'd from the doors, as a Per&s;on of an Idle and Debauch'd Life; and this too, as the Devil would have it, ju&s;t at the very time when thou pretende&s;t to be mo&s;t entru&s;ted and engaged with the <HI>Popi&s;h Prie&s;ts</HI> and <HI>Je&s;uits, Lords</HI> and <HI>Gent.</HI> in the Con&s;piracy? Was not thus much proved upon thee? Did&s;t thou not thy &s;elf publickly own it at my Lord <HI>Stafford</HI>'s <HI>Tryal?</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Staff.</HI>'s Tryal.</NOTE> And this being &s;o, what Inference, think'&s;t thou, will rational Per&s;ons draw from hence?
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Staff.</HI>'s Memoi.</NOTE> Could this <HI>Oates</HI> (will they &s;ay) be privy to all the grand Commi&s;&s;ions? Could he be employ'd in all the deep and Dam|nable Con&s;ults? Could he have at his mercy the Lives and Fortunes of all the chief <HI>Con&s;pirators?</HI> Men &s;tock'd with Banks of Money &s;uf|ficient <HI>(if we will believe him)</HI> to rai&s;e Armies, and provide for 2 300000 Souldiers? Could this Man neverthele&s;s &s;tarve in a manner for Bread? Could he beg for an Alms at the <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> doors? Could he want <HI>Two-pence</HI> to clout his Ho&s;e? Could he be rejected and con|temned as an idle Vagabond, by the very per&s;ons who thus had put their Lives into his hands? <HI>This is &s;uch a Paradox as none in their &s;en&s;es will ever believe.</HI></P>
<P>And, now I remember it,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Stafford,</HI> Tryal.</NOTE> tho' thou confe&s;&s;ed&s;t (and truly) thou had&s;t not <HI>Six pence</HI> at thy fir&s;t di&s;covery of the <HI>Plot;</HI> yet <HI>(O wonder!)</HI> thou &s;wor'&s;t thou wert
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Lang|horn</HI>'s Tryal.</NOTE> 700 <HI>l.</HI> wor&s;e &s;ince thy detecting of it: ha|ving expended great Sums on that Account, above what thou re|ceived&s;t in <HI>His Maje&s;ty</HI>'s Service. Prithee how would'&s;t thou have People imagine thou could'&s;t come by all this <HI>Trea&s;ure</HI> and <HI>Riches,</HI> un|le&s;s thou pick'd&s;t &s;ome of Sir <HI>George Wakeman</HI>'s 15000 <HI>l.</HI> out of his Pocket at the Councel-Board, or Stol'&s;t from <HI>Corker</HI> his <HI>Contribution|money</HI> at the &s;eizing of <HI>Pickering?</HI> Ungrateful Mi&s;creant! Wa&s;t thou not maintained in <HI>Pomp, Riot and Luxury</HI> at <HI>White-hall, upon His Maje&s;ty's Charges,</HI> even almo&s;t to Reflection on his Bounty and
<PB N="20" REF="12">Goodne&s;s? And ha&s;t thou the face to di&s;own the Benevolence, by <HI>Redoubled Perjuries</HI> known to the whole <HI>Nation?</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Titus.</SPEAKER>
<P>Well, But &s;ince our Vices and Villainies have excluded us from <HI>White-hall,</HI> thou ha&s;t taken &s;uch de&s;perate cour&s;es to get Money, that at length (if the Gallows do not prevent us) we &s;hall be forced ei|ther to &s;teal, or beg at the <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> doors again. Thou ha&s;t &s;et to &s;ale thy Oaths as it were by way of <HI>Auction,</HI> or <HI>Inch-of-Candle;</HI> and pro&s;tituted thy Evidence to any one would give mo&s;t for it. How notoriou&s;ly did&s;t thou act the Hireling, and prophane Sacred Epi|thetes,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Coll.</HI> Tryal.</NOTE> <HI>In verbo Sacerdotis; As a Mini&s;ter of the Go&s;pel,</HI> &amp;c. to &s;erve the <HI>A&s;&s;ociated Brethren</HI> with a Ca&s;t of thy Office at <HI>Colledge</HI>'s Tryal! And then, into what a Labyrinth of Shame and Confu&s;ion ha&s;t thou brought both thy &s;elf and thy Friend <HI>What-d'ye-call-him</HI> yonder, in &s;wearing, <HI>That</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Elliot</HI>'s Vind.</NOTE> <HI>Mr.</HI> Elliot <HI>was a Circumci&s;ed</HI> Mahumetan-Popi&s;h-Prie&s;t, <HI>and had e&s;caped from Slavery by Poi&s;oning his</HI> Patrone! A body would think thy formerly experienc'd daily Failures &s;hould have taught thee more Wit. Thou &s;ee&s;t <HI>Elliot</HI> will not permit him&s;elf, without oppo&s;ition, to be Hang'd, Drawn and Quartered, in com|pliance to thee; And he being a Clergy-man of the Church of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> People will not &s;o ea&s;ily yield an implicite Faith to thy Fig|ments again&s;t him, as they did again&s;t the <HI>Papi&s;ts,</HI> in matters repug|nant to their five &s;en&s;es. Let me tell thee in &s;hort, this Oathing down <HI>Elliot</HI> was a foul bu&s;ine&s;s.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Doctor.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why, who could fore&s;ee, or even dream, That <HI>Elliot</HI>'s Patrone &s;hould come per&s;onally him&s;elf from <HI>Morocco</HI> into <HI>England,</HI> as it were on purpo&s;e to detect our <HI>Perjury,</HI> and confound our <HI>Evidence?</HI> Who, I &s;ay, could po&s;&s;ibly imagine &s;uch an unfortunate chance? But thou, independent on all contingency, ha&s;t wittingly and willingly preci|pitated into Ruine the &s;mall remainder of our Credit beyond all Re|trievement. When thou wert heated and puffed up with Blood, Wine, Sedition and Arrogance, thou mu&s;t needs, like a Fool, burn thy Fingers, in Roguing, Ra&s;calling and Popifying the <HI>Ob&s;ervator;</HI> a Per&s;on of that Eminent Learning, Publick Merit, and known Fi|delity to the E&s;tabli&s;hed Government, Laws and Church of <HI>England,</HI> that he is as far above <HI>Thy Calumny,</HI> as thou art beneath <HI>His Worth</HI> and <HI>Hone&s;ty.</HI> Surely the Devil ow'd thee an ill turn, when he egg'd thee on to this Ra&s;hne&s;s; For what can a Villain, like thee, expect le&s;s then fatal, from &s;uch an <HI>Head,</HI> &s;uch an <HI>Heart,</HI> &s;uch an <HI>Hand,</HI> as that of <HI>L'E&s;trange?</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Titus.</SPEAKER>
<P>There is a certain Antipathy between Virtue and Vice; And I (as thou know'&s;t) not having one Dram either of Wit, Learning, Worth or Hone&s;ty, can never &s;peak well of any Per&s;on endued with tho&s;e Qualities. But Thou, and thy unnatural Companions, like Ravening Wolves have devoured one another, and &s;o rent and torn each others Te&s;timony, that nothing but a Rope can fix you together again.</P>
<P><HI>Dugdale</HI>'s <HI>Evidence</HI> hath got a Clap, and now <HI>his Credit</HI> as well as <HI>his Per&s;on</HI> is rotten. Thou thy &s;elf (like a Cocxomb) gav'&s;t <HI>Him,
<PB N="21" REF="12">Turbervil, Smith</HI> and <HI>Hayns</HI> their Deaths-wounds at <HI>Colledge's</HI> Tryal;
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Coll.</HI> Tryal.</NOTE> And they as well returned thy kindne&s;s; For as thou &s;wor'&s;t <HI>Them,</HI> &s;o they &s;wore <HI>Thee</HI> in open Court, Guilty of <HI>Perjury.</HI></P>
<P>Into the like Predicament ha&s;t thou al&s;o brought thy Two Northern Blood|hounds, <HI>Balron</HI> and <HI>Maberry;</HI> who, tho' formerly well-<HI>Ga&s;coign'd</HI> Witne&s;&s;es, yet running counter, together with Thee, in that untoward Tryal of <HI>Colledge,</HI> were &s;o Ham&s;tring'd in their Evidence, the poor Curs can now cramble no farther.</P>
<P>As for the <HI>Iri&s;h Witne&s;&s;es,</HI> (tho&s;e of them, I mean, that remain yet unhang'd)
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Several Narrat.</NOTE> Thou ha&s;t &s;poil'd <HI>Their Evidence,</HI> and They <HI>Thine,</HI> in &s;wearing off and on, in direct Oppo&s;ition to each other, about my Lord of <HI>Ormond.</HI> So that, in fine, I &s;ay, you can never combine well together, unle&s;s upon the Gallows.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Doctor.</SPEAKER>
<P>No wonder to find Incoherence of Parts in a Story dive&s;ted of Truth. Alas! Thou know'&s;t, I, and the re&s;t of my Brethren, both <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> and <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> of the <HI>Swearing Tribe,</HI> were only a Generation of Vipers, tainted with all manner of Crimes; A Company of Infamous Per&s;ons, of lo&s;t Con&s;ciences, and de&s;perate Fortunes; Raked out of Goals, and varni&s;hed over with the &s;pecious Title of the <HI>Kings</HI>'s <HI>Evidence;</HI> encouraged with hopes of Pardon for the foule&s;t Mi&s;|demeanours; Allured by the Pro&s;pect of Pre&s;ent Gain; Retrieved from pre&s;|&s;ing Want and Mi&s;ery; Tran&s;ported with Popular Applau&s;e; In&s;tigated and abetted by the undermining Policies, and re&s;tle&s;s endeavours of the Enemies of the Government; To amu&s;e the Nation; to affright hone&s;t Men; to &s;e|duce the Ignorant; to oppre&s;s the Innocent; to abu&s;e the Laws; to injure the Magi&s;trates; to di&s;turb the Church and State; to rai&s;e Inte&s;tine Broils, and pu&s;h on a <HI>New Rebellion</HI> by the <HI>Old Methods</HI> of Lies, and Clamours of imme|diate Dangers and inevitable Ruine of our Liberties, Lives and Religion, from <HI>Popi&s;h Inva&s;ions, Arbitrary Powers, Dreadful Chymoera's,</HI> and <HI>Horrid Phan|ta&s;ms</HI> of no body knows what. And though we had neither Credibility of Cir|cum&s;tances, nor Probity of Manners, <HI>(Two nece&s;&s;ary Ingredients to a good Evidence)</HI> whereby to &s;trengthen our Mon&s;trous Te&s;timonies: Yet, whil&s;t the Ca&s;e was <HI>Popery;</HI> whil&s;t we gave Atte&s;tation again&s;t <HI>Prie&s;ts</HI> and <HI>Je&s;uits;</HI> whil&s;t we ki&s;&s;ed the <HI>Sacred Bible,</HI> and invoked <HI>God</HI> to <HI>help us,</HI> according to the Truth of our Depo&s;itions, whil&s;t Zeal po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed &s;ome, Fear or Malice others, and deference to Authority re&s;trained the re&s;t: We might at la&s;t have com|pa&s;&s;ed the Treacherous De&s;igns of our Ring-leaders; And by heightning of Jealou&s;ies, rai&s;ing of Animo&s;ities, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> have intoxicated Mens minds to that degree, as <HI>to make</HI> Engli&s;h <HI>Prote&s;tants de&s;troy one another, to avoid</HI> Popi&s;h Ma&s;&s;acres. We might, I &s;ay, as our Affairs once &s;tood, have effected this, and thereby have notably &s;erved both the <HI>Pope</HI> and <HI>Di&s;&s;enters,</HI> had&s;t thou not, by thy acknowledged Impious Practices, defiled and prophaned the only thing that &s;anctifies an Oath, <HI>(viz.) Religion,</HI> and rendred <HI>Prote&s;tani&s;m,</HI> through thy owning of it, more Deformed, Polluted and Odious then ever <HI>Popery</HI> could hitherto be repre&s;ented by any Invectives of its greate&s;t Adver&s;aries. Say, (amphibious Animal:) Say, (Caitiff,) Did&s;t thou not &s;wear,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Staffords</HI> Tryal.</NOTE> <HI>That though thou &s;eemingly went'&s;t over to the</HI> Roman <HI>Church, the better to make Di&s;|coveries) yet thou &s;till interiourly remained&s;t a Real, Con&s;tant, and Sub&s;tantial Prote&s;tant?</HI> Neverthele&s;s, with the &s;ame Breath, (O &s;hame and horrour of Mankind!) thou &s;olemnly &s;wor'&s;t <HI>Thou lived&s;t among&s;t the</HI> Papi&s;ts, <HI>as one of their Church and Communion; Thou exteriourly profe&s;&s;ed&s;t their Faith; Thou publickly renounced&s;t and abjured&s;t the</HI> Prote&s;tant Religion; <HI>Thou exerci&s;ed&s;t the</HI> Popi&s;h <HI>manner of Wor&s;hip, Thou received&s;t and adored&s;t the Con&s;ecrated Ho&s;t,</HI> (which, in the judgment both of <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> and <HI>Papi&s;ts,</HI> was in thee, <HI>&s;o be|lieving,</HI> direct and gro&s;s Idolatry; <HI>Thou took'&s;t</HI> (as thou &s;ai&s;t) <HI>dreadful Oaths, even upon the Sacrament, to pur&s;ue with all thy Might mo&s;t Helli&s;h and Bloody De&s;igns: And all this without any Remor&s;e or Intermi&s;&s;ion for divers years toge|ther.</HI> Are the&s;e the Actions of a good and &s;incere <HI>Prote&s;tant?</HI> Is this the In|nocence and Integrity of the <HI>King's Chief Evidence?</HI> Is this the Piety of a Mini&s;ter of the Go&s;pel? Are the&s;e the Symptoms of a <HI>Reformed Religion?</HI> Or
<PB N="22" REF="13">rather, Is there any, either <HI>Prote&s;tant, Papi&s;t, Turk</HI> or <HI>Devil,</HI> be&s;ides thy &s;elf, capable of &s;uch dete&s;table Sacriledge and Villany?</P>
<P>This is not all; Thou could'&s;t not be contented with the &s;ole Trade of Ficti|on, Hypocri&s;ie and Sacriledge in the highe&s;t Degree: but thou mu&s;t needs proclaim thy &s;elf an Infidel too. Thou had&s;t not the Wit to keep to thy &s;elf the Athei&s;tical Tenet believed in private between <HI>Thee</HI> and <HI>Me, (viz) <HI>That the Crucifixion of Chri&s;t is nothing available to Salvation;</HI></HI> But thou mu&s;t needs in expre&s;s terms, in the pre&s;ence of a numerous Auditory, pub|lickly preach this execrable Doctrine, in a Sermon before the Company of <HI>Weavers.</HI> What Chri&s;tian-ears, think'&s;t thou, will endure &s;uch Bla&s;phemy? Or what credit will hereafter be given to a Mon&s;ter inur'd to &s;uch Perfidie and Athei&s;m?</P>
<P>But &s;tay; Let me &s;ee; now when I think on it: What, if after all, there &s;hould be &s;uch a Thing as a <HI>God;</HI> A Revenger; Another World; An immor|tal &s;tate of Bli&s;s or Mi&s;ery? Certainly there will come a time, (and we know not how &s;oon) when we mu&s;t depart from hence, never, never more to re|turn again. (Woful Wretches!) Whither &s;hall we go? What cour&s;e &s;hall we take? I fear we &s;hall meet with No <HI>Ignoramus-Juries;</HI> No <HI>Whig-Sheriffs;</HI> No <HI>Kings of Poland,</HI> (though One be lately gone by the way of <HI>Holland</HI> to the Devil already;) No <HI>Foul-mouth'd Cares;</HI> No <HI>Colledges,</HI> No <HI>Janeways, Ealdwins,</HI> or <HI>Curti&s;&s;es;</HI> No <HI>Hunts,</HI> or <HI>Hickeringils;</HI> No <HI>Suborn'd Witne&s;&s;es;</HI> No <HI>blind Zeals,</HI> No <HI>Time-&s;erving Intere&s;ts;</HI> No <HI>State-&s;hams,</HI> No <HI>Praepo&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions;</HI> No <HI>Jealou&s;ies;</HI> No <HI>Mi&s;takes,</HI> No <HI>Robert Hogs;</HI> to help us out at a dead lift. Every thing that before &s;upported our Credit, will now advance our Torments, (Alas!) Who &s;hall &s;ecure us from the Devils, or (the wor&s;t of Enemies) our cur&s;ed Selves? How &s;hall we &s;hift off our enormous Villainies? Where &s;hall we find Succour, De|fence, Compa&s;&s;ion, or Mercy? O Eternity! O worm of Con&s;cience! O Load of Blood! Of Lu&s;ts! Of Inju&s;tice! Of Sacriledge! Of Sins Immen&s;e and Numberle&s;s! O Death and Judgement! O Fire and Damnation! O Divine Vengeance! Who &s;hall endure it?</P>
<P>For <HI>Beelzebub</HI> our grand Ma&s;ter's &s;ake do not fright and torture <HI>Thy &s;elf</HI> and <HI>Me</HI> with the&s;e hideous Objects: They too often, in de&s;pight of my endea|vours to the contrary, &s;eize upon my trembling Soul. Come, I &s;ee <HI>Thou</HI> and <HI>I</HI> mu&s;t never be alone together. Call in the Varlets that u&s;ually attend us: Let us &s;hake off the&s;e Di&s;mal Corroding Thoughts: Let us &s;trive to be carele&s;s and &s;en&s;ele&s;s of the next Life. We are already Sons of Perdition, and cannot be much wor&s;e then we are. If there be no <HI>God,</HI> or Supreme Deity, Wi&s;e, Powerful and Ju&s;t, we are well enough. But if there be, (as in &s;pight of my heart I doubt there is) we cannot help it; Damnation is our Lot, and there's an end. Nay, though there &s;hould be &s;uch a thing as a Chri&s;tian Faith and Law: what are we the better for it? Thou know'&s;t we neither believe, nor were ever baptized, and by con&s;equence can challenge no right to the Pa&s;&s;ion of <HI>Chri&s;t;</HI> And from what other Fountain can &s;pring any hope? We may indeed profe&s;s <HI>Presbyteriani&s;m,</HI> as the Religion mo&s;t proper and connatural to our pre&s;ent mi&s;chievous Purpo&s;es. But, in reality, there is no acce&s;s for us to <HI>God,</HI> Let us then make the be&s;t u&s;e of our &s;hort time. Over Shoes, over Boots. Let us defie Heaven, and drown our &s;elves in Vice and Sen&s;uality, till at length, Divine Ju&s;tice overtake us; Vengeance &s;eizes us; The Devil claim his due; And we finally &s;ink down headlong into Hell: there to Burn, Howl, Rage, Cur&s;e and Bla&s;pheme for ever.</P>
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<P>SALAMANKYES DEVIL DOCTOR TITUS OATES, DISCORD ON A STATE LYE WIL MAKE AL SOTTS.</P>
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