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Occaiioned by the SPEECH of
William) Late: Vifcotint Stafford ,
On thCSCaHbld at Tamer-‘Hz’//. 

§1. I S matter of no fmall furprize, that notwithflanding the Difcovery of a hora
riti Popilh Plot againit the Kmg’s Perfon, the Proteflant Religion, and the
Government Eflablifhed by Law, yet the Nation after the Expiration of two
years fince the firft Detection ofit, doth (till he as much expofed to all the dangers
which it threateneth, as the firfi hour when it was revealed. And that which encreae

feth the amazement» is, that neither the advantages which we have by enjoying. a ‘

Protefiant King, nor the Counfels and afliliance which three feveral Parliaments have
faithfully and chearfully contributed, have been hitherto able to fecure our Religion,
Lives and Liberties, from the hazards which this Papal Confpiracy travelleth with,
and would involve us under. But that which is moft of all alioniihing, is the endeavour
to difcredit the-beliefofthe Plot, and thisiafter it hath not only been to fully and le-
gally made evident by the Papers andinetters of fome of the Confpirators, the pofirivc
and concurring Teltitnonies of many Witnelies; the Murders and Aflaifinations committed.
upon feveral Magiiirates, as 7 well as others, for difcharging their duty in the ‘detect-
ing of it;bu,t after it hath been put beyond all rational contradiétion as well by the votes
and refolves of f0 many Parliaments, as,by the conviction and Execution of divers of

the Traitors.And when the hiring and fuborning infamous perfons to defame and weaken _

the credit of the witneiies, and the tampering with -fame of themli;-Ives to corrupt anfi
make them retract their Depofitions, had failed them in the accomplifhing what they
propofed unto themfelves, they thereupon perfevere tofoment and cherifh a disbelief
of the Plot,~by.arguments derived from the Curfes and Itnprtcations, whereby thofe
that were convicted of, and executed for it, did in the affirmation of their Innocency,

affront the Jufiice ofthe Nation with their lafi and dying breath. For having found all .

their other Arts, and their manifold fubornations, to iflue only in the prejudice of their
Caufe, and the punifhment of thofe vvhomthey had employed ;~ they are ,h,_.,.ef0,c
forcedto {takethe Reputation of their Religion and Church, and the Safety of the},-
wbolc Party, upon the Oaths and Curfes, whereby thofe that were condemned , have
in the contempt and defiance of /the cleareli Evidence,and moflulm-partial Juflice, en-
deavoured to outface us into a perfuafion that they were guiltlefs, and fuffcred un-
juflly. ‘ . . - P

Now, though this may affect fome eafie and weak perfons, with an opinion that they
died not fo criminal as their Indictment and Sentence bore ; yet it can make no imprefl
fion upon men acquainted with Books, or converfant and experienced in the affairs and
tranfaftions of the world : Seeing it is ealie for fuch to kn0w,th.it falfe Afleverations
and Oaths are notonly confiftenr with, and juflified by the Principles of the Papal Rev
ligion, but that they are agreeable to what Popilh Traitors, and other Malefaftors
within the Roman Communion, have praftifed upon left important Motives and Occa-
fions 3 and that likewife in theirlafl hours when they were immediately after to appear
before the Divine.Tribun8l. And if the Rmzijh Party in England‘, were not judicially
left to betray the highefi Folly, as well ‘as perpetrate the greateif Villanies, it were not
poflible that after the two Learned Anfvvers, - which were publifhed, againfi the

Speeches of the five ]efui_rs, who fuffered,?:mc the zoth 1679. And notwithftanding all-

the {infamy which hath thereby redounded to their Caufe, they fhould iiilhake Sandw-
ary in Fallhood and Perjury. But having. no other Vindication of their Innocency to
betake themfelves unto, they mutt either acknowledge their Guilt to the eternal Re-
proach of their Religion, and the hazard of their total Extirpation out ofi-Iis Majeiiies
Dotninions‘ ; or they mutt fucceflively as they come to be arraigned and executed, re-

treat

 

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treat to falfc and horrid Oaths andlmprecations, for the- preferring the credit of their
Church, and the protecting their friends from the punifhments to which this Hellilh
Confpiracy hath made the greatefi number, as well as the molt conliderable of them
obnoxious. .Accordingly the Late Vzfcqwzt .Srafard hath for the honour of Mother
Church, and the promoting the lslefi’cd‘1_3efigij til? ovferthrovviing the Protefiaent ‘Reli-

gion, and deliroying fuch as profefs ititi tliefe Natihns,“bee’n prevailed withito {hut up

the Courfe of a Traiterous and Criminal Life, with moi’: flupendous and afionilhing
Perjury, by affuming the Impudence to proteft and fwear that he was Innocent of what
he was brought tO_ fuffer for. And all this after that the mofl Righteous and Impartial,
as well as the highefi and molt Augufl Court in the World, had on the fairelt Trial,
and molt convincing Evidence that ever Offender was convicted or fcntenced upon,
found and pronounced him guilty. , y , _   y  

§ 2. Now, though the Principles of the Papilts be fuch,and the Tyes they are under
from their interell fo ftrong, that there is no hope or probability left that any regard
to Truth or Juliice [hould influence the confciences of any in that,Communion to aft
otherwife, Ihould they be brought to tread a Scafibld, or mount a Ladder upon the
fcore of the Prefent Plot, yet we will not Defpair but that the Infamy which by un-
controllable Evidence we {hall fix and entail upon the ‘memory of the Late Vzfcomze
Stafiord, may prevent fuch as hereafter may come to fufferg for this Confpiracy, from
the indifcrction of dying like tFools,and men regardlefs as much of their Names here, as
of their Salvation hereafter.» “But if that Infatuation and Obliinacy which hath ‘hitherto
prevailed over the Minds and Confciences of thofe of the Papal ‘Faction, fhould fo
powerfully continue upon them, as to render that part of my Delign unfuccefiful, yet
Icomfort my felf with the hopes of being able fo far_‘to undeccive and inllruélzthe
relt of Pnankind, as to prcferve and fecure them fromegiving faith and credit to Papifts
in any thing they {hall fay :or fwear for theafuture; efpccially when their Perfonal
Intercft, or that of their Church dcpendeth upon, or is concerned in it. I

And indeed this Plot is already both fo far «unvailcd and laid open, and -lb demonftra-‘
tively confirmed andproved, that none pretctiing to the name of a Protcfiant, can
bring into queftion either the Truth or Execrablenefs of it, nnlefs he‘ be really a Papift,
and alfume the appellation of 'a?Pro‘te{tant orilyfasa fife and ifafhionablc Vizard. tMore-
ovcr, the Vindicating the Juftice —ofthc’Nat'ioh-,‘ and the clearing the Integrity and hoa-
‘nour of that high,“and’ fo mnchto be renowned Court of . Judicature, before whomthe
Late Vxfcount Stafibrd was arraigned, and by whom  was with fo great folemnity

fittonounccd guilty and condemned, is a matter ‘worthy of our utmoft ‘Zeal and Dili-
gence,and the due performing whereof we ihall alwaicsfefiecm a piece of mg grcatefi
ufefulnefs we were capable of applying our felves unto in this World. '

In fine, by difcourfmg this matter as it ought, andplacinig things in that light ‘and
clcarnefs which are due to them, we hope to render'theCon‘vi<ftion of thofe -other
Traitors, who either already are, or may come hereafter to be Impeached upon the ac-
count of this Confpiracy, not only lefi liable to private Cenfures and Obloquies, but
‘more eafie and difpatchablc. For there are forne perfons, who though they fully be-
lieve aPlot, that from the reverence which they would be thought to bear tothe
folcmn Appeals which the Accufed make to God of their Ihnocency, are withheld from
giving that entire credit to the Witnclfes for the King, which the Authority ofthe De-
ponents Oaths, the coherence of thcirTefiimonies, the in-trinfick Evidence of their De-,
politions, the correfpondence of one part with another, and many material and circum-

. ltantial proofs feem to exacft from them. But thoughrrot only weak and well mean-

ing men, but perfons of great prudence and circumfpeétidn, and throughly acquainted
with all the meafures according to which jullice is robe adminiftred, and publick
Trials ofOl’fendcrs tranfaftcd, may fuffer themfelvcsztovbr: impofcd upon by audacious
Affcvcrations, before the guileand falfhood of them betdifcovercd ; yet if they continue
intlgteir credulity after that thehighefl blafphcmy againit whatfoevcr is and {honld be
prefervcd facred, comes to be detected and laid open, they mull not take it amifs if

the generality of mankind not only charge them with eafinefs of belief, and folly, but =

father upon them acufations that are more Grofs and.Ct-iminal. Nor is there, any
charafter to black; but thatythey deferve their names thould be eternally loaded

with it, who not only fulfcr thcmfelvesto.be wheedled by Alfev-erations deftitute

of . alhgrounds which lhould command r.efpeél:and deferrence, but which through the
palpablcnefs of their falfhood ought to raife. adetcftation and horror in the minds of all
thofe who maintain any veneration for God, whofe name is fo audacioufly and facrilegi-
oufly proftituted to the attcliation of lyes and pcrjurics. .

§ 3. And feeingthe Papifts Ehave hitherto produced nothing towards their Vindi-
cation from the Plot, that is material or conftlient withit felf, but that thofe who have

been

 

 immediately die,and that they are to A
' hath threatned to punilh all Fallhoodand ~ Perjury wit-h unconceivable torments ?
as to the truth Oftllc‘ whole Evi-e

, and what he a . ,
. not only Dyed in the profellion of the Proteflant R=.el_igion, which precludeth all hopes

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been brought to fuller for it, have .a.ii”erted their Innccency and denyed their guilt
when in thelmmediate profptft of Death ard Eternity, It will tact therefore be an un-
fitremarque inour very» entrance on the dtifcourfe ofthis matter, that their criminal?-
nefs is not only made Evident by thejfeliimony of many perfons, rt ho through tle
hopes they enjoy ofthe continuation oftheirlivesare capableof being temptc d by the
Expeétation ofprofitand greatnefs, but that it is confirmed and eliablilhed upon the

Authority of Expiring and dying, perfons, who as they felt and litwthemfelves out of‘

all hopes of enjoying the pleafures of Life any longer, or compalling riches or advance~
ment to their friends or poiierity, fo._they ought to be judged delivered from the
Imprellionofall fublunary Allurements in what they {aid , and no man can iuppole
that any thing elfe {hould influence them to (‘peak falfly: Accordingly Mr. Beat/a
in the view and approach of Death,“ affirmed both upon. the pane. of 4

Cbrzjfian, and as be bopedforl S4/caution, that be /Md wronged no man 46} as See his _F.x3-
‘Te_{h'mon_y,, out that w/mtfoctver /.1: /ma.’ tejizfied concerning the P/o,t_w_.a.r true. mifii.‘ 01:‘ "’,‘ii“5
Shall the Advocates for the Confpirators, account thcmfelves mightily 3 1‘ ”‘ 5’

advantaged in wealtningthe Credit of the King's Wgitneffi-s,from this that 9'10’
i there is not that Faith t

y , ,0 be given to men not only, 1 theipoflellion of Health, but havirg
Legal lecurity of their Lives, as there is to perfons who both know that they mutt
appear before the great and righteous God, vr ll o
And

all

{hall not we cfleem our {elves mightily confirmed
deuce concerning thePlot, by finding that log conliderableawitnefi both in deteeling
the parts and degrees ofit, as well as thofe that were engaged in its contrivarceard
profecution, lhould fo folemnly feal what he had before depoled with his lalt and dyw
ing Breath ? Here is one that hath declared their Guilt,in the fame Circumflances vvhere~
in the advocats for Rome glory fo much, that the condemned aflirmed their Innocency.
So that all , their Harangues concerning the Credit that is due to the Alfevera-
tions of dying pcrfons, are much more applicable to our Belief of the Plot, on the dying
Tefiimony of Mr. Bedlo, than it is poflible they .{ho.uld be to the weakening our Faith
aboutit, upon their aflirming themfelvcs G uiltlefs, who were fo Legally Convieied and

it

Condemned for it. For their ‘Concernment to Prelerve the Reputation of the-ir'Religion,
Secure the Liberties of many of their,P,arty, and the Hopes which they ‘might flatter
themfelves with. to fave their own, together with   a, Defire ‘of Recommending their
rjtemories to the favorable Opiniompf future Generations, may be conceived Sufficient
Grounds and Inducements to influence them to a Denial. Whereas Mr. Bedla had no
Concernment of his own, no Expeétations of advantage to accrue to his Freinds or Re-
lations, no hopes of avoiding approaching Death, which might be conceived to prevail
upon him, to breath out his lafl words in the,Aflirm‘ati0IIOf their Guilt. -Belides, the
Principles of their Religion are fuch, as do both countenance their Denial, and Jufiifie
them in it; Whereas the Principles of the Proteli_ant;fReligion, wherein this Gentleman
Dyed, do both prohibit and condemn the aflerting every thing that is falfc, let the Mo-
tives be ncver_fo great and important, The difparity between the Alf:-veratio_ns of the
one and of the other, is to conliderable uponthis {ingle and alone Account, that {hould
it be admitted that their Circumilanccs were the fame in allothér things,
in that of Death immediately in their view, yet there can be no jitlt Competition be.
ween (he wei ht and Authority of what they faid in the Attefiatioin of their Innocency,
rmed in the Confirmation of their Guilt. And itfis iemarkable, that-he

of. pardon to any that (ball perfevere in malice, hatred, lying and flandering; but that
. during his whole Sicknefi, he was in the Exercife of all feeming contrition and remorle ,
and fo far as any one couldjudge, in the praitiee offincereiand unfeigned Repentance,
for all the fins whereby hgehad offended God, or injured Men. So that upon all that

C311 F3fi0"3llS'rW=i/3’ or determine our be) entire ‘credit ought to be given ‘to Mr.

l3 Dothitlgthat can be jufily or rationally alledged, which with-
can obtain from us the giv-
notwithflanding theifalfirming theirlnnocency in expiring
Circumllances. And therefore thoughthe Publick hath fuliained great lofs by the re~
moval ofa Witnefs, that could have not only tefiified againft to many 0fthCCOnrplra-~
tors, but to particularly, and with {o many corroborating Circumliances , yet the De-
pofition which he made in his laft Sicknefs, whereby ,i'n the profpetft of approaching
Death, and in the belief and Fenfe of his fpeedy appearing at the Tribunal of God, he
confirmed and ratified upon Oath all that he had declared before, hath done more to

eliablilh the’C’redit of the Plot, and mine the Reputation of the Papal Party in the
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'Iellim.>n’ies againli them at'B-ars, and in Court/is ofl'u‘dicature.i ' ,
4., Nor in thenext placeiought any man tobe furprized,’ that fuch of the Traitors
as have been convifted and condemned for this Hellilh and Damnable Plot, {hould Die

profe-{Eng their lnnocency as to what they were condemned for ; feeing they bound ‘

y and obliged themfelves by fuch Oaths which they account molt folemn, and vowed by-

whatfoever according to the Principles of their Religion, iselieemed rnoreifacred than.

. other, that they would never difcover the Confpiracy which they

Sec Fre»’»Wl’s Tryal. ' were engaged in. For all thole to whom this Bloody Defrgn was

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flmhulnfotmation’ communicated ; and efpecially fuch who were to be afliliing in it,

had taken an Oath of Secrecy,a~nd the Sacrament upon it, as all the
Witnefles do inform us,neve'r~ to reveal or difclofe what they were
either engaged in, or acquainted with. And the tenor of this holy and Catholick Oath,-
by which they molt facredly and indifpenfibly boundthemfelves, was this, as it was’
found very happily amongfl Mr. ‘Ra/fen’: Papers, a Priefi, in Sir Thomas Gajco;me’s’

Houfe. I A.B. being in the prefence of .Almight7‘G'od, the Ble_/fed

‘The Papiils Oath of Mary'"Ever Virgin, the Ble’/fed Michael they-Archangel, the~’?Ble]ed
SKY“? “Y M": R“ s: John Baptifi the an A ojHesSt Pete‘: omdSt Paul and alltthe
be" B(le)0""lmmed Sdrt ‘n Ifeajlzdn andtlo often Gbo.flTeii1:5’ather dad l,re and nut
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Home of Commons. heart believe the ope, Chrtfl s V rear General, to be the true and only
, O Head of Chrifl's Church here on Earth ; and that by virtite of the Keys
of binding and loojiog gwen his Holinefs by our Sa‘vt'our,Chrifl', he hath power to Depofle all
H ererical Kings and Princes, and canfe them to be killed: Therefore to the lutmajl of m]

power, I will defend this Doflrine,and his Holineflks Rights, again]! all vfarpers whatfoever; '

efpccially againfl‘ the row pretended King of England, in regardthat he hath broke his Vows
with his Holtnejfis Agents bqond Salts, and not performed his prcmifes in bringing into
England the hol] Roman Catholick Religion. 1 do iirenounce and «dzfown my ‘Allegiance as
due to tlgefaldpretcnded King of Engl’an,d, or obedience toga»;  his t'nferioIers0_fl'IcerJ',and
/l/Iagiflrate: ; but do believe the Protefdant Dotirine to be heretical and -damynable 5 and that
all are damned who do not forfake ’th’e,  3 and to I the befl' oft») power, will help his Ho-~
I.-'ncfl'es /Igcrtts here in England, to Extirpate “and Zeiibt one the] aid Protejlant Doflrine, and?
to deffray the [aid Pretended K ing of England, and all fetch ofbis Snbjefts as will not adhere
to the holy Sec of Rome, and thekeligion there prof} ed. I do further promife and declare,

‘ ‘That I will lgeepfecret and p‘rivat.e,. and not divulge ' efll; or indirefll], b} word, writing,

or circamjlance, rrhatfoeverjhall be propofid, given in charge, or difcovered to me, by you my
Gho/ll} Father, or any other engaged in the promoting of. this piom and holy Dejign 1: Andi’
that 1 willbe afiive, and not dejijl from the carrying of it on : And that no hopes of rewards
threats or punijl:ment“s,‘./hall make me dtfiover the refl' concerned info pious ‘a work: And i V
d:fi:overed, flcall never c,onf?fi~a'n} ac*c,efl'aries withm] concerned in this Defign. All which

1 do [wear by the Blejfed Trinit},  b} the Blejfed Sacrament, which I now parpofe to re- .

ceive, to perform , and on m} part, ke'e'p, in'Uiolable : And do call all the Angels and Saints
in Heaven, to witnefs my reyzntention to keep this Oath. In 7‘€_/l'lfi10l1] whereof, I do re-s

l ceive this mofl holy Sacrament of the Etlcllartfl.

Now befrdes that there is nothing more probable or fuller of moral Certainty, than
that, in abufinefs, fhould it be difcovered, of fo fatal Confcquence to their Religion
and themfelves,they would ufe all. imaginable wales and means to bind the Confcicnccs
of {hole that were trulied with itfrorn revealing and detefiirig what was committed unto r
them; fo the Methods which they took in Promoting formerflots and Treafons, and for
the prevention of their Difcovery,‘h‘aving been by the pfiefcriprion and impolition of‘
an Oath of Secrecy, may give us all defrrable ‘Aflitrance that they were equally careful
to hi.-der the deteétion of this, and that accordingly they made ulb of fame (‘olemn
Oath of fccrecy to that purpofe. An! that by the Engine of fuel) an ‘Qath they have
endeavoured to fetter the Confciences, and {top the mouths of their Profelytes and
Complices heretofore, we are abundantly Informed in a book [tiled .4 true and
perfect Relation of the whole proceedings againfl Garnet thefefait and his Confederates,
which was Publifhed by Authority Anna 1606, where we have the Sum of the faid
Oath thus conveyed unto us and recorded ; viz}. Taa_/hall Swear by the Blefled Trinity,
and by the Sacrame::r_yoa now pnrpofe to receive, never to difiglofi dsrefllj or indirefll], by
word or circamfiance, the matter that flrall be propofitd to you to keep Secret, nor‘ do-'
fifl‘ from the Execution thereof, untilthe rejljhall give ;ou leave. Which Oath was ad-_
rniniflred by Gerrard the Jclilit to Catesb}, Pore], Wright,’Winter and Fawkes, in the
Second year of the Reign of King fumes, and by Greenwell the jefuit to Bates in the
lame year, though in the following month. And as this was an unqueflionable, Copy
for our prefent Confpiratorc to Write after; ('0 We may eafily inform our felves ‘from
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‘hence, by virtue of what  thofe found guiltyof the late Plot dyed in the affeve?‘

ration of their Innocency; for ifwe do but fuppofe them to have lived in the practical
belief of their own Religion, or that they were poffefled With‘ any hopes of attaining
happinefsin the way of ‘it, we mult then perfwade our felves, that they would notde-i
part out.oft-heawo-rld in the vio-lation ofan Oath which they had to folemnlygtaken, and
which the principles of their Faith doth notonly approve of, but makes the keeping of
it meritorious. Aseo other Oaths,they might be eafily difpenfed with,bofli to make and
break them, but -there was no Expeétation of any difpenfation for, or abfolution upon
the violation of this Oath; For can it be fo much as once apprehended, that after they

have brought perfons under a bond which they elieem fo ficred and unviolable, they I

lhould then indulge and allow them to tranfgrefs againlt an obligation fo necelfary to the
compalfing of their ends, and inthc punvflgual obfervation whererof they have (rated {'0
much of their Religion and the future happinelé of their Profelytes 2 To at’: dilfonantly
to this Oath which fo admirably framed and calculated for the good of Mother Church,
and the grandefi of the triple Crown, werea «perjury not to he expiated; but to for.
fwear themfelves in fubferviency to the gainful and Religious ends of thisbath, isat
once not only venial, but worthy of Immortal Glory. I readily grant, that partly by‘

the Anteciedent Oath of Secrecy whichthey had {'0 ceremonioufly and auguflly ta-;

' ken, and partly by the circumfia-needs under which the papal caufe and faétion laboured ’

when they came to dye, they were brought into a {trait or dilemma of periuring them-
felves on the one hand, or upon the other. But now, catrwe reafonably think that the

wouldperjure themfelves by pdetefting the Plot, when they knew that upon fo do-
ing, they were both by’ the principles of their Faith, and the Sentence of e their
Church, to hand adjudged to Eternal Torment .? And ought we not rather to allure our
felves, that under the fecurity which they had of happinefh in the keeping inviolate
their firft Oath, they would in defiance of all Truth, attelt God above, and call Men be.‘
low to witnefi, they were altogether Innocent of what they were charged with. For
againfi the dread and apprehenfion of all that this might render them obnoxious unto,
they mightfecure themfelves by a difpenlation beforehand to do it, or provide for
their falvation by an Abfolution afterwards, or trult to their Martyrdom in fo holy a
Caufe for theexpiation of fo fmall:a «Crime. or at the worlt they couldbfut expect that
their punilhment in Hellforfo beneficial a perjury to the Church,‘fhould be only fora
feafon ;a-nd that the praycrssofCatholicks, ‘the fuperlative prevalency of Mall"es,aud the
boundlefc and unqueltionable Power of Chrifi’s Vicar, who hath both the Keys of Hea-

r ven and Hell, would foon releafe them thence, and tranflate them to happinefi.

§ 5-. But that we may the better underlland how far Papills may lawfullyfhot only
endeavour by bareAffirmations to impofe fallhoods upon the worl ,bu_t forfwear them-
felves for the good of the Catholick Church, and the grandure oft .e Papal Chair, we
willbriefly unfold and lay open how far they allow themfelves. ahd are jufijfigd by
thcirWrir.ers and Ghoflly Fathers to do fo, in fublerviency meerly totbeh. ownggrgdit
and reputation, or at molt,in order only to their own perfonal fafety. And without er_;.l
quiring, till afterwards, upon what maxxms of ivinity, the Romm Carhifls indulgc.
their Difciples and Converts to do. fo, we {hall at prefent produce an Iinltance‘ or two,
and thofe very remarkable, by which it Wlll appear, that this is allowed by the Ghoftly
Fathers, and praélzifed by the Members ofthe Papal Communion 5 mg firfi then mg]! be
that which Room Per/(in: gave an Information of upon Oath, and which Sir Roécft Alt-
(in! one of the Judges at Smfi"ordAlTi2es 1679. took as followeth. I ' 

This. Inforilmmtfdit/9, T/mt dz9ourf:7Jen or eight years /Znce Mr, ‘Ar- This to be had
thur Fox (r/arm Serwmt to .t/)epre_/out Lord Alton) come to /aim, and to P’.'.'“iCid by "5 Elf?
.4120;/nit‘ if Au’: friends, and told them z/mt t/acre mam B4/fard—c/wild laid bung {aid by R'“b°

, . , . . . - Baldmm in Boa/r-~
ra ms e,»o,a:’égrir, [7 one of has Lord: Tenant: Daughters, and did acknowledge. Court near the‘

to them 2".5.mj/ fire’ clt2lfe'veral time: Lye wit/2 bar, and that 5} the be-_/l com-» Black Bull in 0.34
ptmttiosz {,j':ill.»_*'_i‘’»"“J’~’«’ '55 “"14 m“/(‘’ 1 be bad  ground; to bellow jlae /Md B‘"l/7l'' '
done /aim no ‘w':'0Izg in this /Jar charge ; and that /.2: wril} écliwed /aim» ,

félf robe rm Father of the C hold, and t/Jerefore come A to t/arm 4: /xi: yzartimlar frimdr, for
their Ala-woe in the cnfl, how to prevent I/76’ norfr rmdfimmdzl, and grczzt charge that n5dJ,liko
to cnfue barmpon, and defired them to treat with t/oe Tomsg ’W0m£fl! For/aeir and Mother
aéoht it, and to (for I/aemfd cermirzfiam of maize} to free him from all fimirc c/mrgofrom,or of
reafon oftbis érifincfr. Irztpxrfizancc of this rmjueff t/oz": -Informant and /2:’: friend addre/féd
xljgmfélyeg :0 the Tuareg W:/mam, W761 I0 /96’? Father and Z‘/lot/yer. ' T/ye I"o:fmg.Womdn with" {:63
grcotejl A_/jlevemtions and Proreflzmons did aflfrm that /he lmd never Lay; wft/7 any Oman
w/gate?/er, out the [arid /llr. Fox, and that be wart,/so rm! Father of t/7e‘_‘C/.1.ild. T/am they
came to 4 Treat} wit/J‘?oe'r Farber about afcerminzhg the charge, and agreed that Mr, Fox

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fl5‘7,6i_P?€71~f3i,4t‘.2’I2g, fizrt/"oer fcanglql flog”?/76 ffitfiré #9 they Cb”I0b,’.tQ‘ 712}, Lord Af’ton_,ar to ./:7,'1'm_/elf;

Pet'e’r,si‘;;igz2g@:/neg/aaid agireed rigour/oi: coztfegi viz. tbht /ye ‘_/7;'o~2tloz’go immgdéately to 122':
Lord Aflo_n,f idzgiciorz /2:‘: /(race: before 6:’: Lord; and Lad;,wit_/p folemn Oath: and Afleoerations
c{€i2)'.f}J;i?‘ emit; .6e.Ia;zd any thing to do wit/o t/oe faid Tomzg W'ormm in zfbatmzmre, and that

la'é‘ti,¥2z': ‘altogez,/oer, innocent gfyt/ate Crime laid to /g:;',c,;,c/oo.zr‘ge; and; '4; after this be _/bauldgyah ’

,-  to the C/9;ozpp:e__l rt:/acne t/oe ,C'oi;agifie'.gatioiz was matpknd there in like, manner irdeny at with the

1iko‘A_/]2g;cg‘rar,zon;, and tn,,canfiFmi _i/my» in t1Je‘b_e1iefof_it, /omfbould than éefi2re.tl:ergnt_r:cei*ve

the $;zcrgr'r2rei{;.W/Jen  Eveirsqi/aoaiifinr/bed t/aefi: Infl'(uE?ion.r.,./ac gave /2imA5_/blrztion before .

s‘éia-op:   knees, -telling‘ That if /airiobfigraed Ibffii Infimffions , be was; orbfoltzedfl

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‘aZo“if'e[ozid. y"f'All which Infttu ions in every particular the faifd -Mr. Fox,.pun£i2;ua:l‘ly ob-
fejrvjedflis1fri:nd,aforefi1id-be_ing.in_the Chappelwhen he difowned~athe,Fa<3:,with folemn

from the .fa§ri  Crime, and t_/oeggorfeiiizgzzacent of it alto‘ge'tloetf,§‘a,nd mfg/at fa dr¢l»zre~ /rimfelf as

Oaths, andjéceived the iSacrament upon its ; Here we have not only an , yinliance what;

li‘t‘t'l'e"cre<:1i:ti;e.is to be given tothcHOaths and Alleverations 0.fPapi,fls, but how they pro-R

fiitute what thefrifelves account moft facred, namely Confeflion,.AbFolution, andtthe, Sa~: ,

crament of tii¢,.E516/dart:/if to tjheirgbafeand fecular ends. , And if the preferving: the Re-
putation ofone’Eellow, or the avoiding the Cenfures whichimight be reflected upon
the Papal‘Religion, becaufe of fin of one, of the Members. of their Communion, which
tl'_1‘e',Do€triti,e « of their Church pronounceth at worfi to be but venial, could be efteemed

, Ifiotivesratid inducements weighty enough, and fuflicient, for the-Authorizing: of Per—

jury, and the ptophaning the Inftitutions of their Religion; can we then judge it Ptrange,
or oughtwe to entertain it with any fu-tprife, that for the faving not only the honour of,
their Church, but the Efiates and Li'v& of fo many of their!-‘alétrion in England, from .the

Ju_'i"t,,Imputations and deferved Punilhments, which fo horrid a Treafon ‘as that now
charged upon them, mufi both render their Religion and Party obnoxious. unto, they

figuld not only allow, but oblige their Votaries, to ufe the like Imprecations and Oaths
towards the_w,hecdling the unthinking and credulous fort °of Protefiantsv into a belief of
their -Innociency. L _ ’ »

. ,'[;he«fe_cond Inflance I {hall give of the Freedom they allume unto thfmfélv/es ofabu-—
the Faithof Mankind by Oaths, and how far they areyfrom reckoningit any crime,
to forfwear thetnfelves for the advantage of the Catholick Caufe, {hall he that of a
Souldier lately admitted into one of the Companies of the King’s Guards under the
Command of a Captain, who is well known to be an abhorrer of fuch practice. This
Fellow having taken the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, the only Legal Telt
whereby the Government hath provided for the diftinguifhing betwixt -Protefiants and
Papifis among perfons of that degree and Employ, was neverthelefé fufpeéted by ‘fome

of his Companions,who knew what Religion he had been of before, to be {till a Papilt, '

and that hehad only fwallowed thofeOaths for ends which hetwas willing to conceal,but
which according, to the Romifh Religion, might fanftifie a prophanation of thename of
God. Accordingly having refolved for their own fatisfaétion, and their better infiru-
étioniwhat that vile Religion countenanceth men in, "tO‘i}3V€ a watchful and obfervant
Eye over him, they were fo fortunate as the la1tFelmu:r;, to trace him to the Portugal
Ambafl"adors,_iwhere’ they faw him not only prefent at Mats, but kneel at the Elevation
of the Holt. ‘Which from the Regard which they bear to His .Ma“‘}ef’ties Honour, did fo
inflame their Zeal, that they immediately feized him after he was come out of the

 ‘ ~ Chappel;

very mzoo/o‘_L;q5_li' eydyto it/gem .[aot'_lo,,_, for their great care and p4géIz,t;in,'_troz71‘fozE?,ing; t/:I_,1f.§‘.Afai7' for .

f53;it,i£r{%r3‘§‘1f,n§?3v We? mm: m1k%;~.?f;4570¢d» that *3’4!'1i/-t;:’i£_§’?f}! fiwere refieéhbns upon ti:,e,.
 in gencfgl. 5; If'6?§€f0,7§6;:p?-§,~,/{.1§3~iG/90:/fl);Eat/oer, /oe wozzld oz;dw]2‘ him’ what 1.
war‘ to‘,;ée,'o7gIfi.ifz;}§oIder to  fakirzgpojffo great 4 fiandaéfnom t-_/2,6,1‘? ,C‘/mrc/a,«gmo.’ ‘added time ,
/at é4Hleo‘n@?é2—.Mr§_Peters amot/oer, Prieji‘, ,4é0I4tit,dI1_d ‘t_;loogj___t/2_ey were C0f77;3:fQ, oi refolpg I

54;’ métla flab,/4.l,_d. 61‘: ufednnnd tl;er§’fore,;z§eq;g{red him,toyjzreparoy/oz'm_/Egffir Confefliozo. Aco _
R dndiowned the whole matter as ,
Id./’aim‘4ga1‘n,.i.[:e,contiimirzg :4pa,nf[7is knees, that the foandai,

there bcin g afpecial. Commt]]Ion direflcd to Mr. fttflice Johnfon, to try fczreral Malofatlors

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Chapel;aindithaving,carried:hiniswhit-hertheythought fit, theysfirft fiript-hirnto the
middle, a.tnd:;:t€laen poured as Pale of,VS§ater   leifurely down‘ his body, as La t€lllmOny'_0F
thei‘r,Refentiment, and 3S__a‘tkl;I"ld0f‘:,Mlllt‘8.fy correction. ,To~Xhis Imight fubfioyn the
known Stoaéyiofotne fokit C“m'mi”)‘ W110 ‘hair’-ing fwallowed the Oathsof Allegiance and
Supremacy, l,Ei‘Q1'd€!‘ tohis, being Lifted alfo in His Majeliies Guards, was l.ate.ly feized
upon DUl'y,.l1l1‘E;l‘l¢,7-bW€7',_3lld Committedto New P-rzfon, not -only as a Papifi, but as a
Prieft; and though there was not Legal Evidence to Evince the lafi, yet the firfi is in-

’ du.b,it'able.; .:Hoiwever, wefee thatgthe Papifts can forfwear as well as difl"ein:b:le«their

Religion, when it is fomuch for the Intereii of the‘Catholick Ca.ufe,as the winding themfi
fe ves into -the,.Guards,mul’t needs be efleemed. And aswe have reafon to believe this not
the only pergfon who-hath had a Difpenfation to take the aforefaid Oaths, in order to
the: fiirthe,ring;—the holy Defigns of the Infallible Chair; fo no man can be fo ignoranr,,as
not to underfiaind that through their being Lifted under His Majefiies Enfign*s,, they are
ready for the Silbverfion of our Religion,'and the Deftruétion of our Lives,whenfoever

a they hear of ;theKing’sDeath {hell come, which theyhave Io long waited for, and ufed

fo many waiesto haiien. , And befides, thisjuftifies the Jealoufies of thofe Noble and

—Re_n.owned Peers, who in their Addrels to His Majeliy fannar] the twenty fiftlo lafl ,

told him that they had reafon to fear and apprehend that neither Lords nor Commons
Willée in Safer} at Oxford, am will oe dail} expofed to tlte Swords of the Papzfls and t/aeir.
Ad/aerents, ofvobom too many, is to ac feared, arecrcpt into /ois Guards. _ I , gs
~ §..6;. And ewhereas fome may poflibly imagine, that though men may be influenced
to ipCfjUl'€ V _
flruits of their peifiuries, but may be ready to delude themfelves with hopes of repent»-
ing of their Villanies afterwards, tifthey {hall at any time arrive at fuch a perfuafion of
mind, as to think it neceflary; we {hall «therefore in the next place give an account of
fome condemned for crimes, lefs dangerous to the Papal Caufe, ihoiild they be ac-
knowledged,than Treafons againft the King and Government are likely to prbve, who

cetrnltingjto the blelled provifions of their Religion, and in an Implicit Obedience to
t_hei_r Ghofily Fathers,,have_ ventured the going boldly off the Stage, afl‘irm'ing and
fwearing their Innocence, when they knew their own guilt. "The Relations were fent to

the Right!-Ionourable the Earl of Ejfex, iina Letter from Dnolznbearing Date the fifth

of March, 1679. _and,Printed at London for Langley Curtis, 1679. The firfi contains an
account of one tfolon Carp/oy, a Paptfflw/to at Lent Ajfizes jeven years éefore, was tryed
before ‘Baron Hene (tben His/Vajeflies Serjant) for Burglary committed in t/ac Count} of
Monaghan, and losing found guilty, was condemned to dye. And t/oat t/ac floid Curphy de-
nyed the fall wit/ogroat confidence and ajflroerations of /oz‘: Innocqnc] at the Gallows, and was
turned of the Ladder perfifling in his denials, but t/oat the Rope creaking by c/sance after loo
load hang fame little jpace,and /be coming again -to /oz'mfelf,t/2anl(edGod W/90 /aadgimn /aim time
to declare the ‘Truth, and not go out of la.» ‘world wit,/o'a lye in his mantle, and than conft/fed
himfielfgnilty of time fafl for no/oic/2 Inc was condemned. Vxfddifi-cg, that a Priefl loadgitzen /aim
Abfolation, upon conditz'on- not to dzfcooeryany thing, nor to declare /2:": accomplices ; and that
be needed not doubt of _/aisfalzzation, the fall not leaving lrcen committed again}? God’s people,
meaning as /at fappojooltlie Papifls. So that no doubt had but the Rope been firong
enough, he had in the efleem of our Papal Notaries and Agents, died as Innocent of the
Burglary for which he was condemned,_ as the late Confpirators did ofthe Plot againfi
His Majefties perlon, the Proteiiant Religion, and the Government Eliablilhed by Law.
But there fall out fometimes unhappy accidents, that no humane wifdom could forefire,
which contribute to the unfolding and detefting the tricks and villanies of theft: vile
men the Priefis,---whohave profiituted all that is Religious and Sacred,toa fubferviency.
to worldly ends and deligns. Yet it were unreafonable that we fhould in the face and
defiance of all Evidence demonlhative of the guilt of perfons,’fulTe'r our felves to be
impofed upon to a belief of their Innocency, unlefs convinced of their. criminalnefsby

, the interpofiireof a thing fo wonted and fortuitous,   For though it was the lot of this ‘

Carpfo; to be made participantof a providence fo merciful to himfelf, and fo inftruétive
to us of the-bafe and wicked Artifices of the Papal Clergy, and with what obduraey and
implicitnefs the Laity refign tliemfelves to their hellilh and imperious dictates ;yet We
muli not expect that every malefaétor amonglt them, who upon the Authority Of thfli‘
Ghofily Fathers, and fecurity of Abfolution, ventures dying with his mouth full offalll
hoods and blafphemous Execrations, fhould be reprieved by fo unufuala method, or

I thereupon awakened to an acknowledgment of their guilt. And, fortliis one perfon, that

hath been trulted with fiich an opportunity of confeffing, how many may we conceive

to have ended their,Lives in a guilty filence. And of this we have two Inliances af«= ,

forded us in the aforefaid Letter to the fame Honoaraole Peer, whereof ore is, that

for

themfelves, while in a probability to live and enjoy -not only the beneficial ,

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for ltdgorders and Rohheriee, connni'tted in the Conntj ofCahan; there weicethcréitpon two of

the Duflies, and one of the Plunkets, all Irijh Pezpifle, indifled : T he Duflies confefi thdt‘
they W£l’e‘g1li[l’}' of the scrim}: laid -to their C hizrge, and geroe the fame Evidence. ngninjt‘ Plun-
ket, npon nvhichnnd other rnofl nndeninhlefircnnijiances, he“1t'n: condemned, homing alfiz at
hr}: fir]? nppr/ehenfion owned to Sir John Edgworrh, that he-War gnilt] : Bne yet when he
come tofnyferfor the fnfl’, he died nhfolzetel/v den/ring it, and that with cnrfcs‘ upon himfilf,
and renunciation of Salvation,  he were not innocent.   . 

We may be fore by whole Influence, and upon what 'Inducement's, and in the Confi-
dence of what fecurity he did it, in that one Brody a Prielt had aclcoltedthe Dnfiie: in
Prifon, who were alfo condemned for the fame fair, ufing arguments to induce them to
recant their Evidence, and renounce their Teltimony againlt Plnnket. And though his
Importunities and Ghofily Authority was unfuccefsful upon them, the one of them that-
fufiered, (the other being reprieved) perl’evet;ing,in his accufarion of Plnnl{et.,iand in the
confefling, that himfelf was guilty of the crime for which he was condemned, yet we
maybe juftly confident,that his applications prevailed WlthPlnnh_et,and that throurlghBm-,-
dy: perfnalions, he dyed obliinate in the denial of what was not only proved agai-nit

him, but what himfelfhad before acknowledged. The other inltance mentioned in the

fame Letter, is a Narrative, how that one Neile O .Nei/c em Irijh Peipijt, hei-ng tryed
before Sir Richard Reynell one of the fudge: of the Kings- Bench in that Kingdom, open a

Commzflion of Oyer nnd 7Jerminc:-',for 4 mnrthercommitted at Rathrum in the Count] of Wick- .

low , and the fad’: clearly proved upon him, for which he was accordinglyicondemhed ;
did neverthelelir, notwithltanding the fullnelk of the Evidence againlt him, and that he
himfclf had both in Pril‘on,and at his Tryal,owned the faét to feveral pet.fons,at the Gal-
lows utterly deny it. ‘ ‘ C y - ‘'

§ 7. But that it may more evidently appear, that thereis nothing in the Exit and
manner ofthe late Traitorstaking their farewell of the world, that fhould furprife any
true Eoglijh man , or thinking Proteliant , we {hall endeavour to give an‘ original

‘ Copy of it in the Practices of others, who fufl’ered for the. like crimesina former

l p. 74.. and the

Reign. And we will at prefenttake it upon the acknowledgements of our adverfaries,
that there was fuch a Confpiracy as the Gun"powd'er— Plot. Though by the way it may
be obferved as an argument of what finceriry the Romifh Party is of, and how that all-

they fay or print, is only accommodated to the pofiure -of times and feflbngand ‘calcua->~

lated in fubferviency to depending Defigns, in that many of the Papal Communion have
had the Confidence to obtrude upon the World ofrner than once, that the Gunpowder
Confpiracy was only a State’ Trick and Contrivance, to make them’ feem guilty andicri-,4
minal, who were truly innocent. e * .
But belides that none of all thofe who were then convifted and executed for it, did fo
much as ever pretend, that they were wheedled into it by the cunning and dexterity of
a publick and Proteltant State-Minifter 5 fo it mult be acknowledged, that they were
well difpofed and prepared by Venue of Rom‘/lo Principles , and throughly inclined of
themfclves to the committing of Treafon, otherwife they had‘ never entertained not‘
complyed with fo horrid an overture, as the deflroying at once, the King, Parliament,
and Kingdom. But that Which I [hall infill upon , is the denial of their Guilt upon
their Examinations, and the fallhood of their alfeverations at their very death , though
there was unqueflionable Evidence both of the Treafon , and how far the whole
Papal Party was interelted in it, not only by the feifure of fame of them, when ready
to accomplilh the execrable villany, and by the infutreftion of others in Arms, to have
proteéted themfelves from the Law, and commenced a Rebellion, but by the dilcoveo
ries which had been made from theirown fcanty and partial Confeflions upon Examina-
tion,‘ and by the freer difcourfes which they were overheard to ufe one to another in
Prilon, when they little apprehended that there were any near to obferve what they

(hid. And I {hall the rather infifi upon this, becaufe they who have been condemned ,

for the late Plot, and fuch who have undertaken the jufiification of their Innocency, are
 pleafedi to tell us, That thofe executed for the Powder-Trenfon did con-

5‘~° thc “cw 131°‘ fefi their fat} at the time of their execution, whereas the] that home new
executed or the e en: Con irac have at their death: denied the 6?

Fr P J: fa ,

and re’/{fled all tcmptauon: of P.zrdon.andReWe¢rd.Nay the lateLo.rd5.;,,¢j.
S: h T I f ford-was pleafed to alleclge at h1sTnal,that as It was 10 horrid athing,
Wag": vggcaougt that It cannot be expreffed or excufed: So he had heentold,thezt all who
s,,,fl~0,d’ p,g_ ).3_ were engaged in that wicked fail, were h'earti{y [arr] for it, and repent-
and p. zoo. ed of it before the] d}ed; and that he never heard an] of the Church of
Rome [peak 4 good word of it, and that the men concerned 17} it, did all

acknowledge and conflefi it, and begged pardon of the King, and God, and all good men for it,
and that therefore he thought it was not the inrerefi of Religion, but nprionte mm]: put

them

Compendium p. 7 y.

‘, them tifion ‘it. In which words there are no fewerthan fotir egregious Falfhoods,which

whether they be excufed upon the account of the fmallnelé ‘of his Convéiife with men
and Books, or upon. the fcore ofthe weaknefs of his aged memory, or whether they
be not chargeable upon the badnefis of, his Gonfcience intoxicated by ill Principles, I
leave the Reader to judge and determine. The fir,/i‘ is, That he m’?/er‘ heard any’ of the
Charch of Rome fpeaka good Word ofit, Whereas Wtddrzhgton aliures us, that Game:
had his Piéiture foon after his Execution, fer up in the Jeluits Colledge at Room, with
this Infcription over it, Vera; Chm;/la‘ Martyr. And ifthis be not enough to convince
after ages, what Opinion the Jefuites have, and {till maintain ofthat Plot, we will far.

ther add, that both Rzhezdewira hath reckoned Garnet, Soarhwcl/, and I C .
n atalog.

Oldcora, all Gun Powder Traitors, among the Martyrs ofthe Society
ofjeliis. And Alegamhe hath likewife inlierted Gamefs and O/ez'corr2:7S
names amongfi the Martyrs of the Gatholick Church, and that O;d:rr.
Yea not only Father Parfom, Rector of the Englilh Coliedge at. Rome,
fpeaking of Father Garnet, lilies, He was an imaoeerzt ma, and/afi-red

mzjaflly, and that he lived a Saint’: lzfe, and accootplzfhed the fame with.

ea happy death.  But the Pope himfelfpreferred Greemarell and Gerrard,
two of the Confpirators that efcaped, the one to be a Confeflor in St.
* Peter: in Rome, and the other to be his Penitentiary. Now whe-
ther thefe were Teftimonies of a detefiation of the Plot, or Evidences
of the approbation, which nothing but its mifcarriage, Prevented their
declaring more publickly, [leave all mankind to judge. The fitcohd is,

SL‘1'iptC‘rum'{0Ci-
C: jam. p. ;77.

inBiblioth.fcr1pt.» ,

focict. jefu.

In his book a--
gainli the Oath of
Allegiance , cal-
led, '1'/J8 Drfim:/]z‘on
of the dnfipcy, P.
22, 2;.

* Idem Apology.
p. 15'}. -

That he hathheen told, that all who were engaged ih that wicked aEl,..were hmrfi/)’ fort‘; for

it, and repentedef it hefore they died. Whereas Thuanuste/ls m, that fame
of the ‘Traz‘tor.t having efcaped to Calice, and heing pittzed, and a/fared /2}

Hifi.1An. 160;.

the G‘o7/ctrnozor, of the French 1<log’r favour, and that though the; had loft their own Country,

the; might he received there; how that one of them thereupon replyedahatthe loft oftheirCowz~

ere} was the lea_/pl; part of their grief,hht that whoch flea/ihly ajfiified them, was that the} coald
not acconoplrflafo hraoe and gerzerom a drfign. Nay,Sir Everard‘ Dogh},evcn
whena Prifoner in the Tower for the Plot,fiiles it,in one of his Papers
fince come to light,a good Caafe,and that if.it had fitcceeded, there would i

Pa ,. 4.
Pag. 9.

not have hem three worth the fa-wing, that J/ormld. have heen lo/l‘, andrihat he’ had fbme friend:

who would have heen in danger, hat that he hadprev/ented it. The third is, That he thonght it

was not the In*terefl' of Relz;gion,hr1t at private zmerefl put them rt,'70l7 if .Wherea: not onl}Faux

thong/at the King not to he hi: lawful Soveraiga, feelng he war are H eretz} lo.
Bat Sir Everard Digby profc/fed upon ho’: Trjal, that it was ‘not amhz—
tiotz, nor di_/hozotent with his Eflate, nor malzee to an} in Parliament ,
hat zeal for his Religion, and the hope: of refloring ‘it in England. The

. declared, that he was moved into it vol] for the fake of Religion and Con ctence, hecahje he

See the Proceed.-
mgs D agamfi: the
Traitors.

fourth and principal thing wherein my Lord Stafford did eithervmiftake himfelf, or great-
ly prevaricate, was in thefe Words, That the men concerned in the Powder-Plot, dzd all ac-'
lqzour-ledge andconfefi it, and hegged Pardon of the Ifirg, and God, and allgood men
for it. Nor {hall I here infifl upon this, that I do not the how it was pombie for my
Lord Sta/ford to be aliured, that all the Perfons who were in it, were known and found
out, or that he could ever throughly underftand, Whether even thole that confeffed af-
ter their apprehenlion, did not conceal much more than they difcovered. Burl {hall

confine my fell" to two things, whereofthe firft is this, that the confpirators, when un-‘

der Examination, did with Oaths and Affeverations deny what themfelves had full know-

ledge of, and whereof the State had fufficient Evidence:

For Garnet having by the

pretended favour of his Keeper, an opportunity allowed him to difco'urf_€ With H4//sand

being the next day charged hy _[e7/‘oral ‘Lord: of the Prior), Caancil, with

diver: thing: which had pa/fed. herwixt them two, in that conference, he’

not cal)’ denied the whole upon his Soul, and the Word of a Priefl; hat with

fomao] repeated Protefiatiom, and terrlhle Execratiom, that m} Lord

See thcProceed--
ings agamft the
Traltors.

of Salisbury, who was then prefem, faid, zt wounded all their Lord_/hip: heart: to hear him.
Andhyet, when confronted by Mr, Few./er, who was both a learned perfon, and a Jufiice

of Peace, and by Mr. Lac/Qerfon one likewife of kitown Reputation, who had overheard  

all they faid, having conveniently placed themfelvesbefore hand to that purpofe, and

withal underfianding ihat.Ha/l had confelled what they had difcourfed,  

he then acknowledged what with (‘o many affeverations he
had inomediatel} heforedcnied , and hegged mere} of the Lords, faymg,
he had ofendcd zf Eqaivacation didvzot help him. And that we may not
thinkfiquivocations and Perjuries peculiasmly to the Jffllltfio WC ha“?

Ibid.

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as   

an Example or the like carriage in Sir Everard Digby, who being upon‘his.firPt\ippreé '

henfion examined, did with molt folemn Ptotefiations, and all kind of Exeerations, dtiny
be’: being privy to rise Powdcr—Plot5 and yet being afterwards confronted bypthe Teliimo-

ny of Fanx, who had confefled. that being at Sir Everard: houfe in the"C.ountry, fome

months before the intended Seflion of Parliament, that Sir Everard batting taken him
afide, told /am be was afraid t/ae Powder in tbe Cellar was grown dank, and tbat fame new
mnfl bejtrovided, lefl tbatjlaonld not ta/ee fire; be did tberenpon not only acknowledge it, not-

‘ wlzblandln all lair ‘owner Execrationr to tbe contrar bnt wben becameto. be indifled be
3 J 7» t 3

can 6 ed it’ a on his Arraiemnenr. Whence we evidentl fee, that the not onl with
. P a Y   Y Y

horrid Oaths and afloniihing Alleve‘rations,denied what they knew themfelves guilty of ; i

but that the Confellions they made did not proceed from any tendernefs of Confcience,
or remorfe for what they had been engaged in, but were extorted from them by the
uneontrollablenefs of the Evidence, and by improving the confeflionsof fome of them-
felves to oblige others to anacknowledgement.   t ‘ 1  
The feeond thing I would have obferved in the Gun—powder Confpirators , is that fe-’-
veral ofthem went out ofthe world in the fame manner that our late Traitors did, de-
  trying divers things to their laft, which they knew themfelves to be
icgslhfggmfitefgé guilty of.And of thls to avoid proliitity, I {hall give buttwo Infiances;
Traitom one whereof (hall be that of Francis Trejlaanz Efq; wbo not.-only gave it
A ‘ under bi: band,but toakit upon bl.’tSonl,and as be hoped forSalvatton',wz'tbin
tbree bonr: before bz':Deat/a,tbat be bad ‘not feenGarnet tbeProvz'ncial of tbe fefnits in fixteen
year; before 5 and yet Garnet /tlmfelf afterward: declared tbat tbe] bad enjoyed freqzgent cons
verfation with each ot/yer wit/Jin le_/3' tban tbefpace of tbree years; and tbat /oe fnppofed Mr,
Trefham meant to eqaivocate in denying it. Where was novvthe fenfe of the Omnifcien-
cy of God 2 or the dread ofthe future Tribunal? which the Advocates, forthe late Trai-
tors derive their Topick: to perfuade the world of their Innocency from. Alas!» the re--
_,s u 10 , a uc . « ~  
$?§§t‘§§%?"%i?$§2i§.tfifliilfifiififiiiii ‘.f§"i.°;dii’r‘h§3° ii’?"iidi'$f§rZ‘ii§n§°"°f°d   i“ E‘““‘
_ g o Theother Infiance {hall be Sir Everard Dbgb], wbo not only endeavonr-,
IS)fiEli%:d1:5:]P§:: ad! to Elear alltbe ?Ifitl'f5 from being an] wait: concerned in  Treafonable
end of [ha ‘lam lot, at glowed tn tbe ventnrzng /ct: Salvation and Happznef} gym “M,
Editions of the W berm: tbe; tbemfelver, to tbe eternal reproaob of: that poor‘ Gentleman’:
ggpncé,-t-[cl grapi. :)(¢)6’7‘:2v?:], ?otgi:"fl' and acflenowledged 1'3  aselffthls badG not been enotilgh
- ne .  
‘°’5' little Faifh  :)owl?e"3giir];rtlct>yiE’aa;i}iflst:,(e)*iiheiliivingibliicdyiiigirbggilhlivitlig
$66 the Pm’ fame Impudence, and to his very lafi denied that ever Father Wall; (i. e.
feedings c0m_ Garflft) bad been at Coughton Wit/9 Ioim, or tbat be (new Darcy to be
pmd with t/aeftzmt wztb Garnet, or nnderjlaod tbat be war a Priefl. W/aereat it
t):_ge}’s Papers. appeared t/oat be war not onl] 7167')’ well acquainted with bit», but even

G8.FDet./aimfilf cotzfefled-tbat be bad been at bi: bonfe. Let our many,

pleading Qrators for the late Traitcrs,continue now to argue from the Confeflions of the
Gun-powder Confpirators, that they acknowledging their guilt, while theothers dyed
in the denyal oftheirs ; as thofe were criminal, fo thefe mufi be innocent: Whereas we
cannot dc-fire a more convincing proof, how little the Oaths and Affeverations of Pa-
puts in the very circumfiances of dying are to be depended upon, than the affurance
which we have from Authentick Records of the behaviour ofthofe engaged in the Gun-
P,°“’dC"' PW. Whom we have mentioned. And that no danger which might arife to par-
“Cu!” R°m?‘“lflS.fml:iy be ctpnceigred go tlliave dibfcouraged (put late Ccl>nfpI°L/It‘/Ztogs, 1 {hall
6 _ u ioyn t e ca e w ic Cate: ; propoun ed, name y, et er forth:
iS,fgStt:g~,},)i:.fi-tccfgle Promotion of the Catbolicle Can]: again}? Hereticler (tbe necefjizy aftime
Traitors. mm’ accetfion fin reqniring) it were lawful among many noeent: to take away
B [1  ‘ _ fame innocents? To which Father Garnet with the greateft ferioufnefé
ni‘C_{fii:j“ 3/raid fi)1()C'dnCfS ‘of ]udgmc2t,anfwered, Tbat zf tbe advantage to
and approval of _, t‘ at 0 wk art], weregreater ] taking awayfbme Innocent: togerbgy
by the holy Sm wrtb many Naccntr, tben donbtlefi zt was lawful to lejll and deflroy tbem
all: So that if we do but apprehend, that they werepoflefléd with the
leaft probabilityof prevailing in the itTue, the lives of multitudes of theirown faffion,
that would have been lali in the interim, were to be efleemcd a {mall price, for fo great
a commodity , as the re-eliablifliing Popery in England, the rooting out the Protcftant
Religion, and deftroying of Hercticks. , A a J a _
§ 8. But to make a nearer approach to the prefent Plot, can there be agreater Evi...
dence of the Papilis readinefs‘ to forfwear their own guilt, than the many Examples -of
hiring and fuborning perfons to petjure themfelves, to make the Innocent Criminal. A-A"

 delign more horridin itfel.f,and more deflruétive to Government,and the fafety of Man.’

kind

i kind, i than for one that is guilty to proteft his Innocency with thehighefl. Execrations:

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For by the Arraignment of one innocent perfon upon a countenanced -tubornation, all
whodeferve the fame charaéter are virtually indiéted, and the whole Law becomes per-
verted fromits true end,whichis to jufiifie the guiltlefs, andis turned into an Engineto
condemn the Innocent. And it will prove of fuch fatal confequence, {hould it be conni-
ved at,ot allowed, that all the ligaments offociety will become difhilved, and all obli.~
gations not only between man and man, but betwixt Rulers and People fi:‘:ally' cancel-
led. For who canbe fo innocent, that it is not in the power of a fubornedi Villain to
{lander -, or fo* Loyal,whom on the encouragement ofa Reward, and at the liiggellion or‘
a proimpter‘, he will not brand for a Traitor. And we may be {are that they who are
to void of all Confcience,.as to undertake to horrid an Employment, will be furnilhed
with Impudencc to fwearany Charge that their Mafiets diét-are and prefctibe unto them.
And what a damnable Religion muli that be,that at once infpires them to feek the de-

.fitu6’tion of Proteflants, and jultifies them in all kind of fubornations and falfhoogls for the

at-rcomplifhing ofit. Now befides many Inltances not yet come to light of this trea-
cherous and Roong/h Praftice, we have feveral accounts of their endeavours of this
kind, which deferve our obfervation and remark. The firfi‘ is that of Nette’7'nil/e, an
Ir:_'/lo Papilt, his attempting to corrupt Mr. Wz'll.z‘am Broohr, one of theAld-ermen ofDnh~

tin, and Captain Ber}, to fwearwhat thould be prefcribed unto them,for
the fixing of fcandalous Crimes on Dr. Oats, and Mr. Bedloe, and charg-
ing the Plot on Djiffenting Proteltants. The next is, Reading: Attempt.

upon Mr.Bedloe,to have obtained of him the renouncing all the material

art of his Depolitions againfi. theI_.ords in the ‘Tower, for which be pro-
mifed him :in Money and Efiatea great Reward. The third is Mr...Price’s
and Mr. fI'arhrangh’s labouringto pcrfuade Mr. Dngdale to recant whatfo-

eater he had [laid concerning the Blot, and to call the Almighty God to wit»  
l nej} that no motive had indnced him to retraff the Teflimonie: he had given, hat‘ remorfe of

  See the Narra-

tive oi"th1's Dc-
pofizion.

S33 I{r.’4di27g’s
Tryal

See th~:Tryal of
N} r. T/Isibrozog /1,

Conference for the 214:_/Ehief: which he had done, though they were in the mean tune to gm:
him a great farm of. mane} in hand, befides a further Reward which they alfurcd him

Gf.2ftCl‘W3.fClS. The fonrth is their fuborning Thoma: Knox, and fa/on

Lane to {wear fuch Crimes againlt Dr. ‘Oats’, as they {uppofed would not,

only weaken theCredit of all hisEvidence,but bring him under a fentencc
or Death, and fo rob the Nation of the mofi confidcrablc W itnefs in re-
ference to the Plot. A fifth is Lengmore: and Drama»: endeavouring to

See theTryal of
K7701 and Lane,
33%; DI’. Oats’;

Printed Narra-

ttve.

‘bribe Simon Wrzght, to declare upon Oath, that Mr. Dngdalo had promi-

fed to proteét him, and givehim money as one of the King’s Evidence,if 5!“ ‘DY Lord
he would {wear againli Sir fame: Symonr, and Mr. Gerrard. .The lafl ‘im,hfl§d‘Trya1’
which I {hall mention, is their Employing Mr. Dangerfield to charge a 35,, (;,,};_ M4,,/,~
Ploton the Pr.esbyterians,wherein they intended to involve molt of thofe fi_e/al’s Narraa
that appeared active and zealous for the Proteftant Religion,and Englifh 51$. ano/lu1‘vIr.
Liberty. And to conclude lnftances ofth-is. nature at prefent, I lhall only  5
add two Depofitions, which may ferve to mfiruélz us that they iiill per- - '

l fevere in the Pra<E‘tice- of the fame Vi-llany. The Tenor of the firlt isas followeth.

The Exarhination ofEdwardHowcott of the » Cit] of Lichfield, taken at   _
thefald Cz't],thefir/f day of Jan. 168% hefore me. Francis Bayly, one of f $11!)’ of
,1-1;‘; Majejl ie: fln/lice: ofthe Peacefor th Count; of thefaid C4]. ze .

. Thefaia’ Examinant npon his Oath faith, That jofeph Salt of utoxeter 1~"g1;m,,,1@,~’,,g,,,,,,«
the month of June la/l, told this Depanent that one John Murrallgai Bnrhcr in Rugby’ ,-,, ,/,6
Count} of St3lf0t'Cl,I»‘vonld have hadthe [aid Jofeph Salt to have gone with him to London,
and he a witnef: agatnff Mr. Stephen Dugdale, one of the King’; E'vidence in [/93 [,.,‘;¢» Hay-
rid Plot, thefnid Murrall pretending as the faint Salt told this Deponent, that /33 (mm, ,,_,
much of the Plot at Mr. Dugdale dad ; and if he wonld hnt zeflzfe three or fonr word} w/no/7

i Murrall would direfl him to [wear againfl Mr. Dugdale, he _/‘honld live hatter ([743 (yer 1,‘?

did z'nhz:.r lzfe, telling the fan Salt, that he now lived meanl}, hut if he would do what he do-i
fired him, he _/honld never want whil/2‘ he lived 5 for in this fnnflure oftime the0ath of 4
Proteflant would he hotter accepted than twenty Oath: cf. 4 Papzfl. Andfnrther thi: Depo-
nent faith, Want the [aid Murrall had [worn him never to canfefi what hefaid to him, and
threjore Salt _/End, H it would he hanged, and drawn, and quartered, hefivre hewonld difcot/er‘
the fajing of Murrall. And this is n-ot only fworn by Edward Iglomcott, but by his Wife.
fla‘ar;.I1'owcort., and by onc»Edmzrd Blake:/2], ‘who were all preftnt wht.-n_Salr declared
and a.cknow.ledged as is above dcpofed. The fecond.Inf_‘ormation declarative alfo of the
like Praftices, is that of Thoma: Lander of Shnthorrow in the County of Staford, 4:1’:  
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was tezken upon Oath :6: 24 of Decemb. 168%. lefore Edmund Warcuppfifq; one ofHz2i
./l/Iezjejlies feejlices of the Peace ‘for. the Coxmiy of 'Middlefex , ‘ffc. ‘ =   ‘ v
7791: glnfornzantfezirlo, that leaving been employed 45,21 worlqmem flsveretl times or rice ;}0}'i].6
‘of my Lord Afion, eat Tixall in the Count} aforefaid; be was folicited by .Mr. Francis Hind

_':'-V"-s

L Steward to t./ac Lord Allen, to become a Witnefr ezgainfi Stephen Dugdaile, em} nmjto in-

-veilz‘dezre or take of his Evidence in relations to the Popzflo Plot, and lye f5’7"0eol' t/oi: Inform-
emt with at Stipena to con}: lip to London for that pxerpofe , at the late, intended Tryezl oftlie
[me Lord Afton in Iune lgfl Pyfl. But before his coming -up, the faid Hind, Fremoir
A[iorz,Son to the Lord Aflon,’Tl1o_ma: Sawyer fervant to the {aid Lord Aflon,fent for this
Informant into a private room in the fai:l.Lord Aflron’s houie, and there‘told him,"T/mt
if /oe more [weer-rjocla thing: eisflaould be differed to /aim .9; the Perjom oforefleid, to invali-

date or lake extra} t/ye Evidence of the fetid Mr. Dugdale, l;2e_/bonlol lmvzefucb reward, 4::

fl:o:4lcl be to his own content, and not want for Money or laoufe, as might become an mom. of let-
ter quality them liimfelf. Can any man now have horror enough for that Religion, which
doth at once both authorife and fanétify fuch fubornations and treacheries-5 or can we
without abandoning our reafon, but believe, that they who labour to fuborn, bribe, and
perfuade others to fwear falfly for the fafety of Perfons to whom they have no relation,
and the hopes of fome fmall rewards which they propofe unto them ; will beready to
periure themfelves for their own fake, the advantage of their pollerity, and the inter-'
eff of the Catholick caufe, and whole Papal party. i He that fwears falfly, or labours to

have another to do fo, for the taking away of his neighbours life, will not fcruple to \
periure himfelf, in order to avoid infamy upon his name, and to divert wine from "his;
own perfon and offfpring: For however offenfivc it be to God, to preferve ones felf ‘

by unlawful means; it is both much more provoking to the Lord,and prejudicial to the
World , firlt to frame, and thenfupporta Plot, by Perjury, wherein fo many thoufand
innocent perfons mull havefulfered, as in all probability would have done, in that which
Mr. Dangerfield was fuboriied and imployed about.  '

§ 9. As all the Confpirators have been ingaged in the’fame Treafon, and. influenced

thereunto by the fame Principles; So it is not unreafonable to conceive , that they  

lhould be all inftrufted to act alike part in the denial ofit ,for they that could enter in--“
to fo bloodya defign, as to deflroy their lawful King, ruine their native Country, and
cut the throats of many of their Kindred,as well as of their friendly and innocent neigh-
bours ,,may very well be fuppofed to reckonthemfelves difcharged from all thofe ties
of Divine Laws and Obligations of Confcience, which (hould refirain them from lying
and Per jury 2, But the holy God who fometimes leaves men to fuch wickednefs and ob-
duracy, for ends alwaies righteous but often hidden, feldom fails to difplay his Power

and Wifdom, in affording fuch means and opportunities of deteéting their Villanies,as  

may be improved and managed to the preferving the Peace, and fecuring the fiifety of
Nations and Societies, if Magillrates and People be not wanting to themfelves. And
accordingly bath the allfeeing Majeliy over-ruled, and llrongly infatuated the minds of
all the Traitors who have fiffered for the late PlQt,that though they have had the im-
pudence to deny their guilt,yet they have left Evidences of it , either in their own

Papers which have come to light, or in the very particulars which they have alledged .

for the allerting oftheir Innocency.

For to begin with Coleman, it is to be rationally believed,that having ellablilhed a cor- ,

refpondence with the From:/9 K inf: Cozzfeflbr, in order to fa might] ,3

Sec Coley_na:i’s work as tlae C omrerfion oftlorec K ingdomr, and the utter freédxing ofez pe-
lfitfacfs ‘6”9'l;:d , flilent Herefie, which had duminecred over, ‘.1 great part oftliix 1Vortlgem
Puljmfid fine: World a long tiinzeg. fhould immediately give over all forreign Corre-
by 3,, (;._.o_ 'frgb)v_ fpondence fublervient to fo bleffed a work, after the writing of thofe
Letters 167,‘. Alas! it was enough that he difcovered what he knew

his own hand attefied by his Servants, would betray and deteft him in; but this man
= of to feigned Candor and Ingenuity, thought it meritorious as well as lawful to deny

whatfoever he faw could not be proved againfl: him by his own Papers. ' And had not

his former Letters been taken, he would have denied all kind of Correfpondence with i

the Cunfclfor, as well, and with much more probability , than that any fuch com-
munication was afterwards maintained betwixt them. Nor Secondly would the Confult
April .14.. 1678. have ever been acknowledged, but that it was men-

' Sccthc Tami of tioned in a Letter written by, one Petma Jefuite to one Tonflerlof the

the five Jefuizs. fame Society, to meet at the {aid Confult, which Letter was taken

among Hm-courfs Papers, when his Chamber was fearched: For had
it not been for the finding of that Letter, they would have confidently denied the whole
thing; and I am fure withmore reputation to their wifdom, than by the endeavouring
now to impofe upon the World, that the faid Confult was only upon the fcore of a tri-
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vial Meeting. ~ For had that been all the reafon. for their Aikmbiy‘, ‘what aécéniw
was there for thefe Words; Every one is alfli‘ to oe‘minde,’dnot to /aaflen to London long
before the time appointed, nor to appear, nnntr/9 aéont the Town till t/ye /Meeting no o'i:'e7‘, lejt
ohcea/ionfbonld be given to fafpeél tloe defign. Finally fecreey'a.t to the time anaflaee z':_nizee./2
.recomneended,l to all tlnofe that receive jnrnnzont, as it will appear of its own natare naceyr,n)‘,,

The whole ftrain of the Letter intimates, that there was more then to be "tran'{a'c“ted;
than it is fotgtheir Iyntereftto have known. What lefs doth the Indication of delign,
which was to be induftrioufly concealed, and the giving an account that the natureof

the thing, which they were to meet about, required the utmolt fectecy, impart and

fignifieto all Impartial men than vvhatDr. Oat: had declared to be the bufin‘els'ofthat'
Confult, long before this Letter was found. T/airdly, When fome things which men have
affirmed with'thehighel’t Afieverations,fhall'be found notorioufly falfejt is a jufi ground
Uflfuofpefting their Truth and Integrity in other things,though the Evidence upon which
-vfteidisbelieved them be not fo apparent and palpable. Now, did not Gavan acquit all
‘they Jefuits‘ fave Mariana from allowing King-killing Doflrine; and that in near as pofi-—

‘ tiveand emphatidal, as thofe wherein he exprefled and declared his own Innocency with

‘ enough to demonlirate how little credit is to be given to the’ Dying
dacious and impudent Perfon, who having theconfidence’ to"t'ell the world, that iffhe"

A _/konld fay any’:/Jing falfly at tlgat feafon, lye rnzejlexpol? nothing out eternal daniiiariomfhould

reference to the Plot, becaufe the Jefuits ( faith Gavan) are fo falfly
felzargedfor holding K ing-killz'ng,,Doc‘lrine , I tnin/e it my deity to protefl to
you witnmyglajl dying wordy, tnat neitner I in particular, nor tne ylefnits in
general, /aold any facn Opinion, on: ntterly an/nor and detefl it. And 1 do af-
fnre yon, that amongfl t/oe va/2‘ "number of Ant/oer: w/sick among the fefairt
/oave Printed P/.2ilofoID/.7)’, Divinity Cafes, or Sermons, t/sore it not one, to the

See Mr. Ganan:
Speech before
his Execution
at Tylmrn‘. -

g g eefz‘ o_,}my'€no‘a%-
  ledge , that "allow: of King-leilling Doftrine, or hold: this pofition, tnat it is /atefnl for a

private perfon to kill a K ing, altnong/a a Iieretick , alt/song/9 a Pagan, a/t/yang,/o a Yyrant 3
there it not ,1 fay ofiefefnit that hold: t/sis, except Mariana the Spanifh fefait, and/ye defend:
it not aofolntely, one only proélematgieézlly, for ninien /ti: lioo'l{’wa1.t called in, and teat Oyzzfriion

expnnged and eenjinred: .

‘ Let us now joyn Illue with Gavan on this point, and refer it to the Readers to judge"

tieular.— What! not one »]eTuit that allows me King—killi*-ng='Do€trine ?
When. Father, Campian tells hsexprefly, Tndtieiiall t/.7: f_efl1i‘tv.t'/oave entred

‘ into a Covenant to dcflroy-all Hereticali King:',x» éy wbatfo”e'iIei‘7Waie: and
mean.ttloey'are.aole oejt‘ to efefl it.?What!5not ofieijefusit bgutMar:’ana,tha‘t
maintainsthis,_and that his“Bo'ok was called in upon that a~ic’,c‘ouht,vvhere-’

as that Book of rzl«1ariana’w«as never called in by the iAut.hotit_y of the

,' Church. ‘And that Sanflanellat is known to have written aBook con-

taining the fame principles, which was therefore condemned to be burnt
by the Parliament of Pan‘: .9 What !‘ not one Jefuit that holdsit lawful
for a private perfon to kill aKing, although a Heretick,although a Pagaii,
  although a Tyrant ! whereas not only.Sa‘ariez.-afl”ures us, T/oaitha King oe-
ing depofed;éy«t/.2el’I’apal .S'entence,«/.2e may éejlain éy any private }>er‘_/on ; one
Emanuelfa, Molina’ and manysotnertrdo afirm,‘tka't ti/9e Pope lzavingExcom—

I E mnnieated andDepofed ayPrz'nee,‘ any one may tner‘-enpon lgjll /oiin, and no rise‘
a _Execntioner7of_:tIa'e‘fadgment pronounced éy the Univerfal and Infa/lilrle E4‘-

tiger. It were eafie to producesa large Catalogue of Jefuits, who have
all writtén in Iufiification of the fame Opinion, but.'tl1a7t=-thefeare

, of this Jefuits fincerity and truth in all the tell that he laid, by his falfhood in this par-

. In E,0z_‘[l."adcon-‘-
cilzario.t Regina.
Aug/iee,p. 22.,

Alegainbo in '
Bibliotb. /c"rz'pr.-

. fiiczet. 7:/zit,

 2'58!

.’In defenf fidei
lib. 6.72. 14,ۤc.
A'phorzfm.;2.1 1'5.

do I73/lit. Tom.4.. ’

CIT 3 ." ?d1]p. 6.

~ Vid. Lejf do In--.
fillt. 1217‘. 2. C219; ,
. dill)‘. 4.. ‘ H

Speech of this an?

neverthelefs endeavour to impofe fo grofly upon the world, and that in a matter of faflé
which is lfo obvious and palpable. Nay, this "very Gavan, _ who renouncethall King~_kil—'

 ling principles, ‘did neverznezej: tell Mrs. Skipwith that t/oe Qaeen nzig/at
lawfnlly kill the -King meerly for violating leer Bed ; yea ti/oatfloe was éonnd

to do it,and t-laat _//re did not,]1.ie trasgailty of lair greater dantnation in
fering /aim to continue ‘in[z'n.And when we doubt but that he who thought
it lawful to advife the Murdering. of his Prince for A_dultery,would much

Sec Mr.- Serje-=- --
ant: f‘and_ Mn...
A/Iorriees Infor-' _

mations.

more purfue thedefiroyinghof him for Herefie. But when’me'n have ‘renounced all fear’;
I.

of God, zandvregard to tru ,
wicked Defigns which they have had in agitation,

well as fufpend believing them in all “the refit,

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and do only confult what?-m‘ayfbe“mol’t l‘ubl‘C;rVellE’llC to the e
and" ‘the Accompliflintent whereof :
they would tranfmitgwith as much hopefulhefse and fecurity as they can to others 5 life 
righteouswith the Lord-,iwhofl3 name theyeIi§idaringly.pr_6ph.a§e;e I0: ft_llli€:f‘-Il1fYY} 50 b€"j_
trz'§r..;md difcaven themfelves beyond all exeufiejand palliation tnfome ’one~pai'3}.C9l3Tsth3t,
the ealie aaald eredhlousf paeeuof mankindmdyiibe Ca;ut1oned”‘a’ndt lnfllfillfifd’ *to dtilruft as

Not

"3 ”‘”**"““ '“w'*'**  . - -

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Nor are Coleman and Gavan the onlyperfons, who in the Afleverkatious o«ftheir,Inno~
C€1'lCy,‘~b3VC betrayed their guilt, and left evident footfieps of their falfhood, when they

pi'Cte‘f:.‘l€’d by all that might obtain credit among men, to fpeak nothing but truth. For ‘

Mr. Ha-rconrt, a man whofe Age and Experience {hould have rendred him more wary,
though his Religion did not teach him Integrity and Candor hath been left under the
fame infatuation, and in reference to fome particulars of which he would have acquitted
himfelf, hath dilcovered as much folly as villany, For whereas among other things de-
pofed againli him, to prove his being guilty of thC‘Pl0t, Mr. Dugdale tefiified that he
had feen a Letter written with Father Harcanrt’8 own hand to Father Enm, declaring
the Murder of Sir Eobnnndéary Godfrey, and dated the very night wherein it was done,
-being the nth of Oftoloer 1678. and that upon this Intelligence he had declared at one
Eldx, who keepsyan Ale--houfe in 77xa/1, on zldonday onooer 14.. that a Juftice of the
Peace who lived at Weflminfier was murdered in London. ‘ g  
Now as it was not polfible that he could have notice of it there fo foon, but from one
that_was accelfary to it, and a Confpirator in it,not being kndwn in London till the Tbarfl
day following 5 is there any thing more probable, than that he arrived at the certainty
of it, in the way and by the means which he declares. This all the Papilis feemed fen-
fible of, and therefore attempted to prove by fome witneifes in whofe preft-nee this
news was faid to be reported by Mr. Dagdale , that there was no fuch thing faid by him,
‘ or heard by them. They have Wit enough to undcrtfand, that there was no other way
to prevent peoples believing their being guilty ofthat horrid Murth_er,or to difcharge
Harcourt from a fufpicion of having given the Information that it was efl"eé’ted,s but by

alfirrning that there was no fuch Intelligence arrived there, till the Saturday fevennighc _

after. And on the confidence that they could briberthe perfons in whofe prefence it was
{aid to be told, to teftifie the contrary 5 and that there could be no other ‘Evidence given

of it but Mr. Dugdale: bare Affirmation ; Mr. Harcourt not only affu.
3°°‘h"S “chcs med the confidence to deny it upoi his Tryal, but to declareat his.

?fif;‘hc Eve. leg Death , Tbat as/we hoped, 12} the merit: and pa/fion of fefm Cbri/?,for fat.

nation, that be was as innocent as {Ice Cbild unborn, of what nvasylaid to Iii:

claarge. And yet two Gentlemen of known worth, and uiiqueftionable reputation,namely,
Edward Bircb Efq; and fobn T nrtan Efq; have depofed upon,Oath that the Ziforcfiiid Mm-.

ther was commonly difcourfcd. of about Tixall in Stafi’ordfln're,be_fore it was known here;
in London, that Sir Edmnndéar; Godfrey was killed; nay, as if this were not demonfiru '

tive and convincing enough how the Intelligence behoved to reach thither, and by wbofg
means that Loyal’ and Prqtefiant Magifirate was fo barbaroufly Maffacred ; there are

other two perfons,w'z.. ?am,e.t Anfell of Ha}woad l in Sra}jfon1fl,,‘re, and;

.ifo:«p.i§?'  Mr. William Hanfiin of Wilnal in the fame County, who teflifie like-

.i; ,1” . _ _ , , .
P 4 ” der, in their hearing at Eld-1, the Alehoufe-keeperin T mall, on Monday-

wife upon Oath, that Mr. Dagdale publilhed the News of the faid-Mme:

morning; and as they are of unfpotted fame, though of no great Rank or Qta...

llty,'f0 they inform not only as to the time, the houfe, and the particular place in it
where this was declared, but they.mt_:ntioned divers other circumfiances corroborative
of the Truth of what they fay. And whereas my Lord Staford thought hlmfelf for fe-
cure of overthrowing Mr. Dagdalis creditin reference to all he had tefiified befides, by
detecting hima Lyar in this particular, that he not only charged him with Perjury in it,
but bore ‘himfelf mofl confidently in, when upon his defence of having fully difproved
this part of his Evidence 5 it will not be amifs toconfider the Witnelfes he produced, and
what they alledged for the invalidating Mr. Dagdalis Teftitnony in this matter.

Now the Perfons be relied fo much upon, for this fervice, and whofe Authority he ,
afcribed fo much unto, as to have expeélzed, that all men (hould have fuhmitted mwba: ¥

they laid with an implicite faith, were Mr; Philip: Incumbent at Tzxall, and one Mt.
Saméitcb who being reported to have been prefent when Mr. Dngdale communicated
the forefaid Intelligence, declared in Court that there was no fuch thing fpoken on nela.

ted in their hearing. But fure it is more rational to receive the TCiiim.Q[L}’ of thofe .

who depofe an Aflirmative, than thofe who take upon them to jufiifie a Negative, and

elpecially after the Expiration of two veats fince the thing was faid : And it is likewife i

790?: agreeable to all thc uieafurts—of]ufiicc , that they are rather to be believed; who:
depofed upon Oath, than they who did not. And for one of tiny, Lords two Witaeffes,
namely, Mr. Saméic/2 his deafnefs might exeufe him , in faying he heard no fuel: thing,

though at the fame nearnefs to Mr. Dagdala when the words were*fpoken., as Mr. ‘
Haufan or Mr. Anfell werg. And befidemthptigh his deafnefs hindred hishearing Mr. K

‘Dugdale when he communicated that marqing; the news,-of the Mtirthtr: ,.*neverthui¢£g.

he had fo far arrived at the knowledge q£‘,it,:ii2n1e,titnc or other that day, that be ac» .
’ ’ > - ' qiiairited 1

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quainted C/mrle: Cbetwyn Efq; With it in the Afternoon, asthc laid C/mrlcs Céetwjn Efq;
clepofed upon Oath at the Tryal of the Jefuits, and upon the occafion I have mentioned
this Gentleman. I {hall crave Liberty to retftifie one miflake in- the Printed Rela-
tion of that Tryal, which is, that whereas C/.mr/e:’C/ierwyn Efq; (wore, this was told
him by Sambicéz on Manda}, as Edw4rdrSmzt/1 Efq; and Bencher ofthe /l4’z'dd/e Temple,
and Jullice Warmp, who were both prefent at the Did Tryal, are ready to depofe 5 yet
through the fault either of the Printer, or ofhim that took the Tryal, Tuefda} is fet
down in the Publilhed Account. ~ *

But to proceed to Mr. P/at/Zips, the other witnefsproduced to detraél: from the cre-
dit of Mr. ‘Drtgdale in this matter, where we defire to obferve, that together with
the denyal of his having heard any fuch words, he denyed ‘ likewife his being at that
Ale-houfe either that day, or thefollowing, which as none about Tixrz/Z who know
his confiant cuftom of vifiting Ela’s’s once or twice a day, can eafily believe; fo he
appears plainly to be a very bold and venturous perfon in taking uponthim to fay
that bewas not fuch a day in a hoiife where he ufed conflantly to "refort, and this af-
ter {hch a compafs of time wherein without rtfleftion upon the weaknefs of his me-
mory, he may be fuppoled not to remember what he either did, or where he was fo
long before. But befides this, we have fomething cm: to add, whereby the Authori-
ty of this Pai=lo'n againft a Protellant is everlaltingly blalled and fupplanted. For where-
as he. thought to recommend his Teftimony by ‘pretending himfelf a Minifler of the
Church of England, there is an Information given upon Oath before jultice Warcup at
gainit him, that he the faid P/2i‘1!z'p: declared. his readinefs ‘to renounce 'therProteflant:
Religion, andforfakfe the Communion of the Church 0f»Englm1d, providinga cornpetent
Annual Provilion could be fettled upon him for the maintenance of hi‘m‘{élf and his Wife
andgtchildren : And purfuant hereunto be employed a friend to treat with my Lord
Aflon about it, who being very fond of a Profelyte of fiicha character, undertook to
charge himfelf with the care ofhim and his family: But at the fame time under the
influence of Father Ever: counfel, he advifedhim to continue his {ration for a feafon
where he was 5 for by pretending himfelffiill a Minifter of the Church of ingland, he
nemains better qualified, and ‘more capaC.i’tate_dAt_o promote the Romyb Inteneft, than
if he lhould immediately .pull ‘off his y.Mask, and vouch hirnfelf openly for it Papal

Convert. -t

  And furelyvno man can believe him to be a competent witnefs againfl the Credit and
Reputation ofa Protellant, that is firlt willing to abjiire his Religion upon fo bafe mo-up

tives ., and then proceeds upon as ill inducements to diffemble the Profellion of a Relia-_

glen, which he hath declared himfelf unfatisfied in, and ready to renounce. He that is
not afraid to deal falfly in a matter of fo great importance as Religion , will not fcruple
to tranfgrels the rules of Jullice, and prevaricare from the lines of Truth in moral
Concernments. And efpecially when the acquittinghimfelf as he did , may be fuppof'-

- ed his .Pro'bationerfliip for his plenary admillion into the bofom of the Roman Church,

and the Compeiifation he wasto make for the annual Penfion that was to be -fcttled

upon him; nor ought it to furprife any Proteliant or True Englifhmaii , that they have I

beenable to mutter up fome few perfons to detract from the elteem of Mr. Drzgda1e,if‘
we do‘ but confider the Methods they have ufed by Bribery and Subornation to elfefl:
and accomplilh it; or that they have proceeded further than to lelfen his Reputation ,
na'mel_y, by offers of money to engage men to deftroy him ;and.in reference to the firft
I {hall produce the Tefiimony of Simon Wright one whom I briefly mentioned before;
this perfon being known to have been well acquainted with Mr. puydale , for that he
ufed in quality of 2 Barber frequently to trim him , was according y '
applied unto by Mr. Pleflinywn, and proffered feven hundred pounds 0:135 Thofii
ifhe would appear as a Wi-tnels to take off his Evidence 5 or if he P_‘,4, 142.3’ ’
would defiroy and alfallinate him. And for his fecurity as to the ob- ’

raining of the money if he would have complied with the propofal, both Mr. Ream:
an Apothecary in Chaucer}-Lane, and Mr. Dem} the Scriviner tendred him their feve-
fal obligatory notes. Yea they framed a Paper for him, wherein he was to teflifie that
Mr. Dugdale had fuborned and hired him to fwear againlt Sir ?47{1¢’J’ _ a
5]mom, and Mr. Gerrard, two,Perfons accufedahout the Plot, which I’"4’-P- 142-153-
they prevailed with him by money and promifes‘ to fet his handun-V _ -
to, and/would have periiiaded him to make an Afiidavit uponit before 3l"lll°€ 9‘
Peace; the tenorof which Paper being directed to Sir fame: Sjmofit. “'35 33 f0'll0W€*h1‘

I can, élefr G94, with afaf: Confirmzcc, declare upon Ont/1, that Mr. Dugdalc but/lift’;
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 to ‘me in tahingwhis opportunity of my poverty h} ‘reajbn of ‘it

‘.1113’. p- 158. ‘s it private =meeting ofns two h} his appointment. ‘He did at that time prefer‘

. ifil tvonld [near againfl you and Mr. Gerrard, he would proteii me as

one of the K ing’s.E*oidenoe,. and Ifloonldpot want mo-no}. And now as this Paper alone is

fuihcierit to‘dete& the waies and methods they have ufed for overthrowing the Repu-1' I
ration of” Mr. Dngdale;. fo the Providence of ‘God is to be acknowledged in the infatua-
tion ofmy Lord Stafford, who to the blafiing of the PapaliCau{‘e, and the evidencing of
his and-others guilt, in the prefent Confpiracy produced it. For being in their hands, it
- was in their power to have fupprefied it, as it appears by the Tefiimony .

!5id- P-‘I53-_ of Wright they ‘did anoth‘er[Pap'er of much more confeqaence, to which

_ . alfo they had fubornedgghiregd, and wheedled him to fet his hand.

~ And as if it had‘ not been enough to endeavour‘ tocorrupt perfons to fwear falfly
againfl him ,r they have dealt with fome to aliaflinate and kill him, as appears not
only by the Informations of the aforefaid Simon Wright 5 who was to have fiabbed
him , andby the Informations of Thomas Lander , who they would have perfwaded to
put fire to the Roomyv‘here~Mr. Dagdale lay , 'and to burn him in his Bed 3 both which
Informations are publifhed lately. by Thomas -Symmons at the Prince’: Arms in Lndgate-
Street , butalfo by the following depofition of Simon Anfell. I I i

The Informationof Simon zinfell, as it was taken bieforeione. of His Ma jeiiies Jufiices
of Peace. in Stafi”ordfloire , and tranfmitted to Edrnnnd Waronp Iifq; ore.’

Thismlnformant faith , That he was at on} Lord Aflons Blacl{—Smz'ths to have his
Horfe _/hodd there , and that in the mean time Mr. Francis Aflon eldefl Son to the Lord
Alton , came to the [aid BlaclQ—Smith's Shop, and calling to this Informant ,.took him
apart , "and told him , that if he would he might with eafie do his Father and him the
greateji lgindnefs imaginahle : He this Informant anfweredc he wonld..'nfe all po_/]ihle
means to ferve him and tiist Father 5 if you do‘, faid .Mr.i*Francis Afton; and he ttftie
as to what i I « jhall‘ infirm‘? you , Jon fhallhatte that piece of ground which }‘on_'¢hold of 
.Father in Brinfh Kent-free for [even Tears, and Ten Pounds in prefenttoillloney hefides,
He this Informant anfwered , that he would he true and faithfal ’to*/um; and ‘his. Father .3
-and defiged toknow what they wonldhaoe him>to do: Mr.”Francis Aftontloen told this In-

ormant, that Mr. Dugdale was coming into the Conntr} , and that he would have him
the [aid Informant go from place to place with the [aid Dugdale , and to watch his opportu-

-nit} till he cottldfind. a convenient place to hill-the faid'Dugdale , heing hisFathers gréat—

gfi and only Enem} : And that the [are]? way ofaccomplijhingithis , was" to charge a Piftol
tritha hrace of Bullets : and as this _Inform4nt_jhotlld find. contvenienc} to; _/ho“o‘"t“‘hino.in the

hash, fajing he will fo certainl} lqill himi' And withal he adrnfed me that ‘thereupon , t.hat5
I_/honld ride to the next Town in a great fright . and tell there , that Dugdale and I 5 he-’:-
ing riding on the Rode together , were met and ajfattlted h} two men ,. one of which;/hot
jldr, Dugdale and killed him : And this , faid he , will hath ohlige my Father, my _[elf;,'
and all our Friends - for ever , and alfo "remove all fnfpition from year felf, 'con'_/idering
what"the Papifis thinlq thernfelws allonied to do againji‘ the Enemies oftheir ‘Church,’ .  *

~ And confidering how the Nation is filled with men of ill Principlcstand pr-ofligate lives;
it is no wonder that they have been able .to produce fomeiperfons‘ to d'e'n-ail: fromthe
Credit of the Kings Evidence , but it is_,r.ather to be accounted matter of wonder, that
they have not found Infiruments to affaflinate every man of them. I 
But to proceed , thefeflonfpirators whom we have already mentioned ,- arevnot the
only perfons who have left uncontrollable Evidence of their guilt ,. when with the
higheltfionfidence they afierted their Innocency ;p for Mr. Ireland alfo had the Fate -tto“
betray himfelf in the fame way of Indifcretion and Follygiifor thinking;}to haveinvalis-=
dated the Teftimony of Dr. Oats and ;Mr'. Bedloe; he afhr~ms,’:he pmtefls , he calls‘
God to Witnefi , -(hat he was ‘in Srafordjhire , from the fifthof flxgnflgtill the foars:
teenth of September: Whereas they had {worn that he was,’ 31d.~'fl1ai‘§h€)’ had feenh .
him at,Lona'on Within that time. And as if'it had.‘iin*ot*',been enough {to h,ave*in—:"
filled upon it at his Ttyal, he fealed it with mofi folemn Alieverations at his deaihi
And ‘yet it hath appeared fince by theTePtimony’ of-3 Mrgufennifltn , ai‘~perfon of ari-
ancient and confiderable family, andsof an unqucltionable Reputatiom‘ ‘apd;Mr. Ite-
lands own Relation and Kinfman; that Dr. 0ats.and7..'Mr..Boedloziscrbtlit-’+'dcferved‘
not to be impeached on this account; (not by any dthei-;.'Ali'ct‘rerations:-or: Oaths, by
any of the Papal Communion offered againfl them, orfeither ofithe Kibg’S Evidences )
I feeing ,

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fleeing as he afiirms, he.h_,a’.d both feen and Converfed with him at his Lodging in Ruflel-4
Street on’. the I_9tb. of Augufi‘, and this she not only yaflirmsiiupon the Wo1'd and Oath of
a.Gentleman.and a Chrifcian, but by fuch particular and undeniable Ci-rcuml’cances,.i that
.there is no ‘man of fenfe.-but mull acknowledge himfelf convinced, that the Jefuit dyed with
a Lye in his Mouth ; Heathat hath (or will) read his feveral Narrative's concerning this;
and What I have obferved in mine in reference to it, will foon fee that Ireland difcovered
his being in Town, not becaufe he .was notithere, but becaufe the Errandhe came, and EH1»-
ployed himfelf about was fo black and deteltable, and with all fo pofitive fworn; a..
gainft him, ~ that he knew no way to vindicate himfelf from it, but by fwearing point blank»
that he was not fo much as upon the {pot wherethefethings chargedupon him were laid to
have been tranfaéted. But becaufe there is no Sore and.men live to be further confirmed
and eflablifhed «in-»-thefir very things, whereof they are already fufliciently perfuaded. I
Ihall fubjyoyn one Tellimony more of can honoured and worthy Gentleman and a Kinfman
of Mr.,.Ireland,l“ who alfoxfaw. and difcourfed about feveral things with him in London,
when he fo politively calls God to witnefi that he was elfewhere, which conlirms.Mr; gent.-+'
font, Dr...Oat:, and Mr. Bedlow"s Evidence 5 The Gentleman is defirous for a feafon to
have his Name concealed, rbutis a Perfon of known worth, and will be ready to Confirm-
what is here faid before any Magiftrate when called thereunto. And whofoever confiders, not
only the many reproaches fallzned upon the Names, but theatternpts made upon the Lives,
of feveral of thofe who have concerned thernfelves in deteeting and obltruélcin g this Hellilh
Plot, will think it no matter of furprife or amafement that Gentlemen {hould be lhy in con»

i cetning thenifelves in it, efpecially when the life of . their Prince, or the fafety of the People

doth,not fo much depend upon it, but that all which their Difcovery will amount unto,
is only the deteéting the Perjury ofa Romifb Prielt. Nay is it not come to that, that it is
very little leis than a dilhonour to be a Difcoverer, even where the Kings life is eminently
in danger P So that if you would in fome Company, defign the Expofing of a man, you
can not do it with a greater Einpbafir, and more to the general gull, than by proclaiming
him an Evidence : Which as it may ferve for an Apology, why this Gentleman conceals his
N ame, fo I do here pledgemy Faith, that the World is not sfhamm’d by aCounterfeit Infor-
mation, but that what is here fubjoyned,'is no more, than what a Perfon of entire Credit-
andvery good Chgality, will be ready to Iuftifieg Namely, Tbartbis Gent-leinan, being
about tbe beginning of Bartholomew Fair 1678. going"  I-Iolborn, witb an irztentigh.
to carry a Lady and a Relation of bu‘. to_ tbe, F air, to entertain ber witb‘ wbat tbe place-could
afibrd, or at leafb wbat [he would principally bat/e a mind to fie, be accidentally metagijt/Z;
Mr; Ireland; wbo was al_/5 in Relation, and between wboni and bun tbere bad intervened in
long Acguaintance. And tbat Mr. Ireland of wbofi’ Company, becaufe ofetbeir difl'erent-‘s
Principle: be was» never fond, not only acco/ling birn, but being iinportunate to drink witb‘
birn, be accordingbrattended biin into anadjoyning Ale-Houfl: at tbe Sign of tbe Tbree Pipes;
Wbere tbey not only continued alniofl an bour togetber, but bad mucb Difcourfi: concerning’-it
Religion : And tbat Ireland by way of jbiinding bi: Inclination to tbe Papal Cbureb,
as-kedibiin, wbetber  tbeir. Religion were Ejlablifbed by Law and publicbly owned in En-—
gland, be would not tbenenibrace ‘it, and ‘come over to tbeir Communion 5 To wbicb tbe
Gentleman replied, Tbat tbe Popilh Religion was fo repugnant to tbe fir/l Principle: of
Reafon, tbat be could never abandon bis unilerflanding /5 far as to efpoufi: or entertain it, but
that if tbing: fbould come to tbat pafi as Mr, Ireland fiigge/led, be would fubrnit to tbe

Government in Popilh bands, but not. to Popery. So that there can be nothing more evi- ’

dent, than that Ireland. was in London, when he calls God and Angels to witnefs, and
pawns his Salvation upon it, that he was in Stafiordfliire. Who could have believed that
a Perfon not only pretending to be a Chrifhan, but of a facred.Order in the Church,‘
and trufled with the Difpenfation of Sacred Myfteries, and alfuming the Conduét of the
Souls of Men,'durl’t have had the boldnefs and impudence to date Heaven, andalfront

P the Omnifcient Majefly, as well as abufe Mankind, in fo horrid a manner. This is a

ngw way of leaving the World with hopes and expeéltations of Happinefs, to renounce all
right to, and interefl: in future bleflednefs, if Diflimulation and Perjury may not entitle
them to it. We may jultly conceive, that they think themfelves difpenfed with to Blafpheme
the Name of God, whenfoever their doing fo is fubfervient to the benefit and advantage»

of the Church of Rome. And that they reckon, fuch impieties will not only be forgiven .

them, upon the account of the End which they are perpetrated for, but become Sanclified
and commence Meritorious. However, I think he forfeits his l')1fcretion, as well as pro-a
claims himfelf unworthy the name of a Proteflrant , that can b€llCV6 the Afleveration of a
Priej} or fifefiiit in reference to his own Innocency, after we have fo demonliratively de-

teéted Mr. Ireland, as Well as thofc We haVC already m€flti0fl€da *0 be fuch h01‘1'id1f11P0"’ g

Ptors. And we may alfo gather, with what Reggnation the Pepi;/b Laity fubjeift t“l:12‘i’i;i-5.-ét.

 

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' iiélees to the Cotnmands of their Ghollly Fathers, being {'0 iteadto Sacrifice their Souls to

Eternal Punifhments, in their protefling that to be true Which‘ they ‘know to be fitlfe, ra3—~7
ther than to ‘difpute or decline obedience in Whatfoever they requireof them. For by the
amazing prevarication in the fit-ll: Principles of Morality, which we find thofe that they had
muilered up from the Countrey, guilty of in this matter, we may very well conclude that
they had implicitly trulled both their Reputations and Souls, into the hands of their Priells 5.
And that they account it a Criminal Matter to enquire how they difpofe of them.

§. 10. «Having thus far Deteéted not only the villanous Perjuries of Romanz;/ts which are
of a more ancient date, but made fome frefh Refleéiions upon, and given ample Difcove-s
ties of the hlafphemousifalihoods, that féveral Executed for this late Plot, have dyed guilty
of 5 VVe now proceed to lay open the unparallell’d Impudence, and brafen Impollures of
the late Vzfcount Staford. And the firllf thing we {hall take notice of is this, that he re-
nounceth in his lall: breath all hope of Salvation, etverhe were guiltys hz'mfe1f,' or hnew
of any that were, of the Crime: whereof he was Accafeol. ./Indyet hy a Letter tlireffeel to
my Lord Allon, which was fimnd in his Study at Tixall when fearched, and to which was
fuhfcrzheel Staflbrd, and the Letter elated from Stafford Ofioher 8. 78. the Plot 2': hath
‘confie[IEd under his own hand , and his particular Interejt‘ anal Co-operation in it acknow-
ledgeel. The words of which Letter were as followeth. My Lord the Plot it dtfcoveretl,
and we are all anelone. And I am going into Shropfhire to ffifle it as much as I can 5 and
I pray a'o yoa the flzme in Staifordlhire. This Letter was feifed by Captain Thoma; Lane
a Julfice of Peace and Deputy Lieutenant in Stafibreljhire. And accordingly theiDepofed
before the Committee appointed as Managers for the Tryal of my Lord Stafibrel, and was

ready to have proved it openly in Court if he had been calledthereunto. But thofe worthy »

Gentlemen, that were entrulled by the Hoaje of Common: to profecute the Impeachment
of Treafon againll Staflbra’, did upon fome prudential Confiderations decline the menti-5
oning of this matter, And the rather becaufe they had other fuflicient Evidence for the
Conviéting of that Criminal. . I _

And they were not willingto make any Critical Enquiry, how this Letter under tnyLorel:;
hand came to be fupprelled or loll, as it feems it was, from its not being Communicated
neither to the Committee of Secrecy , nor- to the Committee of Managers of. the Tryal.
But this Mr. Lane Depofeth, That having {hewn it to Mr.,.Mofely a Gentleman of Quality
in the forefaid County, and to diverfe others who have attefled the fame before a Committee
of Parliament, he did tranfmit it to one of the Clerks of the Council, and that he received
a Letter concerning the receipt of it from one of the Clerks. Had the Plot fiitceeded this
late Lord would have been proud of it, and endeavoured to derive glory to his Family from
it ;«but being diltovered, and it appearing to full of horror to all the fober part oh Man-
kind, they have no way left for the preventing the mine of themfelvesand Pollerities, bur,
though to the lofs of their Souls, to difizlaim and abjure it. Alafs! We neeeded no Wit.
nelles to tell us of a Plot carried on by the Papifts For many years pall againlltour Religion 5
the Cab:-tlling of the chief Faélors of the Romifh Party, the railing Money uponltheir
Eihues at home, and promoting Colleélions amongll the Papal Zealots abroad, the putting
trhtwulelves under the Conduélt of F orreign Councils, and the indullrioully providing and
furmlhing thcmfelves throu hout the whole Kingdom with Horfe and Arms, were fo many
Uncontroll.-tble Evidences of it to all Perfons of ordinary Converfé and Obfervation. « And
the Depofitions of fiich as have come in to make detecflion of this Confpiracy, do fo cor-t
rclpond with what mofl men have feen and took notice of, that the utmoll they amount
Unto, is only to afford us a legal proof of that, whereof we had before a moral aliurance.
Can it be imagined that Coleman, Throgmorton, Lcyhorn, fhould only be acquainted
with (6 great and important a Delign: and that Pewter, Bellafir, Arttnde/, and Staflord
ihould be ignorant of it. Who knows not that the Former were too inconfiderable to give
either Authority to {o weighty an undertaking, or yield that afliftance which was neceflary
to the edeéting and accomplifhing of it. None below thofe of the highefl Quality in the
Papal Party, were furnilhecl either with Wifdom toconduét it, Interefl to obtain Forreign
Countenance unto it, or Treafitre and Power to pollieflsi’ the meaneft with the leafl: ho e of
fiaccefs. Could Coleman. judge that their Defign madsfo happy an advance, that they ould
quickly fee the raine of the Protellant Party 5 as his Letter to the Nancie hearing date the
gab. of Aagujiteftifieth ; If there had not been a general Confederacy among all¥the Pa“-
ptflr in England-, to cut off and extirpate thofe modern Hereticks : Or is it polliblc to faflzen
any other fenle upon Father Ireland: Letter from St. Omen, wherein he tells his Correfpona
dents here, thxttall. things were i-naneadinef: there, at fltonsar the Blow given here,
but that they had both pmje&ed the murdering of the King, and’ having oneeaccompltilhed
that, to proceed immediately to the extirpation of the Protejtants. I {hould not have pub‘-
lifhed the foregoing Letter, but thatthefifeeyas wellsasthefibneur ofithefiing, and the

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Vindication of the Iiillice of the Nation -upon this TraiterousMalefa<Sl:ot, eXaé’t’ed it of me.
And I wilh fpme Perfons may be advifed and inftrufted, howthey behave themfelves in

reference to Papers and ‘Informations which arrive with them for the future, feeing they
may hereby find and pblerve, that their carriages and tranfatftions he not fo hid and con-

cealed, as they may to their own mine at lalt, though to our ‘c_lan'ger at prelent, believe and
5 next place COI1'flCl€1‘_ how many Witnefles have teltilied my Lord
Stoflom”s lhare and part in the Plot, and you will _p‘olli'bly be alioniflied, how he durlt
ll-hut up his dying Speech in Paying with fo_li_t,tle concernednefs with relation to the righteous
Tribunal he was immediately to appear before 5 I‘ do 212Zth*my [oz/t hreozth true!) afirt 
Imzocency, and hope the Omnjifcient All-fieihg jziji‘ Goa’ will alert] with me accordingly. VVer_e
they not fo many, that for any to hope tobe acquitted upon bare den ying. what fuch a num-
ber have Depoled, were to make the Convicftion of ,M~alefa<9tors and ,'C1-iminals a thing
wholly impoiiible. And were they not all Popzfl: and purpofed fo to live and dye,  the
con‘lideration of this Plot had not filled them’ with horror concerning aReli‘gion that ju-
Itified fo Execrable a Conf piracy. Nor was it originally any hatred againfi the Popzfh Re-
ligion, that made them acculé the principal Members of the Romrm Communion of thole
Villanies and Crimes 5 but it was the Treafons which the Roman Catl]OliCl{S were engaged
in, that madethem renounce that Religion which put them upon it, and wliofe Principles
‘made it Meritorious to profecute it with Fire and Sword. Belides, thele V/Vitnelfes _wei‘1“e
Perfons whom this Lora’ is never laid to have clifobliged, fo that they can not be thought to
have accufed him out of Malice and Revenge 5 And which is very material for obtaining
fjelief to their Teltimony, S they were wholly Strangers one to anothti‘t‘il‘l after the DilE6‘-
Very of the Plot, fo that the charging  Lord .Staflbrd and others with fuch and fuch
Crimes, was not any contrivance among themfelves, nor a thingythey can be fuppofed tn

. have concerted between them. ‘And ifwe conlider the nature and quality of their Evidence, it

is fuch that it is impofiible _any marl lhould have ever ventured upon the giving of it, un-
lefs it had been true, and that they had perfonal and particular knowledge of all the Cir-
eumltances of it. _ For they not only declare all with the greatezfl plainnefsand diltinétnefs,
but whenfoever there was any attempt to difh-aét or entanglfe them by cro‘fsQ\uePcions,e they
both perfevere to anfwer with the greateft prfelence and ledatetnefs, and by their Replies to
teflecft further light. and certainty on What they faid  ore 5_ or as the particulai'stheyin'-
‘filled upon, are too many for the moft fertile Imagination to have" inVented,'_‘fo as ‘to be able
to make them eohere, muchlefs to caufe onebf them fupport and fortilie another 5 So not-'
withltanding the number of the things they have Depofed, and that there was no previous
acquaintance amongll them, yetthey have innothin g contradiéted one an other,’ nor hath any
one by endeavouring to fupport the truth of what himi"elf faid‘, underminedior fupplanted
the certainty of what others have alledged, ,Or. can itbe Tuppoled that though they had
been never To wicked, and Would not have Rzrupled the del
Perfons in order to profit and advantage, that yet they lhoultl not only be fuch fools but {bi
perfeétly mad, as to alliaultthe lives of fo many of the chiefelt Peers of the Nation, and
16 befriended not only in their numerous Relations, butin the inter-cit which they had as well‘
in his Majeily as thofe of greatelt Authority about him. Surely nothing but an afliired
knowledge of the things which they inform concerning, and _a confcientious defire to prai-
vent the mifchiefs which thefé great perlons in ‘combination with others, were haltning to
involve the Nation under, could have ever prevailed with them to expofethcmfelves tofo
many vifible dangers, as they muff needs have forefeen, tliefacculing fo many Peei's,wou1,d’
makethem obnoxious and liable 1'1n'to.   '  _ “ i   .
§. I I. But this is not the only. particula‘t‘whe1‘ein’we {hall deteél: and lay open this falfc
and perjured Perfon, and therefore we haftento a fecond thing wherein. this late 1'/‘z]Z‘ozi{7il"
hath prollituted his Confcience by affertitng that fora truth, which we {hall prove‘ by un-
dubitable Teltimony to be a grofs and impudent fallhood. ‘ And it is fome advantage that’
We can deal with the Pozpzflt on a fubjeét, that relates wholly to matter of F 2.6% 5 for here
both the meanell: and thofe of the narrowelt llnderftanding, are as capable of being umi-as

pires betwixt us and them, and of comprehending what is proved, or what isnoi, as chore.
of a more elevated Condition, and improved Abilities. This Lord then having both pro-

telled upon his Tryal, that he never rpake with Mr. Dugdale bu_t once, _ .
and averted it upon his Death and Salvation, that he never fp./the zmto See his Sgeech up-
him of any thing firve about it F oot-ho], _or'{.Foot'-man, or F ‘oot-mce, and the Scaffold.

never was then alone with him 5- We {Hall therefore by Tome of the

many undeniable Depofitions which we could produce, demonltrate that he hath been often

With, him, and that at times and feafons when there could be no occalion

to dirfcourfe of any fuch affair or bufinels betwixt them, And this  See Page 78.

cotmt having alfo upon his Tryal folemn{y atte/fled God, that he detqfled _
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Dugdale, as fr} mean a Knave, that often anal ofien, when clry at my.Lorel Alloni: Tahlé,

he would not call for Drink when he faiw him 12] him, that ofien refnfia’ to tahe Drinh at his I

hand: ; I lhall therefore prove by the Teflimonies of feveral Perfons whofe Credit can no
ways be impeached, that the time was, when he had another kind of value for Mr. Dagelale,
and that he hath withdrawn from the Society of very confiderable Perfonstoconverfe with

this Very Dngrlale, whom he is pleafed to reprefent as fii mean aKnatze, and that he fie.

qaentl} eleclineel to take Drink at his hands.

if he Information of William Skeltori late of Horecrofs in the C onnt} of Staf- “

ford, now of St. Martins in the Fields. in the Count} of Middlefex Gent.
it taken upon Oath this 17th. clay of January i68o. hefore me ‘Edmond War-
cupp Efg; one of his Majeflies §‘a/tires of the Peace in the fair! Count} and
City. -   - .

ielalle. g THE Informant faith, that he waited on Rohert ll’-Ioazraerel of Horeeroji
Hi

i   C9‘ _ ' in the {aid County of Stafloril Efq; to the Houfe of the Lord Afton -
7/Veflm. at ‘Iixall in the {aid County of S taflorel, on the 12th. of Septemher  

1678. and then and there faw William late Lord Vifcount Stafihrol talking with Mr. Ste- i

phen Dugelale. And on the I 3th. day of the faid month of Septemher I6 7 8. this Informant

ileppin g by accident into a /Room there called the little Dining-Room or little Parlour, fome'

time before Dinner, he then and there faw the {aid William late Vifcount Stafiorzl, and the
laid Stephen Dagelale, talking and difcourling together in private, no other perfon then
being in the {aid Room befides themfelves, whereupon this Informant foon withdrew lei’:
he" Ihould interrupt their Conference. And this Informant is molt allured of the Premiffes,
by a certain Memorandum, which he then wrote down in his own Pocket Book, which at

the time of this Information is produced. . And he likewife faw the {aid William late Vifcount r

Staflbrel, and the {aid Stephen Daga’ale,difcourling togetherifixall Park in the Buck feafon
of the fame year 1 6 7 8. no other Perfon being with them, while the Gentry then Aflembled,
were hunting the Buck in the faid Park. And this Informant further faith, that as he Was
walking in Tixalll-Iallabout the I 8th. or 19th. day of Septemher I 67 8. he obferved the faid
William late Lord Vifcount S tafihrd go into a Room called the great Parlour, or the Dining-
Room which adjoyned te his Lordlhips Lodging Chamber, ' and immediately the faid Stephen
Dugdale followed him into the Taid Room, and this Informant faw them two alone difcour.
fing together, but how long they continued there, or what their Difcourfe was, he knoweth
not. And by thefe and other Obfervations, this Informant did believe that the faid Stephen
Dagzlale, was in good elieem, . ,
he further faith, that the faid Stephen Dagclale was then Steward to the Lord Afton, and
had great Power and Command in the {aid Lord Alton: Family at Tixall, and bought and
fold all things relating to the Family or Ellzate at Tixall, and was the Chiefeft man in the Lord

A/ion: Family, and paid the Wages of Labourers, and had a very goodName and Refpu-V

ration among the Gentry of that Countrey , as well Papi/is as Prote_/tants, and was re;
quently termed Honell: Stephen Dagalale. And this Informant further faith, that he hath
obferved the faid William late Lord Vifcount Staflorzl, own the {aid Stephen Dngelale with
refpeét, callin g him Mr. Dagzlale at Dinners and Suppers before the faid Lord Ajlon: face,
both when they did eat in private, and when they did eat in publick with other Gentry and
Perfbns of Quality in the [aid Houle, to which there was great refort in that year. And
this Informant likewife obferved the faid Stephen Dngtlale was well refpeéted and very cg.
villy treated by the faid Wifliam late Lord Vifcount Stafford in other Companies and Places,
where they Occafionally met. And further faith not, ‘ A ,

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,3’/ye ihfbrmdiion bf Walter Collins of the Burrozigh of Stafford Geiit. id/tezi

'bein g in their fight all that time, but not in their hearing.) ,

gzpon 042‘/.2 zf/ye 19th. clay of January r680. écfare— Tho. Blacks, aim’ Samp-’
g fon Byrch, /21': Maje/fies fuflices of t/ye Peace for the faid Burrozig/la.‘

Stafiord } HWHO faith, that in or_abd5tit the year of our Lord, Chjrill: 1678. he
Burrough ' faw the late Lord Staforzl, and Mr;Stie;}lre1z‘ ,Di¢gdaié, Walk toga.‘
ther in the Court Yard belonging to Yixall Hall, between the Gate-houfé and the faid Hall,
about the fpace of a quarter of an hour, and that no other Perfon did Walk with them, or
was in hearing of them. ’

J1 & évfl  5//tiflfa

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Tho. Blake; I   A «‘
Sam. Byrch;   ‘ M

Signed in prefince of
William Southall;

Thoinas Jordan of Little-Haywood in tlae ought} of Staflord Gem‘. one i
‘ of fly: High-Con/laéles for the fair! C omit},  

S I {T SAith, that in the Summer time in the year of our Lord One thoufand fix hundred
ti ‘ ieventy and eight, on a 7”/aurfday, being :1 Bowling day at Tixall in the {aid

County, he this Informant faw the Lord Staford and theLord A/ion ftand together on the e

fide of the Bowling-Green, a diftance from‘-the tell: of the Company there, and out of
their hearing: And while their Lordfhips flood at that diltance, this Informant law Mr.
Stephen Dugdale go to their Lordlhips and {land with them in that place out of hearing;
of the tell; of the Company about a quarter ofan hour, and their Lordlhips and  Dug-
dale did Difcourfe together all that time as this Informant verily believes, (thisqhfofmant

, I Tboniaa ;+‘mIa»<.

1 5' die fimuary I 6 80. ..
Signed then in the
prefence of

Zhomm 1/Vhitbejl,
Edward F oden,

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7/ze Information Q‘ William Suelfon of Great-Haywood N;zz'le'r, taken apart
Oat/9 fiéfore S ir Bryan Broughton Knight andflarronet -]an.;1g.. 1680.‘

it ‘Ho faith, that about Micbdelma: was two years,’ he faw the Lord Stafiiird Walk‘-’

he hath often feen him at Tz'xaZL

ffurat’ comm me,

ing alone with Mr. Steplzen Dugdal: upon fixall 'Bov"v1ing—A11ey: And this Infor-3'
mant a faith , that he knew the Lord Staflbrd as well as the one hand from the other, fox‘

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 T he Iaformatioo" of Richard Parkin of Shutburrough in the Comity ofstaffordi
take}: upon Oath in Stafford hefore James Lewes of the Bttrrough of Sgaf.

ford, and Thomas Blake, and Sampfon Byrch }’u/lites of the faizl Bar-

rough. ,
  A i    ‘SI.-Iou on his Oath faith, that in the Summer time in the ear of our Lord
Smfi: H: _ Chriiil 1 677. hefaw mfliam late Vifizount Stafiord, and lit/Ir. Stephen Dug-
Jale together by themfelves and none elfe with them in theCourt at Tzxall betwixt Ttxall
Hall and the Stables there. And alfo that he this Informant law the faid Lord Staflora’, and
the {aid Mr. Dugolale together, and none elfe with them upon a Hemplaml belonging to
Walter Elol of Tixall. i y .  

ffarat’ 1 5'. fan. I 6 8 o.

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Rich. Parkin his [A] Mark.

Signed in the prefence of
James Lewes, I/Vtlliam S outhall.  
Tho. Blake,  

Samp. Byrch.

Vera Copia.

T he Information of T-ho. Crefwell of Little-Haywood C orzlwayaer
Januar. 1 1. 1680.

"St WHO faith, that ‘in the Summer‘ time in the year of our Lord 1676. he was
‘If’ at Ttxall to ride Horfes, and about_a month before Zvfichaclmair the Lord
Stafiiard took him to be his Page, with whom he lived a year and a quarter,within that
time my Lord Stafford was three or liourtimes at Tixall, andflaied fometimes two or three
nights together, and three or four mornings he hath fent this Informant to fee For Stephen
Dugdale and bid him come to him for to fpealc with him : And this Inloirnant faith, that he

hath teen him at the leafl three times go into the Parlour to my Lord S taflorol and his Gentle- _

man, and as Ibon as Mr. Dugdale came in, his Gentleman came out, and he remained fingle
with the L0rd~Stafi’ord, and at feveral other places he hath feen my Lord Stafiord with Mr;
Stephen.Dugzla1e. '

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T he Itiformation of Sampfon Rawlins of Tixall in the Comtty of ji
Stafford Ta_y/or.   - ‘

Smflp WHO informeth, that in the latter end of Summer in the year of our Lord I 67 8.

' the Lord Staflhrd being then at 77xal1, he this Informant faw the faid Lord
Staflord and Mr. Stephen Dugdale walk together in Tixall Hall, and after fome time they
had been together Walking themfelves, the {aid Mr. Dugclale went and fetch: the Lord A/ton
 the {aid Lord S taflbrd. S 6 

The Infbrmations above written were taken upon Oath the I ith. of _7anztary 1680.
before Henry Vernon Efq; one of his Majeities ]ul’tices of the Peace for the County of Staf-

i Wifliam souztat.
Zhe Information of Thomas Robinfon of Ingeflry in the County of Stafford
Hushandmaa, taken upon Oath the two and twentieth clay of January in the

year 1680. hefore James Lewes Mayor of the Burrough of Stafford, amt’
Sampfon Byrch jot/lice of Peace for the [aid Burrough. " h to

Sufi H-”l"His Informantifaith, that in the month of September 16 7 8. be this Informant
‘ ' ' being then at Tixall Hall, ‘he faw William late Vifcount S tafibrd and Mr. Stephen

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and afterwards they both walked together them{elves in the Walks nigh to the {aid Garden,

but what Difcourfe theyhad this Informant knows not. And at another time after the time ‘ta-=3 .

fore{aid, the {aid late Vi{count‘ S tofloro’ came to Tixoil Hall on Hor{eback, and the {aid Mr.‘
Dugclole meeting his Lordfhip, and after he had Faluted him and {hewed his obedience to his
Lordlhisp they both did walk themfelves together into Tzixo/I Hall and none el{e with them.

‘fur’ aloud S toford vuicefznoo jécumlo die , Ylvomoo Rolziafon
  ffonuorii A7mo.Regm' Cozroli ]Ecz»mc{i_ ghis M;11‘k;

mmc Aug.  comm nolozk,

, I Iames Lewes=Moz}or,
Samp{on Byrch.

T/oe Information of Ann Hinckley  Wife of Samuel Hinckley of Penckrich in
the C omit} of Stafford C orc/wayner ) taken upon Oat/J t/Je flint/.7‘:/t2)! of Febr,»
1 680.‘ éefore Richard Congreve Efq; one of /oz’: Maje/fies 3%;/lice: of Peace
for the C oumy aforefaic/. ' I

S 7 VEIO {aith, that in or aboutfthe month of Augufl one thotu{andi_{iXi hundred {eventy
~ and right, this Informant W€ntW1[l’l her Husband to Tixoll in the {aid County,

to {peak with Mr. Step/yen Dugdole, and coming to one EM: I-Iou{e in Trxoll, her Husband

' Burrough. '

defiredher to go into flix./all Hall to look for the {aid Mr. Dugdole, and when {he came into
the {aid Hall, {he {aw_, the {aid Mr. Dogclole with an ancient Gentleman in the {aid Hall,
{landing both together and talking, and after {ome time this Informant asked one yofipb
Toroox (who {lood with this Informant) who that Gentleman Was , who told her it was
the Lord Smfi"oro’, And {he {aw at that time the {aid Lord Srofonl pull Paper o‘..1tof his
Pocket, andgave it tothe {aid Mr. Dugclale to read, and after Mr. })zogc!o/e had looked on
the {aid Paper, he gave it again to the {aid Lord-Stofliorcl, And {he further faith, that {he
continued in fight of the {aid Lord Stoflorzl and Mr. Dugclole above the {pace of half an
hour, and during that time there was no per{on with them : And {he further faith, that
afterwards Mr. Dugdole W came to this Informant, and bid her go to one Dorot/J] Aldridge:
in Yixo/I aforefaid and he would come to her,“ which {he Cl1Cl, taking her Husband with her,
and ‘being there with Mr. Dugclale, he the {aid Mt. Dugclole after {ome Di{cour{e, told this
Informant that he mu{’c go againto the {aid Lord Stczfiom’, for he had earnelt bu{1ne{s with
him: And further laith, that both in the {aid Hall and the {aid Aldridges I-Iou{e {he heard
Mr. Dogdole {-ay, that the Pei-{on he was talking with was the Lord Stofiord. \ as

'   ..Am:e Hinlalo],  ber Marla,

Die’ 69“ Ahnopredifl’ . _ ' ~ I "

}'m'rzt’comm me,   ' , 5116 is anpapiff.
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The Information of John Boulton of the Burroagb of ’Sta’{{ord Soul/er, taken
ztporz Oat/J at Staflord oforefzzicl Zefore T-ho.',Blake and Samp{on'Byrch /oi:
/rag;/226; juflices of the Peace for the faicl ‘Barroaglo, on 2‘/ye 19th. day of
January, 1680. ‘   ‘ l I ‘

Stofiorzl H. I Ho faith, that in the Summer time about the year of our Lord

 Chrilt '1 678. he {aw the Lord -Stoflord on a Bowling-day on the
Bowling-Green at Tixoll amonglt many Gentlemen, and {aw Mr. Step/Jen Dozgdole 'co_me‘to
the {aid Green, and {aw the Lord Stafiorcl go from the other Gentlemen and meet the {aid
Mr. Dugclole, and ask him where he had "been 5 Mr. Dugclole anfwered he had been at H47‘
woocland had got {ome Betts about a Race; after which this Informant {aw the {aid Lord_Stazf3
fowl and _Mr. Stephen Dozgclole withdraw themfelves at a further diftance from the {aid Com—

pany , and there continued without any other Company than themlelves for the {pace of’

almolt a quarter of an hour.

yurat’  é'Anng .- _ . . _ ‘  70673 BOHIIUW.
predio?’ comm A
Tho. Blake, , I Signed in the prefmce of William Southall.
Sam. Byrch. ' 9 ‘ 1, _ M3

 

 
 

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The Information of Senior Anfell of Shutburrough in the County ‘of’ Staifford
Skinner, taken upon 0611;} ‘in the Bnrrongb of Stafford the two and twentieth
Jay 0 January 1680. oefore James Lewes Efg; Major of rice Bnrrongla of

Sta ord, and Sampfon Byrch one of his Majeflies inflicer of the Pezzee of
tire fan! Burraugla.   9 I ,

Ho faith, in the Summer time in the ear of our Lord 16 8. he faw
SW1?’  Mfliom late Lord, alien‘ Vifcount Stzflord and Mr. Step/in Dngdole
talking together at a place called Rnfecroft-Gnte in Tzxnll and no other Perfon with them,
and they both continued together themfelves there above a quarter of an hour in the light
of this Informant, who Ptaied tofpeak with the faid Mr. Dngdnle, and within few days

after he this Informant faw the {aid late Lord Stnfiord and Mr. Dngdnle together them-,

{elves and none elfe with them in the place called the Hall in ffixoll for the fpace of above
half an hour, and afterwards both of them Went together into the great Parlour into

flxfl” Hall. 9

jar’ apnd St'nfiiom' xxxii. die . ‘ '   Semer Anfell.
ffeinnnrii Anna Regni Caroli _
_{écnn;{t nunc Aug. xxxii. oo-
ram noéze,

Iames Lewes,

Sampfon Byrch.

Now though thefe be but a few of the many Depolitions which we could have produced
to this purpofe, yet they are enough to detect the Impofiure and Perjury of the late I/zfcount
Stnford, and to convince the World what little Credit is to be given to a Papzfl in the fo-
lemneft appeals which he makes to God, and that in thofe very Circumftancles, when the
worft of men are ufually found to be candid and ingenuous. For whereas Mr. Dngclole
hath been reprelented as an infamous Perfon, and one that neither my Lord Aflon, nor
any other Gentlemen put the leaf} confidence in, or elteemed worthy of common Refpeét 5
it is made fully evident by thefe Depofitions, that he had not only more than an ordinary
Reputation in my ’ Lord ,Aflo1_s’s Family, the management of my_Lora’s chiefeft Concern-
ments being entruiied with him, but that he was highly valued by the whole Countrey for
Candor, Integrity, Iufhce and Truth, ‘beyond what other Popzffs under all the Recom-
mendation of Birth, Breeding and Inheritance could arrive unto. And as to be accounted
and {filed Hone]? Mr. Dngdnle was the greatell honour that a virtuous ambition could
make him afpirc unto, fo his Temper and whole Conduct, fince called forth to appear on at
more publicl<'Theatre, do proclaim him every way worthy of that Cornpellation. t And
this Character which he obtained in Stofordjhire doth fo correfpond with what we have’
feen and obferved of him in London, that all impartial men do readily acknowledge the
juftnefs of it. And whereas my Lord Stnforolprotefled in tbe prefince ofGoo’, timer or be
2224: never with bim alone, fo he never [poke to /aim but once, and t/oat onlyiconcerning 4
F oot-man 5 Here are proofs neither to be difirufied nor contradicted, that he had both fre-
quent converfation with him, and admitted him into thofe privacies which others were de.
barred and fhut out from. And indeed by the familiarity he entertained him with, and
the fequeitring themfelves from all other Company whenfoever they difhourfed together,
we may eafily imagine what was the Subject they'treated_about. For what elfe fhould re.
commend another Perfons Servant toathofe Privacies which my Lord Sttzflbrol vouchfafed
Mr. Doggdale, or prefer one of fo ‘mean 9. Rank -to be feleéted from among the com.

fly 0 the beft Gentlemen to be difizourfed with apart, a but that there was fome important
Defign on foot of which they two were particularly corifcious. And could this in probabi-
lity be any other, than the mighty Affair of deilroying the King, and overthrowing the

, Pratcjlnnt Religion, which the whole Papal Party had ‘lb long deligned, and were at that

time filled with the highefl: confidencesof accomplifhing.
. 1 7.. The next thing that lies before us is the conlideration of this late Lords renoun.
cing all knowledge of Mr. Turlaervzill, and with what folemnity he abjured the having fo
much as at any time feen him. For having at his Trial not only declared,
See Page 5'0. that be never flzw him before in bi: life, he repeats it in his Speech
upon the Scaffold, and witball twm‘ upon on Death and Salvation, t/Jar
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ée never jjwzée one word I to Mr. Turbervill, or to his émwlealge etverfézw lzim until /22’: Trial.

Some -poflibly may beready to believe that my Lozo'r?3fc:oun£St1zfi:2r,cl had, the gift.,of, for-

getfulnefé, and thaf rhellfapzflgi by V a.” peculiagi‘ Donation remember tiothinlg‘ that iimaybgeither
afperfe themfelves ‘or the interell: 20f the “Catholick ‘Caufe. ~ But as they can not ‘tell us
where fuch a priviledge is bequeathed-' unto them, To‘ zwetlliall make it appear by irrefraga-
ble Tefiimonies that he was well acquainted with Mr. flicrbewvill, and that the fpring of
this mifadventure in denying it,»was,not the weaknefs of.;his -Memory; ?b"i'i‘t'j'fh'e bad-nefs of
his Conlbience. V Nor fliall ’I’infil’t upon theTel’rimony ofaMr. ]l4ort,~ewho~ being produced
at the Trial of my7’Lor7cl 7'S'i‘ezfibricl=,'? 'de'pofed, that beingracquainted: wiEh¢Mr. '_7Zm’2er'z2z"l1
at Par2’.r,. the faid’Tur1ae"rm"ll (did to the belt of his remembrance‘) tell him that his Brother
who was a Monk shad-ilntroduced hiima'into1th'e favour ofmy Lord Sm]?-. ; 4 '   . I
ford, and that _ once being‘ in company with Mr. Turbewirill, the {aid-a See t/yefizirl Yirial
Mr. Turlzereoill withdrew from him tyosfpeak with th’atLQi‘d, and that Page 151. '

he the faid-.Mort walk’d about Luxemlzazrg-Zvoufla till his return. - For _. j x . . .
though this Tefiimonyfdoth imightily“ilh*eng'then Mr..Turfier*w'/1: Evidence, being agreeable
in {everal circumftancesr withwhat he declared 5 yet'forafm,uch as the.Whole is to’ be found
-in the “Printed Relation of my Lord Stnfl’or.cl:'T1'ial, together with the   I
great and«convin‘cing improvement which an excellent'Perfoin made of See Page I 81.

it, I (hall therefore ‘decline enlargingtiponit, and {ball proeeedto ad-

vance two other Depofitions demonltrative of this late Lords infmcerity and falfehood in re-
nouncin g before God. and men the having had any formerknowledge of . Mr. Turberruill.

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" 7716 Information of’_]0l1n Sl1oWterii'Gem‘.7 orie‘of’z'belC/er,f.s‘Ez2‘r}Je C roi‘v7z-Ofiée

in C’/aancery, taken upon, Oat/Jit/J2: gtl‘i1.,_c/tzy» ]anuary,t68o. éiffbreirgée
Edmond WarcuppjEfg; one of /225 Majeflies , j‘ufl«z'ce5 of the Peace in-t/ye
_/aid Comztyaml    ‘ J I: ,t a . t e , - —

.Mirla'1.7_ His Informant faith,‘ that about lix otpfieven years agorhedid frequently
e   ff. refjrt to the Chapiiel at ‘_7_i«:rz‘-‘I-Izzll to Mars, the:..theh'H0ufe of la’?/illiam
WI:/i‘m.j ~ late Vifcount Sta_/fbrr1,i and 2 one xof I thofet-imes hemet there one iVIr.

Glozjfie, who asked this Informant a bill: of the Names '_of.the;]ul’ciLCes’of-_the:Peacc=~in
S/aropjhire, which Lift fome few days a'fterwards thiislntormant Carried to Tarts-Hal[t.an'd
delivered it to the faid Gla/fie, who in kindnefs invited this Informant to drink a Glafs of
Vi/ine in the Cellar, and two other Gentlemen went to drink with them," and after fome
time this Informant asked the faid Mr. Glaflie, who a Tall thin Gentleman was, Wh0.‘W&1S
then one of the Company, 0 anfwered his name was Turlvertvill, and that he belonged
to the Lady Moli7¢ez4x, and this Informant/Cannot politively fay that Mr-. Edi:/-arzl Turbewvill
now produced was the fame Perfon then in his Company, but believes he may be the fame
by his ftature and thinnefs, only his Hair did then look like a Perriwig, and was much

Ion ger than it is: now. And he further fztith that he vei'ilyIhelieves,‘ 'he'fi1w~the Paid Mi-:':‘Iur- a

Iver-vile! at lealt forty times in the {aid Houfe, up and down fo commonly, ‘that he believed
the {aid Turbcr-vill to beone of the Lord Smforcl: Family, and did'1irl<e\tri:{E:,fee himtfeveral
times at Mafs at the faid I-Ioizfe.  ’ I 4 ~ V ‘ I   ' ' 

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iflieiilnftirinetioiaiof Coflonel __lol1_n Sco,tt,,,ti2z1iEe¢z gore i,Ozit"l:j tlae 1 3th. Z141)’ of

 February t68o. lefore line},-Edmond W"ar_-cup.p

f _;;i0,}1€,0_f/J1‘! Maje]lie3.a. jg.
_/lice: of the Peace in the fizitl C aunt} an;l,Czry. ’ ' I     ‘

MiJdl.]  Informant Faith that was aitiPorz2r  the month of No;

é“ :>lT. vvemlaer 1675. and there ‘met I/Vzlliam late Vifcount Staflorcl (whom
Weflmji this Informant was wellacquainted with)‘-ina Cedan, in ,tl'ievS'n-es};
called Rue ale Neuf Fofle, about the I821?-, or 2.otlz..of_the f'a‘i‘d,No‘vember, who Called to
this Informant, inviting him to his Lodgings which he then ifaid was in a Street called La
Rue Je Pomoung atfa Corner Houfe at the lowerrendof that Street, the upper end whereof
is fronted by Luxemburglz-/Joufe, to which Lodging this Informant went the -next day,
and was initoduc’d'into his Lordlhips Chamber, who cornplain’d‘of a lamenefs which the
Informant judg’d ‘to be the Gout, and this Informant vifited himfeveral times afterwards
in his Chamberiwhich was a lower Room in the faid Corner}-Ioule, about thelatter end
of the (aid month of November 1675'. when a certain Perfon, came in whom’-this Info;-.
man: took to be one of his Lordfhips Domefliciks, and told his Lordlhip that one Mr. Tux.
Ive:-'vz'll would fpeak with him, whereupon this Informant having no other bufinefi but

evifit and refpeft, and believing his Lordlbip might have fome buiinefi with that Gentleman

ofler’d to withdraw, but his Lordlhip would not permit it, faying, Mr. Turlverwill migh;

come another time, but before anfwer was return’d the {aid Gentleman came into the Room, I

‘which his Lordlhip perceiving, faid, Mr. Turoervill you have not fo much hall, or fo
much to do but I may fee you again to morrow, upon which the faid Gentleman bow’d
his body and retir’d. g And this Informant further faith that Mr. Edward Turlaerrvill now
produc’t is very like to the {aid Gentleman in Stature, whom the {aid Lord Steforzl then
called Mr. Turbertrill, but this Informant cannot politively fay he is the fame man by rea-
fon he had to {hort an Interview, and his Hair is {hotter thanthat Gentlemans was, but he
believes him to be the fame Gentleman he faw in my Lord Staford: Room as aforefaid, and

i this Inforniant wasfo much fatisfied that Mr.-Edward Turberrvill is the fame Perfon that he
-sfaw -in Parzlr in November 1675-. that he olIer’d Juflice PI7mqc_upp a day or two before his

Lordlhips Execution to’ go with him to the faid Lord in the Tower, or with any other Perfon

. toaendeavour to Convince his Lordfhip that one Yizrbertzill, and probably Mr. Edward
~Yi¢r'5er'z2i1l was thezfiime Perfon he law at Part’: in November ,1 6 7 5'. as is aforelaid. '

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ffxirat’ Jie é’ £37104 70/an Scott. j
fiapradzfl’ cor’me, . ~ ‘

Edmond Wareupp.

. Nor let any objeél: that thefeg Gentlemen are not pofitive that the Mr. Tu:'I2em2ill who
tellilied againll my Lord Stafibrzl, is the fame perfon whom they faw in the placesforemen-
tioned and referred unto gfeeingr all the peculiar and defcriptive accidents which they ob-
ferved in the one are found in the other, except that hi_s_jI-lair, differs in length and cut
( which any mans may do in two days time) from what it then did. Nor are they able
to aihgn any other Gentleman of that Name, unto whom we may apply what 15 here
Sworn and Depofed. And the modelly with which thefe Perfons do exprefs and deliver
themfelves, inflead of detraéting from the probability of theirTellimon y doth greatly add to
the weight andmoral certainty of what they lay. If this therefore be true, that my Lord
Stefan! not only frequently faw- Mr. Turberrvill, as his being a kind of Domellick in his
Houfé, as Mr. Sbowter: Depofition doth imply, butthat he treated him with that famili-i
arity which Colonel Scam Information doth import: there can then be nothing more evi-
dent than that my ,-Lord Smfard was wholly regardlefi of the truth of what he faid, and
that he died guilty of a high prophanation of the Name of God, and in a defperate con-
tempt of all that lhould be preferved (acted, by taking it upon /221: Salvation, it/mt be never
_/puke one word to 1|4r. Turbervill, or to his knowledge ever fin» him until his Trial.
And if he could allume the impudence to aver that he never faw Mr. Turberruill, when the
acknowledging of it, would of it felf have derived no danger upon him, we may very
reafonably believe that notwithllanding his being never fo Criminal, he would abjure the

‘ Treafons which Mr. Turbervill charged him with, it being fo much his interefi to do to.

So well affured was Colonel Scott that this very Turlzervill who gave Evidence againllmy
Lonl Stafiorzl at the Bar, is the fame Perfon whom he heard my Lord call by that Name

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 his shodgingsiat ‘Paizai,  offered to. -go with ;ji?afliee.W2zroappi to thxeiffizzxer to con-’
irince the,{2'tids;L;ord 0f:_.lt,:» iar1'd’tl1.1s‘«l\/It.?§‘ufl‘ice.l4Vnrcupp is not onlytready to tellifie to any -
that {hall enquire of him, butrhathsbeenf-pleated: to’decla1;'e- it in the"Paper that is here‘

ifubjoyned. . 

 Do humhly certzfie, théi!f«C0l071€ZJO.l‘)Il Scott zlin’= nccorzliizg as-the hethtSo1Jom in em In-

formatioii hereunto prefixed, ofler me in v!_ C0_flie€*H0tt/é;?f07fi12Z0flZ)lit€fll1€lz Richard’: Cofee-%
;H0,flfi near Temple-Bar,» izf clay or two hefore. theiExecutio1z of VVilliam late!’/zfioimt Stafa,
ford,,to go to him in the Tower for the piirpo/e.c:cozitiiinezl‘iizrthe faia'Informcztio7z :;But
I told him, Ithaca’ no aecefi to the fetid Lore], and therefore ddziifid him to wait «on the
Right‘Hon0,u'mhle Vfilliam Lora.’ Howard of7'.Efcricl<,a1zhofheing the Kinfmomof the.fizz'zI
late Vifioimt Stafford, might have accefi to’-him in the Tovver, and his Lorofhip heing it
great lover’ of Jiwth, would without olouht,iipon his the /Eziil Colonel» Scott’: application. to
his LonI_{hiy,i go with him tothe Tovverhefore the Deizthof the filial Vl/illiam lzzte‘W_/Eozmt

Stafford; I/Vititefi my hand this 2141- of February 1680.» 1 , V
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'  13. Having laid open the‘ Perjuries as Well as the Infincerity of this late Lora’ in re:
ference roe ,Mr. Dugclale and Mr. Turher5Uili,~ that which We are next to apply unto, »is;
how far his_word~ ought to be relied upon in‘ reference to the Cl1araC?ce1's\Which he faflens
upon Dr. Oats, and_ how far we are toirgivei credit to him in his-renouncin g the having?
feen the Doftor before he appeared at the Bar to teliifieiagainlt him. '.,Various have been
the endeavoilrs to ltain and eelipfe the Reputation oft,.D'r.=,~Oet:, but all of them have,been
over-ruled unto, and iffued in the raifingthise-Honourand Elleem. They Vgerytwell knew‘
that could they but once undermine and fupplant the credit of that Perfon, the detraéting
from the credit of all the other VV itnelles would be a province which with ligimetprob-ability.
of fuccelé. they might then   go about and attempt. F orasiall the tell: do but (I_Of1li1‘1)1'c1~f1Cl
explain What he at firli revealed and deteéted, fo were -the Papal Party but once able to
convince“ the VVorld that he were an ffmpo/tor, molt rnen,~,.thou‘gh it would he never fo:
contrary to the Rules of Jufiice, would immediately entertain -»fi_i_fp_icions of,al1_ the r._ell., ,

And if We may believe the Papfis in.,the 'iAccou~nt and Reports which they divulge.
either of the Doéiorr Intelleétuals or Prudentials, We cangnot apprehend that he was able
to invent and frame this Plot, and conféquently that the moll: which his Parts are adopted
HMO: i3 0015’ I0 be 3. D.l.{C0V€I'€I' Of What more Politick;.heads.haed contrived and proé
ijeéted. And by how much they think to reproach himby d_etra6l:ing-from the compre-1
henfivenefs of. his 1lndc1°fiand~in.g, or the difcrerion of..his: Conduél: 5 by fo much do they
affure all the World that this Confpiracy was not invented or forged by him. ' And though
.I very much queflzion Whether any thatfrefle,€t upon his Conduit, would have comported
Lthemfelves_ fo well under hisrcircumllances‘ and Provocations, yet h-is-;ve-rye failours and
infirmities are llffiflll '50 confirm us that he found this Confpiracy laid and formed to his hand,-
-and that the,-meerv difclofure and detetftionl of it, is all that can be afcribedunto him; 01'
that he can be allowcdeto beat himfelf L upon. Belides it is not to be thoughtthat any one»
would pretend to ClifC0VCY 3 Pl0t,0f his own framing,sttilliiheyshad before hand fecured per-
fons that lhould vouch and confirm all that he lhould fay. For as the whole that a li_ngle~
Teltimony could amount unto, was only to awaken; the Government to a Watchfulnefs in
reference to it felf, and an enquiry into the aétions, and after the P-apers,oif»thofE: th,at,t-vverc.
C°mPl3i11.€d Of 3 (0 11¢ Could not be ut1fenfible.that the ,very“bringing under a fufpicion of,
Treafon,; :Per,fons of that Quality and Temper that he had taken upon him to accufé, wouldj
infallibly bring, him into manifold dangers ,_ and expofesyhim to eminent ,ha(Largds.,_;And;
yet it is plain , that this hone_-It Doétor whom the \VOLflCl‘d,0f:h' fb traduce, ‘Was fo far_ft§om.,
Concertiflgwith any beforehand, the matter which he appeared about, that he knew not
whether there was one man _Whom fear,or_confcience would influence to confefé, acknow-‘
ledge,‘ or anyway confirmwehatlhenhad (hid. iBelides,§>v_ere the Do._St,oran Impo/tor, as the
P4111:/ill reprefent him, [9 be,_ he l-‘lath   as much im_pfpdence.ag_ intalcing
upon him to depofe Fuchs a vallt number of Particulars, a_nd«a‘ll of then‘1.rel_at«ingi to mattfif
of F213, Whereas could hc;be but difproved in anyone ofjthem, there i,.W_'ould be reafon
and caufirfor. disbelievinghitn, in all the re{l.,. .And if we do but confiderhow impofhhle it

is to lay fo many Accufatyonsagainflanyfortof men, and thofe declarativc'pf things done l

at diflerenttirnes and dillanqplaces, without leaving fame one particular.,irtc,oh,erent Witli the
reli,if.i inconfillent with the whole , we mufl necelfarily conclude that the Dofior 15
no Impoflor, feeing among all the things which he hath Depofed, there is notany. one
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that interfers With, or weakens’ cthebelief of another. Wh:ereas.ha'd this’.‘f.lot,‘l:)€én alforl

gery of the Docftors, it had been'_as'ell'e€tual to thefdefign‘ of pruininglthe ;PapijZr,uand
more fafe for himlelf as well as more agreeable to common prudence, to ;have charged
them only with two“ or three Articles importing a Confpiracy againltthe King, theiGo’-
vernment, and the Protejhmt Religion, and not to have ventured to give a Hillory of lo
many years Tranf'a6’tions of the Pap'alParty, name fo many Conlhlts, inl’tancei~in lo many
matters of F aét, and mention the places and perlons where and by whom fuch Defignsi were
debated and relblved upon. Befides, tome of thole whom he undertook’ to Charge and
Impeach have been found by their own Papers which were leized, not only to be guilty of

 all he charged them with, but of a great deal more than he pretended to know oraccufe

"them of. And lbme others whofe Confpiracies fell not within the Acircle of the Doffors
knowledge, and of whom therefore he prelumed to fay nothing 5 ‘ have been deteéted by
their own Letters to be guilty of the Plot 5 which is bothfan argument of ‘the Dofior:
Modelly and Confcience in nottlmpeaching men at peradventure meerly becaufe they are
Pzzpzfls, and an infallible affurance of his lincerity inreference to all whom he hath lm-'
peachcd, and a convincing proof of the truth of thole things which he hath depoled a1-
gainll them.  Moreover, whatfoever he hath laid that is either any way. material in it felf,
or molt levere againll the Romzfli Faétion, hath been confirmed by ‘others whom he had
neither foreknowledge of, correfpondence with, or influence upon, yea, tlielevery things
which wercrmoll.‘ improbable,’ and of the truth whereof his Friends were-molt. liilpicious,
andconcerning which his Adverfaries have talten occalion to Rizlicide and Expole him,
namely his intimacy with, and his elleem amongthe Iefuits, his having beenin Spain and
iii f-.ivoui- with the ;Archbilhop*of Tuam, and his integrity in reporting my L0rc1iCajflemairz
to be in Sacred and Religious Orders; have all of them beenconlirmed by other Wit-
nellies, and his Credit fully cleared and vindicated in thole matters that were molt unlikely
to be true,‘ and which occafioned fame to talce fo great advantage not only ‘to’ traduce but

[t3777P0073 him. ..And whereas there wasone particular wherein they ventured their whole i

caule towards the .overthrowin g his Reputation, namely, that he was at St. Omer: all Aprill,

. May, and till towards the latter end of fame 1678. and confequently could not have

been at the Confult in Lom1orz,iApril  as he had pofitively Depoled and Sworn 3 it is
remarkable that the Striplings who were brought from St. ‘Omar: to tellifie that heh-ad not
ltii-red out of that Colledge all thofe months, differed greatly among thenilel_'ves, fome
afiirniing that he left. St. Omar: the Iotb of june, others laying that he camefrom thence
about the latter end of it, and one proflering to fwearthat he wastherein  who being
told that he varied from the iiefl'., cried out, be was furs be 2124: there till after the Confirlt‘,
which lerved to difcover Whatcthey were pre-inllruéted ‘to’ fpeak unto bythe Iefuits,
whole Morality can difpenfe with a thoufand lies,’ when the interelt bfgthe Catholick
Church, or the prefirving the honour of their Society, doth bef peak a kindnefs at their
hands. But belides there wereno lels than firven ’W_it‘nelles of unfufpeéted credit, and who
cannot be fuppofed tohave been under the imprellion of any indticements influencing
them to appear in favourof  Oats, that depoled upon Oath his being in London both
in April! and »May,.-the time that the Popifla Youths had averr’d his being at St. Omen.
And whenfbever Mr. Ducllefs Depofitions (who is both a Papifi‘ and a Gen€le'ma’n—iof good
Ogality andof an ancient Family) which lye atiprelient before his Majelly, having been
tranfinitted to one of the Secretaries by the Iullices of the Peace who tooletheih in the
Countrey, come to be publilhed and communicated to the Kingdom 3  will,-then more
fully appear what a horrid Plot hath been carried on. by the-Ifapfl: agaisnill the life of the
King, the Prorejhmt Religion, and the lafety of his Maj€fhes' belif1“dm°fl“_L0yalSub’-
jeéls, and how -‘much the Nation is indebted to Dr. Oat: fortlie timely _an_d:, leafonable
deteétion of it, and by conlequence for preventing tl‘le.EXieiC4lit»l6fl'Gf their .Hellilh Treafon
againll: his Majeity, -and the -glutting theinbrutilh rage in the blood of his Injnocent, and
af"tha't’ time fecure-an unapprehenfivc People.   _And it is to be hop’d thatif, ’this’.unthanl<-
fol age lhould not reward him in form proportion to what he doth deferve; that yet our
Pollerity will, if not creel Monuments unto (him, at leall Record him in Hillary, as a
lignal Inllrument whom God hath made ufe of and honoured to fave hi_sCou_nti'_ey. And
tam not yet funltiinto that defpondency, but that I both hoperto lee him receive the ac-
l<nowletlgIments,»an"d participate of the -rewards Which~the'-Km dom oweth him, and that
lomeelegant Pen will Enroll his‘ iM_emory in the Regillers soft: ime, and therebfy leave a
Iialtteffli to liicceeding Generations of the Loyalty -which vD’i‘.1.’Oats hath expre ed tohig
Pririce, and of the 'Compallion'iand Duty which‘__he hath tefiified to his ‘Native Countrey,

wi£,3C1,~had it nu beénfor him,‘ would not only have been involved in blood, but buried  

in its -own ruines. « And in the mean time the Credit which not only a great ’2_1fl’Climpartial
Prince, but the whole Kingdom in its Reprelentatives in four liiccellive Pai'l1aments, and

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the shigheli as well as the lowefl of’ th'ejudicial'Courts of the Kingdom, have after the
flriétell: and mart crit'ical\Enquiry given unto him, ‘is enough to vindicate his fincerity, and

fro leave an indelible Stamp of Truth upon all his Depfofitions. , Nor canthe all"everatiori

of any Papi/lfwhofe Confcience "allows, him, and whole fafety makes it needfulfor himto
proteli his Innocence, tho he know himfizlf guilty, leifen the Reputation of this hone{’t
and plain hearted Do£torsTe£limony, who in the face of a thoufand Temptations to the

contrary, and in ‘the profpeét 'ofinnutnerable hazards, {wears that they arehori-id Cri-
minals. 1 ’ ‘ i e

. 14.. Having difpatched allI intend from matter of Ffaéh, towards theconvincing the

l.VVorld that there is no faith  Papiftr, and that we bewrayia very. great weaknels in gi-
' giving any credit unto them; «I {hall in the lafi. place enquire into thofe Maxims of their

Religion, by which Lying and Perjury, are legitimate, and made lawful unto them.

And here I {hall premife two ‘things, whereof the firll: is this, that._i_n zzahatfoerver ca es

they tnayplawfnlly [peak that which it falfé, A they_;7nay;Zz’he21_1z]é without the -hazsartl of.nea_-,
hing t/.2.t;a’7¢fé?hI/e.§ gnilty 0f_Perjttry fwearz't., The Par/hns,..Mtttg’. cap. II. fecff. 9. Ltflit/a‘

:a’e jare  in it. cap, 4.2. _a’ah. 9. Sanftizn aSelec‘f. Ijtfhttt. p. gg_O._ And therefore .

Father Garnet gave it under his hand, that every Speech which hy Eqttinocation nzzgtht,
he fit‘:/ea’ from a Lye, the [ante Speech gntthoat Perjury he chnfirrnetl hy an Oath,
or hy any other way, thoagh t't’2.1/'ere hy- receiving the Sacrarnent; See Cafafnhons Epzfl. ad
Front. Dnc. A . 7.02.. . The ficona’ thing [would premife is this 3 That hoztyféeeoer a matter

, may he :,unZangfal and  t'fjrneafnre,tlj‘;a22ith refpeéi‘ to the Rale, it is nergerthelefi  in

the pratfhtch and may he done gwithoatfinv,  it he hat jajhzfietl or conntenanegal the Opi-
nion of one Doétor. And this they Ptile, the Doé’crine‘of Probability, avowing, That what-
{'oeverisgfupported by the Authority of any one Catholick VVritei', is good and lawful for
any man. "to venture upon the pra€tice of, though both: the gzeneiality of other Caf‘uilis,.

and the i~Perfon who’ is concerned immediately in the cafe de-‘pending, be otherwife minded.

  See Layman hh. 'I.. Trarft‘.,i.cap. 5i'.Efcohar in Prafat. Theologne, Prohhemattcte, Filttttztx M'or.

,2ne]t. Traéi‘. 21. cap. 4.. Bonacina, Time. 2., 2.  Accordingly if any Piiiell: pronounce"
it lawful to kill the King, or to fwear falfelyto take away the life of a Frolic/hunt, or to call.
Heaven and Earth to witneis that he himfelgf is innocent of a iénatter, whereof he , knows he is
guilty; all thefe and a thoufand fuch things may be done uponthe Authority of our Father,
and that without deriving anyguilt upon the confcierice of him that doth them. Now tliele

two things being fuggefled, I {hall in theplace enquire by what Maxims they have pro- .

vided that ainan may fpeakydiflbiiantly towhat he knows and believes, and yet not lye. Se-
condly, Ilhall call over fame of their Theological‘Principles, by which a perfoii may lie and yet
not fin. And thira’ly, I {hall recount fotne of , the blefliedt provifions offlthe .‘Cath_olick;
Church, by vertue of which in cafe onehath both  and perjured, yet he doth no ways
endanger his falvation. .   _ l      . f : » -t t. _ A,  t A .
§. I5’. There ar_e various Maxims pi-ov_ided‘by the Roman Cafuifts, according to which
thofe in the: Papal Communion may fpeak otherwifi: thanthey believe, andiyet not to be
chargeable with~Impoltu_re _' ying, or to have ti'anfgreifed any command of God, whereby
one man is obliged to {peak truth to another.  i .  
( 1.) When a Perflm exprefleth hitnfelf in worth flgntficant ofthingr ana’ thoaghtxr, hat
yet jntentls not. to fignzfie: any thing hy them. * Thus fay they, One may pronounce a whole
Oration articulatly,uand yet properly not atall fpeak ,and if he do not formally lpeak,
the doth not, faith their Cafazflr, lye. Przetemnotlo: e/£3-uitzoicantlifapra pofztos azlrlant altcyai
quarmmm mmiyum, /5 ant: ale re aligati interrogatzar zzerha exterittr proferat, in qnthm
plena .é' integrai conttnetnri refponfio, qai gtatnen haze ‘vgerha profert tntenzltt rvel per aljgaa
z'lloru7n,. eoel,e‘tz°:an2 per otnnia non loqni‘. Unale ingnieant. qatht: atitar tyaantttnrvtlr nerha
illa fitnt f4’lfa,. non tamen mentitur qnia non loquitttr, nee q‘t:it{qztamintend.it per eafigntfieare,
fed rnere illa pr-ofert materialiter,  anintt gratin, fen-at! exercendam ‘vocen/t, ant atrial
jitntle. Citante Comptotio Tom. Polier. Dilput. 9.4.. Serf}. 3. Thefe alayai or fame whom
our Author citeth, though he pretend to differ from them, are fulhcient according to the
Doétrine of Prohahz'h'ty to juliifie this in the prac'Zz'ch, and to acquit him that ‘doth it
from fin. ' As if words were ’ not invented to be the ligns of things, and the conveyancers_of
the th0t1g_htS- of him. thatufeth them 1 How {hall we know hutby mens fpeaking proper and
iignilicative words, that theyintend toreprefent things, andecommunicate -thei_1'n}mdS Unto
us? And if OIICC men ‘maybe juliified in fpeaking words without deiigi1ing.4I0.1nf1111af€ any
thing  th_etn,, all converfe among men is _rendred:cou{enage and meeii cheat. And if
when any one utter'eth' words which are aptito be declarative ofllich a matter, and proper

* to reprefent his "mind who fpeaketh concerning it, ,and which the bearer can no other-wife

coniirue than as exprefiive of (itch a thing and =purpofe 3  fay if the ifpeaker may liilye him-
fclf from lying by pretending that he defigned not to fignifie any thing by thofe words,

there is not that abufe impofeable upon men by fpeech, that h'ere is any way left for them r
p to efcape or avoid. For example, fuppofi: thatlone charged with a Crime, make a long

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h arrangue in terms materially fit toivindicate his innocency,‘and which in the acceptation
of every heater can not be otherwife interpreted, than as a jultilication of the fpealter from
the Crime charged upon him 3 and though hebe highly Criminal and his Heaters meerly
abufed by believinghim guiltlefs, he hath not according to thisvildaxim of fefiiitical Mo-
rality told a lye, becaufe he never deligned that the words which he ufed lhould fignilie any
thing, but only pronounced to exercife his lungs’ and make a noifé. ‘   “

2. 1'1’/ben one tell: a falfizbood and knows it to be fir, but fiippojétb tbat nonewill belie‘:/e
bi.-n in tbir cafi’, fay fame of our Papal Czzfiiijfs, be dotb not lye. For a lye fay they, is,
Verbumfal/iim ‘cum intenrionefallendi, A falfehood uttered with an intent to deceive , F ilu-
cim Tom." ‘2.. Traéi’. 4.0. cap. 2.. And therefore if he that fpeaks think that no body‘ will be-
lieve him, he cannot be fuppofed to have _a purpofe to deceive and confequentlyis not to
be fitid to lye. Thus let whata perfon {peaks difagree never fo much with the mind ofthe
fpeaker, yet it‘ it can be but fiippofed that the heaters will not believe what the words are
expreilive of, there is no lye in fuch cafe. Sothat let a man be but of a broken credi“t,he is
of all perfons fecurell from lying,’ though he never fpake a true word from one end of the
year to the other.’ And according to this Doétrine the Papzfl: are lealt in danger, of all
men in the VVorl«.l, of lying to Proteflantr, notwithllanding everything they fay to them
be Falfe, fceing they may very well fuppofe that Protejlants will not believe them, as indeed

nothing but folly and fimplicity can lead them to do it. And by this Principle of Popifb Di- .

vinity, I can make a fhift to jullilie that the late Romilb Traitors who have fullered did: not
lye in their ' ll Speeches, though all that they laid andfealed with Oaths and Protelta-
tions was fal , becauliz they might very well imagine that we had reafon to know them better
than to believe them. i   .

3. Wben tbougb all tbat a Perfim audibly faitb be falfi, yet witb fometbing to be added
to, wbicb is concealed in tbe mind of tbe jpeaker, it may be rendredand made true, in tbat
fir} tbe Roman Cafiiijis tbe Perfbn dotb not lye. (hairdo verba exterius prolata flint falfa,
junéta nihilominus verbis quibufdam internisqua: quis in mente retinet,- faciunt fenfum
verum. Cornpt. Carlet. Tbm. 7.. Dzfp. 7.4.. Seéi. ‘ 1. Non eff mendacium cum qui: ntitur Re~
flriflione tacita, Lefl. de jure Q5)‘ juflit. lib. ‘L. cap. 4.7.Dub. 6. .%ti babet jujfam caufgm . C5,.
landi inentem fiiam tacim‘ Refiriélione,non peceat etiamfi alienu fenfu juret, quad intellige fi
neceflita: ‘val utilita: juramentum exigat idem ibid. Dub. 9., Thus faith Sancbes, a mm
may fwear tbat be barb not done a tbing tbougb bereally bane, by underjlandzng witbin bim-

.  tbat be did it neg on fiicb or fucb aday, or befiare be was born, Op. Mar. lib.  cap. 6.
And this is what they call the D_o€’trine of Mental Rejewvation, than which alone there -

is nothing more needful to avoid lying, though a perfon never {peak truth to his Neigh-
bour. F or example, if one lhould ask another whether h_e knows any news, he may by
this art though he know never fo much, yet both aflirm and (‘wear that he knows none,
providing he have but this referve in his mind, wiz..t0. "511 1‘‘‘,“.s 01' Ilia Prielt be asked
Whether fiich a one did not in Confeflion acknowledge fuch a‘S1n unto him , he may not.-.
withllandiiig that the perfon did To, yet deny it and that with an Oath, providing that "he
have but {itch a mental referve as this, namely that it was not confelled to him as a meet
man but as God. Thus if any Papiji‘_be examined concerning a Delign againll the State
which he ‘not only knows butisa Confpirator in,he may neverthelefs {wear that he knows of
no finch Delign, underltanding in himfelf that he doth not know it as a thing which every
Porter in the Town is acquainted with. Now if lawful thus to abufe the faith of mankind,
it was to no purpofe to forbid lying,feeing every one that is not an Idiot rnayfave himfelf
in the molt folemn allieverations o a falfehood, by Tome fecret referve in hisown mind,
And while this Doctrine doth obtain, it is impoilible to know whether a Papijl at any time
fpeaks truth. One refolved to poylion his Prince, may yet {wear that he never defigned
any fuch thing, referving in his own mind that hfi did not purpofe to do it with Hm/mm»,
So one Fully refolved to {lab his Soveraign, may yet deny_it with all the Alleverations and
Oaths imaginable, and never all this while be guilty of lying, providing he have butfuch
a referve as this, in his mind,namcly, that hedid not intend to do it with a Lath. To what

ufeliul purpofes, may this facred knack of .mental_Ref'e-rvation ferve the Rornanijlr efpecially _

while the neceflity of the Papal Caufe, or their own Perfonal flifety render it expedient.

(4.) As if this were not fecure, my to avoid lying, though a Perfon never fpeak truth,
they have found another which they reckon more fafe, namely , nzben one barb fizid tbat
wbicb if falfe aloud, be [ball wbifper to bimfélftbat wbicb being Joyned to it willferve to
maize and render it true , F ilutiu: Moral. gfiieji‘. Tom. 2.. Tr. 7.5. Cap. I 1. N. 331. Thus
having fworn aloud that he was not at fuch a Confiilt, he may add by way of whifperin g to
himfelf witb tbe Secretary of State. Or that after he hath (aid aloud fwear, he then
“’hlrP°’5 ’/M’ Pf"): and fo proceeds aloud that I was not in a Confpiracy againfime
King and the Government. Thus they fpeak truth only to themfelves, but lye to allothers.

(5.) Wben_ tbougb wbat one fit}: be falfi in tbe intention of tbe jpeaber, and be bnow:
tbat tbe beaitiebiziri will be impofid upon by fiicb a firm qffpeecb,_yet if tbrougbfime ambzguem,

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T trary command them to Lye. In that cafe the Authority of the holy Father legitimates lying,

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or azquivocalt-erni: the ipropo/Ztion he ca pahle of a true finjé,  that ca/it the Cafinfl: there ,3

no lye- See Cornpt. Carletauhi prim, (9 Leflins cle yure,é'ju_(i.it. lih. 2.. cap.4.6. F ilutm;
Tom. 2.. 17*. .7.5'..tC'ap. I I. And is that which. they Call eyiiquivocation in a proper fenfe,

' and by which the Papi/lshave fought themfelves by lying in innumerable cafes, wherein

they have been found to abuféthe faith of mankind. Nor is it to beimagined what feats
this may do, when one hath his mind and memory furnilhed with ambiguous terms- But
fo much hath been laid againll: the Payifl: on this head, that I {hall fatisfie H1)’ felf in having
barely mentioned it. 5 . -. t t . 
P  16. And as they have Theological Maxims by which a man may fpeak dillbnantly t6
what he knows and believes and" not lye, fo. in thejécontl place they havefound out‘
Methods and laid down Principles according to which a perfon may lye and_.not fin.   _
( I.) F irlt, when a per-fizn tell: a faljehoozlancl hnow: that the world will he-impofi-cl upon
hy it, yet in the telling offuch an untruth he cloth not alireii.‘ his intention to the deceiving of any

hotly, in that cafe fizy th_e Roman Cafiufls, though the party lie: yet he cloth not _/in. The, .

Pap:/ti have found a myllery which will allow men in committing all the villany in the
VVorld, and yet fecure them from finning, and this they call the direéling of theintention.
For example, if a man faythe Papal Cafuills wilfully killanotherthat either hath, or may
hereafter injure him, it is not Murder providing he did it not out of malice ,or revenge, but
meerly‘ to repel an injury done him, or prevent one that may be donevhim. , By which
[1/Iaxizn I know what account to give of Sir Erlmunel-hury God,/ifey’s death‘, namely that

9 though the Papiji‘: killed him, yet they were far from murdering of him, unlefs they who

«-did it were fuch fools, as not to know how to dire<9t their intention to the fecuring the Popijh
Caule, without deligning revenge for his being fo bulie to defeat and obllruét them in
theirdefigns. Thus by this direéting of. the intention, it is no {in to calumniate another
fallly, or to charge him with Crimes which may both reach his life and his honour, although
you know himaltogether innocent of what you accufi-: him of, providing the end you

epurpofé in doing fo be fome fuch good thing, as the preferving your fafety or the reputation
of the holy Catholick Church, and not the defaming or dellroying the party whom you’

{lander and acculé. Thus the giving a falfe Telhmony in Court upon Oath, is no fin, if
you can but direét your intention in doing it to the faving of onethat he bath a kindnefé
for. Thus one may fay and {wear that which is molt falfe, providing he do not direct his
intention to the deceiving’ men, but only to hinder them from doing hurt, namely, their
preventing the Plot from‘ going on, or their hanging a Popzfh Lord or Jefuit who had
Confpired againll: the King, the Proteftant Religion andthe Kingdom. By this I think Pm
able to falve the St. Oiner: Youths from having ll1‘lI1€Cl in their lying Tellimonies at the
Ole./-Bayley : For the Striplings did not formally defign the abuling the Judge or jury, or the
difcrediting Dr. Oats, thefe things would have proved but accidental confequences of what
they depofed, had their Tellimony been believed, feeing alaz all that they intended was
the bringing of? their Friends and the fupporting the Credit of their Church. And the

, command of God forbids only a falfe Teflimony againft my Brother, but not a falfe Telli-
mony for him. And thus we know ealily how to vindicate the late Papal Martyrs from ha- T

ving finned in their lall: lying ipeeclies, {for poor innocent men they did no waysintend to
geceive, buévolnfly to prop upt elcredito the Popzfh Caufe and hind_er.thePlot from being

elieved. e are Diana who te ls us in the thzrclgpart of his Cafiuzjtical Divinity Tr. 6.
 alt‘    r  

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(2.)  they lye anjforfwear themfilves from a cu/torn anal a hahit which they have ac";
quired of lying anzl perjury,» in thalt cafe to ‘lye or fwear flizl/Zy is not according to the greatejt
ofliuofuril Mozlern Cafuijt: any rnorta figniran as fonzecf t erln fay any fin at all. Confuetud.
*2: aaztr "6 :6‘ tmzg ‘23§r‘:..3.l”§§‘;‘2.§.‘;‘Z}§2 F”°{~‘““  :5  is N at
4. . _ yzpelcfog, nec propr IR 0 h d  r. cap, 3: 0t at for a Papzff
to acquit himfe rom finning by ying at san. A cverations, it is but before hand to
habituate himlelf never to {peak or fwear what. is true. And the more profligate and ob-
durate any perlbn hath been in daily blafphemies and peryuries, the more fecure heisfrom
{inning in doing fo, efpeciall y if the advantage of the Papal Church require fuch a curtefie
at his hand, as to blafpheme the name of God, find perjurezhimfelf. Nor is it Prrange that
a Lorzl who had contraéted as greatcuflom of finning, as molt men of this age had done,
fhould ventureto dye with a lie in his mouth upon this bleffed fecurity of the fiipream Di-
ret9:ors of Confcience, that the cullom of lying had made it no {in for him to do fo.

(3.) A Lye according to the Mora/ity of the Romilh Divine: it in fitch cafe: no fin, when

he that zleliver: it, though he confirms it with never fa many Afleveration: to he true, at not *

hound to /Iveah truth. S ylvejler Sum. verh. Memlaciurn, with many others. Now they
allign feveral cafes, wherein thofi of their Communion are not obliged to {peak truth;
( I.) If the Pope lhould forbid them to {peak what they believe and know, and on the con-

and

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and  {peak truth» becomes ‘a— Crime, ‘Si Paprserraret praecipiem rvitia, 2?‘ pra26il*em’<vai'rtutes-,3
Esclefim crvéakrq‘-ttnotztr ~"'()l’fi4 «zj]e bow, ~é--rxirtutes tflé males. Bellarm. .a'e Rom) Po1'rtzfI,l:'é. 4.4.
cap.’ 5'.   ‘i If theyybepréhtibited2l3y.:tl§ett'§laWfu1.,Superior  truth, :andcenjo'y.nedi by.’  

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 ,tovaP&rin a‘fa‘lfhood,’it!he latter becomesfiheeeby fan&ified,.;h_nditheIfirfl eofniriencethan: ' . A 
offenge:'a‘ntl—is1retitlted a“?  or whatToev‘er;a .Supei'ior~corrriiialnds,.   tl3ro£e.un’der.his eon?-3 V J
due‘: are:'botmda=3'enplicitly'--té obey, and how unlawful. foever the thing’. which he ‘requires’ a

may. be in idelfgz yet obedience: in that cafe hallows the ac9cion.f l See .I‘gZxwtiw' Epzfl. -de star:
4 rate Olzedientize a41Lufitanos Seél‘. I I. And What a. door this lets opein‘-.m+»1yjng,.anyi
G.hQllly' "Fatlhero  it convenie-nt ‘either for his own fafety, 'or the irttereflt olf:the‘Chu-i%'ch
m:<réquire,‘beTéa'fily imagined.  3.) "It becomes legitimateifor them tolye, andthey
are not b9und~t’ogf’pea,k ‘the -truth, if any one Doélzor or Cafuilt interpolehis judgment thafi
it isl.fi1'fe in5th"e pméliek, and for theadvantage of the Clfureh that they lhoul&‘aver’,a;fa1fl
hood, This ‘follows upon their Doétrine of _ -robability,- fonaccording unto that, Whatfoif;
em‘ any'.ghel:d‘afiu‘fii,aflirms t_ofbe‘ law-ful,ja perfonrnay ventures A  it without 
my hazard of -(inning; U Audit toi~b¢s‘cGnceivedl*brut?thatforne  rieféor otherwillin this
jtunéluyeai ;1iot1 onlygiv‘er~liberty_ for p a -Member of thetsRomxm.C,omtnunio_n in:Englam1
r:ol.ye,+ e{'p'ecia'lly when their ‘Caule can not otherwife fubfifl, but that he will framelying
Specch'estfov‘:g1p>e'na, Which—as- occaffion is, others {hall pronounce? ( 4,  Thg?y_a1-¢.’no¢_0:
hli ed to’ fpeailts the’ truth,’ when -theylare before an 11ncompetent”Authorit‘y.; Andi fuch are
all :eteti‘cal‘Magilhjates,~ in fieference to RomanCatholicks. Or if they«.be'fpeakitig;to~Here~
ticks,‘ it .eis«»zhe£;me thiipng,ffoi‘-‘they are not under any obligation to entertain tliemwith what‘
is true,‘ A’ Alaa,_they may ‘cheat fuch without dilhonelty, violate Oaths made unto.them,' with-‘
out_perju’ty_, rob them withodttheft, « kill them without murder,‘ and furelymuchrnore may
they lyeaunttx themwithout the‘ violation of the meafure,s.of_ Trunh:_and:]iiflice:;;Fbr they
Whorn-Ithey’t11a)fnl1eritoriop{lydefilmy, they mayzinnocafitly deceiver. LA'n1llby:the:la'melPrin—
ciple that ntifaith is tofbe keptfwith Heretiolts,{ no faithinon:ttuth.a1"e di1e‘1_1ntc;x   ‘ ‘ 1 _
:.~  2L7a?atg~iil ‘a Pat¢p1_fi“r3'3l no-1893,. apbéz be batbbeforei2t:’n:1‘a Dz‘fpen]?ztiors,forit.i  the
nat(,1tfei'o‘f « a ‘«I)ifpenfation is; s that: it: dothnot change the:quality.—’nf thefaétgi lnlatirtakes it

 to be linito him whbthath affDifpenl2:tion forpits Andfurellyfif‘a.pgPa.ljDifpenlZition may  
makievllanceflz-lawfial, it may make Lying ‘nd’Perjurylla.wful ale-.: Bl3'tR3:tl1'lCfi'¢fi hash beeri ‘ 
firid’on‘this-Subject by others, ,t_hatI {hall wave enlarging on that particular. 2 1:: r ;T‘;' ~ ,  

: Sea’, 17.: And asnif it had notrbeenr enough to obtsutle Maxims on thc'Wp1tld, by.which.’a man may {peak ’ V ~ 3

diffanantlr .tc2.~.whas:l1r=. .1mws' and tbslieves. and y~=tpn9t'1¥¢ s.4“d'bY.:!’h5°h;.3 man ma)’ :5? :sui1t)' of lying
and perjury; qt‘: pot fin 5' 172:] have aljo made pzgrafipn that 1bIé2zt'fFey,tl:em]eI=ve; réqp/2 gtknowledge tn
Z'e,giJlj/a, an, _ §qfl,f’€‘j3“tgj?tj {Fag :2‘: [gull bio néajvi eizdgnger the Salvdtiajg offyim i2_2/a‘6 ‘aantmffed M5
zifgailt. Ant} fin-él_y! what; thé ‘Rip? 1nay*d"§’y;d_rhogrthehaiard-of futhre'hle{Tedncf§,*an’El“irt:fi1bfErvicncy t
1inJthe mean time to many«gre':1: and assume ’ , i-ohi:y‘.£v£fl‘not   " of-’~;it.§ 
yjfions which that tender and comps.-llionate Church hath "macle'forh'e1‘ Ghild:eq,a_ , y’.)ve,1-tzgge ofthc benefit
_ E which they  be as wicl_tcd_as they can dclire‘, and yctbein noidangex-.‘of_. gthe -Vindi$t1_ve}ultice of
God, or Etet'nalPun:fhIne11ts, are fuch as thefe, , " . a ,: V -_ 2  __ i r ,
( 1.) She allows them thebenefit of Allwjblutivn. Now the nature andend of Abfi>lut1on’j’s not to render a
— thing to be ntrlirr \_vhich5in it Telf‘ is a fin, butflie making that which is fin not be pnnilhlahlc  the Di-
» vine Tribunal. It dorhriot niake 9; man to be free Front having’ done that which he hath dune, but it fecupeg
« ~ him from the jultice of,Go,d'tzhp,qgh he did it, ~~Though,» a -Papaj;Pardon doth not,make't.§hat;not to be which
is, yet it rendexjs the Pcrfonas fzfeas ifix: were not, 01: nfi_VCr‘£l2.Cl ’. And gtlilt implying an obnoxioufiaeis to
punilhmcnt, they reckon that being by abfolution difcha,rgi‘_ed'fi-oin all _obnoxioul'ncfs to pu'rii.lhIri€'flt ‘WY ale “°
‘frloi-e guilty than if they had never committed fuch a a.&,.,__ And fo they aver t_he‘m’felves'to be as Inflbccnt as
¢heGln'Id unborn, not ofthc Fail, but with refpcét to thedemerit ofic. Hoxirfarfthis-Popifl17EiigiII0 l§1fh’f€1‘V€d
the inter-cit of the Papal Party, and emboldned them '.to deny’ t_hat.VlhiCh they were jufliyaéeufed Of, hath,
.hecfn-  ‘declared by rdany_leartlea Pens, and t.he1_'ef’ore my further- pains-ab0ut'ét»;,1li°.{UP€!f¢d€d by
the ‘f,6rcgoi'ag labours. of others. ' ‘ i’ ' ' ' ' ' ’ t ' "

 A .  2.‘) The Tecond: pg-ovilion of this kind made by the Cliurch of'Ro5_5z'e,i ifor‘theVotaric$ 05 the‘Trip1eCroWn V is * :‘5' 
»_ « ‘and the *Subje£ts“of_"’the Irifallgblc Head‘, is that of‘-Indulgences, by"which‘whole Orders and many Families as ‘
5  - -will as {nd'_w\iduil~‘Perl”on§; are ptrdon‘éd’nbton1y»aFalIthe linsthatt_§ey'%h'ia‘cotritt:itt‘ed, but of all that they
11131.1 commit 4:5 fwclhfot ages as years. to‘ come: No. ddahtbv3§th¢Y\'-h°°°°ld SW9 indlllgcnces ofallfins to
 firth  hefpsofqxe; Ifought ii.» fawn»:  the X0126. and the 09"?» 4'?4Ch}n'Ch of Rome égainiflr Emperors 
_ Kings K thatoql.1?m’$il1cd.wi.th his: HighnclTcs_ Ufurpations, pr,tha{t lificd rhcmlelyes under the Papal Banners for the
eitix'pation’df Hereticlgs ii “but t_hat_thZ;y v_ii1Ibeas'read‘y'iog‘lve Indulgcncesof the fame form and extent, to fuch '
’i am: engaged for the rooting cm; of the hlormcrn Pie:-efie whlth bath {'0 long tyrannifcd over rthefe Kingdoms. ' h
‘ ~ s(;..)/13¢ this we  fiibjojn their  of Pflf'g3‘t0|*Ys-Suptrerogations, Maffes for tli:;dea.d, which are all
mlculated.to fucurethe evcrlafhng haqapincls ofPapzfl: thoughthey dye in known fins. a e; 4‘ , '
  yr,‘  ’_ ‘(‘4,_),. @g Alliuigc to this, , is theirqpiniQn concerning the vertuc and Powerofthe.Eu£barz'_(f, which being rc- 3 l
. l   V t _L eqivcd though, (my with attrition,ju[_t,ificth anyo!1,C,th9.t1s1n Mortal Sin. Andfor fecurities fake they may keep
 5,‘ ffigm, :a,.clininlfl'_Ci1’ it to ‘Ehéiiifelves, if they‘lho'uld’f:ailof an opportunity of having another 't()z'fiamlfl'1- V V ‘
{fer it tq them. “.*\t1,dtthls courle took Mary ()_u_ccn of Scots; ’ ' ‘ ~ : r 3 _ ' ’ ~ ~ ~  ‘F
r "9 ' ’'(3La‘fi!}, )‘ 'Their‘~Doéh’ine that“.Martyrdom dothiExope(e operate confer grace, ishigh1y.ufcfulandfubfi:wienc "  "l
1 {w.d1q,fya,§mP,,&_ _Andgrj:)_55t_a*eblclled condition-fare our _1)»burn and I‘a’w;‘,r-6,11 Martyrs in, though the hf’:
= '-  e 4 l X  dig ',§3;,-fghe forfvtcating oyfthernfltlvcs and  invoking God tobeaiavitncfi to falfhood as and authen-
* '  fqlgmn Truth, And _it,is buthanging or lofing oneshead for the intercfi;_9l" the T3'ipleC1'own, and all

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