The declaration of the Lord Petre upon his death, touching the plot, in a letter to His Most Sacred Majestie Petre, William Petre, Baron, 1622-1684. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A54575 of text R9959 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing P1877). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A54575 Wing P1877 ESTC R9959 13546399 ocm 13546399 100140 2248500101

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THE DECLARATION OF THE Lord Petre UPON HIS DEATH , TOUCHING THE PLOT , In a LETTER to his Most Sacred MAJESTIE . May it please your Majesty ,

I Give my self the hopes that your Majesty will Pardon this Presumption of a Dying but Dutiful Subject , in giving you the trouble of this short Account and Declaration of my self , by which in the first place I offer to God my Hearty Prayers for your Majesties long Life and happy Reign , with all the Blessings of this Life , and Eternal Happiness of the next ; I having been now above Five Years in Prison , and what is more Grievous to me , lain so long under a false and injurious Calumny of a horrid Plot and Design against your Majesties Person and Government , and am now by the Disposition of Gods Providence called into another World , before I could by a Publick Tryal make my Innocence appear ; I conceiv'd it necessary for me , as an Incumbent Duty I owe to Truth , and my own Innocency , to make this Ensuing Protestation to your Majesty and the whole World . That whereas one Titus Oats hath maliciously and falsely Sworn that he saw me receive a Commission directed to me from Joannes Paulus de Oliva , constituting me Lievtenant General of an Army , which he pretended was to come into England ; I declare in the Presence of the All-seeing God , before whose just Tribunal I am shortly to Appear , that I never saw any such Commission directed to me or any other Person whatsoever , and do firmly believe there never was any such ; But of the Folly as well as the Falshood of the Information , the sober Part of Mankind , as I conceive , sufficiently e're this Convinced .

And as for those Aspersions which the Ignorant and Malicious have thrown upon the Roman Catholick Church ( of which I am , and by the Grace of God do Dye a Member ) as if Murthering of Kings , and taking up Arms against our Soveraigns were an Authoriz'd Principle of that Religion : I do knowingly affirm there is nothing with more Horror Detested by the Catholick Church , as being expresly contrary to the Command of our Saviour and Christian Doctrine , and as such I Renounce and Detest it , as I do all Plots and Conspiracies against your Sacred Person . Having thus Briefly , and with all Sincerity of a Dying Man discharged my Conscience , I shall end where I began , and with my last Breath beg of God to Defend your Majesty from all your Enemies , and to Forgive those , who by their Perjuries have endeavoured to make me appear to be One , who Living and Dying am ( as in Duty bound , &c. )

Your Most Obedient and Loyal Subject W. PETRE .

London , Printed by T. B. for R. Mead. 1684.