WHILE
so
many
Papers
have
with
impunity
and
connivence
been
Printed
and
dispersed
in
vindication
of
the
Papists
from
the
Conspiracy
whereof
they
are
accused
;
We
do
humbly
presume
,
That
none
but
such
whose
interest
it
is
to
have
our
Religion
defamed
,
and
His
Majesties
innocent
subjects
destroyed
,
will
be
offended
at
this
modest
attempt
in
justification
of
Protestants
from
the
Crimes
and
Treasons
wherewith
they
are
aspersed
.
Nor
dare
we
suppose
the
present
Ministers
and
Administrators
of
Justice
guilty
of
so
great
partiality
,
as
to
be
enflam'd
against
these
few
modest
sheets
,
after
they
have
tollerated
and
dispenced
with
the
publication
of
so
many
Popish
Pamphlets
,
full
of
virulence
,
as
well
against
the
Justice
and
Honour
of
Parliaments
,
as
inferior
Courts
of
Judicature
.
And
if
they
have
escaped
the
animadversion
of
Authority
,
who
have
with
so
little
regard
to
truth
written
in
favour
of
persons
actually
condemned
,
we
have
reason
to
believe
that
our
Judges
and
Magistrates
will
be
far
from
being
displeased
,
at
what
is
here
tendered
to
them
and
the
World
,
in
behalf
of
persons
that
are
meerly
accused
.
For
whereas
the
asserting
the
innocency
of
such
as
have
been
legally
condemned
,
may
be
justly
conceived
to
reflect
reproach
upon
the
Justice
of
the
Nation
,
or
at
least
to
leave
an
imputation
of
want
of
wisdom
or
uprightness
either
upon
the
Judg
or
the
Jury
;
the
supporting
the
Loyalty
of
persons
barely
accused
,
can
only
affect
the
Credit
of
the
Witnesses
by
whom
they
have
been
charged
,
and
upon
whose
alone
Testimony
without
any
publick
overt-act
of
their
own
,
they
lye
confined
.
And
if
they
that
have
appeared
as
Apologifts
for
Coleman
and
the
five
Jesuits
,
have
been
silently
overlookt
,
notwithstanding
their
appearing
Advocates
for
the
innocency
of
those
men
,
not
only
in
contradiction
to
Oral
Testimony
,
but
in
defiance
of
Papers
and
Letters
under
the
hands
of
the
very
Criminals
,
declarative
of
their
Conspiracy
and
guilt
;
we
may
then
assure
our selves
of
fair
quarter
in
managing
a
defence
for
those
Protestants
who
have
nothing
to
apprehend
or
fear
from
Papers
or
Letters
produceable
against
them
,
but
stand
committed
meerly
upon
the
Depositions
of
a
few
persons
whose
credit
we
shall
make
appear
to
be
too
weak
to
obtain
belief
.
Nor
is
there
any
thing
so
obvious
to
common
sense
,
than
that
it
is
more
the
interest
and
duty
of
a
Government
to
have
the
innocent
preserved
,
than
to
have
the
guilty
punished
.
Accordingly
they
that
are
trusted
with
the
Supreme
Authority
,
are
in
many
cases
empowered
to
pardon
offenders
;
but
it
was
never
seen
in
any
well
constituted
Society
,
that
Magistrates
were
authorized
to
condemn
the
guiltless
.
't
is
true
,
at
some
seasons
,
and
in
some
instances
,
there
may
injustice
be
done
to
the
State
in
forgiving
a
Malefactor
,
as
when
it
is
to
the
infraction
of
the
fundamental
Laws
,
or
when
it
interferes
with
the
safety
of
the
Community
,
or
when
it
may
incourage
the
like
attempts
in
others
for
the
future
,
or
when
the
pardoning
a
powerful
offender
may
furnish
him
with
a
further
opportunity
of
executing
the
evils
which
he
had
projected
and
designed
;
but
in
condemning
a
guiltless
person
there
is
not
only
injustice
done
to
him
that
suffereth
,
but
to
the
whole
State
,
and
every
individual
in
it
,
both
in
depriving
them
of
a
fellow-member
,
and
in
trampling
upon
the
Laws
by
which
their
own
lives
are
secured
and
protected
.
And
whereas
one
principal
end
why
Criminals
are
punished
,
is
to
frighten
and
deter
others
from
involving
themselves
under
the
like
guilt
,
the
executing
of
an
innocent
person
is
the
ready
way
to
cause
such
as
are
loyal
to
waver
in
their
fidelity
,
and
instigate
them
,
if
they
apprehend
themselves
in
danger
,
to
fly
to
unlawful
means
for
defence
and
shelter
.
And
by
how
much
any
undue
ways
and
methods
are
taken
to
make
a
guiltless
person
appear
an
offender
,
that
under
the
palliation
of
Law
,
and
with
the
less
publick
offence
he
may
be
destroy'd
,
by
so
much
do
all
men
become
jealous
of
their
own
safety
,
as
finding
that
turned
into
a
snare
,
and
perverted
to
their
ruin
,
which
was
made
and
provided
for
their
safeguard
and
protection
.
But
though
the
love
which
Protestants
bear
to
his
Majesty
,
and
the
obligations
of
Conscience
which
they
are
under
to
their
Soveraign
by
vertue
of
their
Religion
,
will
be
effectual
to
restrain
them
within
the
bounds
of
Allegiance
and
duty
;
yet
I
know
not
how
far
it
may
promote
and
maintain
a
misunderstanding
between
his
Majesty
and
a
Parliament
,
to
find
a
Conspiracy
carried
on
by
indigent
persons
against
the
most
eminent
in
the
Nation
,
and
all
endeavours
to
detect
it
,
either
eluded
,
or
resisted
and
withstood
.
And
were
there
no
other
evil
consequences
to
be
apprehended
to
ensue
upon
the
conniving
at
so
execrable
Villanies
as
Subornation
and
Perjury
,
it
becomes
both
the
King
,
and
all
that
are
lovers
of
the
stability
of
his
Throne
,
to
tremble
in
the
belief
of
those
Judgments
,
which
it
will
provoke
the
Righteous
and
Universal
Governour
to
inflict
upon
a
Nation
,
where
innocency
is
no
defence
against
hired
and
foresworn
Rascals
.
And
by
how
much
any
persons
are
considerable
either
with
respect
to
their
quality
,
or
the
esteem
they
have
in
the
Nation
upon
the
account
of
the
services
which
they
have
done
His
Majesty
or
the
Kingdom
,
by
so
much
is
it
the
more
dishonourable
,
as
well
as
prejudicial
to
the
Government
,
to
have
them
oppressed
and
destroyed
by
base
and
unjustifiable
ways
.
The
King
is
of
too
much
goodness
,
and
a
Prince
of
greater
wisdom
and
more
unstained
Justice
,
than
that
any
of
his
subjects
should
apprehend
or
fear
any
thing
illegal
from
him
while
he
acts
free
and
unconstrained
;
but
how
far
his
Ministers
,
especially
those
who
have
been
exasperated
by
the
proceedings
of
Parliaments
,
may
render
his
Authority
a
Cloak
to
their
malice
,
and
make
the
pretence
of
his
preservation
and
safety
subservient
to
their
revenge
,
is
what
we
are
jealous
of
.
And
tho'
we
would
fain
persuade
our selves
that
they
are
persons
of
more
honour
and
integrity
than
to
make
reprisals
upon
the
Lives
of
Peers
for
the
injury
which
they
suppose
was
done
them
;
yet
the
imprisoning
my
Lord
Shaftsbury
upon
the
credit
of
Witnesses
whose
testimony
they
refused
to
believe
in
the
case
of
my
Lord
Stafford
,
doth
not
a
little
surprize
the
thinking
part
of
mankind
.
Now
nothing
can
be
more
disserviceable
to
his
Majesty
,
or
lessening
to
the
honour
of
his
Government
,
than
to
have
his
Authority
abused
to
countenance
a
personal
quarrel
,
and
his
Laws
applied
to
revenge
a
private
offence
.
Besides
,
whensoever
any
come
to
be
destroyed
upon
the
score
of
a
pique
,
all
will
judg
themselves
threatned
who
concurred
in
the
provocation
.
And
how
much
may
it
perplex
his
Majesties
affairs
in
future
Parliaments
,
to
have
persons
so
considerable
for
their
number
,
as
well
as
their
quality
,
enter
into
the
house
under
a
prepossession
that
their
innocency
was
not
able
to
defend
them
from
the
rage
of
their
Enemies
?
Such
is
the
happiness
of
the
English
Government
,
that
as
we
do
always
need
the
care
of
our
Prince
,
so
does
he
always
need
the
love
of
his
people
.
And
as
no
King
is
greater
than
the
King
of
England
when
possess'd
of
the
hearts
of
his
subjects
,
and
in
terms
of
fair
correspondence
with
his
Parliament
;
so
nothing
can
sooner
lose
him
that
love
which
he
ought
to
have
in
the
hearts
of
his
people
,
nor
perpetuate
and
heighten
differences
with
his
Parliament
,
than
the
permitting
what
was
done
by
the
body
of
that
Assembly
,
to
prove
an
occasion
of
spleen
against
a
particular
person
;
or
the
suffering
those
to
fall
by
sinistrous
means
,
whom
the
people
look
upon
as
having
served
his
Majesty
with
fidelity
,
and
regarded
them
with
tenderness
and
compassion
.
And
as
no
person
ever
perished
in
England
under
the
weight
of
guilt
,
but
the
people
silently
bore
his
ruine
,
how
much
soever
they
might
pity
his
misfortune
;
so
hardly
ever
any
considerable
Peer
,
of
whose
innocency
the
minds
of
the
people
were
universally
possest
,
was
destroyed
and
overthrown
,
but
it
was
attended
with
some
ill
effect
or
other
towards
the
Government
,
or
the
Ministers
that
sat
at
the
Helm
,
and
advised
it
.
Nor
do
some
of
those
who
are
so
violent
in
the
prosecution
of
my
Lord
Shaftsbury
,
much
magnifie
their
wisdom
,
nor
seem
to
have
well
consulted
their
interest
in
the
doing
of
it
.
For
however
long
it
be
since
he
who
would
be
thought
in
earnest
when
he
bawleth
against
Popery
,
promoted
or
connived
at
it
,
I
am
sure
a
certain
person
within
these
seven
years
last
past
,
declaimed
against
the
Court
,
and
the
Ministers
,
with
as
little
respect
and
decorum
in
what
he
said
,
as
he
doth
now
against
the
Two
last
Parliaments
.
And
whereas
my
Lord
of
Shaftsbury
never
spake
of
his
Majesty
but
with
the
utmost
deference
;
nor
of
his
Ministers
,
but
with
that
regard
which
was
due
to
their
Character
;
there
is
a
certain
Gentleman
in
the
world
,
that
used
to
speak
both
of
his
Prince
and
them
,
in
another
stile
.
And
if
the
Earl
of
Shaftsbury
be
guilty
of
any
thing
against
his
Majesty
,
it
is
in
having
been
so
unhappy
as
to
have
heard
him
spoken
of
with
too
much
disregard
,
and
under
valuation
,
by
a
certain
Gentleman
that
now
glories
in
having
the
chief
superintendency
of
his
affairs
.
It
is
natural
for
some
people
,
what
interest
soever
they
espouse
,
to
be
always
violent
;
and
we
can
the
more
easily
pardon
their
intemperance
against
those
from
whom
they
have
withdrawn
by
remembrig
with
what
choler
and
acrimony
they
used
to
discourse
of
them
in
whose
counsels
they
are
now
engaged
.
It
hath
been
long
observed
,
that
they
who
in
matter
of
Religion
wheel
off
from
one
party
to
another
,
are
the
greatest
haters
,
and
most
implacable
Persecutors
of
the
side
which
they
relinquished
;
but
I
never
heard
till
now
,
but
men
might
see
reasons
to
change
measures
in
Politicks
,
without
being
for
sacrificing
those
that
cannot
shift
about
to
the
several
points
of
the
State
compass
,
as
the
wind
of
Court-favour
may
happen
to
sit
.
Besides
,
who
knows
but
that
the
Witnesses
,
whom
some
persons
do
so
tenderly
embrace
and
cherish
in
order
to
the
ruining
of
my
Lord
Shaftsbury
and
others
,
may
not
upon
the
disappointment
of
the
expectations
wherewith
they
flatter
themselves
,
and
a
frustration
of
the
hopes
whereby
they
have
been
inveigled
,
endeavour
to
attone
and
make
compensation
for
what
they
are
doing
,
by
accusing
such
as
do
at
present
manage
and
serve
themselves
upon
them
?
For
whatsoever
men
may
think
of
the
steddiness
of
these
fellows
who
appear
as
Evidence
concerning
a
Presbyterian
Plot
,
yet
when
a
Parliament
comes
throughly
to
inspect
this
affair
,
and
to
discover
the
Villany
that
runs
through
it
,
the
courage
of
these
Gentlemen
of
the
Post
will
fail
them
,
and
then
to
make
expiation
for
their
own
crimes
,
they
will
be
sure
to
load
others
with
guilt
.
Besides
,
were
my
Lord
Shaftsbury
and
a
few
other
persons
of
Quality
once
destroy'd
,
how
easie
will
it
be
for
some
whom
I
forbear
to
name
,
to
crush
those
that
are
now
so
instrumental
in
their
ruin
.
There
is
a
certain
Gentleman
in
the
North
,
as
well
as
one
,
if
not
more
in
the
Tower
,
who
have
memories
tenacious
of
old
injuries
,
and
who
are
not
of
a
temper
very
inclinable
to
forgive
.
For
by
how
much
they
would
be
thought
great
and
generous
,
by
so
much
will
they
prove
the
more
averse
to
pardon
such
as
have
allowed
themselves
to
speak
of
them
with
contempt
,
and
in
a
language
near
to
ridicule
.
And
though
I
pretend
not
to
any
great
prospect
of
what
is
future
,
yet
I
dare
undertake
to
foretel
,
That
the
day
the
Earl
of
Shaftsbury
falls
,
some
that
do
now
solace
themselves
in
the
thoughts
of
it
,
will
be
found
to
have
supplanted
their
own
standing
,
and
to
have
surrendred
their
persons
and
fortunes
to
the
courtesie
and
discretion
of
such
whom
,
they
have
had
the
unhappiness
to
provoke
.
However
,
they
can
never
expect
that
their
heads
should
lye
easie
upon
their
Pillows
,
who
seek
to
purchase
their
own
Indempnity
,
at
the
price
of
the
Lives
of
their
fellow-subjects
.
But
to
charge
a
Conspiracy
upon
Protestants
against
the
King
,
is
to
suppose
them
fools
as
well
as
Traytors
.
For
had
they
no
regard
to
the
obligations
of
Conscience
,
yet
the
respect
which
they
must
be
apprehended
to
bear
to
their
own
safety
,
will
compel
them
if
they
had
any
love
for
themselves
,
to
be
loyal
to
his
Majesty
.
And
as
matters
are
stated
at
this
day
in
the
world
,
they
must
first
forfeit
their
reason
,
before
they
can
abandon
their
Allegiance
.
They
are
not
so
silly
,
whatsoever
others
think
of
them
,
but
that
they
very
well
understand
they
hold
their
Lives
as
well
as
their
Religion
,
by
no
other
tenure
but
the
thread
of
his
Majesties
life
.
For
they
know
what
they
are
to
hope
for
from
a
Popish
Successor
;
and
they
are
not
fond
to
have
the
miseries
which
the
Protestants
suffer
elsewhere
,
transcribed
and
re-acted
here
.
If
we
be
guilty
of
a
crime
,
it
is
our
concernedness
for
the
King
,
and
that
we
are
not
willing
to
have
another
Rival
him
in
his
Authority
,
before
he
succeed
him
in
his
Throne
.
't
is
our
zeal
for
his
Majesties
Life
,
and
that
he
may
reign
without
a
Competitor
that
hath
enraged
the
Papists
against
us
,
and
makes
them
restless
to
destroy
us
.
Such
as
expect
Preferment
and
Wealth
from
the
next
Heir
,
may
be
tempted
to
disloyalty
to
the
Regnant
Prince
;
but
they
whose
all
depends
upon
his
safety
,
will
endeavour
and
pray
for
his
welfare
as
their
own
.
All
the
Papists
hopes
expiring
with
the
Dukes
Life
,
they
would
fain
accomplish
their
designs
in
re-establishing
their
Religion
,
and
grasping
the
Power
of
the
Nation
into
their
own
hands
before
he
dye
:
But
our
whole
concernments
being
wrapt
up
in
the
King
,
who
is
likely
to
live
as
long
as
the
Duke
,
it
is
clearly
our
interest
to
have
his
Majesty
outlive
him
.
And
whatsoever
men
talk
to
the
contrary
,
it
is
nothing
but
the
Earl
of
Shaftsbury's
zeal
to
have
the
King
safe
in
his
Person
,
great
in
the
hearts
of
his
people
,
and
formidable
to
the
Nations
about
him
,
that
hath
created
him
as
many
Enemies
,
as
the
Happiness
of
his
Majesty
,
the
security
of
the
Protestant
Religion
,
and
the
Prosperity
of
England
have
.
Nor
is
there
any
Truth
that
shines
with
more
self-evidence
,
than
that
by
how
much
the
French
,
the
Papists
,
and
those
who
are
singly
devoted
to
the
Duke
,
are
my
Lord
of
Shaftsbury's
implacable
enemies
,
by
so
much
is
it
the
Kings
interest
,
and
agreeable
to
the
wisdom
of
a
sagacious
Prince
,
to
protect
him
against
all
their
attempts
.
For
by
how
much
the
Duke
becomes
so
openly
magnified
by
a
daring
but
unthinking
people
in
the
Kingdom
;
by
so
much
does
it
concern
the
King
to
support
and
preserve
those
whose
Loyalty
will
not
allow
them
to
suffer
any
name
to
sound
so
loud
as
his
Majesties
.
And
I
hope
all
good
Subjects
will
pardon
me
,
if
my
concernedness
for
my
Prince
,
cause
me
to
say
what
my
discretion
would
instruct
me
to
forbear
;
namely
,
That
considering
how
numerous
and
active
the
Papists
are
in
the
Kingdom
,
and
how
many
others
out
of
weakness
,
fear
,
and
from
hopes
of
preferment
,
immix
with
them
,
and
cooperate
to
promote
their
designs
,
I
am
not
without
direful
apprehensions
,
that
from
the
time
they
can
possess
the
King
that
there
is
a
Protestant-Plot
,
they
will
bring
him
to
rule
his
Kingdom
pursuant
to
their
instructions
,
if
they
will
prove
so
kind
as
to
suffer
him
to
govern
at
all
,
though
it
be
but
under
a
Guardianship
.
Nor
is
it
more
ridiculous
,
that
there
should
be
a
Protestant-Plot
,
than
it
is
incredible
that
the
Earl
of
Shaftsbury
should
not
only
be
in
it
,
but
that
he
should
acquaint
Mr.
Fitz-Gerald
,
Mr.
Smith
,
and
Bernard
Dennis
,
&c.
with
a
design
of
seising
the
King
,
and
altering
the
Government
.
For
we
must
either
suppose
him
distracted
when
he
communicated
an
affair
of
that
hazard
and
consequence
to
them
;
or
they
are
not
well
in
their
wits
,
who
believe
a
person
of
his
wisdom
and
conduct
should
commit
his
life
and
fortune
into
the
hands
of
persons
who
could
no
ways
promote
such
a
design
,
but
might
and
must
be
supposed
likely
to
betray
it
.
For
whether
it
was
Loyalty
to
the
King
,
or
hope
of
reward
,
that
brought
them
to
detect
the
Popish
Plot
,
every
man
must
needs
believe
that
upon
the
same
Principles
and
motives
they
would
be
always
ready
to
discover
a
Protestant
one
.
Indigent
and
desperate
fellows
have
been
sometimes
made
acquainted
with
a
Conspiracy
when
it
was
ripe
for
execution
,
or
they
have
been
transacted
with
about
an
Assassination
;
but
that
such
were
ever
consulted
with
in
the
forming
a
Projection
of
so
great
and
dangerous
importance
,
and
which
required
time
to
perfect
,
and
was
to
be
managed
with
the
greatest
conduct
;
I
crave
forgiveness
,
if
I
say
,
that
I
must
renounce
my
reason
before
I
can
give
credit
to
it
.
The
Earl
of
Shaftsbury
is
known
to
have
been
a
person
of
as
large
an
acquaintance
,
and
of
as
free
and
universal
a
conversation
with
Protestants
of
the
best
Quality
,
and
of
all
Persuasions
,
as
any
man
in
England
;
and
yet
we
hear
of
none
either
of
the
Communion
of
the
Church
of
England
,
or
Phanaticks
,
with
whom
he
trusted
the
secret
of
a
design
to
seise
the
King
;
only
a
few
fellows
of
no
Religion
,
(
and
most
of
whom
have
not
bread
to
eat
but
what
they
get
by
being
the
Kings
Evidence
)
pretend
to
have
been
in
the
Cabal
.
We
must
either
believe
all
others
,
and
many
of
them
the
best
men
in
the
Nation
,
so
disloyal
as
that
they
would
conceal
a
most
horrid
Plot
against
their
Prince
,
or
we
must
suppose
that
there
were
none
in
whom
this
Peer
did
place
a
confidence
,
save
a
few
persons
of
mean
extraction
,
and
debauched
lives
,
either
of
which
are
not
easie
to
be
digested
by
an
ordinary
faith
.
But
there
is
nothing
more
familiar
with
the
Papists
,
than
when
they
are
embarkt
in
designs
against
the
Government
,
to
raise
a
noise
and
clamour
of
the
Conspiracies
of
Protestants
.
This
hath
been
their
old
method
,
and
though
they
have
often
missed
the
advantages
which
they
proposed
by
it
,
yet
they
know
not
how
to
find
a
better
,
and
therefore
do
still
pursue
it
.
They
suppose
that
when
the
watchfulness
of
the
State
is
exercised
towards
one
Party
,
it
will
thereupon
abate
and
relax
towards
the
other
.
While
a
Prince
is
made
believe
that
he
ought
to
be
afraid
of
those
of
one
side
,
he
will
find
himself
necessitated
to
place
a
confidence
in
those
of
the
other
.
Let
the
difference
among
the
Subjects
of
any
King
be
small
or
great
,
as
one
party
decays
in
his
favour
,
the
opposite
will
always
grow
and
rise
.
Now
a
pretence
,
if
received
,
will
as
much
alarm
a
Prince
,
as
a
reality
.
For
men
are
not
sway'd
by
things
as
they
truly
are
,
but
as
they
appear
and
obtain
upon
●heir
belief
.
But
that
which
is
most
remarkable
is
,
That
the
Papists
never
fathered
a
Conspiracy
upon
Protestants
against
the
Government
,
but
they
were
either
ready
to
execute
one
of
their
own
upon
them
,
or
they
intended
it
as
a
sham
to
palliate
the
Villany
they
were
themselves
to
perpetrate
upon
their
Rulers
.
Accordingly
when
they
had
conspired
to
depose
Queen
Elizabeth
,
and
set
up
Mary
Queen
of
Scots
,
and
were
preparing
Horse
and
Arms
to
accomplish
the
design
,
they
were
taught
by
Mary
her self
in
her
Letter
to
Babington
,
to
pretend
that
all
that
Provision
was
to
defend
Elizabeth
against
the
Puritans
,
who
had
resolved
to
Depose
her
,
unless
she
would
submit
her self
to
their
Government
.
And
had
the
Gun-Powder
Plot
succeeded
,
the
guilt
and
reproach
of
it
was
to
have
been
charged
upon
the
Dissenting
Protestants
.
And
when
they
had
Massacred
so
many
thousand
Protestants
in
France
,
they
suborned
Witnesses
to
swear
that
the
Admiral
with
other
principal
persons
among
the
Hugonot's
,
had
conspired
the
death
of
the
King
and
the
Duke
of
Guise
;
and
that
the
blood
which
was
shed
in
the
destruction
of
so
many
thousand
innocent
persons
,
was
only
drawn
in
way
of
self
defence
,
and
to
preserve
the
King
from
perishing
by
the
hands
of
the
Hereticks
.
And
had
not
God
protected
his
Majesty
from
those
that
were
to
have
assassinated
him
1678.
the
Fanaticks
were
to
have
undergone
both
the
odium
and
punishment
of
it
.
Which
should
make
every
true
English
Protestant
heartily
pray
,
That
while
we
are
hearkning
after
the
noise
and
buz
of
a
Presbyterian
Plot
,
we
be
not
overwhelmed
and
destroyed
by
a
Popish
one
.
And
if
ever
the
Catholicks
found
this
Artifice
needful
,
their
present
circumstances
make
it
extremely
necessary
.
Nor
is
it
material
whether
the
generality
do
believe
it
;
for
if
it
can
but
impose
it self
upon
the
faith
of
the
easie
and
the
credulous
,
there
are
those
who
know
there
is
no
such
thing
that
will
serve
themselves
as
effectually
of
it
,
as
if
it
were
.
Two
things
had
rendred
the
Papists
obnoxious
to
the
wrath
of
the
people
,
and
the
Justice
of
the
Laws
,
namely
,
the
perverting
the
next
Heir
to
the
Romish
Religion
,
and
their
being
engaged
in
a
Plot
to
destroy
the
King
,
that
thereby
,
for
the
introducing
the
Papal
Worship
,
they
might
accelerate
and
secure
the
Duke's
ascent
into
the
Throne
.
And
two
ways
have
they
endeavoured
to
avoid
the
dangers
which
hung
over
them
,
and
escape
the
punishments
which
they
have
deserved
.
One
was
by
fomenting
a
misunderstanding
between
his
Majesty
and
his
Parliaments
,
that
so
they
might
not
only
prevent
the
Popish
Plot
from
being
fully
detected
,
but
delay
the
trial
of
the
principal
Conspirators
.
The
other
was
the
forging
a
Presbyterian
Plot
,
that
thereby
they
might
run
the
Kingdom
upon
a
wrong
scent
,
and
get
their
True
Plot
to
be
overlook't
or
forgotten
,
through
the
noise
of
a
false
one
.
And
if
the
heats
and
animosities
which
do
hereupon
so
universally
boil
in
the
Nation
,
do
not
influence
the
next
Parliament
to
issue
differences
by
an
Act
of
Oblivion
,
they
have
so
ordered
matters
by
suborning
the
same
Witnesses
to
swear
this
Sham-Plot
,
that
discovered
the
real
,
that
they
hope
they
will
be
no
more
believed
hereafter
in
reference
to
a
Popish
Conspiracy
,
being
found
perjured
in
relation
to
the
Treasons
charged
upon
Protestants
.
And
we
are
the
bolder
to
charge
the
Roman
Catholicks
for
being
the
Contrivers
and
Forgers
of
this
Presbyterian
Plot
,
not
only
because
it
is
of
the
same
stamp
and
complexion
that
Mrs
Celliers
was
,
and
designed
to
involve
the
same
persons
in
the
guilt
of
it
,
which
hers
did
;
but
because
we
had
the
news
of
it
from
Rome
and
Paris
,
ere
ever
the
tidings
of
it
could
fly
thither
from
hence
.
And
as
the
Papists
,
or
such
who
serve
their
ends
,
and
act
by
their
Principles
,
are
justly
to
be
esteemed
the
Authors
of
this
Sham-Plot
charged
upon
Protestants
;
so
they
have
been
forced
to
support
it
by
Perjuries
and
Subornations
.
Truth
,
especially
in
witness-bearing
,
is
so
indispensably
necessary
to
the
subsistence
of
Societies
,
that
without
it
there
can
be
no
fellowship
among
men
;
and
this
once
secluded
,
Laws
,
which
are
both
the
Bonds
and
Fences
of
Communities
,
become
only
snares
for
the
innocent
.
Therefore
by
the
Law
of
the
Supreme
Legislator
,
If
a
false
witness
had
testified
falsly
against
his
brother
,
the
Judg
was
to
do
unto
him
as
he
thought
to
have
done
unto
his
brother
.
Which
being
a
Law
founded
upon
principles
and
measures
respecting
all
mankind
alike
,
and
not
meerly
calculated
for
the
ballance
of
the
Judaick
Commonwealth
,
it
were
to
be
wished
that
greater
attendance
were
paid
unto
it
in
the
Municipal
Laws
and
Statutes
of
Christian
Nations
.
The
Delatores
,
who
were
a
kind
of
Trepans
&
Informers
,
being
punishable
among
the
Romans
more
majorum
,
suffered
in
a
most
execrable
manner
.
And
tho'
by
our
Law
the
punishment
of
Subornation
and
Perjury
be
not
death
;
yet
it
may
concern
some
people
to
consider
,
that
a
Parliament
hath
sometimes
after
the
commission
of
a
Fact
,
ordained
a
severer
punishment
to
be
inflicted
upon
heinous
and
dangerous
offenders
,
than
the
Law
had
before
chalkt
out
.
Rot
.
Parl
.
3.
R.
2.
N.
18.
An.
25.
H.
8.
N.
26.
An.
27.
H.
8.
N.
36.
The
Roman
Historian
not
only
observes
,
That
false
Informers
were
only
countenanced
or
connived
at
in
the
Reigns
of
the
worst
Emperors
;
but
he
consigns
this
to
posterity
as
the
blackest
character
of
Tiberius
Reign
,
That
Delatores
genus
hominum
publico
exitio
repertum
,
&
paenis
quidem
nunquam
satis
coercitum
,
per
praemia
eliciebantur
:
Trepans
and
false
Informers
,
who
had
been
always
found
a
publick
mischief
,
and
whom
no
penalties
or
punishments
could
sufficiently
restrain
,
were
then
encouraged
and
emboldned
by
rewards
.
The
Jesuits
have
adapted
the
Maxims
of
their
Morality
,
to
the
exigence
of
their
present
case
,
by
having
pronounced
it
lawful
to
slander
or
defame
any
man
whom
the
Papists
conceive
to
have
done
them
an
injury
,
or
to
be
an
Enemy
to
their
Holy
Church
.
Nor
is
it
strange
or
surprising
,
that
they
esteem
it
lawful
to
accuse
Protestants
falsly
,
seeing
they
think
it
meritorious
to
kill
them
as
being
Hereticks
.
And
upon
this
account
it
might
seem
but
a
reasonable
desire
,
to
beg
that
no
Papist
may
be
believed
against
the
Life
or
Credit
of
a
Protestant
.
And
whosoever
considers
what
liberty
they
give
themselves
to
destroy
us
,
and
what
a
profligate
Age
we
live
in
,
and
how
many
vile
and
needy
persons
there
be
,
who
are
ready
for
a
Reward
or
Bribe
to
swear
any
man
out
of
his
Life
and
Estate
;
he
will
,
instead
of
being
astonished
to
find
some
few
accused
,
wonder
that
the
Prisons
are
not
filled
with
the
best
and
most
loyal
of
his
Majesties
subjects
,
under
the
imputation
of
being
Rebels
and
Traitors
.
Nor
is
it
a
small
advantage
that
our
Law
hath
given
them
to
ruine
us
,
by
having
made
Words
Treason
.
I
complain
not
of
the
Law
,
seeing
the
Legislative
Power
of
the
Nation
hath
enacted
it
;
but
it
exposeth
an
honest
man
to
the
discretion
of
every
Knave
that
comes
into
his
company
,
if
they
be
but
inclined
upon
the
account
of
Civil
or
Religious
Principles
,
or
to
be
purchased
with
Bribes
,
to
depose
against
him
.
It
is
reported
to
the
honour
and
glory
of
Augustus
,
that
though
he
abridged
the
Senate
and
the
Romans
of
their
ancient
Liberty
,
yet
he
always
indulged
them
the
freedom
of
their
Tongues
.
For
when
affairs
cross
our
expectation
,
and
are
not
suited
to
our
interest
,
it
is
some
allay
to
the
passions
of
men
,
that
they
may
safely
vent
their
sense
and
resentments
in
talk
and
discourse
.
There
have
been
always
some
Laws
which
were
originally
intended
rather
to
scare
and
frighten
,
than
made
with
a
design
that
men
should
perish
by
them
.
What
Tacitus
says
of
Felix
,
is
not
unworthy
of
remark
,
Nimiis
remediis
delict
a
accendisse
,
that
he
did
cause
disobedience
,
by
using
too
severe
methods
to
hinder
it
.
And
it
is
a
grave
observation
which
Livy
hath
concerning
Manlius
,
Remedio
seditionem
accendisse
,
that
he
heightned
and
enflam'd
a
sedition
,
by
seeking
to
quench
and
allay
it
by
too
much
rigor
.
And
the
modestest
censure
which
Magistrates
meet
with
in
such
cases
,
is
to
use
the
Historians
Phrase
,
that
they
are
Graviores
remediis
quam
delict
a
erant
.
However
,
this
is
certain
that
when
other
overt-acts
,
besides
words
,
are
required
to
convict
a
man
of
Treason
,
there
is
always
room
for
a
rational
defence
;
nor
is
it
easie
for
others
to
be
masters
of
his
life
,
unless
the
reality
and
evidence
of
his
crimes
proclaim
him
guilty
;
but
when
persons
lives
depend
upon
meer
words
,
any
two
Rogues
in
the
world
may
destroy
such
as
are
altogether
innocent
,
if
they
have
but
the
impudence
to
swear
home
.
Nor
can
men
persuade
themselves
to
believe
,
but
that
the
Imprisonment
of
my
Lord
Shaftsbury
is
built
upon
something
which
will
not
abide
the
Test
,
when
they
consider
the
way
and
method
according
to
which
he
hath
been
all
along
treated
.
Before
either
Coleman
or
the
Jesuits
were
sent
to
prison
,
they
were
allowed
both
to
know
and
see
the
persons
who
had
deposed
against
them
.
And
it
is
generally
believed
,
that
every
English
man
may
demand
it
as
his
right
.
And
therefore
the
refusing
it
to
my
Lord
Shaftsbury
,
does
seem
to
intimate
either
that
the
Witnesses
are
not
of
a
credit
sufficient
to
support
the
Confinement
of
so
great
a
Peer
,
or
else
that
it
was
not
convenient
to
trust
their
carriages
in
this
matter
,
as
well
as
the
general
course
of
their
lives
,
to
an
early
and
exact
scrutiny
.
But
as
if
this
were
not
enough
to
create
a
suspition
of
some
undue
and
indirect
dealing
in
this
affair
,
the
refusing
to
administer
an
Oath
to
those
that
were
ready
to
swear
to
Indictments
of
Subornation
against
the
Witnesses
,
doth
exceedingly
heighten
all
mens
jealousies
.
For
not
to
debate
about
the
legality
or
illegality
of
this
procedure
,
being
obliged
till
this
business
do
either
before
this
or
a
higher
Judicature
come
under
a
review
,
to
acquiesce
silently
in
the
judgment
of
the
Court
:
I
shall
only
say
,
That
as
it
is
the
first
President
of
this
kind
,
so
the
reducing
it
into
common
practice
,
would
prove
a
general
obstruction
of
the
Justice
of
the
Law
.
And
to
make
the
receiving
of
Indictments
depend
upon
the
pleasure
of
the
Attorney-General
,
were
to
settle
on
him
a
more
Arbitrary
power
than
the
Laws
of
England
have
placed
in
the
King
himself
.
But
should
the
Witnesses
against
my
Lord
of
Shaftsbury
be
guilty
of
the
Subornation
whereof
they
were
to
have
been
Indicted
,
Were
it
not
a
crying
sin
before
God
,
a
disparagement
to
his
Majesties
Government
,
and
of
ill
example
to
Posterity
,
as
well
as
an
injustice
to
this
Noble
Peer
and
his
Family
,
to
have
him
destroyed
by
their
Testimony
?
Nor
could
there
have
fallen
out
any
thing
more
to
the
commendation
of
the
Kings
Justice
,
and
the
vindication
of
the
integrity
of
his
Ministers
,
than
to
have
left
the
credit
of
the
Witnesses
,
being
thus
aspersed
,
to
the
trial
and
decision
of
the
Law
.
For
should
their
innocency
have
appeared
after
a
fair
and
impartial
hearing
,
it
would
have
wonderfully
justified
any
Verdict
that
should
come
afterwards
to
be
found
upon
their
Evidence
.
Whereas
by
the
course
that
was
taken
,
most
men
are
become
apprehensive
of
their
guilt
.
And
the
preventing
their
being
Indicted
,
will
have
the
same
effect
upon
an
honest
Jury
where
any
Bills
are
preferred
upon
their
Testimony
,
as
if
they
were
perjured
upon
Record
.
What
base
and
Villanous
arts
the
Papists
will
use
to
destroy
my
Lord
Shaftsbury
,
is
not
only
evident
by
their
many
endeavours
to
have
him
stab'd
,
as
hath
been
deposed
by
divers
persons
to
whom
the
Parliament
as
well
as
the
Nation
have
given
belief
,
but
may
be
further
confirmed
by
their
intercepting
Letters
directed
to
his
Lordship
;
and
after
they
had
in
a
Hand
as
near
the
Original
as
they
could
counterfeit
,
inserted
Treason
in
them
,
transmitting
them
to
such
as
would
be
sure
to
acquaint
our
Ministers
with
it
.
In
brief
,
there
is
a
certain
Gentleman
who
hath
this
to
recommend
him
,
That
he
commanded
a
Regiment
of
Horse
in
the
late
Kings
service
,
and
lost
all
for
his
and
his
present
Majesties
sake
,
who
having
July
4th
.
1681
,
written
to
this
Noble
Peer
about
the
relieving
him
against
the
Gout
,
with
which
he
useth
to
be
afflicted
,
had
his
Letter
intercepted
;
and
after
an
account
added
to
it
,
That
the
Author
was
able
to
furnish
this
Earl
with
Forty
thousand
men
from
France
to
oppose
the
Duke
of
York
,
it
was
then
conveyed
to
some
of
the
French
Kings
Ministers
,
who
they
supposed
would
send
a
Copy
of
it
hither
,
as
well
as
improve
it
to
the
prejudice
of
the
person
that
wrote
it
,
who
then
lived
in
the
French
Dominions
.
And
that
this
is
true
,
will
be
not
only
attested
by
the
Gentleman
that
wrote
the
Letter
,
who
is
now
in
England
,
but
my self
and
divers
others
have
seen
the
Original
,
which
by
a
strange
Providence
was
returned
into
the
Gentlemans
own
hands
.
And
as
this
is
a
fresh
argument
of
the
implacable
rage
which
the
Papists
bear
to
the
Earl
of
Shaftsbury
,
so
it
doth
further
confirm
that
there
is
nothing
so
Villanous
which
they
will
not
do
to
destroy
this
great
and
zealous
Peer
,
who
by
his
courage
,
wisdom
,
and
intelligence
,
hath
both
withstood
and
defeated
so
many
of
their
dedesigns
against
our
Religion
,
and
the
safety
of
the
Nation
.
And
how
much
those
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
and
such
as
they
can
influence
and
rule
,
have
thirsted
after
the
blood
of
the
Earl
of
Shaftsbury
,
and
other
Honourable
Protestant
Lords
,
and
worthy
English
Gentlemen
,
their
instigating
Mr.
Fitz-Harris
and
his
Wife
to
father
the
Treasonable
Libel
for
which
he
was
condemned
,
upon
them
,
may
further
serve
to
demonstrate
as
well
as
convince
all
the
honest
and
sober
part
of
mankind
.
For
Mrs.
Fitz-Harris
by
a
Deposition
upon
Oath
,
Aug.
15.
1681.
not
only
affirms
that
her
Husband
a
little
before
his
Execution
,
told
her
what
great
offers
he
had
made
him
if
he
would
have
at
first
charged
the
foresaid
Libel
upon
the
Earl
of
Shaftsbury
,
and
my
Lord
Howard
,
but
that
he
also
advised
her
to
do
it
as
the
only
means
to
save
his
life
,
though
he
protested
at
the
same
time
that
they
were
wholly
innocent
.
She
likewise
deposeth
,
that
a
certain
Gentleman
whom
I
forbear
to
name
,
assured
her
,
that
she
should
have
what
sums
of
money
she
pleased
,
if
she
would
accuse
the
Earl
of
Shaftsbury
and
my
Lord
Howard
as
the
Authors
of
the
said
Libel
.
Nay
Mr.
Fitz-Harris
himself
,
the
very
night
before
his
Execution
,
wrote
a
Paper
which
he
ordered
to
be
delivered
to
his
Wife
in
order
to
prevent
the
spilling
of
innocent
blood
,
wherein
he
tells
by
whom
he
was
advised
to
accuse
those
Noble
Peers
,
and
other
Gentlemen
of
the
said
Libel
,
and
of
having
put
him
upon
the
discovery
of
the
Popish
Plot
;
and
how
he
had
the
promise
of
a
pardon
to
prevail
upon
him
to
do
it
.
And
he
adds
in
the
same
Paper
,
That
as
he
was
perswaded
to
accuse
them
upon
the
assurance
which
was
given
him
of
saving
his
life
,
so
he
thought
that
what
he
then
said
would
not
be
so
prejudicial
as
his
life
might
be
serviceable
.
But
finding
that
he
was
deluded
,
he
declares
as
before
God
,
that
they
were
innocent
,
and
that
he
had
wronged
them
in
accusing
of
them
.
And
withal
adds
,
That
what
he
had
deposed
against
the
Papists
was
true
;
and
that
he
had
been
only
too
sparing
in
accusing
great
people
among
them
.
And
that
this
may
not
be
thought
a
forgery
of
mine
,
I
do
assure
all
the
world
,
that
the
Original
Paper
of
Mr.
Fitz-Harris
own
writing
,
is
in
the
hands
and
custody
of
a
certain
Magistrate
of
London
,
who
will
be
ready
to
produce
it
when
occasion
serves
.
For
he
with
whom
it
was
at
first
left
,
delivered
it
to
Mrs.
Fitz-harris
,
affirming
that
he
could
not
be
at
rest
till
he
had
done
so
.
And
we
are
the
more
inclined
to
believe
this
whole
Conspiracy
wherein
the
Earl
of
Shaftsbury
and
other
Protestants
are
said
to
be
engaged
against
the
King
and
the
Government
,
is
only
a
malicious
piece
of
revenge
upon
the
zealous
Patriots
of
our
Religion
;
by
considering
that
Justice
Warcup
,
and
Mr.
Edward
Fitz-Gerald
,
are
employ'd
to
conduct
and
manage
the
detection
and
discovery
of
it
.
There
are
some
men
that
derive
a
suspition
upon
every
thing
they
meddle
with
;
for
though
they
may
be
honest
by
accident
,
yet
the
byass
of
their
nature
lyes
another
way
.
As
for
Fitz-Gerald
,
besides
his
being
known
by
all
men
to
be
the
most
infamous
person
alive
,
his
present
confident
and
impudent
Tool
Brian
Hayns
deposed
upon
Oath
against
him
before
Sir
G.
T.
March
6th
.
1681
,
That
he
had
told
him
how
they
were
resolved
to
sham
the
Popish
Plot
,
and
that
there
was
no
other
Plot
but
a
Presbyterian
one
.
Which
is
enough
to
enlighten
all
men
that
do
not
wilfully
shut
their
eyes
,
upon
what
design
,
and
in
subserviency
to
what
ends
this
Protestant
Conspiracy
was
invented
and
laid
.
Nor
will
any
question
but
that
a
person
,
who
after
he
had
come
in
as
a
Witness
concerning
a
Popish
Plot
,
and
now
denies
that
there
is
any
such
thing
,
may
with
as
much
truth
,
reason
and
discretion
,
swear
that
my
Lord
of
Shaftsbury
told
him
the
race
of
the
Stewards
had
no
more
right
to
the
Crown
than
he
had
;
and
that
he
was
resolved
to
have
a
Commonwealth
in
England
,
as
Brian
Hayns
in
the
foresaid
Deposition
informs
us
from
Fitz-Geralds
own
mouth
.
And
for
Justice
Warcup
,
we
may
learn
the
honesty
and
character
of
the
man
from
this
following
Order
of
his
Majesty
and
the
Council
,
bearing
date
July
21
,
1666.
The
Right
Honourable
the
Lord
Arlington
,
His
Majesties
Principal
Secretary
of
State
,
having
on
Wednesday
last
made
his
complaint
to
His
Majesty
in
Council
,
that
Mr.
Edmond
Warcup
Justice
of
the
Peace
for
the
County
of
Middlesex
,
had
greatly
wronged
him
in
his
good
name
,
in
treating
and
negotiating
with
certain
persons
for
the
quitting
and
indemnifying
(
in
consideration
of
a
sum
of
money
)
one
of
the
persons
lately
summoned
by
His
Majesties
Proclamation
to
repair
from
beyond
the
Seas
:
which
Treaty
having
for
several
Months
been
carried
on
,
and
managed
by
the
said
Mr.
Warcup
,
he
had
all
along
falsely
made
use
of
the
Lord
Arlington's
Name
therein
,
as
privy
and
consenting
to
the
said
Transaction
:
Whereupon
His
Majesty
having
caused
the
whole
matter
to
be
duly
examined
by
certain
of
the
Lords
of
His
Council
,
and
their
Lordships
having
made
report
yesterday
to
His
Majesty
at
the
Board
,
That
the
matter
was
false
and
scandalous
:
It
was
Ordered
by
His
Majesty
in
Council
,
That
in
Vindication
of
the
Lord
of
Arlington
,
and
for
an
example
of
such
unjust
and
pernicious
aspersions
brought
upon
his
Ministers
and
Government
,
the
said
Mr.
Warcup
should
be
forthwith
committed
to
the
Fleet
,
put
out
of
the
Commission
of
Lieutenancy
,
and
remain
for
ever
banisht
the
Court
;
his
Royal
Highness
having
at
the
same
time
declared
he
would
likewise
dismiss
him
his
Service
.
The
Lord
Arlington
being
left
to
take
his
farther
remedy
against
him
at
Law
,
as
his
Lordship
shall
think
good
.
Now
being
accordingly
turned
out
of
Commission
,
and
committed
Prisoner
to
the
Fleet
,
he
was
there
visited
by
Sir
Th.
Cl.
to
whom
he
confessed
the
whole
of
the
Roguery
,
declaring
that
if
he
might
be
but
released
,
he
would
for
ever
forsake
all
publick
business
.
But
being
upon
his
submission
at
the
Board
,
Aug.
17.
1666
,
and
his
craving
my
Lord
Arlington
pardon
upon
his
knees
,
discharged
from
his
Confinement
,
he
was
soon
after
,
and
as
the
report
then
went
,
restored
to
be
a
Justice
of
the
Peace
by
the
mediation
and
influence
of
a
certain
Gentleman
now
in
the
North
.
And
the
good
natur'd
Justice
being
mindful
of
old
kindnesses
,
is
at
last
glad
of
an
employment
as
well
as
an
opportunity
of
testifying
his
gratitude
by
compassing
the
destruction
of
the
Earl
of
Shaftsbury
,
whom
his
Patron
&
restorer
reckons
himself
disobliged
by
.
And
that
this
Protestant
Plot
,
under
the
guilt
whereof
they
would
involve
the
Earl
of
Shaftsbury
,
and
many
more
eminent
and
excellent
persons
,
is
nothing
but
a
forgery
of
the
Papists
,
conducted
and
managed
by
Justice
Warcup
,
and
David
Fitz-Gerald
,
with
such
as
they
can
suborn
to
support
the
invention
by
falshood
and
perjury
,
will
further
appear
by
recounting
the
attacks
which
they
made
upon
several
persons
,
whom
a
fear
of
God
and
Moral
honesty
have
preserved
from
becoming
instrumental
to
the
shedding
innocent
blood
.
Accordingly
we
are
informed
by
Mr.
E.
E.
who
hath
approved
his
Loyalty
to
the
King
upon
several
occasions
,
and
in
divers
difficult
and
tempting
instances
,
that
both
these
whom
we
have
named
,
did
deal
with
him
to
have
corrupted
his
integrity
,
and
engaged
him
to
have
been
a
witness
in
this
Papal
design
.
For
by
a
Deposition
sworn
before
a
Magistrate
,
Aug.
1.
1681.
he
declares
,
That
Justice
Warcup
dealt
with
him
to
swear
something
towards
a
Presbyterian
Plot
,
and
particularly
that
my
L.
Shaftsbury
intended
a
Commonwealth
,
and
that
he
with
others
were
preparing
Arms
to
alter
the
Government
.
Tho'
both
before
and
since
this
false
and
treacherous
man
hath
affirmed
to
many
persons
of
unquestionable
honour
and
reputation
,
that
he
neither
knew
nor
believed
any
thing
of
a
Protestant
Plot
,
and
that
being
obliged
to
my
Lord
Shaftsbury
more
than
to
most
men
alive
,
he
should
be
the
greatest
Rascal
under
Heaven
should
he
disserve
him
;
and
that
he
believed
nothing
to
be
true
of
all
that
was
said
against
him
.
The
same
Mr.
E.
E.
deposeth
at
the
same
time
,
that
David
Fitz-Gerald
told
him
,
He
would
swear
Treason
against
the
Earl
of
Shaftsbury
,
and
procure
others
to
do
the
like
;
and
that
if
he
would
second
him
in
the
said
accusation
,
he
should
be
highly
considered
.
Nay
to
that
impudency
was
the
former
mercenary
and
base
man
arrived
,
that
he
attempted
to
suborn
the
person
to
whom
under
God
the
King
owes
his
life
and
safety
,
and
the
Nation
its
present
peace
,
and
the
enjoyment
of
the
Protestant
Religion
.
For
the
Doctor
,
whose
credit
and
truth
have
approved
themselves
before
Parliaments
,
Councils
,
and
Courts
of
Judicature
,
assures
us
,
that
the
forementioned
Justice
,
having
told
him
that
there
was
a
design
to
take
off
my
Lord
Shaftsbury
,
and
having
reckoned
above
five
and
twenty
whom
he
had
brought
over
to
swear
a
Protestant
Plot
,
and
particularly
that
Mr.
Smith
,
Mr.
Dugdale
,
Mr.
Turbervile
,
and
one
of
the
Macknamar's
were
Evidences
against
my
Lord
,
for
which
the
first
was
to
have
a
Deanry
,
the
second
a
place
in
the
Custom-house
,
the
third
a
Captains
place
,
and
the
last
a
Lieutenants
;
he
thereupon
entreated
him
also
to
join
in
the
Design
,
promising
in
the
names
of
the
E.
of
●
.
Mr.
S.
and
Sir
L.
J.
(
who
we
suppose
will
in
due
time
vindicate
themselves
from
the
aspersion
)
that
if
he
would
engage
,
he
should
have
what
Promotion
he
pleased
.
And
that
this
pretended
Conspiracy
against
his
Majesty
and
the
Governement
,
is
all
Sham
in
it self
,
and
only
formed
by
the
enemies
of
our
Religion
,
to
make
us
odious
to
his
Majesty
,
lessen
the
fury
of
the
Nation
towards
the
Papists
,
and
to
destroy
such
as
have
any
zeal
for
Protestancy
,
or
the
Laws
and
Liberties
of
the
Land
,
will
receive
further
evidence
and
light
from
the
Testimony
of
those
whom
,
though
Warcup
and
Fitz-Gerald
did
not
immediately
inveigle
and
assault
,
yet
their
Emissaries
and
factors
,
and
such
as
they
had
corrupted
and
brought
over
,
did
.
Accordingly
Mr.
L.
M.
in
a
Deposition
upon
Oath
,
Aug.
25
,
1681
,
tells
us
,
That
Mr.
Ivie
,
and
Bernard
Dennis
,
had
endeavoured
to
perswade
him
to
swear
against
the
Earl
of
Shaftsbury
,
my
Lord
Howard
,
and
others
,
that
they
had
raised
Men
,
Money
,
and
Arms
,
to
secure
and
depose
the
King
,
if
he
would
not
yield
to
such
things
as
they
should
desire
.
And
that
Mr.
John
Smith
,
Justice
Warcup's
Candidate
for
the
first
Deanry
,
and
Serjeant
Jefferies
man
of
known
Learning
,
had
also
treated
with
and
advised
him
to
swear
the
Protestant
Plot
against
the
same
two
Noble
Persons
,
and
divers
others
;
and
that
John
Macknamar
,
who
by
the
Justices
Order
shall
have
the
Reversion
of
the
next
Lieutenancy
,
would
have
enticed
him
to
swear
a
Plot
against
the
Presbyterians
,
namely
that
they
were
to
seise
the
King
,
that
there
were
Horse
,
Arms
and
Money
raised
by
the
Duke
of
Monmouth
,
the
Earl
of
Shaftsbury
,
and
several
Citizens
of
London
,
to
that
purpose
.
It
is
observable
,
that
whereas
my
Lord
Chief
J.
North
,
and
Sir
George
Jefferies
knew
of
no
Protestant
Plot
,
but
only
that
Mr.
Colledg
,
who
stiled
himself
of
that
Religion
,
was
guilty
of
Treasonable
insinuations
,
words
&
endeavours
against
his
Majesty
,
yet
Mr.
Smith
,
and
Mr.
Ivie
had
one
in
lavender
for
them
,
which
was
to
be
brought
upon
the
Stage
as
they
were
to
be
prompted
by
the
Masters
of
this
new
Tragick
Comedy
who
stood
behind
the
Curtain
,
and
as
they
should
see
rewards
Crowning
their
Service
.
But
how
many
this
OTHERS
may
include
in
the
Belly
of
it
,
passeth
my
skill
to
conjecture
or
foretel
,
only
I
hear
it
is
already
multiplied
in
Mr.
Smith's
Arithmatick
to
a
hundred
,
and
whether
it
may
not
Spawn
into
thousands
by
the
warmth
of
Cathedral
Preferment
.
I
cannot
at
present
tell
,
but
must
leave
to
be
discovered
and
unridled
by
time
.
Nor
is
L.
M.
the
only
Person
whom
they
that
were
listed
in
the
Justices
Roll
of
Witnesses
,
have
blab'd
the
Secret
of
a
Protestant
Plot
unto
,
but
there
is
one
Mr.
Z.
to
whom
they
discovered
the
blessed
project
from
a
hope
of
prevailing
upon
him
to
promote
the
spilling
the
Blood
of
Innocents
.
Now
this
Mr.
Z.
in
a
Deposition
which
he
made
June
23.
1681.
Tells
us
that
Mr.
Ivie
having
acquainted
him
that
the
King
had
appointed
the
F.
of
H.
my
L.
H.
my
L.
C.
and
Mr.
S.
to
be
a
Committee
to
give
assurances
of
Pardon
,
and
to
allow
Gratuities
to
all
that
would
swear
against
my
Lord
Shaftsbury
,
and
that
there
is
a
Presbyterian
Plot
▪
he
then
endeavoured
to
perswade
him
to
swear
High
Treason
against
the
said
Earl
of
Shaftsbury
,
and
Mr.
Speak
the
Elder
,
of
Somersetshire
,
adding
it
was
all
one
tho'
he
had
never
spoken
witb
them
,
yet
it
would
confirm
what
he
and
others
had
sworn
against
them
.
Truly
Mr.
Ivie
approves
himself
a
thankful
Person
,
and
in
reference
to
Mr.
Speak
,
hath
verified
the
Proverb
,
save
a
Thief
from
the
Gallows
and
he
will
cut
your
Throat
.
But
I
shall
never
wonder
that
these
Fellows
have
the
confidence
to
swear
falsly
against
Protestant
Peers
and
Gentlemen
,
having
the
impudence
to
speak
at
this
rate
of
the
King
and
his
chief
Ministers
.
And
it
is
to
be
hop'd
that
His
Majesty
out
of
regard
to
his
own
Honour
,
and
the
Reputation
of
the
Government
,
as
well
as
out
of
Justice
to
his
Loyal
Subjects
,
will
in
due
time
bring
these
Miscreants
to
condign
Punishment
.
Moreover
,
that
this
Protestant
Plot
hath
no
real
Foundation
,
but
is
meerly
forged
by
the
Papists
,
and
such
as
are
Pensioners
to
them
;
I
shall
make
uncontrolably
evident
from
the
very
Witnesses
that
have
deposed
it
.
For
the
silly
Rascals
have
as
little
Wit
,
as
they
have
Conscience
.
And
tho'
they
were
so
wicked
as
to
Embark
in
Perjury
,
yet
they
have
not
the
Prudence
to
conceal
their
Crime
.
1.
To
some
they
imparted
the
motive
upon
which
they
engaged
in
so
black
an
undertaking
,
as
that
they
would
not
be
neglected
and
starved
.
Thus
Hayn's
acquaints
L.
M.
That
his
necessitous
condition
forced
him
to
take
desperate
resolutions
;
and
to
make
his
Fortune
,
he
would
swear
a
Plot
against
the
Presbyterians
;
being
pleased
to
add
that
any
plausible
thing
would
be
believed
against
them
.
Turbervile
likewise
told
the
same
Person
,
that
rather
than
he
would
submit
to
want
,
he
would
make
the
Lives
of
Monmouth
,
Shaftsbury
,
and
some
of
the
Factious
Citizens
smoke
.
It
is
fairly
bid
for
Bread
,
but
it
is
withal
sad
to
consider
that
the
Blood
of
the
Greatest
,
Best
,
and
most
useful
Subjects
in
England
,
must
be
the
price
of
their
Commons
.
2.
To
others
they
Communicated
the
Offers
and
Terms
by
which
they
were
tempted
.
Thus
Turbervile
told
D.
O.
That
Warcup
offered
him
any
thing
he
would
desire
,
provided
he
would
swear
against
the
Earl
of
Shaftsbury
,
my
Lord
Howard
,
Mr.
Rouse
,
and
Mr.
Whitaker
.
And
John
Macknamarra
confessed
to
the
same
Person
,
to
Mr.
S.
O.
Mr.
M.
B.
and
Mr.
T.
P.
That
the
said
Justice
had
tempted
and
profer'd
them
several
Hundred
Pounds
i●
he
would
recant
his
Evidence
against
the
Papists
,
and
swear
against
my
L.
Shaftsbury
.
And
Mr.
Bernard
Dennis
revealed
to
D.
O.
Mr.
R.
B.
and
Mrs.
M
C.
that
Warcup
and
David
Fitz-Gerrald
tendered
him
great
things
,
if
he
would
depart
from
his
Evidence
about
the
Popish
Plot
,
and
swear
against
the
Earl
of
Shaftsbury
,
my
L.
Howard
,
and
others
.
Yea
the
Petition
which
Edward
Turbervile
,
John
Macknamarra
,
William
Lewis
and
Hubart
Burk
,
presented
to
my
L.
Mayor
,
the
Aldermen
and
Commons
of
London
in
Common
Council
,
do
in
effect
not
only
insinuate
,
but
declare
the
same
.
Nor
doth
it
only
intimate
their
being
tempted
to
retract
what
they
had
deposed
against
the
Papists
,
but
it
implies
that
they
were
also
suborned
to
charge
a
Plot
upon
Protestants
.
And
because
tho'
the
Petition
was
read
upon
Colledges
Trial
,
yet
it
was
not
published
in
the
Printed
Narrative
;
I
shall
therefore
here
subjoyn
so
much
of
it
as
is
pertinent
to
the
present
occasion
:
Namely
,
that
after
all
the
Discoveries
of
a
damnable
hellish
Popish
Plot
,
the
Papists
were
restless
in
their
endeavours
,
not
only
to
stiftle
and
discredit
the
belief
of
it
,
by
Tampering
and
Labouring
to
corrupt
some
of
the
most
considerable
Witnesses
,
and
Hiring
and
Suborming
most
infamous
Persons
to
defame
and
weaken
the
Testimony
of
Others
,
but
also
to
impute
the
Plot
unto
,
and
devolve
it
upon
the
Innocent
Protestants
:
and
that
the
Papists
had
so
far
wrought
upon
the
Necessities
of
some
,
that
for
a
present
supply
they
had
Shipwrack'd
their
Consciences
.
3.
The
Garb
and
Port
that
the
Witnesses
are
gotten
into
,
as
well
as
the
having
theit
Pockets
full
of
money
,
and
being
able
to
pay
their
old
Debts
,
do
proclaim
to
to
all
the
world
,
that
they
are
liberally
rewarded
for
what
they
have
undertaken
.
But
all
I
shall
say
in
reference
to
this
,
is
only
to
beg
two
things
of
Justice
Warcup
,
and
David
Fitz
Gerrald
,
which
I
do
rather
crave
of
them
than
others
,
as
supposing
they
are
as
well
the
Paymasters
for
the
Witnesses
,
as
the
Brokers
for
the
Lives
of
Protestants
.
The
first
is
,
that
they
would
honestly
tell
us
,
at
what
price
they
value
us
,
when
they
drive
a
bargain
for
our
Blood
;
and
secondly
,
out
of
what
Treasury
they
pay
the
Money
which
we
are
sold
for
.
The
knowledg
of
these
things
will
be
more
useful
to
us
,
than
may
be
they
are
aware
off
:
But
if
they
will
not
be
so
kind
as
to
tell
us
this
of
their
own
accord
,
I
hope
they
will
forgive
us
,
if
in
due
time
we
file
a
Bill
in
the
Court
of
Parliament
,
to
make
them
show
by
what
authority
they
have
driven
Bargains
concerning
the
Lives
of
His
Majesties
Liege
People
,
and
which
way
two
men
,
the
best
of
which
can
hardly
pay
their
debts
,
should
be
able
to
purchase
the
Heads
of
Peers
and
Gentlemen
.
But
notwithstanding
the
Witnesses
,
which
by
the
most
undue
means
they
have
been
able
to
muster
;
yet
I
cannot
perceive
but
that
they
will
have
a
hard
,
if
not
an
impossible
Task
of
it
,
to
gain
the
Life
of
my
Lord
Shaftsbury
;
Nor
hath
the
Credit
of
the
Evidence
been
so
advanced
by
Colledges
Trial
,
that
they
should
be
forward
to
venture
them
afresh
against
this
Great
and
Wise
Peer
.
I
pretend
not
to
write
remarks
upon
the
Trial
of
the
man
at
Oxford
,
much
less
to
condemn
either
Judges
,
Council
,
or
Jury
,
in
reference
to
that
proceeding
;
but
what
I
have
to
say
is
briefly
this
,
that
I
do
not
find
People
much
the
better
prepared
to
believe
the
Witnesses
a
second
time
,
by
their
acquainting
themselves
so
succesfully
at
the
first
.
For
,
considering
upon
what
disadvantages
the
man
pleaded
,
being
deprived
of
his
Papers
,
denyed
a
Pannel
of
the
Jury
,
and
refused
the
assistance
of
any
Friend
to
stand
by
him
,
and
much
more
of
a
Soliciter
to
assist
him
;
I
do
not
see
what
cause
there
is
to
boast
of
any
Reputation
acquired
by
the
Verdict
brought
in
upon
the
Evidence
.
Indeed
the
credit
of
the
Witnesses
appear'd
so
much
weakned
,
and
their
Testimony
so
greatly
shaken
by
the
Defence
which
he
made
,
and
the
Informations
which
were
given
in
his
behalf
,
that
my
Lord
N.
whom
none
can
Imagine
prepossessed
in
his
Favour
,
is
reported
to
have
offer'd
to
lay
a
Wager
that
he
would
have
been
brought
in
not
guilty
.
Nor
is
it
impossible
,
but
that
the
Papists
might
as
well
procure
Suborned
Villains
to
swear
falsly
against
the
poor
man
to
hang
him
,
as
they
have
found
Rascals
to
Frame
and
Publish
a
sham
Speech
,
whereof
he
never
spoke
one
word
,
as
his
last
and
dying
confession
.
For
,
they
who
have
a
Liberty
to
Defame
the
Dead
in
so
unheard
of
and
barbarous
a
manner
,
may
likewise
have
a
dispensation
to
destroy
the
living
by
Forgeries
and
Calumniations
.
Nor
is
it
so
new
or
monstruous
a
thing
to
hire
false
Witnesses
to
destroy
an
Innocent
,
as
to
impose
not
only
upon
the
World
,
but
the
Party
that
suffers
his
confessing
himself
in
his
Exit
a
Traitor
,
wnen
his
last
Words
were
to
pronounce
himself
Guiltless
.
Nor
doth
what
I
say
cast
any
reflection
upon
the
Justice
of
Colledges
Condemnation
,
it
only
declares
the
good
Nature
and
excellent
Q●alities
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
which
being
able
to
legitimate
so
infamous
a
Forgerie
against
the
Dead
,
may
also
sanctify
perjury
against
the
Living
.
Courts
of
Judicature
being
to
proceed
as
things
are
sworn
and
appear
upon
Cath
before
them
,
are
not
to
be
charged
for
shedding
Innocent
Blood
,
though
the
Person
cast
and
condemned
,
be
never
so
Guiltless
,
unless
the
falsehood
of
the
Testimony
be
detected
,
and
the
perjury
lye
evident
before
them
.
But
as
the
World
is
better
inform'd
of
the
value
and
complexion
of
the
Witnesses
than
it
was
before
,
so
they
will
find
my
Lord
Shaftsbury
a
Person
of
other
kind
of
Parts
and
Sagacity
,
than
they
found
the
poor
Joyner
.
And
seeing
the
Witnesses
have
been
hitherto
vieu'd
only
in
an
imperfect
Light
,
I
hope
the
Gentlemen
will
not
be
offended
if
I
draw
aside
the
Curtain
and
shew
them
in
their
natural
and
true
Colours
.
And
to
begin
with
Dugdale
,
we
shall
be
so
favourable
as
to
joyn
issue
with
him
as
to
his
Honesty
and
Reputation
,
upon
the
very
point
where
he
himself
hath
openly
staged
it
.
For
he
was
pleased
to
offer
at
Mr.
Colledges
Trial
,
see
p.
50.
That
if
any
Doctor
will
come
forth
,
and
say
he
cured
him
of
a
Clap
,
or
any
such
thing
,
he
will
stand
Guilty
of
all
that
is
imputed
to
him
.
Now
that
which
had
beeen
imputed
to
him
was
that
,
see
Colledges
Trial
.
p.
49.
he
should
call
God
to
witness
he
knew
nothing
against
any
Protestant
in
England
,
and
that
being
afterwards
challenged
for
appearing
to
swear
against
Mr.
Colledge
,
he
should
say
it
was
long
of
Collonel
Warcup
,
for
he
could
not
get
his
money
else
.
And
as
what
is
charged
upon
him
,
is
so
gross
and
villanous
,
that
it
proclaims
him
a
Perjured
and
Suborned
Rascal
to
all
the
World
,
if
it
be
true
▪
so
providing
he
stick
to
his
own
Proposal
,
I
do
affirm
in
the
Face
of
all
Man-kind
that
it
is
true
.
For
besides
that
Dr.
Lower
and
Dr.
Needham
prescribed
unto
him
for
that
Disease
,
Dr.
Carey
undertook
and
cured
him
of
it
.
The
next
person
that
supports
the
belief
of
a
Protestant
Plot
is
Mr.
John
Smith
,
a
Gentleman
of
so
celebrated
a
reputation
,
that
people
do
commonly
believe
it
is
his
Testimony
upon
which
this
Protestant
Plot
doth
chiefly
bear
.
We
desire
therefore
to
be
forgiven
,
if
we
have
been
the
more
diligent
to
enquire
concerning
the
credit
of
the
man
,
being
also
told
,
and
that
by
such
as
had
it
from
himself
,
how
he
can
take
away
the
lives
of
a
Hundred
,
had
he
but
others
to
join
with
him
.
Now
his
being
reported
to
dissemble
both
his
Name
and
his
Countrey
,
gives
some
folk
a
shreud
suspition
that
he
is
not
the
person
which
at
first
he
was
supposed
to
be
:
For
whereas
he
professeth
himself
an
Englishman
,
and
goes
by
the
name
of
Smith
,
there
are
those
that
say
he
is
an
Irish
man
,
and
that
his
true
name
is
Barrie
.
't
is
true
this
signifies
not
much
to
us
,
further
than
to
insinuate
,
that
whosoever
goes
by
a
false
name
,
especially
when
there
is
no
necessity
for
it
,
is
very
likely
to
have
a
treacherous
heart
and
a
false
tongue
;
and
that
he
who
pretends
himself
to
be
what
he
is
not
,
may
also
both
pretend
and
swear
he
knows
,
what
he
doth
not
.
But
of
how
little
moment
soever
it
is
to
us
,
it
is
of
mighty
consequence
to
himself
,
seeing
John
Barrie
may
be
hanged
for
his
former
Treasons
,
notwithstanding
His
Majesty
hath
graciously
pardoned
John
Smith
.
They
also
say
,
that
he
hath
not
only
sworn
to
a
Hundred
Gentlemen
,
but
affirmed
and
averred
to
the
King
himself
and
his
publick
Officers
,
that
he
is
the
Author
of
Books
which
he
never
wrote
a
Line
of
,
but
obtained
another
to
Pen
them
,
and
to
allow
him
the
profit
and
reputation
of
them
.
But
the
misery
of
it
is
,
that
he
who
passeth
secretly
for
the
Author
of
them
is
a
Fanatick
,
and
it
is
apprehended
that
there
is
no
hope
of
bringing
him
to
own
them
,
(
especially
having
been
disciplin'd
for
one
of
them
by
the
Council
)
tho'
the
safety
of
his
best
Friends
depended
upon
i●
.
For
men
of
that
stamp
are
commonly
thought
to
be
timorous
,
and
care
not
much
what
befall
others
,
providing
they
may
sleep
in
a
whole
skin
.
And
to
add
but
one
thing
more
in
reference
to
this
Gentleman
,
if
saying
one
thing
to
divers
persons
of
unsuspected
credit
,
and
swearing
the
contrary
before
a
Magistrate
,
be
sufficient
to
blast
a
mans
reputation
,
Mr.
Smith's
Testimony
will
not
signifie
a
rush
against
my
Lord
Shaftsbury
.
For
there
are
many
Witnesses
ready
to
depose
,
and
those
of
good
quality
and
undoubted
credit
,
how
they
have
heard
him
often
say
since
the
Oxford
Parliament
,
that
he
knew
nothing
against
that
Noble
Peer
.
Having
given
this
short
account
of
these
two
,
who
among
all
those
who
have
appeared
to
swear
a
Protestant
Plot
are
reputed
the
best
,
it
will
not
be
expected
that
I
should
plunge
my self
into
Kennels
and
Bogue-Houses
,
as
I
must
needs
do
should
I
proceed
to
unvail
and
represent
the
rest
.
For
if
Fellonies
,
Burglaries
,
and
Robbing
of
Churches
can
render
men
Infamous
and
Unworthy
to
be
believed
,
then
Hayns
,
Dennis
,
Ivy
,
Turbervele
and
the
two
Macknamarra's
are
for
ever
debarred
the
having
credit
giving
to
any
thing
they
say
.
Nor
let
any
think
that
the
disbelieving
the
Witnesses
in
Relation
to
a
Protestant
Plot
,
will
to
use
Sir
George
Jefferies
Phrase
,
see
Colledges
Trial
,
p
,
91.
trip
up
the
heels
of
▪
all
the
Evidence
and
Discovery
of
the
Popish
Plot
,
seeing
we
have
enough
to
prove
a
Papal
Conspiracy
,
were
all
the
Witnesses
in
their
Graves
.
And
it
is
something
strange
how
men
come
to
endeavour
to
weaken
the
credit
of
Dr
Oats
,
and
yet
pretend
they
would
keep
up
the
belief
a
Popish
Plot
.
However
,
there
is
no
reason
to
believe
men
when
they
affirm
things
Impossible
as
well
as
incoherent
,
though
their
word
may
be
taken
in
reference
to
matters
,
which
not
only
carry
a
probability
but
include
in
themselves
a
Moral
certainty
.
Nor
is
it
just
and
fair
,
that
rather
than
such
as
are
turned
Rogues
should
not
still
be
accompted
honest
,
those
that
have
been
always
Loyal
,
must
upon
their
word
be
esteemed
Traitors
.
And
the
late
detection
of
a
Sham-Plot
in
Ireland
,
which
the
Priests
were
forging
to
ruine
the
Protestants
there
,
may
serve
to
put
it
out
of
all
suspicion
and
doubt
,
that
the
Conspiracy
sworn
against
those
of
that
Religion
here
,
is
of
the
same
kind
,
and
hammered
in
that
forge
.
The
sum
of
what
we
have
transmitted
from
Dublin
,
of
a
Plot
which
was
transacting
in
that
Kingdom
to
this
purpose
,
I
shall
here
subjoyn
from
a
larger
Copy
that
was
sent
the
Council
the
last
week
;
namely
,
That
one
St.
Lawrence
a
Priest
,
July
,
7.
1681.
came
to
one
William
Smith
Gentleman
,
being
then
a
Prisoner
in
the
Marshalsea
of
that
City
,
where
he
had
lyen
about
four
years
,
and
having
bewailed
his
sad
Confinement
,
promised
to
procure
him
Money
to
set
him
at
Liberty
,
and
put
him
into
a
good
equipage
,
providing
he
would
condescend
to
such
things
as
he
should
propose
.
And
after
Mr.
Smith
had
signified
his
readiness
to
comply
,
if
what
St.
Lawrence
proposed
were
legal
and
possible
,
the
Priest
proceeded
to
administer
an
Oath
of
Secrecy
to
him
,
and
afterwards
told
him
,
that
to
Swear
any
thing
,
against
a
Protestant-Heretick
,
for
the
Catholick
Good
,
is
to
do
God
good
Service
;
and
that
an
Oath
taken
upon
a
Protestant
Bible
,
needs
no
scruple
of
Conscience
nor
inward
remorse
,
being
all
one
as
to
Swear
upon
Aesop's
Fables
:
And
that
what
he
Swore
on
the
behalf
of
the
Catholicks
(
especially
in
these
times
)
tho'
never
so
false
,
is
by
a
Power
allowed
from
the
Pope
to
every
Priest
in
Orders
,
fully
,
clearly
,
and
absolutely
Pardoned
by
the
Priests
Absolution
,
after
Confession
made
unto
him
.
And
therefore
that
which
he
desired
him
to
do
,
was
to
Swear
,
that
Mr.
Parsons
,
Mr.
Jack
,
and
Dr.
Harrison
,
Heretical
Ministers
in
Dublin
,
had
offered
to
pay
his
Debts
,
if
he
would
make
A●…
davit
that
there
was
a
Popish
Plot
;
and
that
a
Priest
told
him
,
That
the
Duke
of
York
was
so
far
concerned
in
the
Plot
,
that
he
sided
with
the
Pope
and
the
French
King
,
to
introduce
the
French
,
to
invade
the
Kingdom
of
England
and
Ireland
,
to
put
the
King
to
Death
,
and
to
murder
all
the
Protestants
.
And
that
they
would
have
him
further
to
Swear
,
He
had
heard
Papists
declare
they
would
bring
it
about
to
be
a
Presbyterian-Plot
;
and
to
Suborn
Witnesses
against
the
Earl
of
Shaftsbury
,
the
Duke
of
Monmouth
,
&c.
and
bring
their
Heads
to
the
Block
.
And
then
the
Priest
added
such
Trasonable
things
of
His
Majesty
,
as
I
tremble
to
write
;
namely
,
That
the
King
would
easily
believe
this
Information
,
by
reason
he
would
have
any
occasion
to
destroy
them
,
being
the
people
that
Murdered
his
Father
.
The
said
St.
Lawrence
told
him
also
that
he
must
Swear
,
That
the
said
Ministers
called
his
Majesty
a
Papist
,
and
had
said
,
He
designed
the
Destruction
of
his
Subjects
,
and
to
establish
the
Popish
Religion
in
England
,
and
the
rest
of
his
Dominions
;
and
that
they
plainly
perceived
his
Intention
was
to
bring
his
said
Subjects
under
a
Tyrannical
Government
:
And
that
the
said
Ministers
should
further
say
,
That
they
and
their
Brethren
intended
ere
this
to
have
had
the
King
in
their
Power
,
and
to
have
disposed
of
him
at
their
pleasure
;
nay
,
to
have
made
him
shorter
by
the
Head
:
But
failing
in
this
,
they
were
resolved
to
spend
their
Lives
and
Fortunes
to
make
out
a
Popish
Plot
.
Now
says
St.
Lawrence
,
upon
your
Deposing
this
,
the
Hereticks
will
be
utterly
confounded
,
and
we
cleared
;
and
all
the
Presbyterians
and
other
Dissenters
will
be
accused
not
only
of
the
said
Plot
,
but
be
reputed
Guilty
of
all
the
Blood
that
hath
been
spilt
.
And
says
the
Priest
,
If
you
will
undertake
this
,
you
need
not
doubt
for
you
shall
have
the
Prayers
of
the
Catholick-Church
to
prosper
you
;
besides
,
other
Witnesses
shall
be
procured
to
second
this
your
Information
,
for
by
Gold
or
Silver
they
may
be
obtained
to
it
.
The
Priest
further
added
,
That
the
Catholick
Lords
in
the
Tower
had
already
given
large
Sums
to
suborn
Witnesses
against
the
Earl
of
Shaftsbury
;
and
that
Fourty
would
appear
against
him
,
for
they
were
resolved
to
make
it
a
Presbyterian-Plot
.
And
that
upon
the
said
Smith's
replying
,
that
he
neither
knew
Mr.
Jack
nor
Mr.
Harrison
:
The
Priest
answered
,
He
must
write
to
them
,
and
de●lare
,
that
he
had
been
a
lewd
and
wicked
Sinner
,
and
long
out
of
the
way
;
But
that
God
now
touching
him
with
an
inward
remorse
of
Conscience
,
he
did
therefore
beseech
them
,
for
Christ
Jesus
sake
,
to
come
to
him
and
administer
some
Spiritual
Comfort
.
And
says
St.
Lawrence
,
you
may
be
sure
they
will
come
,
and
when
they
●ave
been
by
others
seen
with
you
in
the
house
,
it
is
enough
for
the
business
,
and
will
turn
to
the
ruine
of
themselves
and
many
thousands
of
them
,
whose
Blood
,
said
he
,
I
hope
to
see
spilt
by
the
hands
of
Catholicks
▪
And
,
says
he
,
I
am
certain
that
in
two
or
three
years
time
,
there
will
not
be
a
living
Protestant
in
England
nor
Ireland
.
And
that
he
added
further
,
that
when
Smith
should
come
into
England
to
testifie
this
,
he
must
profess
himself
a
Protestant
,
and
let
none
know
that
he
was
a
Catholick
;
and
that
he
should
be
dispensed
with
for
so
doing
.
Now
I
suppose
this
needs
no
commentary
to
English
Protestants
,
and
besides
,
the
Paper
informs
,
that
the
Priest
acknowledged
that
it
was
only
a
counterpart
of
what
is
doing
here
.
I
am
sensible
that
this
just
,
as
well
as
necessary
endeavour
of
detecting
the
combination
of
impudent
and
indigent
persons
,
acted
and
influenced
by
the
Papists
against
the
Protestant
Religion
,
and
under
His
Majesty
its
chiefest
friends
and
assertors
,
will
not
only
alarm
but
enrage
those
who
have
Sworn
against
others
for
money
and
rewards
,
to
depose
at
random
against
the
Author
from
Principles
of
Malice
and
Revenge
.
For
to
all
the
other
unquestionable
proofs
of
a
Conspiracy
to
destroy
guiltless
persons
,
this
is
as
certain
and
unquestionable
argument
of
it
as
any
,
that
whensoever
they
can
learn
or
imagine
that
any
person
is
to
appear
against
them
to
lay
open
their
villanies
,
they
immediately
charge
him
with
a
Plot
to
seise
and
depose
the
King
,
and
alter
the
Government
.
Accordingly
Mr.
Wilmore
having
been
instrumental
to
find
an
ignoramus
upon
a
Bill
which
they
had
sworn
,
and
being
prepared
by
what
they
had
declared
and
acknowledged
to
himself
,
to
enfeeble
and
take
off
the
credit
of
the
most
principal
Evidence
,
he
was
himself
accused
of
High
Treason
by
them
,
to
prevent
and
obstruct
his
Testimony
:
For
as
he
was
never
questioned
for
,
neither
heard
of
any
thing
charged
upon
him
before
he
was
upon
that
Jury
,
so
he
too
well
learned
the
temper
and
character
of
the
men
ever
after
to
converse
with
them
.
And
Mr.
Everard
,
who
stood
as
fair
in
their
esteem
as
any
man
alive
before
his
going
to
Oxford
,
upon
his
revealing
something
there
against
Justice
Warcup
and
others
,
and
his
being
ready
to
have
said
more
if
the
Court
had
judged
it
pertinent
to
the
occasion
,
and
would
have
had
the
patience
to
hear
him
,
had
immediately
after
his
return
Warrants
issued
against
him
,
for
such
High
and
Traiterous
crimes
as
those
against
whom
he
is
able
to
inform
,
thought
convenient
for
their
own
safety
to
depose
and
swear
:
So
that
we
are
reduced
into
the
most
woful
circumstances
,
and
brought
into
the
most
deplorable
condition
,
that
ever
people
were
that
have
so
good
a
King
,
and
enjoy
such
excellent
Laws
for
the
safety
of
the
Subject
:
For
be
we
never
so
innocent
,
these
hired
and
suborned
fellows
are
ready
to
swear
us
guilty
,
when
either
obliged
unto
it
for
their
own
preservation
,
or
prompted
thereunto
by
the
unseen
and
hidden
managers
of
the
design
.
And
if
we
be
so
fortunate
as
to
know
of
any
that
can
detect
the
conspiracy
against
our
lives
,
or
lay
open
the
forgery
of
our
accusers
,
they
are
instantly
informed
against
upon
Oath
,
and
brought
into
the
same
hazard
with
our selves
.
Thus
Mr.
Edward
Whitaker
was
taken
into
custody
the
very
morning
that
Colledges
Indictment
was
to
be
preferred
at
the
Old-Bayley
,
the
persons
that
promoted
it
being
apprehensive
he
was
able
to
disserve
the
business
they
were
upon
.
Which
as
it
hath
compelled
the
Author
of
these
sheets
to
conceal
the
Names
of
many
principal
persons
who
can
unriddle
this
whole
Mystery
,
and
pull
off
the
disguises
and
vizors
whereby
this
affair
is
obscured
and
conccaled
from
the
knowledg
of
the
world
;
so
there
is
nothing
more
desired
than
that
we
may
have
a
fair
opportunity
without
the
seisure
of
our
Papers
,
to
discover
this
black
and
hellish
conspiracy
,
before
impartial
Judges
and
an
understanding
Jury
.
And
for
my self
,
I
defie
the
invention
and
the
malice
of
all
the
Witnesses
,
having
not
only
a
testimony
in
my self
of
most
sincere
loyalty
to
the
King
and
the
Government
,
but
having
also
as
many
Witnesses
of
it
,
as
I
have
had
either
the
honour
,
or
an
occasion
to
be
known
unto
FINIS
.