WOnder not that I call it a Popish Pamphlet , since it 's such a sweet smelling Sacrifice in the Nostrils of every Roman Catholick , and so very acceptable to all Abhorrors . A Man would think that Caryl , or L'Estrange , or Duffy's Finger was in this Pye , be who he will that wrote it , the best Encomium he merits is Monstrum horrendum , informe . In his lying Pamphlet , he writes , I shall give you a true and perfect Relation , according to her own Deposition before Justice Ware , Sir W. Waller , Mr. Baxter , and Mr. Carlton , who he says stampt with his wooden Leg , and swore Damn him he believed it : Know that this true Relation is nothing but an absolute Fiction , compos'd I fancy by the same Hand that writ old Stafford's Speech Satan's Kingdom is like to be destroyed , the Whore of Babylon is ready to turn up her Heels , and quit the Protestant Borders ; and now wonder not , if Belzebub be more than ordinary industrious to send his Trustees to secure his Interest , if either wicked Wit or Diabolical Art can draw off your Affections from the Duke of Monmouth , the Earls of Shaftsbury , Essex , &c. what the Press blushes to see by day , shall be printed by the Devil at Night , so eager is he to indulge the Roman Crew .

He tells you on the 29th of January , the Lady being alone in her Closet , she heard this Apparition call her , Sweet Heart , which soon appeared to her in the shape of a bright Star , and blew Garter , and said , that the 15th day of May is appointed for the Royal Blood to be poysoned , but be not afraid , said it , for I am sent to tell thee that James Duke of Monmouth , hath none of it in him .

By this you may guess of what Religion the Ghost had been , and if you give way to the Truth of the Apparition ( which no honest Man dare do , nor none but Knaves and Papists will do ) you may easily guess that it was Stafford's Ghost . But the Ghost was more impudent than the Devil , to say his Grace had not a drop of Royal Blood in him . Say he was not a Son lawfully begotten , yet you dare not say without blushing , that he had not a Royal Father ; and surely that Royal Father , kept not all his Royal Blood to himself , when he begot him . But what dare you not say , nay what will you not swear ? you that will Ridicule the Plot , and swear the five Jesuits died Martyrs , will by the Dictates of the same Religion swear , that James Duke of York , has more right to the Crown , than King Charles the Second , and that the Pope has more right to it than them both .

That which this Man ( or rather this Devil ) drives at in his feigned Apparition , is , to lessen the Honour of the Duke of Monmouth , and ecclipse the Modesty of a vertuous Lady ; but alas ! such villanous Practices as these make them ten times more glorious than they are . God makes the same use of such Devils as this is , as Jewellers do of black Foyles , to make their Diamonds look with a better Lustre . The Moon lends never the worse Light , for the Dogs barking at it . It will not be in your Power to abate the Lustre of that bright Star you mention , till you have ruined One brighter than He . God preserve the King , and the Protestant Religion , and that Star ere long , I hope , will appear more glorious than ever : and then , Sweet-Heart , you may be glad of a Closet to hide your self in .

As to the Maid of Hatfield , if thou knowest her to be no Maid , thou knowest more ( it may be ) than she her self ; and I shall say as little to her Apparition : It may be a Mistake in her , and it may not ; I know there are false Spirits , as well as false Prophets , but none more false than thine .

In thy second Paragraph , the Spirit seems to ask the Lady these following Questions : If she remembred what it said before ? She said , Yes : Do you believe it ? and she said , Yes : Have you told it ? and she said , No : Then said the peevish Spirit , Tell it the D. of M. from me , and bid him not go to Wapping . As to the Lady's Answers to the feigned Spirit's Questions , I dare be bold to answer thee , that she has a due Esteem for the D. of M. and so have the most part of the honest Lords , and the vertuous Ladies in the Kingdom . And tho Knaves and Fools labour to bespatter him , yet know , that his Star never shined half so bright yet , as I believe his Honour and Reputation will shine hereafter . As to this Wapping-Business , let the Tarpawlins there give thee an Answer , when thou darest write , Scriptum per me , at the tail on 't .

In the third , the Popish Apparition bids the Lady tell James D. of M. — but is presently interrupted by her , it seems , with a , Don't you see him ? Tell him your self , we are all alone . A sign thy Spirit , as thy Judgment , is blind : If the Spirit had eyes to see the way thither , methinks it should not have wanted them , to have seen a white Star on a black Suit . But this may pass with a Papist , who knows Infallibility belongs to their Family .

February the 2d , it seems it was heard again , and talked invisibly to her , and prated as incoherently to her , as thou dost to Sence and Reason , viz. Bid James D. of M. go to the Tower , and venture the Lion , old Charles won't hurt him . — No , I hope old Charles hath more Wit than to hurt him , and I believe young Charles has more Grace . Then it bade tell him , That he has discovered the Weakness of his Party , in petitioning but with Fifteen after him . Tho but fifteen went , know , Gaffer Lack-Wit , that there will not be wanting fifteen times fifteen thousand , to petition the King for the Subjects Right , when an occasion requires it . This is a true , but a dreadful Story to such Popish Villains as thou seemest to be . Then said thy invisible Spirit , Bid all the Lords you know , have a care of Petitioning , unless they are disobliged . — Tell my Lord Stamford , his Wife keeps her Bed . — Bid Shaftsbury have a care of his Spiggot ; for if he is tapp'd , all the Plot will run out : But did it not say , If he is stabb'd , that Dagger , or that Cork will keep it in . I dare say , such Spirits do not desire to have Plots broach'd ; for they wander abroad in half Sheets of Paper , like that of the Lady Gray , and Madam Fanshaw's Ghost ; and nothing can curb them , or lay them , like a Good Parliament .