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             A supplement to The narrative in reply to the dulness and malice of two pretended answers to that pamphlet / written by E. Settle.
             Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724.
          
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           A
           SUPPLEMENT
           TO
           THE
           NARRATIVE
           .
           In
           Reply
           to
           the
           Dulness
           and
           Malice
           Of
           two
           pretended
           ANSWERS
           To
           that
           PAMPHLET
           .
        
         
           Written
           by
           
             E.
             SETTLE
          
           .
        
         
           
             Carmine
             dum
             tali
             Sylvas
             Animosque
             Ferarum
          
           
             Threicius
             Vates
             &
             saxa
             sequentia
             traxit
             ,
          
           
             Ecce
             Nurus
             Ciconum
             —
             
               Ovid.
               Metam
               .
            
          
        
         
           LONDON
           ;
           Printed
           ,
           and
           Sold
           by
           
             Thomas
             Graves
          
           for
           the
           Author
           .
           1683.
           
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
         
           A
           Supplement
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           WEll
           ,
           Lord
           have
           mercy
           upon
           us
           !
           What
           a
           crying
           Sin
           is
           turning
           Honest
           ,
           and
           telling
           Truth
           ,
           to
           those
           Red-letter'd
           Saints
           the
           Whiggs
           ?
           How
           many
           Rogues
           ,
           Dogs
           ,
           Rascals
           and
           Villains
           ,
           has
           poor
           Elkanah
           been
           call'd
           by
           them
           (
           for
           they
           raile
           as
           loud
           as
           they
           pray
           )
           and
           all
           alas
           ,
           not
           for
           Libelling
           the
           Brother
           of
           a
           King
           ,
           (
           for
           that
           was
           his
           Virtue
           )
           but
           for
           doing
           ill
           and
           being
           sorry
           for
           it
           .
           How
           many
           Reprobates
           ,
           Monsters
           ,
           and
           what
           not
           ,
           has
           his
           Apostacy
           from
           that
           Heavenly
           Whig-gift
           of
           Lying
           and
           Scandal
           transform'd
           him
           to
           :
           Whilst
           he
           raked
           up
           Dirt
           ,
           and
           Falshood
           to
           throw
           in
           the
           Face
           of
           Princes
           ,
           tho
           stoln
           from
           that
           sink
           of
           Forgery
           the
           HISTORY
           OF
           THE
           BLACK
           BOX
           ,
           what
           Honesty
           and
           Oracles
           hung
           upon
           his
           Lips
           ;
           and
           what
           an
           Angel
           of
           Light
           was
           such
           a
           Protestant
           Champion
           !
           But
           from
           that
           minute
           ,
           that
           accursed
           minute
           ,
           that
           he
           speaks
           Truth
           ,
           and
           owns
           and
           repents
           of
           that
           Malice
           that
           animated
           him
           ,
           tho
           into
           the
           very
           Unchristianity
           of
           Revenge
           ,
           what
           a
           falling
           Lucifer
           have
           they
           made
           him
           ?
        
         
           Besides
           ,
           this
           is
           but
           the
           Crime
           of
           his
           Preface
           and
           Post-script
           ;
           but
           oh
           for
           his
           Narrative
           !
           his
           lewd
           ,
           his
           filthy
           ,
           his
           abominable
           Narrative
           .
           Reprobate
           of
           Reprobates
           ,
           and
           Monster
           of
           Monsters
           ,
           having
           no
           fear
           of
           God
           before
           his
           Eyes
           ,
           but
           led
           by
           the
           Instigation
           of
           the
           Devil
           ,
           he
           has
           dasht
           their
           dear
           ,
           their
           darling
           ,
           their
           adored
           Dagon
           to
           pieces
           ;
           and
           the
           disconsolate
           Saints
           want
           Power
           to
           joyn
           the
           poor
           stumps
           of
           it
           together
           again
           .
        
         
           But
           alas
           !
           where
           Reason
           cannot
           help
           them
           ,
           Railing
           and
           Lying
           shall
           .
           And
           for
           an
           Essay
           of
           that
           Nature
           ,
           we
           meet
           a
           harmless
           sucking
           Devil
           of
           theirs
           coming
           abroad
           ,
           call'd
           REMARKS
           UPON
           
             E.
             SETTLES
          
           NARRATIVE
           ,
           an
           Extraordinary
           piece
           for
           their
           Dagons
           Justification
           ,
           being
           all
           Billings-gate
           and
           no
           Argument
           from
           the
           beginning
           to
           the
           end
           .
           That
           scurrilous
           sensless
           scribble
           that
           I
           should
           have
           answer'd
           with
           Silence
           and
           Disdain
           ,
           had
           not
           the
           Barbarous
           Impudence
           of
           some
           intended
           personal
           Reflections
           in
           it
           ,
           a
           Mass
           of
           as
           Brazen-faced
           Romance
           and
           Forgery
           ,
           as
           ever
           Ink
           and
           Letters
           brought
           forth
           ,
           extorted
           this
           Vindication
           from
           the
           Rancour
           of
           Abuse
           and
           Villany
           .
           But
           truly
           there
           's
           a
           great
           deal
           of
           Cause
           for
           it
           .
           For
           where
           any
           thing
           comes
           in
           Print
           a
           little
           too
           unanswerable
           for
           them
           ,
           and
           they
           cannot
           make
           their
           Attempt
           that
           way
           ,
           the
           Authors
           Person
           must
           be
           attacqued
           ,
           and
           an
           Assault
           made
           upon
           his
           Reputation
           is
           their
           old
           practised
           way
           ,
           to
           baffle
           that
           Reason
           they
           cannot
           otherwise
           overthrow
           ;
           whilst
           they
           Write
           as
           they
           Preach
           only
           to
           Ignorance
           and
           Fools
           ,
           such
           as
           can
           be
           caught
           by
           Empty
           Noise
           ,
           and
           Charm'd
           by
           Sounds
           .
        
         
           But
           before
           I
           convince
           the
           World
           ,
           how
           Notorious
           a
           Lyer
           the
           Remarker
           is
           in
           those
           Rascally
           stories
           laid
           at
           poor
           Elkanahs
           Door
           .
           I
           shall
           endeavor
           to
           answer
           some
           few
           passages
           in
           his
           Book
           ,
           which
           to
           the
           unwary
           at
           first
           sight
           may
           look
           a
           little
           like
           sense
           ,
           tho
           God
           wot
           ,
           but
           a
           little
           indeed
           :
           He
           puts
           the
           Narrative
           writer
           this
           Question
           .
           p.
           11
        
         
           
             Whether
             it
             were
             not
             more
             probable
             that
             the
             Papists
             a
             People
             of
             debaucht
             and
             murderous
             Principles
             ,
             that
             bear
             no
             Conscience
             towards
             Hereticks
             ,
             persecuted
             by
             poenal
             Laws
          
           [
           not
           when
           the
           Plot
           was
           hatching
           sure
           ]
           
             should
             be
             induced
             out
             o●
             their
             Hatred
             of
             the
             Protestant
             Religion
             ,
             and
             for
             the
             Advancement
             of
             ther
             own
             ,
             to
             remove
             the
             Obstacles
             of
             their
             Freedom
             and
             Happiness
             by
             the
             Destruction
             of
             a
             Heretick
             Prince
             ;
             then
             that
             a
             few
             inconsiderable
             Persons
             without
             any
             Support
             or
             Encouragement
             should
             dare
             to
             create
             such
             a
             Horrid
             and
             Bloody
             Plot
             of
             their
             own
             Heads
             ,
             and
             then
             venture
             their
             Lives
             by
             daring
             to
             justifye
             it
             to
             the
             Face
             of
             King
             and
             Parliament
             .
          
           Now
           what
           a
           doubty
           Question
           has
           this
           Remarker
           made
           ;
           and
           what
           an
           OEdipus
           must
           he
           be
           that
           answers
           it
           ?
        
         
           That
           the
           Papists
           are
           those
           debaucht
           and
           Murderous
           Principled
           Men
           I
           acknowledge
           ;
           but
           that
           their
           Killing
           the
           King
           by
           those
           
             open
             day-light
          
           Assassinations
           sworn
           in
           the
           Plot
           ,
           could
           have
           been
           an
           Advancement
           of
           their
           Religion
           ,
           and
           a
           removing
           the
           Obstacles
           to
           their
           Freedom
           and
           Happiness
           I
           utterly
           deny
           .
           For
           the
           bare-faced
           shooting
           the
           King
           by
           Pickerings
           Gun
           ,
           by
           such
           a
           hand
           ,
           at
           such
           a
           place
           ,
           and
           in
           such
           a
           Manner
           ,
           as
           attested
           by
           the
           Plot-swearers
           ,
           had
           been
           so
           remote
           a
           way
           from
           advancing
           either
           the
           Papists
           or
           their
           Religion
           ,
           that
           on
           the
           contrary
           it
           had
           been
           the
           direct
           means
           to
           have
           drawn
           down
           that
           Vengeance
           upon
           their
           Heads
           ,
           from
           the
           
             Hundred
             
             fold
          
           stronger
           Protestant
           hands
           in
           England
           ,
           as
           might
           have
           almost
           blotted
           them
           from
           the
           Face
           of
           the
           Earth
           .
           And
           as
           the
           Narrative
           tells
           you
           ,
           if
           that
           were
           the
           highest
           reach
           of
           an
           Intrigue
           of
           a
           Hundred
           Years
           hatching
           ,
           much
           good
           may
           do
           them
           with
           their
           Politicks
           .
        
         
           But
           had
           the
           Discoverers
           no
           Support
           nor
           Encouragement
           from
           making
           their
           Discoveries
           ,
           when
           from
           
             Infamy
             Jails
          
           and
           Beggary
           they
           stept
           up
           to
           Ten
           Pounds
           a
           week
           maintenance
           ,
           and
           the
           honor
           of
           Whitehall
           Lodgings
           ,
           Whitehall
           Guards
           to
           attend
           them
           ,
           with
           the
           Pomp
           of
           
             bended
             Knees
          
           and
           up
           
             lifted
             Eyes
          
           from
           the
           adoring
           Crowd
           ,
           and
           the
           continued
           Hosannas
           OF
           ALL
           HAYLE
           THE
           SAVIOURS
           OF
           THE
           NATION
           .
           Was
           it
           no
           Encouragement
           for
           such
           a
           poor
           Marshalsea
           Bird
           as
           Bedlox
           ,
           newly
           releast
           from
           feeding
           on
           the
           Basket
           ,
           to
           leap
           at
           the
           Kings
           Proclamation
           of
           500l
           for
           the
           Discovery
           of
           Sir
           
             Edmond-bury
             Godfreys
          
           Murder
           ?
           And
           tho
           several
           unhappy
           unforseen
           discouragements
           have
           befaln
           them
           since
           ;
           Yet
           ,
           they
           are
           not
           so
           desperately
           unfortunate
           yet
           ,
           but
           they
           have
           some
           Friends
           left
           .
           The
           Reverend
           Dr.
           the
           despised
           at
           the
           Profane
           :
           Whitehall
           ,
           is
           still
           honored
           by
           the
           sanctifyed
           
             Citty
             Brotherhood
          
           .
           A
           large
           House
           well
           furnisht
           ,
           with
           Servants
           ,
           Attendants
           ,
           and
           all
           good
           things
           at
           Command
           ,
           and
           all
           to
           the
           
             Son
             of
             a
             Weaver
          
           with
           not
           one
           farthing
           worth
           of
           Patrimony
           or
           Preferment
           is
           a
           sign
           that
           Providence
           has
           not
           quite
           forsaken
           him
           ?
           'T
           is
           true
           his
           disheartened
           Plot
           has
           left
           him
           in
           a
           little
           Wilderness
           at
           present
           .
           Yet
           let
           me
           tell
           you
           ther
           's
           a
           sort
           of
           Birds
           of
           Prey
           ,
           your
           
             kind
             fat
             Amsterdam
          
           Buntings
           ,
           that
           like
           
           Elisha's
           Ravens
           ,
           take
           care
           to
           keep
           him
           
             well
             fed
          
           still
           .
           And
           the
           true
           blew
           Protestant
           Guinneys
           collected
           and
           raised
           for
           the
           late
           defeated
           
             City
             Feast
          
           ,
           were
           yet
           very
           honorably
           disposed
           of
           ,
           and
           the
           rewarded
           Dr.
           had
           a
           round
           Lump
           of
           that
           corroborating
           Gold
           to
           enliven
           his
           fainting
           Spirits
           ,
           and
           strengthen
           his
           
             true
             Protestant
          
           Zeal
           .
           For
           I
           assure
           you
           't
           is
           but
           necessary
           ;
           for
           great
           and
           long
           Causes
           require
           often
           Feeing
           ;
           the
           Clients
           must
           be
           Bountiful
           to
           keep
           the
           Advocates
           safely
           retain'd
           .
           And
           tho
           some
           People
           may
           lay
           Poverty
           to
           his
           charge
           :
           to
           confute
           that
           error
           ,
           the
           Dr.
           I
           assure
           them
           ,
           does
           not
           pinch
           himself
           into
           a
           Jump
           for
           want
           of
           Cloth
           enough
           to
           make
           it
           up
           into
           a
           Gown
           .
        
         
           Besides
           why
           must
           it
           follow
           (
           suppose
           the
           Plot
           a
           piece
           of
           Subornation
           )
           that
           those
           inconsiderable
           Persons
           should
           create
           it
           of
           their
           Own
           heads
           .
           What
           if
           the
           Heads
           of
           some
           considerable
           TOWER
           Jail
           Birds
           should
           joyn
           with
           the
           Inconsiderable
           Marshalsea
           Jail-Birds
           for
           the
           production
           of
           it
           .
           'T
           is
           not
           the
           first
           time
           that
           Quality
           and
           Rascality
           have
           club'd
           together
           ,
           and
           like
           the
           spurious
           Off-spring
           of
           Nilus
           ,
           there
           goes
           some
           Sun-beam
           not
           all
           mud
           to
           make
           up
           the
           Monster
           .
        
         
           Oh
           but
           the
           greatest
           and
           most
           damnable
           Crime
           in
           the
           Narrative
           is
           ,
           
             it
             has
             ridiculed
             the
             whole
             Popish
             Plot
             ,
             and
             consequently
             affronted
             the
             King
             Lords
             and
             Commons
             ,
             that
             have
             so
             unanimously
             and
             so
             frequently
             asserted
             their
             Belief
             of
             the
             Popish
             Plot.
             
          
        
         
           Now
           to
           clear
           this
           Imputation
           from
           the
           Narrative
           and
           the
           Author
           ,
           he
           hereby
           declares
           ,
           that
           no
           man
           in
           the
           World
           can
           pay
           a
           greater
           Reverence
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           or
           his
           Parliaments
           then
           himself
           :
           But
           in
           the
           height
           of
           all
           that
           Veneration
           due
           to
           Heavns
           Vicegerent
           ,
           both
           from
           a
           Subject
           and
           a
           Christian
           ,
           I
           must
           say
           that
           the
           King
           Lords
           and
           Commons
           together
           are
           but
           Men
           ,
           and
           as
           such
           not
           Infallible
           .
           And
           Inadvertency
           and
           Surprize
           may
           sometimes
           deceive
           both
           Kings
           and
           Potentates
           .
           The
           King
           and
           his
           Parliament
           have
           declared
           there
           was
           a
           Plot
           against
           the
           Kings
           Life
           ;
           and
           yet
           they
           have
           decreed
           no
           penalty
           or
           punishment
           to
           him
           that
           says
           ,
           that
           Pickering
           was
           one
           of
           the
           
             worst
             Gunners
          
           in
           Christendom
           ,
           and
           St.
           James's
           Park
           the
           worst
           spot
           of
           Ground
           for
           such
           an
           Assassination
           .
           The
           Plot
           Discoverers
           have
           been
           credited
           by
           the
           King
           and
           Parliament
           ;
           and
           yet
           if
           any
           Man
           shall
           but
           ASSERT
           what
           the
           Discoverers
           SWEAR
           ,
           as
           sacred
           as
           their
           Testimony
           has
           been
           ,
           the
           Law
           will
           lay
           him
           by
           the
           heels
           for
           it
           .
           For
           he
           that
           shall
           aver
           that
           Wakeman
           was
           engaged
           to
           Poyson
           the
           King
           ,
           or
           Kerney
           one
           of
           the
           four
           Ruffians
           was
           hired
           to
           stab
           him
           ,
           is
           lyable
           to
           be
           punisht
           for
           it
           ;
           for
           they
           have
           stood
           Tryal
           ,
           and
           been
           acquitted
           by
           LAW
           ,
           and
           as
           such
           they
           have
           their
           Action
           against
           him
           that
           asperses
           ,
           and
           traduces
           the
           Innocent
           .
        
         
           'T
           is
           true
           ,
           I
           neither
           do
           ,
           nor
           dare
           say
           that
           poor
           Pickering
           and
           Groves
           were
           Innocent
           :
           and
           why
           because
           the
           Law
           has
           pronounced
           them
           Guilty
           .
           And
           yet
           I
           may
           safely
           say
           that
           had
           they
           had
           the
           good
           Fortune
           to
           have
           lived
           a
           Year
           and
           a
           half
           longer
           than
           they
           did
           ,
           't
           was
           not
           impossible
           nor
           unlikely
           they
           might
           have
           dyed
           in
           their
           Beds
           ,
           for
           all
           their
           
             Screwed
             Guns
          
           or
           
             Silver
             Bullets
          
           .
           Besides
           without
           Derogation
           to
           Kings
           or
           
           their
           great
           Councels
           ,
           not
           only
           their
           Votes
           have
           been
           several
           times
           Humane
           and
           Fraile
           ;
           but
           even
           their
           Deliberate
           Acts
           and
           Statutes
           are
           not
           always
           Gospel
           ?
           For
           Instance
           King
           Henry
           the
           8th
           .
           and
           one
           of
           his
           Parliaments
           made
           an
           Act
           that
           illegitimated
           both
           Mary
           and
           Elizabeth
           his
           Daughters
           ;
           and
           decreed
           a
           punishment
           for
           any
           Man
           that
           should
           but
           assert
           their
           Right
           to
           the
           Crown
           ,
           or
           so
           much
           as
           call
           them
           Legitimate
           
             [
             28th
          
           of
           
             Hen.
             8th
             .
          
           ]
        
         
           And
           the
           same
           Henry
           and
           another
           of
           his
           Parliaments
           
             [
             35th
          
           of
           
             Hen.
             8th
             .
             ]
             Legitimated
          
           them
           Both
           again
           ,
           by
           Virtue
           of
           which
           Legitimation
           they
           both
           successively
           wore
           the
           Crown
           of
           England
           .
           And
           all
           this
           Legally
           done
           by
           the
           King
           and
           the
           great
           Councel
           of
           the
           Nation
           .
           And
           yet
           in
           the
           Case
           of
           Legitimacy
           which
           relates
           to
           their
           Birth
           and
           Blood
           ,
           which
           is
           unchangeable
           ,
           either
           the
           pro
           or
           the
           con
           must
           be
           Erroneous
           .
           And
           what
           if
           in
           our
           case
           ,
           in
           the
           same
           Nature
           ,
           only
           
             vice
             versâ
          
           ,
           the
           King
           Lords
           and
           Commons
           Assembled
           in
           Parliament
           anno
           78
           and
           79
           ,
           should
           have
           declared
           the
           Popish
           Plot
           sworn
           by
           
             Titus
             ,
             Bedlows
             ,
             Dugdale
             ,
             France
             ,
             Dangerfield
             ,
             Duffy
             ,
             Murfey
             ,
             Macnamar
             ,
             Zeale
             ,
             Lewis
          
           &c.
           was
           LEGITIMATE
           ,
           and
           the
           King
           Lords
           and
           Commons
           in
           another
           Parliament
           in
           83
           ,
           (
           or
           when
           His
           Majesty
           pleases
           )
           should
           declare
           the
           aforesaid
           Plot
           to
           be
           ILLEGITIMATE
           ,
           I
           know
           nothing
           to
           the
           contrary
           but
           it
           lyes
           in
           their
           Breasts
           and
           pleasures
           to
           do
           it
           .
        
         
           But
           however
           Elkanahs
           Narrative
           has
           scurrilously
           and
           basely
           arraigned
           the
           Justice
           ,
           and
           Judges
           of
           the
           Nation
           :
           —
           And
           why
           so
           !
           Is
           there
           one
           passage
           through
           the
           whole
           Book
           that
           says
           or
           Hints
           that
           the
           Popish
           Conspirators
           had
           not
           their
           Legal
           Tryals
           ;
           and
           tho
           amongst
           so
           many
           Hundred
           Treasonable
           
             Letters
             ,
             Commissions
          
           and
           what
           not
           ,
           against
           them
           ,
           their
           Accusers
           produced
           nothing
           but
           HEARTY
           SWEARING
           for
           their
           Conviction
           ,
           yet
           do
           not
           the
           Lord
           
             Chief
             J.
          
           at
           Whitebreads
           Tryal
           say
           that
           
             't
             is
             by
             the
             Oaths
             of
             two
             Witnesses
             that
             our
             Lives
             and
             Fortunes
             stand
             or
             fall
             .
          
           And
           does
           the
           Narrative
           say
           or
           insinuate
           that
           they
           had
           not
           two
           or
           more
           Witnesses
           whose
           Oaths
           condemn'd
           them
           ;
           for
           which
           the
           Jury
           brought
           them
           in
           Guilty
           ,
           and
           the
           Judges
           according
           to
           their
           Duties
           condemn'd
           them
           as
           such
           ;
           and
           how
           then
           is
           the
           Justice
           or
           Judges
           of
           the
           Nation
           Impeached
           ,
           when
           on
           the
           contrary
           they
           were
           so
           far
           from
           dying
           unjustly
           ,
           that
           they
           dyed
           even
           
             summo
             jure
          
           ,
           by
           the
           highest
           Justice
           in
           the
           Kingdom
           .
           Besides
           ,
           suppose
           Pickering
           was
           never
           engaged
           to
           Pistol
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           has
           yet
           dyed
           for
           it
           :
           So
           I
           have
           heard
           of
           some
           People
           that
           have
           been
           hang'd
           in
           Chains
           for
           a
           Murder
           ,
           when
           the
           supposed
           Murdered
           Person
           has
           some
           Years
           after
           been
           found
           alive
           ,
           and
           all
           this
           while
           the
           Judge
           and
           the
           
             unfortunate
             Jury
          
           neither
           arraigned
           nor
           arraignable
           for
           their
           Sentence
           or
           Execution
           .
        
         
           Who
           then
           has
           the
           Narrative
           wronged
           ,
           the
           Kings
           Evidence
           ?
           No.
           That
           's
           Impossible
           ;
           for
           to
           tell
           truth
           can
           wrong
           no
           body
           :
           and
           the
           Narrative
           is
           so
           far
           from
           belying
           them
           ,
           that
           it
           recites
           not
           one
           passage
           but
           is
           recorded
           from
           their
           own
           Oaths
           .
           And
           why
           a
           Recital
           of
           what
           is
           sworn
           in
           the
           Plot
           should
           be
           a
           Burlesquing
           of
           the
           Plot
           I
           cannot
           understand
           .
        
         
           Oh
           but
           telling
           Truth
           ,
           says
           the
           Proverb
           ,
           may
           sometimes
           do
           harm
           ;
           and
           in
           this
           case
           the
           whole
           Book
           tho
           with
           never
           so
           much
           truth
           in
           it
           ,
           tends
           to
           the
           lessening
           the
           Discoverers
           Testimony
           and
           a
           Stifling
           the
           whole
           Popish
           Plot.
           
        
         
           Now
           't
           is
           true
           indeed
           ,
           why
           should
           Elkanah
           be
           such
           a
           Cudden
           as
           to
           endeavor
           the
           Stifling
           of
           the
           Popish
           Plot
           ,
           when
           it
           saves
           him
           the
           labor
           ,
           and
           Stifles
           it self
           .
           The
           Meteor
           wanted
           a
           Body
           to
           last
           ,
           and
           so
           the
           short
           liv'd
           Exhalation
           has
           spent
           it self
           ,
           and
           is
           expired
           .
           But
           for
           my
           part
           I
           pay
           such
           a
           profound
           respect
           to
           the
           Plot
           ,
           that
           I
           heartily
           wish
           that
           it
           may
           have
           that
           preheminence
           above
           all
           Plots
           whatsoever
           ,
           as
           to
           be
           the
           ONLY
           more
           than
           Phoenix
           of
           the
           Kind
           ,
           and
           be
           never
           equalled
           from
           the
           beginning
           to
           the
           end
           of
           the
           World
           ;
           and
           that
           it
           may
           find
           its
           just
           Merit
           in
           deathless
           Records
           ,
           I
           de
           have
           it
           annexed
           to
           the
           History
           of
           AMBOYNA
           ,
           and
           when
           the
           Turk
           comes
           farther
           into
           Christendom
           ,
           have
           it
           presented
           him
           to
           bind
           up
           with
           the
           Alcoran
           .
           Besides
           ,
           I
           solemnly
           avow
           the
           Plot
           was
           a
           good
           Plot
           ,
           especially
           whilst
           't
           was
           hot
           and
           fresh
           ;
           and
           if
           it
           has
           been
           set
           by
           till
           't
           is
           cold
           and
           stinks
           ,
           't
           is
           no
           fault
           of
           mine
           .
           I
           acknowledge
           the
           Ingredients
           of
           the
           Plot
           are
           Rarities
           in
           their
           kind
           ;
           but
           if
           the
           Plotters
           and
           Discoverers
           between
           them
           ,
           have
           unfortunately
           made
           a
           
             Hotch
             Potch
          
           instead
           of
           an
           Oleo
           ,
           and
           put
           them
           so
           fulsomly
           together
           till
           they
           nauseate
           ,
           can
           I
           help
           it
           .
           If
           the
           Swearers
           have
           contradicted
           each
           others
           Testimony
           ,
           and
           sometimes
           their
           own
           ,
           is
           
           Elkanah
           to
           answer
           for
           it
           .
           Besides
           as
           the
           Discoverers
           have
           sworn
           the
           Jesuits
           to
           be
           the
           greatest
           ROGUES
           in
           the
           World
           through
           the
           whole
           Popish
           Plot
           ,
           so
           Elkanahs
           Narrative
           has
           proved
           them
           through
           the
           whole
           Plot
           to
           be
           the
           greatest
           IDEOTS
           in
           the
           World.
           And
           pray
           what
           Indignity
           is
           it
           to
           the
           Honor
           of
           King
           Lords
           and
           Commons
           ,
           or
           scandal
           to
           the
           Justice
           of
           the
           Nation
           to
           add
           
             one
             blot
          
           more
           to
           the
           Scutcheon
           of
           a
           Jesuit
           ,
           and
           from
           a
           pack
           of
           Knaves
           to
           make
           them
           a
           pack
           of
           Fools
           too
           .
           If
           this
           be
           a
           Crime
           ,
           Heaven
           mend
           all
           .
        
         
           
             I
             but
          
           Elkanah
           
             is
             criticising
             upon
             Dr.
          
           Oats
           
             his
             Commissions
             ,
             and
             the
             Innumerable
             invisible
             Forreign
             Thousands
             all
             ready
             for
             Landing
             ,
             upon
             the
             Kings
             Murder
             .
          
        
         
           
             However
             as
             Chimerical
             as
             Armyes
             of
             Pilgrims
             may
             appear
             ,
             and
             the
             rest
             of
             the
             Popish
             Battalias
             designd
             for
             the
             Protestant
             Destruction
             ,
          
           the
           Remarker
           
             gives
             you
             an
             assurance
             ,
             that
             all
             those
             Forreign
             Forces
             are
             plainly
             demonstrated
             from
             Colemans
             Letters
             .
             What
             else
             means
             this
             signal
             passage
             ,
          
           
             we
             have
             a
             mighty
             work
             upon
             our
             hands
             ,
             the
             subduing
             of
             a
             pestilent
             Heresy
             which
             has
             domineerd
             over
             great
             part
             of
             the
             Northern
             world
             ,
             a
             great
             while
             .
             There
             never
             was
             greater
             hopes
             of
             success
             ,
             since
             the
             Death
             of
             Queen
             Mary
             ,
             Till
             these
             our
             days
             .
             But
             the
             opposition
             we
             are
             like
             to
             meet
             with
             ,
             is
             also
             like
             to
             be
             great
             ,
             so
             that
             it
             imports
             us
             to
             get
             all
             the
             Ayde
             and
             Assistance
             we
             can
             .
          
           Now
           can
           I
           find
           nothing
           so
           signal
           in
           this
           passage
           as
           so
           plainly
           to
           demonstrate
           the
           Popish
           forces
           ,
           sworn
           into
           the
           Plot.
           I
           declare
           I
           have
           read
           over
           Colemans
           papers
           ,
           attentively
           ,
           and
           
             Time
             was
          
           if
           I
           could
           have
           found
           but
           the
           least
           hint
           of
           Popish
           Ruffians
           ,
           Popish
           Poysons
           ,
           Popish
           
             Screwd
             Guns
          
           ,
           or
           Popish
           Armies
           ,
           either
           from
           
             Spain
             ,
             France
             ,
             Jago
             ,
             Messina
             ,
          
           or
           any
           other
           Popish
           Country
           ,
           in
           all
           his
           papers
           ,
           the
           World
           should
           have
           had
           it
           through
           both
           Ears
           .
           But
           since
           no
           such
           thing
           occurs
           in
           all
           his
           Letters
           ,
           give
           the
           Devil
           his
           due
           the
           Popedreaders
           of
           the
           World
           I
           am
           afraid
           ,
           are
           mistaken
           in
           that
           Garagantua
           of
           a
           Conspiratour
           Coleman
           .
           If
           this
           passage
           in
           his
           Letters
           ,
           to
           Father
           
             Le
             Chese
          
           ,
           was
           for
           calling
           in
           of
           French
           Armies
           ,
           how
           comes
           it
           we
           have
           no
           answer
           in
           all
           
             Le
             Chese's
          
           Letters
           to
           Coleman
           relateing
           to
           Arms
           and
           Men
           ,
           or
           one
           proposition
           ,
           
             how
             when
          
           or
           where
           his
           Master
           the
           King
           of
           France
           was
           to
           
             Land
             them
          
           If
           this
           Ayde
           and
           assistance
           was
           meant
           for
           Armies
           ,
           and
           those
           to
           be
           Landed
           ,
           upon
           the
           King
           's
           being
           kil'd
           ,
           how
           happens
           it
           ,
           there
           is
           not
           some
           relation
           too
           in
           the
           Letters
           to
           the
           Kings
           Death
           .
           These
           Conspirators
           wrote
           in
           Cyphers
           and
           Characters
           ,
           and
           therefore
           I
           know
           no
           reason
           they
           had
           ,
           but
           they
           might
           Treat
           upon
           that
           subject
           too
           upon
           occasion
           ;
           especially
           when
           (
           if
           you
           'l
           beleive
           the
           Popish
           Plot
           )
           they
           wrote
           so
           many
           hundred
           Treasonable
           Letters
           
             seen
             read
          
           and
           carryed
           by
           
             Oats
             ,
             Bedlow
             ,
             Dugdale
          
           &c.
           and
           so
           many
           of
           them
           in
           such
           downright
           
             plain
             English
          
           Treason
           .
           I
           ,
           but
           say
           those
           sort
           of
           People
           that
           see
           thro
           Milstones
           ;
           
             T
             's
             evident
             that
          
           Coleman
           
             burnt
             all
             his
             Papers
             relateing
             to
             the
             more
             Dangerous
             part
             of
             the
             Plot
             ;
             for
             example
             we
             find
             his
             Correspendence
             ending
             in
             the
             Year
             76
             ,
             and
             that
             of
             his
             two
             last
             Years
             77
             and
             78
             was
             never
             found
             to
             this
             day
             ,
             In
             that
             no
             doubt
             we
             should
             have
             had
             the
             4
             Irish
             Cut
             throats
             ,
          
           Wakemans
           Poyson
           ,
           Connyers
           Dagger
           ,
           Blundels
           
             Fireballs
             ,
             and
             all
             the
             Mistery
             of
          
           Pilgrims
           
             and
             Black
             Bills
             as
             apparently
             made
             out
             ,
             as
          
           Demonstration
           and
           Record
           could
           manifest
           .
           Now
           what
           a
           sort
           of
           credulous
           Latitudinarians
           ,
           can
           Fear
           ,
           and
           Jealousy
           make
           men
           .
           Because
           the
           Papers
           found
           in
           
             Colemans
             Closet
          
           were
           not
           evidential
           enough
           to
           prove
           the
           Kings
           Murder
           and
           the
           Protestants
           Massacre
           ,
           we
           must
           charge
           him
           with
           Crimes
           of
           which
           there
           is
           not
           the
           least
           shadow
           to
           convict
           him
           of
           .
           For
           I
           appeal
           to
           any
           man
           of
           common
           Sense
           ;
           wheither
           if
           Coleman
           had
           continued
           his
           Correspondence
           for
           the
           2
           following
           Years
           ,
           and
           it
           were
           true
           ,
           that
           upon
           the
           breaking
           out
           of
           the
           Plot
           
             he
             burnt
             those
             Letters
             relating
             to
             that
             Correspondence
          
           ;
           how
           comes
           it
           upon
           his
           searching
           his
           Closet
           for
           some
           Papers
           he
           did
           not
           burn
           All.
           He
           must
           needs
           be
           sensible
           that
           those
           very
           Papers
           he
           left
           (
           to
           a
           Nation
           so
           Jealous
           of
           Popery
           as
           
             England
             ,
          
           )
           were
           enough
           to
           hang
           him
           ,
           and
           as
           certainly
           Life's
           dear
           ,
           the
           same
           Preservation
           that
           had
           prompted
           him
           to
           burn
           the
           one
           ,
           had
           infallibly
           instructed
           him
           to
           burn
           the
           Other
           .
           No
           ;
           as
           't
           is
           plain
           he
           was
           surpriz'd
           ,
           he
           had
           no
           time
           to
           secure
           any
           of
           his
           Papers
           ,
           and
           the
           want
           of
           the
           two
           last
           Years
           Correspondence
           ,
           is
           a
           more
           evident
           signe
           ,
           that
           the
           Treaty
           was
           
             broken
             off
          
           ,
           and
           that
           either
           the
           
             subduing
             the
             Pestilent
             northern
             Heresy
          
           ,
           was
           given
           over
           as
           a
           Work
           impossible
           ;
           or
           else
           that
           grand
           
             Intriguer
             Coleman
          
           had
           only
           dreind
           the
           French
           Confessours
           and
           the
           rest
           of
           his
           Brethrens
           Pockets
           (
           for
           
             Money
             Money
          
           thro
           all
           his
           Letters
           is
           the
           great
           Burden
           of
           the
           
           song
           )
           and
           those
           wonderful
           Promises
           of
           converting
           of
           Nations
           and
           
             subduing
             of
             Heresies
          
           ,
           were
           all
           but
           Ayr
           and
           Rhodomontado
           ;
           till
           the
           poor
           cullyed
           Bigots
           at
           last
           had
           found
           out
           the
           Cheat
           ,
           and
           so
           ended
           the
           Commerse
           .
        
         
           But
           before
           I
           could
           finish
           my
           Observations
           on
           the
           Remarks
           a
           new
           Whig
           Champion
           starts
           up
           with
           an
           other
           pamphlet
           calld
           
             Reflections
             on
             Settles
             Narrative
          
           .
           For
           that
           
             paw
             Book
          
           sets
           them
           all
           upon
           the
           Ferment
           ,
           and
           Blood
           and
           Gall
           in
           the
           angry
           Saints
           ,
           let
           me
           tell
           you
           ,
           
             boyle
             high
          
           .
           And
           therefore
           if
           Rogue
           ,
           Rascal
           ,
           Villain
           ,
           Traytor
           ,
           &c.
           fly
           at
           random
           ,
           you
           must
           consider
           the
           Nature
           of
           the
           Beasts
           ,
           and
           therefore
           excuse
           whatever
           Grossness
           you
           meet
           ,
           for
           the
           Sordidness
           of
           their
           writings
           is
           so
           essential
           to
           their
           Constitutions
           ,
           that
           they
           cannot
           possibly
           auoy'd
           it
           .
        
         
           These
           two
           dead
           doing
           Adversaryes
           being
           much
           of
           an
           equal
           Prowess
           and
           their
           Arguments
           and
           Batteries
           much
           of
           the
           same
           strength
           ,
           I
           shall
           not
           trouble
           my self
           to
           make
           two
           distinct
           Replyes
           to
           them
           ,
           but
           give
           you
           my
           sence
           of
           their
           best
           ,
           though
           weake
           Arguments
           promiscuously
           as
           Discourse
           or
           Occasion
           shall
           offer
           .
           This
           last
           Antagonist
           falls
           vehement
           foul
           too
           upon
           the
           Narrative
           for
           all
           the
           
             Absurdityes
             ;
             Incohecencyes
             ,
             Clashing
          
           of
           
             Evidence
             ,
             Contradictions
             ,
             Improbabilitys
          
           ,
           and
           Impossibilitys
           found
           in
           the
           Popish
           Plot
           ,
           and
           in
           page
           7th
           gives
           you
           this
           universal
           salvo
           for
           all
           the
           Blunders
           in
           the
           whole
           Discovery
           .
        
         
           
             By
             Mr.
          
           Settles
           leave
           ,
           Rome
           ,
           
             in
             the
             several
             Attempts
             ,
             it
             has
             made
             for
             the
             Perversion
             Reduction
             and
             Apostacy
             of
             great
             Brittain
             to
             the
             Popish
             Superstition
             and
             Power
             ,
             having
             been
             still
             frustrated
             ,
             notwithstanding
             its
             Designs
             were
             contrived
             with
             all
             the
             Art
             and
             skill
             that
             Humane
             Witt
             ,
             and
             Devilish
             Policy
             could
             suggest
             ,
             and
             therefore
             having
             incurred
             the
             Just
             Resentment
             ,
             and
             Indignation
             of
             all
             those
             who
             have
             in
             detestation
             all
             its
             abominable
             practises
             ;
             I
             say
             ,
             the
             Frequent
             Disappointments
             of
             their
             Projects
             may
             be
             reasonably
             supposed
             to
             have
             made
             them
             use
             the
             Precaution
             that
             in
             case
             they
             should
             agen
             prove
             Abortive
             ,
             and
             their
             Machinations
             be
             detected
             ,
             that
             they
             might
             nevertheless
             appear
             in
             such
             Lights
             as
             to
             seem
             improbable
             to
             the
             World
             ,
             and
             that
             ,
             then
             let
             the
             Issue
             be
             what
             it
             will
             ,
             it
             must
             turn
             to
             their
             Advantage
             ;
             since
             if
             the
             Plot
             had
             taken
             Effect
             ,
             they
             had
             gain'd
             their
             main
             Point
             .
             But
             the
             discover'd
             ,
             and
             disappointed
             ,
             yet
             the
             puzling
             Circumstances
             ,
             and
             the
             Improbabilities
             of
             the
             means
             ,
             as
             it
             might
             bring
             the
             Reality
             of
             it
             into
             question
             ,
             so
             it
             might
             also
             the
             Truth
             of
             its
             former
             Conspiracies
             ,
             how
             manyfest
             soever
             .
             And
             they
             from
             thence
             have
             an
             occasion
             of
             retorting
             them
             as
             Contrivances
             of
             their
             Enemies
             ,
             and
             by
             that
             means
             purge
             themselves
             of
             the
             Scandal
             and
             Odium
             which
             they
             had
             justly
             brought
             upon
             their
             Church
             by
             such
             unchristian-like
             ,
             nay
             inhumane
             Undertakings
             .
          
        
         
           Well
           ;
           never
           was
           Nonsense
           more
           Nonsensically
           Defended
           .
           How
           far
           fetcht
           ,
           and
           Sophistical
           is
           this
           feeble
           Crutch
           to
           help
           out
           the
           Lameness
           and
           Inconsistencies
           in
           the
           Plot.
           If
           the
           Reflecter
           had
           proved
           that
           the
           Plottets
           had
           amuzed
           their
           Agents
           such
           as
           
             Bedlows
             Dugdule
             Oats
          
           &c.
           with
           Interlarding
           Shams
           with
           Truth
           to
           invalidate
           and
           confound
           their
           Discoveries
           upon
           any
           Revolt
           from
           their
           cause
           ,
           he
           had
           done
           some
           thing
           .
           But
           that
           's
           apparently
           false
           ,
           for
           they
           never
           Doubted
           their
           Truth
           ,
           for
           instead
           of
           having
           their
           great
           April
           Consult
           ,
           Subscribed
           by
           so
           many
           several
           Mens
           Hands
           ,
           convey'd
           from
           Chamber
           to
           Chamber
           by
           any
           of
           their
           Head
           Conspirators
           ,
           the
           very
           
             Underling
             Oats
          
           has
           that
           great
           Trust
           Imposed
           in
           him
           ,
           and
           the
           Invincible
           Demonstration
           of
           the
           most
           monstrous
           Design
           against
           the
           Kings
           Life
           ,
           expresly
           in
           
             plain
             English
          
           ,
           put
           into
           his
           Power
           .
           Besides
           all
           the
           Treasonable
           Papers
           daily
           Trusted
           in
           
             Oats
             ,
             Dugdale
          
           ,
           and
           Bedlows
           Hands
           ,
           upon
           the
           least
           falshood
           in
           the
           Messengers
           ,
           had
           put
           them
           past
           all
           hopes
           of
           bringing
           the
           Reality
           of
           their
           present
           or
           former
           Guilt
           and
           Treasons
           into
           Question
           .
           So
           that
           ,
           (
           tho
           truly
           I
           cannot
           make
           sense
           of
           what
           this
           huddle
           of
           words
           means
           ,
           )
           if
           the
           Plot
           be
           true
           ,
           Rome
           was
           so
           far
           from
           being
           guilty
           of
           so
           much
           foresight
           as
           the
           Reflecter
           gives
           it
           ,
           that
           Precaution
           is
           the
           least
           Crime
           it
           has
           to
           answer
           for
           .
        
         
           Thus
           far
           we
           have
           their
           Confirmation
           of
           Oats
           his
           Truth
           and
           Honor
           ,
           and
           the
           Reasonableness
           of
           the
           Plot
           in
           General
           ;
           and
           now
           we
           shall
           give
           you
           their
           particular
           comments
           ,
           on
           the
           Narrative
           ,
           at
           least
           those
           that
           so
           much
           as
           look
           like
           Reflections
           ,
           or
           Arguments
           against
           it
           .
        
         
           The
           Reflecter
           very
           Heroically
           falls
           upon
           the
           First
           Line
           of
           the
           Narrative
           ,
           viz.
           
        
         
           Narrat
           .
           
             In
             the
             Year
             78.
             it
             pleased
             those
             Powers
             that
             inspired
             them
             to
             raise
             up
             Mr.
          
           Oats
           ,
           Bedlows
           ,
           Dugdale
           ,
           Prance
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
         
           Which
           says
           the
           Reflecter
           ,
           
             I
             must
             own
             I
             do
             not
             understand
             .
             What
             does
             Mr.
          
           Settle
           
             mean
             ?
             that
             it
             pleased
             those
             Powers
             that
             inspired
             those
             Powers
             ?
          
           That
           's
           Grammar
           indeed
           ,
           but
           no
           sense
           ;
           but
           there
           's
           neither
           Grammar
           nor
           sense
           in
           these
           words
           ,
           as
           Mr.
           Settle
           has
           set
           them
           down
           .
        
         
           You
           see
           Reader
           ,
           what
           an
           Adversary
           Settle
           is
           like
           to
           encounter
           by
           this
           first
           Attaque
           he
           gives
           him
           .
           When
           a
           School-boy
           in
           the
           under
           Form
           at
           Westminster
           would
           tell
           him
           that
           [
           THEM
           ]
           only
           relates
           to
           
             Oats
             ,
             Bedlow
             ,
             Dugdale
          
           ;
           and
           to
           have
           made
           it
           that
           Non-sense
           the
           Reflecter
           intends
           it
           ,
           
             viz.
             those
             powers
             that
             inspired
             those
             powers
             ,
          
           it
           must
           have
           been
           
             Those
             powers
             that
             inspired
             THEMSELVES
          
           .
           Just
           such
           another
           remarkable
           correction
           he
           gives
           to
           Elkanahs
           false
           Grammar
           page
           15.
           says
           
             Elkanah
             ,
             here
             the
             Reader
             is
             desired
             to
             take
             notice
             of
             the
             most
             matchless
             Example
             in
             Mr.
          
           Bedlow
           
             that
             ere
             HE
             met
             with
          
           ,
           to
           which
           replies
           the
           Reflecter
           instead
           of
           
             [
             THEY
             have
             met
             with
             ]
             if
             Mr.
          
           Settle
           
             will
             allow
             me
             to
             make
             it
             true
             Grammar
          
           for
           him
           .
           Now
           unless
           a
           Fellow
           had
           studyed
           to
           Print
           himself
           a
           Block-head
           ,
           nothing
           besides
           stupidity
           Incorrigible
           could
           have
           made
           [
           Reader
           ]
           a
           plural
           Number
           .
           This
           egregious
           stumble
           in
           the
           very
           first
           step
           into
           the
           Narrative
           ,
           and
           this
           strength
           of
           his
           Syntax
           is
           a
           little
           ominous
           ,
           and
           he
           shews
           you
           what
           a
           Grammarian
           he
           is
           ,
           to
           let
           you
           expect
           what
           a
           Casuist
           you
           'le
           find
           him
           too
           .
           And
           as
           he
           says
           he
           understands
           no
           better
           ,
           t
           is
           very
           likely
           he
           tells
           you
           true
           ,
           by
           the
           Cudgels
           he
           takes
           up
           ;
           for
           indeed
           Men
           of
           understanding
           begin
           to
           quit
           the
           Whig
           Cause
           so
           fast
           ,
           that
           Grammar
           and
           Logick
           ,
           and
           indeed
           
             Common
             sense
          
           will
           go
           a
           great
           way
           amongst
           them
           .
        
         
           But
           first
           for
           the
           Killing
           the
           King.
           
        
         
           After
           the
           Reflecter
           has
           repeated
           the
           Narratives
           comical
           Description
           of
           Pickcrings
           puissance
           in
           King
           Killing
           ,
           he
           says
           ,
           
             Now
             I
             appeal
             to
             Mankind
             if
             they
             can
             find
             any
             thing
             of
             a
             jest
             in
             so
             sad
             and
             so
             serious
             a
             Theme
             ,
             an
             Attempt
             the
             most
             execrable
             that
             was
             ever
             hatcht
             in
             Hell
             ,
             the
             very
             thought
             whereof
             ,
             tho
             suppose
             it
             but
             a
             FICTION
             ,
             capable
             of
             creating
             a
             Terror
             and
             Trembling
             in
             the
             most
             unhumane
             Barbarians
             .
          
           This
           is
           the
           first
           ,
           and
           last
           time
           he
           is
           in
           the
           Right
           .
           Truly
           such
           a
           FICTION
           ,
           the
           most
           execrable
           indeed
           that
           was
           ever
           hatcht
           in
           Hell
           ,
           and
           the
           thought
           of
           so
           much
           Infernal
           Impudence
           and
           Diabolical
           Perjury
           that
           must
           attend
           that
           FICTION
           on
           one
           side
           ,
           and
           so
           much
           Innocent
           LOUD
           TONGUED
           Blood
           on
           the
           other
           side
           ,
           is
           enough
           indeed
           to
           create
           a
           Terror
           and
           Trembling
           in
           Barbarians
           and
           Infidels
           .
        
         
           But
           Settle
           tells
           you
           that
           the
           Loosness
           and
           Failure
           of
           Pickerings
           Gun
           in
           Oats
           his
           Narrative
           was
           in
           January
           as
           Whitebread
           send
           word
           to
           St.
           Omers
           ,
           but
           at
           Pickerings
           Tryal
           expresly
           in
           March
           ,
           being
           askt
           .
        
         
           
             Sir
             Ch.
             L.
             Do
             you
             know
             any
             thing
             of
          
           Pickerings
           
             doing
             Pennance
             and
             for
             what
          
           !
        
         
           Oats
           ,
           
             Yes
             ,
             my
             Lord
             ,
             in
             the
             Month
             of
          
           March
           
             (
             for
             these
             Persons
             have
             followed
             the
             King
             several
             Years
             )
             but
             he
             at
             THAT
             TIME
             had
             not
             lookt
             to
             the
             Flint
             of
             his
             Pistol
             ,
             but
             it
             was
             loose
             ,
             and
             he
             durst
             not
             venture
             to
             give
             Fire
             ,
             he
             had
             a
             fair
             opportunity
             and
             because
             he
             mist
             it
             through
             his
             own
             negligence
             he
             underwont
             Pennance
             ,
             and
             had
             20
             strokes
             of
             Discipline
             .
          
           Upon
           this
           says
           Settle
           .
           Can
           any
           thing
           be
           more
           strange
           than
           that
           Whitebread
           should
           send
           the
           St.
           Omers
           Fathers
           in
           January
           a
           perfect
           Relation
           of
           a
           Crime
           not
           committed
           till
           the
           March
           following
           .
           Now
           (
           hereupon
           says
           the
           Reflecter
           )
           
             I
             cannot
             for
             the
             heart
             of
             me
             see
             an
          
           Elliotism
           
             in
             this
             whole
             matter
             ;
             for
             might
             not
          
           Pickering
           
             commit
             the
             Crime
             in
          
           January
           
             or
             before
             ,
             and
             not
             suffer
             the
             pennance
             till
          
           March
           
             following
             :
             For
             the
             Question
             is
             only
             to
             the
             doing
             pennance
             ,
             and
             the
             Answer
             is
             in
          
           March.
           
        
         
           Now
           observe
           the
           damnable
           Trecherous
           Eye-sight
           of
           a
           Whig
           ,
           that
           always
           sees
           too
           little
           or
           too
           much
           .
           Oats
           swears
           that
           Pickering
           suffered
           pennance
           in
           March
           because
           he
           at
           THAT
           TIME
           had
           not
           lookt
           to
           the
           Flint
           of
           his
           Pistol
           ,
           and
           yet
           the
           Reflecter
           
             spight
             of
             the
             heart
             of
             him
          
           cannot
           see
           but
           that
           very
           THAT
           TIME
           must
           be
           January
           two
           Months
           before
           .
        
         
           Just
           such
           another
           fault
           
             spight
             of
             the
             heart
             of
             him
          
           cannot
           the
           Remarker
           forbear
           seeing
           too
           .
           says
           Settle
           .
           The
           Reader
           is
           humbly
           desired
           not
           to
           be
           puzled
           to
           imagine
           how
           Pickering
           should
           present
           a
           Gun
           (
           between
           a
           Pistol
           and
           Carbine
           ,
           )
           twice
           at
           the
           King
           ,
           which
           one
           time
           for
           want
           of
           Prime
           ,
           and
           another
           time
           (
           as
           Bedlow
           swears
           )
           by
           being
           charged
           with
           all
           Bullets
           and
           no
           Powder
           would
           not
           go
           off
           ,
           and
           yet
           not
           be
           apprehended
           or
           so
           much
           as
           seen
           by
           any
           one
           of
           all
           the
           Kings
           Attendance
           ,
           and
           that
           too
           
           in
           so
           publick
           a
           place
           as
           St.
           
             James's
             Park
          
           ,
           a
           place
           where
           there
           is
           not
           so
           much
           as
           a
           Bramble
           or
           Bryar
           ,
           or
           any
           one
           Covert
           throughout
           it
           enough
           to
           shrowd
           a
           Pigmey
           ,
           much
           less
           too
           Man-slayers
           ,
           excepting
           the
           Osiers
           within
           the
           Canal
           (
           but
           those
           are
           moated
           round
           ,
           and
           therefore
           inaccessible
           .
           )
           To
           which
           the
           Remarker
           by
           a
           certain
           old
           Game
           call'd
           
             cross
             purposes
          
           makes
           answer
           .
           
             The
             Devil
             's
             in
          
           Settle
           
             for
             putting
             shams
             upon
             the
             World.
             In
             the
             first
             place
             the
             Oath
             does
             not
             affirm
             that
          
           Pickering
           presented
           the
           Gun
           ,
           
             but
             that
             finding
             the
             defect
             of
             the
             Flint
             he
             deferd
             the
             Action
             till
             another
             time
             .
             Besides
             he
             forgets
             that
             there
             was
             a
             very
             thick
             Grove
             at
             the
             end
             of
             the
          
           Pell-mell
           
             where
             His
             Majesty
             might
             have
             made
             his
             unfortunate
             Approaches
             .
          
           And
           the
           Reflecter
           upon
           the
           same
           passage
           wisely
           observes
           ,
           
             the
             Traytor
             might
             sculk
             behind
             one
             of
             those
             great
             Trees
             ,
             between
             which
             ,
             he
             might
             have
             used
             his
             Hat
             or
             Cloak
             or
             Twenty
             other
             things
             ,
             for
             the
             hindering
             a
             Discovery
             .
             But
          
           Settle
           
             with
             his
             Brambles
             and
             Bryars
             could
             not
             see
             Wood
             for
             Trees
             .
          
           That
           is
           to
           say
           ,
           a
           Couple
           of
           fellows
           with
           each
           of
           them
           a
           Screwd-Gun
           could
           shelter
           themselves
           in
           a
           Grove
           without
           one
           Branch
           of
           Underwood
           ,
           where
           the
           Trees
           stand
           three
           or
           four
           yards
           asunder
           ,
           and
           the
           largest
           of
           those
           Trees
           have
           publick
           walks
           all
           round
           them
           ,
           in
           a
           place
           too
           where
           no
           Man
           is
           suffered
           to
           wander
           out
           of
           the
           common
           walk
           ,
           but
           the
           very
           Centries
           shall
           call
           him
           back
           .
           Oh
           but
           they
           concealed
           their
           Guns
           behind
           their
           
             Hats
             Cloaks
          
           or
           Twenty
           other
           things
           .
           But
           surely
           when
           the
           Gun
           miscarryed
           once
           for
           want
           of
           powder
           in
           the
           Barrel
           and
           another
           time
           in
           the
           Pan
           ,
           Was
           the
           Gun
           under
           the
           Hat
           ,
           or
           the
           Cloak
           ;
           or
           were
           the
           Silver
           Bullets
           to
           go
           through
           Hat
           Cloak
           Trees
           and
           all
           ?
        
         
           But
           now
           for
           the
           Massacre
           .
           The
           Discoverers
           give
           you
           an
           account
           of
           Commissions
           given
           out
           ,
           an
           Army
           to
           be
           raised
           ;
           and
           Elkanahs
           Narrative
           makes
           it
           apparent
           ,
           that
           Army
           could
           consist
           of
           none
           but
           Papists
           ,
           it
           being
           impossible
           as
           they
           had
           managed
           it
           ,
           to
           have
           drawn
           in
           any
           other
           Malecontents
           into
           the
           Conspiracy
           .
           Well
           ,
           and
           where
           's
           the
           wonder
           of
           all
           this
           says
           the
           Reflecter
           ,
           
             Is
             it
             not
             possible
             to
             list
             a
             Popish
             Army
             in
             a
             Protestant
             Country
             without
             being
             Discovered
             till
             they
             themselves
             think
             convenient
             ,
             being
             Tongue-tyed
             ,
             awed
             ,
             and
             spirited
             by
             superstition
             .
             Oaths
          
           &c.
           All
           this
           granted
           ,
           how
           will
           the
           Reflecter
           reconcile
           that
           Concession
           of
           his
           p.
           19th
           .
           in
           which
           he
           yeilds
           
             that
             there
             were
             some
             of
             the
             Papists
             in
             the
             Old
             Kings
             Reign
             ,
          
           (
           some
           Thousands
           he
           might
           have
           said
           )
           
             that
             ventured
             their
             Lives
             Estates
             and
             Freedoms
             in
             the
             Royal
             Cause
             ;
             for
             in
             the
             most
             Barbarous
             Nations
          
           (
           continues
           he
           )
           
             there
             are
             some
             Persons
             found
             who
             are
             JUST
             ,
             UPRIGHT
             ,
             HONEST
             and
             LOYAL
             .
          
           Now
           if
           this
           Popish
           Army
           was
           listed
           in
           England
           ,
           as
           the
           Discoverers
           Swear
           ,
           the
           blow
           being
           ready
           for
           striking
           ,
           I
           wonder
           how
           the
           Conspirators
           did
           to
           single
           out
           and
           list
           only
           those
           Disloyal
           Papists
           fit
           for
           their
           turn
           ,
           and
           not
           unluckily
           communicate
           their
           intended
           Rebellion
           to
           so
           much
           as
           
             one
             man
          
           of
           those
           Thousands
           of
           
             Just
             ,
             Honest
             ,
             Upright
             ,
             and
             Loyal
          
           Men
           of
           that
           Religion
           ,
           that
           consequently
           with
           all
           those
           good
           Principles
           would
           not
           have
           fordorn
           to
           have
           detected
           the
           Conspiracy
           .
           The
           Papists
           were
           not
           Gods
           ,
           and
           't
           is
           not
           a
           little
           miraculous
           that
           as
           but
           Men
           ,
           they
           should
           have
           that
           assurance
           of
           all
           the
           Hands
           and
           Hearts
           they
           trusted
           ,
           as
           not
           to
           be
           mistaken
           even
           in
           one
           false
           Brother
           through
           a
           whole
           Army
           .
           Besides
           the
           Reflecter
           is
           very
           unlucky
           in
           this
           point
           ,
           for
           as
           Elkanah
           affirms
           ,
           and
           the
           Reflecter
           does
           not
           deny
           ,
           that
           the
           Papists
           by
           computation
           are
           not
           the
           150th
           .
           part
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           and
           therefore
           in
           the
           Heretick
           Massacre
           one
           Man
           must
           have
           Kill'd
           near
           
             a
             Brace
             of
             Hundreds
          
           for
           his
           share
           ,
           if
           as
           there
           are
           so
           many
           Loyal
           Men
           amongst
           the
           Party
           that
           would
           have
           stood
           Neuter
           at
           least
           ,
           if
           not
           resisted
           them
           ,
           the
           Reflecter
           has
           unfortunately
           put
           them
           to
           the
           push
           of
           each
           mans
           Killing
           at
           least
           
             twice
             as
             many
          
           ,
           and
           the
           Possibility
           of
           all
           this
           ,
           the
           Reflecter
           does
           not
           at
           all
           doubt
           ,
           it
           being
           as
           feazable
           an
           Archievement
           as
           the
           Knaves
           of
           Popeland
           ere
           contrived
           ,
           or
           the
           Fools
           of
           Whigland
           ere
           believed
           .
           Nay
           to
           make
           the
           Motions
           of
           the
           Jesuits
           a
           little
           more
           
             wondrous
             ,
             Bedlow
          
           Swears
           before
           the
           House
           of
           Lords
           ,
           
             that
             the
             Papists
             had
             an
             Army
             of
             Forty
             Thousand
             strong
             all
             ready
             to
             rise
             in
          
           London
           
             at
             24
             hours
             warning
             ,
             besides
             those
             that
             should
             have
             been
             posted
             at
             every
             Ale-house
             Door
             to
             have
             Kill'd
             the
             Soldiers
             as
             they
             come
             out
             of
             their
             Quarters
             ,
             and
             Lord
          
           Petre
           and
           Powis
           
             were
             to
             have
             Marcht
             with
             another
             English
             Army
             through
          
           Pembroke-shire
           :
           and
           yet
           as
           the
           Devil
           and
           ill
           luck
           would
           have
           it
           ,
           't
           is
           undeniably
           manifest
           that
           all
           the
           Papists
           in
           England
           are
           so
           far
           from
           forming
           so
           many
           terrible
           Armies
           ,
           that
           they
           are
           not
           40000
           
             in
             all
          
           ,
           Men
           ,
           Women
           and
           Children
           through
           
           the
           whole
           Kingdom
           .
           Yet
           all
           this
           we
           are
           obliged
           to
           believe
           as
           true
           as
           the
           Evangelists
           ,
           and
           he
           that
           dares
           deny
           it
           ,
           flies
           in
           the
           face
           of
           Kings
           ,
           Lords
           and
           Commons
           ,
           and
           arraigns
           the
           whole
           Justice
           of
           the
           Nation
           .
           Besides
           ,
           to
           eternize
           the
           Memory
           of
           this
           glorious
           Preserver
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           tho
           t
           is
           notoriously
           known
           he
           died
           Raving
           ,
           yet
           the
           true
           blue
           Bristol
           Protestants
           could
           honour
           him
           with
           no
           less
           an
           Inscription
           on
           his
           Herse
           ,
           than
           
             
               Testimonium
               quod
               vivens
               exhibuit
               ,
               moriens
               constanter
               obfirmavit
               .
            
          
        
         
           But
           now
           to
           leave
           Mr.
           Bedlows
           Armies
           ,
           and
           take
           a
           view
           of
           Dugdales
           Plot-Forces
           ;
           the
           
             best
             Jest
          
           we
           have
           in
           all
           the
           Reflections
           ,
           (
           for
           't
           is
           all
           but
           Farce
           )
           we
           meet
           in
           the
           11th
           .
           Page
           .
           Settle
           gives
           an
           account
           how
           preposterous
           ,
           nay
           how
           impossible
           an
           undertaking
           't
           was
           for
           the
           Papists
           to
           have
           laid
           the
           Kings
           Murder
           upon
           the
           Presbyterians
           ,
           (
           as
           Dugdale
           Swears
           )
           and
           to
           have
           engaged
           the
           Episcopal
           party
           in
           the
           Massacre
           ,
           upon
           the
           issue
           of
           Pickerings
           Gun
           ,
           the
           said
           Pickering
           being
           too
           shallow
           a
           Headpiece
           for
           so
           great
           a
           Masterpiece
           of
           Cheat
           and
           Villany
           ,
           as
           to
           lay
           it
           on
           the
           Dissenters
           ,
           and
           too
           known
           a
           Popish
           Face
           to
           pass
           for
           a
           Presbyterian
           .
           To
           this
           the
           Reflecter
           answers
           (
           for
           there
           is
           nothing
           so
           Chimerical
           ,
           but
           he
           finds
           an
           expedient
           for
           )
           
             Seeing
             the
             Papists
             were
             ever
             hovering
             about
             the
             Kings
             Person
             ;
             upon
             the
             Blow
             given
             ,
             might
             not
             they
             out
             of
             a
             pretended
             officious
             Zeal
             fall
             upon
             the
             Assassinate
             ,
             mangle
             him
             in
             such
             a
             manner
             as
             to
             render
             him
             altogether
             unknown
             again
             ,
             for
             the
             person
             he
             was
             ,
             and
             then
             lay
             it
             at
             whose
             door
             they
             pleas'd
             ,
             either
             by
             real
             or
             forged
             words
          
           (
           forged
           words
           I
           understand
           not
           )
           
             that
             execrable
             Murder
             ,
             and
             upon
             this
             the
             Church
             of
          
           England
           -
           
             Men
             out
             of
             a
             just
             Resentment
             and
             Indignation
             for
             the
             loss
             of
             their
             All
             in
             so
             Divinely
             good
             a
             Prince
             ,
             are
             reasonably
             to
             be
             supposed
             would
             revenge
             it
             with
             all
             the
             Heat
             ,
             and
             all
             the
             vigour
             imaginable
             .
          
        
         
           Now
           one
           would
           think
           ,
           we
           had
           had
           Popish
           Plots
           enough
           in
           all
           conscience
           ;
           but
           this
           subtle
           Reflecter
           has
           wonderfully
           detected
           one
           Popish
           Plot
           more
           ,
           and
           Heaven
           knows
           an
           
             Heroical
             one
          
           ,
           being
           no
           less
           than
           a
           Plot
           of
           the
           great
           and
           mighty
           Popish
           Nobles
           ,
           against
           the
           
             poor
             little
          
           Popish
           Pickering
           .
           Lord
           !
           what
           will
           not
           Popery
           do
           ,
           and
           Reflections
           find
           out
           ?
           But
           dear
           Mr.
           Little
           Plot
           ,
           what
           if
           the
           Protestant
           Nobility
           about
           the
           King
           ,
           which
           I
           fancy
           are
           always
           much
           stronger
           than
           his
           Popish
           Courtiers
           ,
           had
           stopt
           these
           Lordly
           Popish
           Hands
           from
           Carbonading
           the
           poor
           desperado
           ,
           and
           preserved
           him
           for
           a
           Gibbet
           ,
           and
           if
           they
           could
           not
           have
           stept
           in
           time
           enough
           to
           have
           prevented
           a
           Popish
           stab
           ,
           yet
           at
           least
           have
           snatch'd
           his
           Carcase
           from
           those
           bloody
           Popish
           Mince-meat-makers
           ,
           and
           kept
           his
           Physnomy
           unmangled
           to
           have
           discovered
           the
           Assassinate
           ;
           in
           what
           a
           condition
           had
           this
           Reflecters
           great
           and
           
             Lordly
             Plot
          
           been
           in
           ,
           and
           Mr.
           Dugdales
           Presbyterian
           Sham-Murder
           .
        
         
           Nevertheless
           (
           says
           the
           Reflecter
           page
           
             12th
             )
             Let
             Mr.
             Settle
             not
             think
             to
             render
             the
             matter
             Improbable
             by
             hinting
             the
             Majority
             of
             the
             Protestants
             thoughout
             the
             Kingdom
             ,
          
           (
           though
           a
           150
           to
           one
           odds
           ,
           and
           a
           great
           part
           even
           of
           that
           uery
           infinite
           minority
           of
           Papists
           
             Just
             Upright
             Honest
          
           and
           Loyal
           Men
           )
           to
           
             surpass
             by
             much
             the
             Papists
             seeing
             the
             Latter
             meant
             to
             decoy
             the
             Church
             of
             England
             Men
             into
             the
             fact
             ,
             which
             though
             they
             should
             not
             have
             effected
             ,
             yet
             so
             unexpected
             a
             Surprize
             upon
             People
             unprepared
             ,
             and
             at
             Disseution
             and
             Distrust
             amongst
             themselves
             ,
             by
             Persons
             MARTIALIZ'D
             and
             used
             to
             Arms
             ,
             as
             is
             well
             known
             the
             Papists
             had
             been
             ,
             and
             who
             for
             a
             long
             while
             before
             had
             been
             making
             all
             things
             ready
             for
             the
             well
             Managing
             of
             their
             undertakings
             ,
             they
             might
             well
             enough
             promise
             themselves
             Success
             ,
             each
             not
             needing
             to
             be
             an
          
           Almanzor
           
             or
             a
          
           Mars
           ,
           
             or
             have
             the
             strength
             and
             Soul
             of
             a
          
           Hercules
           .
        
         
           Now
           hang
           me
           if
           I
           can
           find
           out
           how
           't
           is
           well
           known
           the
           Papists
           have
           been
           Martializ'd
           &
           
             Us'd
             to
             Arms
          
           more
           then
           the
           rest
           of
           their
           Country-men
           .
           I
           'm
           Sensible
           ,
           Heavn
           be
           prais'd
           ,
           they
           have
           had
           no
           Opportunity
           ,
           nor
           occasion
           to
           improve
           their
           Martial
           Skill
           since
           the
           Kings
           Return
           ,
           and
           if
           it
           consists
           in
           their
           former
           Experience
           ,
           to
           our
           Nations
           Eternal
           shame
           ,
           we
           had
           too
           many
           Protestants
           ,
           (
           such
           as
           they
           were
           )
           that
           had
           as
           much
           Martial
           Learning
           at
           that
           time
           ,
           though
           in
           a
           worse
           cause
           ,
           then
           the
           Papists
           .
           But
           ,
           alas
           ,
           the
           Refllecters
           meaning
           is
           ,
           that
           they
           have
           practised
           Martial
           Discipline
           of
           a
           
             latter
             date
          
           ,
           &
           in
           order
           to
           this
           great
           Work
           in
           hand
           ,
           like
           the
           25000
           Messina
           Soldiers
           have
           had
           their
           Rendezvouz
           INVISIBLE
           .
           The
           Reflecter
           we
           consider
           ,
           writes
           to
           
           the
           Rabble
           ,
           where
           nothing
           so
           monstrous
           or
           Impossible
           but
           must
           pass
           currant
           .
           How
           long
           was
           the
           Mobile
           possest
           ,
           (
           nor
           are
           they
           yet
           undeceived
           )
           that
           the
           Papins
           had
           their
           places
           UNDERG
           ROUND
           to
           Discipline
           whole
           Bodyes
           of
           Men.
           Nor
           shall
           ye
           beat
           it
           out
           of
           the
           Heads
           of
           Ten
           Thousand
           English
           Foot
           to
           this
           day
           ,
           but
           that
           Mr.
           Choqueux's
           innocent
           Squibs
           ,
           and
           Rocket
           cases
           ,
           desigped
           for
           his
           Master
           
             Prince
             Ruperts
          
           Divertisement
           ,
           were
           Fireballs
           ,
           and
           Cartrages
           and
           other
           Romish
           Ammunition
           belonging
           to
           the
           great
           Devil
           the
           Plot.
           
        
         
           But
           all
           this
           while
           the
           Remarker
           and
           Reflecter
           never
           take
           care
           to
           answer
           that
           part
           of
           the
           Narrative
           that
           demonstrates
           the
           Protestants
           Throats
           were
           to
           have
           been
           cut
           by
           Spanish
           Armies
           ,
           another
           while
           by
           French
           Armies
           ,
           one
           time
           by
           English
           Armies
           ,
           and
           another
           by
           NO
           ARMIES
           at
           all
           .
           One
           while
           the
           Protestants
           Throats
           were
           to
           have
           been
           ALL
           cut
           ,
           another
           while
           but
           Half
           ;
           one
           wh●le
           the
           Episcopals
           were
           to
           joyn
           in
           the
           Massacre
           with
           the
           Papists
           to
           Murder
           the
           Fanaticks
           ,
           and
           another
           while
           the
           Fanaticks
           were
           to
           joyn
           with
           the
           Papists
           to
           Kill
           the
           Episcopals
           :
           and
           all
           these
           
             irreconcileable
             contradictions
          
           expresly
           sworn
           to
           be
           the
           mature
           and
           
             deliberate
             Results
          
           of
           the
           Conspirato●s
           .
           'T
           is
           true
           the
           Remarker
           ,
           page
           13.
           makes
           a
           
             feeble
             Essay
          
           to
           adjust
           the
           different
           Tales
           from
           the
           Bewkblwers
           jarring
           Testimonies
           ,
           and
           tells
           you
           ;
           
             Would
             we
             have
             had
             all
             the
             several
             Gangs
             and
             Clubs
             of
             Plotters
             have
             jumpt
             in
             one
             and
             the
             same
             Sense
             and
             Opinion
             ?
             where
             several
             people
             are
             engaged
             ,
             there
             will
             be
             several
             Sir
          
           POLITICK
           WOODBEE'S
           
             that
             will
             be
             putting
             their
             Oars
             in
             the
             Boat
             where
             they
             are
             concern'd
             ;
             one
             will
             be
             proposing
             this
             ,
             and
             tother
             that
             ,
             and
             many
             a
             Fools
             Bolt
             will
             be
             shot
             ,
             and
             this
             discourse
             ,
             though
             never
             so
             simple
             is
             Treason
             ,
             and
             fit
             to
             be
             known
             by
             way
             of
             circumstance
             .
          
        
         
           And
           is
           the
           great
           and
           wonderful
           Popish
           Conspiracy
           ,
           so
           dreadful
           as
           to
           require
           a
           two
           and
           forty
           days
           raising
           the
           whole
           Militia
           of
           England
           ,
           come
           at
           last
           to
           an
           alarum
           but
           of
           so
           many
           
             Politick
             Woodbees
          
           ?
           Is
           the
           Jesuits
           Treasou
           of
           a
           hundred
           years
           hatching
           ,
           and
           at
           last
           in
           the
           fatal
           78.
           run
           up
           into
           
             Consults
             ,
             Resolves
          
           ,
           and
           FINAL
           DECREES
           ,
           dwindled
           into
           a
           
             Fools
             Bolt
          
           ?
           Are
           their
           terrible
           Commissions
           Sealed
           by
           
             Johannes
             Paulus
             d'
             Oliva
          
           ,
           and
           his
           Substitute
           Whitebread
           ,
           with
           the
           whole
           Process
           of
           tho●e
           Royal
           Conspirators
           the
           French
           and
           Spanish
           King
           's
           joyning
           in
           the
           confederacy
           ;
           nay
           the
           very
           actual
           Landing
           of
           25000
           ,
           
             Messina
             Soldiers
             at
             Carlingford
             Haven
          
           ,
           such
           notorious
           matter
           of
           Fact
           ,
           but
           meer
           
             Tittle
             Tattle
          
           ?
           Were
           the
           great
           and
           damnable
           Popish
           Generals
           immured
           in
           Tower
           Walls
           for
           this
           ?
           Now
           certainly
           what
           higher
           affront
           could
           this
           Impudent
           Remarker
           put
           upon
           the
           whole
           NEMINE
           CONTRADICENTE
           of
           our
           late
           Parliaments
           ,
           when
           by
           insinuating
           that
           the
           Results
           of
           so
           many
           Popish
           Consults
           for
           the
           Subversion
           of
           our
           
             Religion
             ,
             Lives
          
           ,
           and
           Liber●ies
           ,
           and
           the
           engagement
           of
           such
           Princes
           and
           Potentates
           against
           us
           ,
           was
           only
           a
           
             simple
             discourse
          
           of
           so
           many
           Politick
           Woodbees
           ,
           and
           consequently
           the
           many
           Sacred
           and
           
             Anful
             Committees
          
           of
           Secrecy
           in
           all
           their
           indefatigable
           Plot-mauling
           sat
           so
           long
           a
           Brooding
           only
           over
           a
           
             Nest
             E●g
          
           that
           was
           ADDLE
           .
        
         
           But
           now
           whereas
           Elkanah
           the
           
             Impertinent
             Plot-thrasher
          
           ,
           as
           the
           Remarker
           calls
           him
           ,
           has
           proved
           the
           work
           was
           to
           have
           been
           done
           by
           no
           Armies
           at
           all
           .
           :
           The
           generous
           complaisant
           Remarker
           makes
           answer
           ,
           
             Why
             truly
             had
             he
             had
             any
             thing
             else
             in
             the
             World
             to
             do
             ,
             he
             might
             have
             spared
             himself
             the
             labour
             ,
             for
             so
             long
             as
             it
             was
             to
             be
             done
             ,
             the
             cheaper
             they
             did
             it
             ,
             the
             less
             it
             would
             have
             cost
             'em
          
           ;
           smartly
           replied
           ,
           I
           prosess
           ,
           and
           an
           Inference
           ●●
           ingenious
           as
           deserves
           Sugar-plumbs
           .
           Besides
           ,
           what
           a
           pretty
           Turn
           of
           State
           is
           here
           made
           ,
           Popery
           way
           to
           pop
           into
           the
           Throne
           ,
           like
           the
           Kings
           of
           Brentford
           out
           of
           the
           CLOUDS
           ,
           without
           either
           
             Noise
             or
             Tumult
          
           ,
           and
           a
           Pox
           of
           all
           these
           unnecessary
           Tools
           call'd
           Armies
           to
           introduce
           it
           .
           In
           my
           opinion
           these
           two
           Scriblers
           are
           a
           Brace
           of
           such
           dull
           Rogues
           ,
           and
           manage
           their
           Cause
           so
           Imp●tently
           ,
           that
           the
           very
           answering
           of
           the
           Impertinents
           ,
           is
           enough
           to
           uauseate
           any
           Man
           of
           sense
           ,
           if
           but
           to
           think
           what
           Dirt
           and
           Rubbish
           he
           has
           to
           deal
           with
           .
        
         
           However
           the
           Remarker
           wheels
           about
           age●
           ,
           and
           to
           convince
           you
           there
           were
           Armies
           in
           the
           case
           ,
           says
           ,
           That
           Ireland
           
             one
             of
             the
             Executed
             Jesuits
             ,
             was
             of
             opinion
             that
             there
             was
             no
             way
             to
             bring
             the
             business
             about
             ,
             but
             by
             a
             considerable
             Force
             ,
             which
             he
             mustered
             up
             to
             fifty
             thousand
             ,
             assirming
             a
             less
             number
             would
             not
             suffice
             .
             Neither
             did
          
           Langhorne
           
             absolutely
             deny
             at
             his
             Trial
             the
             having
             of
             Commissions
             ,
             only
             he
             denied
             them
             to
             be
             seen
             upon
             his
             Desk
             .
          
           Was
           ever
           so
           much
           Impudence
           not
           to
           be
           matcht
           even
           in
           
             Eustace
             Commins
          
           ,
           to
           obtrude
           that
           Confession
           of
           Commissions
           and
           Armies
           upon
           those
           
           very
           men
           ,
           that
           to
           the
           last
           gasp
           attested
           their
           Innocence
           ,
           even
           to
           the
           renouncing
           of
           God
           and
           Heaven
           ,
           if
           they
           were
           Guilty
           ,
           and
           that
           too
           with
           a
           full
           and
           perfect
           Abjuration
           of
           all
           Dispensations
           or
           Equivocations
           whatever
           .
        
         
           But
           truly
           ,
           continues
           the
           Remarker
           ,
           
             he
             will
             not
             dispute
             the
             Case
             any
             farther
             with
          
           E.
           Settle
           ,
           
             for
             perhaps
             he
             might
             know
             more
             of
             the
             Plot
             than
             they
             that
             were
             hang'd
             for
             't
             .
          
           Not
           more
           my
           sweet
           friend
           ,
           but
           possibly
           as
           much
           ,
           and
           never
           the
           worse
           Man
           for
           't
           ,
           it
           being
           a
           knowledge
           ,
           I
           assure
           you
           ,
           that
           would
           neither
           burden
           his
           Head
           nor
           his
           Heart
           .
        
         
           From
           this
           we
           come
           to
           the
           Plot
           in
           Ireland
           .
        
         
           Here
           the
           Remarker
           makes
           short
           work
           ,
           and
           indeed
           as
           much
           as
           the
           Cause
           would
           bear
           ,
           and
           tells
           you
           ,
           
             He
             'll
             say
             no
             more
             to
             't
             ,
             but
             that
             if
             the
             King
             of
          
           Spain
           
             was
             a
             Block-head
             in
             it
             ,
             and
             the
             King
             of
          
           France
           
             a
             Lunatick
             ,
             as
             the
             Irish
             Plot
             makes
             them
             ,
             they
             ought
             to
             come
             to
          
           E.
           Settle
           
             to
             learn
             Politicks
             .
             And
             for
             his
             part
             because
          
           Settles
           
             Romantick
             Objections
             depend
             upon
          
           ,
           Plunkets
           
             Trial
             ,
             upon
             which
             he
             was
             condemnd
             ,
             he
             shall
             not
             troubl●
             himself
             to
             make
             any
             further
             defence
             for
             Courts
             of
             Judicature
             .
          
           T
           is
           true
           ,
           the
           Reflecter
           is
           a
           little
           more
           Prolix
           upon
           this
           business
           ,
           but
           so
           abominably
           lew'd
           is
           the
           ignorance
           or
           impudence
           of
           this
           
             nameless
             Wretoh
          
           ,
           that
           he
           doubts
           not
           but
           the
           Spanish
           King
           had
           30
           thousand
           Pilgrims
           ready
           Mustered
           ,
           and
           to
           be
           Landed
           at
           
             Bradlington
             〈◊〉
          
           ,
           and
           Ten
           thousand
           Flandrians
           at
           Hull
           ,
           tho
           when
           he
           wanted
           Hands
           to
           save
           his
           own
           Kingdoms
           ,
           and
           another
           Army
           to
           joyn
           with
           the
           French
           King
           ,
           tho
           to
           make
           his
           most
           mortal
           Enemy
           King
           of
           Ireland
           ;
           nay
           ,
           tho
           not
           one
           of
           these
           Martial
           Pilgrims
           were
           ever
           seen
           in
           the
           World
           from
           that
           day
           to
           this
           ;
           yet
           all
           these
           Armies
           were
           rais'd
           ,
           and
           this
           stupendious
           Alliance
           of
           France
           and
           Spain
           was
           undeniable
           truth
           ,
           and
           why
           ,
           as
           he
           says
           ,
           because
           the
           
             Spanish
             King
             is
             Priest-ridden
             ,
             and
             the
             Jesuits
             rule
             his
             Ascendant
          
           ;
           There
           he
           has
           hit
           it
           .
           Popery
           ,
           Plot
           and
           Jesuites
           can
           do
           every
           thing
           ;
           Incorporate
           even
           Fire
           and
           Water
           ,
           and
           make
           confederacies
           between
           the
           greatest
           and
           most
           implacable
           of
           Enemies
           ;
           nay
           ,
           it
           can
           unman
           Kings
           ,
           and
           make
           the
           Wise
           and
           Politick
           French
           King
           be
           for
           bringing
           a
           Royal
           Navy
           into
           that
           very
           Port
           of
           Ireland
           where
           a
           Fisherboat
           can
           scarce
           live
           ,
           and
           Maugre
           that
           foolish
           obstacle
           call'd
           impossibility
           ;
           neither
           the
           King
           of
           France
           can
           forbear
           attempting
           all
           this
           ,
           nor
           the
           Reflecter
           believing
           it
           .
        
         
           Nay
           the
           most
           
             Hellish
             ,
             hideous
             Masterpiece
          
           of
           all
           Dr.
           Oats
           his
           Discovery
           ,
           his
           Information
           to
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           
             that
             the
             French
             had
             already
             landed
             a
             great
             Army
             of
          
           25000.
           
           Messina
           Soldiers
           in
           Ireland
           ,
           goes
           as
           inoffensively
           down
           with
           the
           Reflecter
           ,
           as
           the
           least
           puny
           exploit
           in
           the
           whole
           Plot.
           Nay
           to
           outdo
           the
           Doctor
           a
           Bow-shoot
           ,
           the
           Doctor
           only
           brings
           them
           on
           ,
           but
           let
           the
           Devil
           bring
           them
           off
           again
           ;
           but
           the
           Reflecter
           both
           lands
           and
           unlands
           them
           INVISIBLE
           .
           For
           page
           14
           he
           says
           ,
           
             why
             might
             not
             their
             designs
             be
             disappointed
             upon
             the
             discovery
             of
             the
             Plots
             ,
             and
             they
          
           RETIRE
           
             again
             ,
             or
             forbear
             acting
             till
             better
             strengthen'd
             and
             prepared
             for
             bringing
             their
             Designs
             about
             ?
          
           That
           is
           ,
           why
           may
           not
           a
           Body
           of
           no
           less
           than
           25000.
           men
           Land
           in
           a
           foreign
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           
             come
             ,
             go
          
           ,
           or
           stay
           from
           that
           day
           to
           this
           ,
           without
           so
           much
           as
           one
           Mothers
           Son
           of
           25000
           being
           seen
           by
           Human
           Eye
           .
           Heaven
           !
           what
           a
           GORGE
           has
           the
           Reflecter
           to
           swallow
           such
           unprecedented
           PLOT-ROMANCE
           ,
           or
           what
           Impudence
           to
           vindicate
           such
           Execrable
           FORGERY
           ?
           
             
               Quanta
               est
               ficti
               Constantia
               Vultus
               .
            
          
        
         
           The
           next
           thing
           we
           come
           to
           is
           Sir
           
             Edmundbury
             Godfreys
          
           Murder
           ,
           and
           there
           the
           Reflecter
           to
           vindicate
           Mr.
           Bedlows
           wonderful
           Refusal
           of
           4000
           l.
           to
           be
           one
           of
           the
           six
           to
           Murder
           Sir
           Edmund
           ,
           and
           afterwards
           2000
           l.
           to
           be
           one
           with
           them
           to
           carry
           off
           the
           Body
           ,
           Makes
           answer
           that
           
             such
             is
             the
             generosity
             of
             some
             mens
             tempers
             ,
             how
             meanly
             soever
             born
             ,
             that
             they
             cannot
             be
             bribed
             nor
             wrought
             into
             an
             ill
             thing
             .
          
           [
           So
           generous
           a
           man
           was
           Bedlow
           ,
           and
           so
           averse
           to
           any
           thing
           that
           's
           ill
           ,
           that
           only
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           his
           Life
           was
           spent
           in
           Horsestealing
           ,
           Cheating
           and
           Pocketpicking
           ,
           ]
           
             or
             rather
             the
             providence
             of
             God
             who
             had
             otherwise
             ordain'd
             ,
             might
             make
             him
             make
             use
             of
             the
             Proposal
             of
             that
             very
             act
             to
             create
             a
             reluctance
             in
             him
             ,
             and
             to
             work
             him
             to
             a
             Discovery
             of
             that
             and
             the
             rest
             .
          
           This
           last
           point
           indeed
           is
           unanswerable
           :
           but
           possibly
           ,
           upon
           a
           review
           ,
           His
           Discovery
           ,
           to
           give
           Providence
           no
           trouble
           in
           it
           ,
           might
           come
           a
           shorter
           Journy
           than
           from
           Heaven
           ,
           only
           from
           the
           
             Prince
             of
             the
             Air
          
           by
           the
           way
           .
        
         
         
           But
           Elkanah
           is
           a
           little
           Satyrical
           on
           the
           strange
           and
           different
           account
           of
           the
           whole
           continued
           contradiction
           in
           Bedlows
           and
           Prance's
           Testimony
           ,
           Sir
           Edmund
           by
           
             Bedlows
             Evidence
             being
             stifled
             with
             a
             Pillow
             in
             a
             lower
             Room
             of
             the
             great
             Court
             in
          
           Somerset-house
           ,
           
             between
             four
             and
             five
             in
             the
             Afternoon
             ;
             and
             the
             Murderers
          
           Walsh
           Lephaire
           
             my
             Lord
          
           Bellasis
           2
           Gentlemen
           &c.
           
             but
             by
          
           Prance
           
             Evidence
             ,
             he
             was
             strangled
             with
             a
             twisted
             Handkerchief
             at
             9
             at
             Night
             ,
             by
             the
             stablus
             in
             the
             outward
             Court
             of
          
           Somerset-house
           ,
           by
           Green
           ,
           Girald
           ,
           Hill
           ,
           Kelly
           ,
           Berry
           and
           Prance
           ,
           &c.
           
           To
           reconcile
           with
           contradiction
           ,
           the
           Reflecter
           tells
           you
           page
           
             16th
             .
             that
          
           Miles
           Prance
           
             owns
             to
             have
             been
             present
             ,
             and
             to
             have
             had
             a
             hand
             in
             that
             Murder
             ,
             Mr.
          
           Bedlow
           
             knows
             it
             only
             by
             a
             Relation
             ,
             and
             by
             a
             Relation
             of
             a
             thing
             which
             he
             had
             already
             refused
             to
             have
             a
             hand
             in
             ,
             and
             at
             a
             time
             he
             was
             so
             much
             suspected
             by
             that
             Party
             ;
             as
             that
             they
             made
             him
             take
             the
             Sacrament
             twice
             a
             day
             for
             fear
             he
             should
             reveal
             .
             Now
             he
             being
             a
             suspected
             Person
             ,
             and
             knowing
             the
             Murder
             to
             have
             been
             committed
             by
             Papists
             ,
             they
             varyed
             in
             their
             Account
             of
             his
             Death
             from
             the
             Truth
             ,
             to
             baulk
             his
             Evidence
             in
             case
             he
             should
             fail
             them
             .
          
        
         
           Now
           observe
           how
           Bedlow
           only
           swears
           to
           a
           Relation
           .
           In
           his
           Testimony
           before
           the
           House
           of
           Lords
           he
           swears
           ,
           that
           Walsh
           and
           Lephairé
           two
           Jesuits
           proffer'd
           him
           4000
           l.
           to
           be
           one
           of
           the
           4
           or
           6
           that
           were
           to
           Kill
           Sir
           
             Edmond-bury
             Godfrey
          
           ,
           and
           that
           upon
           his
           taking
           the
           Sacrament
           to
           do
           it
           ,
           he
           should
           have
           the
           Money
           before
           hand
           paid
           ,
           where
           or
           to
           whom
           to
           himself
           or
           what
           Friend
           he
           thought
           fit
           :
           Thus
           far
           Mr.
           Bedlows
           I
           hope
           was
           
             not
             suspected
          
           by
           them
           ,
           neither
           was
           this
           only
           a
           Relation
           ,
           for
           he
           had
           the
           proffer
           of
           present
           payment
           ;
           and
           of
           a
           
             swinging
             summ
          
           too
           ;
           Besides
           supposing
           that
           the
           concern
           of
           
             Walsh
             Lephaire
          
           ,
           and
           his
           Cut-throats
           was
           only
           a
           Sham
           ,
           and
           that
           no
           such
           Persons
           were
           concern'd
           in
           the
           Murder
           ,
           put
           the
           Supposition
           that
           Bedlow
           had
           accepted
           the
           Money
           and
           Sacrament
           ,
           as
           t'
           is
           stupendious
           he
           did
           not
           ,
           how
           must
           Walsh
           and
           Lephaire
           have
           excused
           this
           Sham
           ?
           must
           they
           have
           cryed
           peccavi
           ,
           and
           said
           
             Sir
             ,
             we
             beg
             your
             pardon
             ,
             we
             are
             concern'd
             in
             no
             such
             Murder
             ,
             and
             tho
             we
             have
             given
             you
             the
             Sacrament
             and
             4000
             to
             no
             purpose
             in
             the
             World
             ,
             we
             have
             no
             service
             to
             desire
             of
             you
             for
             it
             ,
             't
             is
             an
             inconsiderable
             trisling
             sùmm
             ,
             and
             it
             burnt
             in
             our
             Pockets
             ;
             and
             therefore
             much
             good
             may
             do
             you
             with
             it
             .
          
           Also
           that
           very
           Night
           that
           Sir
           Edmund
           was
           carryed
           out
           from
           Sommerset-house
           ,
           
             Bedlow
             swears
          
           ,
           that
           at
           the
           hour
           of
           9
           he
           was
           showed
           the
           Body
           ,
           at
           which
           were
           present
           
             Walsh
             ,
             Lephaire
          
           ,
           my
           Lord
           Bellasis
           Gentleman
           ,
           Mr.
           Atkins
           ,
           Mr.
           Pepys
           Clerk
           and
           one
           Irish
           Man
           more
           :
           here
           was
           he
           offer'd
           half
           the
           4000
           l.
           to
           be
           one
           with
           these
           very
           numerical
           Men
           to
           help
           to
           carry
           off
           the
           Body
           ,
           and
           this
           but
           two
           hours
           before
           it
           was
           carryed
           forth
           .
           And
           yet
           these
           very
           Men
           it
           seems
           were
           none
           of
           the
           Persons
           engaged
           ,
           and
           upon
           Bedlows
           acceptance
           of
           the
           two
           Thousand
           pound
           ;
           they
           must
           have
           still
           excused
           themselves
           by
           saying
           ,
           
             Sir
             we
             have
             told
             you
             a
             notorious
             Lye
             ,
             the
             Body
             is
             to
             be
             conveyed
             out
             by
             a
             pack
             of
             Mr.
          
           Prances
           
             Friends
             ,
             to
             whom
             we
             are
             wholly
             strangers
             ,
             and
             altogether
             unconcern'd
             with
             .
          
           Nay
           and
           to
           make
           out
           the
           Oddness
           of
           this
           wondrous
           matter
           of
           Fact
           sworn
           by
           Bedlows
           ,
           we
           have
           Mr.
           Prances
           crew
           of
           Cut-throats
           Sir
           
             Edmonds
             REAL
          
           Murderers
           ;
           and
           those
           Cut-throats
           are
           expresly
           sworn
           by
           him
           to
           have
           had
           the
           keeping
           of
           the
           Dead
           Body
           all
           along
           ,
           and
           to
           have
           carryed
           it
           up
           and
           down
           from
           Room
           to
           Room
           ,
           upon
           every
           Shadow
           of
           danger
           .
           Nay
           their
           fears
           and
           terror
           was
           so
           great
           ,
           that
           on
           Wednesday
           night
           being
           removing
           the
           Body
           back
           to
           the
           first
           Room
           it
           lay
           in
           ,
           Mr.
           Prance
           happening
           to
           come
           upon
           them
           at
           that
           instant
           they
           all
           ran
           away
           ,
           and
           left
           the
           Body
           in
           the
           Entry
           ,
           till
           he
           call'd
           to
           them
           and
           made
           them
           come
           back
           again
           &c.
           
           And
           yet
           but
           two
           hours
           before
           they
           carryed
           out
           the
           Body
           ,
           't
           was
           left
           in
           a
           Room
           ,
           exposed
           to
           the
           view
           of
           
             Bedlows
             ,
             Lephaire
          
           and
           the
           rest
           of
           his
           Brethren
           to
           the
           number
           of
           half
           a
           dozen
           Men
           all
           strangers
           to
           Prance
           ,
           with
           neither
           Prance
           nor
           one
           of
           his
           Comerades
           upon
           the
           Spot
           tho
           all
           so
           apprehensive
           of
           a
           discovery
           .
        
         
           But
           next
           ,
           says
           the
           Reflecter
           ,
           
             Let
             us
             see
             Mr.
          
           Settles
           
             most
             remarkable
             Observation
             ,
             viz.
          
           That
           few
           or
           none
           of
           those
           numerous
           Letters
           and
           Packets
           ,
           seen
           ,
           read
           ,
           carried
           and
           intercepted
           by
           the
           several
           Discoverers
           should
           be
           couch'd
           in
           Ciphers
           ,
           seeing
           they
           contain'd
           no
           less
           than
           all
           the
           proposals
           for
           Regicides
           ,
           Massacres
           ,
           Assassinations
           ,
           and
           all
           the
           rest
           of
           their
           Villanies
           whatsoever
           .
           
             Now
             might
             not
             all
             those
             Letters
             ,
          
           (
           says
           the
           Reflecter
           )
           
             that
             had
             no
             Cipher
             be
             conveyed
             by
             such
             hands
             and
             means
             as
             they
             might
             rely
             on
             for
             the
             safety
             of
             the
             Delivery
             ,
             and
             be
             couch'd
             in
             such
             Terms
             ,
             tho
             
             not
             in
             Cipher
             ,
             as
             to
             seem
             to
             an
             unprepossess'd
             Reader
             to
             contain
             nothing
             but
             indifferent
             matters
             ,
             tho
             they
             were
             stuft
             up
             with
             rank
             Treason
             ?
          
        
         
           Now
           nothing
           but
           Impudence
           unparallel'd
           would
           pretend
           to
           answer
           a
           Book
           at
           this
           rate
           ;
           Does
           not
           the
           Narrative
           in
           that
           very
           place
           prove
           all
           Dugdales
           Letters
           received
           by
           him
           tho
           directed
           all
           to
           other
           men
           ,
           to
           be
           all
           conveyed
           by
           the
           
             Common
             Post
          
           ,
           and
           that
           there
           was
           so
           far
           from
           any
           Caution
           used
           in
           the
           conveyance
           ,
           that
           he
           swears
           
             he
             broke
             them
             all
             open
             ,
             to
             above
             a
             hundred
             in
             number
             ,
             and
             those
             that
             he
             could
             not
             hansomely
             s●al
             again
             ,
             he
             threw
             by
             ,
             and
             never
             delivered
             ,
          
           and
           all
           without
           the
           least
           Outery
           or
           Uproar
           from
           the
           Discoverers
           at
           the
           miscarriage
           ,
           though
           for
           the
           loss
           of
           Treason
           in
           Grain
           .
           Nay
           were
           not
           the
           contents
           of
           those
           Letters
           of
           such
           a
           Treasonable
           nature
           ,
           that
           Dugdale
           at
           Corkers
           Trial
           ,
           swears
           he
           received
           a
           Letter
           with
           [
           KILLING
           THE
           KING
           ]
           in
           express
           words
           in
           it
           .
        
         
           Just
           such
           another
           Reply
           the
           Reflecter
           makes
           to
           the
           Narratives
           other
           as
           remarkable
           Observation
           ,
           viz.
           why
           Coleman
           should
           spend
           so
           much
           labour
           and
           waste
           paper
           in
           Ciphers
           and
           Characters
           ,
           and
           Foreign
           Correspondence
           ,
           sometimes
           pushing
           on
           a
           TOLERATION
           ,
           and
           otherwhile
           labouring
           for
           Prorogations
           and
           Dissolutions
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           upon
           their
           every
           least
           motion
           in
           disfavour
           of
           the
           Roman
           Catholicks
           ,
           if
           at
           the
           same
           time
           they
           had
           that
           vaster
           Machine
           a
           working
           ,
           that
           would
           have
           Crown'd
           their
           utmost
           wishes
           without
           it
           ,
           when
           upon
           killing
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           murdering
           the
           Protestants
           ,
           they
           had
           not
           only
           dissolved
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           but
           likewise
           involved
           the
           Members
           in
           the
           Common
           Ruin
           ,
           and
           by
           the
           Entry
           of
           Popery
           by
           the
           Sword
           they
           had
           put
           an
           end
           to
           the
           very
           Being
           and
           Constitution
           of
           Parliaments
           .
           To
           which
           answers
           the
           Reflecter
           ,
           
             Well
             ,
             might
             not
             these
             Proroguings
             and
             Toleration
             Projects
             be
             managed
             in
             the
             interim
             ,
             in
             case
             an
             ,
             Obstacle
             should
             happen
             to
             the
             putting
             their
             main
             Plot
             in
             Execution
             .
             Does
             it
             not
             appear
             throughout
             the
             whole
             course
             of
             the
             Conspiracy
             ,
             that
             the
             Jesuits
             would
             leave
             no
             stone
             unturn'd
             for
             the
             bringing
             about
             their
             ends
             ,
             and
             play
             at
             small
             games
             rather
             than
             stand
             out
             .
          
           A
           small
           game
           indeed
           ,
           and
           the
           dullest
           Gamesters
           in
           Christendom
           ;
           for
           had
           the
           Papists
           intended
           such
           an
           
             Universal
             Massacre
          
           ;
           in
           my
           Judgment
           nothing
           so
           convenient
           for
           their
           purpose
           ,
           as
           to
           have
           done
           it
           in
           the
           very
           Sitting
           of
           a
           Parliament
           .
           How
           much
           more
           easie
           had
           it
           been
           out
           of
           Mr.
           Bedlows
           three
           English
           Armies
           ,
           to
           have
           planted
           some
           few
           Popish
           Champions
           at
           the
           
             Parliament
             house
          
           Door
           ,
           or
           the
           Parliament
           mens
           Lodgings
           ,
           to
           have
           killed
           
             Them
             too
          
           as
           well
           as
           the
           Soldiers
           as
           they
           came
           out
           ;
           then
           to
           begin
           a
           Massacre
           in
           a
           Prorogation
           time
           ,
           when
           so
           many
           great
           Men
           as
           those
           of
           the
           two
           Houses
           ,
           di●perst
           most
           of
           them
           in
           their
           Country
           Seats
           ,
           ●●ad
           had
           the
           opportunity
           to
           Arm
           both
           themselves
           and
           Tenants
           ,
           and
           encourage
           all
           those
           numerous
           Hands
           that
           would
           immediately
           have
           laid
           down
           their
           Lives
           and
           Fortunes
           in
           such
           a
           Cause
           ,
           and
           under
           such
           Leaders
           ,
           especially
           to
           make
           head
           against
           so
           hated
           a
           Party
           as
           the
           Papists
           ,
           and
           that
           too
           after
           no
           less
           than
           the
           Murder
           of
           the
           KING
           ,
           and
           the
           approach
           of
           their
           own
           threatned
           Destruction
           .
           Well!
           but
           Pickering
           and
           Coleman
           did
           not
           confer
           notes
           ,
           and
           his
           Gun
           with
           Bullets
           or
           no
           Bullets
           ,
           Powder
           or
           no
           Powder
           ,
           might
           have
           kill'd
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           not
           one
           s●llable
           of
           this
           convenience
           thought
           on
           .
        
         
           And
           th●n
           for
           Mr.
           Oats
           not
           seizing
           any
           of
           those
           
             Letters
             ,
             Pacquets
             ,
             Memorials
             ,
             Proposal
             ,
          
           and
           Comm●ssions
           that
           might
           have
           corroborated
           his
           Discovery
           ;
           the
           Reflecter
           answers
           ,
           
             As
             some
             he
             had
             only
             the
             sight
             of
             ,
             so
             it
             would
             be
             madness
             to
             think
             he
             would
             take
             'em
             away
             by
             force
             ;
             as
             to
             those
             others
             he
             carried
             ,
             he
             does
             not
             say
             but
             that
             he
             was
             accompanied
             by
             some
             of
             the
             Conspiracy
             ;
             or
             if
             he
             was
             not
             ,
             so
             manifest
             a
             proof
             of
             his
             Trechery
             ,
             if
             one
             may
             call
             it
             so
             ,
             to
             his
             party
             ,
             would
             cut
             off
             all
             means
             of
             his
             diving
          
           farther
           
             into
             their
             Resolutions
             ;
             and
             yet
             might
             be
             of
             little
             use
             ,
             since
             perhaps
             he
             could
             not
             have
          
           PROVED
           THE
           HANDS
           .
           
             And
             as
             for
             that
             courage
             of
             Mr.
          
           Oats
           
             which
             our
             Narrative
          
           Hero
           
             is
             pleas'd
             so
             to
             Droll
             upon
             ,
             it
             shows
             that
             Mr.
          
           Oats
           
             whole
             care
             was
             even
          
           AFTER
           
             the
             Discovery
             not
             to
             give
             the
             Jesuits
             the
             least
             cause
             to
             suspect
             his
             being
             fallen
             off
             ,
             that
             so
             by
             a
             fair
             appearance
             he
             might
             insinuate
             and
             grow
             so
             well
             acquainted
             with
             the
             Results
             of
             all
             their
             debates
             ,
             even
             concerning
             the
             Discovery
             ,
             as
             to
             reveal
             and
             prevent
             any
          
           HASTY
           and
           FATAL
           
             Resolutions
             ,
             they
             might
             have
             taken
             thereupon
             ,
          
           &c.
           
        
         
           Was
           ever
           such
           a
           
             Blind
             Excuse
          
           sound
           out
           for
           so
           damnable
           a
           piece
           of
           VILLANY
           in
           the
           Doctor
           ,
           viz.
           That
           the
           Doctor
           should
           discover
           the
           Plot
           to
           the
           King
           on
           the
           13th
           of
           August
           ,
           and
           upon
           the
           Kings
           disbehef
           of
           it
           ,
           return
           to
           the
           Jesuits
           to
           
           trapan
           and
           betray
           'em
           ,
           and
           yet
           not
           so
           much
           as
           surprize
           one
           Treasonable
           consult
           after
           it
           ,
           nor
           seize
           one
           Paper
           of
           theirs
           ,
           amongst
           so
           many
           trusted
           in
           his
           hands
           ,
           (
           and
           why
           ?
           in
           the
           name
           of
           Dulness
           ,
           
             possibly
             he
             could
             not
             have
             proved
             their
             hands
             .
             )
          
           And
           that
           too
           not
           only
           for
           so
           eminent
           a
           service
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           three
           Protestant
           Kingdoms
           ;
           but
           likewise
           for
           his
           own
           Interest
           and
           Glory
           :
           when
           so
           plain
           a
           proof
           of
           the
           Popish
           Plot
           ,
           had
           for
           ever
           gain'd
           him
           the
           universal
           love
           of
           a
           whole
           Protestant
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           consequently
           all
           the
           encouragement
           that
           he
           could
           wish
           or
           ask
           .
           Whereas
           on
           the
           contrary
           ,
           the
           lameness
           of
           his
           Narrative
           ,
           and
           the
           inconsistency
           of
           all
           his
           Evidence
           ,
           has
           markt
           him
           like
           CAIN
           ,
           and
           to
           all
           impartial
           men
           of
           sense
           ,
           has
           given
           him
           the
           brand
           both
           of
           
             Cain's
             GUILT
          
           and
           
             Cain's
             INFAMY
          
           .
           Oh!
           but
           he
           staid
           for
           diving
           FARTHER
           into
           the
           Papists
           Resolutions
           says
           the
           Reflections
           .
           Now
           what
           FARTHER
           treasonable
           Resolutions
           the
           Papists
           could
           have
           after
           killing
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           cutting
           all
           the
           Protestants
           Throats
           ,
           and
           setting
           up
           Popery
           as
           
             already
             design'd
          
           ,
           I
           profess
           I
           cannot
           comprehend
           ;
           unless
           they
           had
           had
           a
           mind
           to
           have
           used
           the
           King
           as
           unmercifully
           as
           they
           did
           Sir
           
             Edmundbury
             Godfrey
          
           ,
           and
           have
           kill'd
           him
           twice
           over
           ,
           stifled
           him
           with
           a
           Pillow
           at
           the
           Banquetinghouse
           ,
           and
           strangled
           him
           with
           a
           
             twisted
             Handkerchief
          
           at
           the
           Stone-Gallery
           .
        
         
           Well
           ,
           but
           Mr.
           Oats
           his
           courage
           in
           trusting
           himself
           to
           come
           alone
           to
           Whitebreads
           Chamber
           ,
           after
           the
           receving
           three
           blows
           with
           a
           Cane
           from
           him
           ,
           and
           a
           Box
           on
           the
           Ear
           for
           his
           Discovery
           ,
           and
           Dr.
           Tongue
           his
           Confederate
           no
           less
           than
           being
           threatned
           to
           be
           murder'd
           ,
           might
           be
           
             to
             prevent
             the
             Papists
             hasty
             and
             fatal
             resolutions
             taken
             thereupon
             .
          
           Nothing
           more
           likely
           sweet
           Mr.
           Impertinence
           :
           but
           for
           a
           taste
           of
           Dr.
           Oats
           his
           prevention
           of
           the
           Papists
           fatal
           Resolutions
           ,
           I
           'le
           refer
           the
           Reader
           but
           to
           the
           LXVI
           .
           Paragraph
           in
           his
           Narrative
           .
        
         
           
             Item
             ,
             That
             on
             the
          
           22th
           of
           August
           ,
           
             Money
             was
             sent
             from
             the
             Society
             by
             a
             Servant
             of
             theirs
             to
             supply
             the
             Expences
             of
             the
             four
          
           Irish
           
             Ruffians
             above-mentioned
             ,
             who
             were
             gotten
             to
          
           Winsor
           
             on
             the
          
           21st
           
             at
             Night
             ,
             and
             the
             sum
             so
             sent
             was
             Eighty
             pound
             ,
             which
             the
             Deponent
             saw
             told
             ,
             and
             they
             were
             bidden
             not
             to
             be
             frequent
             in
             one
             anothers
             Company
             ,
             and
             always
             to
             profess
             but
             small
             acquaintance
             one
             with
             the
             other
             ,
          
           &c.
           
        
         
           Now
           mark
           the
           UNEXAMPLED
           VILLANY
           of
           the
           SAVIOUR
           OF
           THE
           NATION
           he
           had
           discover'd
           the
           Plot
           (
           as
           his
           Preface
           tells
           you
           )
           on
           the
           13th
           .
           of
           August
           ,
           for
           the
           Preservation
           of
           the
           King
           and
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           and
           yet
           after
           that
           
             very
             day
          
           ,
           after
           his
           Return
           and
           Conversion
           ,
           from
           Treason
           and
           Plots
           to
           Honesty
           and
           Loyalty
           ,
           He
           is
           privy
           to
           four
           Bravoes
           ,
           Men
           of
           Quality
           and
           Resolution
           ,
           being
           from
           the
           21st
           of
           August
           to
           the
           7th
           of
           September
           at
           Winsor
           ,
           upon
           no
           less
           an
           expedition
           than
           
             cutting
             the
             Kings
             Throat
          
           ,
           without
           giving
           the
           King
           the
           least
           notice
           or
           hint
           of
           his
           Danger
           .
           Well
           ,
           let
           the
           Remarker
           and
           the
           Reflecter
           fall
           down
           and
           Worship
           our
           Salamanca
           Deliverer
           ;
           for
           hang
           me
           if
           I
           can
           .
           And
           tho
           some
           Fools
           in
           the
           World
           are
           pleased
           to
           mistake
           him
           for
           a
           King-saving
           Mordecái
           ;
           I
           profess
           I
           think
           the
           Character
           of
           a
           Haman
           and
           his
           preferment
           too
           would
           much
           better
           suit
           him
           .
        
         
           
             
             
               I
               Am
               afraid
               ,
               Reader
               ,
               I
               have
               already
               tired
               you
               with
               a
               Subject
               I
               my self
               am
               weary
               of
               ,
               a
               Reply
               to
               two
               such
               ridiculous
               Adversaries
               ,
               being
               a
               Quarrel
               not
               worth
               engaging
               in
               ,
               but
               only
               that
               the
               Whigs
               ,
               right
               or
               wrong
               ,
               are
               those
               Opiniated
               Fools
               both
               of
               their
               Scriblers
               and
               their
               Cause
               ,
               that
               to
               have
               kept
               silent
               had
               being
               giving
               them
               an
               occasion
               of
               Triumph
               :
               and
               the
               necessity
               of
               allaying
               that
               Vanity
               has
               given
               you
               this
               trouble
               .
               Thus
               far
               I
               have
               shewed
               you
               the
               extent
               of
               their
               
                 little
                 Reason
              
               ,
               and
               now
               I
               care
               not
               if
               I
               give
               you
               the
               Latitude
               of
               their
               larger
               CONSCIENCES
               .
               Amongst
               the
               numerous
               repeated
               Rasscals
               and
               Traitours
               they
               call
               me
               ,
               the
               Reflecter
               more
               particularly
               in
               (
               page
               the
               1st
               )
               tells
               you
               that
               in
               my
               Epistle
               ,
               
                 I
                 have
                 shew'd
                 my self
                 the
                 greatest
                 Villain
                 that
                 perhaps
                 has
                 been
                 upon
                 the
                 face
                 of
                 the
                 Earth
                 ,
                 in
                 that
                 spight
                 and
                 revenge
                 ,
                 and
                 those
                 accumulated
                 wrongs
                 against
                 a
                 Prince
                 of
                 such
                 Honor
                 and
                 Virtue
                 .
              
               But
               (
               page
               2d
               )
               he
               proceeds
               ,
               and
               says
               ,
               
                 when
                 I
                 wrote
                 the
                 Popish
                 Character
                 ,
                 did
                 not
                 that
                 sad
                 Juncture
                 threaten
                 the
                 Nation
                 with
                 a
                 direful
                 Revolution
                 ,
                 and
                 what
                 I
                 now
                 mask
                 under
                 my
                 private
                 Resentments
                 and
                 Revenge
                 ,
                 was
                 it
                 not
                 making
                 my
                 Court
                 to
                 a
                 party
                 whom
                 I
                 consider'd
                 as
                 the
                 Moneyd
                 part
                 of
                 the
                 Nation
                 ,
                 and
                 ready
                 inclined
                 to
                 reward
                 and
                 succor
                 all
                 those
                 who
                 had
                 sufficiency
                 and
                 probity
                 .
                 But
                 now
                 that
                 the
                 TIDE
                 is
                 turned
                 ,
                 that
                 all
                 the
                 Efforts
                 of
                 ZEALOUS
                 PATRIOTS
                 for
                 settling
                 the
                 Peace
                 ,
                 and
                 procuring
                 the
                 HAPPINES
                 of
                 their
                 Country
                 have
                 been
                 diverted
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 an
                 Inundation
                 of
                 TORISME
                 seems
                 to
                 threaten
                 the
                 whole
                 Land
                 ;
                 is
                 it
                 not
                 to
                 be
                 suspected
                 that
                 my
                 Recantation
                 and
                 Repentance
                 are
                 only
                 to
                 save
                 my
                 Bacon
                 ,
              
               &c.
               
               And
               again
               ,
               page
               4.
               
               
                 When
                 WHIGGISM
                 and
                 PROTESTANTISM
                 began
                 to
                 be
                 a
                 barrener
                 soil
                 than
              
               Pernassus
               ,
               
                 when
                 all
                 Evidence
                 and
                 proceedings
                 against
                 Popery
                 began
                 to
                 be
                 discredited
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 Papists
                 began
                 to
                 appear
                 again
                 in
                 such
                 shoals
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 crafty
                 Trimmers
                 of
                 the
                 party
                 thought
                 it
                 prudence
                 no
                 longer
                 to
                 oppose
                 the
                 Torrent
                 ,
                 then
                 Sir
                 Politick
              
               Elkanah
               
                 thought
                 fit
                 to
                 wheel
                 about
              
               .
            
             
               Here
               do
               but
               mark
               the
               Cloven-foot
               of
               my
               Accuser
               ,
               and
               see
               how
               impudently
               Vice
               corrects
               Sin
               ;
               For
               I
               desire
               but
               any
               honest
               unprejudiced
               Reader
               to
               scan
               but
               these
               Lines
               ,
               and
               find
               if
               they
               bear
               any
               other
               sense
               ,
               then
               that
               the
               very
               King
               is
               here
               maliciously
               and
               venomously
               accused
               for
               diverting
               the
               settlement
               of
               his
               Kingdoms
               peace
               and
               happiness
               ,
               and
               that
               by
               his
               Conduct
               of
               late
               years
               he
               has
               obstructed
               that
               Zeal
               ,
               and
               those
               very
               Patriots
               that
               were
               labouring
               to
               establish
               them
               ,
               and
               downright
               encouraged
               and
               promoted
               that
               INUNDATION
               that
               no
               less
               than
               THREATENS
               the
               Land.
               And
               now
               as
               I
               am
               so
               over
               and
               over
               accused
               for
               ridiculing
               the
               Justice
               of
               the
               Nation
               ,
               how
               much
               more
               visibly
               does
               this
               Impudent
               Scribler
               arraign
               both
               Judge
               and
               Jurors
               ,
               and
               by
               the
               
                 Evidence
                 against
                 Popery
                 being
                 so
                 discredited
              
               insinuate
               that
               
                 Wak
                 man
                 ,
                 Corker
                 ,
                 Kerney
                 ,
              
               and
               the
               rest
               acquitted
               by
               Law
               ,
               had
               not
               Justice
               ;
               and
               that
               the
               Testimonies
               of
               their
               Accusers
               ,
               though
               made
               up
               of
               nothing
               but
               
                 malice
                 ,
                 scandal
                 ,
                 Combination
              
               and
               Trechery
               ,
               was
               Oracle
               and
               Gospel
               .
               Nay
               ,
               he
               strikes
               at
               the
               very
               Government
               it self
               ,
               and
               by
               the
               
                 Barrenness
                 of
                 the
                 Protestant
                 Soil
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 Shoals
                 and
                 Torrents
                 of
                 Papists
                 ,
              
               would
               make
               the
               world
               believe
               that
               the
               Church
               of
               England
               is
               undermining
               ,
               and
               Rome
               a
               setting
               up
               .
               Now
               what
               this
               nameless
               fellow
               is
               ,
               that
               dares
               write
               this
               ,
               I
               know
               not
               ,
               but
               the
               Soul
               of
               a
               Ferguzon
               could
               have
               said
               no
               more
               .
               And
               if
               a
               Man
               would
               learn
               who
               this
               Scribler
               is
               ,
               't
               is
               ten
               to
               one
               the
               unknown
               Authors
               name
               may
               never
               come
               to
               light
               ,
               'till
               we
               see
               it
               in
               a
               Proclamation
               .
            
             
               And
               now
               to
               shew
               you
               that
               these
               two
               Authors
               ,
               like
               the
               unclean
               Beasts
               in
               the
               Ark
               ,
               go
               paird
               ,
               they
               are
               as
               well
               matcht
               in
               their
               principles
               as
               Satan
               could
               wish
               .
            
             
               For
               instance
               ,
               the
               Remarker
               (
               page
               the
               
                 6th
                 .
              
               )
               tells
               you
               ,
               
                 That
                 I
                 was
                 the
                 Author
                 of
                 that
                 damnable
                 Lampoon
                 call'd
              
               a
               Game
               at
               Cards
               ,
               
                 presented
                 inconsiderately
                 by
              
               Joshuah
               Bows
               
                 to
                 Mr.
              
               Duboys
               ,
               
                 which
                 brought
                 him
                 to
                 the
                 Pillory
                 and
                 Banishment
                 :
                 and
                 no
                 doubt
                 't
                 was
                 the
                 hard
                 Fate
                 of
                 my
                 Friend
                 that
                 frighted
                 me
                 into
                 my
                 Conversion
                 .
              
            
             
               And
               yet
               this
               very
               Remarker
               with
               all
               the
               Bitterness
               and
               Gall
               that
               Rage
               and
               Malice
               can
               infuse
               ,
               brands
               and
               stigmatizes
               my
               begging
               of
               pardon
               for
               all
               my
               faults
               whatever
               ,
               with
               no
               milder
               terms
               
                 than
                 a
                 villanous
                 Rascally
                 Recantation
                 ,
                 a
                 Recantation
                 
                 in
                 the
                 Devil's
                 name
                 ,
                 &c.
                 
              
               And
               what
               's
               all
               this
               ,
               put
               it
               together
               ,
               (
               supposing
               me
               the
               Author
               of
               that
               Damnable
               Libel
               ,
               )
               but
               that
               I
               am
               a
               Villain
               ,
               a
               Rascal
               ,
               a
               Devil
               for
               repenting
               and
               Recanting
               even
               from
               Crimes
               of
               so
               black
               a
               Dye
               ,
               from
               those
               very
               Lyes
               and
               Libels
               ,
               the
               dispersing
               but
               of
               which
               
                 Imprisoned
                 ,
                 Fined
                 ,
                 Pilloryed
              
               and
               Transported
               the
               very
               publisher
               ,
               (
               much
               more
               the
               Author
               deserved
               .
               )
               Good
               Heaven
               !
               How
               Black
               a
               Sin
               is
               Repentance
               in
               a
               true
               Blue
               Protestant
               :
               and
               how
               heavy
               a
               Guilt
               is
               such
               a
               Recantation
               in
               the
               scales
               of
               a
               Remarkers
               Conscience
               ?
            
             
               But
               having
               started
               that
               unfortunate
               Fellow
               Bows
               his
               Case
               ;
               I
               care
               not
               if
               I
               give
               the
               World
               the
               odd
               but
               true
               story
               of
               his
               hard
               Fortune
               .
               The
               Man
               in
               the
               first
               place
               ,
               was
               one
               of
               the
               most
               vehement
               Whiggs
               in
               his
               little
               capacity
               that
               perhaps
               was
               in
               England
               ,
               and
               as
               little
               for
               Succession
               or
               Gospel
               in
               the
               
                 Right
                 Line
              
               ,
               as
               the
               Brotherhood
               could
               desire
               him
               ;
               nay
               has
               as
               often
               and
               as
               devoutly
               paid
               his
               Orizons
               and
               Adorations
               SO-HO
               -
               Wards
               ,
               as
               any
               Man
               I
               know
               :
               Insomuch
               that
               whatever
               his
               sufferings
               have
               been
               in
               their
               Cause
               ,
               maugre
               his
               particular
               Resentments
               against
               Mr.
               Duboys
               ,
               the
               whole
               party
               are
               still
               his
               Demi-gods
               ,
               (
               unless
               the
               NEW-MARKET
               EXPEDITION
               when
               it
               shall
               reach
               his
               ears
               may
               convert
               him
               .
               )
               This
               poor
               Man
               having
               Poetry
               enough
               to
               reach
               to
               a
               Sonnet
               ,
               or
               an
               Epithalamium
               ,
               and
               being
               likewise
               possibly
               one
               of
               the
               best
               Scribes
               in
               the
               Kingdom
               ,
               in
               Gold
               ,
               Silver
               ,
               Vermillion
               Letters
               ,
               with
               Flowers
               ,
               Birds
               ,
               Beasts
               ,
               and
               other
               ornamental
               flourishes
               of
               the
               Pen
               ,
               fit
               to
               please
               Women
               ;
               he
               got
               his
               Bread
               by
               presenting
               Ladies
               and
               Persons
               of
               Quality
               with
               gay
               Copies
               of
               Verses
               in
               this
               kind
               .
               But
               one
               time
               above
               the
               rest
               ,
               (
               as
               he
               did
               not
               always
               traffick
               in
               his
               own
               Manufacture
               )
               it
               happened
               he
               pickt
               up
               a
               Whiggish
               Lampoon
               ,
               a
               little
               too
               rank
               as
               it
               fell
               out
               ,
               of
               which
               possibly
               twenty
               Copies
               had
               been
               disperst
               without
               noise
               or
               danger
               at
               Peters
               and
               Dicks
               ,
               and
               that
               quarter
               of
               the
               Town
               .
               These
               (
               as
               thinking
               them
               acceptable
               )
               he
               sent
               to
               the
               worthy
               Mr.
               Duboys
               ,
               and
               a
               day
               or
               two
               after
               ,
               went
               to
               ask
               if
               he
               had
               received
               them
               ,
               in
               hopes
               of
               a
               gratuity
               of
               five
               or
               ten
               shillings
               for
               them
               .
               But
               instead
               of
               that
               ,
               he
               was
               immediately
               seiz'd
               for
               a
               Jesuit
               .
               A
               new
               Meal-tub
               Plot
               was
               discover'd
               ;
               Treasonable
               POPISH
               Papers
               were
               shamm'd
               into
               Mr.
               Duboys
               his
               Hand
               ,
               some
               say
               into
               his
               Sleeve
               ,
               and
               others
               into
               his
               Pocket
               ;
               and
               all
               (
               God
               wot
               )
               to
               betray
               him
               ,
               and
               bring
               him
               into
               a
               Plot.
               Besides
               a
               Copy
               or
               two
               of
               his
               own
               
                 harmless
                 Rhimes
              
               ,
               beautified
               with
               the
               forementioned
               Ornaments
               ,
               and
               the
               Verses
               Damnd
               unfortunately
               writ
               in
               
                 Red
                 Ink
              
               ,
               design'd
               for
               some
               City
               present
               ,
               were
               found
               about
               him
               :
               and
               those
               were
               no
               sooner
               spied
               ,
               but
               all
               was
               confirm'd
               :
               The
               Conspiracy
               was
               made
               as
               apparent
               as
               the
               Sun
               :
               He
               was
               an
               Emissary
               from
               the
               POPE
               ,
               that
               is
               plain
               ,
               for
               he
               had
               Papers
               found
               writ
               in
               BLOOD
               ,
               and
               Contracts
               with
               the
               DEVIL
               .
               This
               Alarum
               ran
               through
               the
               City
               immediatly
               ;
               Captain
               Toms
               Plot
               for
               Burning
               of
               Rumps
               and
               Listing
               of
               Apprentices
               was
               not
               half
               so
               FORMIDABLE
               .
            
             
               The
               poor
               Man
               used
               his
               utmost
               Endeavor
               to
               pacifye
               and
               convince
               his
               Accuser
               both
               of
               his
               Innocence
               and
               his
               Principles
               :
               but
               Faith
               was
               strong
               ,
               and
               Dudgeen
               was
               high
               ,
               and
               All
               would
               not
               do
               .
               The
               Papers
               were
               Popish
               ,
               the
               Messenger
               Popish
               ,
               the
               Delivery
               Popish
               ,
               and
               
                 Plot
                 Plot
              
               ,
               nothing
               but
               Plot
               at
               the
               bottom
               of
               it
               ;
               whilst
               Truth
               and
               Sense
               were
               either
               not
               understood
               or
               not
               believed
               .
               And
               tho
               he
               made
               a
               shift
               to
               get
               off
               at
               present
               by
               Bail
               ,
               yet
               he
               was
               retaken
               again
               ,
               stood
               thrice
               in
               the
               Pillory
               ,
               and
               though
               his
               Papers
               deserved
               all
               this
               ,
               and
               worse
               ;
               yet
               see
               the
               Oddness
               of
               the
               Thing
               ;
               to
               one
               half
               of
               the
               City
               he
               was
               himself
               viz.
               a
               
                 rank
                 Whig
              
               ;
               to
               the
               other
               ,
               a
               notorious
               Priest
               and
               Jesuit
               :
               in
               one
               place
               his
               Papers
               were
               Fanatick
               in
               another
               Popish
               ;
               insomuch
               that
               he
               came
               to
               his
               Wooden
               Casement
               unpittyed
               by
               All
               Men
               ,
               and
               stood
               the
               Battery
               of
               Rotten
               Eggs
               ;
               and
               other
               Flying
               Artillery
               even
               from
               All
               Hands
               .
               Nay
               ,
               the
               Delivery
               of
               his
               Lampoons
               came
               with
               such
               a
               
                 Plot
                 Thunder-clap
              
               upon
               the
               Brethren
               ,
               that
               it
               has
               addled
               their
               understandings
               ever
               since
               ,
               and
               the
               rumbling
               of
               it
               is
               not
               out
               of
               their
               Heads
               yet
               .
               But
               alas
               ,
               Popery
               and
               Jesuites
               do
               all
               things
               ;
               and
               poor
               little
               Joshuah
               by
               the
               true
               blew
               Protestant
               Opticks
               ,
               like
               a
               Flea
               in
               a
               Magnifying-glass
               ,
               was
               instantly
               transform'd
               into
               that
               
                 Huge
                 ,
                 Black
                 Popish
              
               Devil
               ,
               as
               nothing
               more
               terrible
               :
               Nay
               ,
               had
               this
               business
               happened
               in
               79.
               
               I
               fancy
               the
               Lobby
               ,
               and
               all
               the
               great
               Buildings
               round
               it
               ,
               would
               have
               been
               scarce
               able
               to
               have
               held
               it
               .
            
             
             
               But
               to
               return
               from
               this
               Digression
               ,
               nothing
               gives
               my
               Antagonists
               so
               great
               a
               Disgust
               ,
               as
               that
               my
               Aldersgate-street
               Patron
               should
               make
               some
               correction
               in
               the
               Character
               of
               a
               Popish
               Successor
               ,
               and
               for
               amendment
               
                 bid
                 the
                 Author
                 speak
                 more
                 favorably
                 of
                 Rebellion
                 ,
              
               to
               which
               says
               the
               Reflecter
               ,
               
                 how
                 can
                 Mr.
              
               Settle
               
                 think
                 to
                 impose
                 ,
                 and
                 make
                 the
                 World
                 believe
                 that
                 ever
                 the
                 Patron
                 he
                 mentions
                 should
                 make
                 such
                 a
                 blunder
                 in
                 Politicks
                 as
                 to
                 send
                 this
                 Worshipful
                 Author
                 a
                 Message
                 of
                 this
                 Nature
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 too
                 to
                 a
                 Poet
                 and
                 a
                 professd
                 one
                 ,
                 People
                 not
                 much
                 admired
                 in
                 this
                 Age
                 for
                 Continency
                 ,
                 or
                 Fidelity
                 ,
              
               &c.
               
            
             
               That
               this
               very
               Patron
               did
               make
               this
               Correction
               ,
               and
               in
               these
               very
               Words
               ,
               the
               Friend
               I
               intrusted
               to
               carry
               it
               to
               him
               is
               ready
               to
               Attest
               ,
               (
               tho
               indeed
               he
               did
               not
               then
               know
               the
               Author
               ,
               for
               that
               I
               conceal'd
               till
               the
               Book
               was
               publisht
               )
               and
               upon
               that
               very
               Correction
               of
               his
               ,
               I
               alter'd
               the
               latter
               end
               of
               the
               Character
               and
               wrote
               all
               those
               Paragraphs
               in
               it
               ,
               against
               PASSIVE
               OBEDIENCE
               and
               in
               Justification
               of
               
                 taking
                 up
                 Arms
              
               against
               a
               
                 Popish
                 Successor
              
               ,
               which
               when
               I
               had
               finisht
               I
               sent
               him
               the
               Copy
               again
               ,
               and
               he
               approved
               of
               the
               Amendments
               .
               I
               know
               not
               why
               the
               Adorers
               of
               that
               great
               Man
               should
               so
               extravagantly
               Deifye
               him
               ,
               as
               to
               make
               him
               guilty
               of
               no
               one
               humane
               failing
               ,
               not
               one
               
                 Lapsus
                 Linguae
              
               in
               so
               many
               Years
               of
               Gall
               and
               Bitterness
               .
               Surely
               one
               bold
               Word
               or
               two
               ,
               might
               now
               and
               then
               drop
               from
               so
               bold
               a
               Patriot
               ,
               and
               so
               angry
               a
               state
               Pilot.
               I
               remember
               a
               good
               Friend
               of
               mine
               .
               Mr.
               Coke
               Barrister
               ,
               the
               Translator
               of
               
                 Magna
                 Charta
              
               ,
               told
               me
               that
               once
               upon
               discourse
               between
               him
               and
               the
               Right
               Honorable
               Anthony
               Earl
               of
               Shaftesbury
               ,
               he
               asked
               the
               said
               Noble
               Peer
               ,
               why
               he
               advised
               the
               King
               to
               shut
               up
               the
               Exchequer
               ,
               to
               which
               the
               Worthy
               Earl
               made
               Answer
               
                 to
                 make
                 him
                 Odious
                 to
                 his
                 People
                 .
              
               So
               that
               as
               I
               said
               before
               ,
               a
               bold
               Word
               has
               now
               and
               then
               fallen
               from
               the
               Lips
               of
               that
               true
               Protestant
               Oracle
               .
               Now
               ,
               I
               hope
               my
               good
               Friend
               Mr.
               Coke
               has
               so
               much
               Honor
               and
               Honesty
               as
               not
               to
               deny
               his
               own
               words
               :
               But
               if
               he
               wronged
               the
               Honorable
               Lord
               in
               this
               story
               of
               him
               ,
               it
               behoves
               him
               to
               do
               Justice
               to
               his
               Memory
               ,
               and
               publickly
               own
               his
               Repentance
               for
               so
               black
               an
               Aspersion
               against
               so
               great
               a
               Personage
               .
               I
               ,
               but
               I
               am
               a
               very
               Impudent
               Fellow
               says
               the
               Remarker
               ,
               for
               saving
               in
               my
               Preface
               that
               the
               Plot
               writ
               the
               Association
               ,
               for
               (
               continues
               he
               )
               if
               I
               mean
               the
               pretended
               Association
               't
               was
               a
               Bastard
               &c.
               
               Faith
               ,
               I
               'll
               not
               say
               much
               to
               that
               ,
               but
               if
               't
               was
               a
               Bastard
               't
               was
               so
               much
               the
               nearer
               of
               Complexion
               to
               the
               great
               Son
               of
               Thunder
               that
               was
               to
               head
               it
               .
               But
               says
               the
               Reflecter
               ,
               Settle
               tells
               us
               in
               his
               Preface
               ,
               that
               he
               now
               dares
               look
               Sense
               and
               Quality
               in
               the
               Face
               ,
               intimating
               at
               the
               same
               time
               that
               it
               is
               what
               the
               Whigs
               dare
               not
               :
               whereas
               't
               is
               well
               known
               ,
               there
               be
               those
               who
               are
               call'd
               Whigs
               ,
               who
               dare
               nose
               both
               Sense
               and
               Quality
               ,
               and
               defye
               the
               Courage
               as
               well
               as
               the
               Arts
               and
               Machinations
               of
               their
               Enemies
               .
               Now
               if
               this
               Fellow
               would
               make
               his
               words
               true
               ,
               he
               might
               do
               himself
               and
               the
               Nation
               no
               small
               kindness
               ,
               nay
               ,
               instead
               of
               their
               nosing
               of
               Quality
               ,
               could
               he
               make
               them
               but
               Face
               Day-light
               ,
               that
               WHIGGISM
               and
               TREASON
               might
               receive
               their
               Reward
               ,
               and
               the
               Ungratefullest
               of
               Subjects
               and
               most
               Unnatural
               of
               ●ons
               ,
               the
               late
               Head
               of
               a
               most
               Infamous
               Band
               of
               Ra●i●acs
               might
               be
               exposed
               to
               the
               Abhorring
               World
               ,
               and
               show
               the
               Misled
               and
               Deluded
               Rabble
               what
               IDOL
               't
               is
               they
               have
               so
               long
               Adored
               .
            
             
               These
               two
               Insipid
               Animals
               ,
               after
               the
               greatest
               Efforts
               against
               my
               Narrative
               ,
               that
               two
               such
               Champions
               in
               such
               a
               Cause
               could
               make
               ,
               being
               con●cious
               no
               doubt
               of
               the
               weak
               Batteries
               they
               have
               rais'd
               against
               it
               ,
               have
               endeavored
               to
               help
               out
               their
               stingless
               Remarks
               ,
               and
               Reflections
               ,
               by
               blasting
               my
               Reputation
               by
               the
               most
               
                 Audacious
                 Abominable
              
               Lyes
               ,
               that
               ever
               the
               Devil
               the
               Father
               of
               Lyes
               could
               have
               forged
               .
               An
               Instance
               of
               which
               we
               have
               in
               the
               6th
               page
               of
               the
               Remarks
               as
               follows
               .
            
             
               
                 This
                 is
                 not
                 the
                 first
                 Recantation
                 that
              
               Settle
               
                 has
                 made
                 sometimes
                 out
                 of
                 fear
                 and
                 sometimes
                 out
                 of
                 necessity
                 .
                 He
                 has
                 twice
                 given
                 it
                 under
                 his
                 hand
                 ,
                 that
                 his
                 Mother
                 was
                 a
                 Whore
                 ;
                 once
                 to
                 Mr.
                 〈◊〉
                 as
                 finding
                 himself
                 not
                 prepared
                 to
                 dye
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 Another
                 time
                 there
                 was
                 a
                 certain
                 Gentle-woman
                 that
                 he
                 would
                 have
                 Marryed
                 ,
                 but
                 she
                 well
                 understanding
                 that
                 four
                 naked
                 Legs
                 in
                 a
                 Bed
                 ,
                 are
                 not
                 sufficient
                 to
                 maintain
                 a
                 Family
                 ,
                 rejected
                 his
                 Suit
                 ,
                 which
                 so
                 provoked
                 his
                 Lust
                 of
                 Revenge
                 ,
                 that
                 he
                 came
                 and
                 br●ke
                 her
                 Windows
                 ,
                 resolving
                 to
                 set
                 a
                 Bowdy-house
                 Mark
                 on
                 her
                 Lodgings
                 .
                 Presently
                 the
                 Gentlewoman
                 complained
                 of
                 his
                 ill
                 Usage
                 to
                 a
                 Friend
                 ,
                 who
                 soon
                 called
                 the
                 Valiant
                 Window-breaker
                 to
                 an
                 account
                 ,
                 and
                 gave
                 him
                 so
                 severe
                 a
                 Cane
                 Correction
                 ,
                 that
                 Mr.
              
               Settle
               
               
                 fell
                 immediatly
                 into
                 his
                 never
                 failing
                 way
                 of
                 Recantation
                 ,
                 and
                 amongst
                 the
                 rest
                 of
                 the
                 Conditions
                 proposed
                 to
                 him
                 ,
                 readily
                 ,
                 patiently
                 ,
                 and
                 willingly
                 condescended
                 to
                 acknowledge
                 himself
                 the
                 ●●n
                 of
                 a
                 Whore.
                 
              
            
             
               The
               first
               of
               ●●ese
               Villanous
               Forgeries
               is
               taken
               out
               of
               a
               certain
               inveterate
               Filthy
               Libel
               against
               me
               ,
               called
               the
               
                 Character
                 of
                 a
                 true
                 Blue
                 Protestant
                 Poet
                 ,
              
               where
               amongst
               the
               Impudent
               Lyes
               and
               Detraction
               that
               fills
               that
               Paper
               ,
               I
               was
               accused
               of
               being
               the
               Author
               of
               a
               Scandalous
               Copy
               of
               Verses
               call'd
               the
               
                 Sessions
                 of
                 the
                 Poets
              
               ,
               an
               ill-natured
               scurrilous
               Lampoon
               ,
               written
               some
               years
               since
               ,
               and
               now
               laid
               as
               believed
               at
               the
               Fathers
               Door
               ,
               being
               Printed
               amongst
               the
               Lord
               Rs.
               —
               Poems
               .
               Amongst
               the
               other
               Extravagancies
               in
               that
               Base
               and
               Malicious
               Libel
               against
               me
               .
               It
               was
               said
               that
               I
               gave
               it
               under
               my
               Hand
               to
               Mr.
               O
               —
               a
               Gentleman
               highly
               wronged
               and
               affronted
               in
               that
               Paper
               of
               Verses
               ,
               that
               
                 I
                 was
                 the
                 Author
                 of
                 that
                 Sessions
                 of
                 Poets
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 for
                 which
                 I
                 was
                 the
                 Son
                 of
                 a
                 Whore.
                 
              
            
             
               Which
               is
               so
               damnable
               a
               Falshood
               ,
               and
               so
               publickly
               known
               to
               be
               so
               too
               ,
               that
               on
               the
               quite
               contrary
               I
               disown'd
               and
               abjured
               the
               writing
               so
               much
               as
               one
               Syllable
               of
               it
               :
               and
               to
               vindicate
               my self
               from
               the
               scandal
               of
               such
               a
               Lampoon
               ,
               at
               that
               time
               so
               unjustly
               and
               so
               universally
               laid
               at
               my
               Door
               ,
               and
               so
               much
               to
               my
               disreputation
               ,
               if
               to
               clear
               my self
               by
               no
               less
               a
               Potestation
               then
               that
               
                 I
                 was
                 the
                 Son
                 of
                 a
                 Whore
                 if
                 I
                 wrote
                 one
                 word
                 of
                 it
                 ,
              
               when
               indeed
               I
               
                 did
                 not
              
               write
               one
               word
               of
               it
               ,
               be
               calling
               a
               Mothers
               Honesty
               into
               Question
               ,
               let
               the
               World
               Judge
               .
            
             
               But
               for
               the
               Gentlewoman
               ,
               the
               Window
               breaking
               ,
               and
               the
               Cane
               Correction
               story
               ,
               and
               the
               second
               part
               of
               Son
               of
               Whore
               ,
               that
               ,
               all
               such
               pure
               Invention
               ,
               such
               unparrallell'd
               Romance
               as
               was
               scarce
               ever
               matcht
               .
               But
               to
               confute
               the
               Brazen
               Impudence
               of
               this
               Villanous
               Libeller
               :
               I
               make
               this
               Challenge
               to
               the
               World
               if
               ever
               I
               broke
               a
               Window
               in
               my
               whole
               Life
               ,
               and
               as
               my
               good
               Fortune
               would
               have
               it
               ,
               was
               ever
               so
               much
               as
               in
               that
               Company
               that
               broke
               Windows
               ,
               (
               as
               Debaucht
               as
               the
               Remarks
               or
               Reflections
               have
               render'd
               me
               ;
               )
               or
               if
               any
               Body
               can
               prove
               there
               is
               or
               
                 has
                 been
              
               that
               Man
               in
               the
               World
               that
               ever
               corrected
               me
               as
               he
               calls
               it
               or
               strook
               me
               with
               
                 Cane
                 Staff
              
               or
               Cudgel
               for
               above
               two
               Seaven
               Years
               last
               past
               ,
               (
               for
               my
               School-Boys
               days
               I
               le
               not
               answer
               )
               I
               do
               here
               submit
               to
               own
               my self
               the
               burner
               of
               London
               ,
               the
               Murderer
               of
               Sir
               Edmond
               ,
               or
               the
               greatest
               Criminal
               or
               Traytor
               in
               Europe
               witness
               my
               hand
               ,
            
             
               
                 Elkanah
                 Settle
                 .
              
            
          
        
         
           Another
           as
           Lying
           a
           story
           I
           meet
           in
           the
           Reflections
           pag.
           5th
           .
           Reflect
           :
           
             To
             show
             you
             that
             Interest
             is
             the
             main
             Spring
             of
             this
             Mans
             Affections
             ,
             that
             he
             hates
             and
             Loves
             only
             according
             to
             its
             Dictates
             ,
             that
             he
             squares
             Mens
             Virtues
             and
             Vices
             according
             to
             its
             Measures
             ,
             and
             can
             be
             fond
             of
             ,
             and
             detest
             in
             a
             Moment
             the
             same
             Persons
             sutably
             as
             they
             contribute
             to
             ,
             and
             jump
             with
             his
             Designs
             .
             This
             Man
             having
             a
             Book
             to
             present
             to
             one
             of
             his
             Patrons
             ,
             he
             prevailed
             with
             his
             Book-seller
             to
             go
             with
             it
             ,
             dawbing
             this
             Patron
             to
             him
             at
             a
             high
             rate
             ,
             extolling
             his
             Wisdom
             ,
             Benignity
             of
             Temper
             ,
             and
             Generosity
             ,
          
           &c.
           
           
             Whereupon
             the
             Book-seller
             trooped
             with
             the
             offering
             to
             the
             Lord
             ;
             but
             coming
             back
             with
             Disappointments
             in
             his
             Countenance
             ,
             and
             telling
             Mr.
          
           Settle
           
             that
             he
             had
             delivered
             his
             Book
             ,
             but
             that
             the
             Lord
             had
             return'd
             no
             other
             thanks
             than
             what
             consisted
             in
             words
             ,
             he
             began
             to
             curse
             and
             damn
             the
             Sordidness
             of
             his
             Patron
             ,
             wished
             he
             had
             been
             in
             Hell
             ,
             when
             the
             thought
             came
             into
             his
             Head
             of
             making
             him
             that
             Oblation
             ,
             Vomiting
             out
             all
             the
             Imprecations
          
           &c.
           
             until
             the
             Book-seller
             to
             direct
             this
             Torrent
             of
             Rage
             ,
             shewed
             him
             some
             few
             Guinneys
             ,
             which
             his
             Patron
             had
             sent
             him
             as
             a
             present
             :
             and
             then
             to
             see
             the
             wonderful
             Effect
             ,
             that
             that
             Metal
             has
             upon
             Mr.
          
           Settles
           
             Intellectuals
             ,
             he
             immediatly
             saw
             that
             good
             Lord
             again
             through
             quite
             different
             Opticks
             ,
             and
             found
             in
             him
             a
             1000
             more
             fine
             Qualities
             then
             he
             had
             ever
             done
             before
             .
          
        
         
           Just
           such
           another
           piece
           of
           Forgery
           is
           this
           with
           the
           former
           ;
           and
           to
           prove
           so
           :
           All
           the
           Books
           I
           ever
           wrote
           ,
           except
           the
           Popish
           Character
           ,
           were
           Printed
           by
           one
           Book-seller
           ,
           who
           is
           ready
           to
           make
           Oath
           ,
           that
           there
           is
           not
           one
           Syllable
           of
           Truth
           in
           all
           this
           story
           ,
           and
           that
           he
           never
           delivered
           any
           such
           Book
           or
           Books
           for
           me
           ,
           or
           ever
           received
           Guinneys
           or
           Guinney
           for
           me
           from
           any
           Patron
           or
           Lord
           whatever
           .
        
         
           But
           truly
           ,
           of
           all
           Mankind
           I
           have
           the
           lest
           Reason
           to
           admire
           or
           complain
           at
           this
           Usage
           ,
           when
           I
           consider
           that
           nothing
           but
           Malice
           makes
           a
           Whig
           ,
           and
           nothing
           but
           
           Lyes
           and
           Rancor
           are
           the
           Spawn
           of
           Malice
           .
           And
           when
           I
           reflect
           on
           my
           own
           past
           Sins
           ,
           I
           acknowledge
           I
           am
           but
           punisht
           in
           my
           kind
           ;
           and
           all
           this
           ,
           and
           ten
           times
           worse
           I
           have
           justly
           deserved
           ;
           and
           tho
           with
           all
           the
           deepest
           sense
           and
           hum●●
           Contrition
           for
           my
           Offences
           ,
           I
           shall
           never
           think
           I
           have
           made
           any
           part
           of
           an
           Expiation
           till
           the
           whole
           Study
           of
           my
           Life
           and
           the
           Endeavors
           of
           my
           Pen
           are
           entirely
           employed
           in
           the
           Service
           of
           those
           Royal
           Brothers
           ,
           whose
           least
           Beam
           of
           their
           so
           highly
           forfeited
           Mercy
           can
           never
           be
           recovered
           under
           a
           less
           Attonement
           Sacrifice
           .
        
         
           There
           is
           one
           Pen
           more
           drawn
           against
           me
           ,
           call'd
           a
           
             Letter
             to
             E.
             Settle
          
           ;
           Printed
           by
           
             Nat.
             Thompson
          
           .
           The
           Writer
           whereof
           has
           no
           Quarrel
           against
           my
           Narrative
           ,
           but
           the
           Author
           ;
           and
           seems
           to
           suspect
           not
           only
           the
           Truth
           of
           my
           Penitence
           ,
           but
           also
           of
           my
           Confession
           ,
           and
           that
           there
           still
           lyes
           some
           undiscovered
           
             Anguis
             in
             Herbâ
          
           in
           the
           Breast
           of
           so
           high
           an
           Offender
           .
           He
           very
           much
           doubts
           whether
           those
           Motives
           exprest
           in
           my
           Preface
           were
           the
           true
           Incendiaries
           to
           so
           inveterate
           a
           Pen
           as
           mine
           ;
           and
           believing
           that
           an
           Author
           so
           eminently
           serviceable
           to
           those
           false
           Patriots
           ,
           that
           always
           make
           Religion
           and
           Liberty
           the
           specious
           pretences
           to
           mask
           the
           Blackest
           and
           Foulest
           Purposes
           ,
           he
           seems
           to
           be
           very
           confident
           I
           must
           be
           trusted
           in
           their
           Intrigues
           and
           Cabals
           :
           and
           thereupon
           has
           put
           me
           a
           whole
           Roll
           of
           Quaraees
           to
           Answer
           .
           To
           which
           Book
           I
           can
           only
           make
           this
           short
           Reply
           .
           In
           that
           Confession
           made
           in
           my
           Preface
           ,
           I
           have
           given
           the
           World
           the
           whole
           Truth
           of
           my
           Soul.
           And
           tho
           my
           unhappy
           Resentments
           for
           having
           a
           Play
           remanded
           to
           the
           Dukes
           Theatre
           ,
           may
           appear
           a
           very
           idle
           Provocation
           for
           so
           implacable
           a
           spight
           and
           revenge
           as
           mine
           ;
           yet
           as
           that
           Command
           was
           occasionally
           the
           Ruine
           of
           my
           well
           being
           in
           the
           World
           ,
           the
           Circumstances
           of
           which
           are
           too
           tedious
           to
           recite
           ,
           from
           that
           very
           Cause
           (
           tho
           never
           so
           unjust
           and
           unchristian
           a
           one
           )
           I
           drew
           in
           that
           Poyson
           and
           Virulence
           against
           the
           Son
           of
           a
           King
           and
           a
           Martyr
           ,
           the
           Greatest
           of
           Heroes
           ,
           and
           the
           best
           of
           Friends
           and
           Brothers
           .
           But
           as
           my
           soul
           ,
           too
           much
           loaded
           already
           ,
           has
           no
           farther
           Sins
           to
           answer
           for
           ;
           I
           am
           so
           wholy
           uncapable
           of
           solving
           this
           Gentlemans
           Queries
           ;
           that
           Ignorance
           and
           Innocence
           is
           all
           the
           Plea
           I
           can
           make
           ,
           I
           being
           so
           far
           from
           a
           
             Confident
             ,
             Caballer
          
           ,
           or
           indeed
           Company-keeper
           with
           those
           Antimonarchical
           Matchevils
           ,
           that
           I
           can
           safely
           Swear
           ,
           I
           never
           so
           much
           as
           drank
           at
           the
           
             Kings-head
             Club
          
           ;
           excepting
           on
           a
           publick
           Queen
           Elizabeths
           Night
           :
           Perhaps
           the
           
             Voluntary
             Tribute
          
           I
           brought
           them
           made
           me
           esteemd
           a
           
             Profitable
             Servant
          
           enough
           ,
           without
           exacting
           any
           farther
           Task
           from
           my
           Hands
           ;
           or
           otherwise
           ,
           they
           might
           be
           those
           skillful
           Physiognomists
           that
           they
           could
           read
           Souls
           ,
           and
           found
           me
           so
           uncapable
           even
           of
           a
           Thought
           against
           my
           King
           ,
           that
           in
           Prudence
           and
           Safety
           ,
           they
           made
           their
           Machinations
           against
           the
           Crown
           ,
           those
           Secrets
           that
           were
           to
           be
           laid
           out
           of
           my
           reach
           ;
           for
           I
           declare
           in
           the
           presence
           of
           God
           ,
           I
           know
           no
           more
           by
           them
           ,
           then
           that
           the
           
             Bill
             of
             Exclusion
          
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           Parliamentary
           Projections
           for
           Liberty
           and
           Religion
           were
           the
           utmost
           end
           they
           drove
           at
           .
           And
           if
           I
           have
           belyed
           my
           Conscience
           in
           this
           Protestation
           ,
           and
           am
           any
           wise
           Guilty
           of
           those
           Crimes
           ,
           that
           the
           Letter-writer
           suspects
           ,
           there
           is
           now
           that
           Justice
           wakened
           ,
           that
           would
           soon
           o'retake
           me
           .
           For
           thanks
           be
           to
           Heaven
           ,
           the
           Great
           Mystery
           of
           Iniquity
           begins
           to
           be
           unfolded
           ,
           and
           the
           detection
           of
           this
           last
           TRULY
           Damnable
           and
           Hellish
           Plot
           ,
           begins
           to
           set
           the
           
             Staggering
             World
          
           upright
           again
           :
           a
           Plot
           not
           discovered
           by
           the
           Rakings
           of
           Jails
           ,
           and
           Scumm
           of
           Mankind
           ;
           but
           by
           Clouds
           of
           Witnesss
           of
           Substance
           and
           Quality
           :
           A
           Plot
           ,
           not
           universally
           denyed
           with
           Vows
           ,
           Oaths
           ,
           and
           Imprecations
           even
           at
           Gibbets
           and
           Death
           ;
           but
           confest
           in
           Jails
           with
           Horror
           and
           Trembling
           .
           A
           Plot
           ,
           that
           I
           hope
           will
           so
           fully
           restore
           those
           Senses
           that
           Delusion
           and
           Frenzy
           have
           so
           long
           set
           a
           wandring
           ,
           that
           Union
           and
           Loyalty
           shall
           so
           perfectly
           Flourish
           again
           ,
           till
           the
           Hearts
           of
           his
           People
           and
           Parliaments
           so
           intirely
           return
           to
           the
           best
           of
           Men
           &
           Kings
           ,
           that
           they
           shall
           meet
           him
           with
           no
           less
           Caresses
           and
           Endearments
           then
           those
           at
           his
           Restoration
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         
           ADVERTISEMENT
           .
        
         
           
             Whereas
             Mr.
          
           Care
           
             in
             one
             of
             his
             Courants
             ,
             has
             said
             that
             Mr.
          
           Cademan
           
             durst
             not
             Print
             my
             Narrative
             till
             it
             had
             Mr.
          
           L'Estranges
           
             Blessing
             ,
             these
             are
             to
             signifye
             't
             is
             wholy
             False
             ,
             for
             tho
             't
             is
             true
             ,
             Mr.
          
           L'Estrange
           
             read
             some
             part
             of
             it
             ,
             yet
             on
             the
             other-side
             he
             advised
             and
             Councelled
             Mr.
          
           Cademan
           
             by
             no
             means
             to
             venture
             to
             Print
             it
             .
          
        
         
           FINIS
           .