A letter to the Right Honourable Sir John Holt, Kt. Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench; occasioned by the noise of a plot
         Letter to the Right Honourable, my Lord Chief Justice Holt, occasioned by the noise of a plot.
         Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714.
      
       
         
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             A letter to the Right Honourable Sir John Holt, Kt. Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench; occasioned by the noise of a plot
             Letter to the Right Honourable, my Lord Chief Justice Holt, occasioned by the noise of a plot.
             Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714.
          
           
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           A
           LETTER
           TO
           THE
           Right
           Honourable
           Sir
           JOHN
           HOLT
           ,
           Kt.
           Lord
           Chief
           Justice
           of
           the
           Kings
           Bench
           ;
           OCCASIONED
           By
           the
           Noise
           of
           a
           PLOT
           .
        
         
           The
           Second
           Edition
           Corrected
           .
        
         
           LONDON
           ,
           Printed
           in
           the
           Year
           ,
           MDCXCIV
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
         
           A
           LETTER
           to
           the
           Right
           Honourable
           My
           Lord
           Chief
           Justice
           HOLT
           ,
           occasioned
           by
           the
           Noise
           of
           a
           PLOT
           .
        
         
           
             MY
             LORD
             ,
          
        
         
           THE
           Character
           which
           you
           bear
           ,
           and
           the
           Office
           which
           you
           have
           several
           Years
           discharged
           with
           so
           much
           Credit
           to
           the
           Government
           ,
           Reputation
           to
           your Self
           ,
           and
           Justice
           to
           the
           Nation
           ,
           have
           render'd
           You
           both
           the
           Object
           of
           all
           Honest
           Men's
           Esteem
           ,
           and
           the
           Sanctuary
           to
           which
           they
           fly
           and
           retreat
           ,
           when
           either
           through
           the
           P●que
           and
           Revenge
           ,
           or
           the
           Jealousy
           and
           Credulity
           of
           Ministers
           of
           State
           ,
           and
           their
           Subordinate
           Officers
           ,
           they
           find
           themselves
           assaulted
           ●n
           their
           Lives
           ,
           persued
           as
           to
           their
           Estates
           ,
           or
           deprived
           of
           their
           Liberties
           ,
           upon
           the
           Depositions
           of
           a
           few
           Necessitous
           ,
           Brib'd
           and
           Suborn'd
           Fellows
           .
           And
           seeing
           it
           is
           not
           possible
           that
           any
           can
           be
           illegally
           Prosecuted
           ,
           unduly
           Convicted
           ,
           or
           unjustly
           Condemned
           ,
           without
           your
           coming
           to
           suffer
           both
           in
           your
           Honour
           ,
           which
           you
           so
           sensibly
           value
           ,
           and
           to
           forfeit
           that
           Integrity
           which
           is
           accounted
           natural
           unto
           You
           ,
           Pray
           suffer
           one
           ,
           who
           is
           your
           most
           real
           ,
           though
           unknown
           Servant
           ,
           to
           lay
           such
           Things
           with
           all
           Humility
           and
           Deference
           before
           you
           ,
           as
           may
           serve
           to
           prevent
           your
           being
           surpriz'd
           and
           circumvented
           to
           do
           any
           Thing
           unworthy
           of
           your Self
           ,
           or
           injurious
           and
           destructive
           to
           Innocent
           Men.
           
        
         
           With
           what
           Blushing
           and
           Grief
           do
           those
           imbu'd
           with
           any
           degrees
           of
           Wisdom
           and
           Vertue
           ,
           reflect●on
           the
           Ignominy
           and
           Guilt
           brought
           upon
           the
           Nation
           by
           Oates
           and
           his
           Complices
           ,
           who
           ,
           ●s
           they
           were
           the
           first
           Pack
           of
           Witnesses
           the
           Kingdom
           was
           ever
           acquainted
           with
           ,
           that
           were
           establish'd
           under
           the
           Encouragement
           of
           Salaries
           &
           Pensions
           ,
           to
           be
           Standing
           Evidence
           in
           Capital
           and
           Criminal
           Cases
           ,
           so
           the
           dismal
           Effects
           of
           that
           method
           of
           administring
           Government
           ,
           and
           executing
           Laws
           were
           soon
           felt
           ,
           not
           only
           by
           the
           Advantage
           which
           other
           Miscreants
           endeavour'd
           to
           make
           of
           that
           mischievous
           Preceden●
           ,
           in
           setting
           up
           to
           imitate
           them
           ,
           upon
           prospect
           and
           hope
           of
           the
           like
           Profit
           and
           Reward
           ,
           but
           through
           their
           own
           growing
           emboldened
           to
           invade
           the
           Reputations
           ,
           and
           attaque
           the
           Lives
           of
           High
           and
           Low
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           merit
           the
           encrease
           as
           well
           as
           the
           continuance
           of
           the
           Price
           of
           Blood
           ,
           upon
           which
           they
           projected
           to
           subsist
           ,
           and
           which
           one
           of
           them
           hath
           the
           Fortune
           still
           to
           enjoy
           :
           But
           whether
           it
           proceed
           from
           the
           Generosity
           of
           the
           Government
           ,
           or
           be
           owing
           to
           the
           Wisdom
           of
           it
           ,
           as
           reckoning
           it
           to
           be
           serviceable
           to
           its
           Interest
           ,
           I
           shall
           not
           presume
           to
           determine
           .
           Nor
           will
           I
           deny
           but
           that
           those
           State-Witnesses
           of
           the
           first
           Muster
           and
           Enrollment
           may
           be
           allowed
           to
           have
           sworn
           truly
           in
           some
           Particulars
           ,
           but
           it
           must
           withal
           be
           acknowledged
           that
           they
           perjur'd
           themselves
           in
           many
           others
           :
           So
           that
           my
           Lord
           Chief
           Justice
           Scr●ggs
           ,
           who
           had
           raised
           them
           to
           the
           Reputation
           of
           being
           held
           Credible
           Persons
           ,
           by
           giving
           Faith
           Himself
           to
           their
           Testimony
           in
           some
           Trials
           ,
           and
           thereby
           gaining
           and
           reconciling
           others
           to
           do
           the
           like
           ,
           was
           ,
           upon
           observing
           the
           impossible
           as
           well
           as
           improbable
           Things
           they
           grew
           up
           into
           a
           Confidence
           of
           deposing
           ,
           and
           how
           they
           could
           not
           only
           Perjure
           themselves
           without
           Shame
           or
           Remorse
           ,
           but
           with
           an
           Air
           of
           Assurance
           and
           Sincerity
           ,
           forced
           to
           detract
           from
           ,
           and
           lessen
           their
           Credibility
           in
           future
           Trials
           as
           much
           as
           he
           had
           raised
           it
           in
           former
           .
           Though
           he
           could
           not
           be
           unsensible
           that
           the
           best
           Returns
           he
           would
           meet
           with
           from
           many
           for
           this
           After-Game
           of
           Candor
           ,
           Probity
           and
           Justice
           ,
           was
           to
           have
           his
           Discretion
           and
           Righteousness
           reflected
           upon
           for
           the
           Sentences
           he
           had
           pronounced
           before
           ,
           upon
           no
           other
           or
           better
           Testimony
           than
           that
           of
           those
           whom
           he
           found
           it
           needful
           at
           last
           to
           render
           Infamous
           .
        
         
           Nor
           can
           it
           escape
           your
           Lordship's
           Remembrance
           what
           Convulsions
           the
           Kingdom
           was
           thrown
           into
           ,
           by
           a
           Sett
           of
           Mercenary
           Rascab
           ,
           Anno
           1681
           ,
           who
           wanted
           nothing
           but
           the
           obtaining
           Belief
           to
           their
           Testimony
           against
           the
           Earl
           of
           Shas●●b●ry
           ,
           to
           the
           involving
           vast
           numbers
           
           of
           Protestants
           ,
           of
           all
           Qualities
           and
           Degrees
           ,
           under
           the
           Guilt
           of
           a
           Horrid
           Conspiracy
           against
           His
           t●en
           M●jesty's
           Person
           and
           Government
           :
           For
           the
           Villains
           having
           been
           Trained
           up
           ●o
           swear
           Men
           out
           of
           their
           Lives
           ,
           wi●hout
           the
           least
           regard
           to
           their
           being
           Guilty
           or
           Guil●less
           ,
           all
           that
           they
           minded
           was
           whom
           the
           influencing
           Ministers
           were
           ready
           to
           Start
           ,
           being
           ready
           to
           Halloo
           and
           persue
           them
           to
           Scaffolds
           and
           Gibbets
           ,
           if
           they
           might
           be
           but
           plen●ifully
           paid
           and
           rewarded
           for
           it
           :
           And
           having
           Breakfasted
           on
           those
           of
           one
           Party
           ,
           they
           wer●
           prepared
           to
           Sup
           on
           them
           of
           another
           .
           For
           being
           habituated
           to
           Blood
           ,
           it
           was
           indifferent
           to
           them
           whom
           they
           murderously
           destroyed
           ;
           and
           all
           that
           obtained
           a
           Room
           in
           their
           Thoughts
           ,
           was
           the
           being
           assured
           before-hand
           in
           whose
           Slaughter
           they
           should
           make
           the
           better
           Meal
           :
           Yea
           it
           was
           but
           for
           any
           to
           out-bid
           those
           that
           train'd
           them
           up
           ,
           and
           the
           Cannibals
           were
           ready
           to
           fly
           upon
           them
           that
           bred
           them
           to
           devour
           ,
           upon
           the
           first
           Prospect
           they
           had
           of
           doing
           it
           with
           Impunity
           ,
           and
           of
           finding
           their
           Interest
           in
           't
           ;
           Which
           ,
           upon
           observing
           what
           had
           befallen
           others
           ,
           I
           wish
           some
           at
           this
           Time
           may
           take
           warning
           by
           .
           Only
           permit
           me
           to
           tell
           you
           ,
           that
           the
           Interposition
           and
           Influence
           which
           some
           of
           King
           
           Charles's
           Ministers
           had
           ,
           both
           in
           forging
           and
           forming
           that
           pretended
           PLOT
           ,
           (
           in
           81
           )
           and
           in
           Suborning
           Miscreants
           to
           support
           the
           belief
           of
           it
           by
           Falshood
           and
           Perjury
           ,
           was
           that
           which
           gave
           Provocation
           and
           Encouragement
           to
           the
           design'd
           Insurrection
           in
           1682.
           
           For
           when
           Men
           can't
           find
           Safety
           in
           their
           Innocency
           ,
           they
           will
           seek
           to
           obtain
           it
           by
           their
           Swords
           .
           And
           if
           the
           Laws
           be
           not
           sufficient
           to
           cover
           and
           protect
           them
           ,
           they
           will
           be
           tempted
           to
           try
           what
           Back
           and
           Breast
           can
           do
           .
           Nor
           is
           it
           unworthy
           of
           your
           
           Lordship's
           Reflection
           ,
           that
           though
           several
           Persons
           of
           Quality
           and
           Vertue
           had
           the
           Misfortune
           to
           suffer
           for
           what
           they
           had
           then
           contrived
           ,
           and
           were
           ready
           to
           execute
           ;
           yet
           the
           Justice
           of
           their
           Endeavours
           hath
           been
           abundantly
           vindicated
           ●y
           the
           R●peal
           of
           their
           A●tainders
           since
           this
           Revolution
           :
           And
           the
           Combination
           in
           which
           they
           were
           embarqued
           ,
           upon
           the
           Motive
           and
           Necessity
           o●
           being
           (
           through
           the
           Subornation
           of
           Wit●ess●s
           against
           them
           )
           ;
           deprived
           of
           all
           other
           mean●
           of
           Safe●y
           ,
           ha●h
           had
           the
           Comm●ndation
           of
           this
           Government
           ,
           in
           the
           many
           H●nours
           and
           〈◊〉
           bestowed
           not
           only
           upon
           the
           Friends
           and
           Relati●●●
           but
           on
           the
           Surviving
           Complices
           of
           those
           that
           perish'd
           .
           Nor
           is
           your
           
           Lordship's
           Memory
           so
           weak
           and
           unfaithful
           ,
           but
           that
           it
           will
           furnish
           you
           with
           Memoirs
           of
           the
           Barbarous
           Infamy
           which
           a
           certain
           Zealous
           and
           Credulous
           Gen●leman
           ,
           endeavoured
           upon
           weak
           and
           trivial
           Suggestions
           to
           have
           fastned
           upon
           the
           late
           King
           Charles
           ,
           the
           Duke
           of
           York
           ,
           and
           diver●
           other
           Persons
           of
           the
           First
           Figure
           and
           Quality
           ,
           by
           charging
           and
           accusing
           them
           of
           being
           conscious
           and
           accessory
           to
           the
           murder
           of
           the
           Earl
           of
           Essex
           :
           And
           't
           is
           not
           without
           Shame
           and
           Detestation
           ,
           that
           Men
           of
           Discretion
           and
           Probity
           reflect
           upon
           ,
           and
           call
           over
           ,
           the
           groundless
           and
           malicious
           Rumours
           upon
           which
           the
           whole
           Court
           ,
           especially
           his
           then
           
             Royal
             Highness
          
           ,
           were
           impudently
           slander'd
           ,
           the
           Nation
           strangely
           alarm'd
           ,
           and
           the
           Peace
           of
           the
           City
           and
           Kingdom
           attempted
           to
           have
           been
           shaken
           and
           disturbed
           .
           Nor
           will
           it
           be
           easy
           for
           a
           certain
           Sort
           of
           People
           to
           wipe
           off
           the
           Blots
           and
           Aspersions
           they
           deservedly
           brought
           upon
           themselves
           ,
           of
           wanting
           either
           Sense
           or
           Integrity
           ,
           by
           their
           giving
           belief
           to
           those
           weak
           and
           ill-invented
           Su●gestions
           ,
           which
           nothing
           but
           Folly
           mix'd
           with
           Rancour
           could
           feign
           ,
           nor
           any
           receive
           and
           give
           credit
           to
           but
           those
           of
           a
           strange
           Bigotry
           ,
           and
           of
           parallel
           Disaffection
           and
           Disloyalty
           :
           For
           besides
           the
           wounding
           Princes
           ,
           and
           several
           Noble
           Peers
           ,
           in
           their
           Honour
           by
           them
           ,
           which
           the
           Laws
           are
           framed
           to
           protect
           with
           an
           equal
           Tenderness
           ,
           as
           they
           do
           the
           Crown
           ,
           the
           Constitution
           ,
           and
           the
           Lives
           of
           the
           most
           valuable
           ,
           innocent
           and
           deserving
           Subjects
           ,
           Who
           can
           conceive
           ,
           or
           apprehend
           without
           Horrour
           ,
           the
           many
           other
           mischievous
           Eff●cts
           which
           those
           malicious
           Accusations
           were
           adapted
           to
           have
           produced
           ,
           had
           not
           they
           who
           administred
           Justice
           in
           that
           Court
           ,
           where
           your
           Lordship
           ,
           to
           the
           Conten●ment
           and
           Joy
           of
           the
           whole
           Nation
           ,
           now
           doth
           ,
           unravell'd
           that
           whole
           Mystery
           of
           audacious
           Villainy
           ,
           and
           with
           a
           Wisdom
           ,
           Zeal
           and
           Fortitude
           becoming
           their
           Places
           ,
           both
           detected
           the
           Conspiracy
           against
           the
           Honour
           of
           those
           that
           had
           been
           ●raduced
           ,
           and
           punished
           it
           in
           the
           credulo●s
           but
           feeble
           Supporter
           of
           it
           ?
           Nor
           do●h
           the
           Righteousness
           of
           their
           Procedur●
           in
           that
           Matter
           need
           any
           other
           Justification
           ,
           nor
           ●e
           Innocency
           of
           that
           Prince
           ,
           who
           was
           d●●amed
           with
           so
           much
           Insolency
           and
           Falshood
           ,
           require
           a
           more
           convincing
           and
           satisfactory
           Vindication
           ,
           than
           to
           observe
           with
           what
           Scorn
           ,
           
           Contempt
           and
           Ridicule
           the
           
             House
             of
             Lords
          
           treated
           and
           dismissed
           that
           Affair
           ,
           when
           with
           a
           revived
           Malice
           it
           was
           staged
           before
           them
           ,
           and
           inforced
           with
           an
           Art
           properer
           to
           mislead
           than
           to
           inform
           ,
           since
           this
           Revolution
           ,
           For
           it
           cannot
           be
           imagin'd
           ,
           but
           that
           it
           would
           have
           been
           very
           grateful
           to
           those
           who
           had
           divested
           King
           James
           of
           his
           Royal
           Power
           and
           Dignity
           ,
           to
           have
           found
           him
           sullied
           with
           a
           Crime
           that
           would
           have
           contributed
           more
           towards
           the
           supporting
           the
           Equity
           of
           their
           proceeding
           against
           him
           ,
           than
           all
           he
           hath
           been
           loaded
           with
           besides
           ,
           as
           the
           Motives
           to
           his
           Abdication
           .
           And
           forgive
           me
           ,
           my
           Lord
           ,
           if
           I
           presume
           to
           add
           ,
           that
           as
           King
           
           James's
           Innocency
           ,
           in
           reference
           to
           the
           Death
           of
           that
           unfortunate
           Peer
           ,
           cannot
           receive
           a
           more
           Illustrious
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           Publick
           a
           Vindication
           ,
           than
           by
           the
           
             House
             of
             Lords
          
           dismissing
           that
           Criminal
           Accusation
           with
           a
           Derision
           of
           the
           presumptuous
           and
           groundless
           Vanity
           of
           it
           ,
           after
           they
           had
           for
           many
           Days
           inquired
           into
           it
           with
           all
           the
           penetration
           they
           could
           ,
           and
           that
           by
           a
           Committee
           of
           their
           Members
           the
           most
           and
           longest
           alienated
           in
           their
           Affections
           from
           him
           of
           any
           of
           that
           House
           ;
           so
           it
           cannot
           escape
           the
           Observation
           of
           thinking
           and
           indifferent
           Persons
           ,
           how
           that
           barbarous
           Aspersion
           ,
           which
           the
           Malice
           and
           Industry
           of
           some
           Persons
           had
           fastned
           and
           continued
           upon
           him
           ,
           influenced
           as
           much
           to
           this
           Revolution
           ,
           and
           all
           the
           Calamities
           which
           have
           attended
           him
           upon
           it
           ,
           through
           having
           sunk
           him
           in
           the
           Love
           ,
           Esteem
           and
           Confidence
           of
           his
           People
           ,
           as
           any
           one
           Thing
           whatsoever
           whereof
           he
           hath
           been
           accused
           .
           Nor
           was
           it
           difficult
           to
           deprive
           him
           of
           his
           Crown
           ,
           and
           drive
           him
           from
           his
           Throne
           ,
           upon
           very
           little
           and
           weak
           Pretences
           ,
           when
           by
           an
           Accusation
           so
           calumnious
           ,
           as
           this
           appears
           now
           to
           have
           been
           ,
           they
           had
           cast
           and
           kept
           him
           out
           of
           the
           Hearts
           and
           Veneration
           of
           his
           People
           so
           long
           before
           .
           And
           for
           Mr.
           Braddon
           to
           persevere
           after
           this
           to
           slain
           King
           James
           with
           the
           Murder
           of
           the
           Earl
           of
           Essex
           ,
           or
           with
           any
           thing
           relative
           to
           his
           D●ath
           ,
           doth
           serve
           only
           to
           discover
           his
           Vanity
           ,
           accompanied
           with
           an
           implacable
           Malice
           ,
           and
           gives
           occasion
           to
           the
           most
           modest
           and
           reserved
           Censurers
           of
           Persons
           and
           Things
           ,
           to
           judge
           that
           his
           cherishing
           himself
           ,
           and
           studying
           to
           obtrude
           the
           Belief
           of
           it
           upon
           others
           at
           first
           ,
           was
           not
           so
           much
           from
           a
           weakness
           in
           his
           Understanding
           ,
           which
           is
           no
           disparagement
           to
           him
           to
           think
           him
           capable
           of
           ,
           as
           from
           a
           Crime
           in
           his
           Will
           ,
           which
           rendereth
           him
           a
           very
           bad
           and
           wicked
           Man
           ;
           whereas
           the
           former
           would
           have
           only
           publish'd
           him
           credulous
           and
           silly
           :
           And
           it
           argueth
           a
           great
           deal
           of
           Impudence
           and
           Pride
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           of
           inve●era●e
           Rancour
           and
           Spleen
           ,
           for
           him
           to
           fancy
           that
           more
           credit
           ought
           to
           be
           given
           unto
           him
           ,
           upon
           his
           daring
           and
           bare
           Aspersions
           ,
           than
           either
           to
           the
           nearest
           Relations
           of
           that
           unfortunate
           Lord
           ,
           or
           to
           the
           
             House
             of
             Peers
          
           ,
           in
           disclaiming
           and
           stifling
           the
           slanderous
           Accusation
           in
           the
           manner
           they
           did
           .
           However
           the
           Miscarriage
           in
           this
           one
           Adventure
           ,
           of
           blackning
           King
           James
           ,
           makes
           it
           violen●ly
           suspected
           what
           unsuccessfulness
           they
           would
           have
           had
           in
           the
           Proof
           of
           other
           Imputations
           ,
           with
           which
           he
           hath
           been
           no
           less
           rudely
           than
           audaciously
           charged
           .
           It
           is
           true
           ,
           his
           Dispensing
           with
           some
           Laws
           is
           too
           notorious
           to
           be
           denied
           ;
           but
           at
           the
           same
           time
           it
           is
           very
           questionable
           ,
           whether
           he
           had
           not
           a
           Right
           by
           his
           Prerogative
           to
           do
           it
           ;
           and
           it
           is
           most
           certain
           that
           he
           had
           the
           Opinion
           of
           the
           Judges
           that
           he
           might
           ,
           who
           were
           the
           only
           known
           Expositors
           of
           Laws
           ,
           and
           the
           living
           Oracles
           of
           the
           bounds
           and
           limits
           of
           Sovereignty
           in
           the
           Intervals
           of
           Parliaments
           :
           And
           if
           there
           be
           any
           ground
           to
           blame
           him
           for
           giving
           us
           an
           Original
           ,
           in
           this
           Matter
           ,
           of
           
             Royal
             Authority
          
           and
           Power
           ,
           I
           am
           sure
           it
           hath
           since
           been
           Copied
           over
           and
           over
           ,
           by
           a
           bare-fac'd
           departure
           from
           the
           Laws
           ,
           in
           things
           more
           out
           of
           reach
           of
           Majesty
           than
           any
           in
           which
           he
           pretended
           to
           supersede
           the
           Obligation
           of
           the
           Statutes
           of
           the
           Realm
           .
        
         
           And
           whereas
           my
           Lord
           ,
           among
           the
           many
           real
           or
           pretended
           Grievances
           ,
           which
           upon
           this
           Revolution
           we
           hoped
           to
           be
           deliver'd
           from
           ,
           there
           was
           none
           so
           mischievous
           in
           it self
           ,
           and
           from
           which
           we
           with
           more
           assurance
           promised
           our selves
           the
           being
           redeem'd
           ,
           than
           that
           of
           holding
           our
           Lives
           precariously
           ,
           and
           being
           kept
           in
           daily
           Jeopardy
           of
           loosing
           them
           ,
           by
           the
           Perjuries
           of
           Suborned
           and
           Hir'd
           Villains
           ,
           notwithstanding
           our
           quiet
           and
           peaceable
           Deportment
           towards
           those
           seated
           in
           the
           Throne
           ,
           which
           we
           thought
           that
           we
           might
           with
           the
           more
           Confidence
           expect
           ,
           having
           been
           rescued
           from
           it
           during
           all
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           James
           ;
           it
           having
           ,
           until
           now
           ,
           been
           a
           Reproach
           and
           Disparagement
           peculiar
           to
           the
           Government
           of
           his
           Brother
           King
           Charles
           ;
           being
           unknown
           in
           all
           other
           Reigns
           ▪
           but
           unhappily
           introduced
           and
           too
           much
           practised
           to
           his
           Dishonour
           and
           his
           
           Subject's
           Danger
           and
           Vexation
           ,
           while
           he
           sat
           on
           the
           Throne
           .
           But
           it
           seems
           ,
           that
           upon
           this
           as
           well
           as
           many
           other
           Accounts
           ,
           his
           Reign
           ,
           which
           gave
           occasion
           to
           all
           the
           Mischiefs
           that
           have
           since
           ensued
           ,
           is
           chosen
           to
           be
           the
           Pattern
           of
           Administration
           and
           Management
           under
           this
           .
           For
           among
           other
           Disappointments
           we
           have
           met
           with
           under
           the
           late
           Change
           ,
           and
           our
           being
           frustrated
           in
           Things
           of
           the
           vastest
           Moment
           ,
           which
           we
           expected
           to
           have
           seen
           redressed
           ,
           it
           is
           with
           extream
           Sor●ow
           that
           we
           find
           that
           Crime
           unknown
           to
           Turks
           and
           Heathens
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           to
           all
           Natio●
           prosessing
           Christianity
           besides
           these
           ,
           namely
           ,
           not
           only
           of
           countenancing
           mercenary
           and
           infamous
           Rascals
           ,
           to
           swear
           quiet
           and
           innocent
           Men
           out
           of
           their
           Lives
           ,
           but
           of
           bribing
           ,
           instructing
           and
           training
           them
           thereunto
           ,
           still
           kept
           up
           with
           all
           the
           scandalous
           Openness
           that
           it
           heretofore
           was
           ,
           yea
           better
           encouraged
           and
           rewarded
           ,
           and
           thereupon
           more
           frequently
           and
           audaciously
           practised
           ,
           than
           ever
           it
           had
           been
           in
           the
           Reign
           o●
           King
           Charles
           ,
           of
           which
           we
           have
           wi●h
           so
           much
           Reason
           complained
           .
           How
           scandalous
           doth
           it
           look
           ,
           And
           what
           Dishonour
           and
           Infamy
           doth
           it
           derive
           upon
           this
           Government
           ,
           to
           find
           the
           Emissaries
           of
           our
           Statesmen
           and
           Ministers
           hawking
           up
           and
           down
           for
           Indigent
           and
           Necessitous
           Jacobites
           ,
           and
           accosting
           them
           with
           a
           Commiseration
           of
           their
           poor
           and
           starving
           Condition
           ,
           and
           how
           willing
           they
           are
           not
           only
           to
           relieve
           ,
           but
           to
           render
           them
           happy
           and
           opulent
           ,
           provided
           they
           will
           only
           make
           themselves
           capable
           Subjects
           of
           Favour
           and
           Bounty
           ,
           by
           detecting
           what
           they
           know
           against
           the
           Government
           ,
           and
           discovering
           whether
           they
           be
           not
           conscious
           of
           the
           Criminal
           Designs
           of
           such
           and
           such
           ,
           and
           prepared
           to
           depose
           and
           swear
           against
           th●m●
           !
           Which
           ,
           considering
           their
           Poverty
           ,
           together
           with
           that
           decay
           of
           Morality
           as
           well
           as
           Religion
           ,
           and
           that
           strange
           growth
           not
           only
           of
           Practical
           but
           of
           
             Speculative
             Atheism
          
           in
           the
           Nation
           ,
           much
           occasioned
           by
           late
           Practices
           and
           Transactions
           ,
           is
           equivalent
           to
           the
           tempting
           those
           miserable
           Wretches
           to
           forswear
           themselves
           for
           Bread
           ,
           and
           is
           the
           giving
           them
           aim
           in
           the
           murdering
           of
           whom
           they
           may
           do
           the
           most
           meritorious
           Act
           to
           the
           Government
           ,
           and
           make
           the
           most
           advantageous
           Bargain
           to
           themselves
           :
           And
           if
           this
           doth
           not
           prevail
           upon
           those
           indigent
           Creatures
           ,
           whom
           Poverty
           and
           Irreligion
           have
           disposed
           for
           the
           Impression
           of
           the
           weakest
           Temptation
           ,
           the
           next
           Assault
           upon
           them
           is
           ,
           under
           the
           pretence
           of
           relieving
           their
           Want
           ,
           to
           give
           them
           a
           Crown
           or
           an
           Angel
           ,
           and
           then
           to
           call
           it
           Levying
           and
           Subsistence-Money
           ;
           and
           thereupon
           to
           necessitate
           them
           either
           by
           Perjury
           to
           destroy
           others
           ,
           or
           to
           fall
           and
           perish
           themselves
           ,
           upon
           the
           Accusation
           of
           those
           that
           pretended
           charitably
           to
           supply
           them
           .
           Nor
           can
           it
           seem
           strange
           or
           astonishing
           to
           your
           Lordship
           to
           find
           such
           Courses
           and
           Methods
           persued
           towards
           the
           ruining
           particular
           Men
           ,
           when
           you
           observe
           the
           ways
           that
           are
           notoriously
           taken
           to
           make
           Members
           of
           Parliament
           so
           treacherously
           and
           feloniously
           destroy
           the
           Kingdom
           :
           For
           besides
           the
           many
           Members
           of
           the
           
             House
             of
             Commons
          
           ,
           with
           which
           the
           beginni●g
           and
           original
           Grants
           of
           all
           Money
           for
           the
           Support
           of
           the
           Governmen●
           is
           undisputably
           lodged
           ,
           who
           have
           Places
           and
           Employments
           equivalent
           to
           Pensions
           ,
           and
           by
           which
           ,
           as
           the
           standing
           and
           meritorious
           Qualification
           that
           entitleth
           them
           unto
           ,
           and
           giveth
           them
           an
           indefeasible
           Title
           in
           their
           Posts
           ,
           they
           are
           byassed
           to
           give
           whatsoever
           is
           demanded
           ,
           there
           are
           many
           others
           purchased
           by
           Gratuities
           ,
           Gifts
           and
           Salaries
           ,
           to
           concur
           in
           and
           promote
           all
           publick
           Aids
           ,
           which
           they
           too
           readily
           do
           ,
           without
           the
           least
           respect
           to
           the
           Welfare
           and
           Safety
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           upon
           the
           meer
           foot
           of
           finding
           their
           own
           Interest
           wrapr
           up
           so
           eminently
           in
           what
           they
           give
           .
           And
           it
           is
           beyond
           all
           contradiction
           ,
           that
           whosoever
           will
           hire
           and
           bribe
           Members
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           to
           subvert
           a●d
           destroy
           the
           Constitution
           and
           murder
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           which
           the
           Practice
           I
           have
           laid
           before
           you
           palpably
           and
           uncontroulably
           doth
           ,
           such
           Persons
           will
           never
           scruple
           the
           ruining
           individual
           Persons
           ,
           by
           the
           worst
           and
           most
           infamous
           Arts
           ,
           if
           it
           be
           but
           subservient
           to
           their
           revengeful
           ,
           haughty
           and
           covetous
           Ends.
           And
           while
           there
           is
           so
           general
           a
           failure
           in
           Vertue
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           a
           departure
           from
           all
           Honour
           ,
           save
           that
           of
           Parchment
           ,
           it
           is
           a
           wonder
           that
           instead
           of
           a
           few
           little
           Miscreants
           ,
           (
           who
           in
           the
           best
           and
           most
           innocent
           Ages
           would
           have
           been
           reckon'd
           amongst
           the
           Refuse
           of
           Mankind
           )
           they
           have
           not
           furnished
           themselves
           with
           a
           multitude
           of
           Witnesses
           adorned
           with
           Titles
           ,
           and
           distinguished
           from
           the
           Vulgus
           ,
           by
           Names
           and
           Characters
           which
           used
           in
           times
           of
           Morality
           and
           Religion
           to
           be
           of
           some
           Esteem
           and
           Veneration
           .
           I
           shall
           not
           descend
           to
           a
           particular
           mentioning
           of
           those
           that
           have
           withstood
           the
           Temptation
           ,
           upon
           
           their
           being
           caress'd
           and
           menac'd
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           their
           being
           gain'd
           and
           disciplin'd
           for
           Evidences
           ,
           as
           judging
           it
           will
           be
           more
           useful
           to
           reserve
           the
           Declaration
           of
           them
           to
           a
           Parliament
           ;
           and
           the
           rather
           because
           divers
           of
           them
           have
           been
           questioned
           about
           the
           Guiltiness
           of
           some
           Members
           of
           both
           Houses
           ,
           which
           is
           in
           effect
           the
           telling
           them
           that
           they
           would
           have
           such
           and
           such
           destroyed
           ,
           and
           that
           they
           shall
           be
           plentifully
           rewarded
           if
           they
           put
           on
           an
           Eff●ontry
           with
           a
           little
           speciousness
           to
           do
           it
           .
           I
           will
           not
           ,
           my
           Lord
           ,
           be
           so
           rude
           and
           uncivil
           as
           to
           ruffle
           you
           on
           ●he
           account
           of
           those
           that
           have
           suff●red
           since
           this
           Revolution
           ,
           for
           the
           Crimes
           of
           High-Treason
           against
           the
           Government
           ,
           seeing
           that
           might
           not
           only
           be
           interpreted
           a
           want
           of
           Deference
           and
           Respect
           to
           your
           Lordship's
           Honour
           and
           Integrity
           ,
           but
           accounted
           an
           impeaching
           and
           arraigning
           the
           Justice
           of
           the
           Nation
           :
           Yet
           suffer
           me
           ,
           with
           the
           utmost
           Modesty
           of
           one
           that
           highly
           esteems
           you
           ,
           and
           who
           would
           both
           promote
           your
           Repentance
           towards
           God
           ,
           for
           any
           hasty
           and
           indiscreet
           Excesses
           that
           are
           past
           ,
           and
           prevent
           your
           falling
           into
           any
           thing
           that
           may
           savour
           of
           intemperate
           and
           unrighteous
           Zeal
           for
           the
           future
           ,
           to
           call
           over
           ▪
           and
           bring
           to
           your
           remembrance
           ,
           the
           Four
           Antecedent
           Trials
           and
           Condemnations
           of
           this
           kind
           ,
           and
           to
           tell
           you
           with
           the
           Candour
           and
           Fidelity
           of
           your
           faithful
           Servant
           ,
           how
           little
           the
           Credit
           of
           those
           that
           sat
           upon
           them
           is
           raised
           at
           present
           ,
           or
           their
           Memory
           likely
           to
           be
           embalmed
           hereafter
           ,
           by
           the
           Wisdom
           and
           Justice
           displayed
           in
           the
           manage
           and
           conduct
           of
           them
           .
           I
           acknowledge
           that
           your
           
           Lordship's
           Access
           to
           the
           obtaining
           the
           Conviction
           of
           Persons
           Arraigned
           useth
           to
           be
           less
           than
           that
           of
           some
           others
           joined
           in
           Commission
           with
           you
           ,
           and
           your
           Depor●ment
           during
           the
           Trials
           is
           more
           decent
           and
           becoming
           your
           Character
           than
           that
           of
           divers
           of
           your
           Assessors
           .
           Yet
           a
           little
           Reflection
           on
           the
           Trials
           I
           am
           now
           to
           mention
           will
           quicken
           your
           Remembrance
           ,
           Whether
           th●re
           was
           that
           Scrutiny
           about
           ,
           and
           Enquiry
           into
           the
           Credibility
           of
           the
           Witnesses
           ,
           which
           so
           important
           a
           Case
           as
           the
           Lives
           of
           Men
           ,
           and
           the
           forfeiting
           their
           Estates
           ,
           to
           the
           impoverishing
           their
           Families
           and
           Posterity
           ,
           do●h
           require
           :
           And
           whether
           all
           that
           Help
           and
           Assistance
           was
           given
           to
           the
           Arraigned
           which
           the
           Law
           doth
           allow
           ,
           and
           makes
           incumbent
           upon
           the
           Judge
           to
           yield
           .
           For
           to
           begin
           with
           the
           First
           ,
           which
           was
           the
           Convicting
           and
           Sentencing
           the
           Chair-Man
           to
           Death
           ,
           
             For
             Levyi●g
             War
             to
             disturb
             the
             Tranquility
             of
             the
             Nation
             ,
             and
             to
             Dethrone
             and
             Dispossess
             King
          
           William
           ;
           which
           had
           it
           not
           been
           trans●ct●d
           in
           a
           Court
           of
           Justice
           ,
           would
           have
           look'd
           rather
           like
           a
           Banter
           upon
           the
           Government
           than
           a
           Testimony
           of
           Loyalty
           and
           Zeal
           to
           support
           it
           .
           I
           do
           very
           well
           know
           ,
           that
           all
           for
           w●ich
           he
           was
           found
           Guilty
           and
           Condemned
           was
           expr●s●
           ,
           swo●n
           against
           him
           ;
           But
           can
           it
           obtain
           cr●dit
           with
           any
           ,
           who
           allow
           themselves
           the
           liberty
           seriously
           to
           think
           ,
           that
           one
           of
           his
           Meanness
           had
           either
           the
           Interest
           ,
           Power
           o●
           Treasure
           to
           make
           the
           least
           Commotion
           in
           the
           Kingdom
           ;
           or
           that
           a
           Person
           bred
           all
           his
           Days
           to
           so
           inferiour
           and
           servile
           an
           Employ
           as
           he
           was
           ,
           had
           either
           the
           Courage
           and
           Boldness
           to
           muster
           Forces
           or
           ●he
           Sauciness
           and
           Vanity
           once
           to
           imagine●
           that
           he
           could
           overturn
           Thrones
           ,
           and
           wrest
           Scepter●
           out
           of
           the
           Hands
           of
           Princes
           ?
           Had
           he
           been
           accused
           and
           convicted
           for
           designing
           to
           have
           Assassinated
           either
           of
           the
           Two
           vested
           with
           the
           Supream
           Authority
           ,
           there
           might
           have
           been
           some
           probability
           in
           it
           ,
           as
           being
           practicable
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           like
           whereof
           the
           Records
           of
           former
           Times
           have
           furnished
           us
           with
           Instances
           and
           Examples
           :
           But
           for
           a
           poor
           Creature
           ●o
           be
           thought
           capable
           of
           enrolling
           Troops
           ,
           and
           commencing
           War
           against
           a
           Prince
           encompassed
           with
           a
           large
           disciplin'd
           Army
           ,
           and
           that
           in
           the
           Honey-Month
           of
           his
           Government
           ,
           when
           the
           Nation
           generally
           was
           fond
           of
           him
           ,
           may
           be
           reckoned
           among
           the
           last
           of
           Incredibles
           ;
           and
           seems
           obtruded
           upon
           the
           Faith
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           meerly
           to
           expose
           our
           Credulity
           .
           And
           I
           have
           often
           observed
           ,
           that
           your
           Subo●ned
           Fellows
           do
           ,
           either
           out
           of
           too
           much
           Haughtiness
           ,
           or
           too
           little
           Sense
           ,
           make
           the
           same
           sport
           at
           the
           Majesty
           of
           Courts
           of
           Judicature
           ,
           and
           at
           the
           Understandings
           of
           the
           ●ell
           of
           Mankind
           ,
           that
           they
           do
           with
           the
           Lives
           of
           those
           they
           are
           hired
           to
           murder
           .
           In
           a
           word
           ,
           all
           that
           with
           the
           least
           shadow
           of
           Truth
           can
           be
           conceived
           of
           what
           the
           Man
           was
           accused
           of
           ,
           is
           ,
           that
           he
           had
           been
           charitable
           to
           those
           he
           apprehended
           in
           greater
           Distres●
           than
           himself
           ,
           which
           administred
           occasion
           to
           the
           ungrateful
           Wretches
           that
           received
           it
           ,
           to
           gain
           a
           Reward
           from
           those
           at
           the
           Helm
           of
           Affairs
           ,
           through
           their
           stiling
           and
           swearing
           it
           Levy
           and
           Subsistence
           Money
           ,
           And
           as
           for
           cross
           the
           
             Kentish
             A●torney
          
           ,
           who
           was
           Tried
           and
           Co●demned
           for
           going
           aboard
           the
           
             French
             Fleet
          
           ,
           when
           they
           lay
           upon
           
           the
           Coast
           ;
           it
           is
           known
           that
           he
           was
           as
           passionate
           and
           violent
           a
           Williamite
           as
           was
           in
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           that
           he
           went
           thither
           meerly
           out
           of
           Curiosity
           ,
           conceiving
           it
           no
           Crime
           ,
           nor
           apprehending
           any
           danger
           by
           it
           ,
           and
           not
           upon
           a
           disloyal
           and
           treacherous
           account
           :
           For
           what
           better
           Testimony
           could
           be
           given
           of
           the
           poor
           Man's
           Zeal
           and
           Affection
           for
           the
           Government
           ,
           than
           praying
           with
           that
           Heartiness
           that
           he
           did
           ,
           for
           the
           Preservation
           and
           prosperous
           Reign
           of
           William
           and
           Mary
           ,
           at
           the
           time
           and
           place
           of
           his
           Execution
           ,
           when
           and
           where
           none
           ,
           without
           being
           highly
           uncharitable
           ,
           can
           imagine
           that
           he
           would
           dissemble
           .
           And
           were
           the
           Jacobites
           capable
           of
           taking
           tha●
           Pleasure
           in
           the
           Ruin
           of
           innocent
           Men
           ,
           which
           your
           scandalous
           W●igs
           and
           too
           many
           of
           your
           bigotted
           Phanaticks
           seem
           to
           do
           ,
           his
           Execution
           was
           a
           thing
           wherein
           they
           would
           have
           thought
           themselve●
           extreamly
           gratified
           :
           And
           they
           will
           at
           all
           times
           reckon
           your
           Severities
           of
           that
           kind
           ,
           if
           not
           Favours
           they
           take
           Pleasure
           in
           ,
           at
           least
           Actions
           which
           will
           neither
           provoke
           their
           Resentment
           nor
           Indignation
           :
           Nor
           is
           it
           unworthy
           of
           your
           Observa●ion
           ,
           that
           the
           unhappy
           Man
           was
           halloo'd
           and
           persued
           to
           Death
           ,
           by
           Persons
           who
           valu'd
           themselves
           heretofore
           for
           being
           in
           a
           Faction
           ,
           of
           which
           few
           are
           Loyal
           to
           Monarchs
           out
           of
           Principle
           ,
           but
           solely
           for
           Interest
           ;
           and
           of
           whom
           there
           are
           t●o
           many
           ,
           who
           out
           of
           Devotion
           to
           their
           Idol
           of
           a
           Republick
           ,
           will
           be
           ready
           to
           sacrifice
           ,
           and
           give
           up
           to
           Scaffolds
           and
           Gibbets
           ,
           all
           that
           are
           addicted
           to
           Kingship
           ,
           whosoever
           be
           the
           King.
           As
           for
           Mr.
           
           Ashton's
           Ca●e
           ,
           the
           Severity
           he
           met
           with
           hath
           been
           already
           represented
           in
           Print
           ,
           without
           any
           Reply
           hitherto
           given
           ,
           in
           Vindication
           of
           the
           Justice
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           to
           what
           is
           there
           declared
           and
           laid
           open
           .
           And
           it
           is
           sufficiently
           known
           by
           all
           of
           any
           Conversation
           at
           White-Hall
           and
           about
           the
           Town
           ,
           that
           he
           was
           not
           so
           much
           condemned
           for
           what
           was
           produced
           against
           him
           at
           the
           Bar
           ,
           as
           for
           what
           was
           concealed
           ,
           being
           unfi●●o
           be
           discovered
           :
           For
           the
           Papers
           concerning
           the
           Legitimacy
           of
           the
           Prince
           of
           Wales
           ,
           which
           he
           was
           carrying
           over
           to
           King
           James
           ,
           first
           for
           his
           P●rusal
           ,
           and
           then
           for
           his
           Approbation
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           have
           presented
           them
           to
           the
           Parliament
           ▪
           was
           that
           which
           influenced
           more
           to
           his
           Destruction
           ,
           than
           all
           besides
           whereof
           he
           was
           accu●ed
           ,
           which
           in
           the
           Opinion
           of
           very
           wise
           and
           impartial
           Men
           were
           but
           trifling
           and
           insignificant
           Things
           ,
           and
           which
           as
           they
           did
           not
           deserve
           so
           hard
           a
           Fate
           ,
           so
           they
           would
           never
           have
           prevailed
           upon
           an
           unprejudic'd
           Jury
           to
           have
           found
           him
           guilty
           ,
           without
           a
           very
           strange
           and
           laboured
           Misleading
           .
           And
           pardon
           me
           ▪
           my
           Lord
           ,
           if
           I
           bewail
           the
           Suppression
           of
           the
           forementioned
           Papers
           ,
           and
           take
           the
           liberty
           to
           tell
           you
           ,
           that
           the
           refusing
           the
           Nation
           the
           favour
           of
           seeing
           ,
           them
           ,
           renders
           it
           very
           much
           suspected
           ,
           
             That
             the
             last
             Invasion
             was
             not
             ,
             in
             all
             things
             alledged
             as
             the
             Motives
             to
             it
             ,
             founded
             in
             that
             Justice
             and
             Honour
             which
             we
             were
             made
             to
             believe
             .
          
           But
           to
           wave
           that
           ,
           I
           shall
           only
           presume
           to
           subjoin
           ,
           that
           though
           the
           Providences
           and
           Judgments
           of
           God
           are
           inscrutable
           ,
           yet
           it
           ought
           not
           to
           be
           let
           pass
           without
           Observation
           ,
           That
           the
           only
           Judge
           at
           that
           time
           on
           the
           Bench
           ,
           who
           treated
           him
           with
           uncivil
           as
           well
           as
           uncomely
           Malice
           ,
           and
           who
           by
           his
           whole
           Behaviour
           seemed
           to
           have
           an
           unquenchable
           Thirst
           after
           his
           Blood
           ,
           died
           soon
           after
           wallowing
           in
           his
           own
           .
           Nor
           is
           it
           to
           be
           imagined
           what
           recommended
           that
           Person
           to
           the
           Bench
           ,
           after
           his
           having
           promoted
           and
           hastened
           the
           Execution
           of
           so
           many
           in
           the
           
             West
             ,
             Anno
          
           1685
           ,
           unless
           it
           was
           ,
           that
           having
           given
           so
           signal
           a
           Testimony
           of
           his
           inhuman
           and
           implacable
           Cruelty
           to
           those
           of
           the
           same
           Party
           and
           Interest
           of
           which
           he
           pretended
           to
           be
           ,
           he
           was
           thereupon
           taken
           and
           held
           for
           a
           Person
           that
           would
           be
           no
           less
           barb●rous
           to
           all
           such
           of
           another
           Faction
           ,
           as
           should
           have
           the
           Misfortune
           to
           fall
           within
           the
           Circle
           of
           his
           Power
           and
           Rage
           :
           For
           it
           is
           most
           certain
           ,
           that
           though
           Jefferies
           underwent
           the
           Clamour
           ,
           and
           bore
           the
           blame
           of
           those
           Executions
           ,
           yet
           most
           of
           the
           Guilt
           lay
           upon
           Pollex●en
           ,
           of
           whom
           I
           have
           been
           speaking
           .
           And
           for
           Anderton
           ,
           who
           is
           the
           last
           that
           since
           the
           Revolution
           hath
           been
           Executed
           for
           High-Treason
           of
           this
           kind
           ,
           there
           needeth
           no
           more
           to
           shew
           both
           the
           Perjury
           of
           the
           Witnesses
           that
           swore
           against
           him
           ,
           and
           the
           Severity
           and
           hastiness
           of
           his
           Conviction
           and
           Cond●mnation
           ,
           than
           that
           a
           Person
           arraigned
           and
           condemned
           since
           at
           the
           same
           place
           ,
           hath
           openly
           confessed
           and
           avowed
           ,
           that
           he
           Printed
           and
           Published
           the
           Book
           ,
           for
           which
           poor
           Anderton
           was
           Cast
           and
           Executed
           .
           Nor
           is
           it
           for
           the
           Credit
           of
           those
           that
           sa●e
           as
           Judges
           ,
           or
           were
           upon
           the
           Jury
           ,
           that
           so
           infamous
           a
           Fellow
           as
           Stephens
           was
           the
           principal
           Witness
           at
           the
           Trial
           ,
           and
           the
           Person
           upon
           whose
           Testimony
           especially
           the
           arraigned
           was
           cast
           :
           For
           besides
           
           his
           being
           universally
           known
           for
           a
           Rascal
           that
           will
           be
           purchased
           to
           perpe●rate
           any
           Villainy
           ,
           provided
           he
           may
           find
           Impunity
           in
           doing
           it
           ,
           his
           whole
           Behaviour
           at
           that
           time
           when
           he
           gave
           his
           Evidence
           was
           so
           e●cessively
           Rude
           and
           ●ancorous
           towards
           the
           Prisoner
           ,
           as
           might
           give
           any
           indifferent
           M●n
           a
           just
           c●use
           to
           believe
           ,
           that
           he
           was
           provoked
           by
           Malice
           ,
           or
           swayed
           by
           Command
           and
           encouraged
           by
           Reward
           to
           what
           he
           did
           .
           My
           Lord
           ,
           I
           do
           not
           design
           by
           this
           brief
           Recollection
           of
           these
           Trials
           ▪
           to
           detract
           from
           your
           Prudence
           and
           Moderation
           ,
           and
           much
           less
           ●o
           charge
           you
           with
           Injustice
           ,
           as
           to
           the
           Portion
           and
           Share
           you
           had
           in
           them
           ;
           but
           the
           whole
           I
           propose
           ,
           is
           humbly
           to
           represent
           ,
           that
           there
           seems
           to
           have
           been
           a
           Bl●m●ableness
           somewhere
           ;
           and
           particularly
           ,
           that
           as
           Juries
           are
           generally
           too
           credulous
           in
           such
           Cases
           ,
           and
           many
           times
           prepossessed
           and
           prejudiced
           upon
           the
           Motive
           of
           Party
           and
           Faction
           ,
           so
           the
           Witnesses
           are
           oftentimes
           too
           Mercenary
           and
           Revengeful
           to
           be
           easily
           believed
           .
           And
           among
           other
           Examples
           of
           the
           Corruption
           of
           Witnesses
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           ●asiness
           of
           Juries
           to
           be
           imposed
           upon
           ,
           and
           the
           rigorous
           Excesses
           which
           (
           through
           their
           being
           of
           a
           different
           and
           opposite
           Party
           to
           the
           Prisoner
           before
           them
           )
           they
           are
           liable
           to
           be
           hurried
           into
           ,
           the
           Conviction
           of
           Mrs.
           Merrywether
           is
           one
           that
           has
           sensibly
           affected
           you
           ,
           and
           has
           furnished
           you
           with
           an
           Occasion
           of
           testifying
           your
           Goodness
           ,
           Compassion
           and
           Forti●ude
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           declaring
           your
           love
           and
           regard
           to
           Justice
           ,
           in
           your
           co-operating
           with
           others
           at
           first
           for
           her
           Reprieve
           ,
           and
           recommending
           her
           since
           as
           a
           Person
           whom
           it
           is
           for
           the
           Reputation
           and
           Honour
           of
           the
           Government
           to
           pardon
           :
           And
           your
           stiling
           her
           Conviction
           
             Summum
             Jus
          
           (
           as
           you
           frequently
           have
           done
           )
           is
           equivalent
           to
           your
           pronouncing
           ,
           that
           there
           was
           
             Summu
             Injuria
          
           in
           it
           .
           My
           Lord
           ,
           In
           what
           I
           have
           been
           calling
           over
           to
           you
           ,
           I
           have
           written
           with
           the
           Temper
           and
           Deference
           ,
           which
           a
           regard
           to
           the
           Honour
           and
           Justice
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           after
           Persons
           have
           been
           convicted
           and
           sentenced
           ,
           exacteth
           from
           me
           :
           But
           I
           cannot
           forbear
           being
           a
           little
           more
           Pi●quant
           ,
           in
           laying
           before
           you
           the
           Dangers
           which
           many
           of
           all
           Ranks
           ,
           since
           the
           Revolution
           ,
           have
           (
           notwithstanding
           their
           Peaceableness
           )
           been
           subject
           unto
           ,
           by
           means
           of
           Suborned
           ,
           Bribed
           and
           Infamous
           Miscreants
           ,
           through
           whose
           Perjuries
           great
           Numbers
           were
           to
           have
           been
           destroyed
           ,
           had
           not
           the
           villainous
           Conspiracies
           against
           high
           and
           low
           been
           seasonably
           detected
           .
           Nor
           is
           it
           needful
           I
           should
           be
           large
           in
           telling
           you
           ,
           to
           how
           many
           ,
           and
           of
           what
           Quality
           ,
           the
           murderous
           Design
           of
           Fuller
           extended
           ;
           and
           of
           what
           Esteem
           he
           was
           with
           divers
           of
           the
           Ministers
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           with
           many
           other
           People
           ,
           upon
           the
           hope
           and
           prospect
           of
           the
           Slaughters
           they
           should
           have
           been
           enabled
           to
           make
           by
           his
           Discoveries
           :
           And
           for
           his
           Encouragement
           to
           enlarge
           his
           Accusations
           ,
           and
           maintain
           them
           with
           Assurance
           ,
           he
           was
           the
           Darling
           both
           of
           divers
           Members
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           and
           of
           several
           Officers
           of
           State
           :
           Your
           A.
           and
           C.
           vouchsafed
           him
           frequently
           their
           Company
           to
           raise
           hi●
           Credit
           ;
           and
           their
           Eloquence
           was
           employed
           wheresoever
           they
           came
           .
           In
           proclaiming
           his
           Praise
           ,
           and
           in
           extolling
           his
           Ingenuity
           and
           Presence
           of
           Mind
           ;
           yea
           ,
           whilst
           the
           Government
           was
           running
           daily
           into
           Debt
           to
           those
           ●hat
           industriously
           and
           substantially
           served
           it
           ,
           Money
           was
           plentifully
           lavished
           out
           to
           embolden
           and
           reward
           him
           :
           Nor
           did
           their
           being
           conscious
           how
           prodigally
           he
           wasted
           it
           on
           his
           Lusts
           ,
           discourage
           them
           from
           esteeming
           him
           a
           very
           credible
           Witness
           ;
           for
           to
           gain
           b●
           Falshood
           and
           Perjury
           ,
           and
           to
           consume
           in
           Luxury
           and
           Whoredom
           ,
           are
           equally
           overlook'd
           by
           some
           People
           ,
           when
           they
           have
           proposed
           an
           End
           and
           formed
           a
           Design
           wherein
           they
           want
           to
           be
           served
           .
           And
           though
           there
           is
           too
           much
           Reason
           to
           believe
           ,
           that
           they
           who
           gave
           Countenance
           to
           the
           Rogue
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           they
           who
           managed
           him
           ,
           knew
           from
           the
           beginning
           that
           whatsoever
           he
           told
           them
           was
           Sham
           and
           Fiction
           ,
           yet
           they
           not
           only
           filled
           the
           City
           and
           Kingdom
           with
           the
           Noise
           of
           the
           mighty
           Discovery
           of
           a
           horrid
           Plot
           ,
           but
           hoping
           to
           have
           imposed
           upon
           the
           Parliament
           (
           as
           had
           been
           done
           in
           a
           parrallel
           Case
           )
           they
           took
           the
           Confidence
           to
           bring
           it
           into
           the
           
             House
             of
             Commons
          
           ;
           where
           the
           Rascal
           telling
           his
           Story
           with
           the
           utmost
           degree
           of
           Boldness
           and
           Assurance
           ,
           and
           giving
           an
           amazing
           Coherence
           to
           those
           Things
           he
           had
           impudence
           to
           say
           ,
           the
           belief
           of
           a
           PLOT
           was
           greatly
           strengthned
           and
           encreased
           ▪
           But
           the
           Villain
           having
           told
           the
           House
           of
           concurring
           Witnesses
           whom
           he
           had
           ,
           but
           whom
           (
           after
           all
           the
           Sums
           he
           bubbled
           some
           People
           of
           )
           he
           could
           never
           produce
           ;
           and
           having
           slandered
           and
           accused
           several
           Persons
           of
           Condition
           ,
           whom
           he
           no
           ways
           knew
           ,
           or
           had
           at
           any
           time
           
           obtained
           an
           Access
           unto
           ,
           his
           Credit
           at
           first
           dwindled
           by
           degrees
           ,
           and
           at
           last
           ,
           his
           having
           forged
           whatsoever
           he
           had
           said
           ,
           became
           notorious
           :
           Upon
           which
           the
           House
           ,
           for
           the
           vindication
           of
           its
           own
           Honour
           ,
           but
           to
           the
           Grief
           of
           many
           without
           Doors
           ,
           and
           of
           some
           within
           ,
           not
           only
           voted
           him
           an
           
             Infamous
             Person
          
           ,
           but
           ordered
           that
           he
           should
           be
           prosecuted
           ,
           which
           after
           a
           long
           Delay
           ,
           (
           the
           reasons
           whereof
           they
           are
           best
           able
           to
           assign
           who
           were
           guilty
           of
           it
           )
           he
           was
           before
           your
           Lordship
           ,
           and
           ,
           upon
           being
           convicted
           ,
           was
           adjudged
           to
           the
           Punishment
           which
           the
           Law
           appointeth
           and
           allows
           ,
           but
           not
           what
           the
           Crime
           deserves
           ,
           through
           a
           fatal
           defect
           in
           the
           Rule●
           of
           our
           Government
           :
           For
           whereas
           by
           the
           Laws
           of
           Nature
           and
           Revelation
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           by
           the
           establish'd
           Sanction
           of
           all
           other
           Nations
           ,
           a
           Villainy
           of
           this
           high
           and
           horrid
           Nature
           is
           made
           not
           only
           punishable
           with
           Death
           ,
           but
           a
           Death
           accompanied
           with
           all
           the
           cruel
           and
           infamous
           Circumstances
           which
           the
           calumnious
           Conspirators
           would
           have
           brought
           upon
           innocent
           Men
           ;
           it
           is
           the
           Disgrace
           and
           Reproach
           of
           this
           Kingdom
           ,
           which
           with
           a
           ridiculous
           Vanity
           so
           much
           boasteth
           of
           the
           Excellency
           of
           its
           Constitution
           and
           Laws
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           made
           only
           obnoxious
           to
           the
           Chastisement
           which
           ●he
           pet●iest
           Transgression
           subjecteth
           Offenders
           unto
           .
           And
           whereas
           we
           hoped
           upon
           the
           Revolution
           to
           have
           been
           relieved
           against
           this
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           many
           other
           Gri●vances
           ,
           yet
           to
           our
           Disappointment
           and
           continued
           Calamity
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           Dishonour
           of
           those
           who
           are
           become
           possessed
           of
           the
           Throne
           ,
           we
           have
           not
           (
           by
           rea●on
           of
           the
           Influence
           of
           the
           Government
           upon
           some
           bigotted
           and
           revengeful
           ,
           and
           other
           Pensionary
           Members
           of
           Parliament
           )
           been
           so
           much
           as
           able
           to
           procure
           the
           passing
           of
           a
           Bill
           for
           giving
           us
           the
           common
           Favours
           ,
           Help
           and
           Assistances
           in
           Trials
           of
           
             High
             Treason
          
           ,
           which
           we
           are
           allowed
           in
           Pecuniary
           Matters
           ,
           and
           in
           all
           other
           Cases
           :
           And
           who
           ,
           with
           Industry
           ,
           Vigour
           and
           Spleen
           ,
           opposed
           and
           hindred
           our
           obtaining
           of
           it
           ,
           but
           your
           
             Rich's
             ,
             ●oung's
             ,
             Clark's
             ,
             Arnold's
             ,
             &c.
          
           that
           both
           so
           much
           needed
           and
           bewailed
           the
           want
           of
           it
           heretofore
           ,
           which
           ,
           in
           the
           Righteousness
           of
           God
           ,
           they
           or
           their
           Posterity
           may
           do
           a
           sin
           ,
           and
           by
           a
           just
           Retaliation
           be
           refu●ed
           ?
           Now
           this
           that
           I
           have
           laid
           before
           your
           Lordship
           ,
           of
           the
           audacious
           Conspiracies
           of
           Fuller
           for
           the
           destruct●on
           of
           innocent
           Persons
           ,
           ●ully
           sheweth
           ●hat
           necessitous
           Miscrean●●
           are
           capable
           of
           attempting
           ,
           and
           what
           countenance
           the
           worst
           Barbarities
           may
           meet
           with
           from
           some
           ,
           who
           ,
           by
           their
           Places
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           by
           their
           Characters
           and
           Quality
           ,
           should
           not
           only
           discourage
           ,
           but
           endeavour
           by
           all
           means
           to
           have
           them
           punished
           .
           And
           it
           do●h
           withal
           serve
           to
           instruct
           you
           not
           to
           be
           too
           credulous
           ,
           nor
           to
           believe
           every
           one
           guilty
           ,
           whom
           indigent
           and
           immoral
           Fellows
           have
           the
           impudence
           to
           swear
           against
           .
           And
           that
           you
           may
           be
           further
           informed
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           forewarned
           ,
           how
           little
           Men's
           Innocency
           signifieth
           to
           the
           ●kreening
           and
           covering
           them
           from
           Danger
           ,
           I
           crave
           liberty
           to
           remind
           you
           ,
           what
           Young
           the
           Parson
           ,
           in
           conjunction
           with
           Blackhead
           ,
           had
           contrived
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           the
           murdering
           several
           of
           the
           First
           Quality
           in
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           besides
           divers
           Gentlemen
           of
           lower
           Degree
           :
           For
           these
           Fellows
           judging
           it
           too
           little
           and
           mean
           ,
           for
           Persons
           of
           their
           transcendency
           in
           Villainy
           ▪
           meerly
           to
           swear
           that
           such
           and
           such
           had
           conspired
           and
           combined
           to
           Restore
           and
           Re-establish
           King
           James
           ,
           they
           had
           the
           audacious
           and
           unpresidented
           Impudence
           ,
           to
           forge
           an
           Association
           ,
           and
           to
           counterfeit
           and
           affix
           the
           Hands
           and
           Names
           of
           Honourable
           Peers
           and
           Worthy
           Persons
           unto
           it
           ,
           importing
           their
           having
           mutually
           and
           jointly
           undertook
           to
           dispossess
           K
           William
           ,
           and
           to
           bring
           back
           and
           re-advance
           K.
           James
           .
           And
           though
           it
           was
           morally
           impossible
           as
           well
           as
           altogether
           incredible
           ,
           tha●
           ,
           had
           there
           been
           such
           a
           Design
           ,
           and
           so
           concerted
           and
           stipulated
           ,
           Wretches
           of
           the
           meanness
           of
           Young
           and
           Blackhead
           should
           have
           b●en
           admitted
           upon
           a
           Secret
           of
           such
           Importance
           in
           it self
           ,
           and
           whereof
           the
           Discovery
           would
           have
           rendred
           those
           concern'd
           liable
           to
           the
           loss
           of
           Life
           ,
           Honour
           and
           Estates
           :
           Yet
           not
           only
           with
           what
           Easiness
           ,
           but
           Leachery
           ,
           was
           the
           belief
           of
           it
           entertain'd
           by
           divers
           of
           our
           Supream
           ,
           and
           reputed
           wise
           Ministers
           ;
           and
           notwithstanding
           its
           being
           ,
           in
           the
           whole
           mater
           of
           it
           ▪
           more
           Ludicrous
           than
           Farce
           ,
           or
           Bartholomew-Fair-Shew
           ,
           and
           fitter
           to
           amuse
           Gaping
           MOB
           ,
           than
           to
           be
           staged
           before
           ,
           and
           to
           be
           entertained
           by
           States-men
           ;
           yet
           with
           what
           Seriou●ness
           and
           Gravity
           was
           it
           brought
           to
           the
           Council-Board
           ,
           and
           received
           there
           as
           a
           Subject
           worthy
           of
           weighty
           and
           solemn
           Debate
           ;
           Whilst
           in
           the
           mean
           while
           ,
           the
           very
           har●●●specting
           that
           the
           Per●ons
           ,
           whose
           Hands
           were
           forged
           to
           that
           inven●ed
           and
           supposititious
           Paper
           ,
           were
           capable
           of
           being
           guilty
           of
           so
           weak
           and
           silly
           a
           Thing
           ,
           
           could
           not
           miss
           deriving
           upon
           the
           Government
           the
           Stain
           and
           Reproach
           of
           Simplicity
           and
           Folly
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           of
           Ingratitude
           and
           Injustice
           :
           For
           as
           the
           two
           Reverend
           and
           
             Learned
             Bishops
          
           were
           secured
           by
           their
           Vertue
           ,
           Modesty
           and
           Prudence
           from
           all
           just
           Suspicion
           of
           having
           been
           in
           the
           least
           accessary
           to
           that
           whereof
           they
           were
           accused
           :
           So
           my
           Lord
           
           Marlborough's
           hahaving
           contributed
           so
           eminently
           and
           effectually
           to
           the
           Revolution
           ,
           was
           enough
           to
           render
           his
           Loyalty
           to
           this
           Government
           unquestionable
           because
           necessary
           ;
           and
           his
           return
           to
           K.
           
           James's
           Interest
           incredible
           ,
           by
           reason
           his
           Reception
           into
           the
           Grace
           and
           Favour
           of
           that
           Prince
           is
           impr●cticable
           .
           Nor
           could
           the
           Ministers
           be
           so
           great
           Strangers
           to
           the
           infamous
           Characters
           of
           the
           Wi●nesses
           (
           whose
           many
           and
           notorious
           Crimes
           had
           sufficiently
           published
           them
           before
           ,
           thro'
           the
           whole
           Nation
           ,
           as
           Rascals
           who
           had
           forfeited
           all
           Right
           to
           be
           believed
           and
           credited
           )
           as
           to
           hope
           to
           have
           their
           Integrity
           and
           Righteousness
           just●fied
           in
           seizing
           and
           prosecuting
           any
           upon
           their
           Testimony
           :
           And
           yet
           had
           it
           not
           been
           for
           the
           missing
           of
           the
           forged
           Paper
           ,
           when
           it
           was
           at
           first
           so
           narrowly
           searched
           for
           at
           the
           Bp.
           of
           
           Rochester's
           ,
           where
           one
           of
           the
           Rogues
           traiterously
           and
           feloniously
           lodged
           it
           ,
           it
           is
           scarce
           to
           be
           conceived
           ,
           how
           some
           of
           our
           States-men
           were
           prepared
           to
           have
           pushed
           on
           that
           Affair
           to
           the
           Impriso●ment
           of
           sever●l
           .
           But
           that
           Misadventure
           together
           with
           the
           Defences
           which
           the
           aforesaid
           Eloquent
           Bishop
           ,
           after
           his
           Apprehension
           ,
           made
           at
           his
           being
           examined
           before
           the
           Council
           ,
           rendred
           them
           more
           slow
           and
           wary
           in
           their
           Proceeding
           :
           And
           thereupon
           through
           the
           gaining
           the
           Respit
           of
           a
           little
           time
           ,
           there
           was
           an
           Opportuni●y
           ob●ained
           ,
           no●
           only
           of
           discovering
           and
           laying
           open
           the
           many
           infam●us
           and
           horrid
           Crimes
           whereof
           the
           Rogues
           sad
           at
           other
           times
           been
           guilty
           ,
           but
           of
           fully
           de●ecting
           the
           Forgery
           of
           the
           Association
           ,
           and
           where
           they
           had
           secretly
           laid
           it
           in
           the
           
           Bishop's
           House
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           have
           destroyed
           him
           and
           others
           ,
           in
           case
           it
           had
           been
           found
           by
           the
           Clerk
           of
           the
           Council
           and
           the
           Messengers
           ,
           when
           it
           was
           so
           industriously
           sought
           for
           .
           And
           truly
           ,
           My
           Lord
           ,
           had
           not
           Young
           laboured
           under
           a
           strange
           defect
           of
           Morals
           ,
           he
           was
           incomparably
           qualified
           in
           all
           o●her
           respects
           to
           have
           been
           a
           select
           ,
           singular
           and
           standing
           Witness
           for
           the
           State
           :
           For
           as
           he
           has
           a
           sufficiency
           of
           Wit
           and
           Presence
           of
           M●nd
           ,
           to
           be
           able
           to
           give
           things
           the
           best
           Gloss
           and
           readiest
           Turn
           of
           Thought
           ;
           so
           he
           is
           furnished
           with
           a
           larger
           Stock
           of
           Impudence
           and
           Assurance
           than
           most
           Men
           in
           the
           World
           are
           :
           Of
           which
           your
           Lordship
           was
           an
           astonished
           Witness
           when
           you
           had
           him
           before
           you
           at
           the
           Bar
           ,
           to
           be
           tried
           for
           the
           Forgery
           which
           I
           have
           mentioned
           ,
           and
           to
           be
           condemned
           to
           the
           too
           gentle
           and
           feeble
           Punishment
           which
           the
           Law
           hath
           ordained
           for
           it
           :
           For
           with
           what
           Confidence
           did
           he
           stand
           ,
           not
           only
           under
           the
           Load
           of
           a
           Thousand
           infamous
           Actions
           ,
           of
           which
           all
           the
           Court
           (
           by
           the
           Perusal
           of
           the
           Bp.
           of
           
           Rochester's
           two
           Books
           )
           knew
           him
           to
           have
           been
           guilty
           ,
           but
           under
           the
           fullest
           and
           clearest
           Proof
           of
           the
           malicious
           Forgery
           for
           which
           he
           was
           then
           Arraigned
           :
           Yea
           ,
           with
           what
           Effrontry
           and
           air
           of
           Impudence
           ,
           to
           the
           Amazement
           of
           all
           there
           ,
           did
           he
           continue
           to
           assert
           his
           own
           Innocence
           ,
           and
           persevere
           in
           his
           crimination
           of
           others
           ?
           But
           that
           which
           filleth
           Men
           most
           with
           Sorrow
           in
           reference
           to
           that
           Transaction
           ,
           and
           which
           keeps
           them
           under
           disquieting
           Fears
           ever
           since
           ,
           is
           ,
           that
           though
           Young
           and
           Blackhead
           were
           Instruments
           in
           it
           yet
           people
           of
           another
           Figure
           must
           have
           been
           the
           first
           Contrivers
           and
           Authors
           of
           it
           :
           And
           the
           handing
           Money
           to
           Blackhead
           ,
           while
           kept
           i●
           Custody
           by
           Allen
           the
           Messenger
           ,
           and
           conniving
           at
           his
           Escape
           from
           thence
           ,
           gives
           us
           more
           than
           a
           Suspicion
           of
           it
           ,
           and
           little
           less
           than
           a
           moral
           Certainty
           :
           For
           that
           Rogue
           having
           been
           the
           Tool
           employed
           too
           with
           Young
           by
           the
           superior
           Managers
           ,
           and
           having
           threatn'd
           to
           squeak
           in
           case
           given
           up
           &
           abandoned
           to
           a
           publick
           Punishment
           ,
           it
           was
           so
           ordered
           ,
           that
           he
           might
           not
           only
           be
           permitted
           to
           get
           away
           ,
           but
           be
           sheltered
           and
           maintained
           in
           Ireland
           ,
           whither
           he
           withdrew
           ;
           and
           from
           whence
           the
           Government
           might
           have
           easily
           brought
           him
           back
           ,
           were
           there
           not
           a
           Mistery
           in
           that
           Affair
           which
           it
           is
           not
           for
           some
           Peoples
           Honor
           to
           have
           unrav●ll'd
           .
           Nor
           was
           the
           Messenger
           ,
           out
           of
           whose
           House
           and
           Custody
           he
           made
           his
           Escape
           ,
           ever
           punished
           for
           his
           Carelesness
           and
           Neglect
           ;
           but
           after
           a
           little
           menacing
           and
           Reprimand
           ,
           which
           was
           meer
           Grimace
           ,
           he
           hath
           been
           treated
           all
           along
           since
           with
           more
           d●stinguishing
           Favours
           than
           fell
           to
           the
           Share
           of
           his
           Fellow-Officers
           .
           Neither
           durst
           so
           mean
           and
           creeping
           Wretches
           a●
           ●oung
           and
           Blackhead
           (
           how
           impudent
           and
           malicious
           soever
           they
           are
           )
           have
           attacked
           Persons
           of
           the
           Earl
           of
           Marlborough
           and
           the
           Bishop
           of
           
           Rochester's
           Rank
           and
           Quality
           ,
           and
           who
           had
           merited
           
           so
           well
           of
           the
           Government
           ,
           and
           were
           believed
           at
           that
           time
           to
           stand
           in
           all
           terms
           of
           fairness
           with
           it
           ,
           had
           they
           not
           been
           prompted
           ,
           guided
           and
           encouraged
           to
           it
           by
           Persons
           of
           Authority
           ,
           Grandeur
           and
           Eminency
           .
           And
           had
           the
           Villains
           acted
           meerly
           under
           their
           own
           Conduct
           ,
           and
           by
           the
           Influence
           of
           Personal
           Malice
           and
           Avarice
           ,
           they
           would
           have
           singled
           out
           such
           to
           be
           accused
           ,
           as
           are
           held
           indiscreet
           ,
           talkative
           and
           rash
           ,
           and
           with
           whom
           it
           might
           have
           been
           likely
           for
           them
           to
           have
           had
           some
           Conversation
           ;
           and
           not
           Per●ons
           of
           the
           grea●est
           Prudence
           ,
           Circumspection
           and
           Reservedness
           of
           any
           in
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           into
           whose
           Society
           it
           was
           morally
           impossible
           that
           any
           should
           judge
           them
           to
           have
           been
           admit●ed
           ,
           nor
           so
           much
           as
           into
           their
           Presence
           ,
           unless
           as
           Beggars
           and
           indigent
           Supplicants
           :
           So
           that
           this
           Conspirac●
           by
           suborning
           two
           infamous
           Rascals
           and
           of
           obtaining
           thereby
           Credit
           to
           a
           Plot
           ,
           upon
           the
           Belief
           of
           which
           several
           Noble
           ,
           Reverend
           and
           Worthy
           Persons
           were
           to
           have
           been
           involved
           under
           Guilt
           of
           Ruin
           ,
           m●y
           serve
           to
           instruct
           your
           Lordship
           not
           to
           be
           hasty
           and
           forward
           in
           giving
           Credit
           to
           the
           present
           importunate
           and
           noisy
           Clamours
           ,
           and
           to
           make
           you
           extreamly
           wary
           how
           you
           proceed
           to
           the
           Conviction
           and
           Condemnation
           of
           those
           that
           are
           accused
           and
           threatned
           to
           be
           arraigned
           .
           Nor
           will
           it
           be
           enough
           ,
           either
           for
           your
           Absolution
           when
           you
           appear
           before
           the
           Tribunal
           of
           God
           ,
           which
           you
           must
           shortly
           do
           ,
           or
           for
           the
           Vindication
           of
           your
           Justice
           and
           the
           Support
           of
           your
           Honour
           before
           Men
           while
           you
           are
           here
           ,
           to
           leave
           Things
           to
           a
           Jury
           ▪
           unless
           you
           enqui●e
           with
           the
           utmost
           Care
           and
           Penetration
           into
           the
           Credibility
           of
           those
           that
           depose
           and
           swear
           ,
           and
           upon
           what
           Motives
           &
           by
           what
           Means
           they
           are
           prevailed
           upon
           and
           are
           brought
           to
           do
           it
           .
        
         
           Nor
           can
           it
           ,
           my
           Lord
           ,
           be
           now
           any
           matter
           of
           Wonder
           ,
           if
           (
           after
           two
           such
           repeated
           Experiences
           as
           I
           have
           mentioned
           ,
           of
           some
           mens
           having
           designed
           to
           destroy
           a
           quiet
           ,
           innocent
           and
           peaceable
           People
           ,
           upon
           invented
           and
           forged
           Conspiracies
           against
           the
           Government
           ,
           supported
           by
           the
           Oaths
           &
           Testimonies
           of
           Merc●nary
           and
           Brib'd
           Fellows
           )
           the
           greatest
           Zealo●s
           for
           K.
           William
           and
           Q
           Mary
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           they
           who
           are
           not
           〈◊〉
           f●nd
           of
           ●heir
           Sovereignty
           ▪
           a●e
           become
           ●ug●ly
           suspic●ous
           ,
           That
           the
           Alarm
           now
           given
           ●o
           the
           N●tion
           by
           the
           〈◊〉
           of
           a
           fresh
           PLOT
           ,
           hath
           no
           other
           Foundation
           than
           some
           Sha●-contrivance
           of
           some
           little
           Ministers
           ,
           who
           would
           make
           themselves
           valu'd
           and
           necessary
           ,
           and
           raise
           Fortunes
           out
           of
           the
           Ru●n●s
           of
           those
           ,
           with
           whom
           ,
           upon
           D●stinction
           of
           Factions
           and
           Contrariety
           of
           Principles
           ,
           they
           are
           displeased
           :
           For
           it
           is
           not
           enough
           to
           involve
           Men
           in
           the
           Crime
           ,
           of
           designi●g
           to
           destroy
           the
           Government
           ,
           that
           they
           connot
           obtain
           Leave
           of
           their
           Consciences
           vigorously
           to
           support
           it
           .
           How
           many
           are
           there
           who
           cannot
           nicely
           distinguish
           themselves
           from
           under
           the
           Obligations
           that
           they
           owe
           to
           King
           James
           ,
           that
           are
           nevertheless
           willing
           to
           remain
           quiet
           under
           the
           Power
           that
           is
           over
           them
           ,
           and
           to
           sleep
           in
           whole
           Skins
           !
           And
           I
           am
           inclinable
           to
           bel●eve
           ,
           that
           had
           not
           those
           stiled
           Jacobites
           been
           made
           all
           of
           them
           uneasy
           in
           their
           Fortunes
           ,
           and
           many
           of
           them
           impoverished
           ,
           by
           double
           Tax●s
           ,
           because
           they
           cannot
           renounce
           all
           the
           Religious
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           Political
           Princip●es
           ,
           with
           which
           your
           
             Tillotsons
             ,
             Burnets
             ,
             Sher
             :
             locks
             ,
             &c.
          
           imbu'd
           them
           ,
           but
           that
           they
           would
           sit
           as
           silent
           and
           quiet
           under
           this
           Administration
           as
           any
           others
           whatsoever
           ,
           though
           they
           cannot
           equally
           approve
           and
           commend
           it
           .
           And
           were
           it
           not
           for
           the
           Respect
           that
           we
           are
           obliged
           to
           pay
           to
           the
           Wisdom
           and
           Authority
           of
           Parliaments
           ,
           most
           Persons
           of
           Prudence
           and
           Temperance
           of
           Mind
           ,
           would
           acknowledg
           this
           to
           have
           been
           as
           foolish
           a
           Project
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           peevish
           and
           ill-natur'd
           ;
           seeing
           all
           it
           amounts
           unto
           ,
           is
           only
           the
           revenging
           themselves
           on
           their
           Neighbours
           upon
           the
           naked
           account
           of
           Opinion
           ,
           and
           must
           have
           this
           eff●ct
           ,
           that
           they
           who
           are
           thus
           distinguishingly
           oppressed
           would
           be
           glad
           of
           a
           Change
           ,
           how
           little
           soever
           they
           co-operate
           to
           i●
           ,
           Nor
           was
           it
           ever
           found
           a
           successful
           Method
           ,
           to
           render
           any
           sort
           of
           People
           either
           affectionate
           to
           a
           State
           or
           quiet
           under
           it
           ,
           to
           single
           them
           out
           from
           the
           rest
           of
           a
           Community
           ,
           to
           be
           the
           Objects
           of
           Severity
           and
           ill-Usage
           .
           The
           most
           that
           wise
           Governments
           have
           used
           to
           do
           ,
           has
           be●n
           only
           to
           preclude
           those
           from
           Places
           of
           Honour
           and
           Profit
           under
           them
           that
           have
           not
           been
           zealously
           affectionate
           to
           them
           :
           And
           though
           they
           have
           sometimes
           found
           Incapacitating
           Laws
           necessary
           ;
           yet
           they
           have
           always
           held
           such
           as
           are
           oppressive
           to
           b●
           no●
           only
           unwise
           bu●
           unrighteous
           :
           And
           as
           this
           of
           ours
           is
           a
           President
           of
           the
           first
           Impression
           ;
           so
           it
           is
           possible
           that
           ,
           sooner
           or
           later
           ,
           it
           may
           come
           to
           be
           copied
           and
           imitated
           
           upon
           some
           of
           them
           that
           have
           set
           the
           Pattern
           .
           But
           to
           dismiss
           this
           ,
           I
           shall
           proceed
           ●o
           tell
           you
           ,
           that
           the
           Jacobites
           do
           not
           only
           decline
           Plotting
           ,
           because
           of
           the
           Hazard
           and
           Danger
           that
           attend
           it
           ,
           but
           because
           they
           judge
           it
           needless
           and
           unnecessary
           :
           For
           this
           Government
           is
           hastning
           to
           Ruine
           ,
           through
           the
           Folly
           ,
           Lavishness
           and
           Kn●very
           of
           those
           that
           serve
           it
           ;
           so
           that
           it
           were
           superfluous
           for
           any
           to
           expose
           their
           Lives
           in
           attempting
           to
           subvert
           it
           :
           Thro'
           ill
           Conduct
           and
           Mismanagement
           ,
           it
           is
           come
           almost
           to
           an
           Impossibility
           of
           supporting
           it
           much
           longer
           ,
           and
           at
           the
           same
           time
           of
           preserving
           the
           Kingdom
           ;
           and
           under
           that
           Dilemma
           ,
           few
           will
           hesitate
           which
           of
           the
           Two
           i●
           to
           be
           drop'd
           and
           abandoned
           :
           For
           notwithstanding
           all
           that
           huffing
           &
           ●●●utting
           of
           the
           Ministers
           about
           the
           Steadness
           ,
           Streng●●
           and
           Greatness
           of
           the
           Government
           ,
           it
           m●st
           nevertheless
           be
           owned
           ,
           that
           whilst
           it
           remains
           engaged
           in
           the
           〈◊〉
           ▪
           it
           is
           but
           in
           a
           Go-Cart
           ,
           it
           walks
           and
           stands
           by
           the
           help
           of
           Leading-Strings
           ,
           and
           can
           no
           longer
           subsist
           than
           as
           it
           is
           shoared
           and
           underpropt
           ;
           and
           when
           the
           Expence
           of
           sustaining
           it
           grows
           insupportable
           ,
           ●t
           sinks
           without
           any
           Man
           's
           running
           the
           Hazard
           of
           giving
           it
           a
           Push
           ,
           by
           the
           meer
           withdrawing
           and
           witholding
           the
           Means
           by
           which
           it
           was
           sustained
           ;
           which
           Poverty
           will
           reduce
           its
           greatest
           Partizans
           to
           do
           ,
           notwithstanding
           all
           their
           Bigottry
           and
           Zeal
           :
           For
           it
           is
           now
           uncontroulably
           evident
           ,
           that
           after
           the
           greatest
           Fund
           and
           Expence
           which
           was
           ever
           granted
           by
           Parliament
           ,
           towards
           the
           raising
           and
           maintaining
           a
           more
           numerous
           and
           brave
           Land-Army
           than
           we
           have
           at
           any
           time
           had
           ▪
           and
           supported
           :
           And
           after
           all
           the
           united
           Strength
           of
           these
           three
           Kingdoms
           ,
           in
           Conjunction
           with
           all
           the
           utmost
           Power
           which
           our
           good
           Allies
           the
           Dutch
           and
           our
           other
           Confederates
           are
           able
           to
           afford
           and
           furnish
           ,
           that
           yet
           all
           we
           are
           in
           a
           Condition
           to
           do
           in
           the
           
             Spanish
             Netherlands
          
           ,
           is
           by
           securing
           our selves
           in
           Trenches
           to
           make
           a
           defensive
           War
           ,
           and
           to
           come
           Home
           crowned
           with
           the
           Honour
           of
           doing
           nothing
           .
           And
           that
           while
           we
           are
           priding
           our selves
           upon
           our
           infesting
           the
           
             French
             Coast
          
           and
           the
           burning
           a
           Fisher-Town
           ,
           at
           an
           Expence
           ,
           Charge
           and
           Loss
           vastly
           above
           the
           worth
           of
           it
           .
           We
           have
           not
           only
           abandoned
           our
           Merchant-Ships
           to
           the
           Mercy
           of
           the
           Privateers
           ,
           but
           while
           we
           thus
           employ
           our
           Fleet
           ,
           have
           suffered
           the
           French
           to
           possess
           ●hemselves
           of
           Jamaica
           ,
           which
           (
           as
           it
           was
           the
           most
           profitable
           of
           all
           our
           Plantations
           ,
           so
           the
           loss
           of
           it
           ,
           added
           to
           the
           Interruption
           and
           Destruction
           of
           our
           Trade
           from
           all
           other
           Places
           )
           will
           necessitate
           the
           whole
           Kingdom
           to
           grow
           weary
           of
           the
           Government
           ,
           and
           to
           think
           of
           subverting
           it
           ,
           to
           preserve
           the
           Little
           that
           remains
           ,
           rather
           than
           to
           lose
           all
           ,
           by
           studying
           longer
           to
           support
           it
           :
           And
           for
           that
           Devastation
           we
           have
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           been
           making
           on
           the
           French
           ,
           it
           seems
           meerly
           designed
           to
           provoke
           them
           to
           Revenge
           ,
           seeing
           it
           is
           certain
           that
           they
           can
           make
           Reprizals
           on
           any
           parts
           of
           our
           Coast
           when
           they
           please
           .
           I
           confess
           ,
           my
           Lord
           ,
           that
           for
           the
           Jacobites
           to
           argue
           at
           this
           Rate
           doth
           not
           savour
           of
           too
           much
           Decency
           ,
           but
           I
           am
           sure
           it
           is
           a
           way
           of
           reasoning
           ,
           though
           possibly
           weak
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           rude
           ,
           is
           admirably
           adapted
           ,
           and
           extreamly
           proper
           ,
           to
           restrain
           them
           from
           Plotting
           ,
           and
           to
           keep
           them
           quiet
           :
           And
           the
           Folly
           and
           Unmannerliness
           of
           it
           may
           be
           better
           dispensed
           with
           ,
           seeing
           it
           speaketh
           them
           upon
           these
           Hopes
           and
           fanciful
           Prospects
           ,
           wholly
           alienated
           and
           at
           a
           distance
           ,
           from
           promoting
           Disturbances
           :
           For
           however
           Enthusiastick
           and
           Chymerick
           this
           Reasoning
           may
           be
           in
           it self
           ,
           as
           it
           will
           not
           escape
           being
           accounted
           so
           by
           o●hers
           ,
           yet
           it
           has
           the
           same
           Influence
           upon
           them
           to
           continue
           peaceable
           as
           if
           it
           were
           Apodictical
           and
           Oracular
           .
           But
           suffer
           me
           ,
           my
           Lord
           ,
           to
           descend
           to
           some
           Particular●
           relative
           to
           this
           PLOT
           ,
           which
           after
           all
           the
           mighty
           Noise
           concerning
           it
           ,
           and
           the
           Imprisonment
           of
           so
           many
           ,
           and
           the
           looking
           after
           more
           ,
           upon
           Pretences
           and
           Allegation●
           of
           having
           been
           embarqu'd
           in
           it
           ,
           do
           wholly
           destroy
           the
           C●edit
           of
           it
           with
           me
           ,
           and
           I
           doubt
           not
           when
           represented
           to
           your
           Lordship
           ,
           will
           very
           much
           enfeeble
           and
           detract
           from
           the
           belief
           of
           it
           with
           you
           .
           And
           to
           begin
           wi●h
           
             Hugh
             Speak
          
           and
           
             Harry
             Baker
          
           ,
           to
           whom
           is
           intrusted
           the
           mustering
           and
           levying
           of
           Witnesses
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           the
           
             conduct
             ,
             instruction
          
           and
           Management
           of
           them
           ;
           the
           One
           is
           such
           a
           Compound
           of
           Folly
           and
           Knavery
           ▪
           and
           the
           Other
           an
           Abridgment
           of
           
             Falshood
             ,
             Treachery
          
           and
           all
           sort
           of
           Villainy
           ,
           that
           it
           i●
           impossible
           ,
           where
           they
           are
           known
           ,
           to
           conciliate
           Faith
           either
           to
           any
           thing
           they
           say
           or
           any
           Discovery
           they
           are
           concerned
           in
           :
           And
           whosoever
           they
           are
           of
           the
           Ministers
           ;
           that
           have
           either
           advanced
           them
           unto
           ,
           or
           do
           give
           them
           Countenance
           in
           this
           Post
           and
           Emp●oy
           ,
           they
           are
           more
           guil●y
           of
           a
           PLOT
           against
           the
           Honour
           of
           K.
           William
           and
           Q
           Mary
           ,
           the
           Reputation
           of
           the
           Privy-Council
           ,
           and
           the
           
           Credit
           of
           the
           Justice
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           than
           any
           Jacobites
           whatsoever
           (
           yea
           even
           Colonel
           Parker
           himself
           )
           can
           be
           ,
           in
           a
           Conspiracy
           against
           the
           Safety
           of
           the
           Government
           and
           the
           Tranquility
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           :
           And
           in
           truth
           it
           is
           a
           Lamooo●
           upon
           the
           State
           ,
           to
           have
           it
           reported
           that
           any
           thing
           is
           conveyed
           by
           their
           Means
           ,
           or
           through
           their
           Hands
           ,
           either
           to
           the
           Secretary
           ,
           or
           to
           the
           Officers
           of
           Justice
           .
           As
           for
           Mr.
           Speak
           ,
           he
           hath
           never
           been
           otherwise
           look'd
           upon
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           his
           Folly
           ,
           accompanied
           with
           Vanity
           ,
           than
           as
           the
           Sport
           of
           Society
           ,
           and
           the
           Buffoon
           of
           the
           Town
           ;
           having
           ●nly
           this
           to
           value
           himself
           upon
           ,
           that
           answerable
           to
           the
           measure
           which
           God
           hath
           denied
           him
           of
           Understanding
           and
           good
           Sense
           ,
           he
           is
           proportionably
           furnishe●
           with
           Conceit
           ,
           which
           doth
           as
           well
           to
           his
           satisfaction
           .
           The
           Prank
           he
           play'd
           upon
           the
           Earl
           of
           
           Essex's
           having
           Assassinated
           him●elf
           ,
           and
           the
           Trou●le
           and
           Distress
           which
           by
           his
           Imp●dence
           and
           Folly
           he
           was
           then
           brought
           under
           ,
           doth
           sufficien●ly
           serve
           both
           to
           call
           him
           to
           your
           Rem●mbrance
           ,
           and
           to
           give
           your
           Lordship
           the
           Character
           of
           the
           Man.
           Nor
           needs
           there
           more
           to
           expose
           as
           well
           as
           decipher
           him
           ,
           than
           that
           he
           ,
           who
           was
           ready
           a
           while
           ago
           to
           h●ve
           sworn
           h●mself
           off
           upon
           the
           Statute
           ,
           for
           
             Nine
             Pounds
          
           he
           owed
           to
           a
           poor
           Woman
           near
           
             Grays
             .
             Inn
          
           ,
           for
           
             Bread
             ,
             Cheese
          
           ,
           and
           
             Pots
             of
             Ale
          
           ,
           is
           of
           lat●
           ,
           since
           he
           turn'd
           Witnessmonger
           ,
           no●
           only
           become
           Rival
           to
           the
           greatest
           Peers
           of
           the
           Realm
           ●n
           Grandeur
           of
           Living
           ,
           but
           out-doeth
           them
           in
           Expence
           and
           Magnificence
           .
           And
           if
           he
           receives
           the
           Money
           ,
           needful
           to
           support
           and
           defray
           so
           vast
           a
           Charge
           ,
           out
           of
           the
           Treasury
           ,
           as
           is
           believed
           he
           doth
           ,
           having
           been
           heard
           ordering
           his
           Servant
           to
           go
           tell
           
             Harry
             Guy
          
           that
           he
           expected
           his
           Money
           should
           be
           ready
           for
           him
           by
           Four
           of
           the
           Clock
           such
           an
           Afternoon
           ,
           then
           either
           the
           Treasure
           of
           the
           Nation
           is
           not
           so
           well
           disposed
           and
           expended
           as
           it
           should
           ,
           or
           else
           there
           must
           be
           some
           terrible
           Prospect
           and
           Design
           on
           foot
           against
           the
           Jacobites
           ,
           which
           they
           are
           forced
           to
           be
           at
           all
           this
           Expence
           to
           cherish
           and
           ma●urate
           .
           However
           it
           is
           very
           surprizing
           ,
           and
           possibly
           will
           not
           be
           very
           gra●eful
           to
           a
           Parliament
           when
           laid
           before
           them
           ,
           that
           all
           our
           Troops
           in
           Flanders
           should
           
             two
             Posts
          
           ago
           ,
           have
           wanted
           a
           Fortnigh●s
           Subsistence-Money
           ,
           save
           what
           they
           received
           out
           of
           the
           private
           Purses
           of
           their
           Officers
           ,
           and
           we
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           be
           so
           prodigiously
           squandering
           and
           lavishing
           it
           away
           here
           upon
           Rake-Hells
           ,
           who
           have
           not
           Vertue
           and
           Fortitude
           to
           make
           them
           capable
           of
           deserving
           a
           Shilling
           for
           a
           brave
           and
           generous
           Action
           .
           But
           some
           may
           think
           that
           the
           liberal
           paying
           of
           one
           Company
           of
           Witnesses
           at
           Home
           ,
           may
           give
           us
           the
           Credit
           of
           a
           more
           glorious
           Campaign
           ,
           against
           a
           few
           naked
           and
           disarmed
           Jacobites
           at
           the
           Old-Baily
           and
           Westminster-Hall
           ,
           than
           all
           our
           vast
           and
           chargeable
           Forces
           are
           in
           a
           condition
           of
           obtaining
           against
           the
           starv'd
           and
           
             cowardly
             French
          
           in
           ●rabant
           .
           But
           to
           wave
           Pleasantry
           ,
           the
           Subject
           being
           too
           tender
           and
           grave
           well
           to
           admit
           it
           ,
           and
           which
           I
           should
           not
           have
           used
           ,
           but
           that
           being
           obliged
           to
           re-encounter
           
             Hugh
             Speak
          
           ▪
           I
           cannot
           forbear
           falling
           into
           some
           of
           that
           Jocoseness
           ,
           which
           all
           Persons
           are
           accustomed
           unto
           ,
           when
           he
           is
           cast
           into
           their
           Company
           ;
           for
           God
           hath
           made
           some
           Creatures
           to
           excite
           and
           humour
           our
           R●●ibility
           ,
           as
           he
           has
           made
           others
           to
           gratify
           and
           exercise
           nor
           Reasoning
           and
           Intell●ctual
           ●aculties
           :
           But
           how
           contemptible
           soever
           
             Hugh
             Speak
          
           is
           in
           himself
           ,
           and
           how
           much
           he
           appears
           ridiculous
           to
           all
           Wise
           Men
           ,
           yet
           the
           more
           dangerous
           he
           is
           if
           countenanced
           and
           supported
           ,
           and
           the
           more
           hurt
           he
           ●ay
           do
           ,
           if
           any
           be
           so
           weak
           and
           wicked
           as
           to
           believe
           either
           him
           ,
           or
           those
           under
           his
           Conduct
           .
           And
           upon
           the
           Encouragement
           ,
           together
           with
           the
           large
           Sums
           of
           Money
           which
           have
           been
           already
           vouchsafed
           him
           ,
           he
           is
           swelling
           to
           that
           excess
           of
           Vanity
           ,
           as
           not
           only
           to
           equal
           himself
           to
           the
           wisest
           Ministers
           about
           the
           Court
           ,
           in
           the
           knowledge
           of
           the
           Art
           of
           Government
           ,
           but
           to
           prefer
           himself
           infinitely
           before
           them
           ,
           calling
           them
           in
           his
           common
           Discourse
           
             Punies
             in
             Politicks
          
           in
           comparison
           of
           himself
           :
           And
           is
           also
           arrived
           to
           that
           menacing
           and
           dangerous
           Arrogance
           ,
           as
           to
           declare
           in
           open
           Companies
           that
           he
           had
           several
           of
           the
           
             Privy
             Counsellors
          
           at
           his
           Mercy
           and
           under
           his
           Power
           ;
           which
           as
           it
           overthroweth
           the
           Credit
           of
           all
           he
           either
           says
           himself
           ,
           or
           instructeth
           and
           suborneth
           others
           to
           say
           ;
           so
           it
           renders
           it
           the
           less
           inc●ngruous
           for
           him
           to
           boast
           what
           he
           can
           do
           against
           meaner
           People
           ,
           who
           are
           not
           so
           well
           skreened
           from
           his
           extravagant
           mad
           Rage
           ,
           as
           the
           Noble
           Persons
           may
           hope
           to
           be
           ;
           th●ugh
           in
           justice
           he
           ought
           to
           be
           no
           more
           believed
           in
           reference
           to
           the
           latter
           ,
           than
           he
           is
           to
           be
           accounted
           worthy
           to
           be
           in
           relation
           to
           the
           former
           .
           It
           is
           not
           credible
           how
           far
           the
           frantick
           Man's
           Ambition
           stretcheth
           since
           he
           has
           been
           entertained
           
           an
           Enroller
           and
           Trainer
           up
           of
           Witnesses
           :
           For
           he
           fixeth
           no
           narrower
           Bounds
           to
           what
           he
           is
           immediatly
           to
           grow
           up
           unto
           ,
           than
           the
           getting
           himself
           possessed
           of
           Four
           Thousand
           Pounds
           
             per
             Annum
          
           ,
           besides
           a
           small
           Additional
           of
           ready
           Money
           about
           forty
           Thousand
           pounds
           .
           Now
           how
           many
           
             Confiscations
             ,
             Forfeitures
             ,
             Attainders
          
           and
           Murthers
           must
           this
           Man
           have
           projected
           and
           designed
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           compass
           so
           much
           to
           himself
           ,
           besides
           what
           the
           Crown
           is
           to
           have
           ,
           and
           the
           several
           Shares
           that
           are
           to
           go
           to
           others
           ?
           Surely
           the
           poor
           Creature
           needs
           Hellebore
           and
           
             dark
             Lodging
          
           ,
           and
           is
           fitter
           to
           have
           a
           Chamber
           assigned
           him
           in
           the
           Palace
           at
           Moor-Fields
           ,
           under
           the
           rare
           Guidance
           of
           those
           that
           have
           the
           Oversight
           and
           Ruling
           of
           the
           Lunatick
           ,
           than
           at
           an
           exorbitant
           Expence
           to
           be
           riotously
           maintained
           by
           the
           Court
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           lay
           Gins
           and
           Snares
           for
           the
           Lives
           of
           innocent
           Men
           ,
           by
           decoying
           and
           disciplining
           of
           Witnesses●
           And
           as
           for
           
             Harry
             Baker
          
           ,
           who
           is
           not
           only
           the
           other
           Conductor
           ,
           but
           the
           Suborner
           of
           the
           Evidence-Tribe
           ,
           and
           who
           values
           himself
           upon
           their
           encompassing
           him
           at
           his
           Levees
           and
           Couchees
           with
           their
           Caps
           in
           their
           Hands
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           being
           attended
           and
           guarded
           by
           them
           in
           his
           Journeys
           to
           Cheshire
           and
           Lancashire
           ,
           where
           he
           lately
           went
           vested
           with
           a
           more
           than
           Despotical
           Authority
           ,
           not
           only
           over
           his
           ●anditi
           and
           murdering
           Slaves
           ,
           but
           over
           the
           Messengers
           of
           the
           Council
           ,
           who
           were
           ordered
           to
           act
           with
           an
           implicit
           Obedience
           to
           his
           Directions
           and
           Commands
           :
           This
           Fellow
           is
           too
           notoriously
           known
           to
           your
           Lordship
           for
           his
           Cheating
           ,
           Defrauding
           ,
           Suborning
           &
           ignominious
           Course
           of
           Life
           about
           the
           Town
           for
           many
           Years
           ,
           that
           you
           should
           need
           his
           infamous
           Character
           conveyed
           unto
           you
           by
           me
           .
           And
           the
           Memoirs
           of
           his
           Life
           ,
           under
           the
           Title
           of
           the
           
             English
             Gusman
          
           ,
           being
           preparing
           for
           the
           Press
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           the
           Instruction
           as
           well
           as
           Diversion
           of
           Mankind
           ,
           it
           were
           but
           to
           anticipate
           what
           is
           so
           well
           and
           amply
           said
           there
           ,
           to
           interrupt
           your
           Lordship
           in
           your
           weighty
           Affairs
           ,
           by
           giving
           you
           any
           long
           Detale
           of
           his
           fraudulent
           ,
           enormous
           and
           infamous
           Practices
           :
           Only
           let
           me
           recommend
           your
           Lordship
           to
           the
           Right
           Honourable
           my
           Lord
           M●untague
           ,
           who
           no
           doubt
           will
           vouchsafe
           to
           give
           you
           such
           an
           Account
           of
           him
           in
           reference
           to
           his
           Carriage
           towards
           ,
           and
           Transactions
           in
           the
           Affairs
           of
           his
           Lordships
           Sister
           ,
           my
           Lady
           Harvey
           ,
           as
           will
           not
           only
           fill
           you
           with
           Astonishment
           at
           his
           enormous
           Roguery
           ,
           but
           sufficiently
           antidote
           you
           from
           being
           imposed
           upon
           and
           misled
           by
           any
           Persons
           whom
           he
           hath
           the
           Conduct
           of
           ,
           and
           influenceth
           and
           governs
           in
           their
           Informations
           ,
           Nor
           is
           it
           improper
           to
           lay
           before
           you
           ,
           what
           Disquiet
           and
           Trouble
           this
           brazen-fac'd
           Fellow
           gave
           to
           most
           of
           the
           Vintners
           in
           and
           about
           the
           Town
           ,
           a
           few
           Years
           ago
           ,
           for
           drawing
           Wine
           in
           Bottles
           instead
           of
           drawing
           it
           in
           Pots
           ;
           and
           how
           after
           he
           had
           compassed
           a
           great
           deal
           of
           Money
           to
           himself
           ,
           by
           secret
           and
           clandestine
           Compositions
           ,
           he
           eluded
           the
           Statute
           which
           had
           been
           made
           in
           that
           case
           ,
           defrauded
           the
           Government
           ▪
           and
           became
           obnoxious
           to
           the
           Penalty
           and
           Punishment
           appointed
           in
           the
           Act
           :
           For
           it
           is
           known
           to
           Thousands
           in
           City
           and
           Suburbs
           ,
           that
           whosoever
           were
           the
           little
           Scoundrels
           that
           appeared
           above-board
           in
           those
           Informations
           and
           Prosecutions
           ,
           yet
           that
           it
           was
           he
           that
           〈◊〉
           and
           hounded
           out
           the
           Rascally
           Fry
           ,
           of
           whom
           several
           ,
           upon
           his
           Advice
           and
           Persuasion
           ,
           perjured
           themselves
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           made
           themselves
           guilty
           of
           all
           sorts
           of
           sharking
           ,
           dishonest
           and
           opprobrious
           Tricks
           .
           And
           who
           ,
           my
           Lord
           ,
           but
           this
           
             Harry
             Baker
          
           has
           for
           divers
           Years
           been
           giving
           Vexation
           to
           several
           
             Roman
             Catholicks
          
           in
           many
           parts
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           rob
           ,
           and
           get
           them
           divested
           of
           very
           large
           Parts
           ,
           Shares
           and
           Proportions
           of
           their
           Estates
           ,
           under
           Pretence
           of
           their
           having
           been
           bequeathed
           unto
           and
           settled
           upon
           
             Popish
             Fraternities
          
           and
           
             Religious
             Houses
          
           ,
           or
           their
           being
           some
           way
           made
           over
           and
           conveyed
           to
           
             Superstitious
             Uses
          
           .
           And
           this
           Barretor
           and
           Harpie
           growing
           sensible
           ,
           that
           the
           infamous
           Witnesses
           whom
           he
           had
           lev●ed
           and
           suborned
           to
           attest
           and
           swear
           to
           those
           Disposals
           ,
           would
           ,
           by
           the
           indisputable
           Evidence
           of
           Persons
           of
           Rank
           ,
           Quality
           and
           unsuspected
           Credit
           ,
           he
           proved
           guilty
           of
           Perjury
           the
           next
           Term
           ,
           he
           has
           therupon
           changed
           the
           Scene
           ,
           and
           to
           prevent
           that
           Infamy
           from
           falling
           upon
           his
           Witnesses
           ,
           he
           has
           directed
           ,
           swayed
           and
           influenced
           them
           to
           swear
           High-Treason
           against
           the
           Gentlemen
           ●
           That
           so
           upon
           Loss
           of
           their
           Lives
           ,
           their
           Estates
           becoming
           forfeited
           ,
           he
           and
           his
           Miscreants
           may
           obtain
           a
           Share
           of
           them
           that
           way
           ,
           after
           their
           despairing
           of
           getting
           it
           the
           other
           :
           And
           it
           is
           upon
           the
           prospect
           of
           this
           ,
           that
           〈◊〉
           boasteth
           to
           his
           Friends
           ,
           and
           feeds
           himself
           with
           the
           criminal
           hopes
           of
           commencing
           suddenly
           a
           Man
           of
           Quality
           ,
           and
           of
           living
           to
           the
           
           heighth
           of
           his
           lascivious
           and
           riotous
           Appetites
           .
           But
           in
           the
           interim
           ,
           until
           he
           can
           attain
           to
           those
           Possessions
           ,
           which
           through
           ●uborning
           of
           Witnesses
           he
           is
           about
           purchasing
           by
           Murthers
           ,
           how
           disgracefully
           doth
           it
           reflect
           upon
           the
           Government
           ,
           and
           what
           indelible
           Reproach
           doth
           it
           fasten
           upon
           some
           in
           the
           Ministry
           ,
           that
           not
           only
           a
           Person
           of
           his
           infamous
           Character
           ,
           but
           against
           whom
           there
           are
           so
           many
           Actions
           for
           Debt
           ,
           and
           Executions
           in
           the
           hands
           of
           Attornies
           (
           it
           being
           his
           Principle
           ,
           though
           never
           so
           well
           stock'd
           with
           Money
           ,
           to
           pay
           no
           Man
           if
           he
           can
           avoid
           it
           )
           should
           be
           so
           plentifully
           furnished
           by
           those
           who
           are
           trusted
           with
           the
           disp●nsing
           and
           issuing
           out
           of
           the
           Treasure
           of
           the
           Nation
           as
           to
           be
           ab●e
           not
           only
           to
           live
           at
           the
           splendid
           and
           riotous
           rate
           he
           doth
           ,
           but
           be
           in
           a
           Condition
           to
           feed
           and
           supply
           so
           many
           notorious
           Cormorants
           and
           Beasts
           of
           Prey
           ,
           as
           a●tend
           him
           upon
           the
           Drudgery
           of
           Hallooing
           and
           Forswearing
           Men
           to
           Death
           !
           But
           ,
           my
           Lord
           ,
           it
           would
           be
           to
           paus●ate
           and
           offend
           you
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           to
           stain
           and
           pollute
           my self
           to
           rake
           longer
           in
           this
           Sink
           and
           Kennel
           :
           And
           I
           dare
           refer
           any
           for
           obtaining
           a
           further
           Account
           of
           him
           to
           most
           of
           the
           
             Whiggish
             Zealots
          
           for
           the
           Government
           about
           the
           Town
           ;
           to
           all
           whom
           he
           is
           sufficiently
           known
           for
           Frauds
           and
           Treacheries
           ,
           and
           to
           none
           for
           his
           Truth
           ,
           Probity
           and
           Justice
           :
           Yea
           ,
           I
           can
           venture
           your
           Lordships
           being
           better
           informed
           of
           him
           to
           the
           Testimony
           of
           Mr.
           
             A.
             Smith
          
           ,
           who
           (
           however
           zealous
           he
           be
           in
           Prosecutions
           for
           High-Treason
           ,
           and
           affectionate
           ,
           warm
           and
           steady
           a
           Partizan
           for
           those
           on
           the
           Throne
           )
           hath
           more
           regard
           for
           his
           own
           Credit
           ,
           and
           more
           Concernment
           ●or
           the
           honour
           o●
           the
           Justice
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           more
           Comp●ssion
           and
           Tenderness
           for
           the
           Lives
           of
           guil●le●s
           ,
           innocent
           People
           ,
           than
           to
           represent
           him
           as
           a
           Credible
           Person
           ;
           or
           not
           to
           tell
           you
           (
           if
           you
           will
           do
           your self
           ,
           Mankind
           and
           the
           Na●ion
           that
           Right
           as
           to
           require
           it
           of
           h●m
           )
           that
           Trick
           and
           Falshood
           are
           to
           be
           suspected
           and
           feared
           in
           all
           that
           
             Harry
             Baker
          
           doth
           dip
           or
           intermeddle
           with
           .
           Nor
           would
           I
           be
           hopeless
           ,
           but
           that
           Mr.
           Secretary
           Trenchard
           would
           concur
           with
           the
           rest
           of
           his
           old
           Acquaintance
           in
           branding
           
             Harry
             Baker
          
           for
           a
           Fellow
           unworthy
           of
           the
           least
           Credit
           in
           any
           thing
           wher
           in
           he
           expects
           to
           find
           his
           Advantage
           and
           Interest
           ;
           but
           that
           Mr.
           Secretary
           may
           be
           apprehensive
           ,
           that
           what
           ,
           upon
           the
           Calculation
           of
           his
           Nativity
           ,
           was
           told
           him
           long
           ago
           ,
           may
           be
           true
           ,
           namely
           ,
           
             That
             his
             Prosperity
             and
             Honour
             should
             commence
             at
             the
             time
             they
             did
             ;
             and
             that
             after
             he
             had
             been
             easy
             and
             flourished
          
           Six
           Years
           ,
           
             be
             should
             about
             the
             Period
             and
             Expiration
             of
             them
             ,
             fall
             into
             Trouble
             and
             Disgrace
             ,
             if
             he
             escaped
             other
             Distresses
             .
          
           And
           if
           it
           be
           in
           order
           to
           obviate
           and
           prevent
           his
           threatned
           〈◊〉
           :
           Fortune
           ,
           which
           according
           to
           that
           Prediction
           must
           be
           approaching
           and
           near
           ,
           that
           he
           is
           so
           busy
           in
           finding
           PLOTS
           where
           there
           are
           none
           ,
           and
           in
           trading
           with
           a
           Company
           of
           Villains
           ,
           whom
           he
           encourageth
           to
           reveal
           what
           he
           is
           sensible
           they
           never
           knew
           ,
           nor
           could
           ,
           he
           may
           by
           that
           means
           both
           accelerate
           his
           Mortification
           and
           augment
           his
           Sufferings
           :
           However
           ,
           this
           I
           am
           sure
           of
           ,
           that
           such
           a
           Method
           in
           the
           Administration
           of
           his
           Office
           will
           render
           the
           worst
           that
           shall
           overtake
           him
           the
           more
           just
           ,
           and
           him
           the
           less
           pitied
           under
           it
           .
           And
           were
           he
           as
           much
           a
           Christian
           as
           he
           pretends
           to
           be
           a
           States-man
           ,
           he
           would
           know
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           Equity
           and
           Justice
           which
           fix
           the
           Nail
           in
           the
           Wheel
           ,
           to
           hinder
           it's
           rolling
           ,
           and
           not
           Artifice
           ,
           Tricks
           and
           Politicks
           calculated
           to
           destroy
           such
           whom
           Laws
           are
           enacted
           to
           preserve
           .
           And
           it
           would
           not
           misbecome
           him
           to
           imitate
           the
           Pattern
           of
           Moderation
           and
           ▪
           Good-nature
           ,
           which
           the
           very
           honourable
           Person
           in
           the
           same
           Post
           with
           himself
           doth
           daily
           set
           and
           yield
           unto
           him
           ,
           and
           not
           to
           out-run
           and
           exceed
           it
           with
           so
           much
           fiery
           and
           undiscreet
           Heat
           :
           For
           as
           that
           truly
           Great
           Man
           contributed
           more
           to
           the
           Revolution
           ,
           and
           the
           Establishment
           of
           this
           Government
           ,
           than
           he
           had
           either
           In●erest
           or
           Courage
           to
           do
           ;
           so
           that
           Noble
           Peer
           wants
           not
           Integrity
           ,
           Z●al
           and
           Fortitude
           to
           support
           it
           by
           all
           honourable
           ,
           righteous
           and
           proper
           Means
           ,
           though
           he
           cannot
           meanly
           and
           indecently
           stoop
           to
           the
           unrighteous
           Methods
           or
           doings
           (
           which
           God
           will
           certainly
           blast
           )
           which
           others
           seem
           so
           fond
           of
           ,
           and
           to
           practise
           wi●h
           so
           much
           Valuation
           of
           themselves
           upon
           them
           .
        
         
           My
           Lord
           ,
           that
           which
           remaineth
           to
           be
           laid
           before
           you
           ,
           e're
           I
           put
           an
           end
           to
           the
           Trouble
           that
           I
           have
           assumed
           the
           liberty
           to
           give
           you
           ,
           is
           to
           aff●rd
           some
           little
           account
           of
           those
           Witnesses
           whose
           Names
           I
           have
           been
           able
           to
           attain
           ,
           af●er
           the
           best
           and
           most
           diligent
           enquiry
           I
           can
           make
           :
           But
           this
           may
           seem
           altogether
           superfluous
           ,
           after
           the
           Representation
           given
           of
           those
           that
           have
           procured
           ,
           and
           continue
           to
           manage
           them
           ;
           seeing
           none
           but
           the
           most
           
           despicable
           ,
           and
           most
           infamous
           of
           Men
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           the
           most
           indigent
           and
           necessitous
           ,
           can
           put
           themselves
           under
           the
           Power
           and
           Conduct
           of
           the
           Blades
           I
           have
           taken
           the
           pains
           to
           unmask
           .
           No●
           indeed
           is
           it
           easy
           to
           learn
           who
           all
           the
           Witnesses
           are
           ,
           there
           being
           so
           much
           Art
           and
           Industry
           used
           to
           hide
           and
           conceal
           them
           ,
           which
           I
           am
           sure
           casts
           no
           very
           honourable
           Aspect
           upon
           the
           Government
           ,
           though
           it
           looks
           extream
           unfavourably
           upon
           those
           that
           are
           accused
           :
           For
           the
           making
           it
           so
           great
           a
           Secret
           ,
           who
           they
           are
           that
           inform
           ,
           intimateth
           that
           they
           are
           sensible
           they
           are
           of
           no
           good
           Reputation
           ,
           and
           therefore
           dare
           not
           venture
           the
           having
           their
           Credibility
           ●i●ted
           and
           inquired
           into
           :
           Nor
           was
           it
           ever
           found
           ,
           but
           that
           labour'd
           Concealments
           of
           this
           kind
           argued
           the
           weakness
           of
           Legal
           Proof
           ,
           not
           the
           strength
           of
           the
           Nature
           of
           the
           Government
           against
           those
           that
           were
           to
           be
           prosecuted
           .
           Some
           talk
           as
           if
           many
           of
           them
           were
           Scotchmen
           ,
           and
           as
           if
           those
           of
           that
           Nation
           ,
           in
           the
           Administration
           of
           Affairs
           about
           this
           Court
           ,
           were
           desirous
           that
           their
           Kingdom
           should
           have
           a
           share
           in
           the
           Glory
           of
           yielding
           a
           Pack
           of
           standing
           Evidence
           for
           the
           State
           as
           well
           as
           England
           and
           Ireland
           have
           done
           :
           And
           if
           the
           Character
           of
           Cunning
           ,
           which
           is
           too
           justly
           as
           well
           as
           commonly
           given
           to
           the
           Scotch
           holds
           true
           ,
           in
           those
           that
           are
           to
           be
           hired
           at
           this
           time
           to
           be
           Witnesses
           for
           the
           Government
           ▪
           it
           looks
           a●
           if
           there
           were
           a
           
             formed
             Design
          
           of
           doing
           a
           great
           deal
           of
           Mischief
           ,
           and
           that
           they
           have
           chosen
           their
           Tools
           accordingly
           :
           But
           then
           if
           we
           add
           to
           this
           the
           Character
           of
           False
           ,
           which
           the
           English
           too
           commonly
           fasten
           upon
           many
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           there
           is
           the
           less
           danger
           ,
           because
           it
           is
           hoped
           none
           will
           believe
           them
           .
           And
           therefore
           ,
           as
           to
           all
           the
           present
           Evidences
           of
           the
           
             Scotch
             Nation
          
           ,
           I
           will
           leave
           it
           upon
           that
           issue
           :
           For
           not
           knowing
           who
           they
           are
           ,
           but
           upon
           uncertainty
           and
           at
           random
           ,
           I
           will
           detract
           from
           the
           Honesty
           and
           Faith
           of
           none
           ,
           though
           it
           were
           easy
           to
           overthrow
           the
           Credibility
           of
           all
           that
           are
           suspected
           But
           let
           this
           or
           that
           Man's
           Reputation
           be
           never
           so
           bad
           ,
           yet
           I
           will
           not
           expose
           them
           unless
           there
           be
           a
           very
           great
           necessity
           for
           it
           ;
           and
           then
           there
           is
           ,
           when
           the
           leaving
           them
           in
           the
           possession
           of
           a
           Credit
           ,
           which
           they
           have
           justly
           forfeited
           ,
           gives
           them
           the
           encouragement
           as
           well
           as
           opportunity
           of
           murdering
           innocent
           People
           ,
           by
           coming
           in
           falsly
           as
           Evidence
           against
           them
           .
           But
           that
           your
           Lordship
           may
           have
           some
           knowledge
           of
           the
           whole
           Herd
           of
           Briars
           ,
           by
           giving
           you
           a
           view
           and
           survey
           of
           some
           that
           are
           stiled
           the
           best
           of
           them
           ;
           I
           shall
           both
           attempt
           and
           speedily
           dispatch
           it
           ,
           without
           importuning
           your
           Patience
           much
           longer
           .
           And
           to
           begin
           with
           your
           Dandys
           ,
           your
           Omballs
           ,
           and
           your
           
             Lunts
             ,
             &c.
          
           which
           swore
           first
           against
           the
           Lancashire
           Gentlemen
           to
           deprive
           them
           of
           their
           Estates
           ,
           and
           have
           done
           the
           like
           since
           to
           destroy
           their
           Lives
           ;
           it
           is
           but
           your
           being
           acquainted
           with
           their
           Quality
           and
           Course
           of
           Living
           ,
           and
           you
           will
           not
           only
           think
           it
           a
           Weakness
           ,
           but
           criminal
           to
           believe
           their
           Testimonies
           :
           For
           Dand●
           he
           is
           a
           
             Converted
             Priest
          
           ,
           or
           if
           you
           consider
           the
           Motives
           upon
           which
           he
           abandoned
           the
           
             Popish
             Religion
          
           to
           embrace
           the
           Protestant
           ,
           which
           were
           to
           have
           ●●ope
           for
           his
           Lusts
           of
           all
           kind
           ,
           as
           the
           whole
           Series
           of
           his
           Life
           ever
           since
           hath
           abundantly
           testified
           ,
           you
           will
           rather
           call
           him
           an
           Apostate
           one
           :
           And
           it
           would
           have
           been
           for
           the
           Credit
           of
           our
           Church
           (
           for
           ,
           my
           Lord
           ,
           I
           am
           a
           Protestant
           ,
           and
           will
           never
           sacrifice
           my
           Religion
           and
           Countrey
           to
           any
           Man
           )
           if
           he
           had
           never
           entred
           into
           the
           Communion
           of
           i●
           ,
           and
           more
           for
           the
           In●amy
           of
           Theirs
           ▪
           if
           with
           allowance
           he
           had
           continued
           where
           he
           was
           :
           For
           since
           he
           became
           a
           Member
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           he
           hath
           wallowed
           in
           all
           the
           most
           scandalous
           Immoralities
           ,
           and
           to
           defray
           the
           Expence
           of
           his
           Debaucheries
           ,
           hath
           pil●ered
           and
           stole
           where
           he
           could
           ,
           till
           he
           fell
           upon
           the
           more
           safe
           and
           easy
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           more
           gainful
           Trade
           of
           Informing
           And
           I
           can
           better
           compare
           him
           to
           no
           Man
           than
           to
           the
           ancient
           Evidence
           Smith
           ,
           alias
           Barry
           ,
           who
           having
           by
           Perjury
           fleshed
           himself
           upon
           the
           Papists
           ,
           turned
           at
           last
           a
           perjur'd
           and
           false
           Witness
           against
           Protestants
           ;
           which
           undoubtedly
           this
           Fellow
           will
           be
           ready
           to
           do
           (
           when
           he
           finds
           his
           Profit
           and
           Interest
           in
           it
           )
           against
           all
           
             Williamit●s
             ,
             Whiggs
          
           and
           Phanaticks
           ,
           who
           now
           cocker
           and
           cherish
           him
           ,
           as
           he
           doth
           at
           present
           against
           the
           Jacobites
           of
           all
           Religions
           ,
           that
           he
           is
           hounded
           at
           ,
           and
           ●ed
           with
           Bread
           for
           .
           As
           to
           Omball
           ,
           he
           is
           a
           broken
           Carrier
           ,
           who
           by
           Sloth
           ,
           Riot
           and
           Neglect
           ,
           having
           brought
           himself
           to
           Poverty
           ,
           hath
           set
           up
           to
           repair
           his
           Fortune
           out
           of
           Gentlemen's
           Estates
           ,
           by
           forged
           and
           forsworn
           Depositions
           against
           them
           .
           And
           as
           for
           Lunt
           ,
           he
           was
           first
           Coach-man
           to
           my
           Lord
           Carington
           ,
           where
           he
           either
           Married
           or
           Contracted
           himself
           ,
           and
           then
           becoming
           a
           Granadier
           in
           the
           Guards
           ,
           he
           married
           another
           Woman
           ,
           or
           〈◊〉
           her
           as
           his
           Who●e
           ,
           but
           〈…〉
           the
           
           Life
           of
           this
           Second
           ,
           he
           went
           and
           demanded
           his
           First
           Wife
           :
           And
           this
           profligate
           Wretch
           going
           afterwards
           into
           Ireland
           ,
           while
           K.
           James
           was
           there
           ,
           he
           would
           have
           imposed
           upon
           that
           Prince
           ,
           that
           he
           had
           been
           a
           Trooper
           in
           the
           Guards
           ;
           but
           a
           Gentleman
           that
           knew
           him
           informing
           the
           King
           what
           he
           had
           been
           ,
           he
           was
           thereupon
           refused
           the
           being
           admitted
           into
           the
           Troop
           ,
           which
           K.
           James
           was
           then
           re-establishing
           :
           And
           most
           surely
           ,
           he
           who
           has
           the
           Impudence
           ,
           and
           dare
           be
           so
           criminal
           ,
           as
           to
           lye
           to
           his
           Prince
           ,
           will
           never
           scruple
           doing
           the
           like
           to
           your
           Lordship
           ,
           and
           to
           a
           Court
           of
           Justice
           .
           At
           last
           the
           Rake-Hell
           came
           from
           Ireland
           into
           Lancashire
           ,
           where
           being
           so
           necessitous
           as
           to
           be
           ready
           to
           starve
           ,
           he
           received
           Relief
           from
           several
           charitable
           Families
           ,
           whom
           he
           so
           ungratefully
           requires
           ,
           as
           perjuriously
           to
           swear
           them
           out
           of
           their
           Lives
           and
           Estates
           .
           Pray
           now
           ,
           my
           Lord
           ,
           do
           but
           vouchsafe
           to
           reflect
           upon
           the
           Civil
           and
           Moral
           Conditions
           of
           these
           Fellows
           ,
           and
           judge
           whether
           it
           be
           possible
           ,
           and
           much
           less
           likely
           ,
           that
           they
           should
           be
           made
           acquainted
           with
           the
           Disposal
           and
           Conveyances
           of
           Gentlemens
           Estates
           ,
           and
           least
           of
           all
           ,
           that
           they
           should
           be
           admitted
           upon
           so
           important
           and
           dangerous
           a
           Secret
           ,
           as
           Men
           of
           Quality's
           Plotting
           and
           Conspiring
           against
           the
           Government
           ;
           which
           if
           any
           Gentl●man
           shall
           be
           so
           weak
           and
           foolish
           as
           to
           allow
           ,
           I
           will
           say
           ,
           that
           instead
           of
           being
           put
           into
           the
           Tower
           and
           
             Chester-Castle
             ,
             &c.
          
           they
           should
           be
           confined
           unto
           ,
           and
           shut
           up
           in
           Bedlam
           ,
           and
           be
           treated
           as
           Mad-men
           ,
           not
           as
           Traytors
           .
           But
           the
           many
           Persons
           of
           Este●m
           ,
           Vertue
           and
           unsuspected
           Reputation
           ,
           who
           are
           ready
           to
           prove
           the
           Wretches
           perjured
           in
           reference
           to
           their
           Depositions
           about
           the
           Gentlemens
           Bequeathments
           of
           their
           Estates
           ,
           will
           thereby
           ,
           if
           they
           would
           say
           no
           more
           ,
           meerly
           through
           having
           made
           them
           appear
           forsworn
           in
           that
           Case
           ,
           overthrow
           their
           Credit
           ,
           and
           render
           them
           infamous
           in
           every
           Thing
           else
           which
           they
           have
           the
           Impudence
           to
           depose
           .
           And
           suffer
           me
           upon
           this
           Occasion
           to
           tell
           you
           ,
           how
           barbarous
           and
           unpresidented
           (
           save
           during
           the
           Reign
           and
           Rapine
           of
           Sir
           
             William
             Waller
          
           )
           as
           well
           as
           illeg●l
           and
           in●olent
           ,
           the
           manner
           of
           apprehending
           Gentlemen
           ,
           and
           of
           searching
           their
           Houses
           ,
           ha●h
           been
           in
           Lancashire
           :
           For
           not
           to
           insist
           upon
           the
           going
           about
           and
           performing
           it
           ,
           guarded
           and
           assisted
           with
           Dutch
           Horse
           ,
           whom
           we
           have
           no
           need
           to
           keep
           and
           maintain
           in
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           being
           furnished
           with
           so
           large
           an
           Army
           o●
           British
           Subjects
           ,
           and
           of
           whom
           (
           according
           to
           the
           P.
           of
           
           Orange's
           Declaration
           dated
           at
           the
           Hague
           ,
           in
           the
           Year
           88
           )
           we
           should
           have
           been
           rid
           and
           delivered
           long
           ago
           :
           But
           it
           is
           the
           Policy
           of
           this
           Government
           to
           observe
           and
           perform
           no
           part
           of
           that
           Declaration
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           prevent
           and
           hinder
           our
           believing
           the
           Declaration
           of
           any
           other
           Prince
           after
           it
           ,
           and
           thereby
           make
           the
           Restoration
           of
           King
           James
           impracticable
           ;
           there
           being
           no
           other
           way
           ,
           at
           least
           in
           their
           Opinions
           ,
           to
           render
           it
           feasible
           but
           the
           recovering
           and
           reconciling
           the
           Subjects
           again
           to
           their
           Subjection
           and
           Duties
           ,
           by
           the
           Concessions
           and
           Promises
           which
           he
           makes
           in
           a
           Declaration
           .
           Nor
           is
           it
           improbable
           ,
           but
           that
           our
           Ministers
           having
           read
           ,
           or
           at
           least
           heard
           (
           for
           all
           of
           them
           are
           not
           much
           conversant
           with
           Books
           )
           how
           one
           of
           the
           Monarchs
           of
           France
           ,
           coming
           from
           a
           Dukedom
           to
           a
           Sovereignty
           ,
           said
           ,
           that
           being
           King
           ▪
           he
           was
           not
           to
           revenge
           the
           Injuries
           he
           received
           as
           Duke
           ;
           they
           may
           thereupon
           imagine
           ,
           that
           King
           William
           is
           not
           obliged
           to
           perform
           the
           Prince
           of
           
           Orange's
           most
           Sol●mn
           Promises
           .
           But
           that
           which
           I
           call
           barbarous
           as
           well
           as
           illegal
           ,
           is
           ,
           that
           in
           many
           places
           whither
           they
           went
           ,
           they
           plundered
           and
           violently
           took
           away
           whatsoever
           they
           were
           able
           to
           lay
           their
           Hands
           upon
           :
           For
           not
           being
           contented
           to
           apprehend
           Persons
           and
           seize
           Arms
           of
           War
           ,
           they
           carried
           away
           
             Walking-Swords
             ,
             Hunting
             ▪
             Saddles
             ,
             S●affle-Bits
             ,
             Servants
             Cloaths
          
           and
           
             Oats
             out
             of
             the
             Barns
             and
             Granaries
          
           ;
           and
           which
           is
           more
           prejudicial
           to
           the
           Gentlemen
           than
           all
           the
           rest
           ,
           under
           pretence
           of
           searching
           for
           Papers
           they
           robbed
           them
           of
           ,
           and
           carried
           away
           with
           them
           the
           Writings
           of
           their
           Estates
           ;
           which
           if
           the
           Gentlemen
           do
           not
           receive
           Relief
           in
           ,
           and
           others
           be
           covered
           from
           the
           like
           in
           time
           to
           come
           ,
           it
           is
           easy
           to
           imagine
           that
           besides
           the
           Dishonour
           ▪
           redounding
           to
           the
           Government
           it
           will
           come
           to
           produce
           worse
           effects
           ,
           and
           be
           followed
           with
           those
           fatal
           Consequences
           which
           I
           need
           not
           to
           foretel
           .
           For
           a
           Rumour
           diffused
           thro'
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           for
           the
           entertainment
           whereof
           it
           is
           pretty
           well
           disposed
           ,
           that
           the
           Dutch
           are
           every
           where
           robbing
           and
           plundering
           ,
           may
           occasion
           as
           general
           a
           flying
           to
           Arms
           ,
           and
           with
           more
           Mischief
           attending
           it
           ,
           as
           the
           false
           and
           groundless
           Repor●
           〈◊〉
           in
           88.
           when
           it
           was
           spread
           through
           the
           whole
           Nation
           
           in
           one
           Nighf
           ,
           how
           a
           few
           broken
           ,
           scattered
           and
           disarmed
           Irish
           were
           burning
           Houses
           ,
           and
           cutting
           Throats
           in
           all
           places
           !
           And
           suffer
           me
           to
           tell
           you
           ,
           that
           for
           the
           Ministers
           to
           pretend
           to
           disallow
           these
           Things
           ,
           but
           not
           to
           punish
           them
           ,
           is
           both
           to
           encour●ge
           the
           Souldiers
           again
           to
           do
           ●he
           like
           ,
           and
           to
           tempt
           others
           to
           think
           that
           it
           is
           very
           well
           approved
           of
           ,
           though
           it
           be
           not
           yet
           convenient
           to
           commend
           and
           justify
           it
           .
           However
           ,
           it
           gives
           occasion
           for
           the
           old
           Tories
           to
           say
           ,
           that
           all
           the
           Complaints
           of
           the
           Whigs
           of
           the
           rigorous
           Oppressions
           of
           the
           former
           Reigns
           ,
           was
           only
           because
           they
           had
           not
           the
           priviledge
           to
           practise
           them
           ;
           and
           that
           it
           is
           not
           the
           doing
           ill
           things
           that
           di●pleaseth
           them
           ,
           but
           that
           they
           have
           not
           the
           applying
           of
           the
           Royal
           Authority
           to
           do
           all
           the
           Mischiefs
           they
           would
           .
           And
           it
           gives
           a
           very
           odd
           Id●●
           of
           a
           certain
           Gentleman
           at
           Court
           ,
           that
           when
           Hopkins
           the
           Messenger
           was
           complained
           of
           t'other
           day
           ,
           for
           having
           kept
           Sir
           
             Thomas
             Stanley
          
           ,
           whom
           he
           had
           in
           Custody
           ,
           without
           Meat
           
             eight
             and
             forty
             Hours
          
           ,
           all
           the
           Punishment
           the
           murderous
           and
           bloudy
           Villian
           received
           ,
           was
           only
           a
           gentle
           Reprimand
           ,
           But
           as
           this
           doth
           not
           satisfy
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           much
           less
           will
           it
           give
           Contentment
           to
           a
           Parliament
           ,
           before
           whom
           it
           will
           be
           brought
           In
           company
           of
           many
           other
           Oppressions
           and
           Grievances
           the
           next
           Sessions
           ;
           when
           possibly
           our
           national
           Dishonours
           and
           Losses
           ,
           both
           at
           Home
           and
           abroad
           ,
           may
           dispose
           them
           to
           hearken
           better
           than
           they
           have
           done
           to
           private
           and
           personal
           Complaints
           .
           And
           I
           may
           assure
           you
           ,
           that
           ●f
           either
           the
           Messenger
           be
           not
           turned
           out
           ,
           or
           Mr.
           Secretary
           Trenchard
           for
           continuing
           him
           in
           ,
           which
           in
           the
           modestest
           Language
           is
           a
           conniving
           at
           his
           Crime
           ,
           all
           men
           will
           believe
           ,
           that
           whosoever
           is
           taken
           up
           and
           lodged
           in
           a
           Messenger's
           hands
           ,
           is
           in
           a
           fair
           way
           to
           be
           destroyed
           without
           the
           Formality
           of
           a
           Trial
           or
           the
           Priviledge
           of
           being
           judicially
           convicted
           and
           condemned
           ▪
           My
           Lord
           ,
           there
           remains
           one
           Witness
           more
           ,
           whose
           Name
           I
           have
           learned
           ,
           and
           who
           is
           said
           to
           be
           of
           the
           best
           Reputation
           of
           any
           they
           have
           ,
           and
           that
           it
           i●
           upon
           his
           Testimony
           they
           depend
           more
           than
           upon
           any
           other
           ,
           for
           the
           Proof
           of
           this
           horrid
           PLOT
           ;
           and
           therfore
           knowing
           his
           Character
           so
           well
           as
           I
           do
           ,
           I
           shall
           convey
           him
           to
           you
           in
           his
           natural
           Colours
           ,
           that
           by
           his
           Hue
           ,
           you
           may
           judge
           of
           the
           Complexion
           of
           all
           the
           rest
           .
           The
           ●●llow
           is
           one
           Kingston
           ,
           who
           stiles
           himself
           a
           Parson
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           who
           being
           emulous
           of
           the
           Glory
           of
           the
           
             Dignified
             Clergy
          
           ,
           who
           are
           labouring
           to
           prevent
           the
           Restoration
           of
           King
           James
           ,
           and
           to
           support
           this
           Government
           by
           all
           their
           Wisdom
           and
           Eloquence
           ,
           and
           whatsoever
           other
           Means
           they
           can
           ,
           save
           the
           opening
           their
           pur●es●
           to
           the
           measure
           they
           have
           stretched
           those
           of
           the
           Jacobites
           ,
           is
           desirous
           also
           to
           contribute
           his
           utmost
           Endeavours
           towards
           it
           ,
           and
           being
           uncapable
           of
           doing
           it
           otherwise
           ,
           offers
           to
           perjure
           himself
           in
           favour
           of
           so
           blessed
           Ends.
           It
           is
           somewhat
           surprising
           ,
           and
           detracteth
           very
           much
           from
           the
           Character
           of
           the
           
             Ecclesiastical
             Order
          
           ,
           and
           has
           lessened
           that
           Esteem
           and
           Veneration
           the
           World
           used
           to
           have
           for
           them
           ,
           that
           there
           can
           scarce
           be
           the
           Discovery
           of
           a
           PLOT
           ,
           or
           a
           Trial
           for
           High-Treason
           ,
           but
           a
           Parson
           must
           be
           the
           Informer
           ,
           and
           put
           in
           for
           a
           Place
           among
           the
           Witnesses
           ;
           for
           though
           it
           may
           be
           sometimes
           honourable
           as
           well
           as
           necessary
           to
           be
           in
           a
           PLOT
           ,
           otherwise
           so
           many
           of
           our
           Religious
           Clergy
           would
           not
           have
           so
           early
           and
           deeply
           concurred
           unto
           ,
           and
           been
           concerned
           in
           the
           Descent
           of
           the
           P.
           of
           O.
           yet
           it
           hath
           been
           generally
           accounted
           disreputable
           to
           be
           a
           Di●coverer
           ,
           and
           to
           assume
           the
           Title
           of
           an
           Evidence●
           And
           it
           is
           not
           only
           so
           ,
           but
           likewise
           infamous
           ,
           when
           all
           that
           is
           pretended
           to
           be
           discovered
           is
           forged
           ,
           and
           whatsoever
           is
           deposed
           is
           perjurious
           Falshood
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           in
           the
           Case
           of
           this
           Scandalous
           Fellow's
           Information
           ;
           who
           having
           begun
           with
           
             forging
             his
             own
             Priestly
             Orders
          
           ,
           conceiveth
           he
           may
           as
           well
           forge
           Treason
           against
           harmless
           and
           peaceable
           Men
           :
           And
           as
           the
           doing
           the
           former
           renders
           him
           suspected
           of
           doing
           the
           latter
           ;
           so
           it
           makes
           him
           infamous
           to
           all
           Intents
           and
           Purposes
           ,
           and
           precludes
           him
           from
           obtaining
           belief
           in
           any
           Judicial
           Court
           ,
           how
           much
           soever
           it
           be
           prepossessed
           in
           prejud●ce
           of
           those
           he
           has
           the
           Impudence
           to
           accuse
           :
           And
           that
           this
           celebrated
           Witne●s
           did
           so
           ,
           your
           Lordship
           will
           not
           only
           receive
           full
           Proof
           of
           it
           ,
           both
           by
           an
           authentick
           Copy
           of
           his
           Conviction
           ,
           duly
           attested
           out
           of
           the
           Episcopal
           Register
           o●
           Bristol
           ,
           where
           he
           was
           convicted
           of
           the
           Crime
           of
           doing
           it
           ,
           but
           by
           the
           Deposition
           of
           the
           present
           Bishop
           of
           Bristol
           to
           be
           given
           J●dicially
           before
           you
           ;
           That
           R●ght
           Reverend
           Prelate
           ,
           having
           been
           Dioces●n
           o●
           Bristol
           wher●●t
           was
           done
           .
           So
           tha●
           having
           represented
           this
           unto
           ●ou
           ,
           it
           were
           to
           weary
           your
           Patience
           a●d
           not
           to
           inform
           your
           Judgm●nt
           ,
           to
           give
           yo●r
           
           Lo●dship
           an
           account
           of
           his
           Polygamy
           ,
           as
           we●l
           as
           o●
           his
           other
           most
           prodig●ous
           and
           criminal
           Offences
           ,
           whereof
           you
           will
           have
           a
           large
           account
           both
           from
           Citizens
           and
           Countreymen
           ,
           whensoever
           they
           whose
           Office
           i●
           is
           to
           prosecute
           Transgressors
           ,
           shall
           have
           the
           Confidence
           and
           Indiscretion
           to
           bring
           him
           before
           you
           as
           a
           Witness
           Only
           let
           me
           recommend
           your
           Lordship
           to
           Sir
           
             Samuel
             Astry
          
           for
           further
           Information
           concerning
           him
           ,
           who
           has
           reason
           to
           know
           him
           ,
           thro'
           having
           been
           defrauded
           by
           him
           of
           several
           hundred
           Pounds
           .
           So
           that
           I
           hope
           by
           this
           time
           the
           groundless
           and
           empty
           Noise
           about
           a
           PLOT
           I
           ,
           made
           sufficiently
           appear
           ,
           and
           that
           it
           is
           not
           for
           the
           honour
           of
           the
           Government
           to
           continue
           making
           so
           great
           a
           bu●●le
           about
           it
           ,
           or
           to
           persevere
           in
           the
           apprehending
           so
           many
           Persons
           upon
           that
           account
           .
           Nor
           can
           my
           Lord
           Keeper
           ,
           who
           hath
           hitherto
           enjoyed
           among
           all
           Men
           so
           fair
           an
           Esteem
           ,
           expect
           long
           to
           preserve
           it
           ,
           if
           he
           go
           on
           to
           give
           that
           coun●enance
           ,
           which
           he
           is
           said
           to
           do
           ●o
           such
           infamous
           Wretches
           as
           come
           before
           him
           to
           make
           Discovery
           .
           Neither
           will
           he
           be
           thought
           fit
           to
           keep
           the
           King's
           Con●●●ence
           ,
           who
           is
           not
           more
           tender
           of
           his
           own
           than
           to
           believe
           them
           :
           Nor
           doth
           it
           very
           well
           b●come
           his
           Place
           and
           Character
           ,
           to
           have
           dipt
           and
           entangled
           himself
           so
           much
           in
           this
           Busines●
           ,
           〈◊〉
           some
           represent
           him
           to
           have
           done
           .
           For
           we●e
           there
           some
           Irregularity
           ,
           or
           undecent
           Excess
           in
           here
           and
           there
           a
           Jacobite
           ,
           yet
           it
           is
           not
           for
           him
           ,
           who
           by
           his
           Office
           is
           to
           moderate
           the
           Rigour
           of
           the
           Law
           ,
           to
           have
           the
           principal
           Hand
           in
           
             stiling
             little
             Faults
             Treasonable
             Crimes
          
           :
           And
           instead
           of
           that
           Equity
           which
           should
           only
           slow
           from
           him
           ,
           to
           put
           on
           (
           upon
           the
           meet
           Score
           of
           Faction
           and
           Party
           )
           an
           immoderate
           and
           unrelenting
           Severity
           .
           And
           all
           Mankind
           would
           believe
           ,
           that
           he
           should
           reckon
           the
           Province
           belonging
           to
           his
           Title
           large
           enough
           ,
           without
           launching
           into
           that
           of
           the
           Secr●tary's
           ,
           and
           A●torney
           General
           :
           But
           I
           hope
           all
           that
           is
           said
           of
           him
           is
           nor
           Truth
           ,
           and
           that
           his
           Palace
           where
           he
           should
           decide
           
             Chancery
             Causes
          
           ,
           is
           not
           dwindled
           into
           an
           
             Office
             of
             Intelligence
          
           ;
           and
           that
           being
           satisfied
           with
           his
           own
           Place
           ,
           he
           will
           not
           break
           in
           upon
           Mr.
           
             Aaron
             Smith
          
           also
           .
           My
           Lord
           ,
           I
           have
           been
           ●oo
           tedious
           and
           prolix
           to
           leave
           Room
           for
           a
           Complement
           at
           last
           ;
           and
           therefore
           I
           will
           conclude
           without
           one
           ,
           and
           only
           tell
           you
           ,
           That
           by
           Inclination
           and
           choice
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           upon
           the
           Motive
           of
           your
           own
           Merit
           ,
           I
           am
        
         
           
             My
             Lord
             ,
          
           
             
               Your
               Lordship
               's
               Most
               Humble
               an●
               Obedient
               Servant
               ,
            
             T.
             N.
             
          
           
             Aug
             2.
             1694.
             
          
        
         
           FINIS
           .