A MODEST VINDICATION OF TITUS OATS THE Salamanca-Doctor FROM PERJURY: OR AN ESSAY TO Demonstrate Him only Forsworn in several Instances.  
BY ADAM eliot, Master of Arts, and a Priest of the Church of England.  Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. What reward shall be given, or done unto thee, thou false tongue, even mighty and sharp arrows, with hot burning Coals. Psal. 120. 
Hic putat esse Deos & pejerat: aspice quanta  
Voce neget, quae sit ficti constantia vultus;  
Tam facile & pronum est superos contemnere testes:  
Aut nullo credit mundum rectore moveri,  
At que ideo intrepidus quaecunque Altaria tangit.  Juv. Sat. 13. 
LONDON, Printed for the Author, and are to be sold by Joseph Hindmarsh at the Black-Bull in Cornhill. 1682.   

THE INTRODUCTION.  
THE most Notorious Salamanca-Doctor, Titus Oates, after having signalised his prodigious Parts, by the Destruction of several eminent Persons, and hazarding the lives of God knows how many more; after having miraculously saved his Majesty's Person from Poison, screwed Gu●… and Consecrated Dagger, and freed three Nations from imminent ruin; after having defeated the designs of Rome, and the plots of the greatest Politicians in the world, though they had been hatching these 100 years past; and all this by mere Buke-blawing, and to the astonishment of the whole Christian world, by the breath of his mouth; was at last put upon it, to try an expeririment or two to fix Property, which by Wise heads (that is by Needy or Covetous persons, who wanted Bishops or Crown-Lands) was thought to be in equal danger with our Religion. For if, for example, he could swear a friend to the cause into the right of forty or fifty thousand Pounds, (which the Law it seems was so scrupulous in, as not to understand;) then true Protestants might have a compendious and infallible way to secure their Property against the encroachments of whatsoever Arbitrary, that is, Legal power. In order to effect this wonderful project, he was pleased unhappily both for himself and me, (at the instigation of what Lord or Devil the Lord knows,) to bestow a cast of his office, on a friend who shall be nameless, and to stoop an oath or two at his service, against so mean a person as myself: not only engaging his Verbum Sacerdotis in several Companies, yea▪ even where men ought to be very furious, before the King; but also Swearing, invocating the sacred Majesty of God, who will one day call him to account for it, to witness to the truth, when he asserted, that I was a Mahumetin, and had been thereupon Circumoised; and that also I was a Popish Priest, having received Orders from the See of Rome: by the former charge making me unworthy of credit or reputation, uncapable of the advantages of converse amongst Christians; and by the later, the milder indeed of the two, aiming only at my life, which as being a Popish Priest▪ is forfeited to the Law. I must indeed confess of all kinds of Deaths I have the least fondness to be hanged, and I hate mortally that the butcherly Executioner should be rummaging amongst my Entrails▪ neither can I apprehend any pleasure in being drawn up Halborn hill upon a Hurdle: therefore it was, that I had no mind to appear either a Renegado, or a Popish Priest; and I thought myself obliged both by the Laws of God and Man to preserve my life as long as I could, and to vindicate my reputation from infamy, and assert my just and honest title to the comforts of humane society: and that I have no ways deserved to be proscribed the Communication of Christians.  
To this purpose I made my application to the Law for satisfaction, and had the Doctor arrested in an Action of the Case for Defamation. The Cause was tried before the Right Honourable Sir Francis North, L. C. J. of his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, June the 30th last past; where the issue went upon my side, and the Jury brought the Doctor in guilty, allowing me 20 l. Damages: which small sum, though by many it was looked upon as very inconsiderable and disproportionate to the damages wherewith the Doctor had affected both my Reputation and my Purse; yet by another party, it was looked upon with a sore eye, to see their Goliath (who had for some time past, hectored and swore for the cause) foiled, if not knocked down by so mean a person as myself. They admired my insolence in offering to defend my life, when the Doctor was pleased to swear it from me; they inveighed against me, as a narrow selfish soul, far from a public spirit, who would not rather be hanged, than the Doctor's veracity should be liable to any suspicion; a man who had laid himself out, and ventured all for the good of the Nation; yea, who is the Saviour of the Nation, said prudent Sh. Pilk. Notwithstanding all which, I cannot but be of this faith, that it is more convenient for me, that the Doctor should swing than I; as for his all that he has ventured, I never heard of any thing he had to venture, unless his all, i. e. his Soul; which to my knowledge is deeply engaged. And as for his being styled the Saviour of the Nation, it is Scandalum Magnatum in the highest degree; the Title is most arrogant, and intimates a Blasphemous relation to the Saviour of the world; a most odious Comparison 'twixt the Merits of our Saviour Jesus Christ, and those of Titus Oats; for which there cannot be the least reason or foundation of Analogy; unless that as it was judged necessary (notwithstanding Oats preached to the contrary) that our Saviour should be crucified, that the world might be saved; so it should be thought convenient, that Oats might be hanged, that so our Nation perish not. Then indeed he might sustain some Relation, even the same that the Blasphemous Thief had to our Saviour when he was on the Cross, and in some sense he might be called the Saviour of our Nation; but otherwise the Title is intolerable, and he must first be hanged before by any propriety of speech, it can agree to him.  
There are a Party of men I say, who finding what an intractable, morose, uncomplaisant humour I am of, and that by refusing to be accounted a Popish Priest or a Circumcised Mahometan; the Doctor has fallen under a shrewd suspicion of Perjury, and may in time put in his claim to the Pillory, though with the forfeit of his Ears. Therefore it is, that they have used all base unworthy arts to blacken my reputation; and seeing it was manifestly proved in Court, that the Doctor had frequently uttered those scandalous words, which tended to my Defamation, they give out now, that I was the first Author of them myself; and what the Doctor said or swore concerning me, was only what he heard me say of myself; thus endeavouring to affix as notorious a mark of Folly to my name, as before he would of Villainy. Therefore to answer the importunity of my friends, and to disabuse any, who may be deluded by the malicious calumnies of my nettled Adversaries, I have adventured to put Pen to Paper, to give a full and clear account of the proceedings 'twixt the Dr. and myself; which will consist in these following particulars.  
I shall first give a short Narrative of my Travails, Captivity and Escape from Slavery in Barbary; which though it may seem foreign and impertinent to my design, yet, because it is the subject of the Doctor's Oaths, I cannot clearly without it, represent the quality of them; and besides, being a recital of some rare accidents, and almost miraculous instances of the providence of God in my deliverance from a Moorish Captivity, I presume it will make some compensation for the impertinence which it seemingly carries to the design of these Sheets.  
In the next place, I shall faithfully set down, what the Doctor hath deposed against me upon Oath, under his own hand, at Doctor's Commons, and what was proved in Court at our Trial by unexceptionable Witnesses, that he had said several times against me, to the same purpose with what he swore before.  
And in the third place, I shall give an account of what was sworn in his behalf to mitigate Damages: Upon all which, I shall only make such Anirnad versions as are pertinent and proper, and draw such Inferences as the matter will rationally allow. And then I refer myself to the whole Nation as Judges, whether or no the Doctor has not only falsely and maliciously defamed me, but likewise sworn that to be true, which in itself is false, and to his own knowledge also.  
Yet notwithstanding all this, I cannot see how it will follow that the Doctor is guilty of Perjury; for though in the Court of Heaven, and before God, Perjury and false swearing be synonymous, yet none are esteemed guilty of Perjury, by the Laws of this Land, but who have been convicted of swearing falsely in a Court of Record. But the Court of Delegates, where Oates' Depositions against me were exhibited, being no such Court; therefore according to the Law-Phrase, what ever I think in my conscience (and I am sure he is Porsworn) yet I cannot say that the Doctor is Perjured, and consequently that the Pillory has never been adequate to the Doctor's high merits. A Wooden Ruff does not well become the Saviour of the Nation, with modesty be it spoke as I said before, I think a Halter would much better befit him; and really before I should see the Salamanca Doctor treated as they say poor N. T. was, I had much rather see him hanged.  
This modest Vindication of the Doctor, my grateful sense of his merciful kind temper to me has commanded from me; for if the Doctor had pleased to have thought of me when he and Dr. Tongue were thinking together, he might easily have bestowed a small Commission upon his old Acquaintance; some little Cross-bearers place amongst the Spanish Pilgrims, or else if he had only made me a Courier 'twixt tall fair Don John and the four Ruffians; any such like employment, (and the Doctor has bestowed abundance, and has much more in store) would have consigned me to Jack Ketches disposal long ago; for it is very hard to prove a Negative. But now that he has only made me a Musselman, cujus character est indelebilis, he has given me a fair opportunity of proving him a forsworn Liar; for which singular kindness I cannot sufficiently profess my obligations: And this is one reason why I have undertaken this modest Vindication. Which labour of mine, though it may seem to carry an oblique design only of gratifying my fond humour to the Doctor, yet to considering persons also I presume I shall be thought to have hereby contributed my Mite to the public, in exposing the wickedness of a Wretch whose talon lies only in Swearing: for though I have undertaken his Vindication, yet I intent it shall be with all Modesty, and such as shall not interfere with the Truth.  
The Doctor has employed his Swearing faculty only to my particular detriment, the meanest of the Church of England; he has forsworn himself to prejudice me; but yet every member thereof is concerned, since this public Enemy has given broad signs of his inclinations to them all, as namely, when he said there were not above three Protestant Bishops in the Church of England, and that all the Clergy were tantivying to Rome: as also in his Sermon at Woodstock, he delivered for true doctrine that the Presbyterians were the only supporters of the Protestant interest; and there is no question, but that when there shall come a House of Commons to pay him the 40000 l. promised (as he says) by the last House who sat at Westminster, he has 40000 Oaths at their service. But now, by exposing him as Forsworn, the edge of his Swearing will for the future be rebated; for if it be the dictate of prudence, never to trust those who have but once been found to impose upon us, then certainly it is unaccountable folly and madness, to accept the testimony of one who has manifestly Forsworn himself, and in a manner proclaimed to all the world, that he has no dread of that God, who will revenge himself upon those who take his name in vain. For my own part, though forty Plots were laid against me, I had rather venture them all, than rely upon a Salamanca Doctor's Oath: and if any thing staggers my faith in the belief of the 40000 Black bills, and other remarkable passages in the Popish Plot, next to the contradictions which occur; it is because a Villain of so plainly debauched and profligate a conscience has concerned himself in the discovery. Which I have endeavoured to make appear manifestly to others, as well as myself, from the following Sheets.   

A NARRATIVE OF My TRAVAILS, CAPTIVITY and ESCAPE FROM SALLE, In the Kingdom of FEZ.  
IN the year 1664, I was admitted into Cajus College in the University of Cambridge, where I continued until 1668; when Commencing Bachelor of Arts, I obtained Letters testimonial from our College, and then left the University. During my stay there, I remember Titus Oats was entered into our College; by the same token that the Plague and he both visited the University in the same year. He was very remarkable for a Canting Fanatical way conveyed to him with his Anabaptistical Education, and in our Academical exercises, when others declaimed Oats always preached; some of which Lectures, they were so very strange, that I do yet remember them. I moreover remember, that he stayed not above a year in our College, but removed to S. John's; what the occasion was, I cannot call to mind: and then he was so inconsiderable both as to his person and parts, that I appeal to all who knew me, whether eliot and Oates could be such intimate acquaintance as Oats would make the world believe.  
After I had commenced Bachelor▪ in 1668, I left the University; in the beginning of 1669 I had the opportunity of travelling with some Gentlemen of my acquaintance, with whom, after a transient view of Flanders and other of the Spanish Provinces, which had been the seat of war for some years preceding, I had the opportunity to see St. Omers also, where Oats was once a Schoolboy, and no Jesuit. I remember during my stay there, which was three days, S. Ignatius or Xaverius or some other Jesuit▪ Saints day happened, and I with the Gentlemen with me, were civilly invited to Dinner to the English College; where, to give the Devil his due, we met with nothing but Learning and Civility to their Countrymen and Strangers. From St. Omers we directed our Course into France, directly for Paris; whence, after I had gratified my juvenile curiosity with the rarities and remarkable places there, and several others in France, about the latter end of 1669, I was carried into Italy, and about November we came to Rome; where I saw that Great Beast of a Whore, as Oats called him, a Reverend old Gentleman Rospigliosi who then was Pope. He happened to die a little after my coming thither, which was the occasion of my fortune to stay there, sede vacant, during the Election of another Pope. I never saw the Scotch College during my stay there, nor any Scotch Father, nor any that belonged to the College that I know of: I was frequently indeed in the Roman College, and I had the happiness of hearing Padre Gotinio, the then Mathematic Professor, discourse very satisfactorily upon several curious subjects.  
I stayed in Rome no longer than the Election of Altieri Rospigliosi Successor to the former, which was in March 1670: after which an occasion happening of parting with my Company, I parted also from Rome; and intending home again for England, I came to Leghorn, where finding an opportunity of the Bristol one of his Majesty's Friggots, I had a convenient passage to Alicant in Spain, and from thence to Malaga, where I embarked aboard Sir John Herman, than Rere-Admiral under Sir Thomas Allen in the straits, who gave me passage to Cales. About the beginning of May, I had a curiosity to see Sevil; from whence having the convenience of some Company, I took my course directly for Lisbon in Portugal; there was then residing Dr. Cradock Minister to the English Merchants there, whom I had seen at Cambridge; to whose civility, and some English gentlemen's, particularly Mr. Bulteels, I was exceedingly obliged.  
There was at that time no Vessel designed for England in the River of Lisbon, excepting a little Catch called the John of London, laden with Oranges and Lemons, and I was very desirous to return home, so that I was obliged to take my passage in that small Vessel; some who seconded my desires, alleging that I should be more secure in her than in a bigger, because she by reason of her smallness would keep near the Coast and so out of danger of the Turks; and besides Sir Edward Sprag was said then to lie upon the Portugal Coast with a Squadron of English Frigates, so that these Seas would be scoured clear of the Barbary-Rovers. Upon which Arguments, I was induced to embark aboard that little Vessel, where I lost my Freedom.  
It was about the middle of June 1670, we parted from Lisbon▪ River, designed for London; about three days after, we met Sir Edward Sprag with his Squadron, who encouraged us with the News that no Pirates were in those Seas, he having lain there about a month. Upon which we struck out to Sea, the wind being Northerly and cross to us all the while; so that by the 22d of June we had got no farther than Cape Finisterre: on which day, whilst the Master and I were at breakfast, a Boy who sat at the Helm, cried out, a Sail, which was the only one we had descried (excepting Sir Edward Spragg) since we left Lisbon: by our Glasses we perceived she had a mind to speak with us, for she had got out all her Sails, and bore down upon us directly before the wind, which methought was no sign of a Merchant man; therefore I desired the Master to bear towards the Shoar, who refused to be persuaded, alleging, that this was the usual passage for Hollanders, French and English, and that it was most probable, that this Ship which was in view, must be a friend, for that year we were at peace with all Europeans. About ten a-clock up comes the Ship with French colours, assoon as she came near us, so that we could not escape, she pulled down her French and put up her Salle-Colours, and withal gave us a Gun, which obliged us to strike. Immediately appeared upon the Pirate's Deck about 200 Moors, who commanded us to put out our Boat and come aboard them, which we all (excepting one) presently obeyed. For our welcome, and to show us what entertainment we were after to expect, the Master of the Vessel and myself were stripped and tied to the Mast in order to be whipped, that so they might extort a confession where the Money lay hid if we had any; we satisfied them as well we could, that they were Masters of all that we knew of in our Vessel: and so we were released from the Mast, and put in Irons below deck with our Fellow-Prisoners. There it was that I began to reflect upon my condition, for before (the change was so sudden and the strange uncouth accidents so surprising) I had scarce leisure to consider: it is hard to express my resentments then; all my fellow-prisoners were lamenting with pitiful cries and tears their miserable estate, which only afforded matter of triumph and insolence to our cruel and merciless Masters; who when they heard us complain of our condition, would visit us with some blows, insulting most intolerably over us, lifting up our dejected heads and spitting upon our Faces, not vouchsafing us any other Name than Dogs. I must confess this inhuman usage was very hard to digest at first, but a little time, and the discipline of our skilful Tutors easily reconciled us to it; for we found that murmuring did but enhance our affliction, and enrage our crosses. Our Vessel was within two or three hours after she was taken, sent to Salle, with twenty Moors aboard her, who carried with them all our Provision of Beef and Biscuit, leaving a little Pork only which we soon devoured: after which, we had nothing left to maintain us in life, save a small quantity of dried Olives and Biscuit, which eveday was allowed us: this sort of Dieting did indeed bring down our high Stomaches, and made us very tractable.  
We lay in this miserable condition about forty days, oppressed as with many inconveniences, so especially I remember with the stench and nastiness of our lodging: sometimes in the day we were permitted to come above deck, to suck in a little fresh air, and to wash ourselves, but this small comfort was soon forgot by returning to our irons. There was scarce a day almost, according to my remembrance, in which we did not either give chase or else were chased; for the Salle-man was a good Sailor, and whenever she saw a Sail, she immediately made after her, if she found her too strong to grapple with, than she tacked and stood away. At length about a month after I was taken, one morning when there was little wind stirring, we were called up upon the Deck, I thought it had been to refresh ourselves, but we found it was with labour and toil, for there being a great calm all that day, we were obliged to tug hard at the Oar till ten at night; at which time we came up with a French Merchant laden with Oil, whom we had been in pursuit of all that day; as soon as we came near her, we poor Christians were remanded to our kennel, and moreover had a Sentinel set over us to observe us. A little after three and twenty Frenchmen had the unhappiness to make us a visit, and take up their Lodgings in the same quarters. It was but a miserable comfort methought to have such companions in misery, and truly the sight of so many dejected souls, particularly a Merchant (who lost 2500 Crowns of Cash besides his concerns in the Cargo) affected me then with a more sensible grief than my own sufferings; he was a man of too tender a constitution to endure the same miseries with the rest; we were all lodged equally, and had the same sort of accommodation, that French Gentleman and the meanest of the Seamen were treated alike: which subjected him to such a grief that was too powerful for him, so that at length it broke his heart, for he died the next day after we landed.  
Our Barbarous Masters were well pleased with this rich Prize, and resolved to go home with her for Salle, so they directed their course thither. We fortuned one day to meet with hard weather which increased to a storm that night. The Moors we perceived were in great trouble and amazement, so that a conceit entered my head, that if we should all of us with resolution fall upon the Moors who had the management of the Ship above Deck, we might easily make her change Masters, a project which if it had been prosecuted, did not seem impracticable, for there were not above thirty Moors who understood any thing of Navigation or a Seaman; these were above deck, and employed; the rest of the Moors were surprised with so great a consternation that the Captain commanded them all to go below deck; so that if we had resolutely attacked the Captain with his few Companions, and clapped down the Hatches upon the rest, we might have succeeded; but this poor-spirited-French man and two more, apprehending the Difficulties of the enterprise as insuperable, declared their resolution to discover all, if we proceeded; notwithstanding the rest of us seemed unanimous, as thinking that we should never find a better occasion to venture our Lives to regain our Liberty.  
A few days after by break of day, we found ourselves near two great Ships who put out Dutch Colours; this put the Moors into a great fright lest they should fall into their hands, wherefore they made all the sail they could, and laboured hard to get clear of them, but to little purpose, for the other two Ships gained manifestly upon the Salle-man though it proved not to our comfort; for when they came up to her, and every minute she expected to be boarded, all of a sudden we Christians (who were then lying below in irons heartily praying for our Deliverance) heard a shout of joy above deck; for the Ships who were in chase of us discovered themselves to be Algerines, the Admiral called the Springing Tiger, as I think, and another. Then there was great rejoicing amongst them, coming aboard each other freely, and mutual treats past, and we Christians also were permitted to go and visit our fellow Slaves and Countrymen; who acquainted us with the News that some English Frigates were lying then before Salle, which gave us some hopes if true, and made the Moors very wary. That evening we parted from the Algerines, and bore directly for Salle. At length we came in sight of the Castle, but could discern no Ships before it, we therefore made directly for the River, when presently there starts up a Vessel that made all the Sail she could at us, and obliged us to tack about and strike down along the Barbary-Coast; she put us so hard to it, that we were forced to forsake the French Prize, and leave her to be picked up by our Pursuer, which was an English Ship called the Holmes-Frigot of two and twenty Guns, whom afterwards I saw at my return at Cales. Whilst she was employed in taking the Prize, the Salle-man in the Interim made away, and night approaching, in the dark made her escape.  
The next morning, all we christian's were commanded ashore, because the Moors had run themselves into a Creek some twenty Leagues South off Salle, where they lay concealed from the sight of the Frigate, though we had her plainly in view all the next day, with the French prize at her Stern, with languishing eyes and sad hearts, seeing our Deliverance, but not being able to approach it. There they landed us poor▪ Christians in number two and thirty, English and French, who were to travel to Salle under the guard of a couple of Moors only, whom we might easily have rid ourselves from, if we had judged it safe or convenient: but Salle was the only place whither we could retreat unto, and these were our Guides thither through as desolate and forlorn a country, as barren and dry a land, as ever my eyes beheld. We were above two days in travelling these twenty Leagues, where we had not the prospect of any Town, Village or House all the way, nor could we see any footsteps of Husbandry or Civility; the best water we met with, was very brackish; our provision, which our Masters allowed us, when we parted from the Ship, was all devoured the first day. Our condition indeed, during that journey was the most deplorable that ever I was in; for our short Commons and hard Lodging aboard the Ship, had much weakened our bodies, we were very hungry and had no meat, exceeding thirsty and for a whole day no water, the Sun was very hot and no shelter, the Heavens looked like Brass and the Earth like iron, all which circumstances will easily convince any that we must of necessity long to get clear of that cursed Country, which threatened us with inevitable destruction, and there was no other place of refuge but Salle; so that our condition of life must appear very pitiful, seeing we longed for the place of our Captivity, and panted after our Afflictions. When night approached, our Guides made us take up our Lodging where there were a few Shrubs, which we set on fire to secure us from the Lions, and other Beasts of Prey, as Wild-Boars, etc. of which we saw several in our way.  
At length upon the third day we came within sight of Salle, about half a league from which, we met with a garden full of delicate fruits, which if the Moors had not freely bestowed upon us, we had made bold to have took without leave, such was our necessity: there we were permitted to refresh ourselves for two hours, before we made our public entry into the City, which was indeed extraordinary; for we were accompanied by several hundreds of idle rascally people and roguish Boys, who came out of the Town to meet us and welcomed us with horrid barbarous Shouts somewhat like the Irish hubbub. We in the mean time were forced like a drove of Sheep, through the several streets, the people crowding to gaze upon us and curse us, for that Civility is a piece of Religion with them. With this solemnity were we conducted through the Town unto the River, which we were to cross to another Salle standing in the North-side; there were we all shut up in the Deputy-Governours Court-Yard, where like a pack of tired Hounds, we fell all fast asleep upon the Ground.  
At evening we were conveyed to our Lodgings, where we were to repose ourselves that night, a place proportionable to the rest of the entertainment; it was a large Cellar under the Street arched and supported with two rows of Pillars; the light it was furnished with, came through three holes in the Street strongly grated; through one of which, by a Ladder of Ropes we descended into this Room, called the King's Masmora, capacious enough to hold 300 persons, (for very near that number of Christians of several Nations were shut up there at nights) besides a whole Leystall of filth, in which, (whosoever's lot it is to be there) he must wade up to the ankles. There I watched all night, for sleep I could not; and though the next day I was to be sold publicly in a Market, yet the peeping in of the light was joyful, because I was to leave that intolerably noisome Prison.  
By Sunrising next morning we were all of us, who came last to Salle driven to a Marketplace, where the Moors sitting Taylor-wise upon Stalls round about, we were severally run up and down by persons, who proclaimed our Qualities or Trades; and what best might recommend us to the Buyer. I had a great Black who was appointed to sell me; this Fellow holding me by the hand, coursed me up and down, from one person to another, who called upon me at pleasure to examine me what trade I was of, and to see what labour my hands were accustomed to. All the Seamen were soon bought up, it was midday ere I could meet with a purchaser; the reason was, a boy of the Vessel wherein I was taken, in hopes of favourable treatment from the Captain who took us, pretended to discover my quality to him, assuring him that I was a Relation of the now Duke of Norfolk, who was then Ambassador from his Majesty at Taffiletta, and was come 〈◊〉 Tangier. Upon this information, the Captain put a great value upon me, and that was the reason why none would meddle with me; until about noon Hamed Lucas (who is Secretary of this present Embassy from the Emperor of Fez to his Majesty) agreed with the Captain, and paid down 600 pieces of Eight for me.  
I was pretty well pleased with my fortune to fall into the hands of such a person, who besides that he was of a great repute there, seemed to carry in his deportment an air and mien that was extraordinary; and therefore I hoped for some more favourable treatment from him than from another: but other Christians who had heard of this Patron of mine, pitied my ignorance, as knowing that he was a cunning Jewish Merchant, and that he bought me with a design to extort from me a great Ransom, though by the harshest and cruelest usage imaginable; which I found to be too true a character of him him before night: for after he was come to his own house, whither he commanded me to follow him, he presently makes me acnquainted with a piece of his mind and temper; telling me, that he had paid a considerable sum of Money for me, which he did upon the prospect of a Ransom for my Liberty, proportionable to his expectation and my quality, which he was well assured was such, that it would answer whatsoever hopes he entertained; and he would have me know that I had to do with a man with a Beard, and who was too cunning to be imposed upon, and therefore advised me to forego that piece of policy which the Christians frequently make use of in concealing their qualities, and disguising their conditions; since it would be in vain to prevaricate before him, who was very well informed of my state, and as well acquainted with my fortunes in England as I myself; and wished me rather to propose such a Ransom as was suitable to his expectations, from so considerable a Captive, for payment of which he would allow me sufficient time: and if I gave any demonstrations of sincerity in dealing with him, I should be exempted from all slavish employments; but if I refused a compliance with these his Proposals, I should experience the greatest severity that any Slave in Barbary could from his Patron.  
Seeing he professed himself a man with a Beard, and one that hated to be imposed upon, I endeavoured all I could to disabuse him, and possess him with a clear notion of the naked truth, professing with all sincerity, that I was so sensible of the miseries of Captivity, that if a Kingdom were at my disposal, I would frankly quit all pretensions to it, in exchange for the happiness of the Freedom and Liberty I enjoyed in my own Country: but that such has been the pleasure of God to me in the dispensing the goods of this world, that he has allowed me no more than what he saw me then possessor of; so that I found myself under so much worse circumstances than other Christian Captives by how much I sustained greater expectations, and was least able to answer them; but that which was the greatest aggravation of my misfortune was, that I should very much contribute to the calling in question his prudence and judgement, because all the Town will admire when they shall see the event, that the wise Hamet-Lucas was imposed upon in giving 600 pieces of Eight for a poor Slave, who was not worth a Maravidi.  
At which last words, he was so transported with passion, that he showered down a whole torrent of Blows upon me, and lighting unluckily upon a stick, he broke my head in several places, and never ceased till he had made me all in a gore-blood; I was not able to stir, and the cruel Villain permitted me to lie a little while: afterwards he comes again afresh, and drags me out of his House into the Streets, and then falls upon me anew, beating me all along the Streets, to the great grief of my Fellow-Captives, who were of the same mind with myself, that I should hardly outlive that night. He brought me at length to a Black-Moor who was working in Lime, commanding me with all cruel imperious insolence imaginable, to serve that Black, by giving him up Lime with my hands, which I did, till such time as my Patron departed; and then I signified to the Black that I was very sick, and by signs prayed him to let me leave off that work which had almost choked me; which by his pitiful gesture I perceive he allowed. So I lay down upon the ground and fell asleep; my Patron presently returned, and took such a course to awake me, that he had very near laid me asleep for ever; for he gave me a blow in the small of my back, which created such a pungent pain, as quite cashiered all patience and all respects of self-preservation; so that I vented my passion in the most rash inconsiderate expressions, the most provoking, opprobrious and menacing terms, that my anger and my little Spanish could accommodate me with, daring him to dispatch me, for my life then seemed a grievous burden to me.  
The Covetous Moor fearing lest I should make my words good, and by putting hand to myself, rob him not only of his hopes, but also of his 600 Dollars, departs from me with a threatening gesture, which I showed very little sense of; for I immediately composed myself to sleep again, being so weary that I could have rested contentedly upon Briars and Thorns. Somewhile after the Cruel Dog returned, and awakening me gently, smiled upon me, ask me if I would drink Water; I answered I was like to die for want of it, having drunk none that day: so he directed me to a house near by, where a woman was, who gave me some in an Earthen Pot, which after I had drank off, she broke the Pitcher. I returned to my Patron, who made me follow him home, and after a plentiful supper which he allowed me, he gave me a Hammock, and ordered one to show me the way to the Masmora, where I remained all night.  
The next day he had provided a Jew (who had been in Europe and spoke good Latin) to treat with me, as if my defect in the Castilian language wherein he was exquisite, had occasioned the unsuccessfulness of his Negotiating with me. This Jew I found to be a good understanding man, who was quickly made sensible of the truth of my condition, and withal a man endued with more humanity than generally the people of that Religion are, which he evidenced by his good advice to me to this purpose; telling me, That my Patron was a man of violent passions, and that, though he himself was pretty well satisfied of my utter inability to answer what my Patron demanded, yet if my Patron should be so persuaded, and find himself bilked in all his great expectations, he would certainly convert his hopes into an extravagant rage, and then put me to some cruel death; therefore he advised me, as not to soothe his vain hopes, so neither quite to banish all: As thus, says he, you shall give me leave in your name to acquaint your Patron, that you have Relations and Friends who are powerful and rich, though you are miserable; and you have reason to believe, that rather than you should spend all your days under the pressures of a heavy and cruel Captivity, they would make a purse of 1000 Crowns to ransom you. This Proposal, says he, though it may not satisfy his expectation, yet it will banish all despair, and so you may live till God who has been pleased to afflict you by bringing you hither, may be pleased in due time to redeem you hence.  
This advice of this charitable Jew, I so far complied with, that I not only gave him liberty to free my Patron from the despair of any Ransom at all, but I resolved to improve it, by promoting his hopes to the highest degree imaginable. To this purpose, finding after that the Jew had acquainted him with the issue of his discourse with me, and of my coming up to 1000 Crowns, yet notwithstanding his rigour did not abate, but every day he put me to harsher and severer tasks; I one day let fall some discourse which encouraged the conceit he had entertained of my relation to his Excellency the then Lord Henry Howard. This indeed by all my Fellow-Slaves was looked upon as a strange piece of policy in that place to blab out my great Relations, where all other Christians by all art and care imaginable study to represent their condition mean, and to conceal their Relations and Fortunes so much the more as they are considerable; and therefore one of them told me, that he never expected to see me one of the Privy Council; I answered him, that neither did I, so long as I was a Captive there: he said, he wished me in my own Country in a place there called Bedlam which was fittest for me, and he believed my Cousin (for so his Slave-ship was pleased to style him) the Lord Howard would be of the same opinion; I answered him, that I did not question to be delivered from this insupportable Bondage by my Cousin's means; which afterwards came to pass after this manner.  
The Christians usually about Sunsetting were sent to a fountain of excellent water without the Town, to bring home in great earthen Jars some of that water; I also was sent by my Patron: Amongst other discourse which the Christians use to have there, I listened to a Seaman discoursing of Mamora a Spanish Garrison, some twenty miles distant from Salle, at the mouth of a River, and that he sailing along the coast, had observed it very rocky for about eight miles, but the rest was a fine Sand that reached as far as Mamora; he said moreover that he believed a good footman might run a race for his Freedom in three hours, if he had the convenience of a favourable night, and could scape a number of Tents which were pitched all along the Country 'twixt Salle and Mamora, who are very industrious to pick up Slaves attempting an escape, because the Law of that Land incourages them with half the Slave's ransom.  
Upon this Discourse it entered strongly into my head, that I should be the person who should win this prize; but at present it was impossible by reason of my lodging in the Masmora, as also by reason of my lassitude at night, being quite spent with the toil and labour of the day; but if I could induce my Patron by any arts to be a little kind to me and abate his severity, I thought I might fall into some capacity of performing what I designed. Seeing then that the hard usage beyond other Slaves which I endured proceeded, from my obstinacy (as my Patron said) of not confessing myself to be a Conde, and particularly a near Relation of my Lord howard's, (as my Patron was informed) and whose alliance he more coveted than any others in behalf of his Slave; I resolved to try my fortune a little under the mask of a person of great Quality; and this was the reason, why I was pleased at that time to own an alliance to the great Family of Norfolk, which shame though, occasioned my Deliverance; so that I found it by experience true, what is vulgarly said, that it is good to be related to a great estate or family, though at never so great a distance; for I am sure all the relation that I knew I had to the Duke of Norfolk then, was, that he was at Tangier when I was at Salle, and so near were we then related indeed, and no more. However I wrote a Letter to his Excellency, which my Patron had translated into Spanish, and such satisfaction did he receive from it, that he allowed me a month in expectation of an answer; during which time I should be treated with all mildness and civility, only I was to look after his Barb and his House when he was abroad; which employments I esteemed a happiness hardly to be expected in that Country. My Letter was delivered by my Patron to an Irishman by name Long, newly ransomed, who intended for Cales with the first opportunity; him did my Patron oblige by promise, to deliver my Letter to his Excellency with all expedition.  
The news of my Quality presently spread abroad, so that I had several visits, and particularly from a French Friar, a very ingenious Learned man, who acquainted me that the next Sunday was S. Bartholomew's day, and that he intended then (having procured permission from his Patron) to preach at the French Consul's house, and so invited me to be his Auditor. I told him I should be proud of the happiness, if my Patron would give leave; he engaged to use his endeavours with his Patron to procure a Licence from mine, which was obtained: So to the French Consul's I went, where after having heard a seasonable Discourse to Slaves about patience under our afflictions made by the Friar, the French Consul gave me a Glass of Wine or two, after which I returned home. My Patron seemed concerned at my long absence, to whom I replied that the French Consul had treated me with Wine which was extraordinary good, and which if he understood the virtue of, he would renounce Mahumetism to drink of it: He counterfeited a displeasure at my Raillery, but I perceived he was really well satisfied, as who had no antipathy in his temper to the juice of the Grape; which I had seen him before sometimes drink with a great greediness.  
About the dusk of the Evening, he and the Jew I formerly mentioned, being together at our house, ordered me to go to the French Consuls, and desire him to send to my Patron a quantity of Wine, which I did; but first I begged of my Patron that I might have share of it, he told me he intended I should; then says I to the Jew, I must request another favour of you, that you would intercede with my Patron that I may not go to the Masmora this night, for the miseries of that place will damp all the pleasures and satisfaction of the day preceding. My Patron was so complaisant, that he condescended to both our desires. Away then went I to the French Consul immediately, to whom having imparted my Message, he ordered some servants to carry a considerable parcel of Flasks of Red wine, (Syracuse I think they termed it,) to my Patron's house. The Gentleman in the mean while arresting me civilly to drink a glass with him before I went to the Masmora as was expected, which I did; withal acquainting him, that I designed also to have a share of the wine sent to my Patron, but my principal aim was, that the should have his dose, and thereby I should escape that night; I told him how my Patron had accommodated me with a sufficient opportunity, by excusing my going to the Masmora that night, which if I neglected, I deserved to be hanged next morning. The courteous Gentleman seemed amazed at my resolutions upon such a desperate attempt, and endeavoured to dissuade me from an enterprise which carried with it insuperable difficulties, and which to his knowledge some had attempted in vain; and had only purchased to themselves thereby heavy stripes and multiplied their miseries, whereas never any one in my circumstances had accomplished it; however seeing me obstinately fixed either to escape or die that night, he gave me his friendly advice how to manage both myself and my Patron in drinking; and so telling me that he would pray heartily for my success, and that he would not commit himself to sleep, till he heard of the issue, with all humility and thankfulness I kissed his hands, and departed to my Patron's house.  
At my return, I found him and the Jew and four other Moors set at Supper, which was brought them by some Slaves according to their appointment, so that this seemed a designed club; which consideration created in me sundry anxious surmises, left there being so many in company, my designs might happen to the ●r●se'd by some one or other of them; and thence it was, that all the while they were at Supper, I was very thoughtful and engaged in deep intense meditation, how to obviate all emergent difficulties, which this unexpected Company might lay in my way; yea so pensive was I, that I could not advert their commands, which occasioned my Patron to inquire the reason of my extraordinary Melancholy, seeing my fair hopes of a sudden Redemption, and his kind and civil usage to me, together with the cheerful and jovial temper of his Friends, who came to be merry with him, seemed to administer matter of quite different resentments: At this I roused myself out of my thinking posture with some kind of confusion, and humbly begged his pardon for my unsuitable humour, which I told him, proceeded from the consideration of my Cousin the English Ambassadors resentment of my weakness, in discovering myself so soon; and though I questioned not the speedy payment of my Ransom and my Discharge, yet I could not, but with exceeding trouble, reflect upon the reason of his displeasure, and the ill consequences which must ensue if he should be angry with me, for whose favour and kindness I had the highest veneration and respect.  
At this my Patron bid me cheer up, and be merry with them, for says he, I myself will write to his Excellency the English Ambassador, and will excuse you; I will acquaint him with the true way and means how I came to be informed of your Quality, and alliance to his Excellency. I pretended to be extraordinary much affected with this kindness of my Patron, which I signified by passing a Moorish Compliment upon him to this effect; That this favour would out balance all the miseries of my Captivity, and that if his Excellency my Cousin knew how happy I were in a Patron, he would come himself to redeem me with his own Person, and would throw himself at your Feet, ambitious of the honour of being your Slave. This Rhodomontado was so surprising and taking, that he told me, that if he had not been sufficiently informed of my Quality before, this instance of my excellent education had manifestly discovered me; upon which, I was forced to give over complementing, lest he should enhance my Quality, and perchance beat me into the Royal Family for a lie of my own making, as I had been before, into the Family of Howard for a lie of our Ship-boys. However I earnestly begged him to write to the English Ambassador with all expedition, for if he removed my fears of his displeasure, I would be the merryest man alive; and then I resolved to cashier all thoughtfulness, both because I would give no occasion of jealousy, as also lest too much thinking upon the difficulties (which indeed were very great) might damp my resolution or slacken my endeavours, which I intended to employ to the utmost, that I might that night make my escape; leaving the method and means to the management of Providence.  
After these compliments were over, I sat down with the Company, and composed myself to be as merry and agreeable as possibly I could; I sung several English Songs to them, particularly I remember Calm was the Evening, etc. in the Mock-Astrologer, which was new when I left England; they were wonderfully affected with it, and were very desirous to have me translate ha ha ha, etc. into Spanish, which made me laugh more heartily than I sung; they also sung a la Morisco to requite me. I must confess I never knew any who seemed much diverted with the sweetness of my voice, neither was I ever so vain to expect it; but really when I heard their barbarous Tones and Damnable dissonant Jangling, I cannot deny a piece of weakness which then possessed me, which was a pleasure to hear mine own sweet Self chant it. The glass in the mean while did not stand still, which I principally adverted, for upon the management of that, depended the fortune of that night: therefore though I used all art to shift it from myself, yet I used the same that my Patron might never balk it; which at last evidenced itself plainly, for he was got very drunk, and truly I thought that then it was not safe nor convenient to my purposes for his Slave to appear sober: therefore I counterfeited the humours of a man overtaken with drink with all the artifice imaginable, so that I afforded exceeding divertisement to the soberer part of the Company; yet withal the Glass was never neglected to be sent about, which was plied with such industry, that before midnight all the Company had got as much as they could well carry away, and my Patron abundance more; for my own part I pretended to be so much concerned, that I fell down, and there I lay till such time as the Company pleased to depart, when they roused me up to lock the doors, which seemingly with much ado I effected; and then I returned to my Patron with the keys.  
Him I found in a condition, such as a highly provoked revengful Adversary could hardly wish for a more opportune; there was no company in the house excepting my Patron, his Barb and myself; the Doors and Avenues were all secured; the Streets were clear, and the Neighbourhood hushed up in the silence of midnight; the Moor could hardly either speak or stand; all which inviting circumstances seemed to court a more resolved patience than my own to a compliance with this lucky opportunity of Revenge upon an inhuman Monster, who professed it his interest to deprive me of all the blessings of this world, and to make death to me more eligible than life. While I was upon these thoughts, the Brute raises himself up a little, and mutters somewhat to me of a not-to-be-mentioned Carnality, not only unworthy of Christian ears, but the bare mention whereof offers violence to the dictates of Nature, and which my charity would never suffer me to believe that it could enter into any man's mind, unless I had heard of the Citizens of Sodom, and a Doctor of Salamanca: which abominable proposal did so invigorate my resolution, that immediately I had made him a Sacrifice to my most cruel resentments of the barbarous usage I received from him, if by a happy chance the Wine had not got the ascendent over all his senses, and laid him in a profound sleep. I laid however hold of his Scimitar, and drew it, and put on the Belt, so that if he had awaked, I might have found myself under a necessity not to flinch back, but to proceed with all vigour, for my own life's sake to take away his. But when I reflected upon the many difficulties I was to encounter and overcome before I could escape, and the great probabilities of my being retaken, and withal the cruelties of a Death that I should suffer, if Hamet Lucas should be found killed by his own Slave; upon these considerations, I banished all thoughts of vengeance, and in compliment to my own self-preservation, I gave the Moor my Patron his life, as thinking it much more rational as well as generous and Roman-like to save a Citizen's life, though my own, than to destroy an Enemy's.  
Seeing then that my Patron was engaged in a deep sleep, from which in all probability he could not awake in four or five hours, I immediately sheathed the Sword, and taking out of his Bags a small parcel of Spanish Pistols, (which methought, might not be unserviceable to me in another part of the world) together with two Shirts of his, (for indeed I had none of my own) and a pair of Shoes, I put out the Candles, and with all expedition I slipped out of a window into the Street, where again I unsheathed, being resolved to attack whomsoever I should rencontre in the Streets, and not to part with that Liberty, which, though in a small measure, I was then newly made possessor of, unless with my life. I went through several Streets, and by a favourable providence, I escaped all rencontre or discovery: I came at last to the Riverside near the Castle, where presently I threw myself in, but after having been a little there, finding myself incommoded in swimming, by reason of the Sword and other things, I swum back to shore, where I stripped myself, and laid all upon my back kept together by my Breeches buttoned about my neck: so I committed myself again to the water; but the Tide carrying me upon one of the Ships, I was obliged to struggle with all my strength to get clear of it, which maugre all my endeavours, I could not do so effectually, but that I came within hearing of their talk aboard. I conjectured then that the reason of my slow proceedings might be the weight of the burden I carried, and besides my arms were a little weary, and I had a great mind to throw myself on my back and ease myself; whereupon I unbuttoned and let all my Clothes, Riches and Armour go together, and swimming on my back, I at length came to the other side of the River, a little weary, and altogether naked and defenceless.  
Now the dangers began to crowd upon me, and I had so near a prospect of them, that I wished I had never undertaken the work, and was entering into consideration of returning to my former estate; but when I reflected on the loss of my Patron's Scimitar and the Gold, my desperate estate gave me both hopes and courage; I had more than past Rubicon I thought then, for there was no returning: so up I got, and having almost rounded North-Salle and left it behind me, with a good speed I made away, having no other direction, saving the noise of the breaking of the Sea upon the Shoar within half a League on my left hand; it was moreover dark, and there was no path or road that I could hit upon, so that many times I stumbled, and fell over Stones, which cut and bruised my naked body. With these sort of divertisements I entertained myself until daybreak; when seeing at some distance before me a Mist arise, and being ignorant of the occasion, and fearing lest it might be the effect of some Travellers, I turned to the left, over a great Bank, on the other side of which, I happily fell in upon a Sand upon which the Sea broke, which continued about eleven or twelve miles in length; there I had good running for a while, till such time as I saw three Moors upon the Sand before me; but having nothing to say to them, nor any mind to their company, I turned therefore to my right hand over the forementioned bank, where I fell in upon a path, which I measured with all the haste I could, until I had in view a couple of Tents roared up in the path way: these I thought it a very unseasonable compliment to visit so soon in the morning, and therefore endeavoured to decline them, by turning up the bank upon the left hand; upon the ridge of which I was obliged to travail above a mile in great trouble, wading through thick Fuzze and Goss, which pricked me with exceeding vexation and smart; the Moors on either hand of me, constraining me to keep this middle course, unless I would expose myself to a manifest hazard of being retaken. It pleased God that I had left the tent a pretty way behind me, I turned therefore down into the path aforesaid, where I exercised my feet to the best purpose that ever I think I did in my life, for about three miles, and then I came within sight of Mamora the Spanish Garrison.  
I was then about two miles' distance, and being obliged to part with the path which I had hitherto followed, and then turned away from Mamora, I found great difficulty to run with that haste which my occasions required, for the ground was full of stumps, and other asperities very afflictive to my naked and wounded feet, which rendered that little last stage much more tedious than all the rest of my journey; besides lassitude grew upon me so fast, that I almost fainted, so that I most impatiently longed to reach the only place of my safety, fearing lest I should founder in the entrance into the Port, after having escaped the great difficulties of a dangerous voyage. There was a hill upon my right hand, which I had a fancy to ascend, thence to make my descent to the Garrison at pleasure; the Moors kept a kind of a Garrison there to hinder the Spaniards from sallying out to forage the Country; this I was ignorant of, otherwise I had not directed my course thither, however this error was very instrumental to my preservation, for the Moors who saw me though I did not them, observing me direct my course towards them, imagined I must be a friend, whereas if I had made directly for Mamora, they had certainly intercepted me. When I came to the foot of the hill, being then out of sight of those who were on the top, I found the ground so full of small Snail-shels, which cut my feet extremely, that I thought it more convenient to go along by the foot of the hill, which was much easier: I was got at last so near the Garrison, that I could call to the Soldiers, who were very numerous upon the works; I called out to them that I was a Christian, and begged them to relieve me by admitting me to come in; they waved their hats to me, and withal I saw a company sent from the Garrison, enter a square-Fort which was some little distance from it. The Spaniards continued waving their hats, which I mistook for a sign to stay there where I was, and make no further advance till such-time as they had sent out to inquire what I was; I therefore sat me down there, at length off comes a great Gun from Mamora, whose Bullet grazed upon the side of the hill above me, which I looking after, saw the Moors who had mistrusted my long stay, coming down upon me, and then I made all the haste that fear could inspire me with, the Spaniards in the mean time firing at the Moors to stop their eager pursuit; at last with my utmost endeavours reached the little Fort, at the bottom of whose wall I fell down quite spent, so that my spirit failed me.  
The Soldiers carried me in a Cloak up to the Garrison, where the Governor, after having caused a glass of Wine to be poured into my mouth to revive me, questioned me what I was and whence I came (for indeed I was so covered all over my body with blood, sweat and dust, that it was hard to distinguish me from a Moor by my colour) I satisfied him that I was an Englishman, whom God had been so merciful to, as last night to bestow an opportunity of escaping from a heavy Slavery in Salle, and direct me to this blessed place of refuge, for whose preservation and prosperity, all poor Christians at Salle offer up their prayers, and I particularly held myself obliged to do, so long as I lived. The Courteous charitable Gentleman (whose name I am sorry I have forgot) congratulated my Deliverance, and told me I was heartily welcome to that place, and because he saw my condition required not much discourse at that instant, he recommended me to the care of the Physician, who very charitably procured me a few clothes, and applied to me such things as I had need of: and then committed me to rest until about noon, at which time the Governor sent for me to come to him upon one of the Rampires, to show me some Horsemen hunting among some Bushes, and he conceited that I was the game they were in quest of; I accorded with his opinion, and to confirm him in it, I assured him that such a horse which I pointed out to him, did belong to Hamet Lucas who was my Patron. The Moors were then within reach of the Guns, the Governor therefore commanded to let fly amongst them, and I upon my request, to honour the departure of my Patron whom I thought never to have seen more, had the favour to fire two at him, which though they did no execution that we could perceive, yet we observed the place was too hot for them, so that they made haste to be gone.  
It is hard to be expressed, what a great satisfaction it was to me, to see my cruel Enemy (whom but 24 hours before I dreaded as Indians do the Devil) flee from me, and endeavour an escape out of my reach, with as much eagerness, as the night before I did out of his. Though I then smarted a little under the sense of my weary and wounded body, yet the thoughts of my Liberty entertained me with such pleasant divertisements, as are not to be conceived by any but those who are in the circumstances that I was in, and who can value their present Liberty, (which together with health makes life itself comfortable, and without which it is but an uneasy burden) by a competition with a hard and grievous Bondage under the professed, yea, superstitiously bigotish Enemies of my God, my Religion, and my own person. Yet when I reflected upon the weakness of the Garrison, (which that afternoon I had an opportunity to survey) which was no bigger in circumference than the Tower of London; the feeble resistance that 400 disheartened half-starved sickly Spaniards could make against an innumerable swarm of Moors, (who lay about and in a manner besieged them) should they attaque them, I must confess my fears did a little qualify my joy, and I could not foreforbear wishing that my Patron and I were at a greater distance. All the night I could hardly rest, for the Moors twice alarmed us, and the Bells about the walls were sounding every moment, to keep the Soldiers a wake and to their duty; for should they be remiss for half an hour only, it had been easy methought to surprise the place, being defended only with a dry Ditch, and pitiful low Walls.  
The next morning early, the wind presented fair, five Barca-longa's, which had brought provision from Cadis, were returning home, in one of which I gladly embarked, bidding adieu to Mamora my refuge and place of Deliverance, which since about two years ago (as I heard with sorrow from Hamet Lucas himself) was taken by the Moors after above a 100 years' possession of the Spaniards; he declaring, that he was the first man who entered it. We sailed along the Barbary-Coast all the day, nothing occurring remarkable, save that in the afternoon, the Spanish Seamen acquainted me that we were pursued. It was very strange and surprising when I beheld a-stern of us, an innumerable quantity of Fish, making after us at full gallop as it were, leaping above the water; they quickly overtook us, and so pursued their journey, without any concern at our hallooing, as they passed very near us, on both sides our boat: they were not so long as ordinary Cod, but they appeared much broader; what the meaning of the frolic should be, I cannot tell, but the Spaniards seemed more affected with my amazement, than with that strange appearance, so that I suppose this was an ordinary divertment, that that kind of Fish affords upon that Coast.  
Upon Wednesday morning, we were got as far as A-la-rach another Garrison belonging to the Spaniards at the Mouth of a River, at which time we heard much shooting out at Sea, so that we thought it convenient to put into Larache. This is a strong place, the Walls enclosing a considerable piece of ground, where grow abundance of excellent Grapes and rare Fruits. The Town is fortified by two strong Castles, well-stored with great Ordnance; into one of which we were permitted to ascend, to view a rare sight at Sea, a very unequal Combat as to number, yet briskly maintained by one Dutch man of War against six Algerines, whereof the Admiral and Vice-Admiral were two, and the least was of two and thirty Guns. The fight continued till noon, when two great Dutchmen, and Van Ghent in the Looking-glass, and another coming up, the Turks thought best to make sail and stand away; and then luckily a-head of them, as they were weathering Cape Spartil, appeared six English men of War, Captain Beech was Commander of one. The Algerines being hemmed in, resolved rather to venture through the English, and so make their way into the straits, than to turn back upon Van-Ghent, whose great Guns struck a great terror into them: so up they went to the English. But Captain Beech with the first broadside disabling their Admiral, they all together tacked and run ashore in the Bay of Arzilla, where they were all set on fire, abundance of Christians being relieved, and abundance of Turks being killed. The Governor of Larache commanded our Barca to go out and bring an account of the action, which we did, and returned again at night with the news, that the Algerines who were destroyed were, the Springing Tiger, the Standing Tiger, the Date Tree, the Shepherdess, I have forgot the names of the rest.  
Next day being Thursday, we set forward for Cadis, and upon Friday night we arrived in the Bay. The next morning I applied myself to Mr. Westcomb (since Knighted) than Consul, who treated me not so much according to the exigency of my condition, as his own Generosity, inviting me to his own Table daily, during my stay at Cadis which was about a sortnight. There I saw some of these very Moors Slaves themselves, who made me so; there being fifteen taken, aboard the French prize I formerly mentioned, by the Holmes-Friggot, and carried to Cadis and there sold: this accident furnished me with a pleasant opportunity of thinking how the case was altered. About the middle of September, at Sir Martin Westcomb's desire, I obtained passage aboard a Dutch man of War designed for S. Uves, from whence I travelled by Land to Lisbon, the place where I embarked some fourteen or fifteen weeks before, in that Vessel wherein I was taken. I went to pay my respects to Dr. Cradock and Mr. Bulteel, who saw me when I was at Lisbon before, and could hardly be induced to believe that I had been a Slave since, unless they had been assured by Mr. Parry, than Agent at Lisbon, to whom I brought a Letter from the Consul at Cadis, recommending me to his favour in procuring me a safe passage for England, and who certified him sufficiently of my escape from Salle to Mamora, seeing I had brought Letters from the Governor of Mamora to the Duke of Veraguas, then Governor of Cadis, which Mr. Westcomb himself delivered up to the Duke.  
After my stay in Lisbon about a fortnight, Mr. Parry the Agent aforesaid, prevailed with the Dutch Consul, to grant me passage for England in a Dutch Man of War (there being no English Ships of any force then in the River, and I was very unwilling, any more to hazard myself in small Vessels.) It was the very same Ship which I saw at Alarache, engaged with the six Algerines. In the beginning of November I was brought to the Texel, (having had no convenience to be removed into any Ship in the Channel, by reason of a great Storm that hurried us over to the Holland Coast:) from Amsterdam I came to the Hague, where hearing, that Sir John Chicheley then Envoy from his Majesty to the Governor of the Spanish Netherlands was returning instantly for England, I made haste to Brussels, and obtained passage for England amongst his retinue, so that I returned to England in November 1670, and never have been out of his Majesty's Dominions since.  
After my return I immediately went for Oxford, where I fell into the favour of George Wheeler Esquire then Gentleman-Commoner of Lincoln-Colledge, who was pleased to think my indigent condition a fit object of his charity; with whom and his Father Colonel Charles Wheeler I lived in quality of Tutor to his Children from Christmas 1670, until May 1672. During which time I received Deacon's Orders, from the Bishop of Ely's hands, and at Christmas following I was ordained Priest by the Bishop of London. In 1673, William then Lord Grey of Wark admitted me to be his Chaplain, with whom I lived until his Death 1674, after which being invited by some promises to Dublin in Ireland, I removed thither, and lived constantly in the City of Dublin, in the execution of my Ministerial Function, until 1679, when I was called into England, upon what occasion will be the subject of my following Discourse.  
This is a true account of my Captivity and Escape, which I appeal to many thousands whether or not it agrees exactly, with what I have related these twelve years past; Haec meminisse juvat. I cannot indeed disown a piece of vanity I have had, in frequently reflecting upon this remarkable accident of my life, and such complacency I have had therein, that I have always freely complied with any handsome invitation to relate it; for there is a great pleasure in remembering the great Dangers I have passed (Dangers to evade which, the Salamanca-Doctor would I believe have pawned all his True-Protestant expectations, yea and his Swearing Faculty too, which now considering the temptations he is under, I am afraid he'll be damned before he'll part with it.) I have indeed heard many discredit the whole Relation, as Romantic, but I never heard any tax me of an Otism, i. e. inconsistency with myself, as if I told one Story by Candle-light, and a quite different one again in the day. But now that, Haggi Hamet Lucas, (who was my Patron in the place of my Captivity) has by a strange providence come over to this Country, and before several persons of Quality and Reputation, attested the truth of all these things by me related, which were within the sphere of his knowledge; I suppose there will be but little scruple remaining, to unprejudiced persons in the belief of the above-written Narrative. Supposing it then true, what is there in it, to render me Criminal? Because I am lame must I be beaten with my own Crutches? Because I have been unfortunate, is it for that I must be miserable? Because I have made an escape from a sad Captivity in Barbary, do I therefore deserve to be hanged here in England? He must be a Devil at making of Plots, as well as discovering them, who can make such inferences as these pass, who because by God's assistance to my own endeavours I have saved my Country the trouble and price of my Redemption, will therefore bring me in guilty of Treason against her; and this calls to my mind the Salamanca-Doctor.   

An Account of TITUS OATS HIS DEPOSITIONS Against ME.  
IT is very hard to conceive, that any thing made after the Image of God, and endued with a reasonable soul, (howsoever degenerate and corrupt) should affect evil only for the love of evil, and covet mischief for its own sake; this is so great a reproach, and casts such a dishonourable reflection upon humane nature, that no man can suppose such a Devil incarnate: and therefore even Titus Oates himself (though we should comply with the Papists and believe all his Depositions to have been only the result of his own wicked and mischievous invention) had always the hopes of Grandeur and the importunate solicitations of cunning politic heads, together with a gratification to his Revenge, or some natural inclination, to plead as an acquittance from the imputation of so Diabolical a temper. And really the Jesuits and Benedictines were very uncharitable to him, when he poor Rogue seemed abandoned by God and Man, and was forced to betake himself to the Devil and the Jesuits to get bread, and not having the fear of God before his eyes, had no other design to maintain himself in life, but by conspiring the King's death: for them first to turn him away ignominiously from S. Omers as an indocible Blockhead, that could never be brought to turn three Lines of English into tolerable Latin; and then to disown him here in London, notwithstanding he had a Patent (Risum teneatis!) from the Pope, to be admitted to their private Cabals; and in the next place to oblige him without Shoes and Stockings, to go a-begging to the Benedictines in the Savoy for, the Scraps of a dinner; and then for Corker and the rest to bid the Maid shut the Door upon him, this is enough to make a man so hungry as he was, to be very angry, and to swear too: so that considering the Doctor's temper, the satisfaction of his revenge might be alleged as some kind of excuse to qualify the malignity of his Oaths against these people. And now probably the Readers curiosity is excited to the enquiry upon what occasion, motive or provocation, the wicked Doctor (supposing the falsity of his Depositions) was induced to swear so maliciously against me: for satisfaction thereto, he must know that Charles Lord North and Grey, was the sole and only occasion of Oates' swearing against me; it was to oblige this Noble Lord (for whose interest it was thought necessary to have me disesteemed, and put out of capacity and credit) the cursed Doctor pawned his Soul, which will appear plainly to have been his design not only from the express words of his own Depositions, but also from the said Lord's acknowledgement upon his Oath, in Court at our Trial. But how this noble Lord became so concerned to appear my Enemy, the Reader will understand from what follows.  
William late Lord Grey of Werk, by his last Will and Testament, left to his Daughter Katherine now Lady North two hundred Guinneys as a Legacy, and his Son Ralph afterwards Lord Grey, he appointed sole Executor of his Will; by Deed having settled his Estate upon his Grandson Ford the present Lord Grey of Werk. This was a very great disappointment to the Lord Grey of Rollestone, now Lord North, who had entertained great expectations, not only of being Executor to his Father in Law, but also of having a considerable part of the Estate settled upon him; though upon what foundation he built such mighty hopes unless his own fancy, seems very unaccountable. For the Lord William Grey had bestowed a plentiful Portion with his Daughter; and he always caressed his Son and Grandsons with a paternal affection, as the props and supports of his Name and Family: and why then he should alientate his Estate, and bestow it upon another Name, is very unsuitable to that wisdom and prudent conduct by which the said Lord was always observed to have managed his affairs. Howsoever the Lord North left no means unattempted, no Stone unrolled, to find out a Dish of Deeds, as his Lordship learnedly phrased it, but all in vain: at length two Sons of Belial, William Warren (who had been for a long time Steward in the Lord Grey of Werk's Family, and then for his infidelity cashiered) and Isaac his Son (much about the same time and upon the like account, discarded the service of the Lady Dowager Grey) being both turned out of Beneficial employments, and not having any other ways of subsistence, they lay hold of this humour of my Lord North, resolving to encourage him in it, and to improve it to two different purposes; namely, to procure themselves a livelihood thereby, and besides to revenge themselves upon the Lord Grey and the Lady Dowager his Mother. To this purpose, they inform the Lord North that he is much injured by the Lady Dowager Grey, Executrix to her Husband Lord Ralph Grey, pretended Executor only to his Father the Lord William Grey, because that the Lady North was appointed sole Executrix, by the last Will of the said William Lord Grey, and that the Lord Ralph had burnt that Schedule wherein she was nominated, and forged another, wherein he nominated himself, and substituted it in the place of the other; this they both attest upon their Oaths, upon which the Lord North commences a suit against the Lady Dowager Grey. The Cause after several removes from Court to Court, at last centred before the Delegates. To be short, after a tedious examination of Witnesses produced on both sides, the Delegates having diligently weighed the arguments, came to a final determination, and unanimously pronounced in favour of the Lady Grey, judging that Rascal Isaac Warren (who confessed himself to be a Villain, in betraying his Lord William Lord Grey, and in being accessary to the forging his last Will and Testament, before he could be in a capacity to witness for Thomas Lord North) to be much more a Villain after, and that his Testimony involved a manifest contradiction, and consequently that he was forsworn. It was, during the trial of this Cause in that Court, that I was sent for from Dublin in Ireland; about September 1679, I was produced as a Witness by the Lady Grey.  
After I had delivered what I knew as to that Cause, I prepared for my return back to Dublin; and accordingly I had took a place in the Chester-Coach for the Monday following. But the day before, as I was preaching at S. Gyles' Church in the Fields, in the Afternoon, news came to the Lady Grey, that there was a Warrant out to apprehend me as a Jesuit; upon which, I was conveyed home, and commanded to keep myself close, till such time as her Ladyship had made enquiry what the matter was.  
At length I understood from her Ladyship, that the Lord North and Titus Oats had that morning met at Whitehall, and after some conference, they came where his Majesty was, and told him for news, that they had discovered where one of the most dangerous Jesuits in England was; one that was lately come over from Ireland, sent as a Spy; one who hid himself under a Parson's Gown, and preached in our Churches sometimes; at other times he would put on a Cloak and hold forth in a Conventicle, and anon, one might hear him saying Mass in Sommerset-Chappel. His Majesty was astonished at the impudence of such a fellow, who at such a time of the day, durst appear to affront the severity of the Laws which were then most rigorously put in Execution, and was pleased to demand his Name, and enquired of Oats if he knew him. Oats told his Majesty, that his name was eliot, and that he knew him very well, for one of the most mischievous wicked men in the world, and that he believed he had more malice in him, than all the Jesuits had who were hanged; nay more says he, he is a Circumcised Jesuit. God bless us, says his Majesty, What sort of Jesuit is that? A Jesuit who is no Christian but a Turk, replied the Salamanca Devil. And thus they went on, the Lord and the Doctor striving to outvie each other in burdening my poor name with all the Infamy imaginable, and that before his Sacred Majesty; as if I were unworthy of his protection, or the benefit of the Laws. At length, his Majesty weary of such an odious description, was pleased to retire, bidding them get a Warrant to apprehend me; which they immediately did from Sir William Waller.  
Her Ladyship moreover made me acquainted, that there was an Advertisement in the Gazette for the next day concerning me, and therefore that it would not be my best course to set forward for Chester, for that I was represented under so vile a Character, that the Mobile would certainly tear me in pieces. However her Ladyship bid me cheer up and not to despond, for I should find friends enough to stand by me and defend my innocence, so that never a Lord nor Devil-of-a-Doctor of them all should prejudice me: her Ladyship therefore that night sent and prevented the Advertisement in the Gazette, and bid me prepare myself to appear before Sir William the next morning.  
About nine of the Clock the day following, I saw a Constable with some Red-Coats coming to my Lady Grey's House, and fearing lest they should affront Her Ladyship if I should be out of the way, I went and met them at the Gate; I demanded whom they would speak with? The Constable told me, that he had a Warrant to search for, and apprehend a Priest in that house; I assured him, there was no Priest belonged to that Family except myself: he enquired whether I was one, I answered that I was, but of the Church of England, and that my name was eliot; and moreover I told him, I thought I was the person he was in quest of. He replied that he was of the same opinion, and withal commanded me along with him; I enquired whither I must go; he told me to Sir William Waller, whose Warrant he showed me. The Honourable Ralph Grey Esquire came to the Constable, and desired him to command the Red-Coats to keep off, because the People seeing them attend a Coach, would be apt to affront us, and withal proffered me the honour of his Company: which I with all thankful acknowledgements most willingly accepted. And indeed I had reason, for if it had not been for his presence, and the influence of the Right Honourable the Lady his Mother, I had been certainly sent to Newgate, and whither then God knows, for Oates says, he never begins a business but he goes thoroughstitch with it: he might have sworn that he saw a Letter under my hand, which encouraged Grove and Pickering to proceed to murder the King, as easily as he swore that he saw one under my hand, wherein I acknowledged that I had received Priests Orders and sung High Mass at Rome; I will swear he saw one as much as the other.  
But to proceed, we took Coach and went directly to Sir William waller's house in Westminster: whilst we were going thither, the Constable enquired whether ever I had been amongst the Turks, I told him I had; the Constable then shook his head, telling Mr. Grey that it would go hard with me, for that there was strong evidence against me that I was both a Jesuit, and a Turkish-Priest; Mr. Grey could not forbear laughing, whilst I was heartily vexed to see myself thus abused. When we came to Sir Williams, after a little squabbling, and some corpse compliments I was obliged to pass upon his Worship, Mr. Grey and he withdrew, and after having the Case clearly stated to him, Sir William returned to me, and begged my pardon, for he understood I was a Minister of the Church of England, and had the relation of Chaplain to a very Honourable Family, which he was sure, would not entertain within their doors any one represented under the character that I was; and so he professed himself sorry that upon a misinformation he gave me this trouble, desiring Mr. Grey to go to Oates' Lodgings in Whitehall with me, and ordering the Constable to attend, he said he would presently follow us, and endeavour my dismission, which he did.  
Oats in the mean time, being informed that Persons of great Quality would appear in my vindication, if any danger threatened me, and that the Lord North's design of Revenge was too too apparent in the business, altars his mind, and hastening down to Sir Williams at that time when we were coming to Whitehall, he met his Coach following us; and going into Sir William's Coach, the first thing he said (as a Gentleman then present informed me) was, Sir William, you must not meddle with Mr. eliot for I have nothing to say against him: Nor I neither, answered Sir William, for he is a Minister of the Church of England, and has his Orders about him. A little after our coming to Oates' Chamber, where were abundance of people, the Doctor came in, to whom addressing myself, I asked him if he knew me; he told me, that he remembered me very well at Cambridge, about twelve years ago, and that since he never saw me; he heard, he said, and was informed, that I had said Mass in Sommerset-Chappel, but he believed it was a mistake: pray, Mr. Oates, said I, what is the meaning of the report you have raised, as if I were circumcised; Truly, says the Doctor, when I was at Rome, the Fathers of the Scotch College enquired whether I knew you; knew whom, says I? They asked, says he, whether I knew one Adam eliot, who had been of their College; I told them I knew youvery well, and that I heard you had been taken Captive by the Turks; It may be, reply the Fathers, they have Circumcised him. This is all, says he, that I know of the business. This was a piece of such intolerable impudence, that I could hardly refrain giving him the Lie; for he not only contradicted what he had told His Majesty the day before (as persons of the greatest Quality can attest) but he contrived a Story, whose every Syllable was false: for I never was in the Scotch College at Rome, I never saw it to my knowledge, neither did I ever see a Scotch Father, neither was I ever reputed a Scotchman whilst I was abroad; and moreover my Name was never known to be eliot: so that knowing these things to be false, I had reason to question whether ever he had been at Rome, which I do still. However, I thought it was not convenient to put him out of humour by my contradiction at that time, but I let him go on without interruption, to tell Lies as long as he pleased; at last seeing him at a pause, I asked him if he had any thing to allege why the Constable might not be discharged farther attendance; his Doctorship was pleased to speak the word that he might go about his business, and so I was set at liberty.  
This Lenity of the Doctor in causing me to be apprehended, and immediately discharged, was not the effect of his Repentance or good Nature, but of his Cowardice and Fear, as the Reader will presently conclude. As soon as with convenience I could, I made haste for Ireland; yet not with that speed, but that a Packet or two had got over before me, and carried the news of my apprehension, and of Oates' Depositions against me: the News was so general, that there was no doubt of the matter of fact; and Oates' testimony was in so great credit then, that it was judged a crime equal to Blasphemy or Treason to call it in question: so that even my friends and intimate acquaintance were at a loss what to think of me; the Dissenters and Enemies of our Cathedrals (of which I was a Member) did insult and triumph upon this sham-occasion. At length in the very heat of these prepossessions, I landed at Dublin, upon a Sunday-mornning, and immediately repaired to the Church, where I officiated according to the duty of my place; most people were astonished to see me, because I was reported generally to be in Newgate in London. But the fanatics were almost distracted, to see their false intelligence confuted by so lively an argument as my appearance; and my not being a Popish Priest, or a Circumeised Turk, they thought would baffle the Doctor's Infallibility, damn the Plot, and confound them all. O! what a great scandal it was to them, to see me walk the Streets, but much more to hear me discourse freely, as, God help me! I could not forbear sometimes, when Titus Oats came in the way of my fancy. These were affronts that were intolerable, and therefore they watched my conversation, and always to ensnare me. At last, I unhappily fell into the company of a turbulent factious Fellow, a City-Captain, who endeavoured to raise his credit by catching of Popish Priests, and he had got a little fame by that way: but now, if he could but entrap me, he thought he should gain immortal honour. Amongst other discourse, he desired of me to be satisfied of the occasion of these reports spread concerning me when I was in England; I endeavoured to satisfy him all I could, but all would not do, for says he, I am sure Dr. Oats cannot Lie, and I am pretty well assured, that he said you were a Popish Priest and a Turk besides. This insolent expression provoked me to some passionate resentment; so that I told him, that Oats was a great Lying Rogue, and he was another: this is not to be endured by any True Protestant, says the Captain, speak your pleasure of me, says he, but do not blaspheme the venerable Doctor; the Doctor, continued I, if he deposed with no more truth against the Jesuits than he did against me, they died Martyrs: At this, the Captain riseth and runs away to Sir Robert Booth, a True-Protestant L. C. J. of the King's Bench, and makes affidavit, that I said that Titus Oats was a Rogue, and the five Jesuits Martyrs. To be short, I was sent for by a Tipstaff, bound over to answer at the Kings-Bench the near approaching term, when I was indicted for these very words, found guilty, and fined 200 l. and imprisonment until I paid it. At the same time, comes over from England a pretended character of Adam eliot, directed to a Gentleman of Quality in Dublin, who was desired to disperse Copies of it; it was subscribed North and Grey, and was a base, malicious Libel, stuffed with lies and impudence; it is Scandalum Magnatum any person professing Honour and Honesty, as the Author of it. He asserts upon his honour, that I was expelled the University of Cambridge, that I was a Jesuit, that I was a Renegado and a Mahometan, that I was a Felon, that I was a Murderer, that I was guilty of Forgery, and particularly that I combined with Ralph Lord Grey of Werk, and with him forged the last Will of his Father William Lord Grey, to the prejudice of the Lord North of above 30000 l. This infamous character, howsoever most abominably, and from the beginning to the end false, yet coming under the specious recommendation of a Person of Honour, did much prejudice me, especially with the concurrence of my other misfortunes, so that I was rendered very odious and vile, insomuch that my confinement was my best security; for if I had walked the Streets I had been in danger of being stoned.  
At length, after this violent ferment of the People's hatred by a little time, as is usual, had begun to abate, the Privy Council upon my Petition, were pleased to consider my condition, as thinking that I had met with very hard measure for speaking a few words, (which were by the severest construction, the result only of passion and inadvertency) and being pretty well satisfied of my good inclinations to the Church of England and Ireland as by Law established, as also to the Government, and my aversion to Popery; and withal considering how I laboured under the calumnies and slanders of a scandalous Libel, apparently false, and designed out of malice to ruin my reputation, and that I had no way to do myself right, so long as I was under confinement, they were pleased to order my releasement upon Bail until the next Term, and then I satisfied the Law, and was discharged.  
After my departure from London for Ireland, the Lord North perceiving how much a propô it would be to invalidate my testimony, viz. that excellent invention of Circumcision, (for though a Papists Oath may be taken, yet no man sure will believe one who has renounced the Christian Faith) he renews his solicitations to the Doctor, to swear against me in the Court of Delegates: the Doctor who used not to swear lightly and in vain, i. e. for nothing, seemed shy at first; but having heard that I called him a Rogue and the Jesuits Martyrs, he complied with the desire of his good Friend, the Lord North, who at that time; the Reader must take notice, was a Petitioning Lord, that is, one of those Lords, who subscribed and presented a Petition to his Majesty for the sitting of the Parliament, and therefore was by all obliging offices to be caressed and retained. (The Reader is likewise desired to take notice, that at the Lord Stafford's Trial, Oats swore, that a certain Lord sent him a 100 l. but he neither tells us who, nor for what, so that whether this remark be to the purpose or not, I cannot as yet tell.)  
Oates' Depositions against me upon Oath are as followeth.  

4 to Maii, 1680.  
Super Allegatione articulata ex parte Domini North and Grey, & ejus Uxoris, quarto Martii 1679, juxta etc. data & 18o ejusdem mensis admissa.  
Titus Oates Sacrae Theologiae Professor & Vicarius Vicariae de Bibbin in Com. Cantii aetatis suae 32o, aut eo circiter, natus apud Okeham in Com. Rutlandiae, Testis productus, juratus & examinatus, deponit prout sequitur, viz.  
AD. 11 & 12, Articulos dictae Allegationis deponit, That he knew Mr. eliot now a Minister, whose name he thinks Adam, in the year 1667, in the College of Cajus in Cambridge, and as near as he can remember, he was then Pupil to Mr. Simon Bagg or Mr. John Ellis, one of which (as the said eliot confessed) he the said eliot did beat; at which time, and during the time of this Deponents knowledge of him in the said College (which was for about the space of a year,) he the said eliot was a poor Scholar, maintained by some of the Doctors of the University, (as he confessed to the Deponent;) but for his rude, riotous, whoring and debauched living, they withdrew his maintenance as he complained to this Deponent. And the said Adam eliot hath confessed that he went a Deer-stealing; and the said eliot robbed a Study in Cajus College, and would have sold this Deponent some of the Books he took from thence. He further saith, that after the said eliot was gone from the said University, and in the year 1670 or thereabouts, the said eliot did write to the Rector of St. Omers, and gave him an account that he had received Orders, and was a Priest, and had sung high Mass at the English College at Rome; which Letter this Deponent saw in the year 1677, juxta etc. and afterwards the said eliot was carried a Slave into Barbary, and there, as it was reported generally and credibly, was Circumcised, and as he confessed, did give poison to his Master or Patron. After which, returning to Rome, he made his Recantation, which this Deponent hath seen under his own hand, as this Deponent believes, having been well acquainted with his Character. He further saith, that in the year 1673, the said eliot living in Kent did lead a very dissolute debauched life, and was much given to Drinking, Whoreing, Lying, and Swearing that to be true which was not so: And he saith, that he hath seen a Letter subscribed as from the Bishop of Meath in Ireland; the purport of which was, that eliot was indicted in Dublin before the Lord Chief Justice Booth, for saying that this Deponent was a perjured Rogue, and that the Jesuits that were hanged for high Treason died Martyrs, and that there was no such thing as a Popish Plot, or to that effect; upon which the said eliot was convicted and fined 200 lb. and was to be imprisoned till the said Fine was paid, or to that purpose: And this Deponent doth verily believe that the said eliot was and is so vile and infamous a Person, of such a lewd, wicked and debauched life and conversation, that no faith or credit is or aught to be given to his sayings and Depositions in this Cause: Et aliter nescit deponere, super reliquis non examinatur ex directione partis producentis.  
Idem ad Interrogatoria ex adversa parte ministrata. Ad primum & secundum respondet, that about Christmas last, as near as he remembers the time, the Lord North and Grey met this Respondent in Whitehall, and asked this Respondent, whether he knew one eliot that was a Priest or to that purpose; and at first this Respondent could not recollect whether he did or not, but upon further discourse and enquiry, finding that he had been of Cajus College in Cambridge, this Respondent did remember him, and told his Lordship that he knew the said eliot to be a very Rogue, and a lewd debauched liver, and that he had been Circumcised, and had received Orders from the See of Rome, or to that purpose. Et aliter nescit respondere, saving that just after the former discourse between this Respondent and his said Lordship which he hath predeposed, his Lordship asked this Respondent whether he thought it not fit that the said eliot should be taken up or apprehended, and asked this Respondent how it might best be done; and (as near as he can remember) this Respondent advised him to get a Warrant from Sir William Waller for him; and saving the said Lord North then asked this Respondent, whether he could justify the said eliot was a Romish Priest; to which this Respondent replied, that he believed he could, or to that purpose.  
Ad tertium Respondet, that the next day after the Sunday whereon the said ●ord North and this Respondent had the discourse predeposed of, the said eliot was taken and brought before Sir William Waller. Et aliter nescit respondere.  
Ad quartum respondet, that he did seo the said eliot before Sir William Waller, but did not hear him examined.  
Ad quintum interrogatorium Respondet, that being advised and told by the Lord Chancellor, that since the said eliot had taken Orders in the Church of England, that his so doing had swallowed up all other Orders, and therefore there could be no proceedings against him for being a Romish Priest, or to that effect, as he remembers; this Respondent did tell the said Sir William Waller that he had nothing to allege or say against the said eliot. Et aliter nescit respondere.  
Ad sextum nescit, saving the Interrogatory, Sir William Waller did at this Respondents instance clear or dismiss the said eliot.  
Ad septimum respondet, that the time when the Lord North and Crey had discourse with this Respondent about the said eliot, as he hath predeposed, he told this Deponent, that the said eliot had belied him and his Lady, and had injured him; and as he thinks told this Respondent, that the said eliot had been a Witness against him concerning a Will, in a suit depending at Doctor's Commons between his Lordship and the Lady Dowager Grey. Aliter non meminit.  
Ad octavum respondet, that he is well acquainted with the Character of Sir William Waller, and believes the Schedule or Certificate now shown unto him, is totally wrote and subscribed by the proper hand-writing of Sir William Waller.  
Ad nonum, refert se ad praedeposita quae dicit esse vera.  
Ad decimum dat causas sciend. ut supra.   
These are the Depositions of Titus Oates against me, which did not flow from a precipitate rashness, or inconsiderate passion, but were the advised result of six months' deliberation, subscribed by his own hand, and grounded upon the same motives of Credibility with his discovery of the Popish Plot; even his Oath and most solemn Invocation of the dreadful God, to avenge himself upon him, who beareth false witness against his Neighbour. The charge against me in these his Depositions is intolerably grievous, even abstracting from the sacredness of my Function, and considering me barely, as I am a member of a Christian and Protestant community: and truly the conclusion of his Depositions in these words, that I am so vile and infamous a person, of such a wicked, lewd and debauched life and conversation, that no faith is, or aught to be given to my sayings and Depositions in that Cause; as it plainly shows the design of Oates' appearing against me, viz. to oblige the Lord North, and to invalidate my testimony in behalf of the Lady Dowager Grey; so it is a very rational consequence which the Doctor is seldom guilty of: for indeed if I am truly and justly charged by him, I confess myself not only unworthy of credit in that cause, but in all others; but if he has sworn falsely against me, than I hope the conclusion will be equally applicable to himself, and that the Doctor ought not to be believed, either in his Depositions against me, or any other person. Now I do in the presence of the almighty and all-seing God declare, that what Titus Oates has sworn against me, is mere calumny, and malicious wilful detraction and slander, and absolutely false; and that whosoever might excite or encourage the Villain to this base and unworthy undertaking, yet certainly the Enemy of Mankind must have been mainly concerned in the wicked contrivance, and the Doctor by his shameless impudent lying and false swearing, has plainly evidenced himself to be the Son of a Devil, by manifest characters and features lineally extracted from the Father of Lies and accuser of the Brethren.  
But here I expect some Readers may probably cut me short, and tell me, that by asserting Doctor Oats to be forsworn, I insinuate as if the Popish Plot were but a feignment, and a mere whim of the Doctor's invention; at least I reflect most severely upon his Discoveries, for if he can be found but once to have sworn falsely, the credit of his Depositions immediately sinks, and every man for the future, will think himself obliged to disbelieve his Narrative.  
To this I answer, that his Maje●●… and Council have declared that there is a Popish Plot, and therefore I have reason to believe one; for the King is as an Angel of God, and has means of Intelligence that far transcend my little sphere, or any Subjects; so that in despite of these objections Oats has laid in the way, I do really believe the existence of a Popish Plot; but withal I do declare, I do not believe one syllable thereof from beginning to ending, upon account of the Doctor's Depositions: and if it be criminal to deny it, or call it in question, the truth and being of which is ascertained by his Majesty's Declaration in Council, and by the Votes of the House of Lords and Commons in Parliament, then certainly there is abundant matter of Information against one Titus Oats a Salamanea-Doctor, who for these three years past, has industriously endeavoured to discredit it, and by contradicting Oaths, and forswearing himself in several instances, has ruined his own reputation, and laboured as much as in him lay, to persuade the Nation that his Narrative is a Lie, and the Plot a shame; for which if he be not returned into the Crown-Office, and answer for his misdemeanour at the Kings-Bench-Bar, (as it shall be none of my fault if he do not,) yet I hope there will come a Parliament; and really I believe it will be a pleasant sight, to see Doctor Oates brought up by Topham, to answer at the Commons Bar, the contempt of God knows how many Votes.  
When the first discovery of the Popish Plot had alarmed these Nations with a general consternation and horror, as reasonably it must, I confess I bore a part; for being in a Country, viz. in Ireland, where the Papists were very numerous, and where forty years' interval had scarce worn out the footsteps and bloody marks of their barbarous and inhuman Cruelty, and execrable Rebellion; methought the Protestauts there had all the reason in the world to be sensible of their Danger, and to stand upon their guard, seeing such a dreadful Plot was sworn to be upon the very brink of breaking out here in England. But when after all, Oates's Narrative, and his Evidences against the Jesuits, and others who suffered, produced nothing but bare downright confident Swearing, (a certain and infallible argument of nothing so much as his own traitorous disposition formerly) I must confess my fears began to vanish, and strong surmises to come in their place, lest the Doctor's Ears might be in greater jeopardy than our Throats. To speak the truth, the 40000 Black-Bills, and the Army of Spanish Pilgrims, and Military Commissions from General D'Oliva, appeared always to me so monstrously ridiculous, that they offer an intolerable affront to the understanding of any man, who has but a very indifferent account of the affairs of Europe. I desire the Reader to reconcile if he can, Oates' Depositions in Coleman's Trial, pag. 29th, where upon Oath he delivers to us, yea, and repeats it for sureness sake, That he never saw Langhorn after he had showed him the Commissions; which there he tells us, was two days after the April Consult; and yet in Langhorn's Trial pag. 18th, he swears, he saw him twice or thrice after, in July and August: this last he thought himself obliged to swear, that he might charge Langhorn with a new Treason contrived at a Benedictine Consult, which the Doctor made to be in these months at the Sav●…▪ These two evidences upon Oath are plainly contradictory, I am sure, they can never both be reconciled to truth. It never abated my honour and dutiful respects to His Royal Highness, that Oats swore first for him, and afterwards against him; and notwithstanding his Doctorship's swearing through a double Door, yet I have ten times more reason to believe the Doctor to be a Son of a—, than His R. H. to be a Son of the Church of Rome. I have heard much talk, and a great deal of Swearing there has been, about the Commissions, and a world of Letters brimful of Treason, sent by the Post too, whose Date the Doctor remembers precisely; and yet wisemen, if they do not think he Lies, they cannot but admire that he should have never a scrip nor scroul to show; they wonder he should forget to bring at least a Copy along with him: I would have been more generous myself than Sir John Gage was to him, I would give twenty Shillings for the sight of that Commission, for which Sir John gave but ten.  
At Stafford's Trial, pag. he swore he never was really a Papist, but a Counterfeit; then in the first place, I desire the Reader to consider what Religion he could be of, during his residence amongst the Papists; which of the Whiggish Tribes could he be obliged to for Communion, or whether the Protestant Religion of the Church of England would own such a wicked Dissembler with God and Man, who took all sorts of Tests of Oaths and Sacraments, yea, and committed abominable Idolatry, in despite of his conscience; who equivocated beyond Garnet, and out-lyed the Devil. In the next place, supposing, but not granting him to have been then a Protestant; pray Reader, ask him the next time you see him, why he did not carry the Resolves of the April-Consult concerning the assasinating his Majesty, to one of the Secretaries of State, or to some Magistrate? He swears that he carried these Resolves from one Club to another, subscribed by the several hands of the Persons, who were at the Clubs; could there a fitter opportunity offer itself to discover the Plot, than at a time when he might have seized all the Conspirators cooped up together? when he might so manifestly have convinced them, by their names and manual subscriptions to the highest and express most Treason imaginable? Nay moreover, when a small delay threatened His Majesty's sacred Person with an imminent, if not certain destruction. By his swearing himself to have been at that time no Papist, I appeal to any man, whether he doth not in effect make Oath, that there was no such traitorous Consult: for it seems not probable, that there should be such a horrid palpable Conspiracy, and such an excellent convenience for Discovery, and yet a Protestant should conceal it. But above all, I can hardly find in my heart to forgive him, (notwithstanding His Majesty's pardon) the not preventing the Destruction of His Majesty's sacred Person, by Sir George Wakeman's Poison, or some other way, by the four Ruffians at Windsor. In almost all the Trials, he sticks to this, viz. that he saw 80 lb. told down to be carried to them, and he saw a Guinney given for expedition; and yet this bloody Villain never made, nor attempted any discovery, when it might have been seasonable: every minute he expected to hear the blow was given, and yet, which is monstrous, he never offered the least prevention. Certainly Ravilliac and Jaques Clement were better Christians than this Rogue; he Lies, if he says he was then a Protestant, or else he Lies in devising this Plot, let him take his Choice.  
At the first discovery of the Plot, he was pleased to allow His Grace the Duke of Ormond, a Guard of four such Ruffians as attend his Doctorship, and he made his Grace at that time so considerable in the Protestant cause, that he appointed him Fogarthy for a Physician: but this was in the dawning of the Discovery: the Doctor is observed to make very considerable mistakes by Candle-light, and so probably he might then mistake his Grace for a certain Noble Peer; for afterwards, when the Plot was arrived to the Noon of its discovery, that People could see clearly who it was convenient to swear for, or against: His Grace was brought in as a favourer of that Religion, which before the Doctor swore would have murdered him; and God knows how many more were brought in upon the like account. All the Clergy of the Church of England, were then seen tantivying it to Rome, and the Dissenters and Conventicles were the only strong Holds and Bulwarks of the Protestant Religion; whereas at the beginning, the Doctor swears in his Narrative, the Papists endeavoured by all means to encourage these seditious Separatists, and that the Meeting-houses were the lurking holes of the Jesuits, where under the umbrage of the Toleration allowed them, they absconded themselves from the view of the Law. Nay, if the Doctor's friend Stephen College had been permitted to finish his Discovery of the Plot and his Raree show, I do not doubt, but his Majesty had been drawn into the Plot against his own Life. The Learned Doctor may have read or heard at least, that Charles Stuart has been before now, charged with Treason against the Sovereign; they had got pretty near the King, when they made bold with the Queen, and however the Doctor has not been positive as yet to this point, yet he knows there is a time for all things. All which arguments, with abundance more too large to be here inserted, drawn from the intrinsic matter of the Doctor's Depositions, were sufficient to restrain my assent to the Doctor's Oaths, how confident soever; especially when I considered that he was a person no ways eminent for probity or honesty, qualifications essentially requisite to all who aim at credit by Swearing: but this villainous Doctor is notorious for all flagitious crimes and impieties imaginable. Sir Dennis Ashbourn witnessed, that he had one property of the Devil, viz. that he was a Liar from the beginning; he has served an apprenticeship to the trade of Losing from his Cradle, and Hastings his some time abode in Sussex, and Bobbing in Kent, will verify the old saying, Quo semel est imbuta, etc. He has been observed, wherever he has fortuned to make his residence, to sow dissension amongst Neighbours, even where he pretended to be a Minister of peace, a perpetual makebate; upon which account and several others, Sir George Moor turned him out of his Family at Bobbing,: and how he behaved himself at Hastings, the Records of that place are a demonstration, and are so generally known, that I shall not trouble the Reader with a recital; only I have heard it wished by an Inhabitant there, for an experiment, that he would bestow a visit upon his Quondam Parishioners, he verily believed, he said that all his Ruffianlike Myrmidon would hardly defend him from the resentments of the good Housewifes' there, who remember what a scarcity of Poultry was in that Town, when he was their Minister. Nay, on my conscience, I never heard any Person who pretended to know him, who did not describe him by an evil character: But these are Peccadilloes, in respect of his monstrous lusts, which would make a Satire blush, upon which account, he is notoriously infamous both by Sea and by Land. I have heard those who were aboard with him report, that he has committed such crimes a-ship-board, as have obliged the Captain, a Gentleman of very fair conditions, to wave all Civility usually bestowed upon his Quality, and to order him to be drubbed, and tied neck and heels, and afterwards to be set ashore. And there are those living now, who will witness that Knox and Lane were not the first or only Persons that could charge him with a Sodomitical attempt. As for his Religion, no man can tell what Creed he professeth. The Reader may have heard of a blasphemous Villain, who pronounced St. Athanasius a Creed-making Coxcomb: I am morally certain, the Salamanca Doctor has not as yet made public satisfaction to the Church of England for his scandalous apostasy, and that he has made no public abjuration of the errors of the Church of Rome, which sometimes he professed; and I am sure that for a while he associated with the Socinians, and was even by them disliked, being scandalised with his contemptuous and blasphemous talk of the blessed Trinity, and he is very well known both by his Nonfensical harangue at the Weavers Feast (upon these words, Heb. 1. 2. By whom also he made the worlds) as also by his prating in public company, to be obstinate in the Socinian persuasions, though God knows, he is very little capable to understand their arguments: nay, I have heard it credibly reported, that this profane Wretch, made it his business to go about fidler-wise, amongst places of public resort, and ridicule preaching, by a Presbyterian Cant, and as the Fiddlers used to press into companies, and say, Gentlemen, will ye please to have a Lesson of Music, this Mountebank used to say, Gentlemen, will ye have a Sermon; and when the reckoning came to be paid, there was usually twelve pence left for the Fiddlers, and six pence for the Doctor. This they say was one way he had of Living, after he was turned from St. Omers, before he laid hold of the Plot. And now I appeal to any unprejudiced Reader, whether credit ought to be given to his Depositions; or whether the Life, fortune, or reputation of a man, aught to be of so inconsiderable a value, as to depend upon the breath a Miscreant, destitute of Religion and Morality, an utter Stranger both to faith and good manners.  
But yet supposing the truth of these allegations should not appear so clearly to prejudiced minds; yea, suppose they all should be false, yet I am so fully persuaded of his malicious villainy, and false swearing against me, that should the whole world oppose me, I am resolved to be Athanasius against the whole world: the glory of God, the interest of Truth, and the vindication of my own reputation, oblige me to expose this Enemy of mankind and all that is good, and to proclaim to all the world, that Titus Oates is one of the wickedest and most malicious Villains in it, who shows no dread of a God, nor makes conscience of an Oath. And this I shall demonstrate and offer a clear proof of, to all unbiased understanding persons, who desire to be satisfied of the truth, in the examination of his Depositions against me: which though this cunning swearing-master, has couched with all artifice, that the truth might not be discovered, swearing things by such circumstances, which as they admit of no manner of probation but his own Oath, so he thought his falsehood would never be detected, by reason of the difficulty of bringing arguments to prove Negatives; yet the Devil who is indebted shame and confusion to all his Proselytes, has taken occasion to pay a little in hand at present to his own child Titus, by leaving him in some places of these his Depositions, unguarded of that fence he had provided him with in most of his other Lies; so that now he lies shamefully naked, a foresworn wretch, exposed plainly to the view of all who do not wilfully shut their eyes against the light of the truth.  
To show the Reader what truth he is to expect from Oates' Depositions, he begins with a notorious untruth, and prefaceth his false Oaths with a suitable Lie; he styles himself, Titus Oates, Sacra Theologiae Professor, which rendered into true English is, Titus Oats a damned Liar, for Titus' Oats Doctor in Divinity is a contradiction to truth. He has imposed upon the nation, asserting upon the word of a Priest, that he commenced Doctor at Salamanca, whereas he has made it highly probable that he never was there; and besides, by declaring that he never received Clerical Orders from the Church of Rome, he has given all understanding men a better proof than his Oath, that he could never be a Doctor, no person being qualified for that degree in that University, who is not a Romish Priest. It is very unlikely that he should obtain the highest honour of Academical preferment in a foreign University, who never deserved the Grace of the lowest degree in the University of Cambridge, amongst his own Countrymen. The Doctors of Salamanca are much famed for their acuteness and exact knowledge in Scholastic Divinity, which this blockhead understands as much as he does Greek or the Chinese Languages, which his Mother never taught him, and therefore he is a stranger to. I have heard of Angelicus Doctor, and Seraphicus Doctor, but I never heard of Doctor Diabolicus, until Titus' Oats and the hellish Popish Plot appeared together; a Damnable Doctor created at the Amsterdam-Coffee-house, or B— l's Club in the Devil's name, and so let him pass.  
Having by this prefatory address of a palpable Lie, bespoke the Readers belief to what follows, he begins and swears four abominable rappers in a breath: he swears I beat my Tutor, that I robbed a study of Books, and offered to sell the Books to him; that during his knowledge of me, (which, by his own acknowledgement was only for the space of a year) I was maintained by some Doctors of the University, and yet during that time, I was not maintained by them, for they withdrew the maintenance, by reason of my whoring, drinking, etc. and lastly he swears that I went a Deer-stealing. These are four scandalous crimes, by which he begins and assaults my Reputation; but because he knew the charge lay obnoxious to be disproven, and the falsity thereof might easily be made appear by the testimony of the whole College: therefore he has recourse to the usual shelter of his lies, viz. I confessed these things to him. And now he thinks he has entrenched himself secure against the most powerful attacks of the plainest truth. It was to this refuge, that this impudent forger of falsehoods betook himself, when at my Lord Castlemain's Trial, he was charged by that noble Person with a manifest Lie, in asserting that he was divorced: he brought himself off with a retreat to the old sconce, I am sure, says he, My Lord told me he was divorced. But I hope the Reader will be so just, as to qualify this sort of argument, which if admitted without consideration, is as apt to destroy the innocent as condemn the guilty: the quality both of the Oath and the Swearer ought to be examined, otherwise▪ the most innocent person is exposed to the malice of every confident Villain. Now the Doctor has sworn against me crimes committed in Cajus College in Cambridge, which the College never so much as heard me suspected of; and moreover some persons of known integrity and veracity who were well acquainted with me, and during all the time of my residence in Cambridge, knew me intimately, have thought themselves obliged to do me justice, and have upon Oath in the Court of Delegates declared that they had all reason to believe me abused by malicious slander, seeing, if there had been any ground for such aspersions, they must of necessity have been made acquainted with it, as who were my fellow-Collegiates, and had the opportunity of a converse four times as long as Oats can pretend to. My Tutor did likewise declare and offered to make Oath, that he never knew me in the least guilty of any such undutiful carriage, as to beat him or any fellow in the College; he moreover did attest, and offered to procure the Testimony of the whole College, that I never was charged nor suspected of Robbing a study, and (whereas this impudent false-witness did aver to a person of Honour, that I robbed my Tutor's study) that he himself never had his study robbed either by me or any other. As for Oates' other charge, that during his knowledge of me, I was maintained by some Doctors, and that for my whoring, drinking, and riotous living, they withdrew the maintenance. The whole College can attest, that I resided in the College till after I was Bachelor of Arts, and I defy the Doctor, to produce one Cambridge Dun who could charge me with the least Debt when I left the University; and how then I should be addicted to such expensive vices, (especially, seeing the Doctor has been pleased to allow me but a very small competency to maintain them) is matter of enquiry. But his last charge is the most wild and extravagant of all, viz. Deer-stealing; I solemnly profess I never saw a Deer, during my being a member of Cajus College, I never saw any Park, neither knew I where there was any, neither did I know or hear of any who were addicted to that sport in the University: and for the truth of what I assert here, I refer myself to the arbitration of that Society of which I had the honour to be a Member, and to all persons in the University acquainted with me or my conversation, who can be supposed to be the only competent Judges or Witnesses in this affair.  
And now how shall I ferret him out of his last hole, namely his plea, that I confessed myself guilty of these crimes to him? there is no way of demonstrating the falsity of this; but however I have as great probabilities thereof to offer, as the matter will allow, and I hope the Reader will not expect more. As 1st. it is highly improbable that Titus' Oats should contract a greater acquaintance with me in one year, than any of the College could do in four. 2ly. That I should defame myself, or unbosom myself to him, who was of the meanest repute in the College, who was inferior to me both in years and in standing in the University, and who besides was as to his quality, only a poor Sizer, the Son of a Weaver; and as to his parts, the most ignorant illiterate Dunce, uncapable of improvement, from whose converse there was not the least prospect of advantage. And then in the third place, notwithstanding his precise memory, which has registered more Letters than ever Langhorn writ, notwithstanding he can remember the particular hand-writings of a thousand men, only by seeing them put Pen to Paper; yea, notwithstanding he swears he is very well acquainted with my character fifteen years ago, (which is more than I am myself) and that we were such intimate Comerades; that I trusted him with all my secrets: yet he unhappily cannot call to mind who was my Tutor, yea, he cannot tell whether I was his Fellow-Pupil, for Mr. John Ellis was his Tutor, which is a pretty fair indication that his memory is not so excellent as his Lying: for if it was defective, where he had such convenient helps, it affords reason to suspect it too bad to remember where he could have but mean and imperfect assistances.  
I have been thus prolix in vindicating the reputation of my younger years from this Calumniator's aspersions, not that I arrogate any supererogating observation of the Statutes of our College (for I am sufficiently sensible of the loss of these opportunities which I might have improved to very happy advantages, under the excellent discipline of that learned Society, which I ought never to mention, but with all resentments of Gratitude and Honour) but that I might show unto the world, how consistent with his principles this forsworn Villain has been in every particular against me, charging me only with those things which are false, and of which the severest Censor of manners in Cajus College must pronounce me innocent; and that Titus Oats must have been a perfect Stranger both to my converse and humour. The Bloodthirsty Murderer makes his next attempt to take away my life, he swears he saw a Letter subscribed by my hand in the year 1670, directed to the Rector of S. Omers, wherein I gave him an account, that I had received Priests Orders, and had sung high Mass in the English College at Rome; this Letter he swears he saw in the year 1677. If the Valiant Captain were alive now, to second the Learned Doctor, and swear that he saw Langhorn register this Letter, there needs no more to hang me. Good God how unsearchable are thy judgements, and thy ways past finding out! who thus permittest the bloodthirsty and deceitful man to go on still in his wickedness, and to prosper in his Villainies; in respect of which, Cain the Murderer was innocent, and a Saint! If the Schoolmen and Doctors of Salamanca have given a true notion of the Sin against the holy Ghost, than I do affirm that there is no hopes of pardon for that damned Reprobate, a sham-brother of theirs, Doctor Titus Oates, who sins wilfully in despite of his conscience, and swears and lies against his knowledge, outbraving Hell-fire, and daring the vengeance of God: for I desire the Reader to take notice, that I invoke this vengeance of the Almighty to seize me immediately, if ever I received any Orders from the See or Church of Rome, or if, ever I received any Ecclesiastical Ordination, except of Deacon; An. 1671, from the hands of Bishop Laney of Ely, and of Priest, An. 1672, from Bishop Henchman of London, according to the rites of the Church of England now by Law established. Moreover, if ever I wrote any such Letter as Oates swears I did, to the Rector of St. Omers or any other person, or if ever Oats saw any such Letter writ by me. And that I may satisfy the Reader as far as I can, in the proof of a Negative, I declare my name was never known to be eliot beyond Sea, as hundreds can attest; and besides to show that that Rogue's wickedness is more my concern than the danger of my life, I will put it to the venture, and gauge my life against his (if the law will permit,) that he knows not my hand-writing from any other which he never saw. If I had received Orders from the See of Rome, I needed not to be Reordained, our Church holding the Romish Ordination to be valid.  
But because his chief aim in his Depositions, was to invalidate my Testimony, he is not content to have made me a Priest, but he boldly calls God to witness that I am a Renegado and a Mahometan; swearing, I, that I was carried a Slave into Barbary: 2ly, that there, as it was generally and credibly reported, I was circumcised: 3ly, that I confessed I gave poison to my Patron: 4ly, that after that, I returned to Rome: 5ly, that I made a Recantation there: 6ly, that he saw this Recantation under my own hand, being well acquainted with my character. In every of which particulars, I do affirm, and engage myself to prove Titus' Oats to have sworn falsely, and I challenge all his friends to undertake his defence from the imputation of having sworn in some of these instances, maliciously and contrary to his knowledge, and in some others (to put the best construction,) rashly, and in all falsely.  
As to the first, Oats never saw me in Barbary, therefore he swore beyond the sphere of his knowledge, and howsoever it be materially true, yet it is formally false in him, who swears at random, and calls God to witness his certainty of the truth in a matter which he cannot know whether it be true or false; yea, which he has more reason to believe to be false than true, according to his own Oath, as afterwards it follows in the Depositions, that after I came to England, and when I lived in Kent, An. 1673, I was much given to swearing that to be true, which was not so: then thus I argue ad hominem, all the intelligence that Oats had of my having been in Barbary, and a Slave there, proceeded from my own information to several persons, before it came to his hands, and therefore seeing I was the sole author of the Narrative of my Captivity, Oats had more reason to believe it false than otherwise. And besides, the account of my escape appeared so Romantic, that a great many persons who heard it, thought themselves obliged upon good prudential considerations to suspend their judgements, and to doubt whether ever I was in Barbary or not; so that Oats by swearing positively that I was carried a Slave into Barbary, has sworn to the truth of that which he could not be certain of, and which he had much more reason to believe to be false.  
2. As to the second particular, that there (viz. in Barbary) it was generally and credibly reported that I was circumcised; this Oath is also rash, and therefore false, and is liable to be proved so, by the same means as the former, because Oats never was at Salle, the place of my Captivity, and consequently could not certainly know what was generally and credibly reported there. Moreover, whereas he swears it was generally and credibly reported, it seems very probable that (if he swears true, and does not contradict his conscience) he could produce some of those persons, whom he knows to be credible; but I challenge him, and all mankind to produce one person who ever attested or reported that I was circumcised until about three years ago, Titus Oates brought this Lie and a great many others into the world. Seeing then he cannot produce one of those many witnesses whose credit he much relies upon, its probable he swears maliciously as well as falsely, but however it is certain he swears at least rashly to a thing which he did not know, and therefore falsely.  
3. He swears I confessed I gave Poison to my Patron; this I deny, and Oates is forsworn in saying so, for I could not confess to Oats, because I never saw him since I was at Cambridge, which was before I rtavailed; And if he only heard so from others therefore Oates has sworn rashly to the truth of a matter which is false, and of whose truth he had no means of being certain.  
4. He swears, that after I had been in Barbary I returned to Rome: this is false, and the Doctor in this is also forsworn, for I have never been in Italy, nor within two hundred Leagues of any part of Italy, since I was in Barbary, and the truth of this and the moral impossibility of the contrary will be attested by persons of worth and unexceptionable credit and veracity: for in the year 1670, Doctor Zachary Cradock now Provost of Eaten, who was then Minister to the English Merchants at Lisbon, and Mr. Bulteel a worthy Merchant who then resided at Lisbon, with others, do remember me, and saw me at Lisbon, in the month of June, before I embarked in that Vessel in which I was taken; and they can attest, that I returned back to Lisbon in September after I had made an escape. Sir Martin Westcomb Consul of Cadiz is able to attest, that in the beginning of September 1670, I arrived at Cadis from Mamora, the place whither I escaped from Salle in a Spanish Barca-longa, and that I brought a Letter from the Governor of Mamora to the Duke of Vergavas' Governor of Cadis, and that after a fortnight's stay there, he procured me passage in a Dutch man of war for Lisbon: from Lisbon I returned home in another Dutch man of war, in which I embarked about the middle of October, and was carried to the Texel, and so to Amsterdam, in November about the beginning. I refer myself to the testimony of Dr. Marshal Master of Lincoln College in Oxford, than Minister to the English at Dort, who was pleased to assist my necessitous condition, and Sir John Chichely then Envoy to the Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, who remembers me, and his servants with whom Sir John was pleased to grant me passage from Brussels to Ostend; whence having been stopped there a fortnight by bad weather, I returned home, and landed at London about the latter end of November 1670. There are several persons of Quality and worth who remember me, and upon Oath can attest my residence ever since November 1670, so that it is morally impossible that ever I should have been at Rome since I was in Barbary: and besides the business in which he engages me at Rome, which he swears in the next place, requires a time for its performance, which it is impossible for any considering Reader to allow.  
5. He swears I made a Recantation at Rome; this he swears positively, and I swear he lies abominably: and this the Intelligent Reader may be easily convinced of, by this short demonstration. Every one who renounces the Christian and embraces the Mahometan faith, is immediately circumcised, that being the essential form of iniitation into that Religion, and an infallible character of all its Proselytes: if therefore I am not circumcised, than it is impossible that I could have been a Professor of Mahomet's Law, and consequently, it is as impossible that I should have recanted it at Rome. But I am not circumcised, neither as a Proselyte nor otherwise, which this Rogue's unparallelled impudence and villainy has obliged me to prove by a demonstration not altogether so consistent, I confess, with the gravity of my Profession, yet such as I have no great reason to be ashamed of, since providence has made it instrumental for discovery of the truth, and preservation of my own life, and rescuing my fame from the imputation of a far greater moral turpitude, than any natural I thank God I am guilty of. Titus' Oats is therefore palpably forsworn, and to the shame and confusion of himself and all who dare stand up for him, I can demonstrate it. But further yet, there are collateral arguments to convince the Reader of the falsehood of this his Oath; If I recanted my Apostasy from the Christian Religion, how came I to escape the Inquisition at Rome, which is a harder escape than from Salle? and this the Doctor would be sure of, if he were there. There are none, whether the Doctor know it or no, who turn from the Romish Religion, to the Protestant, or as they term it Heretical, who are received into the bosom of the Church of Rome upon a bare Recantation, they are besides to endure a purgatory in the Inquisition; much more, if they revolt and apostatise totally from Christianity, and most especially if they were Priests, as the Doctor swore I was. The Doctor therefore by being silent as to this particular, how I got clear of the Inquisition, which must have been very remarkable, has given one main argument, that I never deserved it, and therefore that I never recanted, and therefore that he is a malicious lying Rogue.  
6. He swears he saw this Recantation subscribed with my own hand, and that he is well acquainted with my character; every syllable whereof is false, and he maliciously contradicts the truth▪ swearing contrary to his conscience, for he must certainly know, that he never saw that which never was. And besides, if I had made such a Recantation, it would have been very notorious, and the News of the Prints at that time: and for a further conviction, I desire the Reader once more to take notice, that hundreds can attest that my name was never known to be eliot beyond Sea, and Oates is ignorant by what name I went; and how then he should know my hand, or what I was is next to an impossibility.  
In these six foregoing particulars, the Doctor is manifestly forsworn, and has shown only the pregnancy of a wicked invention, without any judgement, by improving an innocent if not commendable passage of my life, to a crime that is Capital, and making me to deserve imprisonment and Death amongst Christians, because I made a laudable attempt to escape from a Moorish Bondage and Captivity. It is lamentable, that amongst Christians in England, I should meet with a faith worse than Punic, and that Haggi Hamet Lucas a barbarous Moor should outvie a Doctor of Salamanca in Christianity. But blessed be my good God, who hath delivered me from the paw of the Lion and the Bear, and I trust will likewise deliver me from this Uncircumcised Philistine; he whose eminent providence has appeared, in my deliverance from the Monsters of Africa, from the house of Bondage and slavery to cruel Masters, will likewise vindicate my Innocence from the false swearing of this Monster of men, who by wicked blasphemies defies the Armies of the Living God.  
He proceeds on in his wicked lying and false sweeting, as if it were religion with him never to speak truth, swearing positively that An 1673, when I lived in Kent, I was given to all debaucheries, viz. Whoreing, Drinking, and particularly to Swearing that to be true which was not so; in which Depositions, he is like himself constantly false, for he cannot so much as pretend that ever he saw me in Kent, and consequently the Reader cannot but be satisfied that he swears rashly and falsely. As for the matter of his Depositions, which indeed he knows nothing of, I refer myself to a worthy Gentleman, Colonel Charles Wheeler and his Family, with whom I lived a year and a half, and to Sir Thomas Scot and his Lady, with whom and in the Neighbourhood, I lived the rest of the time during my residence in Kent, whether ever they heard me so much as suspected of these crimes: I know these worthy persons are such friends to justice, as that they will not scruple to give his Doctorship the Lye. At our Trial, he subpenaed some people out of Kent, who were so far from seconding this Villain, that they deposed much to my advantage; and I am certain, that he cannot produce any who can justly charge me with these vices, or that ever I wronged or defrauded any person, or by false swearing invaded any man's right or good name, crimes peculiar to this public Enemy, and who like the Devil, endeavours to have all others esteemed at least, if not to be, like himself.  
The last Subject of his Depositions against me, is a Narration of what befell me in Ireland, and in this, as in all the rest, it's highly probable that he lies and swears falsely: he swears he saw a Letter from the Bishop of Meath, which said that I was indicted, and fined 200 lb. for saying that Oats was a perjured Rogue, and the Jesuits who suffered justly died Martyrs, and that there was no Popish Plot: for the only words of my indictment were, Titus Oats was a Rogue, and the five Jesuits Martyrs, and not one syllable more was alleged against me; so that considering that Reverend Prelate, who was a person of great integrity and justice, I have much more reason to believe that Titus Oats would conclude as he begun, a calumniating, lying, forsworn wretch, than that any thing should be alleged, that entrenches upon the veracity and clear reputation of that pious Bishop.  
I have now done with the Doctor's Depositions, in examination of which, I have I hope with all plainness confuted the calumnies of Oates' Friends, who gave out that the Doctor swore only that he was informed of those things he deposed against me; whereas it is clear to any man,. (except an Ignoramus, who shuts his eyes and will not see) that what he has delivered under his own hand and oath is in the most material parts positive, and to his own knowledge; and I hope I have also, with perspicuity enough, exposed him forsworn in most of his Depositions, whom in my conscience I believe and know to be so, in all and every particular. And now at the foot of the account, I cannot but profess my hearty regret, that such a monstrous Serpent, and venomous Viper, whose mouth is as an open Sepulchre, and under whose lips is the poison of Asps, should be brought forth and fostered in this our otherwise happy Island, who with bloody Oaths, and execrable blasphemies rends the bowels of his mother, and labours as much as in him lies her Destruction. It is matter of real grief to me, that he should find entertainment in this Nation, who has exposed it to the scorn and derision of them who are round about us. The stealing away of the Grand Lowies in the French Farce, was but an imperfect representation of the silly senseless credulity, with which this swearing, lying Rascal has stained the English reputation; he has sixth a blot upon this generation not to be washed off, by all the blood in his veins. He has dishonoured the Christian Religion, and particularly he has affected the Protestant with ignominy and shame; he has blasphemed God and injured man, a detestable enemy to both.  
The Reader I suppose considering how I have been damnified and exasperated by the malice of this wicked Fellow, will not think it strange, if I endeavoured to do myself right, and applied myself for satisfaction to the Law; which for a while I respited, in consideration that Oats at that time was the King's Evidence, and had his residence in his Majesty's Palace, (which under the Rose has frequently called to my mind one of the Plagues of Egypt, which brought forth Frogs even in the King's Chambers, and Lice in all their quarters.) But afterwards, when I perceived that he forsook his Majesty and became Witness for the Traitor College, and that afterwards he was turned out of that Royal Entertainment, for his ungrateful demerits, and that thence, he betook himself to the seditious and disloyal part of the City, associating chiefly with those who are suspected of High Treason, and Capital Misdemeanours, and that he was by them encouraged for some swearing job no question, when time should serve; I thought it them seasonable to expose him, to which my resolution, a strange accident did seem providentially to concur. After the arrival of the Morocco Ambassador, I had the curiosity with others to go to see these people, amongst whom once I had been Captive; the Secretary Hamet Lucas, upon the first view, immediately knew me, and seized me, crying out, That I was his Christian, and that he had bought me with his Money, and that I had made an escape from him at Salle; which unexpected encounter, together with his confirmation of my formerly reputed Romantic Escape, and that he was not poisoned, nor knocked in the head by me, as Oats by malicious swearing insinuated, seemed an occasion which providence offered into my hands to vindicate my own reputation, and to prosecute this false Swearer; which I did by arresting him.   

THE TRIAL BETWIXT TITUS OATS And ME.  
Ideclared against him, for saying that I was a Popish Priest, and had been circumcised as a Mahometan; to which the Doctor pleaded not guilty, upon which we joined issue, having June the 30th, appointed for a day of Trial. The words were plainly proved by the Honourable Ralph Grey Esquire, and Mr. William Durham a Clergyman, before whom he had spoke them; after which, my Council were proceeding to aggravate the charge by proof, that he had not only said these words in several companies, and more especially before his Majesty, (as Captain George Collingwood, was there in Court ready to attest, though not called upon, that he heard Titus' Oats depose in his Majesty's presence, that I was a Jesuit, and was sent over from Ireland, under the mask of a Clergyman of the Church of England, to be a spy:) as also that he had maliciously swore to the truth of those calumnies and slandering expressions against me; but the Council of the Defendant, conceded that the words were proved sufficiently, begged leave to offer something in mitigation of Damages: viz. some proof that Titus, if he did speak such words as were proved, yet he spoke them only jocularly, as who had no malicious design. No not he, good man was of so tender a conscience, that he would not discompose the Hair of a man's head, for a thousand worlds, (as is clear in the case of the Lord Stafford, and the Jesuits who suffered; (the pious Doctor, God wot, had no malice against them, he only had them hanged up jocularly, or so, (for truly hanging is but an ordinary jest with him.) And in order hereunto, the first who appeared to qualify the Doctor's words, and honour the cause was the Noble Peer Charles Lord North and Grey. It was by many looked upon with admiration, that his Lordship would appear in defence of an already baffled cause, and for the encouragement and patronage of a profligate Villain, abandoned by his Majesty and all his Loyal Subjects. But these people were it seems but strangers to the Great soul of this Noble Lord, who maintained a resolution and courage equal always with difficulties which were insuperable, and a wit so transcendent which nothing could match but his profound wisdom and discretion, and besides an eloquence so powerful as to be able to rend the rocks, and make the most obdurate heart to split. These people moreover did not consider what a sense of gratitude this person of honour did entertain, who seeing how liberal the Doctor had been of his Oaths in his Lordship's behalf, resolved to be even with him, and pay him in his own coin: his Lordship therefore, after having been sworn in mitigation of damages, in behalf of the Doctor, and against poor Me, addresses himself to the Lord Chief Justice, and the Jury to this effect. My Lord, I knew this same eliot when Chaplain to the Lord William Grey, and my Lord, he then told me, that he was circumcised; I vow to God this is true, I would not tell an untruth for all the world: and my Lord, to show you circumstances to believe this to be so, he was at that time making Diamonds out of calcined Flints. My Lord, he told me, he was a Slave at Mamora, where the Blackmores inhabit, I have been there my Lord, and know it very well. (Here his Lordship was interrupted by his Council, acquainting his Lordship with a mistake, for that eliot was a Slave at Salle and not at Mamora, that being the Christian Garrison whither he escaped; but His Lordship being moved a little with their saucy interruption proceeds) I say eliot told me he was a Slave at Mamora, he might tell you, who understood no better, that he was a Slave at Salle, but he knew that I had been in that Country, and that I know very well a man cannot escape from Salle, but from Mamora he may easily, and therefore he told me the truth, that he was a Slave at Mamora, and to show you that this is true, he told me he knocked his Master in the head, and left him for dead, and the reason why he did it, was becaase his Master had a very handsome woman to his wife, and eliot told me, he had a very great mind to have a bout with her; this upon my honour is true, nay, as I hope to be saved, he told me, shrugging his shoulders. He told me besides, my Lord, that he was a Slave at Rome, no, I beg your pardon, my Lord, I would not tell an untruth not for all the world, I think he was mistaken there; he told me he taught Mathematics in the Scotch College, and I believe then that he was a Priest. He swore against me, ay, he swore against me at Doctors-Commons, and truly my Lord, I got Oats to swear against him: that good man was loath to appear, I was forced my Lord to Whatdeecallum him, what dye call it, pish, what dye call it, pish, you you know well enough what they call it (at length some called out subpaena, and then the Lord went on) ay, ay, I was forced to subpaena that modest good man to swear the truth. I'll tell you my Lord by what good fortune I met the honest Doctor, you know my Lord, there is a gallery in Whitehall, you have been there my Lord, and so have I, and several I believe in this Company; it was not the Stone-Gallery, no, no, I know that Gallery well enough, that is below stairs, no, no, it was a Gallery above stairs, and yet it was not that Gallery over the Stone Gallery, but another Gallery; and yet now I think on't, it was not in the Gallery, (for I would not tell a Lie, an give me never so much) it was in a Chamber at the end of the Gallery, not such a Chamber which your Lordship knows very well, but another Chamber; there it was that I met Oats, no I beg your pardon my Lord, I would not tell a Lie for the world, I did not meet the Doctor there, but I'll tell you who I met there, I met my Lord Chancellor there; this is the plain truth as I hope to be saved; says I to him, pray my Lord Chancellor who can you advise me to, that is good at catching a Priest; says my Lord presently to me again, there is Doctor Oates hard by, you cannot light upon a better; with that I took leave of his Lordship, and addressed myself to the Doctor, I asked him if he knew one eliot a Priest, who had been at Cambridge, he presently told me that he knew him to be a Popish Priest, and that he had been circumcised, and for the truth of this, the King and my Lord Chancellor will be my Witness; God dam (laying his hand on his Breast) this is all truth. This eloquent speech in Oates' behalf, by the Lord North and Grey I have made bold to trouble the Reader's patience with, lest the Doctor should tax me with injustice in omitting any thing that was material in his defence, as this florid harangue was the most considerable. I remember I have sometime heard this Noble Peer say, that the curious Painter in drawing His Lordship's Picture, had observed a Je ne scay quoy in his face, I am sure there are a great many Je ne scay quoys in his speech, embellishments which can hardly be better expressed in English, than by a word borrowed from His Lordship, Whatdeecallums. There is one observation which I cannot omit, viz. that in the heat of his Rhetoric, His Lordship overslipt his design, which was to prove Oats intended no malice against me by his detraction, and so to mitigate the damages, but instead thereof, His Lordship offered His Majesty and my Lord Chancellor for witnesses, that Oats loaded me with calumnies even before the King; so that with whatsoever resentment His Lordship may be thought to have uttered these pathetic elaborate periods, yet he really was a Witness on my side, and confirmed Mr. Grey's testimony, destroying the Doctor's Plea.  
The next who seconded the Lord in behalf of the Doctor, was one Isaac Warren, the Lord North's chief evidence against the Lady Grey; he told the Court, that I had confessed to him privately that I was a Papist, and that I did not believe any of the Protestant Doctrine, which I delivered in some Sermons I preached before the Lord William Grey, his Lord and mine. In answer to this (because he proceeds in the method of his Swearing-Master Oats) I say, that I appeal to all that Noble Family, to which I retained, who I am sure will unanimously give him the Lie: the Lord William Grey is known to have been a person so averse to all that favoured Popery, that if he had suspected me guilty of any tendency that way (as this Fellow ought to have discovered me, and there is no question, if he had known, he would) His Lordship would never have afforded me entertainment under his Roof, which I enjoyed during his Life. The Reader will be astonished, when he shall know, that this impudent fellow came to the Lady Dowager Grey's House, and offered to Mr. Durham the said Lady's Chaplain, to be a Witness in my behalf against Oats, and did suggest several things very dishonourable to the Lord North, which the said Gentleman told him, he was sure I would reject, as who knew him to be a very rascal, and to be forsworn in the Lord North's cause, and therefore would not prejudice myself by such a notorious false witness: his Testimony is a scandal to truth, and as unworthy of acceptance on my side, so not deserving any more confutation on Oates'.  
The third who appeared was Marshal, a remarkable man the Cause, at Peter's Coffee-house in Covent-Garden; I remember I saw this Blade once at Leghorn, by the same token, that I saved him from being beaten or worse, which courtesy he has now requited, by testifying that he suspected me to have been then a Popish Priest, because he finds my name was not then eliot, which now I own. He moreover testified that I told him in England, that I had cut off my Patron's head in Barbary; which is false; for Mr. Edward Courtney, who was then in company, when this Story was supposed to be told, desires me to acquaint the world in his name, that he heard me then relate the manner of my escape, as he had done formerly, and that I then told them that I left my Patron asleep, and that he pursued me the next morning: so that this zealous Buzzard, though he spoke nothing to the purpose, (as who crossed the design of the Doctor's Plea, and who endeavoured to render that probable which was impossible and a Lie, and which the impudent Doctor himself pretended to the grace to deny,) yet to show his good will, he pawns his soul, and put his ears to a hard venture to serve the Doctor.  
The next in place, was one Codoghan, or some such ugly name, an Irish Evidence; this was very surprising, that the Doctor who had given them all to the Devil a great while ago, should now make use of such a Witness: he would make application to the Devil himself upon an urgent occasion. This Fellow swore that when I was at Dublin, I sustained a bad Reputation; which I grant; and may thank the Doctor for it; yet notwithstanding, I have Certificates of my fair and honest deportment in that place, from the Dean and Chapter of Christs-Church, and those who were concerned to be acquainted with my conversation, more to my advantage, than Oats or this Irish fellow, or all their Relations can produce, for theirs.  
After him comes a holy Sister, a True-blew-Protestant-Hosiers wife, one Mrs. Kedley forsooth, who lives at the sign of the Swan at the corner of Fryday-street in Cheapside; this zealous woman thinking it hard that the Doctor who had sworn so much for the Nations good, should be exposed to danger for want of an Oath or two, prostitutes her little modesty at his service; swearing that travailing from Chester to London in the Chester-Coach, she heard me tell a Story of an Escape from Slavery, and that I said I killed my Master; She swore moreover, that I said I was circumcised; and withal, she had the impudence to blush, though she wanted the grace to repent. To convince the Court of the improbability of this Woman's Depositions, I produced a Gentleman Mr. Shorter, who travailed in Company, with that Woman and me all the way, who testified that he heard me tell the Story of my, escape during our journey, five or six times, and that it appeared so strange to him, that he imprinted it in his memory, and hath since told it above a hundred times he believed: he swore that he never heard me say I killed my Master or Patron, but that I might have killed him if I would, and that I said my Patron pursued me the next morning: he moreover declared, that he never heard the word Circumcision, or any thing relating thereunto, mentioned by me, and that it seems highly improbable, that I should declare to that woman that I should be circumcised, seeing I professed myself a Clergy man in Orders, when first I entered the Coach; and that I was girded with a Canonical Girdle, and all the way demeaned myself as a person under that character.  
Lastly, to bring up the Rear of this goodly Company, comes Brother Sam. Oates, the Son of the Doctor's Mother; he would fain have disproven Mr. Grey's Testimony, and at the same time the Lord North's; but it was observed here, as also at Colledge's Trial, that this fellow had not been taught his Lesson well enough. To be short, he is a mere blockhead, and will never make an Evidence worth a farthing, notwithstanding all the examples and Copies the Doctor has sworn before him.  
I had forgot two Witnesses more, Clergymen, whom the Doctor had subpoena'd out of Kent, but seeing they testified against him, and to my advantage, I will not reckon them in the number.  
This is an impartial account of what the Doctor alleged in mitigation of damages, which howsoever true it should be, yet I suppose it cannot influence the Readers judgement so, as not to believe the Doctor to be forsworn in his Depositions against me; for though I should be so foolish and silly as to give myself the Lie, and upon no design raise an ill report of myself, and say that I am a Popish Priest or a Turk, and that I recanted Mahumetism at Rome. Notwithstanding it should be true that I thus falsely abused my own reputation, and slandered myself, yet Titus Oates is not a whit less guilty of being forsworn, in saying he knows these false things to be true; though he and his Council endeavoured to mitigate his Fine, yet they pretended not a word in alleviation of his crime and guilt in swearing falsely, and lying most maliciously. To conclude, they tacitly admit what I have plainly proved, viz. that Titus Oates is a great enemy to the truth, a malicious Calumniator of his Brethren, and a forsworn Villain: and now I profess in all sincerity, that I do not serve any Popish or sinister ends, in exposing this Enemy both of the Romish and English Church; I aim only at. what every man claims, the Liberty of the Subject, my Birthright, a vindication of my Name and credit from the oppressive calumnies of a Ruffian, and to serve the interest of truth, and the glory of that God, who has expressly forbid evil to be done, that good may come of it; or that the Testimony of a false witness, and notoriously forsworn wretch should be accepted, though we were sure thereby to rid the Church of England of its greatest plagues, the Jesuits and fanatics both together.  
FINIS.   

ERRATA.  
Pag. 2. l. 19 deal where. Ib. l. 32. for Rospigliosi Successor to the former, read Rospigliosi's Successor. p. 7. l. 9 for at read to. p. 21. l. 13. for and read of. p. 22. l. 14. for Thomas read Charles. p. 25. l. 23. for always read all ways. Ib. l. ult. read to charge my Person. p. 38. l. 36. for Vergavas read Veraguas. p. 43. l. 18. read conceding.