News from Purgatory. OR, The Jesuits Legacy To all their Loving Friends In all Cities and all Countries.  
WE had long since (most Noble Friends) left you this our last Legacy, as a Testimony of our thanks due to your great Trust and singular Contrivance in carrying on the Design, but that we stayed for Mr. L— our Fellow-Labourer, and deserved indeed at the same time to have been a fellow-sufferer, though the subtlety of his Evasions obtained a small Respite from the Execution of Justice, for which he hath now suffered the same Fate. For as he is a spirit of profound knowledge in the deepest Mysteries of the Law, so is he of greatest use for his singular Trust in the management of the same; for though these Regions be very well stocked with Gownsmen, especially Priests and Lawyers, yet could we not in all this numerous crowd, find out one Devil, though some thousand years experienced in all the Villainies of Man, whom we might entrust in this Concern like him: who as he was best acquainted with our Estates and Writings, Privy to all our Councils and Debates, can in the most profound and Legal Method convey them to your Lordship.  
We need not tell you with what obstinacy of Resolution; and unparallelled Impudence, we perished to the last gasp, even to the defiance of Truth, and abjuration of Heaven, for the Holy Catholic Cause, and must exhort you by our Example to continue Obstinate to the End, that Heretics get no Advantage against us, that your lives may be thought Innocent, and the Credulous multitude pity your Sufferings, you may daily gain Proselytes into the Bosom of the Mother Church.  
But we hope such Cognisances are not necessary for you (My Thrice Noble Friends, the great Atlases of our Papal Heaven) whose larger Souls are a greater Testimony of your Integrity then our Example can express, for which you deserve the Eternal Praise and Prayers of the Church, and which we to the most excellent worth of your most noble persons, with an ampler right and greater Merit than ourselves have now applied, who have hitherto laboured in so glorious a work, not for the sake of profane Empire only, but for the Principality, Universality and Infallibility of the most Holy Roman Catholic Church. For it was you (My Noble Friends) who at the Command of his Holiness the present Alexander the 14, and some years since brought forth of your Armoury instead of Allegiance and Loyalty, Darts of a clear different frame: to wit, the Shield of Assistance and the Sword of Glory for propagating the Holy Catholic Cause, and subverting of Heretics, which they miscall Rebellion and Treason, for which we have already suffered Martyrdom, and you yourselves lie under the State of Condemnation.  
Nor is it only for your generous Conspiracy and secret Conduct we own you this acknowledgement: but that likewise, since you made a Distribution of these your Arms, gnawn a little with rust, but new cleansed and polished to the confederate Accomplices with several Grants, Orders, Warrants, Commissions, Patents, Decrees, to proceed in the great Design, whilst we, who had the Care of Souls, were abundantly stocked with Spiritual Engines, as Dispensations, Reservations, Equivocations, Absolutions, Pardons, Indulgences, Confessions and secret Insinuations to excite Proselytes, and carry on the same thorough the three Nations, where, though we were discovered and prevented by the Apostasy of a Dissenting Brother, you may yet proceed, since for your Success there are daily Prayers said in the Conclave, and there are enough who yet survive to take Advantage of Opportunity.  
Thus having in general intimated our Acknowledgements we think it our Duty to your present conditions in particular, with a small portion of Goods and Chattels as scaped Confiscation, this place not admitting of much Money, yet such as we have in distinct parcels according to the present following Inventory.  

The last Legacy of Thomas Whitebread, to all Catholics.  
IN the Name of the most Holy of Holiest upon Earth, Vicar and Vicegerent in the Pontifical Chair, etc. I Thomas Whitebread (very weak and infirm in Body since the last Execution) but of sound and perfect Memory of all the Good or Evil I have done in the Flesh; whether by Deceit, Bribe, Treachery, Hypocrisy, Treason, Conspiracy, Policy, Cheating, Lying, Swearing and Forswearing, all Meritorious Acts to carry on the Cause, and for which I am Justly Sentenced unto this World of Purgatory, do bequeath unto you (my Honourable Friends) all my Right, Title, Claim and Interest of and in the Provincial Seat of the Jesuits in England, since from you it did descend, and to you it appertaineth to dispose of it, to none but so great a Villain as myself, who had rather hazard Damnation at the Gallows with a Lie in my mouth, and a Rope about by neck, then by a feeble Confession suffer your Honourable Heads to be brought to the Block, and to my Successor this Advice, by my Example, if he fall under the same Praemunire to justify his Innocence to the last.   

The last Legacy of William Harcourt.  
I William Harcourt, etc. do bequeath unto you (my good Friends) all and every the vast Sum and Sums of Money committed unto my Trust, under pretence of supplying Indigent Papists, but indeed for carrying on the Cause, to be returned into the Exchequer at Tarthall. Likewise to my good Lord— I do resign and make over all my Right and Title of Rectorship of the Jesuits in London, and Somerset Cloisters for a new Convent, since the Invisible Monastery was unhappily discovered at Tart-Hall, and his Lady's Cobbler with the Leather Apron for a Tippet to succeed me in the Rectory. Lastly, I do absolve all Roman Catholics from their Prayers which I begged at the Gallows (because I find here they are like to do but little service) to be employed in your Lordship's behalf to enable you by a Legion of Oaths, Vows and Protestations, from which I Absolve you to justify your Integrity to the the end.   

Mr. Anthony Turner's last Legacy.  
ANd to you my Honourable Patrons, as the chief undertakers and principle promoters of this Fatal Plot; I do bequeath all the Art of Secrecy and Mystery of Jesuitism, with all its practicable Tenants of King-killing and Heretick-destroying; with the allowance of Equivocation, Lying, Swearing and Forswearing, as the cause shall require, to be delivered out with your Commissions. And to my Lord— the present Council of Trent for a Model of his new Government, and Tixal for the Council-Chamber. I leave you my Prayers which I had on my Finger-ends at the place of Execution, my Beads, Rosaries and Avies, as a pledge of my Martyrdom, to be Registered amongst the Relics in Trinity College in Cambridge, and my Manual of Ignorance to be inlisted in the Library at Oxford, when they shall be established Roman Catholic Universities; which though you cannot so easily effect at present by reason of your restraint, yet at least you must be active to endeavour by such Instruments as are proper to effect the same, with this Motto, Si non simul, & semel, at paulatim & sensim sit mutatio fact a.   

Mr. Gawen's Legacy.  
I must confess that I rather choose to die, rather than confess Truth at the Gallows; (my most Noble Friends) I have not much to bequeath you of any Worldly Talents, only what Talon I claim by virtue of my Function as a Jesuit, that is, a certain Authority more than Travellers challenge for Lying, which I improved to the last minute, and leave unto you both Interest and Principle to manage to the best advantage, as necessary to your present Estate as well as mine; since according to our Principles it is both lawful and necessary to Lie and Outface the Truth, even by Oath and Imprecations; nay outbrave Death and Judgement, and like brave Roman Heroes sacrifice Soul and Body for the Holy Catholic Interest, rather than by a Cowardly Confession to betray the Cause you undertook, and give and allow you all liberty to exercise the same. As also a full power to Kill, Rob and Spoil Heretics, as fully as it is granted you by the Lateran Council. I do likewise bequeath unto you all my share, part and portion of all the Goods, Chatels, Movables and Estates of any Heretic Prince, Prelate or People, which are already confiscated by the same Council, and which might or ought by Writ of Partition fall unto my Lot, when it comes into your hands: In recompense whereof, I do enjoin you to erect ten thousand Chapels in ten thousand several places, where ten thousand Priests may say ten thousand Masses every day, for ten thousand years to make Atonement for the last abominable Lie I told, for I find less time will hardly redeem me from this Purgatory.   

Father John Fenwick's last Legacy.  
TO strengthen your Resolutions (my noble Friends) in the holy Cause you have undertaken, I John Fenwick leave you my Impudence to outface Justice and the Truth, and my Innocency to palliate your Gild when you are convicted: And that you may not stammer at a Lie at the last gasp, I leave you my Tongue to be your Advocate, and two drams of my Brains for a Council's Fee; my Privities, which were the first Martyrs before myself, I do bequeath to the Mother-Church, which the Heretics call the Scarlet Whore, and Whore of Babylon, to get many such Phoenixes out of the Ashes: My nether Jaw I leave to my Lord— for a Brandy-Cup; my Skull for a Snuff-Box; and my Bowels to your L—, to be spun into a Clew of Innocency, to lead you out of your present Labyrinth. Lastly, I leave you my Advice still to assert your Innocence; lay the Plot, and— and others, Fee-deep for Prorogations and Dissolutions; bribe O— and B—; if you cannot do that, at least lessen their Evidence, by reviling their Persons, and deny all with Oaths and Imprecations, even upon the Scaffold.  
We do also as Proto-Martyrs in the same Cause, for and in the name, and by and with the consent of them, and every of them, present unto your Lordship's Staley's Jewels, after his Debts are paid, that durst rail at Monarchy, and proclaim his noble Resentments in public Assemblies, and had the honour to be the first Martyr, whilst you sneak into blind Corners, whisper your Treasons like Confessions into each others Ears, and suffer others basely to go before you, whilst the quality of your Worth and Dignity of your persons, aught to prefer you before the rest. We do also bequeath unto you three Locks of his Hair to make a Golden Tower for the Queen of Babylon, that his early and forward zeal may be writ in Rubrics in her forehead, and his Effigies as it is now sold at Westminster-hall like Mahomet hanging Geometrically in the Air, with a numerous retinue of Staves and Halberds by way of Trophies inserted in the very Porch and Frontispiece of the Mother-Church. We had a design to present her also with three Locks of Mr. Coleman's Wig, if all our small Patrimony could purchase it, but that his Relict hath converted them to a better use, having sold them for a Guiney a Hair to make Rings for the surviving Brethren to walk invisibly. However as more material and better proofs of his good service, we recommend unto you his Original Letters to be enrolled amongst the Epistles of the Apostles writ by their own hands, to be preserved as Relics in the Vatican: As likewise his Gloves and Sword, which you must purchase from Mr.— in Hay-Market for 100 Guineas, having refused fifty Pounds half a year since; together with Grove's Dagger, and Pickering's Pistol, to be kept as Eternal Monuments amongst the Trophies in the Capitol with this Inscription, — Mors mihi, non Regi.  
And for fear you should want Stock to carry on the Design in this interlude of Action; my Noble Friends, we do present unto you the three thousand Pound per annum, raised upon the Catholic Estates for carrying on the Design, with threescore of Mr. L.— the double Martyr, his Penitential Scourges in Newgate, to any that shall by any encouragement of Life, Fortune or Estate, make or incline to make hereafter any Confession. Father Ireland's Talents measured out by the Shackles of the Sanctuary at Rome, leapt up in Sir Edmundbury Godfrey's Napkin, till time and liberty give you opportunity to improve and convert it to its proper use; together with Green-Berry-Hill to be set a part and consecrated for the Erecting a Monastery when the Government shall come into your hands, where daily Prayers may be said for the Saints departed.    
FINIS.