〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉: OR, THE PICTURE OF THE Late King James Drawn to the LIFE.  
In which is made manifest, That the whole Course of his Life hath to this day been a continued Conspiracy against the Protestant Religion, Laws and Liberties of the Three Kingdoms.  
In a Letter to Himself.  
And humbly Dedicated to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, WILLIAM the Third, Our Deliverer and Restorer.  
By TITUS OATS, D. D.  
LONDON: Printed for Richard Baldwin, near the Oxford-Arms Inn in Warwick-Lane. MDCXCVI.   

To His Sacred MAJESTY William the Third, By the Grace of GOD, of Great Britain, France and Ireland KING, Defender of the Faith, etc.  
GREAT SIR,  
I Have here undertaken to draw the Picture of a Person that once was invested with the Style, Title, and Dignity of a King, and certainly he might have been the greatest in his time, could he but have complied with the ends of his great Office in this Nation, to which he was admitted, and with the observation of the Laws of the Realm, to which he was solemnly Sworn, according to the Customs and Constitutions thereof at his Coronation. I did never in my whoLe life take him to be the Wisest of Men; nor did I believe him to be so much behindhand in Understanding, but that he must needs know, That as Government was Originally instituted by the Great God himself, and this or that Form of it, chosen and submitted to by Men, for the Peace, Happiness and Security of those who are Governed, and not for the private Interest and personal Greatness of them that Rule; so that Government hath been always esteemed the best, where Supreme Magistrates have been invested with the Power and Prerogatives that might capacitate them not only to preserve the People from Violence and Oppression, but to promote their Prosperity, and yet where nothing was to belong to them by the Rules of the Constitution, that might enable them to Injure and Oppress them.  
This unhappy Prince, was a long slander by in his Brother's Reign; from the Year 1660, to 1685; and Experience and the Informations of wise Men, without all doubt, taught him, That it had been the Glory of England above other Nations and Countries where his Brother and he had Traveled, that its King hath had all Entrusted with him that was necessary for the advancing the welfare of the People, or for his own Protection in the discharge of his Office and support of his Dignity and Grandeur, and withal stood so limited and restrained by the Fundamental terms of the Constitution, that without the violation of his own Oath, as well as the Rules and Measures of the Government, he could do them no hurt, nor exercise any act of Authority, but through the Administration of such hands as stood obnoxious to be Punished in case they Transgressed: So that according to the true Primitive frame of the Government, the Prerogatives of the Crown, and the Rights and Privileges of the Subject were so far from justling one another, that the Immunities reserved unto the People, tended to render the King Honourable and Great; and the Prerogatives settled on the King, were in order to the Subjects Protection and Safety.  
Notwithstanding all this, it is well known to your Most Excellent Majesty, that in the two last Reigns there was a dismal and an unaccountable alteration of the Government attempted by this Prince and his Popish Accomplices, and the most excellent Monarchy endeavoured to be changed into an absolute French Tyranny: For though our Religion and Liberties were fenced and hedged about by as many Laws as the Wisdom of Men could devise for our Preservation, from Popery and Arbitrary Power; yet our Religion was in those unaccountable Reigns Undermined by Popish Counsels, and our Privileges ravished from us by the Fraud and Violence of the two last Kings, who were in a continued Conspiracy against the Protestant Religion, and the Rights of the People of England, of which your Majesty may take a full Account in the following Memorial.  
I must confess to Your Majesty, that to discant on the Misfortunes of a Person that is fallen from so high a Dignity, and is reduced to a State that is next to Death, is neither a thing that I coveted or desig'nd, though I was a great Sufferer by him both in his Brother's and his Reign; but the Insolency of his wicked Conspirators that are here among us, hath so provoked me, that I cannot in point of Duty that I own to God and Your Majesty, forbear letting the Nation know what we must trust to if ever that Man should return again and Reign over us.  
This present Conspiracy against Your Majesty and Government, hath not only provoked me to publish the Arts and Methods of the late King, used for the destruction of our Laws, Liberties and Religion, in conjunction with the Popish Party, but it hath encouraged me to Dedicate the same to your Royal Name and Patronage, and to no other, because I am well assured, it will not only justify the truth of the Popish Plot, for the discovery of which I have undergone a fierce Fiery Trial, out of which I was delivered by Your Majesty's coming to Save us, when we were even upon the brink of Ruin and Destruction; the sense of which hath created in me an undelible Love and Loyalty to Your Majesty and Government; and I question not, but that Your Majesty will Pardon the Human Frailties that may appear in this Memorial in the manner of my expressing the Truths therein Contained.  
The Villainous Party, against whom I now Writ, have used many Arts and ways to traduce your Majesty and Government, merely because you promote the Grandeur of your People, and the Ease and Welfare of your Subjects, rather than entrench in the least upon any of their Immunities and Privileges; some of whom would be thought to be good Protestants; but their late Conspiracy to Assassinate Your Majesty, shows them to be very Traitors and Rebels to your Majesty and Government; and it proves that Party to be obstinately restless, and never be brought to Reason by Mercy and Clemency. How little therefore these Criminals will deserve from Your Majesty, the World will better judge, if they will but consider how Graciously Your Majesty hath dealt with them, ever since Your happy Accession to the Imperial Crown of this Realm, to the very day that their wicked Purposes were discovered to Your Majesty. I have seen some of the very same Spirit, caressed by some that were about You, whist your real hearty Friends were Slighted and Abandoned. Nay, I shall be so plain to say with truth, that your Majesty hazarded the Hearts and Affections of your best Subjects, and much of your Royal Honour, in conniving at the Carriages of these Men, though with frustration, to win and oblige, if possible, these everlasting holy Cutthroats.  
But Sir, what Arguments of Clemency and Grace can persuade such Men to be true to your Majesty, their Rightful and Lawful King, maintaining the Laws and Liberties of your Subjects, since they profess an Allegiance out of Conscience to a contrary Sovereign, who destroyed our Laws and Liberties, and made them sharers in his many Designs and Conspiracies against us? Or how can your Majesty expect Truth and Sincerity from these Conspirators, where Treason and Lie are Virtues and Merits? You have in this Tract many Tragical Instances within fresh Memory of their Wicked Purposes and Designs; look back but to the beginning of your Majesty's Reign, since which time your Majesty cannot but remember how many Proofs they have given out of their own Mouths of their more than Villainous Disaffection to your Majesty and Government, and Traitorous Intentions against your Royal Person, both at Home and Abroad, nay, before your happy Accession to the Throne. I may, without offence to your Majesty, take notice to you of your being abandoned by King Charles, in Compliance with the French King, at the Instigation of the then Duke of York, and his Popish Adherents; and not only so, but your Ruin and Destruction, when you only had the Title of Prince of Orange, was designed by the Popish Party; my Affection and Respects to you then, though wholly a Stranger to your Person, made me then discover the Conspiracy against you, but none of the Council took any notice of what related to yourself, but Prince Rupert and the Earl of Arlington, and another considerable Peer, who, I suppose, did transmit the same to you when in Holland.  
But blessed be God your Majesty as a Monument of the Mercies of the most High, is once more delivered out of their Hands, and in your Deliverance we that have Espoused you are delivered; and we question not but you will remember to distinguish between those that have testified their Sincere Loyalty to your Majesty, and those that have openly appeared Traitors to your Royal Person and Government, and question not, Great Sir, but that God who hath now so Miraculously delivered you, and in whose hand are the Hearts of all Kings and Princes, will fully Convince your Majesty of all the unworthy Principles of your secret Enemies, and of my Integrity too, how strange soever they have endeavoured to represent me to your Majesty; till then, with all Patience and Humility, I shall commend my Cause to the Allseeing Judge, with a Resolution to persevere through his Assistance in my Truth, Integrity and Loyalty, against all Discouragements, or Terrors, or Neglects, or Blandishments either, to my last gasp.  
What Peace can these Brutes have in their Souls and Consciences, that do surrender their Liberties and Religion to the Mercy of a Person that would have enslaved them, and being through the Mercy of God to us, driven out from these Kingdoms for his Tyranny, he neither can nor will he own them, if he were to return. It is strange to any thinking Man, that of these Conspirators, who profess the Protestant Religion, that they should not consider the whole Series or Course of Life of that pretended King, for whom they venture Body and Soul, hath been a continued Conspiracy against them and their Religion. Why should they not sit down and consider his Contriving the Burning of London; his instigating a Confederacy with France, and two ungodly Wars with Holland; his fomenting the Popish Plot, and contriving the Murder of Justice Godfrey, to stifle it; his forging of Treason against Protestants, and suborning Witnesses to swear the Patriots of our Religion and Liberties, out of their Lives; his hiring execrable Villains to Assassinate and Murder the Great Earl of Essex, and causing several others to be clandestinely Murdered in hopes to conceal it; his advising and procuring the Prorogation and Dissolution of Parliaments, in order to prevent inquiry into his Crimes, so that he might escape the Justice of the Nation? Why should not these Protestant Professors remember his Poisoning the King his Brother, in order to his Invading the Throne; his Murdering Algernoon Sidney Esq upon the Deposition of one scandalous Witness, and the cutting off the late Loyal and Brave Lord Russel, and Murdering him for Crimes alleged against him, in reference to which, if all had been Truth which was sworn against him, yet there was nothing that according to Law could have reached his Life?  
Give me leave, Great Sir, to acquaint your Majesty, that none murmured more against the Proceed of the late King than the Protestant Jacobites did: I can remember how confounded they were when he began his Reign, with a barefaced avowing himself of the Romish Religion, and calling into the Nation a multitude of Priests and Jesuits, and empowered them to Exercise their Idolatries: Nay, who were so much concerned as some of these Men, and in my own hearing, have owned that he was ill advised to trample upon those Laws which concern our Property, seeing that by two Proclamations, whereof the one required the Collecting of the Customs, and the other, the continuing the Excise, which was to expire at King Charles' Death; he violently, and against all the Laws of the Land, broke in upon the Estates of many of the People of England; and they did own that the seven or eight suborned and forsworn Judges, that countenanced him in doing so vile a Thing ought to have been hanged; and they have often said, that if he proceeded thus he would soon bring the Kingdom about his Ears, and he must take it for his pains: How can these Men look Mankind in the Face, who have been in a barbarous Conspiracy, for the restoring of a King that had thus acted in oppressing his People, and for the Murdering of your Majesty's Person, that had delivered the Nation from these Oppressions?  
When I reflect upon the Reign of that late King, I cannot but be filled with the greatest Horror, to think that there should be a number of Men left in England, that should so much as attempt his Restoration, when they well knew that he had precluded his Subjects of all hopes of Redress in Westminster-Hall, and deprived us of all Succour where our Ancestors found it. I thought that all Men would have joined with your Majesty to have declared the late King James a Tyrant, Traitor and Murderer, and all that did adhere to him should have been treated as Banditti and Freebooters, and not as Gentlemen and English Men; but instead of this, that in the compass of seven Years, behold two or three Conspiracies against your Majesty's Person and Government, detected and proved, and yet these People will scarce so much as blush at the self-contradicting Carriage of themselves and Party.  
Some of these Protestant Jacobites have been at St. Germains, and then they must Experience the late King's usage of his Protestant Friends there; and if a certain Writer may be depended upon, their usage is hard and severe; first he denied them a Protestant Chapel and Chaplain; nay, if a Protestant be any thing zealous for his Religion, they want not Irish Papists to swear a Plot upon them, and so they are confined notwithstanding their Quality, and the signal Services performed for their pretended King. Many Instances might be given of this nature; and a reasonable Man might have judged that the many Instances of those Slights and Contempts that have been put upon them, should have convinced them of the Folly and Madness of any of those that pretend to the Protestant Religion and Church of England, who should Espouse the Cause of a Man that hates their Religion and Liberties. Can they think that the present Misfortunes that the late King James lies under, would, if he should be re-invested with Power, frighten him to alter his Measures and Resolutions of invading our Laws and Liberties for time to come, seeing, that neither the abandoning of Wives, Children and Estates, nor the hazarding, nay, loss of Life in his Service, can render him just and favourable to those Protestants, who have made a Sacrifice of all these things to follow him, and yet that these Men should be found in so Villainous a Conspiracy, to Murder him that delivered the Nation? What Tongue can speak for such brutish and senseless Wretches, I must leave to the Judgements of wiser Men than myself. And what can they expect from a Man whose Father's Misfortunes, his Brother's Exile, wherein he himself was a sharer, have not wrought a Reformation in him? Can we expect that ever he will be more cautious of violating our Laws, entrenching upon our Liberties, or subverting our Religion; or that ever he will be made more pliable? For if he denies Men that have followed him into France, the Exercise of their Religion, what hopes have they of obtaining and enjoying it, whenever he shall return? Nay, what then must your Majesty's Protestant Subjects expect, who have renounced him, and associated to defend your Majesty, as our Lawful and Rightful King, against this pretended King and all his Wicked and Traitorous Adherents?  
But Sir, give me leave a little further to plead with your Majesty concerning these People, that certainly never give themselves leisure to think; I am sure no Man in his right Wits but must judge it the highest degree of Stupidity and Folly, that these very Men should expect good Terms from a Person who doth not only treat his Protestant Adherents very ill, who have followed him in his Misfortunes, but also whose Religion lays him under the necessity of using them thus. What Obligations did our Church lay upon him when he was a Subject? Did she not, like a Prostitute, save him from being Prosecuted for the Popish Plot, and from being Excluded from the Succession to the Crown? Who were so Hot in that point on his behalf as the then Prelates in the House of Peers, and afterwards from being driven out of the Kingdom, by the late Duke of Monmouth? yet all those Obligations were of no more value with him than his Coronation-Oath, which he violated without the least regret, and spared not to invade the Protestant Religion in general, but the Liberties of the Church of England in particular.  
What wicked Traitors are these wretched Men, that shall assist the Popish Party in their attempts to pervert the Church, and to bring that about in effect which even to mention, makes every Loyal Subject of your Majesties to tremble? For certainly had these Conspirators been all of them avowed Papists, your Majesty's Person and Government had not been in that danger; but some of them that have undertaken this Horrid Design, are such as lie under no Temptations of Religion; Men thought to be secure; that these, now the Mystery of Iniquity is revealed, are found Men obliged by all the Sacred Ties of Malice and Ambition, to assist in the advancing your Majesty's Ruin, and the Ruin of the three Kingdoms; and much better qualified than others, under the Name of Good Church of England Men; nay, Preachers of Passive Obedience and Nonresistance will not be shut out of this Hellish Conspiracy for Wranglers, but will have a hand against your Majesty's Person, rather than so Eminent a piece of Service shall go unperfected. Give me leave therefore Sir, with the greatest Duty and Submission, to observe to your most Excellent Majesty the Excellency of that Religion they would subvert, by showing the Vileness of that they would introduce, and the happy Government they would destroy in the attempt they have made upon your Majesty's Person.  
These Conspirators that say they are Protestants, cannot but own that we are exceeding happy in relation to our Religion, since by your Majesty's happy Accession to the Throne; that we are once more freed from the Romish Yoke, which so great a part of Europe do yet draw and labour under; that Popery is such a thing as cannot but for want of a Word to express it, be called Religion; nor is it to be mentioned with that Civility which is otherwise decent to be used in speaking of Differences of Humane Opinion about Divine Matters; were it open Judaisme, or plain Turcism, or honest Paganism; there is yet a certain Bonafides in the most extravagant Belief, and the Sincerity of an Erroneous Profession may render it more pardonable: But this Popery is a Compound of all the three, an Extract of whatsoever is most Ridiculous and Impious in them, incorporated with more peculiar Absurdities of its own, in which those were deficient, and all this deliberately contrived, and knowingly carried on by the Rascally and Villainous Clergy, under the Name of Christianity. The Wisdom of this fifth Religion in this last and most Insolent Attempt upon the Credulity and Conspiracy against the Liberty of Mankind, seems to all Understanding Men, principally to have consisted in their owning the Scriptures to be the Word of God, and the Rule of Faith and Manners; but wickedly prohibiting at the same time their common Use, or the Reading of them by those of their Communion, there being no better or more rational way to frustrate the very design of our Lord Jesus Christ, (who first planted by the miraculous Power and extraordinary Gifts of the Holy-Ghost) than to forbid the use of them in such a Language as the People could understand; for having the Scripture, which by all Christians are avowed to be of Divine Authority, but appointing it to remain in such hands as were entrusted to undertake and carry on their holy Cheat, they had the Opportunity to vitiate, suppress, or interpret, to their own advantage, for the support of their Villainous Priestcraft, those admirable Evidences, by which the common People hold their Salvation; and they having by this Fraud gained their Point, there was from that time nothing so monstrous to Reason, and so abhorring from Morality, or so contrary to Scripture, which they might not in prudence venture on. The Idolatry of Adoring and praying to Saints and Angels, and worshipping Pictures, Images, and incredible Miracles, and palpable Fables, to promote that Veneration. The whole Liturgy and Worship of the blessed Virgin, the saying of Pater Nosters and Creeds, the Honour of Saints and Ave-maries' too, not to her Honour, but of others. The Public Service, which they can spare to God among, so many Competitors in anunknown Tongue, and entangled with such Vestments, Consecrations, Exorcisms, Whisper, Sprinkling, Censing, and Fantastical Rites, Gesticulations and Removals, so unbecoming a Christian Office, that it represents rather the Pranks and Ceremonies of a Juggler or a Conjurer: The refusal of the Cup to the Laity, the necessity of the Priests ' Intention to make any of their Sacraments effectual, debarring of their Clergy from Marriage, Interdicting of Meats, Auricular Confession, and Absolution, as with them Practised; Penances, Pilgrimages, Purgatory. But above all, their other Cheats and Rogueries, in the Villainous Solecism of Transubstantiation, whereby that Glorified Body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which at the same time they allow to be in Heaven, is Sold again and Crucified daily upon all the Altars of their Communion; for God indeed may now and then do a Miracle, but a Rascally Priest of their Synagogue can, it seems, work in one moment a thousand Impossibilities; and this by a new and Anti-scriptural Belief, compiled of Terrors to the Fancy, Contradictions to Sense, and Impositions on the Understanding. The Laity of their Communion have turned Tenants for their Souls, and in Consequence Tributaries for their Estates, to an abominable nonsensical Priesthood.  
But I confess myself under great Obligation to do their Synagogue right, and I do humbly acknowledge to your Majesty, that out of an equitable and vas●●●ble Consideration and Recompense of such a religious and faithful Servitude, the Priests have quitted and discharged the People of all other Services and Dependence, and given them full and perfect liberty from all Duty to God or Man, insomuch that those of the Clergy, who have been more learned, and the managers and directors of their Consciences, have so well instructed them in all the most villainous Arts of circumventing their Neighbours, and of making a Jest of Heaven; that were their Disciples as apt as their Spiritual Schoolmasters, there would for some Ages since have been a Period put to all true Piety, and common Honesty, and no other Endowments remaining with them, but authorised Hypocrisy, Licentiousness and Knavery, had not the natural Worth of the better sort, and the good Simplicity of the meaner, in a very great measure preserved them; for truly nothing but an extraordinary Temper of Soul and that too assisted by the Divine Influences of the Grace and Spirit of God could possibly restrain those within any Terms, or bounds, or laws of common Humanity, who at the same time receive the Doctrine of their Casuists as the Oracles of God, and own the Authority of the Grand Impostor at Rome to be of Divine Right, as it is by him claimed and exercised. This Man of Sin by his pretended Indulgencies says, That he delivers the Souls of those that are of his Communion, out of the pains of the other World: So that what Man is he that believes that Doctrine, that would not please his vicious Appetite, that hath so good a Security? He, by his Dispensing Power annuls Contracts between Man and Man; dissolves Oaths between Princes, and of Princes with their Subjects, and gives Allowance in Cases which God and Nature prohibits. This Impostor and deceiver of the the Sons of Men, as a Clerk of the Ecclesiastical Market, hath set a Rate upon all Crimes, the more villainous they are, and the deeper their dye, and abominable, the better Commodities, and the Votaries advance in the Price as for greater Rarities: So that the worse they are in their Morals, the better Customers they are to a lewd Priest; just as if God had published his holy Commandments on purpose to erect an Office for the Conscience-mongers of that cursed Synagogue. And thus that Strumpet enlargeth her Borders, increaseth in her Numbers, just as the Pagan Interest did the City of Rome, by opening a Sanctuary to all Malefactors. And why should it not be so, if the Papal Power be of such virtue and extent as is by that Juggler of Rome so violently challenged? He calls himself the Ruler of Angels, Purgatory, and Hell, and saith, That his Tribunal and God's are all one; and hath proudly boasted, that all that God can do, he can do, and what he doth is as God, not as Man: That he is the universal Head of the Church; the sole Interpreter of Scripture; the Judge of Controversies: That he is above General Councils; that his Power is Absolute, and his Decrees are Infallible: That he can change the nature of things, making what is Just, to be Unjust, and what is Vice, to be Virtue: That all Laws are within the Cabinet of his Breast; that he can dispense with the New Testament; that he is the Monarch of the World; and that he can dispose of Kingdoms and Empires as he pleases. Now, if there be one word of Truth in all this, the Styles they have given him at several times, is not such an extraordinary piece of Courtship as we reckoned, but it would be a piece of Rudeness in Men not to treat him accordingly.  
The exercise of his Power and Dominion is in all points suitable to his Claim and Pretence; he antiquates the Precepts of our Great Redeemer, as things only of good Advice, and not Commanded; but makes it Mortal Sin for a Man only to doubt of any part of his Religion, and with all the Insolence imaginable, under pain of eternal Damnation, demands the Obedience and Subjection of all Christian Princes and People to his Papal Authority and Power; the denying of two things so reasonable, as blind Obedience to his Power, and an Implicit Faith to his Doctrine, being the most unpardonable Crimes under his Dispensation. He hath, I confess been of late Years somewhat more retentive than formerly, as to his excellent faculty of Disposing Kingdoms, the thing not having succeeded so well with him in some Instances; but he lays the same Claim still, and hath the same Inclination; and though Velvet-headed, hath the more itch to be pushing; but however, in order to any occasion he keeps himself in ure always, by Cursing some Prince or other upon every Maundy Thursday; nor is there any, whether Prince or Nation, that oppose his Usurpations, but are marked out under the notion of Heretics, for Ruin and Destruction, whensoever he shall give the Signal. That word Heresy, misapplied, hath served the Romish Beast for many Ages to justify, or rather give a colour for so many Executions, Assassinations, Wars, Devastations and Massacres, by which his Faith hath been propagated, of which our Times have not wanted Examples; and more is to be expected for the future, if these Conspirators can but at any time carry their Point; for by how much any thing is more false and unreasonable, so much more Cruelty is requisite to establish it; and to introduce that which is absurd, there must be somewhat done that is Barbarous and Inhuman. But nothing of any Sect in Religion can be more recommended by all these indearing Qualities, than Popery: The Pagans are excusable by their natural Darkness without Revelation: The Jews are tolerable, who see not beyond the Old-Testament: Mahomet was so honest, as to own what he would be at; That he himself was the greatest Prophet, and that his was a Religion of the Sword: So that these were all, as I may say, of another Allegiance; if they were Enemies, yet they were not Traitors: But the Romish Beast avowing Christianity by Profession, doth in Doctrine and Practice renounce it; and presumeing to be the only Catholic, doth presume to prosecute those to death who dare Worship the Author of their Religion, instead of his pretended Vicegerent.  
And yet there is nothing more manifest, notwithstanding all his most notorious Forgeries, and falsifications of all Writers, than that the Prelate of Rome was for several hundreds of Years an honest Bishop, as other Men are, and never so much as dreamt of the Seven Hills of that Universal Power, which he is now come to: Nay, he was the first that opposed that Pretention. But some of them at last growing Wiser, by foisting a Counterfeit Donation of Constantine, and wresting another Donation from our Saviour, advancing themselves in a Weak, Ignorant and Credulous Age to that Temporal and Spiritual Principality that they are now seized of, Thou art Peter, and upon this Rock will I build my Church: Of this I may say to your Majesty; That never was a Bishopric and a Text of Scripture so Improved by good Management; thus by exercising in the quality of Christ's Vicar the Public Function under an invisible Prince, the Pope like the Majors of the Palace, hath set his Master aside, and delivered the power over to a new Line of Papal Succession. But who can, unless wilfully, be ignorant what wretched do, what Bribery, what Ambitions there are; how long the Church is without a Head upon every Vacancy, till among the filthy Crew of bandying Cardinals, the Holy Ghost hath declared for a Pope of the French or Spanish Faction? Surely Sir, your Majesty will judge it one of the greatest Miracles of the Synagogue of Rome, that it should still continue, and that in all this time the Gates of Heaven should not prevail against it.  
Give me leave, Great Sir, to observe to your Majesty, that it is almost inconceivable how Princes can yet suffer a Power so pernicious, and Doctrines so destructive to all Government, that so great a part of the Land should be alienated and condemned to Pious Uses, as they call it: That so many Thousands of the People that are Clergy, should by remaining unmarried, either frustrate Humane Nature, if they live chastely; or if otherwise, adulterate it, that they should be privileged from all Labour and public Service and exempt from the power of all Secular Jurisdiction, that they being all bound by strict Oaths and Vows of Obedience to the Pope, should evacuate the Fealty that is due to the Sovereign; nay, that not only the Clergy, but the Laity too, if of the Cursed Communion of that Synagogue, should be obliged at any time to Rebel at the Pope's pleasure: And yet how many of the Neighbouring Princes are content, or do choose to Reign upon those Conditions, which being so dishonourable and dangerous, surely some great and weighty Reason does cause them to submit to, whether it be out of personal Fear, having heard, perhaps, of several attempts which the blind Obedience of Popish Zealots hath executed against the Princes, or whether aiming at a more absolute and tyrannical Government, they think it still to be the Case of an Usurping Emperor, and an Usurping Bishop; and that this, as other Cheats, is to be managed by Confederacy. But Sir, as far as I can apprehend, there is more of Sloth than of Policy on the Prince's side in this whole matter, and all that pretence of enslaving Men by the assistance of Religion, is neither more nor less than when the Bramine, by having the first Night of the Bride, assures himself of her Devotion, for the future, and makes her more fit for the Husband.  
This Reflection upon the state of our Neighbours, in respect to Religion, doth sufficiently illustrate our Happiness we enjoy by your Majesty's Accession to the Crown, of ours: Therefore it spares me the labour of describing it further, than by the rule of Contraries, our Religion and Interest, standing upon all points in a direct Opposition to the  Errors, our Doctrine being true to the Principles of the first Institution of Christ, the Ministry being form upon the Primitive Model, and no Ecclesiastical Power, justling with the Civil, but all concurring in the Common Obedience to the chief Magistrate: Nor therefore is there any, whether Prince, or Nation, that can at this time with less probability be reduced back to the Romish Communion, than the Protestant Interest here in England: For if we respect our Obedience to God, what appearance is there, that after so durable and general enlightening of our Minds, with the sacred Truth of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, we should again put out our own Eyes to wander through the palpable Darkness of that Gross Superstition? But for as much as many Men are less concerned for their Interest in Heaven, than on Earth; this seeming the nearer and more certain, also on this account, our Alteration from the Protestant Religion, is the more inconsistent with temporal Advantage, when besides the common ill Examples and Consequences observable Abroad, whereby we might grow wise at the Expense of our Neighbours, we cannot but reflect upon our own Experiments at Home, which would make even Fools docible. The whole Reign of Queen Mary the First, in which the Papists made Fuel of the Protestants; the Excommunicating and Deprivation of Queen Elizabeth by the Pope, pursued by so many Treasons and Attempts upon her Person, by her own Subjects, and the Invasion of Eighty-Eight by the Spaniard: The two Breves of the Pope, in order to exclude King James the First from the Succession to the Crown, seconded by the Gunpowder-Treason: In the time of K. Charles the first, besides what they contributed to the Civil Wars in England, the Rebellion and Horrid Massacre in Ireland, which ended in the Ruin and Destruction of the Person and Government of that King: In the time of King Charles the Second we saw several visible Effects of the same Spirit, as the Firing of London, the Popish Design carried on against the Person and Government of that King, not that he was a Protestant; but because he came not up to the Measures of the Jesuits and his Brother the late King James: But as for him, his whole Life was nothing else but a Contrivance or a Plot against our Religion, Laws, and Liberties: But this Horrid Conspiracy against your Majesty's Person and Government, being so happily discovered, we cannot but hope that the Discovery of such a tremendous Villainy, will so rivet the Protestant Interest and Religion, that it shall stand so sure, that the Gates of Hell and Rome shall not prevail against it. 'Tis true Sir, before the Discovery of the Popish Plot, in the time of King Charles the Second, many lose People, some also of Note, were perverted to the Church of Rome; but when that Villainy was detected, than a Check was put for a time to the Popish Parties making such a number of Converts, till the Priests saw that King Charles the Second did not Prosecute the Discovery of that Conspiracy, he being in every part and particular thereof, but that of his own Life; then they let lose their Seducers, who were not only encouraged, but also recompensed for such a piece of Treachery. But when the late King invaded the Crown, then large steps were taken to ruin the People, and to Pox them in their Religion.  
Upon your Majesty's Landing in the Year 1688, the Keeper of the Prison of the King's-Bench gave me some liberty, and I went amongst some of the most substantial of my Friends, who did inform me under what a Consternation our Great Conspirators were, and how ready they were to have given up all their Illgotten Estates, by which they had been enabled to prosecute the wicked Designs of the late King, to subvert our most Excellent Religion; and none of us did question but that they would have been called to an account for all those traitorous Devices of theirs; of this, I am sure, they would have given up their All to have saved their Lives: But your Majesty being resolved not to begin your Reign with Blood, was inclined not to make any severe Examples of these Men; which a thinking Man might judge would lay such an Obligation upon them all of Gratitude and Obedience to your Majesty and Government, nay, these  fresh Instances of the Papal Tyranny in Religion, might have been enough to have cautioned the Kingdom from giving them little hopes of being able of being brought to restore King James, who was so  to the Arbitrary Proceed of the Romish Synagogue; our Noblemen some of them had a great part of Church Lands in their hands, our Clergymen great Preferments, all which must have gone notwithstanding their Zeal for the Divine Right of Succession and Passive Obedience and Non-resistence: Therefore the Consideration of Temporal Interest one would have thought might have gone a great way to have engaged them to be true to their own Cause and Quarrel. In a word, a Man that observed the Insolences of the Popish Party against those Prelates that were committed to the Tower, would have made them for ever to have declared an everlasting War against that Party of Red-lettered Men, and hearty have come into your Majesty's Interest, in order to have secured our Liberties, Properties, and Religion: But to conclude this Head, the Excellency of that Religion, of which some of the Conspirators had made a Profession, since they were English that had Bodies, Souls and Estates to save, and found your Majesty resolved (if they had pleased) to save all, they upon the score of your Royal Grace and Mercy to them shown at the beginning of your Reign, and continued Clemency, would have invited to have joined in with your Majesty to have preserved that Religion they profess, and not in stead of that to have attempted the Murder of your Person, and the Invasion of your Realm with a Foreign Power, in order to restore an Abdicated King, who hates their Religion, and will violate their Liberties.  
I come Sir, now to observe to your Majesty, the Excellency of this Civil Government, which these Conspirators would change into Slavery. The Kings of England Rule not upon the same Terms with those of our Neighbour Nations, who having by Force or by Fraud Usurped that due share which their Subjects had in the Government, are now for some Ages passed in Possession of an Arbitrary Power, (which yet no Presciption can make legal) and Excercise it over their Persons and Estates in a most Tyrannical Manner, but here in England the Subjects do retain their Proportion in the Legislature, and the very meanest Commoner of England is represented in Parliament, and is a Party to those Laws by which the Prince is sworn to Govern himself and his Subjects: No Money is to be levied, but by common Consent, no Man is for Life, Limb, or Goods, or Liberty, at the discretion of the Supreme Magistrate, but we have the same Right (modestly understood) to our Property, that the Prince hath to his Regality.  
In all Cases where the King is concerned we have our just Remedy as against any private Person in the Neighbourhood in the Courts of Westminster-Hall, or in the High-Court of Parliament; his very Prerogative is no more than what the Law hath determined: His Great Seal, which is the Stamp of his Legitimate Pleasure, yet is no longer current than upon the trial it is found legal; he cannot commit any Person by his particular Warrant, he cannot himself be Witness in any Cause, the balance of Public Justice being so delicate, that not the Head only, but even the Breath of the Prince would turn the Scale; nothing is to be left to the King's Will, but all is subjected to his Authority, by which it follows, that he can do no wrong, nor receive wrong; and a King of England keeping these measures, may without Arrogance be said to remain the only Intelligent Ruler over a Rational People; in recompense therefore, and acknowledgement of so good a Government under his Influence, his Person is most Sacred and Inviolable, and whatever Excesses are committed against so high a Trust, nothing of them is imputed to him, as being free from the necessity or temptation, but his Ministers only are accountable for all, and must answer it at their Perils: He hath a vast Revenue, constantly arising from the Sweat of the Labourers and the Rent of the Farmer, and the Industry of the Merchant; and consequently out of the Estate of the Gentleman a large competence to defray the ordinary Charge of the Crown, and maintain its Grandeur and Lustre; and if any extraordinary occasion happen, or be but with any probable descency pretended, the whole Land at whatsoever season of the Year, doth yield them a plentiful Harvest. So forward are the People to give, that a Foreigner would think that they could neither will nor choose, but that the ask of a Supply was a mere piece of Formality, the People of England being so ready to give it. The King of England is the Fountain of Honour, and hath the distribution of so many profitable Offices, of the Household, of the Revenue, of State, of Law, of Religion, of the Navy; and when it is necessary that the King hath an Army, he disposeth of a multitude of Military Offices, that it seems as if this Nation had scarce Men of Abilities to supply all these Employments. So that the Kings of England are nothing inferior to other Princes, saving in being abridged in injuring their own Subjects, but have as large a Field as any of external Felicity, wherein to exercise their own Virtue, and to reward and encourage it in others. In a word, your Majesty hath enlarged our Liberties, in consenting to the Bill to Regulate Trials in Cases of High-Treason; in which there are large Immunities granted to any that fall under that black Circumstance, that their Lives may not be at the mercy of a Mercenary Judge, or Judges, if God should in his Judgement leave poor England to such Men: But your Majesty hath begun, and I question not but your Royal inclination will carry you on to complete our security from such Vermin. Therefore to conclude, what a Government is this we enjoy, than which nothing can come nearer the Divine Perfection! The Monarch enjoys a capacity of doing all the good imaginable to Mankind, but under a disability of doing any thing that is Evil.  
This Scheme of the Civil Government the Late King did well know, and therefore in Council on the day of his Accession to the Crown, he was pleased to say, That the Laws of England were sufficient to make the King of England as great a Monarch as he could wish or desire; so that your Majesty may see that he could own that the Greatness of the English Monarchy had its Birth and rise from the Laws. Who then would have lessened himself as he did, by breaking in upon those very Laws that had made him Great? And who would have broken so excellent a Government as made him Secure and Happy? And what Subject of England, Papist or Protestant, that would lose such Immunities and Privileges, by joining in with that unhappy Man to destroy themselves: Were they so in love with King James, that they were not satisfied till they had him? Nay, he and they waded through King Charles' Blood that he might Reign: Why then did they not keep the terms of the Government, which would have been the most effectual way of continuing him on the Throne. Besides all this, we cannot forget that the Parliaments under Queen Elizabeth, King James, King Charles the First, and King Charles the Second, made it Treason in whosoever that should attempt to Seduce any one of the meanest of your Majesty's Subjects to the Church of Rome. And the Long Parliament held in the time of Charles the Second, to all Penalties of the Statute Law added an incapacity for any Man to say, that that King was a Papist, or an introducer of Popery. What Lawless and incapable Miscreants were these! What wicked Traitors were those Men who did endeavour to pervert the whole Body of Protestants, and to bring that about in effect, which even to mention, was penal; at one Italian stroke, attempting to subvert the Government and Religion, to kill the Body and damn the Soul of the Nation.  
Your Majesty finds to this day, there are such a Set of Men in this Nation, who have undertaken and have made it their business under your Majesty's happy, legal and perfect Government by the intended destruction of your Royal Person to introduce a French Slavery, and instead of so pure a Religion that your Majesty ventured hard to preserve, to establish the Roman Idolatry; either of which Crimes are of the highest nature; for if we look upon the Government, if the Murder of your Royal Person be a fact so horrid as no Man can find words enough to declare his detestation and abhorrence of it; how much more than is the Murder of your Royal Person, with an intent to Assassinate the Kingdom? And Sir, none will deny, but that to alter the Monarchy of these Kingdoms into a Republic, is High Treason. So by the same fundamental Rule, the Crime is no less to Murder your Royal Person, in order to make the Monarchy Absolute.  
Sir, I beg your Majesty's leave to tell you, that my Heart is much enlarged to your Majesty; I beseech your Majesty that your Royal Heart may be for this one time enlarged to me in your Grace and Pardon, for this trouble I now give your most excellent Majesty: Let me undertake upon serious inquiry to give your Majesty some satisfaction who these Men are that have from the Year 1660, to this day, attempted to Subvert our Government and our Religion. Had these Men been the old honest Cavaliers that fought for Charles the I. or suffered much in the time of Charles II. it would have been allowable in them, as oft as their Wound did break out at Spring or Fall, to think of a more Arbitrary Government, as a sovereign Balsam for their Aches, or to imagine that no Weapon-Salve but that of the Moss that Grows on an Enemy's Skull, could cure them; or could they (to have kept their Hands in ure) have fought their Cause over again, since they saw they were neglected and left to Starve, yet their Age and times they lived in, and their unjust usage they met with from two Kings, might have pleaded something on their behalf in mitigation of Damages. But Sir, give me leave to make this Remark to your Majesty concerning those Gentlemen, that they were and are still (if any of them remain) too Generous, too good Christians and Subjects, too affectionate to the English legal Government, to be capable of such an Impression; whereas these Conspirators that carried on the design of subverting our Religion into Popery and changing the Government into downright Slavery, are such as have not one drop of Cavalier Blood, or no Bowels at least of a Cavalier in them, but such as starved the Cavaliers, to revel and surfeit upon their Calamities, making their Persons and the very Cause by pretending to it themselves, almost Ridiculous.  
Or had these Villains been all of the Popish communion, and avowed so to be, give me leave to say it over again to your Majesty, your danger would have been the less; their Religion would in some measure have been answerable for the Errors and Extraugancies they might have been guilty of to promote it; but these render their intended Villainy more black, they were Protestants, and of the Church of England too, that joined with Papists to Assassinate your Royal Person: What can any Man say for them? Your Majesty knows what to do with them: These Villains, because I perceive they lie under a great difficulty to find Accomplices enough at home to Mutiny and Rebel and Murder your Majesty's true and loyal Subjects, therefore they put themselves under the Banner and Pay of the French King, to complete their wicked designs and purposes, to bring a foreign Enemy to Invade us; that King being endowed with all those which in a French Prince, or in an Abdicated King, may pass for Virtues; but in any private Man they would be Capital; and moreover, so abounding in Zeal for Popery and Slavery above all other Princes, that none else could engage both Body and Soul in such a Villainous Undertaking; to which Consideration, adding that their Interests are both one, and the one is, and the other would be the Master of absolute Dominion, and both are inveterate Enemies to your Majesty and this Protestant Kingdom; and the French King is in all respects the most likely to support, maintain and uphold them in those Attempts, they being so exactly suitable to the inclinations of his Soul, yea, and of the Late King's Soul too, notwithstanding your Majesty's being his Nephew and Son-in-Law into the bargain.  
Sir, these Conspirators have made it their business to asperse your Majesty's Government, because of the great Taxes that are upon the Nation; but I never find them to take notice of the Treasure that K. Charles II. wasted. It's true, he was engaged in two most impious Wars against the Dutch, and these Wars were very chargeable to the Nation: But besides those two Wars, he spent abundance upon his Whores, Pimps, and Bawds, under the notion of secret Service, and yet we find nothing to be said of that: Our Taxes are greater than ever the Nation paid; but your Majesty's Loyal Subjects do not believe them so heavy, but that they can and will hold it out many Years. In a word, there are none that retain their Loyalty and Duty to your Majesty, but are highly pleased with your Majesty's being fully supplied to carry on so necessary a War; and there is no good Man but will rather hazard his Person to keep the Enemy abroad, than see either a French or Irish Army within your Kingdom of England, destroying our Substance, burning our Habitations, and committing those Barbarities that were done in the Palatinate by the one, or in Ireland in 41 by the other; so that your Majesty may see, that we that are English Men are not so much concerned at our Taxes, as at the imminent Dangers your Majesty is daily exposed to, both at home and abroad. And (being more confident than perhaps becomes me, to judge the thoughts of Men;) I believe the Conspirators are more concerned that your Majesty is yet in the Land of the Living, than at any of these Taxes, of which I suppose their proportion is but small.  
But your Majesty is not the first and only Prince that Fugitive Conspirators have traduced, as these have filled the Ears of the French King and the Late King, with monstrous Stories of your Majesty's Oppressing the Nation with unheard of Taxes, thereby insinuating to him and his chargeable Guests, how easy it would be to reduce the Nation, that they might have farther opportunity of revelling and surfeiting upon his Treasure. So the Fugitive Conspirators in the time of Q. Elizabeth, were perpetually whispering in the Ears of the then King of Spain, with prodigious Stories as false as Hell, thereby to Exasperate that then great and Powerful Monarch against the Kingdom, and did disparage the Forces of the said Queen, and the posture and conduct of her Affairs; in order to make him believe, that the Conquest of England to be a matter of no great difficulty: They did calumniate that Queen's Justice, and blamed her proceed against Seminaries and Romish Priests, and for having a jealous eye upon those of their Communion, for receiving those Priests and Jesuits thus sent into this Realm to seduce her Subjects, and to withdraw them from their Obedience; but our Conspirators could not traduce your Majesty, or blacken your Government with those Points; none might have been more easy and quiet under your happy Government than they, if their Villainous Principles would have suffered them; and not only so, but they might have had Preferments too, whilst poor Sufferers, and your hearty Friends were Starving, had not their damnable Insolences and implacable hatred of your Majesty's Person and the welfare of the Kingdom been an obstacle in their way; but that which I shall observe to your Majesty, that they traduced that Queen with overcharging her Subjects with heavy and unaccustomed Taxes: But it was then well known, that no Prince could maintain such a Fleet at Sea, and such an Army at Land without great Expense and Charge; for her main end was to prevent a Foreign Invasion, by which that wise Queen certainly knew would be more Expensive and Chargeable to the Nation, than a Maintenance of a Force at Sea and Land would be to prevent it.  
It is not unknown, that your Majesty's Prudence and Conduct hath appeared, that though your Majesty found the Nation in a Lamentable Condition, the Trade Sunk, Liberties Seized, the People in a Ferment, the Ensigns of the many Murders committed in the Reign of the Late King, upon the Gates of the City, and upon your Majesty's accession to the Throne, a necessary War to be commenced, yet the Trade hath in some measure been preserved, Liberties restored, the condition of the Nation much mended, and like to be more and more improved, both as to its Honour and Interest, the People Quieted, and Reprizals about to be made for the Murder of our Friends. Your Majesty hath Reigned now Seven Years, and never raised one Penny without the consent of Parliament, and by the Authority of the same; and the Late King had not Reigned seven Hours, but he Levied Money without Parliament: But I would fain have these Fugitive Cutthroats that envy and malign your Majesty's easy Government, to compare the necessities of Queen Elizabeth with the urgent occasion your Majesty hath of greater Taxes than ever that Princes could pretend to; for it is most plain beyond all contradiction, First, that Wars are now more chargeable in this Age than in that which she Reigned. Then it is plain, your Majesty hath had but little or no Assistance (the Dutch excepted) from any Protestant Prince, or any other Prince of the Confederacy; but you have been rather necessitated to help them; in the last place, your Majesty hath every year of your Reign, been obliged to have great Forces both at Sea and Land; the Charges of your Majesty's Predecessors have been for the most part Voluntary; their Soldiers fought upon these Terms, no Purchase, no Pay; and therefore the Subjects were not so much burdened by Foreign Wars, but they went forth to Conquer. Now its plain, that for a King to defend his own Realm and the Liberties thereof, is more Expensive than to Conquer other Prince's Countries, for the Conqueror would always pay himself and Army in his new Conquest: But Sir, that which is a wonder to me is this, that they should complain to King Lewis and King James of the greatness of the Taxes here; caughey think that although he should comply with them once more to Invade us, yet at the same time to charge your Majesty with that thing as a high Crime, must be an unmannerly Charge, since the French King himself doth the same every Year, by his own Arbitrary Despotic Power, that your Majesty hath only done by the Advice and Consent and Authority of a dutiful and loyal Parliament. But truly Sir, I must here acquaint your Majesty, that some People have condemned the French King and King James too, for giving Credit to these Conspirators; for first they ought to have considered, That none of the vain Pamphlets that either Ferguson or L'Estrange, or any of that rascally Crew ever writ, were ever able to shake the natural and dutiful Affections of our English Nation to your Majesty; and of this I am sure they have had sufficient Experience. In the next place, many of these Conspirators are Priests and Jesuits, more fit to manage a Pen than a Lance, to dispute of Philosophy, than to discourse of War; to have a low opinion of their own Parts, than to be prodigal in their Assurance; and let them say no more than what is true, and judge that to be the great truth that is best made out. In the last Place, if that those have not been of the Tribe of Levi, yet than they have been Fellows of desperate Fortunes, which they are ambitious to advance by Lies and the ruin of their Country.  
I do not wonder why they traduce and asperse your Majesty's Government, for they are and have been for many Years plotting your Ruin and Destr●●tion, both before and since you were our King; and the business is plain, that they can never hurt your Person, till they have destroyed your Interest, and have withdrawn a considerable Party from your Majesty, by which they may make a Stand; then they may possibly (if not discovered) make an attempt upon your Person, which they cannot do till your Interest is destroyed by their many traitorous Aspersions (and they believed) thrown upon your Majesty.  
Nay, though King Charles the Second did comply with them in many things; yet because he did not comply in every thing, they spared not him, but made it their business to traduce him; it is true, his Government was Censurable, because he complied not with the Terms and preserved not the fundamental Constitutions of an English Monarchy; therefore his Government was exposed to the Censure of some that opposed even his proceed, when they had liberty, as they were Members of Parliament, for they had just Ground to believe that he closed with the French Interest, against that of his own Kingdom, and with the Popish Party, in order to betray the Protestant Interest both at Home and Abroad; and the Conspirators they let lose their Tongues against him, because he was not wholly theirs, but ever and anon gave them the slip, by which they were disappointed in their Designs; therefore in a Letter of theirs to their Party in Scotland, they plainly say, That he was so addicted to his Pleasure, that he was not fit to Govern; and in another Letter they charge him with unsteadiness in his Resolutions as to Religion; and when they had a design to hasten his Exit, than they charge him with all the Falseness and Vileness that might be imagined to be in the worst of Men; so that your Majesty is not the only Prince that these Miscreants have Traduced: And truly it filled me with great Horror when I saw their Industry in dispersing their filthy and scandalous Libels against your Majesty and Government, it being the method of those Men first to beget a disaffection in your Subjects against your Majesty (if it were possible) that your Destruction might be the more easily accomplished by them, but your Majesty hath been very happy; for nothing these Villains could either Write or Speak, ever made the least impression upon the Hearts of your Loving Subjects; but on the other hand it filled them with Zeal against that party of Men, especially since they were so highly sensible of that Grace and Clemency by which their Lives had been continued to them, for we all know that this was not the first Conspiracy that they have been engaged in against your Majesty; I pray God it may be the last.  
Give me leave to put your Majesty in mind of a Passage in one of Mr. Coleman's Letters to the French King's Confessor which is this; he saith there. The Design prospered so well that he doubted not, but the Business would be manaaged to the utter ruin of the Protestant Party. So the design of these Cutthroats prospered so well, that they did not doubt but that in a little time their Business would be managed to the Destruction of your Majesty and your Protestant Subjects; for they carried on one Design to Murder your Person, and another to Invade your Kingdoms with a Foreign Force; and they were much in the right, for it would have been impossible for them to have Restored the Late King by an Invasion, and to have set up Popery and Slavery, without destroying a Protestant King and the Protestant Interest in England. All good Protestants I hope will find to their great Satisfaction, that these Traitors have brought Destruction upon themselves and their Party; and that not a Man of them shall Escape; for your Majesty's Proceed with such, will be as quick as their Gunpowder, and much more effectual: So that your humble Subjects may rejoice in your Majesty's Justice upon these Men, since Grace and Clemency could not Reform them.  
Sir, I was a Discoverer of a Conspiracy carried on by the Popish Party, for the Destruction of King Charles the Second, and your Majesty when Prince of Orange, and for the Subversion of the Government, and the Protestant Religion in England, and all over Europe; but it was my Misfortune to discover a Conspiracy to a King, that was engaged in every part thereof, but that of his own Life; and I met with such Opposition from the then Duke of York and his Conspirators, that it was scarce possible for me to have withstood it had not I had a more than an ordinary Presence of Mind to have supported me: This, Sir, I say, was my Case, yet notwithstanding all the Opposition I met with all, I gave the Popish Party such a deadly Wound, that they could not be cured of it, no not in the Reign of the late King, though they had all the Encouragement that Men could have, because the Villainy of that Party of Men stuck so upon the Minds of the People of England, that no Stone was left unturned to rid our Hands of them, and their Popish King, which was effectually done, when your Majesty undertook and completed the Deliverance of this poor bleeding Nation.  
Many Men have wondered that the late King when he was Duke of York, should have such an Ascendency over his Brother King Charles the Second; since it is well known that when King Charles was upon his return Home to enjoy his Crown, that the Duke of York, with the Queen Mother, was in a Conspiracy to have destroyed King Charles, to the end, that he, the said Duke of York, might have returned Home and enjoyed the Crown himself; the Lord Arlington discovered the same, and so the design was baffled, yet no Man was so much in favour as the Duke of York, and as a Testimony of the King's Grace and Favour; He was made Lord High Admiral of England, and held that Office till he openly refused the subscribing the Test, according to an Act made in the Year 1673: But he enjoying that great and mighty Office of Lord High Admiral of England for several Years; He obtained the King's Favour; the Court was at his Will and Commandment, either for love to him, or for fear of his Greatness and Authority: He so demeaned himself to the King his Brother, that that King would never believe that the great Interest that he had acquired by the Greatness of his Office should ever be abused to the prejudice of the Government; but for the King's Service and Benefit he increased the number of his Friends and Followers, by gratifying some with Naval Preferments, and others with Money, always employing his Purse, his Credit, and his Countenance for the strengthening his Party; and that in such a manner as that the King could not but perceive it, yet he so dissembled the Matter, and pretended to such a degree of Obedience and Affection to the King, and gratified him in his sinful Pleasures, that the King did not distrust his Proceed, and that he might continue in the King's Favour, he made it his business as much as in him lay to comply with his Humours and Humane Frailties: And when he was forced to lay down that great Office, by reason of his refusal of the Sacramental Test , he obtained of the King, that his Friends and high Church Conspirators might be put in Commissioners of the Admiralty in his place, he made all the Ministers of state sure to him, so that when he was banished into Flanders, a first and a second time, and after his return he procured that the Duke of Monmouth should be banished the Court, he judging him to be his Enemy, and then his Conspirators endeavoured not in vain to keep the said Duke of Monmouth in discredit with the King: But the than Parliament being sensible of the dangerous Conspiracy against the Protestant Religion, and the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom, and the King's Person, carried on by the Popish Party, and finding that the Duke's being a Papist had encouraged them in that Hellish Plot, they having great hopes of his coming such to the Crown, they fell upon the Duke, and to prevent the Storm from falling upon the Duke, the King sends him into Scotland, after that he had bridled and saddled that Kingdom in some measure to his Heart's content: He applies himself to his Friends to procure his return, he is accordingly permitted to return, to the great Joy of his Party: He fawns upon the King's Whore that he kept in the Matted Gallery at White hall, and who he created Duchess of Portsmouth, who had a great Interest in the King, and obtained at first or last whatsoever pleased her of the King, that whosoever he was (were he never so high in the King's Favour) that displeased her in time lost the King's good Will and good Opinion; this Duke carried himself so towards her, that he seemed to affect nothing more than her good liking, and yet not so desirous thereof as that he would wholly depend thereupon, knowing that the King although he always attributed much to this infamous Whore, and was pleased that she was Reverenced and Respected, yet he could not well bear that her good Will should be sought above his own Royal Favour: But the Duke did continue his Friendship with her, hoping in time to command them both; and when ever he found any of the King's Ministers not throughly complying with him, and not ready to follow his Designs, he laboured by all means to have them removed and others put in their Places, who would not fail him in his wicked Designs and Purposes, nor to depend wholly upon his Favour, and also to make him privy (if need were) to whatsoever Business and Affair of State they were commanded by the King to dispatch; whereby he came (though he were out of the Council upon the same account as he had left the Office of Lord High Admiral) to the perfect knowledge of all that was purposed and determined by the King's Privy Council; and he was in such Favour and Credit, that even the principal Officers about the King, either for Fair or Love, or by other men's Examples, submitted themselves wholly unto his Devotion; and he had such Interest in the King's Court and Courtiers, that all, or most part of them, seemed to be at his sole Disposition, and to affect him more than the King himself. He having Installed himself in this manner in the Court, and in a great measure withdrew the Hearts of the principal Officers thereof from their Duty and Love to their King: He thought it also not enough to be invested in their Favours, but all the endeavours were used that he might have the Affections of the Common People; to procure this, he obtains the help of a filthy Strumpet called High-Church, whose Blasphemous Preachers of Passive-Obedience and Nonresistance, did him mighty Service in order thereunto: And what Feasting there was provided for the Apprentices of the City of London, who were a sort of young Men who were to be by his Conspirators debauched in order to his Service; and by the great promises of his Grace and Favour he easily and quickly persuaded the Conspirators to favour his Cause and Conspiracy: Nay, all the legal Force throughout the Kingdom, from the Lord Lieutenant of a County, to a Deputy Lieutenant, and Captains, Lieutenants, and Ensigns and Sergeants, were all and every of them his Creatures; the Justices of Peace and Sheriffs were his Admirers, and the Custom-house and Excise were all at his Devoir, from one end of the the Kingdom to the other; and generally Vintners and Ale-drapers were of his Interest; and so was old L'Estrange the Guide, and his little Scoundrel Clergy of the Church; by which means many of the Common People were so ready, willing, and desirous to perform and accomplish his Pleasure, as that in respect of their Obedience to him, he seemed, to lack nothing but the name of a King, to be one. Notwithstanding the great Honour and Reverence the Court shown him in the Reign of his Brother, and the Love and Affection the Commonalty did bear him; the nearness of his relation to the King, and the mighty Interest he had, and the unaccustomed Authority he had in so sly a manner Usurped, the high Attempts and Imaginations he had lodged in his Heart, and the great Opinion he had of himself, yet he was so far from appearing puffed up with Pride and Disdain to those that were much below him, that he thought not scorn to give Audience to the meanest Man that had business with him.  
Now, how could a Man of my Circumstances, having provoked him by the Discovery of the Hellish Conspiracy, carried on by him and his wicked Popish Party, and Popishly affected, stand against such a Man of such an Interest; for he and his Party when they could not hurt me by their Subborned Witnesses against me, not only to destroy my Reputation, but my Life? Then they procured King Charles to take away my Maintenance and Protection; and this angry Duke he Sued me for charging him to be reconciled to the Church of Rome, and then Suborned Witnesses against me, and procured me in his Brother's Reign to be Indicted of two pretended Perjuries; but he being impatient in his Expectation, he snatched the Crown from his Brother's Head, and mounted the Throne, and then he and his Popish Witnesses, his Packed Juries, and Impudent, Lawless, Senseless and Mercenary Judges completed my Ruin; and I must have been destroyed, had not God by your Majesty's coming to England rescued me beyond all Expectation.  
Give me leave Sir, with the humblest Submission to your Majesty, to observe, that where there is a Subject of such Credit with the King, of such Authority with the Court, and such Power in every County of the Kingdom, as the Duke of York had when he was a Subject, and to have such an Interest in the Church and Civil Government, and Military Employments, and Naval Preferments: Can it be possibly hard or difficult for him to insult over and suppress those Truths I then Revealed, for the service and preservation of the Religion, Laws and Liberties of my Native Country, against him and his numerous Party. And how much more was it easy for him to destroy me when he had the Crown itself upon his own Head? But above all, Great Sir, how can it be, that such a Subject, perverted to such a Villainous Religion, should not be most dangerous to his Prince and Country? And to what a lamentable State and Condition he brought it when he had Possession? your Majesty well knows.  
It was therefore high time for the Protestants of this Kingdom to implore your Majesty's Aid and Help in that Hour of Distress, that the Nation was brought to, by that unhappy Person, and his wicked Accomplices; and blessed be God, for putting it into your Royal Heart to come over to us, and to bring along with you a Force sufficient to defend your Person from him, and his Conspirators; and though he and they would have insinuated, that your Majesty came to Conquer us, and Enslave us; and notwithstanding the villainous Scribbling of some that would to this day assert your Majesty's Title to be by Conquest. We that are Protestants, do from the bottom of our Hearts believe, That your Majesty had no other design in your Royal Undertaking, but to procure a settlement of Religion, Liberty and Property of the People of this Nation, on so sure a Foundation that there might be no danger of this Nation's Relapsing into the like Miseries at any time hereafter: And for the Justice of your Cause, your Majesty may appeal to God, and to all Protestant Kings, Princes, States and People, in bringing a Force sufficient to suppress the Conspirators and their damnable hellish Conspiracy: And with the like Justice your Majesty then might require and adjure all English Protestants to assist you against those Enemies of God, his Christ, his Gospel, and the Rights of this Nation and Liberties of Mankind. And your Majesty might with the like Justice have Punished those as Banditi and Freebooters, and common Rogues and Traitors to their Country, that should have appeared to Oppose your Majesty in so Glorious a Work you had undertaken for the Rescuing three Kingdoms out of the Jaws of Hell, Rome, and France.  
Since God engaged me in asserting the Laws and Liberties of England, and the Protestant Religion, and in discovering the Malicious and Hellish Designs of the Popish Party against us, the Opposition of that Party and the Passive-Obedience and Nonresistance Clergymen grew strong and thick upon me, and how those Varlets run in with the Popish Party, together with their Guide, Sir Roger L'Estrange, to decry the discovery of the Popish Plot, and would to this day decry by the very same Method they then used, the present Discovery of this Hellish Design against your Majesty's Royal Person, and the Religion and Government of this Nation, if they had but hopes to go off with Impunity, and by your Majesty's leave I dear challenge any of these Men to tell me what particular there was by me discovered, that did not in process of time come to pass: It will be to tedious to recite all particulars of the discovery of the Popish Plot, that did come to pass, and from the dismal and sad Consequences of that Conspiracy your Majesty under God hath delivered us, or else these Villainous Traitors would insult, and ask why and to what end your Majesty exposed your Royal Person in your late Glorious Undertaking, in the Year 1688?  
The evil usage I have had from our Popish high Church, Non-juring Conspirators, hath so hardened and enured me to suffering, that I praise God, who hath taught me some weak Rudiments of his heavenly Art, of drawing Light out of Darkness for mine own use; I have not been trampled upon for so many Years to so little purpose as to remain yet either ignorant or insensible of mine own Vileness, and to what Element I am nearest allied, or so tender or querulous as either to complain of the weight of those who still go over me as the Stones in the Street, or to project the suffering of any Man in order to please or solace myself, my long Deprivation and want of respects from some that should have treated me as a Christian, a Gentleman, and a Presbyter of the Church of God, is now turned into an Athletique habit, some what after the manner of those, who through long Fasting lose their Appetites, and withal either Contract or find an Ability or Contentedness of Nature, to live with a little or no Meat afterwards; I can, through the Strength of Christ, suffer myself to be oppressed, and from my poor Dunghill whereon I sit, behold both Friends and Enemies, that with much Contentment, and sufficient Enjoyment of myself, partaking of the good Things of this Life, the more, because that God still preserves your Royal Person from the Attempts that the Traitorous Conspirators have so often made to destroy You and the Nation, from the intended Invasion by our implacable Enemies, that would destroy and enslave us.  
Next to Christ and this Truth, I shall, with the utmost Breath and Power I have, according to my Oath and Duty, in what Place and Station soever I am, endeavour to be found Loyal and True to your Majesty, as my Rightful and Lawful Sovereign Lord and King, as all good Subjects and Christians ought to be; and I cannot forbear, out of the great and sincere Zeal and Affection that I bear to your Majesty; bless God for the great Concord there is between your Majesty and Protestant Subjects, which your Majesty hath found to have turned to a good account to your Ease, Comfort and Peace, in the managing your Affairs of Government both in Church and State, and it is a great Comfort to your good People to see your Majesty relying upon your two Houses of Parliament, for your necessary Ease and Help in this day of your Just War with the French Nimrod, and Destroyer of Mankind.  
It was a great Blemish in the two last Reigns to those two Kings, for that rather than they would trust in a Parliament, according to the fundamental Constitution of this Realm, they chose rather to follow the Advice of their never to be forgotten corrupt Ministers of State, who pretended great Loyalty to those Princes in their several Reigns, or rather Compliance with the Humours and Humane Frailties of those two Monarches; but they were neither true to those Kings nor their Country, or themselves herein, for they erected and preferred an Imperial Paramount, Self-end or Lust, before all which those two Kings were brought unworthily to serve and promote to the disturbance of the Public Peace and Welfare of the Nation. It was a false Suggestion that those Conspirators did use to those Kings, that a King that Rules by his Will is more great, glorious, or strong, than a King that Rules by Law, the quality of the Retinue, best proves the State of the Lord, the one being but a King of Slaves, while the other, like God, is a King of Kings and Hearts, notwithstanding that Hellish and Traitorous Doctrine, made such an Impression upon the Hearts and Souls of those Princes, that nothing prevented them from putting that sort of Doctrine into Practice; but the want of a competent Stock, with which they would have certainly set up the Trade, especially since they saw the Example of such an Ally, whose Interest, and theirs was all one; but God that hath preserved your Majesty in so many Dangers, hath also preserved you from such wicked Councils and Councillors too, which is a great Specimen of your long and happy Reign over us.  
Sir, my Pen hath transgressed the Line and Law of my Intentions, these confined me to a much narrower Compass in this my Epistle Dedicatory to your Majesty, and prohibited me the troubling your Majesty to such a degree as now I have done; the truth is, my Zeal, Duty, Loyalty and hearty Affection to your Majesty hath interposed and occasioned this Transgression. Your Majesty knows that Love is bountiful, and I trust, will produce a Pardon from your Majesty, as it hath brought forth this Transgression from me, in which I have with all my Heart designed nothing but what may be consistent with your Service and Interest: And, I must say thus much, that your Majesty being thus often marked out for Destruction by these Conspirators, shows, that your Majesty is neither a Friend to these Men, nor their Principles, either in Religion, or in Politics; and that we ought to make use of it as a proof of your Majesty's Affections to the English Nation, and as an acknowledgement thereof, by me be pleased to accept of this poor Endeavour of mine, and give me leave in all Humility, to lay these Papers at your Royal Feet: Many of your Loyal Subjects are capable of presenting your Majesty with what is more Suitable to the greatness of your Understanding; but nothing can be laid before you that may satisfy your Majesty of the truth of those things which these Conspirators stood guilty of for these twenty Years last passed, and have now given your Majesty a plain demonstration how Restless they have been, and still are, notwithstanding all the Arguments of Grace and Mercy that have been used to reduce them to Reason and Obedience.  
There is now no more danger (if your Majesty pleases) from these Men that have Conspired against your Life; for the danger of Conspiracies lies in being Concealed; none ever Perished by a detected Plot, but such as have abandoned themselves to be Destroyed; and this was the Case of Charles the Second; he chose rather to desert himself and Safety, rather than the Discoverer should not be exposed to the implacable Malice of those who Conspired against his Person and Government. But Sir, with your Majesty it is clear another thing, you will let the World know that you are not joined in this Conspiracy by any Personal Accession, as that unhappy Prince was in that that was against him. Therefore Sir, it is passed the Malice and Strength of your Adversaries, either to destroy your Royal Person, or subvert your Government: Besides Sir, your Majesty using those Endeavours that becomes so great a Prince, to have these Conspirators farther detected and brought to Justice, puts your Majesty within the promise of the immense Wisdom and Almighty power to interpose, to save and preserve you.  
I have great grounds of assurance that your Majesty is fully satisfied of the Duty and Affection of your ever dutiful and Loyal Protestant Dissenting Subjects, who have been for many Years Persecuted for the Testimony of a good Conscience, in the two last Reigns, for no other reason but because they would not part with their Civil Rights as English Men, nor their Spiritual Rights as Christians, to these Murderers of the Soul and Body of the Nation. Nevertheless, in the two late Reigns they continued more quiet under their many and great Persecutions and Oppressions, than the Conspirators did under their daily Favours and Caresses. The Principles of your Dissenting Subjects teach them to obey a Lawful Authority, whilst the Principles of these High-Church, Non-Juring and Popish Cutthroats, carry them on to Murder Kings, and Invade their Countries with a Foreign Force and Power. They could not find one of these Loyal Men that would so far undervalue themselves as to have the least acquaintance with these Villainous Cutthroats, much less to engage with them in such a barbarous Design; and no Man questions, but that your Majesty will now put a distinction between those Men who would (if they might) serve your Majesty, and those who would have Traitorously destroyed your Person and subverted your Government, by introducing Popery and Slavery among us.  
That your Majesty may long Live, to assert and preserve Laws; the Laws of the most High God in your own Soul to your Eternal, and the Laws of the Land to the Temporal high Peace and Felicity of your Majesty and People, and abound in all the Blessings of this and the other Life, Health, Grace, Wisdom, Wealth, Power and Victory over all your Enemies, both at home and abroad, shall ever be the Prayers of  
Great SIR, Your Majesty's most Humble, most Loyal, and Dutiful Subject and Servant, TITUS OATS.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉: Or, The Picture of the Late King JAMES.  
SIR,  
THE Kingdom in general, and myself in particular, having received so many endearing Obligations from you, and your Partisans, that I judge myself concerned to take notice to you, and your Friends at St. Germains, That since you left us, or rather, by the Just Judgement of Heaven, that the Kingdom was departed from you; you were pleased not to forget us, but from Year to Year, till 1693. you were pleased to bless your old Friends with a Declaration, or Letter, in which you were pleased to express yourself in a different stile: In some of your Papers you writ your Heart and Soul in words at length, and not in figures; then it's your pleasure that we are to know to what we are to trust when ever you shall return to your Native Country, and enjoy your pretended Right. Sometimes you intimate, as if England were to be the Field of Blood, and that Man, Woman, and Child, should be a Sacrifice to your Revenge, which made your little scoundrel Party here to prick up their Ears, and look as if a Leg or an Arm were not sufficient to appease your Wrath; or a Cart's Arse, or a Pillory, could not make satisfaction to yourself, and Party, for the wrong you, and your Friends, have suffered from us; nothing less than death and damnation of the Honest Nobility, Gentry, and Commons of England, can atone for the delivering themselves from your Tyranny, and the Oppression they suffered from you, and you Insolent Party: Nay, the poor Fishermen, men of Feversham, must not escape your Fury, and Vengeance. But in your latter Papers you are pleased to express yourself in softer terms; and the Vengeance threatened in one Year's Papers is hushed up, and fairly laid to sleep; and, I remember, in the last you are pleased to give us a French Grimass, and smile upon us, as if you were made up of nothing but Grace, Mercy and Peace, and unparallelled Humility, in order to create in us a good thought of the bitterness of death being past, notwithstanding you have in some of your former Papers given us to understand, That in regard you have sustained such Affronts from the People of England, you might justly have proceeded severely with us; yet in your younger Papers you think fit by a more gentle Method to use means to regain us to yourself, which is the first Born of all the Cunning you, and your Friends at St. Germains, have been pleased to bless this Nation withal.  
But, Sir, it hath been your will and pleasure not to give yourself the trouble of emitting any more Declarations of your good Intentions towards us for these two or three Years last passed; therefore I do think fit to acquaint you, and your Trusty Friends and Councillors at your Court at St. Germains, that are now with you (for I understand some of your old Partisans have) sometime since left you) that you must have but a very mean and low opinion of the English Nation, if you think ever to return hither again upon the strength of your last Bantering Paper, called, A Gracious Declaration to all your loving Subjects: For the People of England have not forgot, but very well remember, That for divers Years in the Reign of King Charles the Second, your dear Brother, that there was a horrid Design carried on by him, yourself, and your Party, to change the Lawful Government of England into an Absolute Tyranny, and to convert the Established Protestant Religion into downright Popery, than both which there can be nothing more destructive, and contrary to the Law and well-being of this Nation: And whilst you yourself was pleased to usurp the Throne, these Three Kingdoms were highly sensible with what violence you and your wicked Party overthrew our Laws, Liberties, and Religion; and what Ruin and Vengeance attended these poor Nations, notwithstanding all your Oaths and Promises made to the contrary, in Council, and in a Packed Parliament, that met in May 1685. which as bad as it was, it could not keep pace with you, and your Popish Cutthroats, in your Intentions of enslaving the People of these Kingdoms, and of totally overturning our Laws, Liberties, and Religion.  
Before I begin my designed Method of laying before you, yours, and the Practices of your Accomplices, to put you in mind of some Passages in your Brother's Reign, of which the Parliaments of England had just cause to complain, as worthy of your Consideration; and when they did address, they found it was to very little, or no purpose; for no redress could be obtained from him: And by whose Advice and Counsel such Misdemeanours were committed, yourself can best tell that it was yourself.  
King Charles the Second was no sooner restored, but contrary to the Expectation of all those good men that were the Instruments of his Restauration, they found to their sorrow, 1. That Justice was corruptly administered, and Offices appertaining to Justice dearly bought and sold. 2. Benefices and Ecclesiastical Dignities unworthily collated upon Men that deserved no other Titles than of common Rogues and Cheats; Men that were many of them unskilful in the Word of Righteousness, and others that were Persons of unsound Principles, and of worse Morals; their Doctrines tending highly to enslave the Nation, and their Morals to debauch it. This was the Advice of an old Friend of yours, and a great-Prop of the Church of Rome, Cardinal Mazarine, whose Counsel and Advice it was, To debauch the Kingdom of England, and make them Atheists, and then they would be soon good Papists. This was in the Year 1654. at which time you, and your Party, were but at a low ebb; but how much you pursued the Counsel of the old Cardinal, I leave all reasonable and  Men to judge; and how your sneaking Eccleastical Parasites contributed towards it. It is plain enough to any man that will look back into those Times, There was one Jones, your Chaplain, who you ruined, because he would have contributed to the advancing the Protestant Religion in your Family, according to his Office and Calling of a Minister in the Church of God. You may remember by whom Bishoprics, and other Ecclesiastical Dignities, were thus procured truly by your Popish self, and Popish Whores; Popish Pimps, and Popish Bowds; and not without Money, or some Promise to favour your Catholic Designs; and how they suffered your quondam Consort to apostatise to the Church of Rome, it is well known. But they poor Prelates are gone to their Places, and there let them remain till God shall reckon with them and others of that Oorder; for betraying of God's Cause, which they pretended to espouse, though in truth they were Enemies to him and his Gospel.  
3. In the third place, They saw new Impositions daily invented and levied, and the Public Treasure of the Nation, and the Revenues, prodigally consumed. Sir, you know, how 200000 l. was spent, and in order to what; and the Parties that received the same were in a Conspiracy against our Laws, Liberties, and Religion: And did not you yourself join in the wasting of the King's Treasure; and procured great Sums of Money to be issued out of His Majesty's Exchequer to keep your Priests, Jesuits, Monks, and to find your Irish Officers with Subsistence-money, till that you should have occasion to make use of them for those Ends and Purposes that might advance your Cause and wicked Purposes against the English Interest, and the Protestant Religion. Well therefore might you, in your Speech to the Council, Feb. 6. 1684. call Charles the Second your kind and loving Brother; for he joined with you in those wicked Designs and Purposes which you were carrying on to destroy and enslave us, and too often took your Faults upon himself, to screen you from the public Justice of the Nation.  
4. They saw old Officers unjustly displaced, and men of base Quality unworthily advanced, by which Contrivance you, Sir, may very well remember, you created a great disaffection in the King's best Friends, both of the old Nobility and Gentry, and others that had espoused the King, your Brother's Quarrel, upon just English Principles; and chose rather to advance a parcel of base Irish Papists, and vile Frenchmen, to the great discouragement of the English, and those that hearty would have served the King, your Brother, upon English Protestant Principles. It is well known, that some of those you preferred were so insolent, that when they came to have, and enjoy great Places in the Ministry of King Charles the Second Government, that they assumed to themselves, by your direction, the Regal Power; treating in Matters of War and Peace with Foreign Ministers and Ambassadors; giving Instructions to the said King Charles' Ministers abroad, without communicating them to those that aught to have been privy to the same, contrary to Law; and all this I can prove hath been done by your direction. How many honest Old Servants were displaced by the influence you had on the King, your Brother, some are yet alive to tell; especially those who were well affected to the Protestant Religion, and in Parliament had appeared for the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom, in opposition to Popery and Slavery.  
5. They saw King Charles the Second carried away with Vanities, and wholly governed by his Whores. You may remember, that some of those Whores you yourself put upon him; as Jenny Roberts, who was in part kept by you as a Spy upon him; and for this end, at your Command she turned Papist; and when she could be of no use to you, nor was constant to King Charles, you and he put her off, and left her to starve: Cleveland and Porismouth, two Metropolitan Whores that governed him as they pleased; and what Sums of Money (through the ascendency they had over him) they obtained from him, I shall not need to tell you; and how many Bishoprics they disposed of, we have not forgotten: And in all this, Sir, it is plain, you promoted them to advance your Cause and Interest.  
6. He entered into a League with England's morta● Enemies the French; and such strong Alliances were made with that Savage Prince, and Nimrod of Europe, by which means we were hurt in our Trade, and impaired in our Riches and Greatness; and to effect this Work, what Arts and Contrivances you and your Conspirators did use, by introducing French Whores, French Fashions and Customs, and French Officers, and French Servants, whom we have nourished and cherished with all the Caresses imaginable; and to the meanest Valet de chamber, or Contemptible Lackey or Fiddler, who pretended to be but alamode de France, your Parasites paid more respect to, than to our brave Englishmen; nay, so amorous too had your fine, but (debauched) Ladies been of a French Kick shaw, that they have even hugged them in their very Bosoms; and have lamented the loss, though but of the meanest French Skips; witness the Tears that fell from divers great Personages of the Feminine Sex, that on their Knees made supplication for that insipid High way-man Du Vall, who at last, though with great difficulty, was hanged at Tyburn for Robberies committed on the Highway. It is true, he was a man of excellent Parts, and singular Learning, only he could neither Write nor Read.  
But had this been all, I should not have mentioned this Particular. There wae more in this then some unthinking men at that time were ware of; for you, and your Accomplices made further steps to maintain this strong Alliance with the French, our mortal Enemies; for you did not only introduce the Modes and Customs of France amongst us, but the Yoke of France that must be put on too. I have heard of a cer certain Knight, called Sir James— that in a Coffe-house was heard to say, That it would never be well in England, till our King was as Absolute as the King of France. He was an Alderman of London, and, Sir, your very humble Admirer; and at that time you had made a very gracious promise to him of obtaining of your Brother the great Park near Dublin for him, for the great Services he had done yourself, and the French Interest: And truly, Sir, he hath deserved that Boon at your hands, were it but for the aforesaid wise Saying of his; and had that Rascal had but Brains suitable to his Impudence, a man might easily have taken him for one of the Chief of the Conspirators with yourself, against the Religion, Laws, and Liberties of the People of England: This Fellow, I say, was an Alderman of London, and his Residence was in the City; but by his Discourse a man would have sworn he had always lived with your Conspirators at St. James', or at Whitehall, or with the French Tailor, an old Companion of yours, who thanked God, That his great King of France could send for his Head, and his Estate, when he pleased.  
Blessed be God, Sir, your Residence is in that sweet place of St. Germains, where you enjoy yourself, and Friends, in a most comfortable manner; and you have your health as well as if you had 100 Sail of Ships at your Devotion, and an Army of 50000 men, which is a mercy. I pray, let me ask you, What sort of People are your French Neighbours? Is there not such a slavish temper in those poor Wretches as is astonishing?  
Just to such a slavish and knavish Temper you were about to bring the People of this Nation to; your Conspirators had made a considerable progress in this mighty Work; and had not Divine Providence interposed, you had completed the same: Your Party, to complete this Work, found out the only true way, which was first to enslave our Souls, by subjecting them; and our Reason, to the blind Superstition of the Church; for that Priest craft having once so far won upon Englishmen, as to make them trust and pin their Faith and Reason upon their Sleeves, they may after that bring them to any thing that they shall direct; and therefore, as in your Day, so in all Ages heretofore, nothing did show more the Cunning of your Banditti, than to drive on these two together, Popery and Slavery; only sometimes they have driven on the one by the other; sometimes Popery led the Van to bring on French Slavery, and sometimes French Slavery led the Van to bring on Popery. Your Friends well knew that Popery and Slavery, like two Sisters, they go hand in hand; sometimes one goes first, and sometimes the other: In England your Council resolved that Popery was to bring in Slavery; in Scotland, Slavery was to have brought in Popery; and this was done by our Priests blind admonition to the people, of obedience to our Governors, be it good they command, or be it evil; whatever they command, it must be obeyed: And what Nation soever came under the misfortune of being robbed of their Rights and Liberties, it was chief brought to pass by Priest-craft, in preaching up blind obedience, and extolling Vicious Kings, and calling them excellent, though the vilest of Tyrants, who were riding Post to swallow them up: This was the Practice of our Pulpit-hunters in the time of the Reign of your Brother, and in the beginning of your Usurpation of the Government; and so they would have done to this day, had not the Tythe-pig been in danger: Nothing, I say, contributed more to the confirming and establishing the late King your Brother's Alliances with France, as that progress your Priests and Jesuits made in perverting the people, as to their Religion; and our Ecclesiastical Brokers debauching their Morals by their immorality, and looseness of living, and enslaving their minds by their damnable Doctrines of Passive Obedience, and Nonresistance, and the Divine Right of Succession to the Imperial Crown of the Realm.  
7. He being fully resolved to follow his Pleasure, he left the Administration of the Three Kingdoms to yourself, and Cutthroat Party, who were Enemies to the people of England, and were in a damnable Conspiracy against his person and Government, and the Protestant Religion. That he was resolved upon his Pleasures, you, nor no man can deny; and that you had the ascendency of him, it is too plain and manifest to admit of the least doubt or scruple: But that which was most wicked, you kept him plied with those vile Wretches, who promoted that Vice in him. And though he was the vilest of all the Kings that went before, for his many Immoralities; yet how did his Ecclesiastical Parasites flatter him, and admire him as a Prince of the greatest Virtues; a King of Peace (they called him) and a King of Righteousness.  
I am sure he engaged the Government in two unjust Wars against the Dutch; and thanks be to God, he was by them worsted in both those Wars; and it proved fatal to the Conspirators; for the great Design of ruining the Dutch, was the advancement of Popery and Arbitrary Power here in England, which you durst not attempt till they were weakened; you fearing their joining their Forces together to rescue us from your damnable Designs against our Religion, Laws and Liberties, as you know they did, and that to very good purpose; the effects of which will not be gotten out of your old Bones as long as you live.  
Before I conclude this Head, give me leave, Sir, to observe, that whilst the King, your Brother, was swallowed up in his Pleasures, you, and your Minions, did make it your business to beget in the people a low opinion of the method of Governing; and by your Priests (you taking opportunity, by reason of our then villainous Caterpillars of the Church countenancing it in a very high manner) to beget in the people a mean opinion of the Protestant Religion, and Interest; and you may remember you gained not a few to your Party: Therefore, when we consider our danger, we cannot but be astonished at our deliverance: For had your Banditti been avowed Papists, our danger might more easily have been conquered; for some, nay the most of them, when the Test came in force, quitted their Employment at Court; amongst them, Sir, your sweet self quitted the Office and Title of Lord High Admiral of England; but, Sir, you had gotten a Crew about you, that did undertake with you, to ruin and destroy the Government, which lay under no temptation of Religion; these joined their Forces and Interest against King and Kingdom, and truly, I think, our greatest danger was from them.  
You having this fair opportunity of your Brother's being so addicted to his Pleasures, and he leaving the Administration of Affairs to you, and your Hellborn Crew; it was a great wonder you did not strike sooner, and leap into the Chair an Age or two before the time you did: It's certain you came not in without Murder, and Murder would have been but Murder if it had been done ten or a dozen years before. Truly, though you had Villains that one would have thought were bad enough, yet you had not enough for so black a Design, as the overthrow of the Government, and the Protestant Religion; they were not, I say, ripe enough; your Popish Party at home were keen enough, but they wanted a good back to their edge; therefore, Sir, you fearing your strength at home, you applied you self abroad to the French King, he being endowed with all those Qualities, which in a Prince may pass for Virtues, but in any man of a private Station, they would be capital: He being a Champion for Popery and Arbitrary Power, with him you joined to ruin the Government, and the Protestant Religion, your damnable Conspiracy being a Project every way suitable to the Inclination and Interest of that Bloody Monster of Mankind. You may remember the Traitorous Correspondencies you maintained with him, and he with you, by your most Excellent Secretary Coleman, who you honestly left to be hanged for that great piece of secret Service he did you in that time.  
8. We well remember how careless he was in the maintenance of our Religion. Truly when Princes are given up to their Pleasures, it is no great matter what Religion they profess; you may well call to mind what breaches you and your Party made upon our Religion through his carelessness and remissness; how you advanced the Popish Interest, and discountenanced the Protestants; and as your Secretary Coleman observed, that you would not forget the Tricks the Parliament of England had played with you; so we cannot but remember what Tricks you played with us; for it is plain, that there was not a considerable Preferment in the Church that fell, but either he that was preferred was one of no Religion, or else that which was worse, he was a person that engaged in your unrighteous Cause and Quarrel.  
Sir, by your means, and the means of your Partisans, such men were made use of in the Church, that through the ignorance and insufficiency of some of them, and oscitancy and remissness of others, to whom the Guardianship of her was committed, our Religion and Worship became lamentably dismantled, misfigured and defaced, and this well nigh in all the integral and principal parts of it (more or less); insomuch, that a man that understands the Doctrines, and holy Intentions of our first Reformers from the Synagogue of Rome, and shall compare things with things, could, nor yet can hardly be able to say this is the Protestant Religion.  
But how can any man wonder that King Charles the Second should be careless in the support and maintenance of our Reformed Religion, since that he was in his heart and soul engaged to the Doctrines and Communion of the Church of Rome; witness his being reconciled to that Church by Father Richard Huddleston, who was related to John Huddleston, of whom the said King Charles had such a tender care; and not only so, but Received the Sacrament from Father Ireland the Jesuit, in the Duchess of Portsmouth's Lodgings, and the same day afterwards he received it according to the Usage of the Church of England, it being the Sunday called Easter-day. In the last place, witness those Papers that were found under his own hand in his Strong Box, all which testify his inclinations were bend that way; and therefore how can any man wonder at his being careless of supporting the Protestant Religion.  
Nay, Sir, I must not forget one Instance more of his being of the Romish Persuasion; that is, that most Excellent Memorial that he put in by his Protestant Envoy to the Court at Poland; wherein there was a passage to this effect, That he had a great Esteem of the Roman-Catholick and Apostolic Religion, as being most consistent with Monarchy; give me leave to Cite a passage of a Letter of his to the Governor of St. Omers, when it was by Conquest reduced to the Obedience of the French King; which was, That he should take care of the Jesuits according to the Contract he had made with his Master, they being men upon whom the hopes of England did depend.  
Give me leave, Sir, to put you in mind of his promises he made to the Jesuits in Spain after he was reconciled to the Church of Rome (upon their Contributing Three thousand Pistols for his support) of restoring the Catholic Religion when ever he should come to the Enjoyment of his Right in England; and not only to them, but to the Nuns in Ghent when he borrowed Money of them, for which they waited several Years; Then I say, he declared he would restore their Religion when ever he should come to his Right. When the Princess Henrietta came to Dover, you know what her Errand was to press the King to restore the Romish Religion here in England; and that the breach of the Peace with the Dutch was then and there contrived by you and your Conspirators and consented to by the King, and all in order to the reducing those State to the Catholic Faith: And it was determined to begin the Public Exercise of the Romish Religion in Ireland; and to facilitate that work, you may well remember who was sent over Lord Lieutenant. Upon all these Considerations a Man may not now wonder at King Charles' carelessness in the Support and Maintenance of the Protestant Religion.  
You well remember that you yourself and your other Conspirators had begot in the King your Brother a full persuasion of the Truth of this Proposition, That the roman-catholics were the greatest favourers of Monarchy; therefore in his Letter to the French King, bearing Date June 1676. that he resolved to be like his Neighbours in Religion; but you know that he was prevented by the Lord Arlington and the Parliament, for which you were pleased to tell Father Lacheise, in your Letter of July. 1676. that the Lord Arlington and others by a Thousand deceits endeavoured to break the good Intelligence that was betwixt the King, your Brother, and his most Christian Majesty, and yourself, to the end they might deceive you all Three; and therefore the Parliament, and the said Lord Arlington and his party were by you declared in that Letter as useless and dangerous, for that the said Arlington and his Friends did work incessantly to advance the Interest of the Prince of Orange and the Dutch, and to lessen the Interest of the French King. Now the King, your Brother, being a man unsteady in his resolutions, he sometimes failed your Brother of France, as well as yourself, and other Conspirators.  
9 We in his Life-time saw there was no likelihood of his having any legitimate Issue to Succeed him in the Government; Truly, Sir, I think I may say that was contrived by your Father Clarendon, and yourself, and in it you intended the hurt of the People of England; but God, who governs the World, hath made his want of legitimate Issue to be the greatest Blessing that ever England saw; for by that means we have a King that well knows that it is most certain and evident to all men, that the public Peace and Happiness of any State or Kingdom, cannot be preserved where the Laws, Liberties, and Customs Established by the Lawful Authority in it are openly Transgressed and Annulled; more especially when the alteration of Religion is endeavoured, and that a Religion which is contrary to Law is endeavoured to be introduced: Upon which, those who are immediately concerned in it are indispensably bound to endeavour to Preserve and Maintain the Established Laws, Liberties and Customs, and above all the Religion and Worship of God that is Established among them; and to take such an effectual care that the Inhabitants in that State or Kingdom may not be deprived of their Religion, nor of their Civil Rights, which is so much the more necessary, because the Greatness and Security both of Kings and Royal Families, and of all such as are in Authority, as well as the Happiness of their Subjects and People, depend in a most especial manner upon the exact Observation and Maintenance of these their Laws, Liberties, and Customs. This, Sir, is the Sentiment and Blessed Resolution of King William; and this he and his Ministers put in Execution, which is a blessed Change, which we could not have lived to enjoy, had Charles your Brother left any Issue behind him that had been capable of the Crown; but that which you contrived for our Mischief, is turned to our greatest Good, for we have the best of Kings upon the Throne, and the worst of Men taking of the Air at St. Germains.  
10. The late King Charles, your Brother, did obstinately refuse to enter into a League with those who intended to uphold and maintain the Protestant Religion: This I must say of the Dutch, that ever since they delivered themselves from the intolerable Yoke of the Crown of Spain, their great aim and design hath been to promote the Interest of the Reformed Religion, and have endeavoured to make Alliances with those Princes that were, and are of the Reformed Religion, and have endeavoured to make good these Alliances; but how King Charles your Brother, yourself, and the rest of your Partisans, treated the Dutch ever since his Restoration to the Crown, it is well known, and how he in the compass of Ten years made Two ungodly Wars; but as I said before, I must say again, The Dutch did most commonly send us home with broken bones. Our Cause was Wicked, and God gave us Success suitable thereunto; and for what ends and purposes these Wars were made, you, and your most Christian Brother can very well tell; but least, Sir, you should have forgotten those Wars, give me leave to give you a brief note of them.  
In the year 1665. it is well known that a War was made upon the Dutch; I could wish it were as well remembered what the provocation was that occasioned it, and what success it had. I think, Sir, as I said just now, the success was suitable; in the first fight you had the Command of the Fleet; and truly it was a Victory you obtained; but how came we of at Bergon, and how in the year 1666. when Monk had the Command? your Conspirators got vast supplies from your Band of Pensioners for the defraying the charge of this wicked War, yet after all there was no Fleet set out in the year 1667. but the Flower of the Royal Navy burnt or taken in Port to save charges; but you know your Brother and yourself had good health of Body at Bruxelles, when you had no Ships, and therefore you were the less concerned.  
But that which is the greatest Riddle to some of your Conspirators, Why the French should at that time a day join with the Dutch against England? Therefore be pleased to remember that the French did not join with the Dutch to Support and Maintain the Protestant Religion, or to advance the Interest of the Dutch; but whilst he was in Friendship with the Dutch, he had an interrupted leisure (tho' contrary to all Oaths and Treaties) whilst the Dutch and we were embroiled to Invade the Spanish Netherlands, which had been by Wise men considered as the natural Frontier of England, and took a great part of it. The Dutch could not oppose him because of the pretended Alliance; We could not interpose because we were engaged both against the Dutch, Dane, and France, so he went forth Conquering, and to Conquer that part of the Dominion of Spain, to whom, Sir, your Brother and yourself were very much obliged when never a Prince in all Europe durst own you, he did; and how basely your Brother, and yourself, and Conspirators have treated him, let all Europe judge.  
But what was the reason we had not a Fleet set out in the year 1667. since such large Supplies were obtained for to carry on this ungodly War against the Dutch? The reason was this; notwithstanding he had joined with the Dutch against us, yet by the Credit he had with the Queen your Mother, he by her so far deluded the King your Brother, that upon the assurance the Dutch would not have any Fleet out that year, he forbore to make ready, and so incurred that notable loss and disgrace at Chatham. This was the fatal end of all our Sea-undertaking against the Dutch for that War; and as the French King, and yourself, and Conspirators were the persons to whom we were much obliged for that War, so we were glad to receive Peace from his favour, which was agreed at Breda betwixt England, France, and Holland.  
Well, what was the Event of this Peace, which, if I am not out, we were forced to pay for it, for we stood in need of it, and the Dutch stood in need of our Money, which they had; but the Event of this War brought the King to some little consideration, of which he was seldom guilty, for he saw that the French King had in the year 1667. taken the time of us; and whilst we were both made weak, he had played his Pranks in the Spanish Netherlands, hereupon he judgeth it necessary to interpose before the flame that consumed his next Neighbour should throw its Sparkles over the Herring-Pond and affect him.  
Therefore, he having some good Counsellors about him (you may well remember, that neither you, nor your Conspirators, had any hand in this affair) he generously slighted all Punctilios of Ceremony, or Piques of Animosity, for being so well beaten, and so horribly disgraced: He sent first into Holland, and invites them to a nearer Alliance, and to enter into such farther Counsels as were most proper to quiet this public disturbance the French had raised. This work was wholly designed by the King, your Brother, and those few honest Counsellors he had left him; and it being so good a work, it did succeed; accordingly you by this, Sir, may see what felicity attends that King who follows the Counsels of Honest Wise Men, and excludes the corrupt Politics of Rogues that aim at nothing but the advancement of themselves and Families, tho' it be upon the ruin of their Country; for it is a thing scarce credible, tho' very true, that two Treaties of such Weight and Intricacy, and various aspect as that of the Defensive League with Holland, and the other for repressing of the further Progress of the French in the Spanish Netherlands, should in five days time in the year 1668 be concluded, when yours, and the Politics of your Conspirators were excluded. Such was the secrecy and expedition then used in prosecuting the King, your Brother's, Instruction; and so easy a thing it is for Princes when they have a mind to it, to be well served. You may remember that the Swede also shortly made the third in this Consort, whether wisely judging that in the Minority of their King Reigning over late acquired Dominions, it was their true Interest to have their hands in all the Councils that tended to Peace and Undisturbed Possession: Or whether indeed those Ministers, like ours, did even project in so glorious an Alliance to betray it afterward to their own greater advantage, from their joining in it, it was called the Triple Alliance; the King, you know, was so fond of it, that he ceased not to solicit other Princes, according to the Seventh Article of that Treaty, to come into the Guaranty of the same, and he extremely for a time delighted himself in cultivating by all good means what he by the Counsel of some good men had so happily planted; and what satisfaction this Triple League so made, gave to the English Nation, and how it did charm the more ready Votes of the House of Commons into a Supply, and justify the necessity of it in the very face of the whole Kingdom: For it was of so good report, and so generally acceptable to the Protestant Party, as being a Hook in the French Nostrils, that the Pensionary Parliament (who were wont, whether it were for War or Peace to make the Nation pay for it) could not have desired a fairer pretence to colour their Liberality.  
You know, Sir, what vast sums were obtained and lavished in the first War with Holland; that Parliament in the Month of April 1670. giving the Additional Duties upon Wines for eight years, which did amount to Five hundred and Sixty thousand pounds, and confirmed the sale of the Fee-Farm Rents, which was no less their gift, being a part of the public Revenue, to the value of Eighteen hundred thousand pounds; nay, not only so, but they met again upon the 24th of October in the year 1670. and upon the Speech of the Lord Keeper Bridgman, who telling the Parliament what a multitude of Beneficial Leagues the King had made, and naming to them the Triple League, they could no longer hold, gave again a Subsidy of One shilling in the pound, to the real value of all Lands, and other Estates proportionably, with several more Beneficial Clauses into the Bargain, to begin the 24th of June, 1671. and to expire the 24th of June 1672. together with this they gave the additional Excise upon Beer and Ale for Six years, to reckon the same from June the 24th. 1671. And lastly, the Law-Bill commencing from the first of May, 1671. and at nine years' end to determine. If you, now you are at leisure, will cast up these Three Bills, you will find them not a penny less than 2500000 l.  
Thus, Sir, you may see what a Reputation this Triple League gave the King, your Brother, both at home and abroad; at home this Triple League obtained a Triple supply, which some men thought would as with three Golden Nails have revetted it. All the Princes of Europe courted him abroad, and were highly pleased with it; the Emperor used all the pressing means that became him, that he might partake of the benefit of that Alliance, and was refused.  
The Duke of Lorain, who had been always a true Friend to your Brother, and yourself, and by his affection to the Triple League, did incur the displeasure of the French King, and lost his whole Territory: It was seized in the Year 1669. against all Laws, not only of Peace, but of Hostility too, because of his not being admitted into the Alliance; for which he had so great a regard, that the honour he had for it proved fatal to him; he was left by your means to be a Sacrifice, notwithstanding King Charles' Invitation of all Princes to come in; yet when they desired to be admitted, they were refused.  
But in a short time, all those Honest Counsels which had taken effect with so great satisfaction to the Nation, and to the great honour of your Brother, were all changed; just as if Treaties, as soon as the Wax is cold, do lose their virtue; the King, your Brother, went down to Dover in the Month of June, 1670. to meet, after a long Absence, Madam, his, and your only remaining Sister; and if the Duke of Buckingham and Sir Thomas Armstrong were alive, they could tell what a pleasant Meeting they had, and how pleasantly they passed the time of the interview; and what passed I shall not now relate, you knowing all of it well enough: But as the days were the more pleasant, because the King had not seen her for a long season; so the Interview proved fatal to that Princess; for though she left England in good health, yet upon her arrival in France, she suddenly expires.  
Well then, she dies, what was the consequence of her death? The Marquis Belfonds is immediately dispatched hither, and a Person of great Honour sent to the Court of France; and before ever the inquiry and grumbling at her death was over, in a trice there was an invisible League, in prejudice of the Triple one, struck up with France, to all the height and dearness of affection; as if upon diffecting the Princess, there had been some State-Philtre been found in her Bowels, or the Reconciliation with France were not to be celebrated with a less Sacrifice than the Blood Royal of England. The sequel of this Interview was fatal to the Princess; and the consequence of her coming was fatal to England; for as the Treaty was a work of darkness, and could not presently be discovered; so the Parliament, I told you, must meet again, to give a Triple Supply to maintain the Triple League; and they being ignorant of what was done, thinking all had been secure, gave the aforesaid supply.  
Sir, You got the Supply; what use did your Conspiritors make of it? Was not the Parliament prorogued, and met not again till the 4th of Febr. 1672. by which means you, and your Accomplices, had a convenient scope for the mighty work you had upon your hands to ruin the Protestant Religion, and the Professors thereof; and that you might be free from the inspection of a Parliament till this mighty Work was finished, I observed to you, That the King, your Brother, before the Interview, was inciting of the Princes to come into the Alliance, but from hence forward it ceased; and, as I said before, when any did offer themselves, they were basely refused.  
Oh! what joy, Sir, you, and the rest of the Conspirators, did conceive! with what diligence was Smith, the Jesuits Agent in London, dispatched over to St. Omers to acquaint your Friends there of the English Jesuits; and from thence to Douai, to acquaint the Crew there in what a happy way you were in to do the Catholic Religion service, and that the King was clearly come over; he having promised to do all things now that might tend to the destroying of the Interest of the Dutch, and to advance the Power and Interest of France; and if that the Triple League were once dissolved, the King, your Brother, would never more make any such Alliance with those Rebels. I have seen your Letters dispatched by the said Smith: You indeed, with the help of your Hellish Crew, your Brother being gained to your side in this particular you resolve upon the annulling of that Alliance, which was of very little use; for some time before it was totally dissolved.  
In order to the dissolving this Treaty, old Henry Coventry, one of your Conspirators, was dispatched to the Court of Sweden; and he with as much impudence as truth, affirmed at his departure, That the end of his Journey to Sweden was to break the Triple League; and this is apparent, that after his juggling with the French Ministers there, and the King of Sweden, the said King did never more prosecute the Design and ends of that Alliance, until the breach between us and the Dutch; What, did he arm himself at the expense of the League, and did first, under the disguise of a Mediation, act the French Interest, and at last he threw off the Vizor, and drew his Sword in their Quarrel.  
Truly, Sir, I cannot but admire how successful you were in gaining that great Point of ruining Europe in general, and this Nation in particular; by this way designing the utter subversion of the Protestant Religion, and all our English Liberties, as I shall show you in the sequel of this Memento: Nevertheless, I cannot but much more admire, that Mr. Coventry, that in his Embassy at Breda was so instrumental in putting a period to that first wicked and unfortunate War with the Dutch, should at length be made a Tool of a Second, and break such an Alliance as rendered England honourable to all Europe, and by which all Christendom was fastened: And that which rendered his Carriage in that Affair more vile and base, since no man understood the Theory and Practic of Honour better than himself, and yet could in so eminent an Instance forget it, and himself too, the employment being more fit for a Butler, or a Downing, or some such Dunghill Rascal; all that I shall say in his excuse, is, that upon his return he was made a Secretary of State by your procurement, for such a set of Devilish Services that he had done for the French King, the King your Brother, and yourself; by this means he had made a Triple Confederacy to ruin us, in opposition to a Triple League that might have preserved us, and all Europe in perfect peace. If my poor Judgement might pass, Mr. Conventry, if he had continued an honest Gentleman, he might have been an Instrument of good to Europe, and more honourable here at home.  
But this Gentleman was not the only Sinner that was employed in the Devil's Service; for Sir William Lockyard, and several others, were dispatched to other Courts upon the same Errand. This Lockyard was grown as great a Villain as your heart and soul could desire; and had in the basest manner prostituted himself to do your Popish Drudgery; and would have gone along with it to the utmost tedder of your Designs.  
Well then, what was next to be done? Your Designs looked with as fair an aspect as your heart and soul could desire: You had France, your Brother, and yourself, linked together, that a man would have thought you could not have been parted; what then is the next Intention? truly a War with the Dutch; and that you might reasonably expect, for all your Affairs were disposed towards it. Here, Sir, I must remind you of two things. 1. What you did to procure a War. 2. What you did to carry on that second wicked War.  
1. What you, and your Conspirators did, to procure a War with the Dutch. For it cannot be conceived, that after the King had made so firm a League with the States-General of the United Provinces, but that therefore you, and your Councillors must have some fair Pretence for breaking with them; or else to spill so much Blood, and spend so much Treasure without cause, must occasion your Neighbours to think you were men that would keep no Faith, or that you did not understand your own Interest; nay, they must have thought the same of all the English Nation; but that they well knew, that this second, as well as the first War, was against the Judgement, and Genius, and Interest of the Nation in general. But a War you would have: And therefore,  
1. You set up a Si quis, if any one could give Evidence for you, and the rest of the Conspirators, against the Dutch, let them come forth, and they should be heard; therefore an O yes was made, and the East-India Company was sent for, to know what they had to say against the Dutch; but the Dutch had so punctually performed the Treaty at Breda, and especially as to the honour of the Flag that nothing could be objected against them; so here you failed of your aims of picking a quarrel with them.  
2. You would have quarrelled with them for having their Fleet abroad; though that Objection vanished, their Fleet was upon their own Coasts, pursuant to the Triple League, and in prosecution of that Treaty; so, Sir, you failed here. But what then? you was resolved upon a War, and therefore you would not leave one Stone unturned, but you would find some cause or another to ruin, if it had been in your power, that Protestant State.  
3. You were put upon a third Experiment; to commence a War, and to make a Case which never happened before, or could have been imagined by any sober man, you had a pimping Yatcht, which you caused to bear an English Jack in the Month of August, 1671. which you ordered to sail into the midst of the Dutch Fleet, and singled out the Admiral, and shot twice at him; which Action was certainly very ridiculous and unnatural, as for a Lark to adventure upon a Hawk: Notwithstanding this impudent Action of the Commander of the Scoundrel Boat, the Admiral, in respect to his Majesty's Colours, paid our Yatch-Admiral a visit, to know the reason of such a Carriage, found it was because the Dutch had refused to strike Sail to his little Bum-boat; the Dutch Admiral excused the matter with all the civility that could be desired, it being a Case of the first impression; and therefore he could have no Instructions as to that Point; and therefore, as it became him, he promised he would acquaint his Masters in the Affair, and take their directions, and so they parted; and the noble Commander, with his Oyster Boat, returned, being fraught with the Quarrel for which he was sent, which yet was for some time passed over here in silence, without any complaint, or demand of satisfaction; but your Conspirators were resolved to improve it afterwards: When the Conspiracy against those Protestant States was ready to take effect, than this Point began to be debated, and a reason for the intended wicked War. The Conspirators assigned the Dutch had not vailed their Bonnets to the English Dung-boat, it carrying the King's most Excellent Jack; though it is plain, the Dutch had all along, both at home and here, as carefully endeavoured to give, as the Conspirators, that were Ministers, to avoid the receiving all manner of satisfaction: Nay, our Villains would not so much as let the States-General know what would be received and owned as satisfaction; nay, they were so afraid that the Dutch would comply in the business of the Flag, and by that means the Rogues should be disappointed of a hopeful War, the Clock was set forward some minutes; so that by their roguery they did happily obtain a War: And what joy there was at St. James', and amongst your Priests, some of whom were so drunk, that the news they wrote of this Breach with the Dutch in their Letters, could not be read: And it's well known, that upon the arrival of the News, Te Deum was sung very devoutly at the Queen's Chapel at St. James', and Money ordered by the Queen for to be distributed to poor Catholics; a token of Joy and Thanksgiving.  
4. Pictures and Medals, This was another Pretence which you, and your Banditti took up to commence a War against the Dutch; but your Conspirators handled this Point very nicely, fearing the Dutch should give them satisfaction in this very Point, and thereby prevent a War. It is very plain that the Dutch were not conscious to themselves of any Provocation given to England; but did solemnly protest, That if any provocation were given by them, (nay, they went so far, that they were ready to make satisfaction for Offences taken) the English should make their Demands. You, Sir, and the rest of the Conspirators against the Protestant Religion, do accuse them of these Medals and Pictures; what then, Must you have a War? I confess, I have read of a Poet, by a dash of his Pen, was the Cause of a War against Poland; but that, Sir, was the first time that ever a Painter could by the stroke of his Pencil occasion the breach of so considerable a League as was made with the Dutch.  
5. To fill up the measure of the Iniquity of the Dutch, they bring in against them the Charge of detaining some English Families in Surinam, after the dominion of that Colony by treaty of Peace was surrendered up to the Hollander. What a noise you, and the rest of the Conspirators made about this Business! for upon the strict examination of the Business, It was found that there was no such thing as the detaining of any English Families, but leave only given them to abide there, if they pleased: Nay, when that Firstborn of all Roguery and Villainy, Banister himself, who was one of your Banditti, whom you had employed as an Agent and Contriver of all this Misunderstanding in all that Affair, could not at last forbear to cry shame of it.  
Can you, Sir, reflect upon these things without blushing? Ought you not, now you have time, to think and consider the invalidity of all these Allegations? Were these the Pillars that you made use use of to add strength? And were Medals sufficient to give weight, and Pictures colour for such an Enterprise as this? But this is nothing, a War you, and your Conspirators, were resolved upon; and therefore a Manifesto was on March 17. 1671/2 published, all these Crying Sins of the Dutch were made public, and War proclaimed; and with what joy to the Conspirators, and with what grief to the good People of England, Christendom well knows.  
You, and your Partisans, did, I say, rejoice, but what was the consequence of that wicked Rupture proclaimed on that fatal 17th day of March, but your making yourself, and your devilish Party, Principals to all the Horrid Destruction, Devastation, Ravage and Slaughter, which from that aforesaid 17th of March, 1672. that hath been continued to this very Year of 1696.  
2. I come to remind you with what you did to carry on that wicked War; and here the heads of your Rogues were hard at work, for there was great need of good consideration in the Affair; for if I am not much out in my memory, the King, your Brother, was Two Millions in debt, notwithstanding the vast Sums of Money he had obtained by the strength of the Triple League, which he had so basely broke and dissolved. What therefore shall we do for Money? your People had several Projects on foot; but there were four resolved on, and put in execution.  
1. The Conspirators were to try their utmost Efforts with the French King, who had made them mighty Promises of his Purse, and Credit, to extirpate the Dutch-States, and by this had decoyed you into the War; But what was your Success, I pray? Truly you were not so successful as you expected; the Aid he contributed was but narrow, and could go but a little way in the managing of so great a War; for all the whole Revenue, and the French Contribution, could not last ten months' War; even this your Conspirators foreknew, and therefore they resolve upon a second Project.  
2. The shutting up the Exchequer, into which you, and your Friends, had decoyed in the wealthy Goldsmiths, and they the rest of the Nation, by due payment of Interest, till you had run the King in debt two Millions, no body can certainly tell upon what occasion, but yourself, your Priests, and other Conspirators; but then your Resolution was taken, that not one penny should be expended otherwise than to carry on your Holy War for the pious Catholic Uses, to which the Conspirators had dedicated the same. This Resolution of yours, and your Party, was carried on with all the Secrecy that became so black a Design, that you might not by venting it, unseasonably spoil the wit and malice of it; you on a sudden, upon the 1st of January, 1670/1 for a New-Year's Gift to the Kingdom, to the great astonishment, ruin and despair of Interested Persons, and to the terror of the whole Nation by so Arbitrary a Fact; the Proclamation issued, whereby the Crown, amidst the confluence of such great Supplies, published itself a Bankrupt, and made Prize of the Subject, and broke all Faith and Contract at home, in order to break with the Dutch, and to carry on the War with more advantage.  
But, Sir, your Politics failed you here; for the Sum you obtained by this Impudent Cheat upon the People, did not answer the Expectation of your Party, nor the Ends for which the Rapine was committed: I find that you were still straitened, and the War could not be carried on with that application that was requisite, without a far greater Sum than that which was afforded you by this course you took.  
3. Therefore, in the third place, your Councillors put you upon showing yourself a most Impartial Robberr; for after this Exploit, of shutting up the Exchequer, was so bravely managed, you resolve that the Dutch should furnish you with Wealth for that Pious Design: The Dutch, you may remember, were not consulted with in that Affair, therefore they continued to pursue their Traffic and Navigation through our Seas with the least suspicion of being Pirates; and accordingly a very great and Rich Fleet of Merchantmen from Smyrna and Spain were on their Voyage homeward bound, near the Isle of Weight, under the small Convoy of five or six of their Men of War: Had it not been for this Fleet, the War had broke out much sooner; but oh, how you, and your Pirates, hugged yourselves with the hopes of enjoying the Riches that was on board them! this Fleet you imagined would put you in stock for the carrying you on in all the Wickedness that you, and your Party, were capable of; and that you should never, after the obtaining of this Prize, stand in need again of, or fear a dangerous and useless Parliament: But how did the Design of Plundering and Robbing your Neighbours, in time of Peace, prosper the carrying on of your wicked War?  
Be pleased, therefore, to remember, that you having equipped a Fleet with great stillness, and quiet, and expedition, and early in the Year; not too big, lest the Dutch should suspect you; nor too little, lest you should meet with an unexpected Repulse in your intended Action: Sir Robert Holmes is made choice of as a Commander; you know he had given you experience of his Piracies in the Years 1661., 1662., 1663., 1664. for he commenced the first Hostility against the Dutch; and in the same War he had signalised himself by burning the Dutch Ships at Schelling, which the Dutch revenged upon us at Chatham; he therefore was the man appointed to commit this Intended Piracy upon the Dutch Smyrna Fleet: You judging him a Person of Understanding, Experience, and Courage, and every way capable of accomplishing such a villainous Enterprise, or of any black devilish Design of a higher nature. Sir Robert being thus appointed Commander in Chief of this designed Fleet, sails away, and upon the 14th of March, 1672. as they sailed on to the number of 72 Ships, whereof six were Convoys, near our Coast, he fell in upon them with his accustomed Bravery, and could not have failed of giving a very good account of them, would he but have joined Sir Edward Spragg's assistance to his own Conduct; for Sir Edward was in sight of them at the same time with another Squadron, and Captain Legg making sail totward him to acquaint him with the Design, till called back by a Gun from his Admiral, of which several Persons have their Conjectures; possibly Sir Robert Holmes, considering that Sir Edward had sailed all along in consort with the Dutch, and did but now return from bringing the Pirates of Algiers to reason, thought him not proper to engage in this Enterprise before he understood it better. But some have believed, that it proceeded partly from that jealousy of admitting a share of Honour and Profit in this Piracy, and partly out of too strict a regard to preserve his Commission secret, but two of a Trade could not agree; and by this means the whole Affair miscarried; and through the Bravery of the Dutch Merchantmen, and their little Convoy, Sir Robert was forced to quit the Enterprise; and all that was got by this piece of Piracy never answered the great damage his Fleet and Seamen sustained: When the News arrived of Sir Robert's Fate, I well remember with what a sad Countenance the Conspirators walked about St. James' Park, and Whitehall; you yourself was much out of humour at the Defeat. Your Confessor Beddingfield told me, That that Defeat was of such ill consequence to their Design, that it had almost broke all their Measures.  
4. Notwithstanding all this, a War the Conspirators were resolved upon: And if, Sir, you will give me leave to descend to the bottom of your Hellish Conspiracy, and that was that of Religion for so Pious and so Just an Action, in which, Sir, you employed Sir Robert Holmes, could not be better accompanied than by a Declaration of Liberty of Conscience; you doubting that he could not find that admirable Commodity in the Hole of an Amsterdam Flyboat; therefore while he was trying his Fortune in Battle with the Smyrna Merchantmen on the 13th and 14th of March, 1672. the Indulgence was printing off with all haste, and was published on the Fifteenth as a more proper means than Fasting and Prayer, to obtain a Blessing from Heaven upon his Enterprise, and upon a wicked War that was to second it; upon which you may remember, that the King, your Brother, at your persuasion, and the Counsels of your Conspirators, took upon him the Dispensing Power; just as you did when you usurped the Throne; for by this Indulgence all the Penal Laws against the Papists, for which former Parliaments had given so many Supplies to the Crown; and against Nonconformists, for which the Pentionary Parliament had paid more largely, were at one instant suspended in order to cheat the whole Nation at once of all their Religion which they had so dearly purchased.  
But you, and your Conspirators, may say, How was Liberty of Conscience to get Money? You well remember, Sir, that the Popish Party were so well affected to this Point of suspending the Penal Laws and Statutes that were against them; and that the King your Brother, and yourself, making such solemn Protestations to the Gentlemen, and Noblemen, and the Monks, and the Dominicans, that this Indulgence was but a step to the establishing the Catholic Religion: That several gentlemen's Estates were so impaired in contributing to this wicked War, that they have not recovered the same to this day: The Monks at the Savoy were so undone, that they could scarce hold up their heads: And the Dominicans having parted with their All, were forced to fly for the Debts they had contracted in that Juncture of Affair: But the whole amounted to so little, that it did turn to little account; for the whole you got, and paid into the Conspirators Bank, amounted to no more than 356000 l. As for the Protestant Dissenters, though they made use of the Liberty you procured for them, yet they parted with no Money; they remembering what a Cheat was so lately put upon the Nation in the business of the shutting up the Exchequer: And considering that the Indulgence itself was but an Arbitrary Act in the King your Brother, and would never pass for currant Law when ever a Parliament should meet; your Jesuits they pleaded that they had no Cash, they having let great Sums upon the security of several Estates belonging to the Noblemen and Gentlemen that were of the Catholic Church: And besides all this, they had met with a loss from one that had lately fallen from them; so that then they had not ready Money to part with, all this Project did not answer your Expectation. Tho your Conspirators did assure you, If it were done, it would bring a Million into your Conspirators Bank; but such a Sum as it was, it hath caused many a Popish Gentleman to sing Lachrymae, till your Accession to the Crown; and as a Reward and Plaster, they were put into Employments both Civil and Military; which Employments never let them see the fortieth part of the Interest of their Money, the Principal being totally lost.  
A War being proclaimed, you must now carry it on: What did you do with the small Stock you had? you equip out a Fleet. The French King seeing you, and your Conspirators, engaged beyond retreat, comes into the War, according to agreement, and proclaims War against the Dutch, not in so sneaking a manner as you did; for he would assign no Cause; but said, It was for his glory, and that such was his pleasure. But by his Ambassador to the Pope, he gave the Pope the true Cause; which you durst not for your Ears give to the Pope, or any body else; though that was the Design of King Charles, and yourself: His Ambassador said, That his Master had not undertaken the War against the Hollander in conjunction with the English, but for the extirpating of Heresy: And the French King to the Emperor of Germany saith, The Hollanders were a People that had forsaken God, and were Heretics; and that all Christian Princes ought to associate together for their Extirpation: That it was a War of Religion, in order to propagate the Catholic Faith. You know, that your Brother's, the French King's, and your Interest and Religion, were the same; And what other Design than could you have in that wicked War, but to advance the Religion of Rome's Church, and Power of France both at home and abroad? and that the Declaration of Indulgence was but a step towards the setting up the Romish Religion, according to the Agreement that was made with Madam, your Sister, at the Interview in June 1670. and by that means you met with that Contribution from the Romish Party to carry on this War of Religion against the Dutch, who you judged to be Heretics.  
Give me leave, Sir, to make a little digression: You know that the late Duke of Buckingham, who was then in the Conspiracy with you, was sent into France to borrow 40 Sail of French Ships; and by agreement our King was to Man them. The French King judged that too great a Point to be gained by King Charles upon him, and wheedles with the Duke of Buckingham, and offers him 100000 l. Sterling to consent that he should Man the Fleet; against which the Duke urged it was against the Agreement the King his Master had made with him the French King, and so would not accept the 100000 l. withal, telling the French King, That if he would let us be Neptune at Sea, he should be Jove by Land: The French King seemed contented, and so the Discourse ended. But the French King deals then with the Lord Arlington, and gives him 60000 l. and Arlington prevailed, Sir, with you to press the King, your Brother, not to insist upon Manning the French Fleet with English, for that it would be less charge to him, if the French King did Man the Fleet himself; and withal, urged to the King, That they were but low, and they should have occasion enough for Money otherwise: So Arlington got by the Bargain his 60000 l. and the French King the advantage of setting out his own Fleet.  
Well, Sir, you remember the French Fleet was set out, and joined the English; the English Fleet was commanded by yourself, and the French Fleet by Monsieur d' Estree; and upon the 28th of May, 1672. you were attacked in Soulbay by De Ruyter, who commanded the Dutch with a great deal of Bravery, and the Attack was made with great advantage on the Dutch side; you did what you could to have beaten the Dutch, and the French Admiral did what he was sent for, and that was to look on till you both were well worried; Vice-Admiral Montague was sacrificed, and your Fleet so damnably mangled, that a man would have thought you had met with another Smyrna Fleet; but our Bells did ring for joy, but God know there was no occasion on your side to boast of a Victory; but you may see what it is to be in ill Company; and, I think, they served the Dutch the same Trick, when they joined with them in the Year 1666. a remarkable Year, you know for what; but of that in its proper place.  
What is next? You may be will not own you were beaten by the Dutch; but it is plain, that if you had a Victory, it was not worth the name of one; but we have no more fight under your Command. How fared it with your Brother of France? truly, very well; for the rest of the Year passed with great success to the French, but none to the English: What shall we do now? What did you begin that War upon Hopes, yes, and great hopes too; the French King's supplying us towards the carrying of it on, and taking the Smyrna Fleet, and a multitude of Dutch Prizes; but Prob Dolour! all these Hopes vanished, and the Revenue exhausted, and the Exchequermoney spent; then, Sir, you were put to your last shifts. Since Liberty of Conscience turned to so little account; well, you resolved once more to permit your Brother's Calling his Parliament to set down on the 4th of February, 1672/3. the very day appointed, for God knows you were so disappointed, that I wonder you were able to set out a Fleet that Year.  
5. You come to your last Project for the carrying on the War, and that is the Parliament; and so by the good leave of your Banditti, they do set down; but that which is the greatest astonishment to me, that they could look a Parliament in the face, after they had advised and completed so many Rogueries in an interval of Parliament; and how you yourself could sit with ease in the House of Peers, whereas you could not but be conscious to yourself of abetting and joining in with these these Rogues in their Villainy: Well then, What said your Conspirators to the Parliament? truly they communicated the War to them, and the Causes of the War; the Necessity of the War, and the Danger of the War, if not supplied; but not a word of your hopes of never wanting them any more; not a word of the Design of Propogating the Catholic Cause; you mentioned the Medals, and Pictures, and the Flag, but the Devil a word of the Northern Heresy, and the reducing the States-General to the Popish Religion. Truly, Sir, this House of Commons took pity upon you, and according to their never failing Loyalty to the Crown, knowing that a good Gratuity would appear to themselves, put you off with the small Pittance of 1250000 l. though those Pensioners would wash their hands of the War; and therefore would not give this Money for the carrying a War against the Dutch, but for the King's Extraordinary Occasions. But was this all they did? no, it was not all; there was something else done that did some what alloy the growing Greatness of you, and your Conspirators; for though they were to be supplied for their private Occasions out of the 1250000 l. they had given, yet they were sensible that the Nation began to smoak the true Causes of this wicked War, and the End for which it was undertaken. There was an Act prepared before the Money-Bill was passed, by which your Popish Conspirators were obliged to pass through a new State-Purgatory, or to be uncabable of any Public Employment. I remember, when I was abroad, what Curses were laid upon the Parliament for that scurvy Bill, and upon the Earl of Shaftsbury, who, though then Lord Chancellor, yet engaged so far in that Act, and in defence of the Protestant Religion, that in due time it cost him his Place; which notwithstanding the Popish Parties bitter Curses, he won a fair Reputation, and became, to their great grief, a zealous Assertor of the Rights of the People of England. Was this all? No, your first step to the Establishment of Popery (the Indulgence I mean) was called in question; and though the Popish Party had contributed more than it was worth for the carrying on of the War, the King was pleased to cancel it, and promised that he never would do so any more, and passed the Test-Bill: Did he so? Had he not promised the Princess, your Sister, that he would restore the Roman Catholic Religion, and that he would begin first in Ireland; in order to which, you know the Lord Roberts was removed, and another that was base enough to do such a , was sent in his room; and you, in your Brother's Name, engaged the same to your Popish Contributors, and he engaged in his own name the like. It is scarce possible to believe it; how could he answer this to Lewis the French King? For it was his Agreement with him, to have the same Government, and the same Religion; truly he could not tell how to help it, the Sons of Zerviah were too many for him.  
And 1250000 l. was not to be lost for want of a compliance with the Parliament; and to you the King promised that he would make it up to the Roman Catholics another way; but how, and when, I could never learn: But, Sir, was it not hard, that they should be incapable of Offices and Employments, since they had purchased them at so dear a rate, but these Arguments prevailed not; so the Bills were passed, and the Parliament was dismissed till the 27th of October, 1673. and good reason there was for their dismission, for their sitting was grown very uneasy to your Popish Conspirators.  
But, Sir, we could not but laugh in our Sleeves to see some of the Conspirators take up the Cross, and quit their Employments; as the Lord Clifford, the Lord Bellasis, and Sir Thomas Strickland, and others, who had long appeared zealous Sons of our Church, yet discovered to be of the Synagogue of Rome, as soon as the Test or Purgatory Bill passed; and truly, Sir, we were not sorry when you appeared to be of the same Complexion with those other Conspirators; though at the same time, I must tell you, That your going off did astonish many men, there being no Record in History of any Prince that changed his Religion in your Circumstances.  
But, did your Conspirators stand still, and put up the Sword that was drawn against the Dutch? No, they had got 1250000 l. therefore you and they strove with all imaginable strength to regain by the War that part of the Cursed Design that was lost by Parliament, though some of you forsook your Places, rather than your Consciences; yet, Sir, you never wanted some double-dyed Sons of the Church of England to succeed in your Places, upon the same Terms your Popish Conspirators held them; so that they were but your Conspirators Deputies, who followed the same Counsels, and carried on the same Design, for this Year was a fruitful Year of Engagements with the Dutch; the French carries all before him by Land; but we got nothing from the Dutch, but maimed Ships, and broken Bones; we had indeed changed our General, but our Success was the same: For you remember with whom we were in Conjunction, we may thank ourselves for keeping such ill Company: So that in a word, I may say those Heretic Dogs, as they were termed by the Great Lewis, were too many for our English Popish Conspirators.  
What then? Did we nothing by land? had we not an Army at Black-Heath, and General Schomberg at the head of them; Yes, we had, but that good Gentleman, when he saw the Army, and understood that they were not an Army against the Dutch, but were designed against London, he fairly quitted his Post, and the Kingdom at the same time, as being ashamed of your Conspirators Intentions in the raising that Army: He being a Frenchman, you imagined he would join with you in bringing in the French mode of Government; and your Irish Papist that was Major-General, was to have brought in the Irish Religion; the latter would have been true to the uttermost of his power, and Irish Discretion; but the former was a Protestant and so washed his hands of the business.  
You will say, that the French were on our side; yes, Sir, they were; but it is as plain as the Sun shining at Noonday, that the French in this second War against the Dutch, intended nothing less than really to assist us, for he was no Changeling; for he had practised the same Art at Sea, in the first War the Conspirators had against the Dutch, when he was in league with them, for his Navy never did them any service, for his business was only to see us batter one another; and it's well known, that when he pretended to be on our side, and to assist us, they then only took an opportunity to sound our Seas, to spy our Ports, and to learn our Building, and contemplate our way of Fight, to consume our Navy, and preserve his own to increase his own Commerce; and to order all so, that the two great Naval Powers of Europe being crushed together, that he might remain Prince and Lord of the Ocean; and by consequence, Master of all the Isles, and the Continent into the bargain: To which purpose you, and your Banditti, furnished him with all possible Opportunities, as I shall by and by relate; as well to put you in mind of what you, and the rest of the Conspirators, did do, as to inform those of your Party here that are still ignorant of the Transactions of those Times.  
Notwithstanding that we were always worsted by the Dutch, yet they having a regard to the preservation of our Religion and Liberties; which you had agreed to part withal to the French Court, made strong Applications for a Peace; and the Conspirators for a Supply to carry on the War; and all Endeavours were by you, and your Friends, used to render the Dutch odious to the Parliament; witness the Importunities that were used, and great Assurances given: In a word, nothing but the Voice of War was in their Mouths. But you know that there was an unhappy Accident fell out, which I shall show you in its proper place, that made the King put off the Parliament that sat down the 27th of October, till the 7th of January following; and in the mean time, what Artifices your Accomplices used for to prepare the Parliament to have an ill Opinion of the Dutch, you may see in the Speech made by that Villain of a Keeper, who was your Tool to all intents and purposes; you may remember how he represented the Dutch, how averse they were to Peace and Reason, and how uncivil and indirect in their Overtures of Treaty with His Majesty; and therefore a demand was made of a proportionable and speedy Supply: But the Dutch, who sound themselves abused and obstructed, and hitherto in a manner excluded from all manner of Application; and whatever means they had used, was still misinterpreted and ill represented, they were so wise and industrious, as by this time to have undeceived most of the Members of Parliament; therefore the House of Commons were for a Peace to be made with the Dutch; and in order thereunto, would not part with one Penny judging that to be the best means for a Peace to follow; and began to call some of your Rogues to an account, that had been principal Contrivers of that most ungodly War; this was an excellent, but a new way of negotiating a Peace with the States-General. I well remember, that some of your Friends began to look blue upon the business, looking every day to be called to an account for their Conspiracy against our Laws, Liberties, and Religion, in the contriving and carrying on this War, as aforesaid: (By this means, Sir, but full against your will) I can tell how it grieved your Soul, to see the general bend of the whole Nation to be against the War, especially because the French were engaged in it: In a word, The House of Commons advised your Brother to a Just and an Honourable Peace with the States-General, which the King put off till it could be no longer opposed; then a Peace was concluded with the Dutch; and when that was done, the Commons still had an evil Eye upon the Conspirators, and got eight New Regiments to be disbanded; that as the Exchequer had been shut up, London might not be plundered, and the Citizens might not be Dragooned out of their Estates, Liberties, and Religion, all at once. Upon this Peace being concluded with the Dutch, oh, what complaining Letters did you send to your Friends at St. Omers! charging the King, your Brother, with the greatest breach of Promises and Oaths made to Madam, the Princess; and also Letters were sent to Douai, to the Monks there, yet assuring them you would never leave the Cause so; for you still hoped that his Most Christian Majesty would do the work, and ruin the Dutch States, that they might not be a Nest for Rebels and Heretics:  
I was saying just now, How could King Charles answer the Cancelling the Declaration of Indulgence, and the passing the Test-Bill, to Lewis his great Ally? But now, Sir, I much more wonder, how he could answer to that King, his Concluding a Peace with the States-General of the United Provinces? for this seemed to me, and many others, the greatest Riddle how this would stand with the Holy League that he had made with that King to root out Heresy, and to set up Popery? for could we have but ruined the Dutch, the work had been done to all intents and purposes.  
Your Party well knew, that Charles, yourself, and the then Lords of the Admiratly, fell under the displeasure of the French King by consent; and since you could not humble the Dutch, how willingly you condescended that the High and Mighty Monarch of France should have the humbling of the English Nation; for by your Advice and Procurement it was agreed, That he should let lose his Privateers among our Merchantmen; so that from that time there was no security of Commerce and Navigation, notwithstanding the public Amity that was between the two Crowns; but at Sea they murdered, plundered, made Prize, and confiscated those they met with; their Pirates laid before the Mouths of our Rivers, hovered all along upon our Coasts, took our Ships in the very Ports; insomuch, that we in a manner were blocked up by Water; and if any made application at his Sovereign Port for Justice, they were insolently baffled, if not cruelly beaten: This you know, and the Nation well knew, that Charles, yourself, and the Admiralty, were Accomplices in this matter, and that it did turn to a good account to the Conspirators, as can be made appear even, Sir, to your face at St. Germains: And this way of using the Nation continued till the latter end of the Year 1676. even from our concluding the Peace with the States-General of the United Provinces.  
Was this all? No, this way of Pyrating was only a mark of his Most Christian Majesty's Displeasure. It was no reparation for our good King Charles' not keeping his word with him; therefore all diligence was used to supply him with Recruits, and those who would go voluntarily over, were encouraged; others that would not, were pressed, imprisoned, and carried over by main force, even as the Parliament here was ready to set down, notwithstanding all the former frequent Applications to the contrary: Nay, yet further, How did you empty all the Magazines of the Kingdom to furnish the French with all sorts of Ammunition? of which, Sir, a particular Account was taken, and can be given, if demanded.  
It is, Sir, well known, that King Charles having broken the Triple League, and made a War upon the Dutch without Cause, and had made Peace with them; he would never enter into a League Offensive and Defensive with them; yet he could make one with the French, though he had taken the Kingdom's Money to enter into an actual War: Nay, that Conspirator Conventry, had the League Offensive and Defensive, made with the French King, in his Pocket, when the House of Commons voted the Money for an actual War with France.  
It may be, Sir, you may say that King Charles did make an Alliance with Holland; and the Articles of the League were, on April 30. 1678. laid before the House by the King's especial direction: It may be so; But will your Party call that a League Offensive and Defensive, fit for a Parliament of England to agree to? No; for see how the House resented that Sham-League; and to this end observe their Vote, May the 4th, 1678. Resolved, That the League Offensive and Defensive with the States-General of the United Provinces, with the Articles relating thereunto, are not pursuant to the Addresses of this House, nor consistent with the Good and Safety of the Kingdom. That was one Resolve. But there was a second Resolution of the House upon the same day. Resolved, That it is the Opinion of this House, That His Majesty be humbly advised and desired forthwith to enter into the present Alliances and Confederations with the Emperor, the King of Spain, and with the States-General of the United Provinces, for the vigorous carrying on the War against the French King, and for the good and safety of His Majesty's Kingdoms; and particularly, That effectual Endeavours be used for continuing the States-General in the present Confederation; And that it be agreed by all Parties Confederate, to prohibit all Trade between their Subjects, and Countries, and France, and all other Dominions of the French King. And that no Commodities of France, or of the Dominions of the French King, be imported into their Countries from any place whatsoever: And also that all endeavours be used to invite all other Princes and States into the said Confederation; and that no Truce or Peace be made, or agreed to, with the French King, by His Majesty, or any of the Confederates, without the general Consent of all the Confederates had first therein. Both which Resolves were sent to His Majesty by the Members of Parliament that were of the Privy Council; and what a message they receive on the 6th of May following, shows plainly his unwillingness to enter into League with the Confederates against France: And, Sir, you know the Reason why, Because the Interest and Religion of Lewis the French King, was the Interest and Religion of the King your Brother, and yourself, and Conspirators.  
But, Sir, that which testifies your Brother's Obstinacy, is refusing to enter into such a League Offensive and Defensive with the States-General of the United Provinces, etc. For notwithstanding the Treaty of Peace with the State's General, had not you, and your Conspirators, furnished the French King with Men and Arms, and Ammunition, against the very Tenure and Intent of the said Treaty? Therefore the Lords and Commons join in an Address on the 10th of November, 1675. in which they earnestly pressed the King, your Brother, to call home his Subjects from the Service of the French King; but instead of that, more were sent, and many of them by force, or fraud, call to mind the Address made by the House of Commons, on May 20, 1675. where great Complaints were made by the House, of the Conspirators supplying the French King with Men, not a few, but considerable numbers, to the great discouragement of the Confederates engaged in the Common Cause against that proud Monster of Mankind. So the Vote of May 23, 1677. Resolved, That an humble Address be presented to His Majesty, That he would be pleased to enter into a League Offensive and Defensive with the States-General of the United Provinces; and to make such other Alliances with such other Confederates as His Majesty shall think fit, against the Growth and Power of the French King, and preservation of the Netherlands. And what was done upon all these Addresses? truly, very little; but up starts a League made with the Dutch, that was not worth one Farthing; and how that Sham-League was kept, we all very well remember.  
But as a further proof of your Brother's Being unwilling to enter into any firm and hearty League with the Confederates engaged against the French King, remember this; Th●● through yours, and the Power the rest of the Conspirators had over him, he could never be brought to enter into, and be engaged in an actual War with France, notwitstanding all the humble Applications made to him by Parliaments; nay, though he passed a Bill to enter into a War with France, and had the benevolence given in that Bill in order to the same, yet a firm League was made with France, the Interest and Religion of the French, King and the King, your Brother, and yourself, being all one.  
In the first place be pleased, Sir, to remember, that the Parliament that was adjourned to the Third of December, 1677. and then put off till the Fifteenth of January 1677/78; but that day being come, both Houses met, but by a Message to the House of Commons they are ordered to adjourn till the Twenty eighth, and the pretended reason the then King gave (or rather you, and your Conspirators) that his Majesty had matters of great Importance in order to the satisfaction of their Addresses for the Preservation of Flanders; but it so fell out, that things were not then so ripe, as in a few days they would be; therefore it was his Majesty's Royal Will and Pleasure that the House do immediately Adjourn till the Twenty eighth of the same Month.  
The Message was very Grateful to the House of Commons, and to many others, who understood not the Conspiracy, for the design was clear another thing than what they had conceived. The day of their meeting comes, and they are entertained with a Speech full of good Words, yet he Reprimands them for their distrust; and to show them how they were mistaken, they are told what a great care the King had taken of the Protestant Religion: And in order thereunto, he had concluded a Match with the Lady Mary, to the Prince of Orange; (but you know, Sir, tha● it was full sore against his and your Wills) a Prince Professing the same Religion w●●● us (which by King Charles' good leave) was a great mistake; for I dare say that the Prince of Orange, now our King, never Received the Sacrament from the Church of Rome in all his days, which to my certain knowledge King Charles did, and afterwards Received it from the hands of a Bishop of the Church of England the selfsame day. But to go on with his Speech, he told them that the Prince of Orange was a Prince engaged in Arms to Defend the Common Cause of Chridendom; and so he goes on and talks of Alliances, and forgets not to call for a fresh supply, that he might carry on his Alliances made, and to be made. Well, Sir, What was the effect of this Most Gracious Speech? I remember that the House in return made an humble but a sharp Address, and the Speech was not answered with Thanks in General, but only in Particular, relating to the King's care he had of the Protestant Religion; which Address was Concluded on January 31st. following.  
In that Address they promise the King Supplies, provided he would enter into an actual War with France, and join in with the Confederates, and Exclaim against the growing Greatness of the French King; and that if it must be Peace, that they would have the French King left in no better condition than he was upon the Conclusion of the Pyrenean Treaty.  
I remember when this Address was made, I was at St. Omers, but we had news from Coleman how you resented it; nay, Sir, it's well known that the Address stuck terribly in your stomach, as well as the Match between the Prince of Orange, and the Lady Mary (our Late Gracious Queen) by which, Sir, you could not but easily perceive that the House of Commons had got some scent of the Damnable Plot that was carrying on against our Religion, Laws, and Liberty; and your underhand-dealing with France and the Popish Interest. But that men might not understand you too well, your Agents were busy both in City and Country to n●●●ish a Report of Alliances with the Confederates, and a War with France; and so big they pretended to be of the War with France, that they avowed the certainty of it both in words and in Print; all this I say was to keep the Nation in horrid Ignorance: To this end, Sir, you hired a Tool that had pawned his Soul for Bread, to write against the French King; but all was not gold that glisteren, there was no Money like to come, because that the House was resolved to be satisfied that the Alliances were made, and the War proclaimed: This, Sir, you, and your Party, looked upon as a great hardship put upon the King, and that the House of Commons took too much upon them; but your Rogues made use of this Address to be a poor Cripple to beg Money even from France itself; you know who undertook in that Affair to get Money from France upon the strength of that Address, and was in a fair way of succeeding, had not something happened between the Cup and the Lip: In a word; Nothing but War with France is talked of; the French is content it should be a Bill passed for a War, and Money was given; the French King concurred with you in it; a Law passes against the Importation of French Goods, he wills that too; for you had so ordered the matter, that notwithstanding that Act, by the diligent care of the Officers of the Customhouse, there was more French Goods brought into the Customhouse than before.  
But, Sir, you were not idle all this time; for while the People of England were talking of War and Alliances, you, and your Conspirators, were busy both at home and abroad; oh, the multitude of Messages that were sent to Rome and France! and you know what Advice was given you; that upon the account of the pretended War, you should raise Forces; for the Priests doubted not, through the assistance of the Saints, the work would be done; you raised Forces, and got Money, though for other ends than the Parliament gave it; Was this, Sir, to carry on the War, or to go on in making of Alliances? you know it was that Popery, and the French Government might be advanced both at one and the same time; so that, Sir, I have justified that head, the unwillingness of King Charles' entering into, and keeping League with those who would uphold and maintain the Protestant Religion; but chose rather to make Alliances with France, yea and keep them too, with a King that had a mighty mind to destroy it.  
11. I come to the last Passage that I proposed in the beginning of this Memento to treat about, and that is this; That as long as King Charles lived, what a dismal and difficult task had this Nation to suppress you, and your wicked Popish, and Popishly affected Accomplices? and that when he died, you were like to be his Successor; and therefore the Commons took this into serious consideration; and upon the whole, that the state of Religion was desperate; and that the Popish Conspirators would certainly be advanced, and that there would be nothing less than the Nation to all intents and purposes ruined; therefore, I pray, Sir, remember the Vote passed, Ap. 27.1679.  
Resolved, Nemine Contradicente, That the Duke of York being a Papist, and the hopes of his coming to the Crown such, hath given the greatest encouragement to the present Conspiracy and designs of the Papists against the King, and the Protestant Religion.  
Sir, This Vote would have ground and beaten an ordinary Subject to Powder, but it had not that effect upon you, and your Party; your Party was so prevalent at that time, your Popish Party I mean, that you, and your Conspirators threw off all these Difficulties with scorn and impudence enough; for it is plain enough, that the Popish Party had such an influence upon King Charles, as to favour them, notwithstanding the notoriety of those Crimes both they and you stood charged withal: For,  
1. The Popish Party had a great interest at Court upon the pretence of their pretended Loyalty in the time of the Civil War between Charles the First and his Subjects: And again, some few of them were instrumental in the escape of his Son Charles the Second from Worcester, and the seeming readiness that was in that Party for the Restoration of the said Charles the Second in the Year 1660. this gave them not only a share of peace and Quiet under Charles' Government, but procured from him a farther degree of respect unto them; by this means they had a very great advantage of carrying on their Designs against the Interest of the Nation, and Peace of the Government; and this was the Argument, Sir, that you used for that part of your Banditti, in order to join your Forces and strengthen your Party. Give me leave, Sir, to observe to you, how wicked a thing it was in you to embolden such a party of Rogues to ruin the Nation; you used to say they were always loyal, and therefore how many times did you procure great Indulgences from the Government, against the express Letter of the Law, for them, while the rigour of the Law was let lose upon other Dissenters, who yet continued more quiet and loyal under their Pressures and Provocations, than those under Favours and Caresses; and did not the King, your Brother, hazard the Hearts and Affections of his best Subjects, and much of Royal Honour (if ever he had any) in appearing for his Indulgence of March 15. 1671/2 with frustration, to engage, if possible, these everlasting holy Cutthroats; but where was the Loyalty of these your Popish Conspirators? For,  
1. Was it not at their instigation (when they were in a Conspiracy against the Peace of this Nation with that Arch-traitor Laud, that was sometime Archbishop of Canterbury) that the Uniformity of Service that was in England, was against all Law, Justice and Conscience, pressed upon the Kingdom of Scotland, which occasioned that breach with that Nation, that was not without great difficulty, and vast expense, made up to the dishonour of King Charles the First, and the English Nation. You cannot but remember, you have been informed who were the Prime Sticklers upon the occasion of that Service-book, and other strange Impositions laid upon that people to foment the War between the two Kingdoms. For in your Letter to Ashby, the Rector of the English College at St. Omers, dated March 17, 1676/7. to supply you with a dozen of such men as were used in Scotland in 1637, 1638, 1639. that would not stick at any thing to carry on the Catholic Cause; in which you said, that his Majesty of France, your Brother, and yourself, were engaged, for you then did want them; and upon the receipt of your Letter the Scotch College at Douai was consulted, and 12 men were dispatched over for England, for what Ends and Purposes you know well enough.  
But to return to the Point in hand; The Priests that were sent into Scotland in the time of your Father, Charles the First, you have been informed that they were sent by Cardinal Richlieu into that ancient Kingdom to inflame the Differences between the two Nations; and the Motives upon which that great Incendiary was so earnest to kindle a War in the Dominions of your Father, were sufficiently understood by those that lived, and were actually engaged in public Negotiations, who have been so just as to leave them upon record to future Generations; and they were the very same Motives that you, and your Party, made the grounds for the subversion of the Protestant Religion, and our English Government; these were your loyal Men that would have brought in a Religion upon us by a conversion of us with Blood, and a Baptism with fire; but the Good Lord, I hope, will keep the Land from the one, and this great City from the other.  
2. Your Conspirators were men of undoubted Loyalty; and this Englishmen will believe, if you can make them; because of their great zeal in commencing and carrying that never to be forgotten bloody Massacre in Ireland, wherein so many thousand Protestants lost their Lives, and were by your Hellborn Cutthroats basely and barbarously murdered: Nay, as a testimony of their Loyalty, they renounced your Father's Authority, and the Authority of his Lord Lieutenant of that Kingdom, and assumed the Royal Authority to themselves, owing only a dependence upon the Pope, and his Nuncio; yet these men for that piece of barbarity, were by you, and your Brother, recommended to several Princes, as men that had ventured their Lives, and lost their Estates, for promoting the Catholic Apostolic Religion in Ireland by the direction and express Command of your Royal Father of blessed Memory; and many of them in their old age were, at your Brother's request, and yours, made Priests to get Bread for that piece of Service.  
3. The Loyalty of your Conspirators did highly appear in that accession they had to the Death of Charles the First, they did contrive it; and this hath been made appear to their shame and disgrace (if ever they were capable of any); that King was himself informed a little before he was executed, that the Jesuits, at a general Meeting at Paris, in revenge for his condescending in the Treaty at the Isle of Wight to pass some Bills in prejudice of them, and the Romish Religion, had unanimously resolved by the Power, and Interest, and Influence, that they had in, and upon the Army, to bring him to Justice, and get him executed; and accordingly, when the stroke was given, both one that was a Romish Priest and Confessor, brandished his Sword, and proclaimed that now their greatest Enemy was cut off, and destroyed. I suppose, Sir, you, and your Party, will be convinced, if you observe a Passage from one that knew those Transanctions, and see what he saith in his Letter to a Reverend Divine of the Church of England; it bears date, Aug. 9.1673. This I may safely say, and will do it confidently, That many Arguments did create a violent suspicion, very near convincing Evidences, that the Irreligion of the Papists was chiefly the occasion of the murder of that Prince; the odium whereof they would file to the Account of the Protestant Religion. However, Sir, your Popish Conspirators having not only escaped the legal Arraignments upon this account, but having since the Restoration of K. Charles the IId, been esteemed by yourself, and some other pretended Friends of that King, they have thereupon arrived at more respect; and to carry on your damnable Designs, they have enjoyed more peace in their Persons and Estates, than they were in possession of at any time since the Reformation.  
4. But how little they deserved this Honour and Peace both in their Persons and Estates, you may see in a fourth Particular; and that was in the Escape of the King, your Brother, from Worcester, 1651. how did they above all men, endeavour to betray and sacrifice that King unto the hands of his Enemies; And who was to pay the 1000 l. promised for his being discovered, and taken, but Father Joseph symmond's, and Father Carleton Compton, both Jesuits; and whence that Money came, Sir, you well know, as did the Queen, your Mother; for you know, that your Mother, and yourself, was in a plot against his Life, that you might wear the Name and Title of a King, as being the more likely to perform what your Brother had so lustily promised to the Popish Party. It is true, Sir, that one or two of the Romish Persuasion, amongst many loyal and faithful Protestants, both Male and Fem●le, might then have contributed to that King's Deliverance; but such, Sir, have been by yourself, and Party, well chidden, reproached, and discountenanced, and called Fools, for this grain of Loyalty, more owing to their English Blood, than Romish Principles.  
5. Since my hand is in, give me leave to add a fifth Instance of their Loyalty to your Family. That Popish Lord is not unknown, nor yet forgotten, who brought a Petition to the late Protector, signed by about 500 Principal Papists in England, wherein they promised upon condition of a Toleration of the Popish Religion here by a Law, their joint Resolution to abjure and exclude the Family of the Stewarts for ever from enjoying the Crown. This, Sir, you know startled you when you heard of that Attempt; a man that hath but an Irish Understanding, may easily judge from hence of the Loyalty of that Party of men; I would willingly, Sir, appear to any one of your dear Joys, and stand by his Judgement in that Case.  
6. One Point more, and then, Sir, I shall have done upon this Head; and that is the Loyalty of your Popish Conspirators, who to ingratiate themselves with the Government of the said Protector, procured Manning to be a Spy upon your Brother; and he was not only allowed well by that Party by your direction, but also had a very Bountiful Pension too, by the said Protector; but he was in due time found out, and executed by your Brother; he was of the same Red Letter with yourself; and therefore, when dead, he had Masses sung for him as the usual Reward and Plaster.  
There were other Specimens of their Loyalty, but I forbear to mention them now, because there are some other things to be discoursed with you; but this I say, That we should have forgotten and forgiven all these soul Proceed of your dearly beloved Popish Party; and we should not have envied the Security they enjoyed, or the Favours through your procurement they had attained to; provided they had not abused them in joining with you to subvert the Protestant Religion and Government, in turning the one into downright Popery, and the other into French Slavery; but alas, good men and true, such an opportunity of promoting the Catholic Religion was not to be lost; they having a Prince converted to such a degree of Zeal and Piety, as not to regard any thing in the World in comparison of the Conversion of England, that hath a long time been oppressed, and miserably harassed with Herery and Schism; to accomplish which, you would assassinate the King's Person, destroy our City, murder his Majesty's Subjects, subvert our Religion, and disturb the Peace of Mankind; and your present Design that is discovered, doth prove beyond all manner of objection and doubt, That that, Sir, throw your Brother's, and your grace and favour, they did then carry on their Designs for advancing the Power of the Pope and French King, to advance the Religion of the one, and the Interest and Government of the other; none daring to suggest the least thing to bring them under jealousy, who would not be aspersed for being Maligners of the King's best Friends, and your Fellow-Conspirators; till one appeared, and took the Popish and French Interest by the Collar, and gave it such a deadly wound, that it could not recover itself to this day, but you were even with him for it, when you usurped the Government; and so I conclude this Head.  
2. A second thing that gave you, and your Popish Conspirators, such an advantage for the carrying on you wicked Designs and Purposes, was the unhappy Divisions amongst us poor Protestants; for as the Conspirators improved that little Stock of Credit they had by being for Charles the First in the Civil War, against himself and Parliament; and the Priests, Jesuits and Friars made use of that Credit to reduce us to the Obedience of the See of Rome; so you, and the rest of the Popish Crew, made use of our Divisions amongst ourselves, to carry on the same Design. Now, Sir, there were two main things which did greatly administer to this unhappy Division.  
1. The Parties divided were come to a more equal Balance, as to numbers, on each side respectively, than at any Season heretofore: For, Sir, consider this, That during the Reigns of Q. Elizabeth, K. James I. and K. Charles I. the Dissenters, from the Established way of the Church of England, were but few, in comparison of those who were for Prelacy, and the Rites and Ceremonies required by Law in their Worship and Service of God; so that there being little or no jealousy of any danger to the Church of England from the Protestant Dissenters, how zealous soever they might be in their way; yet the watchfulness of the Prelates, and their Curates, were chief exercised upon those of the Romish Communion: But the Protestant Dissenters since are like to the People of Israel, in the Land of Egypt, very much multiplied, to that degree, that they are come nearer to the other Party, than heretofore they did; the main care therefore of the Prelates, and their inferior Clergy, together with old Roger their Guide, did much abate towards their old Friends of the Church of Rome, and exerted the same to the Protestant Dissenters.  
2. But another great Cause of the dividing the Protestant Interest, was the very severe, but just Entertainment, the Prelates, with the Scandalous and Ignorant Clergy met with from the Protestant Dissenters in the late Times of Reformation; when they were restored by the return of your Brother from Exile, they measured the same again to the Protestant Dissenters, when they had the Law on their side, and your Grace and Favour into the bargain; they remembered all the old Scores, by which great Animosities and Heats have been between Party and Party; the Prelates aiming then at the ruin of the Dissenters for aiming at the reformation of Prelacy and Superstition. By this, I say, a difference is risen, that in all humane probability can never be made up.  
We cannot but from hence very easily, not only by Reason, but by Experience, gather the great use you, and the rest of the Popish Party, made of them to carry on their Designs for the subverting the Religion and Government of this Nation: For, as the pretence of these Divisions hath been made use of as an Argument to pervert such as knew not that the Divisions of your Synagogue of Rome are more numerous, and their Feuds more irreconcilable than ours; so subtle have your Conspirators been, by winding themselves into all Companies; nay, mustering themselves in all Parties; endeavoured both to heighten the Differences, to make their Annimosities not only hotter, but more immortal; and while the one Party of Protestants have been crying out against the other for their Schism, and the other crying out against them for their Superstition and Persecution; you, and your Party, to the reproach of both, were undermining that holy Faith which they equally centre in; and carrying a Design of destroying the one as well as the other, they being, in you esteem, both equally Heretics.  
3. A third thing that contributed much to your bringing of Popery and Slavery into these Kingdoms, was the general Profaneness and Debauchery which had overspread these Nations beyond what in any former Reign had been observed. Sir, You in this, by, and with the Consent, Advice, and Example of the King, your Brother; and your Conspirators followed the Counsel of Cardinal Mazarine, in the Year 1654. at Paris, when the Popish Party were but at a low ebb in England; That the only way to accomplish the Work in England, was to debauch them first, and make them Atheists; and when that was done, they would soon make good Papists; for this you well knew, and so did your Popish Party, That a profane, debauched Person is truly of no Religion, and therefore indifferent to seem to be of any, as Interest and Temptation sways him; so it is plain, that no man cares to be of that Religion, which condemns all those Ways and Practices which he is resolved to pursue with his utmost vigour.  
Do but take notice that the Popish Religion was such as would allow them in all those wicked ways to which their vicious Inclinations led them, and doth secure them from the horror and dread of Eternal Wrath and Vengeance; for your Religion maketh those to be no Sins, though committed by some against the express Command of Christ himself: If they are such things as the Word of God hath set a mark upon as enormous, than they are made Venial Offences only; and if they are Sins which your Synagogue calls Mortal, which are indeed the most daring and prodigious Enormities, through their Doctrines of Penance and Absolutions, and Papal Indulgences, you are secure from the Pains of the damned in the other World.  
By this means, Sir, you, and your Conspirators, increased the number of your Converts, and strengthened your hands so far, that you boasted to Beddingfield, your Confessor, That you did not doubt: but in a very few years to have such a number of Catholic Gentlemen, and others, that you feared not but to have a Catholic Army sufficient to suppress the Factious Protestant Party, in case they should rebel; this saying of yours Beddingfield the Jesuit communicated to the Jesuits at Wild-House upon the 24th of April, 1678.  
Nay, Your Zeal was such for the Popish Religion, that poor Mr. Jones, your Chaplain-Naval, and Domestic, for opposing Popery, was by you turned out of his Employ, and left as a Sacrifice to that wicked Prelate of Winchester, Dr. Morlay, for saying, That it was his fault that your Duchess turnest Papist; and that the said Morlay might have prevented the Duchess of York 's being seduced to Popery, if he pleased; and that her turning Papist was to be laid at his door. You therefore would not for a long time pay him his Wages, though that most Christian Prelate had sued him upon the Statute de Scandulis Magnatum, to the poor man's utter ruin; for his Living was extended, and he left to perish for want of Bread: And he had never received his Arrears due to him in your Service, had I not shamed old Sir Allen Apsley publicly in Westminster-Hall for it, you pretending it was referred to him. Moreover, I told him, If he did not pay Jones, I would fetch it out of his old Bones; it was a time Sir, when Men began to observe your steps, and perceive your Designs, so Jones, much against your Will, got his Money, and after that Jones had suffered several years' Famine from that Villanons Old Priest of our Church, and he could not hold his Living from him any longer, he most Graciously delivered Jones from the extent; but Jones being so ill used by Morley, he died within a year or two after he had his Living restored; but by the way, Sir, by the Duchess of York, I mean her that was the Daughter of the Earl of Clarendon, sometimes Lord Chancellor, but the two Ladies your Daughters, were by God's Providence saved from being corrupted by you, and your Conspirators.  
Now Sir it remains that I tell you, or rather put you in mind what Steps your Conspirators took to ruin these Nations; they were, Sir, your Favourites, and! of the same Religion, and of the same Interest with yourself, for you having made such Advantages from the three Heads , and by these means strengthened you Hands to dispose you to do the Three Kingdoms what mischief you pleased: Therefore it follows, that you now be put in mind what Steps you took for the ruin of the Protestant Religion and the Established Government of these three Nations. I shall only name these few that follow.  
1. The first great Step that your Conspirators took to the ruin of these Nations, and subjugate them to Hell and Rome, was that wicked Fire of London; which was begun, and carried on by your Popish Conspirators, to ruin this great and populous City, that had been for many years the Bulwark of the Protestant Religion; which they completed without the least remorse or pity: You yourself beheld its Flames with Joy, and viewed its Ruins with much rejoicing, as old Grace the Jesuit was pleased to say in a Letter of his in November, 1666. to the Jesuits at St. Omers. Sir, I will not charge you with the actual burning of London, because it was below you to be engaged in the very Act; and you had Rogues mean enough to serve you in so base a piece of Villainy; but of this I am certain, That when any were taken in the Fact, you yourself discharged them; and not only so, but you, and your Guards actually hindered many of the poor Citizens from saving their Goods from the Flames, and protected those that did aid and abet the Fire; and some of them you preferred; and since you usurped the Throne, you gave them marks of your Favour: As for instance, the Chirurgeon that lived in the Savoy, a Frenchman, that went by the name of Ch●queaux, and others, whose Names occur not to my memory; and several Irishmen in gauged in that Hellish Villainy, you caused to be preferred. Upon the whole, Whether you had not a hand in that Fire, I leave all the World, and your own Conscience, to judge.  
It will not be unnecessary Sir, to put you in mind of the account I have had of it from some of those who were Conspiratos, and were engaged in the Fact, Richard Stra●ge, a great Favourite of yours, and sometimes your Father. Confessor in Ordinary, used it as a great Argument to me to go on to assist the Design of the Society, who told me that they got 14000 l. in the Fire of London in the Year 1666. and not only so, but you yourself was in their Counsels when it was determined, yea, and your Brother too, which I durst not for my life discover, because of the Promise I had made to Prince Ruport, not to mention any thing to the Parliament that might touch the King, but he afterwards hearty repent of his giving, and I did also of taking that Counsel, and so you escaped; for I could not Charge you but must Charge him too: But the Prince knew of it, and so did King Charles himself; but this let me tell you, That in a Letter of yours Signed Lieutenant, to Father Courtney, of Aug. 12. 1667. you did declare your Resentment of the Dutch firing our Ships at Chatham, and what a dishonour it was to the King and his Friends, but this you said was your Comfort, that London's Pride was sufficiently pulled down; and as the burning the Ships at Chatham had been the cause of much trouble at Court, but it was much allayed by the hopes that Factious City would scarce be built again, unless to the ruin of the Undertakers; the fanatics (said you) may now study again the number of the Beast. Langhorne that had a hand in the Fire by being Privy to it, who solicited King Charles more in his behalf, than yourself and employed Portsmouth that French Spy and Whore to use her Interest to procure his Pardon.  
I shall add the Promise that I had of your Favour by Sir Allen your Trusty Tool, if I would spare that part of my Evidence concerning John Grove, about his Firing of Southwark, and how you solicited for his Life in conjunction with Portsmouth, you cannot forget I am sure; and the King asked you whether you had a desire to bring the whole Nation about his Ears, for after the Firing of Southwark was Sworn against him, the King told You and Portsmouth too, he durst not Pardon Grove. You cannot forget Conyers the Benedictine Monk, who whilst you were a Votary of that Order, was one of your Father Confessors; him you brought into White-Hall though Evidence was given in against him of being to be one of the Murderers of King Charles the Second; and the King himself told the then Lord Chancellor, That if there was no other Evidence against him but that of his being to have a hand in his Murder, the said Conyers would surrender himself; but the Lord Chancellor told the King, That there was other Evidence against him, of Matters of high Concern; and the Lord Chancellor told you in your Ear, That he would be Charged with the Fire of London, at which you were much appalled, and went to Conyers who you had planted in the Dark Lobby before the Council Chamber, that opened into the Privy Gallery, and you came out to Conyers, and bade him shift for himself; and when the Council sat down I was called in, and asked if I could make out any thing against Conyers as to the Fire of London, I told the King I could, and so Sir you must stand Charged in some respects to have had a hand in Firing of London.  
2. A second Step which you and the unwearied Enemies of the Protestant Religion in these Realms took towards the Extirpation of it, and the Subverting the Government was, to interest the French King in your Counsels; and you having in a great measure engaged him to assist you with Money, and with what else might be convenient for the Executing your Wicked Enterprises, I must justify this Point from your Letter to Lechaise the French King's Confessor, wherein you say thus : H● Most Christian Majesty offered me most Generously his Friendship, and the use of his Purse to my Assistance against the Designs of my Enemies and His: And professed unto me, That His Interest and Mine were so clearly linked together, that those who opposed the one, should be lo●kt upon as the Enemies of the other.  
Arlington, though a Papist in his heart, yet he was not of your Interest, therefore the French King told you his Opinion of that noble Lord; therefore you say thus to the French King's Confessor, and told me moreover his Opinion of my Lord Arlington and the Parliament, which is, That neither the one, nor the other, is in his Interest or mine, and thereupon he desired me to make such Proposals as I should think fit in this Conjuncture.  
Sir, give me leave to observe this to you, the Jesuits in the Reigns of Q. Elizabeth, and of K. James l. till the Match of his Son with France, laboured nothing more diligently than the advancing the King of Spain to the Universal Monarchy of Europe; but that Crown being by various ways and means much weakened and rendered wholly uncapable of aspiring any farther in that matter, the false and treacherous Jesuits have of late years applied themselves with mighty diligence to serve the Interest, and to promote the Grandeur of the French Monarch. In which your own Engagements do sufficiently appear, for how have you with those firstborn of Pride and Treachery kindled those Flames of War which have not only laid the most flourishing Provinces in Europe waste, and rendered the Kingdoms of Europe Fields of Blood, and with them do still nourish them to the Ruin and the Destruction of so many millions of men.  
For, Sir, did not you and your Party, by the Interests you had in almost all the Courts of the Princes of Christendom, influence some Princes to a Neutrality, and others to an open Confederacy with France, so that now the French Monarchy is in truth become very troublesome to all his Neighbours.  
But, Sir, give me leave to make this Observation to you, that the French King being arrived at this formidable Greatness, which he hath for several Years last passed stood in; you that plotted and contrived the ruin of these three Nations, drew him into your Counsels, and obtained his promise of Assistance to the rooting out of Heresy, and nourishing a misunderstanding between the King your Brother, and his People; and this you and your Conspirators conceived to be a main advance towards the attaining your wicked Ends and Purposes; for otherwise you would not have so much laboured the compassing that point by yourself, and your Servant, Coleman, who was taken in the midst of his pious Labour, and rewarded with the Triple-tree to your great satisfaction; for if he had lived, he might have told all, and some body else might have tasted Death in his place.  
But, Sir, I must come closer to the Point in hand, that is, your interesting the French King in your Councils; and in your Letter to the said Father Confessor to the French King, you say, I was much satisfied to see his most Christian Majesty altogether of my Opinion, so I made him answer by the same means he used to write to me, that is, by Coleman, who addressed himself to Father Ferier, and entirely agreed to his most Christian Majesty, as well to what respect he had to the Union of our Interests, as the unusefulness of my Lord Arlington, and the Parliament, in order to the Service of the King my Brother, and his most Christian Majesty, and that it was necessary to make use of our joint and utmost use of our Credits to prevent the success of those evil Designs resolved on by the Lord Arlington and the Parliament, against his most Christian Majesty and myself, which on my side I promise really to perform; of which, since that time I have given reasonable good proof.  
I pray, Sir, what was your Opinion? It was the French King's Opinion, which was that your Interests were so clearly linked together, that those that opposed the one, should be looked upon as Enemies to the other. Did you agree with the French King in any thing else? Yes, That the Lord Arlington and the Parliament, were not in your Interest, nor in the Interest of the French King. And I agree with you, Sir, in omnibus; but what of this? Then the Designs of Arlington, and of the Parliament must be prevented: What, I pray, were those? They were to engage the King; if possible, to enter into a League offensive and defensive with the State's General of the United Provinces, and to join with the Confederate Princes, and to enter into an actual War with France, and to advance the Prince of Orange by marrying your eldest Daughter to him: This last was done full sore against yours, and your Brother's Will, but the other were not done; so zealoufly you had engaged your Brother in the French Interest.  
That these were the Lord Arlington's designs, and the designs of that Part of the Parliament that gave themselves Leisure to design, is apparent from what you say in the same Letter, thus, Moreover, I made some Proposals which I thought necessary to bring to pass what we were obliged to undertake; assuring him, that nothing could be so firmly established, our Interest with the King my Brother, as that very same Offer of the help of his Purse, by which means I had much Reason to hope to persuade him to the Dissolving of the Parliament, and to make void the Designs of my Lord Arlington, who works incessantly to advance the Interest of the Prince of Orange and the Hollanders, and to lessen that of the King your Master.  
And did my Lord Arlington do so? It seems he did; and I think it was the only good thing that ever he did; for which he was to be destroyed, and the Parliament dissolved, and every thing that stood in the way of France and yourself; nay, a Parliament that is not in your Interest must not stand. We have seen into my Lord Arlington's Designs, I pray, what were yours and the French King's, for which you had made some Proposals, and compare them together: Yours and the French King's Designs were to ruin the Protestant Religion, as Coleman in his Letter to the Pope's Internuncio at Brussels, Aug. 21. 74. But Arlington's was to lessen, and if possible, he was to destroy the Interest of the French King. You had a mighty Work upon your hands, no less than the Conversion of three Kingdoms, and the utter Subduing of a pestilent Heresy, which had for some time domineered over this Northern part of the World: and you had never so great hopes of it, since your Queen Mary 's Days. The Lord Arlington he had a mighty Work in hand too, and that was to advance the Interest of the Prince of Orange and the Dutch, who were much in danger of being subdued by the French King. You for your Designs, next to God Almighty, you relied upon the mighty Mind of his Most Christian Majesty, for his Aid and Assistance: But Arlington did rely upon the mighty Mind of an English Parliament, for their Aid and Assistance. Your Design was to get the Parliament dissolved and never to have another; His design was to have this dissolved, and speedily to call another: Yours was for advancing the French Interest; and his, though he was a Papist, was for advancing the Interest of the Confederates, and to lessen the Interest of the French King: You were for Three hundred thousand Pounds, advanced by the French King, to give the Protestant Religion such a Blow as it could not subsist; but he, for nothing, was to give the French King and his Interest such a Blow as that should not subsist. The French King, by La Chaise, gives you and your Secretary thanks for your Zeal and Service in order to the promoting the Popish Religion: and I do not question but the Prince of Orange and the Dutch were as thankful, by their Ministers at our Court, to the Lord Arlington and his Party, for promoting their Cause and Interest with the Parliament: Your design was to establish a good Understanding between the King your Brother and his Most Christian Majesty and yourself, which you say Arlington and his Party endeavoured, by a thousand Deceits, to break, to the end they might supplant all three of you; but Arlington's Design was to establish a good Understanding and Intelligence between the Parliament, the Prince of Orange, and the States-General: You say that Arlington and his Party had used a thousand Deceits to carry on his Rogueries to betray the Councils of France and England; and you and your Party used Ten thousand Rogueries to betray England, Holland, and the Prince of Orange to the French King: You said, through the Deceits of the Lord Arlington, your Designs succeeded not, but through your Violence and Folly, his Designs succeeded to the Honour of God and the Happiness of the three Kingdoms and you are living upon the Charity of that Monster of Mankind whose Interest you advanced whilst you were here.  
But you will say, what is all this to the Purpose? Yes, it is much to the Purpose. You may see that the Nation knows well how you interested the French King in all your Councils, to change the Protestant Religion into downright Popery, and the well established Government into French Arbitrary Power; and were not your Party grown to such a height of Insolence, that they boasted openly of the Aid and Assistance the French was to give for the setting up the Romish Religion.  
3. A Third Step you took to ruin the Protestant Religion and the well established Government of England, was your unhappy Match with the Daughter of Modena. I must put you in mind what the Opinion of the then Parliament entertained of that Match, and that you may see in these following Particulars.  
1. That it would disquiet the Minds of the Protestants at home, and fill them with endless Jealousies and Discontents, and would bring the King your Brother into such Alliances abroad as might prove highly prejudicial, if not destructive, to the Protestant Religion itself. Now Sir, it was your main Design to inflame the hearts of the People, and put them upon a Ferment. And you engaged the King in the said Marriage, as might put him upon those Alliances as might weaken his Esteem with his People, and strengthen you and your Popish Cutthroats in your Conspiracy against the Peace and Tranquillity of the Nation: For, Sir, in a Letter of Coleman's to Ashby, the Rector of S. Omers, he saith, you commanded him to let the Fathers know, that that Match was to strengthen the Catholic Cause and Interest, and that now the King your Brother, who had engaged in it, would be engaged to unite himself in a more near Alliance to his Majesty of France, and the Princes of Italy, Apr. 2. 1674.  
2. That they had found by sad experience, that such Matches had encouraged Popery within this Kingdom, and had given Opportunity to Prieists and Jesuits to propagate their wicked and devilish Doctrines, and to seduce great numbers of the King's Protestant Subjects. You that had such a mighty Work upon your hands, as the Conversion of three Kingdoms, and the Subduing of a pestilent Heresy which had so long domineered in these Kingdoms; and it being a great Work, and the Labourers in your great Harvest being but few, and you being like to meet with mighty Opposition, as indeed you did, and an effectual one too, so that it did import you to have all the Assistance you could, that your Labourers might not be out of breath; and tho', next to Gods (or rather the Devil's) Providence, you did rely on the mighty Mind of his Most Christian Majesty, whose Generous Soul had inclined him to many Barbarous and Traitorous Undertake; and tho' his Temper was, in that, very much like your own; yet three or four Strings to your Bow, were more than one for the more Alliances abroad with Catholic Princes, would increase the Number of your Labourers in the Devil's Harvest: Therefore in order to this, what Alliances you were engaging your Brother in, you well know, and you cannot forget how all that Design was dashed, and by whom.  
But, Sir, you must be stone-blind, and so must your whole Party, if you did not see that Experience had taught my Lord Arlington and the Parliament how such Matches had been fatal to this Kingdom and to their Designs: The Match of the King, your Father, with the Daughter of France, was the first Step that was taken to advance Popery and the French Interest in England; and when she came over, what a Swarm of Priests and Friars followed her; and what Numbers of Priests and Jesuits she protected, and what Numbers were seduced in hopes of Employment under her, or of Preferment by her Grace and Favour; and how that unhappy Prince was influenced by her Councils till she had promoted a War in Scotland by the Influence of that old Incendiary, Cardinal Richlieu, and the Rebellion in Ireland, and the bloody Civil Wars here, which terminated in the Ruin, and, by the Just Judgement of God, in the untimely end of your Father.  
2. The Match of the King your Brother with the Daughter of Portugal, by whom he could, through the Blessing of God, have no Issue: This Lady, what she wanted in Understanding to be a Counsellor, she had made up to her, in the blessed Gifts of Malice, and Treason, and Revenge, which she exercised to the utmost: And what Swarms of Priests, Jesuits, Monks, and Friars were by her protected, and with what Zeal she promoted the Romish Religion, and protected Men that were in a Conspiracy against our Religion, Laws and Liberties; and how great Numbers were by her Priests perverted to the Romish Faith, to the great disquiet of the Government, the Parliament well knew: And therefore, Sir, you must know that the Experience they had of these two considerable Matches, how fatal they had been to these Kingdoms, was a sufficient Motive for to interpose in yours.  
3. The Parliament observed how your Devilish Popish Party were animated by the hopes of this Match before it was consummate, which were discouraged by the King's Concessions at the last meeting of that Parliament; you know what they were, the Breaking the Indulgence, and the Passing the Test Bill. My Lord Arlington and the Parliament were very prosperous in their Rogueries (as you called them) those Sons of Zerviah were then too many for you and your damnable Crew.  
It is remembered, upon the hopes of this Match, that a Protestant could scarce come within your Court at S. James', but he was affronted by your Popish Crew, and scarce a better Word than Damn you for a Heretic Dog; and when Complaints were made to you of these Insolences, the Complainer found no other Redress than, What Business had you there? insomuch that this sort of Carriage was observed by the Parliament, and upon this Consideration they interposed with all their Might, to hinder, if possible, the Consummation of the intended Marriage to that Italian Princess.  
4. They did greatly fear it would occasion the lessening the Affections of the People to your Person, and for that you were so nearly related to the Crown, they desired that your Honour and Esteem should be preserved: But had they known of your Traitorous Confederacy with the French King, and with him designing to subvert our Religion, Laws and Liberties, they would sooner have addressed for your being Banished from the King's Presence and his Councils for ever, if not to have sent you out of the World as you justly deserved.  
But, Sir, you may remember, that you once were the Darling of the Nation, and had the Esteem and Affections of the People, upon the Account of your being the Son and Brother of a King, and stood in a very near Relation to the Crown of England in the time of your Brother's Reign; but when your Traitorous Designs were laid open, the Parliament, Apr. 27. 1679. Resolved, That your being a Papist, and the Hopes of your coming such to the Crown had given the greatest Encouragement to the then discovered Conspiracy and Designs of the Papists against his Majesty your Brother, and the Protestant Religion: Notwithstanding this Vote of the House of Commons, you had an impudent Crew that did endeavour to persuade the Nation, and not without some Effect, through the Power of their bold Asseverations that you were no Papist, but of the established Religion; only that you were a Prince of more Generosity and Greatness of Mind, than to comply with the Capriccios of a Parliament, in Renouncing this, or Swearing to that, as they should in humour enact; which Roguery in Conversation passed with a great many Rascally Profligate Protestants, who would not believe your being a Papist, till the day you opened your Chapel or Oratory, the next, or next Sunday but one, after you took the Crown.  
5. The Parliament was of an Opinion, that for an Age after the Consummation of the said Marriage, at the least the People of England would be under continued Apprehensions of the Growth of Popery, and the Danger of the Protestant Religion; and so they were an Age before: For when they saw so many Piracies made on the Dutch Factories in the Years 1663., 1664. and a wicked War commenced in the Year 1665. and the City fired by Papists in the Year 1666. and the Papists encouraged, not only in the Years aforesaid, but in the Year 1667. and 1668. and Persons that had a hand in firing the City of London, not only protected, but preferred; and the Trpiple League broken, and another ungodly War proclaimed, Priests and Jesuits increasing in their Numbers, and their Insolences and Impudence: This increased the Fears and Jealousies of the Nation, and your first L●dy turning Papist and dying such; but when you married an Italian Papist, you had more Eyes upon you, and the People by degrees began to see into your Designs against the Protestant Religion and Government.  
That the Protestant Religion was by this means in danger, is beyond Disputation; for it had three great Enemies conspiring against it, that had made a League together, to destroy it and all those Princes and States that did intent to maintain and uphold it, viz. your Brother Charles, the French King, and yourself; and this Confederacy was set up to destroy the Prince of Orange, the Government of the States-General, and the Parliament of England; and this the Parliament feared, and therefore they interposed in this marriage.  
Object. But here an Objection will arise: Why should the Parliament object against this Match, and be so zealous in their Interposition to prevent this Match with the Daughter of Modena, since it is plain, you, in view of the World, had been for several Months engaged in a Treaty of Marriage with another Catholic Princess; yet a Parliament, nay that very Parliament held during the time of the Treaty, and not the least Exception taken at it? To this I Answer,  
1. That the Archduchess of Inspruck, though she was of the Romish Religion, yet she was an avowed Enemy of the French Cause and Interest: For observe this, there were many Papists, which, Sir, you hated, and by your Conspirators were looked upon with an evil Eye; for the Lord Castlehaven, that was one that served the King of Spain, was one that was used very hardly by you; Sir Kenelm Digby was also very obnoxious to you, and so was my Master, the Duke of Norfolk, being one of the Spanish Faction, and Anderson the Priest, and several others that I can, when called to it, name, who were Enemies of the French Faction: And this Lady being not of the French Faction and Interest, the Match, through the Influence of the French King, was broken, and this Piece of Flesh you have was, sent from Modena in her Room.  
2. The Match between you and that Duchess was never so near a Consummation, as this between the Daughter of Modena and you was de non Appaparentibus, & non existentibus eadem est Ratio; the Match did not appear to them; therefore they touched not upon it: But to make sure, they addressed the King that you might not match with Modena, or any other Popish Princess, for several weighty Considerations.  
6. The House of Commons considered, that your Princess of Modena being so near a Relation and Kindred to the many Eminent Persons of the Court of Rome, might give great Opportunities to promote their Designs and carry on their Practices amongst us, and by the same means penetrate into the most secret Councils of the King your Brother, and more easily discover the State of the whole Kingdom.  
It is observed, that it is a standing Rule amongst the Venetians, that if one of their Senators have a Relation that is made a Pope or Cardinal, or is preferred to any great Dignity in the Court of Rome, that the said Senator withdraws from, or is dismissed his serving in the said Senate. And the Reason is plain: First, Because they will not be imposed upon by any of that Vermin; and Secondly, Because they will not have their Councils looked into by any that belong to the Court of Rome; nor, Thirdly, Will they have the Secrets of their Government discovered to them; and lastly, they will not have the State of their Commonwealth exposed to the Censure of the Ecclesiastical State.  
Sir, You were no sooner married, but how Letters pass betwixt the Court of Rome and you self, and your servant Coleman. Jan. 4. 1676. Cardinal Howard, writing to Coleman, intimates, That Sir Henry Tichburn was appointed by you to be your Minister at Rome, and rejoiced at the Prorogation of the Parliament; and further said, That if the King would do well, than all would do well: Now, you know what was meant by the King's doing well, that is, if he were removed. In that Letter, he saith, he hoped to do you good Service. It is plain, that now not only France but Rome was also to be interested in your Councils, to destroy the King your Brother, and expose the Councils and Secrets of the Government to the View of the Court of Rome.  
Cardinal Howard in his Letter to Coleman, Feb. 8. 1676. saith, He doth all he can to serve you: He hath writ to Mr. Haies at his Brothers, moves, that your Brother's Ministers, may join with the Pope's Ministers about P. Furstenburg, and about the Peace, and that the Pope will send a Minister on purpose.  
In a Letter, on March 1676. signed Cardinal Norfolk, which was sent by an Express that was to return with what his Master and Mistress had to communicate. This was a Letter of Credence, and your Servant Coleman was to be he asked, who this Messenger was; and was accordingly asked, and would not tell, but, Sir, I will; and it was Signior Con, that went under the notion of an Italian, but was an old Scotch Priest, that was in the Conspiracy against Charles the First, and discovered by Habernfield to Sir William Bozwell, the English Ambassador at Holland, who discovered the same to the Archprelate of Canterbury, who was in a most Reverend Manner pleased to conceal the same by that King's Advice and Direction. This Con, that was near 80 years of age, was entrusted with some Secrets from Rome to yourself and Duchess; and what you had to communicate, you were to communicate it to him: And what was that? The King your Brother had promised to dissolve the Parliament. Coleman, with your Brother's Approbation and yours, drew up the Declaration, and a Copy was sent to Cardinal Howard; and the Resolutions you had taken to establish the Popish Religion, and what Measures were taken for the Destroying the Interest of the Lord Arlington and the Prince of Orange, and the Dutch at our Court: and this Con was to take an Account of the State and Condition of our Fleet, and of the Exchequer; and these were the things that you and your Spouse were to communicate to the Messenger that brought the Letter dated March 1676.  
March 14. 1676. The Cardinal, in his Letter, saith, That he ordered Mr. Leybourn, his Auditor to write— He understood that you had received his— That he used to direct his Letters for the Portugal Ambassador. For Mr. Coleman takes notice that Plunket had received Letters from Archbishop Talbot, at Rome, who offers his Service to you and the Catholics whether they will or no— He tells Coleman, that Talbot is enough to spoil all— His constant Custom is forging Letters— Saith, if you make use of him, you would disgrace yourself, and put the Catholics in Derision, which is the way to destroy them— which if then, the Cardinal and his Confriars must shut up their Shops— if he had not taken care, the Match between you and the Daughter of Modena had been broken off— that a Friend of his at Paris first set the Match on foot— he saith, he promoted the Match to serve you and the Catholic Religion in England; and saith, that he and his are in great Power at Rome and Spain — And saith, that it would prejudice you if you were partial— Complains of want of Countenance from the King your Brother— Proposeth a Barony to be got of the King for him to get Money for— Saith, that it would be no Scandalum Magnatum, tho', for a Catholic, than when Sir Francis Radcliff was in motion— Takes notice, that the Pope is not satisfied with the Education of your Daughters— Despairs not of getting a Pension from Rome for your Duchess' Secretary.  
In Cardinal Howard 's Letter of March 24. 1676. he takes notice of the Receipt of Letters on the 17th and the 20th of March, and also of your advancing the Catholic Religion, to the Joy of the Pope, by his of the 27th. fully completed their Joy— Hopes your Duchess would bring forth a happy Roman-Catholick. Thus, Sir, you see what Destruction you were then bringing upon the Nation, by exposing the King's Secret Councils and the State and Condition of the Nation, to the grand Enemy of the Protestant Religion and Interest.  
Now I have done with the Steps you took for the Destruction of these three Nations and the Protestant Interest in general, I come now to every particular Country and Nation, in which you may behold your Attempts there in particular; by which it will appear to what Ruin and Misery you had brought the Protestant Interest to: First I will begin with Holland.  

I. HOLLAND.  
YOU may remember, Sir, with what Respects that Protestant State received and protected your Brother and yourself as long as they durst, and what particular Friends your Family found there, who contributed in some measure to your Support, and made what Friends they could for yourself and Brothers, when you were by the French King Banished France: But how you have since treated the States-General, by engaging the King your Brother, in two most unjust Wars, to their great Impoverishing, and the Weakening the Protestant Interest: But you dealt with them as you did by all your other Friends and Allies. You not sooner received the Testimony of their Affections, but you forget it; and therefore it was well observed of Kirton your old Friend and Friar, that the only way for a Man to ruin his Family, was to engage in your Cause and Quarrel. You will do well to call to mind the Heats that you and your Incendiaries created in Holland, and the Animosities you caused, which cost the De Wits their Lives. Several Letters of Coleman's to the Jesuits of S. Omers, do highly magnify your prudent Conduct in that Affair; and what was the End of all those Heats and Flames you kindled, but to exasperate a considerable Party of Men against your Nephew the Prince of Orange; nay, your Malice against that Prince did not cease here, but most unnaturally you engaged the King your Brother to abandon him, and to comply with his and the mortal Enemies of this Nation; which was so unnatural, that an Infidel would not have been guilty of such Ingratitude as yourself, if you do but remember how the Prince's Father served yours. Your Malice yet went further; for the Lord Arlington using some Arguments with the King to have a more Regard to his Nephew the Prince of Orange, and the States-General of the United Provinces: What Care on the contrary did you use to prevent any good Intention of the said Lord Arlington towards the said Prince of Orange; and in order to this, you dispatched Letters to Ashby the Rector of the English College of S. Omers, and require him to write to the Confessor of the Emperor, to satisfy him that the King your Brother intended no less than the Ruin of the Confederates, especially of the Empire, and of his Catholic Princes under him, and that underhand he furnished the Hungarian Rebels against his Imperial Majesty, and found them Money to go on with their Rebellion, and that his Design was, not to have any Alliances with his Imperial Majesty but only in Show, that he might advance his Nephew the Prince of Orange; and in order to that, he had brought him over to the French Interest, which Letter, Sir, I saw, and the Instructions were followed to a Tittle by the Fathers at S. Omers.  
In those Letters the States-General were to be acquainted with this. Now, Sir, it is well known, that the King your Brother's being engaged in the French Interest, was no Secret at the Court at Vienna, nor with the States-General; but that the Prince of Orange was drawn into that Interest, this must be surprising: Therefore, Sir, we might easily see the secret Hatred you conceived against the Prince and his Cause, and Interest. You and your Conspirators could have been hearty glad of being blest with such an Ally; but because he was true to his Cause and Interest, you by your lying Jesuits did what you could to create a Jealousy in the then Confederate Princes, of the Sincerity of the Prince, to the Confederacy, and to the Interest of the United Provinces, in order to his Ruin. These Letters that were sent to the Emperor's Confessor, bore Date, Jan. 4. 1678. Stilo Novo.  
Sir, You may not forget the 12 Jesuits that Whitebread the Provincial of the Jesuits sent into Holland to create a Belief in the Dutch, that the Prince of Orange designed no less than the Subversion of the Government of the United Provinces, by procuring his Party to receive and own him as their King, and that it was the Design of the said Prince to assume the Title and Crown of a King, and change their Government, and make a Seizure of their Freedoms. These Jesuits were sent by Virtue of Letters sent from Coleman in your Name, and Money was sent over to be received at Dunkirk, the Sum was 4000 Crowns, to bear the Charge of the Mission into Holland, and the Bills were signed by one Busbie a Merchant here in London, the Money being paid in by Sir Allen Apsley; therefore, Sir, it may well be concluded who was at the Head of this Piece of Villainy.  
In a word, Sir, you see what means you and the rest of your Popish Incendiaries used to beget in the Dutch an ill Esteem of the Prince of Orange, and to widen the Difference between the Lovistein Party and his Friends; and, if possible, to seduce his Friends, and destroy his Interest, and the Interest of the Protestant Religion: and the best Title the Jesuits of St. Omer's used to give him, was Appletree Will; at which you were pleased; in the multitude of your witty Thoughts, to laugh, as Coleman used to tell us, when ever any Discourse happened concerning the Prince of Orange.  
But, Sir, you may say, That he was your Sister's Son, and that at that time you had married your Daughter to him, so that he was not only your Nephew, but your Son-in-Law, What then? How you and your Party used him, when he was your Nephew, the Princes of Europe saw, and the Honest Party of England resented his Usage, and had Thoughts of you accordingly, yea, and of your Brother to; but you pretend that you had married your Daughter to him. No, Sir, it was neither you nor your Brother married the Lady Mary to the Prince of Orange; it was something else, I had almost said the Siege of Charleroy, and the Advice of a worthy Minister of State upon the same: But suppose you had married your Daughter to the Prince of Orange, and that it was your own Inclination, to which I cannot yet be reconciled in my thoughts, but that after the Marriage you pursued his Ruin with as much vigour as you did before, give me leave to sum up the whole in a few words: You and your Accomplices resolved, That the Prince of Orange should not become Great, therefore he must be destroyed; and in order to effect so mighty and so great a Work, all means are used to stir up the Dutch to mutiny against him, upon that Diabolical Suggestion of your Conspirators, That he had designed, and was resolved to subvert their Government, and usurp a Crown and Title of a King: the Emperor is also instigated to create a Belief in the States-General, That the Prince designed the making himself Absolute; and oh how did you and your Party hug yourselves with the Expectation of a Breach between him and the States-General, so that his and the whole Protestant Interest might fail in Holland.  
In truth, when a Man reflects upon this Affair, he would wonder at your Barbarity, and naturally ask this Question, Why should this Prince aim at the Destruction of the Prince of Orange? Was he not his Sister's Son, his Son-in-law? What profit would it be to you to destroy him? An honest-thinking Man would hesitate at these things; but when he considers who it is attempts this, and for what cause, than it naturally follows there was a pretended Cause for such Diabolical Suggestions, and such Barbarous Designs.  
You that was his Uncle was converted to such a degree of Zeal, as not to regard any thing in the World in comparison of the Conversion of Heretical Kingdoms, and so your Interests we know were inseparately united to the French King, that it was impossible to divide them: You know that you used all means to secure His Most Christian Majesty's Interest in England, and that for many weighty Reasons; one among the rest was, That his and yours prevailing, would give the greatest Blow to the Protestant Religion that ever it received from its birth; then undoubtedly the Prince of Orange (through God's mercy now our Gracious King) at that time stood within a step or two of the Throne, and being a Protestant, aught in all Policy to be removed, notwithstanding his being your Nephew, and Son-in-law: For what do Men talk of natural Affection amongst Popish Princes? Was you not in a Conspiracy against Charles the Second, when he was at Brussels, though he was your own Brother, (or else he is basely belied?) And was not the Queen, his Mother, zealous in the same Conspiracy, notwithstanding he was her Son? Why then should any Man talk of natural Affection?  
Sir, you cannot forget that you had a mighty Work upon your Hands, that was, The Conversion of these Kingdoms, and subduing the Northern Heresy, and that your hopes of it were very great, and that you were zealous, to a miracle, of being the Author of so Glorious a Work: Your mighty Mind, and the Mighty Mind of the French King, were relied upon by the Conspirators; for that also that the Interest of the French King was highly attracted to that of yours. Why then should any wonder at your Passing a Bill of Exclusion upon the Prince of Orange, who the World knew (notwithstanding all your Hellish Suggestions both to the Emperor and States-General) stood ready with all his might to Baffle You, and the French King, and all your mighty Undertake.  
Consider further, That the Interest of the French King was highly attracted to your Interest; and this pleased you and your Party, and so you thought yourselves secure: But here was your Nephew and Son-in-law; his Interest was as highly attracted to that of England, Holland, and the Reformed Churches of Europe, to the Support of the Protestant Religion, which You and the French King were to destroy by the Name and Title of the Northern Heresy. I pray then what signifies a Nephew and a Son-in-law in such a Case as this? Can any Man that ever knew you, believe that natural Affection should interpose and prevent your destroying him, since your natural Affection and Bigotry were, and are still no Strangers in England or Holland.  
Consider once more, and then I have done with this Point: You may remember, that the French King did most generously offer you the use of his Purse, to assist against the Designs of those that were Enemies to you, and that Monarch: Nay, you know he protested, That those that opposed you he should look on them his Enemies; and you did as well protest, That those who opposed him you would look upon them as your Enemies; and it was the Opinion of the French King, that the Parliament of England was neither in his Interest nor yours, and you entirely agreed with him in that Thought of his; so that it was your Opinion, that it was necessary for you both to make use of your joint and utmost Credits, to prevent the Success of the Parliaments Evil Designs against you both. What, Designs against you and the French King? Yes, Designs against you, and the French King; nay, that which is more, a dangerous Plot. Who are the Plotters? And what was the Plot? my Lord Arlington was at work, without ceasing, to advance the Interest of the Prince of Orange, and the Hollanders, and to lessen that of the French King: And that he and several others were endeavouring to break the good Intelligence between Charles the Second, the French King, and yourself, wherefore you earnestly solicited the French King to assist with the Help of his Purse, to prevent such Rogueries.  
Thus, Sir, you make a Triple League, and set it up in Opposition to another: In the one, King Charles, the French King, and your sweet Self are engaged; in the other, the Parliament of England, the States of Holland, and the Prince of Orange, are engaged: The French is to furnish you with Money, which is the Sinews of War, the Parliament are declared Enemies, King Charles stands as a cipher only; and therefore the French King, and yourself, put yourselves under the solemn Engagements to perform what was stipulated, and strenuously to assist each other against the Designs of your and the French King's Enemies; for that there was a dangerous and desperate Design on foot, to advance the Prince of Orange, and to lessen the French King: And therefore, can any think that it was unreasonable in you, to endeavour to destroy him, since his Advancement was of such a desperate and dangerous Consequence to the French King, yourself, and Romish Religion? These things duly considered, no Man that hath his Thoughts and Judgement keeping pace with each other, but must from the Premises rationally conclude, That you and your Incendiaries must have a design of destroying the Prince and his Party, and Protestant Interest in Holland, notwithstanding any Excuses you may make to the contrary, or your Party for you.   

II. IRELAND.  
Since, Sir, you have not left so good a Name in Holland, as you might have pretended to, it is much to be feared that, upon enquiry, your Name and Memory will not be very precious here in Ireland. If you please to give me your Company thither, I'll assure you, if you deserve it, you shall have my good Word from thence, for all the old Favours I received from you in the Day of your Power here amongst us; but I suppose I shall find sad havoc there made by you, and your Plotters, of the Protestant Religion, and of the Civil Rights, Liberties, and Customs of the English and Protestant Interest.  
Sir, it pleased King Charles the Second to send the Lord Roberts as his Vicegerent into Ireland, who was a warm Man, and not at all Popishly affected, and therefore not for your Turn, or one that would gratify the Conspirators in any one Point of countenancing Popery, and therefore you procured him to be removed; so that Ireland was put into such Hands as your Heart and Soul could wish for: For whoever was Deputy, or Lieutenant, your Conspirator, boil, an Archbishop, was the Governor; a Fellow, ' tho' of the Communion of the Church of England, yet was a wellwisher to the Romish Mathematics. So Ireland was in a fair way to be Over-run and Ruined to all Intents and Purposes by yours; and the Procurement of the Jesuits.  
Upon the Removal of the Lord robart's, afterwards Earl of Radnor, you remember who succeeded him, and what Promises was made by this Successor, and what Terms you required from him, and how he complied, and who it was that recommended this new Lieutenant as a Person fit, to all Intents and Purposes, to execute your Designs: These things are worthy of consideration I assure you, for we have considered them; and what could be done in so little time as our King hath had, many of those Abuses have been corrected and amended. This Tool brought the Kingdom of Ireland into a sad condition, by encouraging the Popish Recusants, who are the professed Enemies to the Protestant Religion, and English Interest; by his, or rather your Encouragement, they grew more Insolent and Presumptuous than before that Tool of a Lieutenant came there, which was of a dangerous Consequence to that Kingdom, and the Protestant Religion, and English Interest: And it was like to have proved Fatal to that Kingdom, had it not been in some measure prevented, by the sending in his room that Great and never-to-be-forgotten Earl of Essex, whom you and your Party procured to be Murdered in the Tower, to make the Murder of the Good Lord Russel less difficult.  
1. For in the First Place, in the Month of January 1672/3. you procured a Commission of Enquiry into Irish Affairs, containing many Powers that were new and extraordinary, not only Prejudicial to the English, whose Estates and Titles were liable to be questioned, but in a manner to Overthrow the King's Acts of Settlement, which Commission you caused to be pursued, to the great Charge and Attendance of many of the Protestants there: And by this means you shook the Peace and Security of the whole Kingdom of Ireland. It is well known, Sir, that you gave the Jesuits great Hopes of making a fair Step to establish the Romish Religion; and old Grace, the Jesuit, in a Letter of February, 1672. exhorts the Fathers at St. Omers to be very thankful to God that he had put it into the Hearts of the King and Duke, to remember the sad Estate of the Catholic Religion in Ireland; and that now there was some Hopes of Establishing it there, since the Lord-Lieutenant was so well disposed towards it, by the especial Care of His Royal Highness.  
II. You were pleased to cause the Popish Party to be armed in that Kingdom, and some of them were Commanders to others; Instructions were given from Richard Talbot, than your Agent there, by your Order, for those of the Roman Catholic Party to furnish themselves with quantities of Arms; and this, your Conspirators said, were to keep the English in order. This, Sir, can be proved whenever there is occasion. No Man can think, that Sir Ellis Leyton, a Papist, that was Secretary to the Government, by your especial Grace and Favour, should not pursue the same Instructions that your Agent Talbot had received: Nay, give me leave to tell you, That your dear Brother was highly engaged to reduce that Kingdom to a Popish Establishment, according to the Agreement he had made with Madam, your Sister, to whom he had promised to begin the Establishing the Roman Catholic Religion in Ireland; and that High-Mass should, in a short time, be sung at St. Patrick's, in the City of Dublin, the Metropolis of that Kingdom.  
It is true, Sir Ellis Layton was a lewd Fellow; but there was none that did your Business, in jest, so well as he did, for the time of his residence in Ireland: For under the Notion of Ridiculing the Irish, he promoted every Man that was a Papist, if he had but common Sense, and a Place open. And it is well remembered what vast Quantities of Arms and Ammunition were daily sent from England to that Place, and considerable Quantities both from France and Spain, which your Party used to say, would do more good towards the Establishing the Catholic Religion than so many Bibles: And great care, Sir, was taken by you, to secure the poor Irish Catholics in the North, that the Planters of Ulster, and the Scotch, should give them no disturbance; that is, in plain English, they should themselves stand still, and be peaceably murdered by your Irish Cutthroats.  
3. How many Popish Judges, Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs, Coroners, Mayors, Sovereigns, and Portriffs, were made, by your Princely Care, in that Kingdom! And was this for the Preservation of the Protestant Religion, and the English Interest there? No certainly; it is well known, by several Letters of yours to Richard Talbot, and Sir Ellis Layton, that the Reason why you gave such Instructions, was to crush and ruin the Protestant Religion and the English Interest in that Kingdom; for you having Popish Judges, and Popish Sheriffs▪ you would quickly find Popish Juries, and Irish Witnesses to swear any thing against the Protestant Nobility and Gentry that stood in opposition to your Proceed in that Kingdom: Then, Sir, what Security had a Gentleman of his Estate, when Judges, Sheriffs, and Witnesses were against him? The many Instances of the Wrongs and Oppressions done to the Protestant English Gentlemen, the Records of your Villainous Court of Claims can tell how they were sworn out of their Estates and Fortunes by your Rogues and Banditti. I am certain that this Point being gained by You, and your Conspirators, it proved very Fatal to Ireland.  
4. You took great care of the Church too; not of the Protestant Church, but of your Popish Titular Archbishops, Bishops, Vicars-general, Abbots, and others, that had Power from Rome to exercise Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, that they should be established in particular. Sir, your old Friend Peter Talbot, the pretended Archbishop of Dublin, and your old Friend James Lynce, Archbishop of Tuam, both of them had been notoriously disloyal to the King your Brother, in that they had long lived in Disobedience to him, and in Contempt of his Laws: But, to cure that, you procured a Pardon for them both, which Boil the Chancellor passed under the Great Seal, by your special Command and Direction; nay, you hectored your Brother when he was unwilling to pass Talbot's Pardon, and challenged his Promise and Agreement made at Dover, at the Interview, with Madam his Sister and yours: And, Sir, that all things might appear with some Face of Grandeur, a Meeting of all the Popish Archbishops, Bishops, Vicars-general, Abbots, Priors, and Priests, for the settling and establishing their Clergy, both secular and regular, which was connived at by your Tool of a Lieutenant; upon which the Popish Party grew so insolent, that a Protestant went in danger of his Life amongst them: nay, to preserve their Stock, in many Places they were forced to pay Tithes to the Popish Priest, as well as to the Protestant Minister.  
But when the Earl of Essex was sent over, with much difficulty some small Check was put to these insolent Carriages of the Irish Papists; Tuam fled, and Talbot withdrew for a while, or rather absconded themselves, and the Public Popish Schools were put down, and many secular and regular Priests did departed the Land: For which, Sir, you hated the Earl of Essex, and Plunket you also despised, because he said, It was not Prudence for Catholics to live in Contempt of Law; and therefore you may remember how and by whom his end was promoted, and with what zeal you and your Party sent him out of the World; he was of the same Opinion with Cardinal Howard, that in whatsoever Business Talbot was engaged, he ever spoiled it, and he was impudent and false to his Party, for which the Jesuits turned him out of the Society; but that he might not in discontent leave the Church of Rome, the General of the Jesuits procured of the Pope that he might be made a Bishop. But this, Sir, I will assure you, That if Talbot when he was taken in Ireland, had been taken in England, he would have done You and your Party a signal Piece of Service; for Coleman had certainly given Evidence with him against you: So that your traitorous Correspondency with France, and Intentions to destroy the Prince of Orange, and the Protestant Religion within these Realms, and all over Europe, would have been so fully detected, that it had been almost impossible for you to have escaped the hand of Justice. Of this, Sir, I can give a particular Account, if ever there should be occasion: And Plunket himself gave you such an Item of Talbot's Intentions in that Point, that Coleman's Death was hastened, and Talbot died strangely in Prison, and so you escaped to do more Mischief: And how well you rewarded Plunket for his Good will towards you, is well known; and all to oblige your Cutthroat Jesuits, to whom they were mortal Enemies.  
5. On the 26th. of Febr. 1671. It is remembered, that for the better Encouragement of the Irish Papists, and that they might many of them live in greater Bodies together, you procured Letters from King Charles, your Brother, and a Proclamation, to give Liberty in General to all Irish Papists to live in Corporations, against the Act of Settlement; and to be excused from all those Oaths that were required from those who were duly licenced according to the true intent and meaning of that Act: And your Agents, Si● Ellys Leyton, and Richard Talbot, were very vigorous to see those Letters and Proclamations put in Execution: Then the Irish flocked into Towns Corporate, and other Market Port Towns of that Kingdom, to the great Terror of the English Protestants, and the Disturbance of their Trade. To redress which, how many Petitions were presented, setting forth the Calamity the Protestant Interest was exposed to, and what Danger they were in of losing their Trade both at home and abroad; and how they returned without any manner of Redress, but were ridiculed by Leyton, and abused by your Tool the Lord Lieutenant.  
It is well known that the Irish Papists (some few only excepted) did not understand Trade, and therefore the End for which they were let in to live in Towns Corporate, and into other Market-Towns within that Kingdom was, that they might overpower the Protestant Party and seize their Effects as they did in the Rebellion: They began in the Year 1641, and that they might get into Offices in those Towns Corporate, to keep the Protestants so much under as would incapacitate them to stand upon their defence, the Irish being well armed, and the English being disarmed by a private Order from yourself to the then Lord Lieutenant, which was discovered in the Papers found at Jolliff's house in Weldstreet, in Feb. or Jan. 1678/9, amongst Papers belonging to Sir Ellys Leyton.  
And for two or three Years together, great Inquiry was made by some of your Conspirators, for News out of Ireland; so big they were with the Expectation of a Rebellion there; which certainly had been if it had not been for fear of the Scotch, who were well planted in the North of Ireland, who with all the Bravery and Resolution that became honest Men and good Protestants to stand by the English, in opposition to the Irish; for which Cause you did use your utmost Efforts to have those Scotch that were so planted in the North of Ireland to be disarmed; but whether at that time your Design took effect I cannot well remember.  
6. Furthermore, you to carry on your wicked designs and purposes in that Kingdom for the better establishing of Popery and Arbitrary Power, and discouraging of the Protestant Religion and English Interest. You procured Letters of the King your Brother, bearing date, Septemb. 28th. 1672. and upon that Letter so procured, there was an Order of Council of that Kingdom, in which Letter, and by which Order, the English Protestants were strictly charged and commanded, upon pain of his high Displeasure, not to prosecute the Irish Papists, in any Actions whatsoever, for any Wrongs or Injuries committed by them, during the late Rebellion. Nay, Sir, you would not have it called a Rebellion, but you desired it might be called rather the late Troubles, which you could not obtain; and rather than your Teagues should lose the Benefit of the said Letter, you were content to have it called a Rebellion; and the Reason was, you and your Brother too were well satisfied who had a hand in it, and first stirred it up; witness, the Parchments that were found in the Red Trunk in Jolliff's House in Weld-street, and the Letter written in the behalf of the Marquis of Antrim, to your Devilish Court of Claims, in which the principal Author of that Rebellion was made manifest, but that by the Way only.  
In that Rebellion, what Murders, Rapines, Thefts, and barbarous Outrages were for some time daily committed by the Irish Papists, upon the poor Protestants, some yet alive in both Kingdoms to testify: And yet, of your tender Care of those Barbarous Cutthroats, you would not have them answer at Law, for any of the aforesaid Villainies, and why? Because what they did, was in Zeal for the Catholic Cause, to which, you by a Miracle was converted, insomuch, that for the promoting of it, you had regard neither to Law, or Justice, Sense, or Reason: Nay, some that did sue those Murderers before that damnable Court was set up, were much discountenanced by your Party there, and by yourself here in England, if they had occasion to make any Application to yourself for any Favour or Kindness.  
7. You constituted Richard Talbot Agent from yourself to the roman-catholics, and they constituted him their Agent to you from them, for which Talbot had a sufficient Pension to whore and game withal; and, give the Devil his due, he answered his Trust with all the Care, Fidelity, and Diligence both to you and the Popish Party. Not only so, but you procured for him the said Talbot, a Command in Ireland, as a Reward for his great Services done. Of this Agency of the said Talbot, Dr. Tongue, and Mr. Thomas Jones, your quondam Chaplain, having some clear Proof, they made Application to the King your Brother, and he ridiculed the Business, and said, That Talbot was not only a Blockhead, but was in no manner fit for an Agent for any party, he being also a Man too much addicted to his pleasures; and you met with Jones, and asked him whether he was turned from a Preacher to an Informer, and told him he had pitched upon a very unlikely man for an Agent. Thus was any Truth, that was against Poperty or Papists, brought by any honest Man, hissed of the Stage by your Brother and yourself. Sir, I confess you would have used me so when I charged him with a Commission from some body, to be General Governor, and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; and the King then told me how Tongue and Jones had been to inform him that Talbot was an Agent from the Popish Party in Ireland to the Duke, and an Agent from the Duke to the Popish Party, which he rejected as an improbable thing; but the Story I told him was more improbable: I discovered his Agency, and made out that by Letters under the hand of the said Talbot; so that Tongue and Jones were justified, and you did, in a few Years, so justify that part and so many particulars of my Testimony in that Affair, that your very Passive Obedience Rogues began, when it was almost too late, to look about them: For in time he was General of the Army in Ireland, in the time of the Earl of Clarendon's Regency, and after him, to the sorrow of many Unbelievers, he was by you made Lord Lieutenant.  
8. Your Conspirators received a Letter from Talbot, the pretended-Archbishop of Dublin, wherein it was expressly said, That your Jesuits in Ireland, and others were preparing the Irish Papists to Rise in defence of their Liberties and Religion, and to recover their Estates, and that if the Parliament that was to sit in England, did engage hearty with the King, and the King with them in a War against the French King, that a place or places should be opened to receive the French King's Army in Ireland, whenever his most Christian Majesty should think fit to send one. And by Order from Coleman and the Jesuits in London, the Fathers at the English College at S. Omers, were to advertise the Father Confessor to the French King of the same; and other Jesuits that had an Interest in the French King, and the Fathers of S. Omers were assured that the King your Brother was brought to that state of Security, that if any Malcontent among them should not prove true to them and their Design, his Majesty would not give ear to their Information, and therefore prayed them to be diligent, for now was the time or never; and accordingly Messengers were sent to Father La Chaise, viz. Edward Nevil your Confessor, and William Busbie, to carry the aforesaid Letters to La Chaise, and these did bring home La Chaise's Answer, and withal several Letters that Coleman had written to him upon that Affair in your Name, and by your Command, that bore date in the month of January, as these also did in the month of January 1677/8. some little time before the Parliament sat down: And then, Sir, there was a Pension obtained for Coleman, your diligent Secretary, of 2000 Crowns a Year, and another from Rome, but what that was I do not so well remember: But this is not to be forgotten, that the Fathers of S. Omers had great Assurance of considerable Sums from the Pope, and from the General of the Jesuits, if any Progress were made in that Glorious Attempt.  
Here, Sir, you and your Party signalise yourselves in several particulars worthy of your being put in mind of, 1. The great Preparations that were made for the Rising of the Irish Papists. 2. That the great Design of Rising, was for the Defence of their Liberties and Religion. 3. You were not certain but that your Brother might engage in earnest with the Parliament for entering into an actual War with France. 4. That in case he should, your Conspirators would let in French Forces into Ireland. 5. That your Brother was brought to such a state of Security, that if any Malcontent amongst you should not prove true to you or your Design, he would not give ear to their Information.  
1. The great Preparations that were made for the Rising of the Irish Papists, and this your Agent Talbot was engaged in, and your Secretary Coleman was privy to it, and you too, by the Letters that Coleman wrote by your Order to the said La Chaise, with whom you yourself left this Jesuit to correspond, Coleman being a Servant to you, and a trusty one too. But there were many Protestants that had their Eyes opened, and made their Observations of the Carriage of your Teagues, how imprudently insolent they had been, and how they were Armed and Countenanced by some in the Government, and therefore they can attest the Truth of this Proposition of mine, and they are Men of unexceptionable Credit. So that if you will try the Merits of the Cause, you may come forth and be heard.  
2. That the great Design of Rising was for the Defence of their Liberties and Religion, and the Recovery of their Estates. You know, Sir, that you were converted to the Religion of the Church of Rome; and you were so zealous for it, even to a Miracle, that you regarded nothing in the World in Comparison of your Religion: And so it was with your Friends here in Ireland; and whilst the English Protestants were uppermost, you had instilled this Principle in them, by your Jesuits, and other Conspirators, that they were but Slaves: And as for those that could not recover their Estates, forfeited by Rebellion, by the dint of Perjury, they must try by the dint of the Sword to destroy the English Protestant Interest; or else they were not only Slaves, but Beggars too into the bargain.  
3. They were not certain but that the King your Brother might engage in earnest with the Parliament, in an actual War against France; you know, Sir, he had been but uncertain in his Proceed with you in this damnable Conspiracy, for he had broke the Engagements that he had made with Madam your Sister, in the Establishing the Popish Religion in Ireland, and that he had passed the Test Bill in England; and that he refused to sign Coleman's Declaration, for the dissolving the Parliament, notwithstanding his solemn Engagements to you and your Party to do it; and that he received the Sacrament in his Chapel according to the Usage of the Church of England, though he had received the same but that morning, from Ireland the Jesuit, according to the Rites of the Church of Rome; and therefore neither Teague nor yourself were sure of him.  
4. In Case he should hearty engage with the Parliament, in an actual War against France, your Conspirators would let in French Forces into Ireland, and so they did when you Traitorously Invaded that Kingdom, and what they did for you then, they would have done as much for you eight or ten Years before. They were zealous for the Popish Religion, and so were you, and your Interests were both one, and they are to this day; I think I need not go further to prove that Point.  
5. The King your Brother was brought to such a state of Security, that if any Malcontent amongst you should not be true to you or your Design, he would not give ear to their Information: you know who it was that so governed the King, and led him by the Nose, but you supposed yourselves safe: But this remember, that when Information was made of this Hellish Conspiracy, the King your Brother heard it, and the Evidence was so strong, and the Plot made so plain, that he could not gainsay it, he being in every part of it himself, excepting that of his own Life; and was convinced that the Parliament ought to have the Examination of the same put into their hands, which was accordingly done. And what the Parliament, that was within some few days after the Discovery thereof to sit, did do, and what Credit they gave to it, and three other Parliaments, you and your Followers cannot forget.  
9 Your Conspirators, the Jesuits from St. Omer's, were made acquainted, by Letters, from those of London, in conjunction with your Servant Coleman, That William Morgan, and one Lovel, Jesuits, were dispatched as Messengers into Ireland, to see how Affairs stood there; and this Morgan's, and his Companion's Charges were paid by the said Coleman, who gave them Instructions, in your Name, to encourage the Irish Papists, to defend their Religion and Liberties: And Coleman, and the Jesuits transmitted 2000 Pound for the Supply of their present Wants; and a Promise of 4000 Pound was, in your Name, made by Coleman, and the Jesuits, in case there should be any Action.  
But, Sir, these Messengers, Morgan and Lovel, they went away on the last of January, 1677/8. and returned the latter part of March following, and gave such a melancholy Account of Peter Talbot's lavishing the Money that you had in a special manner entrusted him withal, and not applying the same for the use of the Irish, as you had directed, that it struck a great Damp upon the Minds of your Conspirators here in London: and, That the said Talbot had forged Receipts of several Sums of Money by him paid to several of their Officers, though the same were neither paid by him, nor yet received by them; and not only so, but that the Protestants in the North of Ireland were much alarmed at those Quantities of Arms and Ammunition that were put into the Hands of the Irish Catholics.  
10. Your Conspirators, Coleman, and the Jesuits in London, received Letters from St. Omers, written from Father Ireland, (not he that was hanged, for his own Name was Ironmonger; but this Man's own Name was Saltmarsh) That Care was taken for the Destruction of the Duke of Ormond in Ireland, he being then Lord-Lieutenant there: And for what Reason? Because he had refused, Sir, to join with you in Breaking the English Interest in that Kingdom; though, Sir, you may remember, that the said Duke was a Person very Obsequious to your Brother, and yourself; and the Reason why you could not get him to engage with you in Omnibus, was his own Safety and Ease. Yet when you acted, by the King's Command, the said Duke never failed you; nor did his Son, the Earl of Ossory, which cost that good Gentleman many a Sigh when he came to die; for the Business of the Smyrna Fleet, and the Wicked War against the Dutch, stuck upon his Soul to the last Minute of his Life. But I say, Because the Duke of Ormond would not push on every thing you put upon him, he was not for your turn; though, give him his due, he had gone farther than his Inclinations lead him, to please your Mind.  
11. In the last place, when you took the Crown, you in a short time put the whole Government into the Hands of the Irish Papists, by which means the English Protestant Interest was in great danger to be lost; and the Protestant Inhabitants were under the daily Fears, through your Grace and Favour, of having their Throats cut; nay many, daily, by your Cutthroat Teagues, were, by your especial Direction, basely, inhumanely, and barbarously murdered. So that some tasted of that Cruelty which others justly apprehended from the Arbitrary Power you set up there: Some of them left the Kingdom, and abandoned their Estates, calling to mind that Cruel and Bloody Massacre which fell upon their Fathers in that Kingdom, in the year 1641. And to crown your Work, you traitorously invaded that Kingdom, and called a Number of your Villains together, and christened them by the Title and Name of a Parliament; and what you did by their countenance, many yet alive can tell. But Doctor King, an old Passive Obedience Friend of yours, hath painted you out at large in those particular Carriages of yours, when you, with your French Myrmidons, invaded that Kingdom.  
But, Sir, let me tell you, That Great William our King hath endeavoured, and doth still study to bring Ireland into such a State, that the Settlement of the Protestant Religion may there be religiously observed, and the Protestant English Interest may be secured against any Effort of yours, or your Irish Teagues to the contrary notwithstanding.   

III. SCOTLAND.  
You having played your Game so well in Ireland, it will not be amiss to cast our Eye upon that Quondam Ancient Kingdom, and see how you managed there; for as you managed Ireland by a Tool that succeeded the Lord Roberts, so in Scotland You and your Brother acted by Lauderdale, for he brought all the Laws and Liberties of Scotland to the Council-Chamber, bringing all Persons and Causes of any moment to your Arbitrary Council, who acted as Lords Paramount without control; and so zealous were you, by him, to promote and support the French Interest there, that continually new Levies were making in Scotland for the Service of the French King, tho' at that very time we were pretending a French War in England. You remember, Sir, that by your Influence upon the King your Brother, and on the Council of Scotland, you make them use all the diligence that was possible to get an Army there, to be a standing Army in the room of the Militia of that Kingdom, the Militia being not thought fit for your Popish Designs: And the means to effect the same, you pitched upon those you judged to be the most effectual; which was, first to Oppress and Enrage the Dissenters: and this could not be better accomplished, than by disturbing and prosecuting their Meetings, and Religious Assemblies for the Worship of God; which You and your Conspirators did with all imaginable diligence. And you having found out a new way by caution, your Conspirators devised a Bond should be imposed upon every Man they marked out for Ruin, as being Enemies to their Arbitrary Proceed; which Bond was, That the Landlord should be bound for his Tenant, the Master for his Servant, and the Husband for the Wife, and Father for the Children, not to go to Conventicles: Which you knew many would not do; for that the People of Scotland generally hated Praelatical Government. But this way they thought would so enrage the People, whom they fore-knew would not part with their Meetings, that they doubted not but to force a Rebellion; and thereupon have a fair Pretence to raise Forces for the Security of the Kingdom against restless Metres and Meetings. Which Design, Sir, You and your Party in that Kingdom did at last effect.  
Another Device you and your Conspirators had of seizing the Field-Meetings by the armed Forces, and destroying them both in Bodies and Estates, and dragging them to Gaols, and then by whole Shiploads selling them to the Plantations as Condemned Men; and Shiploads coming here for London, they, by one way or another, got their Liberty. Was this of the Bond all? And was the Selling of them all? No: For You and your Conspirators found out another way, by the Tyranny of Duke Lauderdale; and that was this:  
There was a Warrant procured from the Council of Scotland to disarm divers Shires and Lowlands of that Kingdom; and when that would not exasperate them, than another Order was procured to order the High-landers, a sort of barbarous Papists, to be armed, and by whole Regiments to come down upon the Inhabitants, spoiling and destroying the whole Country, living amongst them at discretion; and these very High-landers, thus armed, under the pretence of keeping the Peace, had, in their Commission from your Brother's and your Council in Scotland, Authority to live at Free Quarter upon those Inhabitants, which they did divers Months together, to the destruction of the poor People. And all this was to procure a Rebellion at any rate.  
But least this should be too general, I will descend to some Particulars, that the thing may be plain, to your Ragged Regiment at St. Germane, and your Hellborn Cutthroat Crew here in England.  

I. I will show you, in several Particulars, how your Brother and You invaded the Rights of the Good People of Scotland in general.  
II. I will give you to remember some Instances of your Brother's, and your Barbarity to particular Persons.  
III. Your Brother's and your way of using your Prisoners.   
I. Give me leave to put you and your Conspirators in mind of several Particulars, in which your Brother and you invaded the Rights of the good People of Scotland: And that this Point may be more plain, I will illustrate it in these following Particulars.  
1. Your Conspirators in Scotland did most grossly, falsely, and impudently misrepresent to the King your Brother, and yourself, the Condition of the Western Counties of the Kingdom of Scotland, as if they had been in a State of Rebellion; tho' it is well known that they had never made any Opposition to the King's Authority; nor did they resist any of the King's Forces, but patiently submitted to the Execution of the Laws: But You and your Conspirators purposing to have the King's Authority to carry on your sinister Designs, You, with your Conspirator Lauderdale, and the rest of your Popish Crew, advised the King (who was not difficult in that Point to consent) to raise an Army against the Protestants in Scotland; and a Letter was signed by your Brother, and sent to the Council of Scotland. Upon the Receipt of this Letter, your Conspirators, the Council of Scotland made out Orders for the Raising an Army of about Eight or Nine thousand, the most or which were Popish Highlanders: Which, Sir, was so wicked a Contrivance, that the Nobility and Gentry of the Western Counties did send to Edinburgh, and for the Security of the Peace did offer to engage, That whosoever should be sent, the Laws should be put in execution, and should meet with no Affront; and that they would become Hostages for their Safety. Yet this Army so raised by You, and your Conspirators, with the Colour of the King your Brother's Authority, was marched into a Peaceable Country, and did, according to their Commissions, take Free Quarter; and in most Places levied great Sums of Money, under the Notion of Dry Quarters; and did Plunder and Rob the Protestants, of which no Redress could be obtained, though Complaints were daily made of these Barbarities: For your Brother and You were resolved, that nothing should satisfy your Cruelty, but the extirpation of those who did not comply, without reserve, with your Arbitrary Proceed.  
2. That it was apparent, that your Design was not only to destroy those that went to Field-Meetings, but also the whole Protestant Interest; for those that were Field-Meeters, were but tenderly used, in comparison of those who went to Church, who were most quarrered upon, and destroyed; those of the Field-Meeters, parting with their Moneys to be excused as long as they were able; and when those poor Wretches had no more Money to satisfy your dragooning Apostles, they were miserably used by them: By which means several Families were Ruined, and brought to starve for want of Bread.  
3. The Protestants also were required to subscribe exorbitant and illegal Bonds, which was impossible to be performed by them, which was against the Law of Nature, which is, no Man is bound to impossibilities, viz. That they, their Wives and Children, Servants and Tenants, should live orderly, according to Law, and not go to Conventicles, or entertain Vagrant Preachers, with several other Particulars; by which Bond, those that signed it were liable to answer for all Men's Transgressions that lived upon their Lands: Which was so hard a Case, that Coleman himself thought, that if that did not make them Rebel, nothing would.  
4. That many of the Protestants of that Kingdom, within those Counties, were proclaimed Rebels, and Writs issued forth for the seizing of their Persons, upon their refusing the aforesaid Wicked and Illegal Bond; and the Nobility and Gentry within those Counties, who had been ever faithful to the Crown, and had appeared in Arms for the King, were Discharged upon Oath, and a Proclamation was by your procurement Issued out, forbidding the Nobility and Gentry, upon great Penalties, to keep any Horses above Four pounds Ten groats a Piece.  
5. That the Protestant Nobility and Gentry of the Shire of Air, at your Instance and Suggestion, were, by the King's Order to the Advocate-General, indicted of High-Treason, and other high Crimes and Misdemeanours. These Indictments were delivered to them in the Evening to be answered by them the next Morning upon Oath, and when they did demand two or three days time to consider of their Indictments, and craved the Benefit of having Counsel to advise withal in Matters of so high Concernment, and also excepted against their being put to swear against themselves in Matters that were Capital; those desires were rejected, and were told they must swear instantly, or be reputed guilty.  
6. Notwithstanding the Imposition of the Oath was illegal; and the denying of Time to consider of their Indictments; and to have Lawyers allowed them to advise withal, had never been denied to the greatest of Malefactors; nor, indeed, could be by the Laws of that Kingdom, yet for all this, these Noblemen and Gentlemen knowing their Innocency of all that had been charged upon them, did purge themselves by Oath, of all the Particulars that were objected to them, and were thereupon acquitted, and though the Conspirators in the Committee of Council used the severest manner of Inquiry to discover any seditious or treasonable Designs, which were pretended as Grounds for marching that Army into those Western Counties, yet nothing ever could be proved. So false was that Suggestion concerning a Rebellion then designed by them, though hearty desired by you and your Conspirators.  
7. The Oppressions, notwithstanding the Acquittal of those Noblemen and Gentlemen of the said Counties, continuing upon them, they went to Edenburg, to represent to the Council the heavy Pressure they and their People lay under, and were ready to offer to them, all, that in Law, or Reason, could be required of them, for securing the Peace: The Council being Conspirators with your Vice-Tyrant Lauderdale, I did immediately upon their appearing there, set forth a Proclamation, requiring them to departed the Town within three days, upon very great Penalties. And when the Duke of Hamilton did petition for leave to stay for two or three days longer upon some very urgent Affairs of his own, that was refused him.  
8. That when some Person of very great Quality, had declared to the Villain Lauderdale that they would go and represent their Condition to the King, since they could not have Justice from his Ministers. But to prevent that, a Proclamation was set forth, forbidding all the Subjects to departed the Kingdom of Scotland without Licence, so that the King might not be acquainted with the Condition of the poor Protestants, and that they might not apply to him for Redress though it would have been to little purpose, he, and you, and this Lauderdale being in the Conspiracy to have them destroyed.  
2. Give me leave in the Second Place, to remember you of some particular Persons that were Oppressed by you and your Wicked Instrument, the said Duke Lauderdale; they were Persons of great Note, for their Quality and Worth, and their Oppression so great, that the Protestants in Scotland were apprehensive that all Protestants might be, upon the slightest Occasions, brought under the like Oppression; for you, and your Conspirators there managed your wicked Designs and Purposes with all the Dexterity and Diligence that Men that had a Mighty Work upon their Hands, and Mighty Minds to go through with it, could do for you and your Party; there being of the Council upon many occasions proceeded to a new kind of Punishment; for those who would not comply with your Villainous Designs of bringing in of Slavery, so that Popery might the more easily be introduced into that Kingdom, viz. Of declaring Men of Public Trust, whereby the greatest Persons were Rob of their Honour, and a Slain laid not only upon them but upon their Posterity also; nay, the Parliament itself was Branded with Infamy, by such a Severe and Illegal Sentence by Lauderdale himself in the time of the Lord Middleton's Government, yet he by your Procurement, and the express Command of your Brother King Charles, caused it to be done in the lower Courts.  
I will Sir, for the satisfaction of your Bloody Cutthroats, both here at home, and your ragged Crew at St. Germains, put you in mind of several Instances in which that Bandog Lauderdale, served your Brothers and your wicked Designs and Purposes.  
You may remember the Twelve Worthy Protestant Citizens of Edinburgh that were declared uncapable of Public Trust, against whom no Complaint was made as can be made out, against you; but you will say, What was the Cause? Then I Answer, These Men being Magistrates of that City, refusing to part with the public Money of the City to Lauderdale for what Uses you know well enough, they, I say, were turned out, and Conspirators of your own Stamp put in their Places, and then the Public Money was drawn out of the City's Bank at the desire of the Conspirators.  
The Provosts of Aberdeen, Glascow, and Gadburgh, were put under the same Sentence for Signing a Letter to the King your Brother, in a Convention of Boroughs, Stating a true Account of their great Oppressions by the Conspirators; which Letter was Signed by the whole Body, and the Letter was advised by your Brother's Advocate, as a Letter that had nothing in it which could bring them under any Gild; yet those were there singled out of the whole Number, and Incapacitated, besides, a high Fine and a long Imprisonment.  
Sir Patrick Hume, since a Peer of that Kingdom, not of your Creation, but of the Creation of our Gracious King that now is: This worthy Person being sent by the Shire of Berwick, to complain of some illegal Proceed, in Order to obtain a legal Remedy and Redress, which he did only in the Common Form of Law, was also declared uncapable of Public Trust, besides many Month's imprisonment; and since then, he was another time imprisoned for almost one whole Year, and nothing ever was charged upon him.  
The Provost of Linlithgoe being complained of, for not furnishing some of your Brother's Forces with Baggage-Horses, was called before the Council, and because he said they were not bound in Law to furnish Horses in such a manner, he was immediately declared Incapable of Public Trust, and was both fined and imprisoned.  
Your Conspirators, as they were diligent, doing yours and the Devil's Drudgery, they sometimes outdid themselves to please you; for at one time they incapacitated 50 of the Town of S. Johnstons', upon a very slight Pretence; insomuch that they could not find a sufficient number of Citizens for the Magistracy of that Town.  
It is well known, Sir, that for your Brother's Service and yours, and for the carrying on of your cursed Designs in that Kingdom of Scotland, several Protestants, upon slight, and, oftentimes, upon no Ground, were imprisoned, and sometimes kept Prisoners for many Months, nay Years, though nothing hath been objected to them. Some have been required to enter themselves Prisoners, contrary to the Laws of that Kingdom; a particular Instance you made of Lieutenant-General Drummond, whose great Loyalty could never be forgotten, he was required to enter himself a Prisoner in the Castle of Dunbarton, where he was kept for eighteen months' time, nine of which he was made a close Prisoner; yet nothing was objected to him to give the least Colour for that usage.  
The Lord Cardross, a Man of great Virtue and Integrity, was for his Lady's keeping two meetings in her House, though he was present at neither of them, fined Eleven Thousand Pound Sterling; and was kept several Years a Prisoner in Edinburgh Castle, and was a frequent and a long Petitioner for his Liberty, and could not find for a long time the least Inclination in any of the Conspirators; nay, Application was made to the King, but from your incensing the King against him, his Petition was rejected.  
Besides all these illegal Imprisonments, the King your Brother, and yourself, had Rogues of a deeper Dye; they were Officers in your Cutthroat Army in Scotland; these carried with them General Warrants for the apprehending of any Person that the Conspirators had a spite to, though under no legal Censure, nor have been so much as cited to appear, which put many of the poor Protestants to very great Fears as also to great Expense (Just, Sir, as your Atterburies' and the rest of your cursed Messengers did here in England in the time of your Tyranny.)  
Captain Castaires, a notable Villain, and fit for a Dragooning Apostle for the Devil's Service and yours, did entrap one Kirkton an outed Minister of Jesus Christ, into his Chamber at Edenbourgh, and did violently abuse him and designed to extorted some Money from him; the Noise of this coming to the Ears of one Baily, Brother in Law to the said Kirkton, he came to the House, and hearing him cry Murder, Murder, forced open his Chamber Door, where he found his Brother in Law and the Captain grappling; the Captain pretended he had a Warrant against Kirkton, and Baily desired him to show it, and promised that all Obedience should be given to it; but the Captain refusing to do it, Kirkton was rescued. This was only delivering a Man from one of your Robbers according to the Law of Nature. The Captain complained of this to your Conspirators, and the Lord Hatton, with others of the same Kidney, were appointed to examine the Witnesses; and when it was brought before the Council, the Duke of Hamilton, the Earls of Morton and Dumfrize, and Kincardin, the Lord Cocheren, and Sir Archibald Primrose, than Lord Register, desired, that the Report of the Examination might be read; but that not serving the Designs of your Conspirators, was denied: Thereupon those Lords delivered their Opinions, That since Castaires did not show any Warrant, nor was clothed with any public Character, it was no Opposition to the King's Authority, in Bailie to rescue the said Kirkton: But for this Opinion, the King your Brother, and yourself, and Lauderdale, put these Lords out of the Council, and out of all Command in the Militia, and though it could have been made appear that he had no Warrant at all against Kirkton, but procured it after the Violence committed, and it was antedated on design to serve a turn at that time; yet the said Bailie was fined 6000 Marks and kept in Prison for a long time; which sort of Proceed put the poor Protestants under sad Apprehensions.  
3. Now, Sir, I pray remember how your Conspirators used the poor Protestants when they had them in Prison. There was fourteen Men taken at a Field Meeting, who, without being legally convict of that or any other Crime, were secretly and in the Night taken out of a Prison upon a Warrant signed by the Earl of Linlithgo, and the Lords Hatton and Collington, and were delivered to Captain Maitland, who had been Page to Duke Lauderdale, but after, a French Officer, and was making his Levies in Scotland, and were carried over to the Service of the French King, in the Year 1676.  
Your Conspirators in Scotland did, for your Brother's Service and yours, upon many Occasions proceed to the most unreasonable and arbitrary Fines either for slight Offences, or for Offences where the Fine is regulated by Law, which they have never considered when the Persons were obnoxious to them. So the Lord Cardross was fined 11000 l. for his Ladies keeping two Meetings in his House, and Baptising a Child by an outed Minister, without his Knowledge; the Provost formerly mentioned, and Baily, and many others were also fined without any Regard had to the Law.  
4. Give me leave, Sir, to put you in mind of a fourth Piece of Villainy acted by you and your Brother upon the Protestants of Scotland. Your Conspirators, by your Brother's Authority, and your Procurement, did several times proceed to take away gentlemen's Dwelling houses from them, and to put Garrisons into them, even in the time of Peace, contrary to all Law, Justice, and Reason. In the Year 1675, it was designed against twelve Protestant Noblemen and Gentlemen, and executed upon the Houses of the Earl of calendar, the Lord Cardross, the Lady Lumsden, etc. and it was again attempted in the Year 1678, upon the Houses belonging to the Lairds of Chesnock, Blaghan and Rowallane, and they were possessed by Soldiers and declared Garrisons: Nor did it rest here, but your Conspirators sent Orders, and required the Countries about those Houses, to furnish them for the use of your Soldiers, and to supply them with Necessaries, contrary to the Laws of that Kingdom: It was against this, that Sir Patrick Hume, now a Peer of Scotland, applied himself to the Conspirators to have Redress; and common Justice being denied him, he used a legal Protestation in the ordinary Form of the Law of that Kingdom, and was thereupon kept many Months in Prison, and declared uncapable of all Public Trusts.  
5. I must put you in mind how you by your Conspirators endeavoured to kindle a Flame amongst the Scotch; for since you had disobliged so many of them, and had begot such a Disaffection in them against you and your Brother; your great Design was to keep that Disaffection alive, and not only so, but so to increase it, as to make them rise and take up Arms in their own defence; therefore in order to this in the Year 1677, April 19 the Letters of your Conspiring Jesuits, to the Procurator-General at Madrid, gave him notice, that your Conspirators at London, the Fathers of the Society, had sent for Scotland, three Jesuits in Masquerade to give the poor provoked Scots to understand these three things: 1. That all the Miseries, under which they groaned, was from the Bishops and their Clergy, which Doctrine they were inclined enough to believe, they naturally hating the Government of the Church by that sort of Men, as being against the express Word of God, and tending to Tyranny. 2. That there was no other way to recover their Liberty and Religion, but by the Sword; and this was certainly true, for they had made all the humble Applications that could be made by Men, both to the King your Brother and the Council in Scotland, and could find no Redress of their Grievances; for as these Villains were sent to exasperate them on the one hand, so you and your Traitor Lauderdale augmented their Miseries on the other hand, and all in Order to make them take up Arms in their own Defence. 3. That the King your Brother was so addicted to his Pleasure, that he neither would nor could take care in that Concern, but left them to be redressed by those that cruelly oppressed them; which was as notoriously true: and you wanted not your wicked Instruments to accomplish the great Design you had in hand, of enslaving the Protestants of that Kingdom, so that the Method you took, by your Jesuits, by their Insinuations, and by your Taskmasters to oppress them, you did very much incline them, to take up Arms against your Conspirators in their own Defence.  
Sir, Your Jesuits in Scotland laid not aside their Attempts there, to make the distressed Protestants rise; for the whole Popish Party was at Work to stir up the Commotion, by them designed, in that Kingdom, as appears by Letters from thence, from your Incendiaries, of the 11th. of August, 1678. Nay, that the Work might take effect, Eight thousand Scots that were of the Romish Religion should be ready, For what? to join with the disaffected Scots: Such Sots you employed, as if the disaffected Scots would join with them. But the Truth of it was, to Pillage and Destroy the Habitations of those that should rise in the Defence of their Lives, Liberties, and Religion; for that was the Intent, whatever Imaginations your Cutthroat Jesuits had in their empty Noddles, that appears in their Packet of August the 10th. 1678. directed to John Grove: For you must remember that was your Design, and Lauderdale's, tho' your Jesuits thought, that the poor Protestants might be brought to join with the Popish Party, to make a Commotion there: for when your Secretary perused the Contents, he laughed at the Folly of the Scotch Jesuits, but said, If the Scotch would rise, he cared not with whom they joined; for their Rising was the thing that was desired.  
Your Design had its effect; for their Provocations were so many, and their Oppression so great from Lauderdale, and his wicked Party, who were serving your Brother's, and your Popish Designs, to bring that People under a despotic Power, and the Insolences of your impudent Clergy was such, that they could no longer bear; and therefore in the Year 1679. they did raise Forces, and armed them; and by their Declaration they were far from carrying on a Popish Design; for their Design was the Extirpation of Popery, and Popish Prelacy, out of Scotland, which had been a great Grievance to that Kingdom. And because, Sir, you may have forgotten their Declaration, I will give it Word for Word, and is as follows:  
AS it is not unknown to a great Part of the World, how Happy the Church of Scotland was whilst they enjoyed the Ordinances of Jesus Christ in Purity and Power, of which we have been deplorably deprived, by the Re-establishment of Prelacy; so it is evident, not only to impartial Persons, but to professed Enemies, with what unparalleled Patience and Constancy the People of God have endured all the Cruelty, Injustice, and Oppression, that the Will and Malice of Prelacy and Malignants could invent, and exercise. And being most unwilling to act any thing which might import Opposition to lawful Authority, or engage the Kingdoms in War, although we have been all along groaning under the Overturning the Work of Reformation, Corruptions of Doctrine, Slighting of Worship, Despising of Ordinances, the Changing the Ancient Church-Discipline and Government, Thrusting out so many of our Faithful Ministers from their Charges, Confining straightly, Imprisoning, Exileing, yea, and putting to Death many of them, and Intruding upon their Flocks a Company of Insufficient Scandalous Persons, Confining, Imprisoning, Torturing, Tormenting, Scourging, and Stigmatising Poor People, Plundering their Goods, Quartering upon them Rude Soldiers, Selling their Persons to Foreign Plantations, Horning and Intercommuning many of both Sexes, whereby great Numbers, in every corner of the Land, were forced to leave their Dwellings, Wives, Children, and Relations, and made to wander as Pilgrims, still in Hazard of their Lives, none daring to Recet, Harbour, or Supply, (though Starving;) or so much as to speak to them, though upon Deathbed, without making themselves obnoxious to the same Punishments. And these things acted under colour of Law, in effect tending to banish not only all Sense of Religion, but also to extinguish all natural Affection, even amongst Persons of nearest Relations, and likewise groaning under the intolerable Yoke of Oppression in our Civil Interest, our Bodies, Liberties, and Estates; so that all manner of Outrages have been most arbitrarily exercised upon us, for a Tract of several Years passed, particularly in the Year 1678. by sending us an armed Host of Barbarous Savages, contrary to all Law, and Humanity; and by laying on us several Impositions, and Taxes, as formerly, so of late, by a Meeting of Prelimited and overawed Members in the Convention of Estates in July, 1678. for keeping up of an armed Force, entrusted (as to a great part of it) into the Hands of avowed Papists, or Favourers of them, by whom sundry Invasions have been made upon us, and most exorbitant Abuses, and incredible Insolences committed against us; and we being continually sought after, while meeting in Houses for Divine Worship, Ministers and People frequently apprehended, and most rigorously used; and so being necessitated to attend the Lord's Ordinances in the Fields, in the most desert Places; and there also often hunted out, and assaulted, to the effusion of our Blood, and killing of some, whereby we were inveitably constrained either to defend ourselves by Arms at those Meetings, or be altogether deprived of the Gospel preached by Faithful Ministers, and made absolute Slaves: At one of which Meetings, upon the First Day of June instant, being the Lord's Day, Captain Graham, of Claverhouse, being warranted by a late Proclamation to kill whomsoever he found in Arms at Field-Conventicles making Resistance, did furiously assault the People assembled; and further, to provoke, did cruelly bind, like Beasts, a Minister, with some others whom he had found that same Morning in Houses; and several being killed on both sides, they knowing certainly that by Law they behoved (if apprehended) to die, they did stand to their own defence, and continue together; and there, after many of our Friends and Countrymen being under the same Oppression, expecting the same measure, did freely offer their Assistance. We therefore thus inevitably, and of absolute Necessity, forced to take this last Remedy, (though Magistrates having shut the Door by a Law against Application, that whatever our Grievances be, either in things Civil or Sacred, we have not the Privilege of a Supplicant) do judge ourselves bound to dcelare, That these, with many other horrid Grievances, in Church and State, (which we purpose to manifest more fully hereafter) are the true Causes of this our Lawful and Innocent Self-defence: And we most solemnly, and in the presence of Almighty God, the Searcher of all Hearts, declare, that the true Reasons of our continuing in Arms, candidly and sincerely, are these:  
First, The defending and securing of the true Protestant Religion, and Presbyterian Government founded upon the Word of God, and summarily comprehended in our Confessions of Faith and Catechism, and established by the Laws of this Land, to which King, Nobles, and People are solemnly sworn and engaged in our National Solemn League and Covenant; and more particularly the Defending and Maintaining the Kingly Authority of our Lord Jesus Christ over his Church, against all sinful Supremacy derogatory thereto, and encroaching thereupon.  
Second, The preserving and defending the King's Majesty, his Person and Authority in the Preservation and Defence of that true Religion and Liberties of the Kingdom, that the World may bear Witness with our Consciences, of our Loyalty; and that we have no Thoughts nor Intention to diminish his just Power and Greatness.  
Third, The Obtaining of a Free and United Parliament, and a Free and General Assembly in Order to the Redressing of our foresaid Grievances for the preventing the eminent Danger of Popery, and extirpating Prelacy from amongst us.  
This therefore being the Cause we appear for, and resolve, in God's Name, to own, hereby homologating all the Testimonies of faithful Sufferers for the Truth in Scotland these eighteen Years by gone. We humbly request the King's Majesty to restore all things as he found them when God brought him home to his Crown and Kingdoms; and if that cannot be obtained, than we hearty and humbly invite and entreat, beseech and obtest, by the Bowels of Jesus Christ, all who are under the same Bonds with us, to occur in this Common Cause and Interest; and that they will not stand still and see not only us oppressed but this foresaid Cause ruined, Adversaries proudly and highly insult against God and all good Men, Friends of the Truth discouraged, yea, the Protestant Cause in Britain and Ireland, and even yourselves within a little time made a Prey of, or else forced, when we are broken, (which the good Lord prevent) dreadfully to wrong your Consciences. Finally, because we desire no Man's hurt or blood, we request our Countrymen, now the standing Forces of this Kingdom, some of them being our Friends and Kinsmen, not to fight against us, lest in so doing they be found fight against the Lord, whose Cause and Quarrel we are sure he will own and signally countenance, seeing we fight under his Banner who is the Lord of Hosts.  
This, Sir, you know, was the Declaration of these Blessed Servants of God, but you had not filled up the measure of your Sins, and therefore God was pleased to deliver these miserably enslaved wretches into your hands, and they were made a prey to your never to be forgotten Cutthroats; and some of them sealed their Testimony of Jesus with their Blood: You may remember what Havoc your Popish Crew made of them both in their Estates and Families, that Scotland was a Field of Blood, through many Barbarous Murders that you by the Hands of your Party Committed there.  
Some of your bloody Crew here, especially the Tyrant Lauderdale, were exceeding glad of the News of these poor Protestants Rising, and your Popish Conspirators and their Motly Protestant Admirers and Abettors did prick up their Ears at the News, and concluded the Day was their own. Our English Popish Army was to cut their Throats first, and then the Throats of all English Men that stood in their Way afterwards. And Lauderdale highly valued himself upon this Rising (for Posts came every day to Whitehall to bring the News of their Increasing) boasting that now the fanatics had showed themselves in their Colours; and that it was by that strict hand that he had kept over them in Scotland that had been the Cause of their being quiet so long, hoping by this to get Honour for his prudent Management, when all Mankind knows that his Management was with a Design to make them take up Arms: And it was you and he that raised that Devil; but, Sir, you know whom you had appointed to betray them. Sir, you were in Flanders, thither the News was sent to you, not because you were ignorant of the Contrivance; but it was a Watchword for your Return: But that you might lay this Devil, which you and your Conspirators had raised, and kill two Birds with one Stone; therefore you pitched upon the Duke of Monmouth, that he might destroy the Protestants there, and that his Person might either fall in Scotland, or his Reputation be ruined here at home; therefore by your Advice or rather Direction, he is ordered for Scotland in all haste, for it was the Grief of your Soul to see him the Darling of the Protestants of both Kingdoms. Besides, Sir, you knew, that if he went Armed into Scotland, without Assent of Parliament in both Kingdoms, by an Act made in the Reign of Charles the F●st, was High Treason and therefore the Consequences might be fatal to him every way.  
However he went by the general Consent of the Council, and was well received in Scotland, by Virtue of his Commission given him, and draws the Army in Scotland together and faces these poor Wretches; and indeed, as Matters had been managed in Scotland, it was a great Question if the Forces in Scotland would have been prevailed with, with so little Difficulty to be commanded to go out against these innocent and oppressed Countrymen of theirs, had it not been to go under the Command of the Duke of Monmouth, who marches up to the Enemy, they by their Petition desire Liberty of Religion, and offer to lay down their Arms; it being given out by your Party, that the Duke of Monmouth had a Power of giving them Terms, but that could not be done by him, for your Bloodhounds never intended they should have any Quarter given them, therefore he had not that Power in his Commission, of granting any Terms as was promised him: Nay, if I am not mistaken, after that he had left London, the Instructions that he had to grant Terms were recalled before ever he arrived in Scotland; so that some of our Counsellors intended well, and though all things were promised not long before to be acted before their Faces above-board, yet they were mistaken; for all the chief of their Consults were privately acted amongst your Popish Crew, the French Ambassador, and your Priests, at the Duchess of Portsmouth's Lodgings; and to give them a Reputation, the honest Part of the Council sitting as Ciphers, all was done as by an Order of the King and Council.  
Well, what then? The Duke of Monmouth engaged with these poor Creatures, but your Rogues, and Trickers, and Officers amongst these poor Souls, soon left them, before the Battle was begun; so that the Pains of Reducing them was not very great nor hazardous, and divers of these poor Protestants were murdered upon the place by one Oglethorpe, an eminent Cutthroat, yet alive, notwithstanding they cried for Quarter, which was promised them; but how well that Promise was kept, was seen; many hundreds of them having been murdered in cool Blood, under a Colour of Law as if they had been Traitors: So that the Duke comes home a Victor in the sense of some, and a vanquished Person in the minds and affections of others, who would not, out of Love to him, have had him engaged with such an ill Company of Cutthroats in such a thing in Scotland, they knowing it hazardous in many Respects; however, for his own Security, he procured his Pardon for that Action. But that Pardon though it was an Act of great foresight in the Duke, yet the Judgement of Heaven pursued him; for as he contributed to the Murder of so many poor Protestants by the Help of Popish Cutthroats, so he himself was murdered, and his Friends, by you and your Popish Cutthroats  
It will not be amiss, Sir, to put you in mind of your Cutthroat Lauderdale, of whom you made such use and who complied against his Understanding, Judgement and Conscience (if he had any) with you and your Brother in all those Villainous Acts and Barbarous Inhumanities' in Scotland. I will now show the Opinion that our English Parliament had of that Monster of Mankind.  
1. Remember, Sir, the Address of the House of Commons to the King your Brother, on April 23. 1675. for then they found that some persons in great Employment under that King had fomented Designs against the Interest of the Subject, intending to deprive Great Britain of its ancient Rights and Liberties, that thereby they might the more easily introduce the Popish Religion and Arbitrary Government, to the ruin and destruction of the Subjects thereof, amongst whom they had just cause to accuse, for a promoter of such Designs, the Duke of Lauderdale, because it had been testified in their House by several Members of Parliament, That in a Hearing before the Council, in the Case of Mr. Pennystone whaley, who had committed Mr. John James contrary to the King's Declaration of the 15th of March 1671, the said Duke of Lauderdale did publicly affirm, in the presence of the King your Brother, and before several then attending the Board, that the King's Edicts were to be obeyed, for that they were equal with the Laws, and aught to be observed; in the first place thereby justifying the said Declaration, and the Proceed thereupon, and declaring his Inclination to Arbitrary Counsels, in terror of all good Protestants. This, Sir, was not all, but they had a farther confirmation of this Opinion by two Acts of Parliament, of a very strange and dangerous nature, which they had found in the printed Statutes of Scotland, the first whereof was in the third Session of the first Parliament held under the King your Brother, Cap. 25. and the other in a second Parliament, Cap. 2. the like had never passed since the union of the two Crowns, and were contrary to an Act passed in the fourth year of the Reign of James the First, your Grandfather, which intended the better abolition of all memory of Hostility, and the dependencies thereof between England and Scotland, and the better repressing the Occasions of Discord and Disorders for time to come; and of a like Act passed about the same time in Scotland; by the force of which said late Acts there was a Militia settled in that Kingdom of Twenty thousand Foot and Two thousand Horse, who were obliged to be in a readiness to march into any part of the Kingdom of England, for any service wherein your Brother's Honour and Greatness might be concerned; and they were to obey such Orders and Directions as they should from time to time receive from the Privy Council of that Kingdom: By colour of which general words the then Parliament did conceive that the Kingdom of England was liable to be invaded upon any pretence whatsoever. And this was done by the procurement of that Lauderdale, he having been all the time of those Transactions Principal Secretary of that Kingdom, and chief entrusted with the administration of the Affairs of State there, and he being Commissioner for holding the Parliament at the time of passing the latter of the said Acts, whereby the providing the said Horse and Foot was effectually imposed upon that Kingdom, and that extraordinary Power vested in the Privy Council there; so that the Commons of England conceived they had just reason to apprehend the ill Consequences of so great and an unusual Power, especially since at that time the Affairs of the Kingdom of Scotland were managed by the said Duke, who published himself to be a Person of such pernicious Principles; thereupon they prayed the King your Brother to dismiss him from all his Employments, and forbidden him his Presence and Counsels for ever, as a person obnoxious and dangerous to the Government.  
This, Sir, is the Character, and these are the Qualifications of a person that your Conspirators judged meet for a man to serve your Cause and Interest; and how near he brought the People of Scotland to the French Government and Interest, I must leave an impartial Reader to judge; he wanted nothing but a King to make an Example of him and all such profligate Monsters of Mankind. But I will give you a second Instance of the good Opinion that the Commons of England assembled in Parliament had of this Varlet; and that is as follows.  
2. Upon the 10th of May, 1678, the Commons of England assembled in that Parliament represented to the King your Brother, the deplorable condition the state of the Kingdom, through evil Counsellors, which, Sir, you know were your Conspirators, and were designing to overthrow the Protestant Interest in both Kingdoms, and were the Cause why the King your Brother followed not the Advice of his Parliament for the redressing of Grievances, amongst whom they reckoned John Duke of Lauderdale, and prayed that the King would remove him from his Council and Presence for ever.  
3. I hasten to a third Instance of the Opinion that the Commons of England had of the said Duke of Lauderdale; and that was in a Parliament held in May 10th, 1679. They tell the King in their Address, That they found the Kingdoms involved in imminent dangers and great difficulties by the evil designs and pernicious Counsels of some who had been, and were then, actually in high Places of Trust and Authority about the Person of the then King, who, contrary to the Duty of their Places, by their arbitrary and destructive Counsels, tending to the subversion of the Rights, Liberties, and Properties of the People of Great Britain, and the alteration of the Protestant Religion, did endeavour to alienate the Hearts of the People from the then King and his Government, amongst whom they had just reason to accuse the Duke of Lauderdale for a chief promoter of such Counsels, and more particularly for contriving and endeavouring to raise Jealousies and Misunderstandings between the Kingdoms of England and Scotland, whereby Hostilities might have ensued, and might have risen between the two Nations. They took notice of the many repeated Addresses of the immediate preceding Parliament; and were much concerned that notwithstanding those Addresses they found that Duke Lauderdale, with all his Qualifications, continued in the Councils of the then King, for that the Affairs of the Kingdom required that none should be put into such Employments but such as were not only of known Abilities, Interest and Esteem in the Nation, but also were without all suspicion of mistaking or betraying the true Interest of the Nation. Upon these Considerations a new Parliament prayed the then King to remove him the said Duke Lauderdale from his Employments, and Person, and Counsels for ever.  
You well know, that in the Month of February 1678, you were banished into Flanders, before the meeting of the new Parliament, (for the good King your Brother parted with his old Pensioners, who lowed very loud for want of Fodder, and to save Charges, that stolen Parliament was dissolved and a new one called) whom your Conspirators, by the insight they had in the Elections, knew it would be such a Parliament as was not for their turns; therefore a deep Consult was held, how to make the Nation to believe that they were in earnest; they resolved to discover the Plot, and discourage Popery, tho' in truth it was the two things you and your Conspirators aimed at to be still supported. However, to blind the Eyes of Mankind, it was resolved that all imaginable symptoms should be publicly professed, both for the discovery of the Popish Plot, and leaving you and your Conspirators, for you were to absent yourself from your Brother, and go beyond Sea for some time, upon these Considerations; the one was, That you being out of the way, might stop the further examination of the Popish Plot, then newly discovered to the King, who was in every bit of it but that of his own Life; and it had a near relation to yourself: And by this means your Conspirators thought to preserve the Chief Conspirator alive and safe. The other was for a gloss, to make Mankind to think that the King your Brother and the Court were such mortal Enemies to Popery, that he would not endure you his Popish Brother near him, for fear of being influenced by Popish Counsels. But, Sir, you may remember, that yourself and Conspirators at St. James' were of a different Opinion, some of your Partisans with all their might and skill opposed your leaving the Kingdom, for that it would weaken your Party extremely, and make persons more bold to come in and give Evidence against you when you were absent than if you were present, and that if you were absent, tho' by the Royal Command of your Brother the King, yet the People would be ready enough to say you fl●d for fear, and that it was in effect to own yourself guilty. Such Arguments as these were used by your Conspirators, but the Whore Portsmouth carried it for your going; therefore a Command was sent to you all of a sudden, That it was your Brother's pleasure you should be gone.  
This, Sir, filled many with amazement, who knew not for what ends such Counsels had been taken; and it filled others with great Joy, they now believing that the King your Brother, and his Court, would have been purged from Popery and his Popish Counsels, and the Popish Fabric, which had been so long a building, would again tumble down, when they saw you that were the chief supporter of it had left your station.  
Well, Sir, away you go for Flanders, as if you had been going into another World; but your Conspirators were not a whit daunted, but resolved to stick as faithfully to you as you had done before to them. And tho' by this departure of yours many of your Conspirators, for whom the Kingdoms were too hot, and who ought to have danced a Gambrel at Tyburn, under the pretence of being your Servants, yet notwithstanding, the hardiest and boldest of your impudent Crew stayed behind, and watched Affairs at home, letting nothing be done that was material but what was done by your Advice and Direction and theirs; and by your being abroad, they had the opportunity of studying and advising what was fit to be done at home.  
This, Sir, I must observe to you by the way, that before you could be prevailed upon to go, you were faithfully promised, that nothing of value or moment should be done or acted without you; nay, the Speech that was to be made at the Opening of the Parliament was concluded on before you went: Yet for all this, at the Meeting of the New Parliament, which was now become almost a Wonder in this Nation, a great panic Fear was struck in all or most of your Crew, and they certainly had so much Fear upon them, from the least to the greatest, that they were even ready to cry Quarter, or at least to offer terms of accommodation, the Nation being in a very great ferment; and your Party, that had relied so much upon the mighty Mind of the French King for Money, began to curse him for driving them upon these Extremities; nay, you yourself did not spare to revile him for the same.  
The King your Brother happening to be indisposed at Windsor, which being posted over to you, you return with all speed, and unexpectedly; and being here, you had but a little inclination to return to Flanders again; but the King pleasing you with some private Resolutions of his, you did submit to return again to Flanders, where you was as coldly received as at first; but your stay was not long there, for the Coast being then clear, you resolved upon returning home, and did accordingly return; and the design, you know, was then to fix the Shame Protestant Plot you and your Conspirators had contrived: But that would not keep you in England, for it was resolved that you should go to Scotland, to settle the Protestant Religion there, where you received the sad News of the baffling the Sham-Plot that you and yours had thought to charge upon some Protestants, which made you take new Measures, and you resolved to part with a small spell of Money to get the Parliament prorogued for some longer time, and a greater Sum was pressed from France, but without success; for the Duke of Bucks spoiled that Design, for which piece of service you owed him a Cake, and was resolved, if it had not been timely prevented, you would have bestowed upon him a whole Loaf. But that by the way.  
Well, you arrive in Scotland, I pray how were you received? with great Joy to your Banditti there: Nay, the most excellent Protestant Bishops received you with tokens of Welcome, and highly resented the Affront that the Parliament of England had put upon you, when they went about to exclude you, and very honestly declared against it; and tho' the Commons of England were so dim sighted, as not to see that the only way to settle the Protestant Religion was by a Popish King, yet they could see it, and declare it as an undoubted Truth. Now, Sir, it was expected that you should admire the Fabric that your old Friend Lauderdale had so delicately contrived, and in reward of his good Service advance his Interest: No, no, you no sooner got into Scotland, but you were designing against Lauderdale, he being the great Instrument of sending you thither, for you never forgave him that Affront; so that after your arrival in Scotland his Interest much dwindled away. Thus you rewarded one of your old Friends, who had sold Body and Soul and all to the Devil to serve you and your Cause; he is gone to his place, I fear, in sure and certain expectation of Wrath and Vengeance, for the many Villainies he had committed against the Religion, Laws and Liberties of his Country.  
Whilst, Sir, you were in Scotland, you and your Conspirators made your Designs to go on to your full content, tho' much diligence was used and pains were taken in the point: and to give you and your Accomplices that which is your due, you never did spare your Pains for the bringing on your wicked Devices to perfection; and you thought it good Policy and your best way to make sure of something, that if England should be too hard for you, yet you resolved to make sure of Scotland: And, to repeal those Laws that were in force, which did debar a Popish Prince from inheriting that Crown, therefore you got a Parliament called, and yourself made High Commissioner. Upon this you labour the Point, for the choice of the Commoners that should be fit for the purpose; and to cajole some of the Lords, you entice Hamilton to come into your Interest. You mounted the Throne as High Commissioner, without regarding the Law, or due Qualifications necessary in taking the Oaths, for that was below you: And the King having furnished you with Letters, you are admitted into the Council without taking the Oaths: But being got into the House, you carried all before you, and got your Succession to the Crown of Scotland secured by an Act; and you got a Test passed, by which all were to swear not to endeavour to alter that Government either in Church or State; and all such as refused were to lose their Employments. In a word, you made every thing to pass that you and your Crew had a mind to.  
As you were a Privy Councillor in that Kingdom, you wheedled in the Duke of Hamilton, and admitted him one of the Council, who was very zealous for the Protestant Religion formerly, but then began to be very cool: And so were the rest of the cajoled Lords, they all put on the Temper that Scotchmen usually are attended withal, that is, to be false to the Cause that is persecuted; for, upon the rising of the Parliament, they suffered the poor Dissenters to be squeezed to death, and suffered all imaginable Severities to be used towards them. You succeeding so well in Parliament, you used great Endeavours for a standing Army, under the notion of securing the Peace against those Dissenters and Field Metres; but tho' you had laboured hard in that point, yet the Success did not answer your expectation so fully as to give you content.  
Well, Sir, what becomes of old Lauderdale, your faithful Servant and dearly beloved Favourite, for I do not find him in this Parliament? No, he's forced to stay in England, not daring to appear in Scotland, for his Hell hounds were not able to weather the Point, because the Stream run so strong against him (not that you had made any change of his Measures in the Conspiracy against the Protestant Interest and Religion, unless it were for the worse); and very desirous you were of getting him into Scotland, and no doubt you would have served him a Scotch Maiden Trick: Why so? Because that Old Dog had been heard to say, that all you had done in Scotland was nothing, in regard the Oaths were omitted; and, that the Parliament was but a Convention and what you had done was in itself void, and of no effect. These were bloody words, and highly resented by you; and afterwards you had an Eye upon Argyle, who began to snort at the Test; and though he had been a Dog in a String to your Brother and yourself, some Qualm came cross his Conscience: He therefore began to make his Interpretations upon it, which were such as cut the Throat of the thing itself: And altho' the Interpretation he gave could be no other than the genuine sense of the thing, and plain to be understood, that it could mean no other than what he intended to take it in, yet it was so much disliked, that he was then to have been made a Sacrifice, under the notion of being guilty of High Treason, only for explaining the Test; he was accordingly seized and libelled against, and found guilty of the Fact, and he was then in a fair way to have lost his Life for his Ingenuity, but he, with a great deal of dexterity, made his escape, and so saved himself for that time from being murdered by you and your Cutthroats there.  
Scotland, Sir, you bridled and saddled, and brought the Government there to be something like the French Mode, differing nothing but that you had made the Scots the greater Vassals of the two: And the People of that Kingdom caressed you highly for the grace and favour of their Vassalage, notwithstanding which, you were not willing to stay any longer there, your Friends advising you by all means to return to England, to secure your Interest in England, you having settled Scotland to your content. And this remember, Sweet Sir, that the Whore Portsmouth, with her Bastard Son, was by your Royal Brother sent to France, to renew the Dover Treaty, in which she was more successful than your Sister of blessed memory, for she was caressed by the French King, and her Bastard honoured as a Prince of the Blood, and she settled a firm Correspondency between Lewis of France and Charles of Great Britain, pursuant to the Treaty at Dover. This you heard of, and you judged the Strumpet was undermining you, and obtaining the Succession for her son, which made you after your arrival at Whitehall more unwilling to return again for Scotland than before; and you pressed the then King your Brother for your stay here; but you were told, that you must return to Scotland, where your stay should be but short; you obeyed, and went by Sea, with your chief Favourite Mumper, who with you was like to have been lost, but you saved yourself and the Cur, and lost some Treasure, with a great part of your Retinue, who drank your Health, and went to the bottom. But you arrive in Scotland, and the Money being lost, your Intentions of having a standing Army there were sunk also.  
Your stay was to be short in Scotland, and so shall mine; therefore since I have put you in mind of your bridling and saddling that poor Kingdom, as a Subject and a High Commissioner for King Charles, give me leave to remember you of your Carriage when you pretended to and usurped that Crown as King of S●otland, for by the Laws of that Kingdom all Popish Princes were uncapable of that Crown: And because of your Omission of the Oaths that were to be by you taken, all that you did in repealing them was null and void, and to no effect; so that those Laws were still in force against you, notwithstanding the aforesaid pretended Repeal; for without those Oaths the meeting together of Lords and Commons was no Parliament, but a Convention, which cannot repeal any Statute there. Upon your taking that Crown, the Earl of Argyle, upon the 20th of May 1685, well knowing how the Protestant Religion must suffer in Scotland, lands in Scotland near a place called Kentire, and on the 21st sent forth his Declaration, wherein he tells the Scots, That the End of his coming was the defence of the Protestant Religion, the Laws and Liberties of the Protestants of Scotland against Popery and Arbitrary Government, and therefore he required all persons from sixteen to sixty to come and join with him, with Arms and Provisions necessary. One of his sons sent Letters to several Gentlemen upon the same account, so that in few days his Army was increased to 2500 Men. But, Sir, your Trappan that betrayed the poor Protestants at Bothw●ll bridge, 1679, escaping the Gallows, lived to betray this poor Gentleman, in the year 1685. for, instead of showing him the true way wherein he should have marched, provided Rogues who led him into a bog, from whence he returning towards glide, was fallen upon by some Scots, and taken; and, Sir, by your Arbitrary Order he was basely murdered at Edinburgh on the 30th of June following.  
This man had all along fought in your Brother's Cause and Quarrel, and was an Instrument to betray his Father to your Brother, and was murdered in the beginning of his Reign after his Return. This man had served your Cause and Interest in Scotland many years, and had run in the same excess of Riot with your Conspirators, but God opened his Eyes to see your base Designs against the Religion and Liberties of his Country, and therefore nothing would satisfy you but his Blood, and the ruin of his whole Family. Well, he is dead, but I must say of him, he deserved better Fortune in the World, and more Favour from your Hands and his that is gone to his place.  
Scotland did another time become a Field of Blood; and till it was, you were not contented. But the Scots being weary of these perpetual disappointments, they submitted to your Government, and you then declared, by the Advice of your Villainous Conspirators, especially the damned Bishops, that you were clothed with an Absolute Power, and that all your Subjects of that Kingdom were bound to obey you without reserve; upon which you did assume an Arbitrary Power both over the Religion and Laws of that Kingdom: From all which it's apparent, what you did when you were Duke of York was in order to complete the Work when you came to be King James.  
These great and insufferable Oppressions of the poor Protestants of that Kingdom, and the open contempt of all Law, Justice, Sense, and Reason, together with the sad Consequences that most certainly followed upon it, did put those poor People under great and just Fears, and did thrice make them offer at such lawful Remedies as were Allowed by the very Law of Nature, tho' it was not with that effect that was desired, Lauderdale and your other Conspirators did endeavour to make all men to apprehend the loss of their Lives, Liberties Honours, and Estates, if they should go about to preserve themselves from your great Oppressions by Petitions, Remonstrances, or other means the Law did allow of: So you did by several Scotch Noblemen and Gentlemen, to their utter ruin; therefore what Obligation you have laid upon the Kingdom in general, or any one Protestant in particular, both before and since your pretended Reign there, I leave it to yourself and Conspirators to judge: And therefore blessed be God for delivering that Nation from your Tyranny and Oppression.   

iv ENGLAND.  
NOW we have seen your particular Projects that you and your Conspirators pursued to ruin Holland, Ireland, and Scotland, I think it will not be unnecessary to put you in mind of the Pranks you and your Party played both before and since you usurped the Imperial Crown of this Kingdom, and then you will see whether you can expect that any honest Englishman should ever engage for your return again in Peace to this Nation. Therefore I shall use this method: 1. I shall show you how far you were engaged in the Conspiracy of turning the Civil Government into downright French Slavery, and our Protestant Religion into Popery, before you took the Crown. And, 2. I shall show you what you contributed to it after. 3. I will show you the unreasonableness of the attempting your return hither: On which Particulars, I hope, you have leisure enough to reflect, and advise about with your worthy Ministry you have attending your person at St. Germains.  
I. I will show you how far you were engaged in the Conspiracy of turning the Civil Government into downright French Slavery, and our Protestant Religion into Popery, before you took the Crown. When God was pleased to restore you and your Brothers, you may remember that you came into a Land flowing with Milk and Honey, for its Plenty, and a well-governed Country, for Religion and Virtue. But this agreed not with the Complexion of your Souls, you had another Game to play, and this I found in a Letter of yours from Breda to old Courtney the Jesuit, That you would follow the Directions that Mazarine had given you, and then you questioned not but to bring the People to receive the Roman Catholic Religion. This, Sir, was your Project, and how you pursued it, let all the World judge. Therefore,  
1. Your Conspirators were resolved to remove all those who had been eminent in Virtue and Sobriety from any Command or Place of Trust in the Government. I must not forget the Usage of those who had been great Instruments in that Work, viz. Two thousand Ministers in one day laid aside, that room might be made for those whose Doctrine should enslave the People, and whose profligate Lives should render Men Atheists enough to be of any Religion but of that which was according to Godliness; Make them Atheists, said Mazarine, and you will soon make them Papists. Nay, the love of Debauchery created such a Prejudice in your Brother the King, against the Marquis of Argyle, that it was the chief Obstacle to his being pardoned, for he had reproved Charles for offering Violence to a sober Lady in Scotland, in the year 1650, for which Reproof he never forgave Argyle to his dying day. Nay, give me leave to remember you, that when that unfortunate Lord was in Custody, and humbly requested but to speak one word with the King before he was carried for Scotland, to be murdered, you took upon you to reprove any that should move the King, with this Jeer. That Argyle was one of the Godly Party, it was not for such fellows to see the King: Or to that purpose; and the King your Brother was pleased to say, Let my Lord Argyle be content, he shall see the Maiden e'er long, his own dearly beloved Invention. And nothing was a greater Argument for his Destruction than his Piety.  
Sir, I can prove, that those men who were concerned in Judging and Condemning your Father to death, tho' that was the Pretence or handle you took to have them cut off, yet the great reason why they were not spared was, that if they lived, and as long as they lived they would have been great Obstacles in your way of debauching the People, and that was the reason of their being cut off; for old Courtney being at London, and admiring their demeanour and deportment in their Confinement, gave you an account of their Piety and Devotion. And so did old Hitchcock the Monk; but what Answer you made them was remarkable; your Brother and yourself would never have had them excepted, had you not been fully satisfied, that as long as they lived you could have no manner of prospect of settling the Government, and advancing the Catholic Religion; both which have told me of their steadfastness and resolution to the last degree, and could not forbear shedding of Tears when they discoursed that matter to me; and if you remember, it was the weaker part of those men that had their Lives given them; not but that some of them were worthy persons, but they had not arrived to those Experiences of God and true Religion as the others had done, that laid down their Lives in that Cause. But the truth is, I never found many of them had so little Grace as to repent of what they had done.  
Nay, your Rage did not cease here; for you, by all the Wrong imaginable, packed a Parliament together of greenheaded young Gentlemen, the Sons of some Cavaliers, whose Parents suffered in the late War, and so were haters of Dissenters, from whom an Act was obtained to empower Commissioners to displace all Officers that they should judge not to be firm to the King's Interest and Proceed: By this Knack you had all Justices of the Peace, and Corporation Magistrates, that had been forward in punishing Profaneness and Ungodliness in their respective Places, and had been great Promoters of Religion and Holiness of Life, turned out, and in their rooms were put all profane and ungodly Wretches, Swearers by, and Blasphemers of the Name of Almighty God, these being Men for your Turn, that you might the more easily enslave, and so pervert the People. And it was come to that pass, that none could have any Employment unless he could swear and damn for the Church, tho' they never came within the inside of one all their days. Of these, Sir, you made most excellent Papists in process of time, or at least Favourers of the Popish Party.  
Your Conspirators had an Eye upon the City of London, and therefore, that none might stand in your way of debauching that City, all the sober old Officers of the Army was not to come within 20 miles of it. This was done by the Advice of your old Friends the Priests, who visited all your soured Cavaliers, and your Conspiring Villains, and never left urging to them the danger the Government was in, till they were disarmed and banished London. 'Tis true, the great Argument was, the Safety of the Government; but the true one was, your making your progress in perverting the People to the Popish Religion; for all Virtue being discouraged, both in Church and State, they had the fairer opportunity of proselyting the prophaner part of Mankind to the Religion of the Church of Rome.  
I must confess, that some few that were sober men had the fortune to be preferred both in Church and State; but what Joy you and your Conspirators conceived when they were removed either by Death or Age, is not forgotten. Those Statesmen that opposed Popery or Arbitrary Power were soon removed, and if they had the hap to die in their Offices, they could do no more against Popery and Arbitrary Power than tell their Friends what Care you took to bring it in. But this I say, if any were but zealous, he was commonly laid aside as useless and dangerous to the Government, for as long as they lived or continued in Power, you and your Party could not go on so smoothly in your Practices against our Religion, Laws and Liberties.  
2. It is well remembered how your Conspirators carried a Villainous Design of putting on Shame Plots upon Men, in order to take away their Lives and Estates, to the utter ruin of their Families and Posterity for ever. These were so many, that to enter into the Particulars of them would be enough to fill a Volume; but I will therefore reckon these that follow as the Chief of them.  
1. If you please, I pray you, Sir, to call to mind the rising of the Fifth-Monarchy-men on the 6th of Jan. 1660/1. Who drew in those men to that foolish and wicked Attempt but your old Acquaintance Dr. Goff, and Strange the Jesuit, and Grace, and another Jesuit that went by the name of St. George, and Ashby, that was afterwards Rector at St. Omer's, who counterfeited themselves Fifth Monarchy-men? For an Uncle of mine, one Mr. Thomas Buttivant, was engaged with them, and had been in the Rising, if the Three hundred Horse had come they promised should join Fifteen hundred Foot; and this Buttivant was to have been Commander in chief of the Horse: He was so intimately acquainted with this Grey, that they called Brothers; this Grey I having seen so often with that Uncle of mine, that when I came to be acquainted with the Jesuits, notwithstanding it was so many years after, I found this Grey to be a Jesuit, who had pretended to Fifth Monarchy Principles; and renewing my acquaintance with him, he told me, That he, and Strange, and others of the Society with this Goff, used to preach to them in Swan-Alley in Coleman-street, and at Mr. Buttivant's House in Cobb's Yard in Petticoat-lane, and that they had drawn in several of those poor Dogs, as they termed them, to be hanged, but they themselves were protected by you at St. James', and in Whitehall; and 'tis true, that Grace had the Fifth-Monarchy Notions to a Hairs-breadth. In this Affair the Society were at some Hundreds of pounds charge, for they were liberal of their Money, and possessed these poor Creatures of your Brother's and your being Papists, and that your design was to destroy the Interest of Christ in the three Nations, and to set up Popery and Slavery, and so drew them into that Folly of Rising, and all with this intent, that they might obtain some severe Laws against the Protestant Dissenters, in order to weaken the Protestant Interest within these three Nations, and boasted very much of your being privy to the whole Design: And, by your Carriage in other Affairs, you will be by all sober Protestants judged guilty of This.  
Against such strange Practices the poor Dissenters did at that time, in their Addresses and Declarations to the Government, positively, without any Equivocation or Mental Reservation, declare and protest their abhorrence, and disavowed all such Principles as might tend to such irregular and disorderly Practices, as tending highly to the dishonour of GOD and the Protestant Religion; yet you and your Jesuits and Priests made great use of this, to beget a disesteem of them in the future Parliament.  
2. Another Conspiracy was form and contrived by you and your Banditti, against Protestants, and this was in November 1661. A doughty Knight of your Friendship forged several Letters from several Ministers of the Gospel about Worcestershire, and several other Counties; and in conjunction with this Villain several Jesuits acted, amongst whom was Father Fitz Patrick and Father Peter Talbot, afterwards the pretended Archbishop of Dublin, and old Courtney; all of these were employed by yourself, as I have seen in several Letters, wherein they complained of your delaying their being satisfied for that Service: But the Intrigue did not hold Water, tho' several honest men suffered Imprisonment for the same. But the Forgers and Framers of this Hellish Conspiracy in this pretended Plot had an aim at the rewarding Mr. Baxter for the great Service he did in your Brother's Restauration and yours.  
3. Another of the same nature was invented by your Conspirators in Oxford, wherein the Names of several men of note and value, to the number of above a Hundred, whose Lives were designed to have been made Sacrifices to Hell and Rome; but neither did that Cheat take any other effect than to continue the then Parliament exasperated against poor Protestant Dissenters, as men of restless Spirits, that were always disturbing the Government. So that by these Artifices you did not only find a way to throw them out of their Live, but endangered their Lives also.  
4. Your Priests and Jesuits not making their Sham-Plots to hold upon the Dissenters, your Conspirators try what they could do with two Pillars of the Church of England, one Hill and Riggs, both highly carress'd by three special Guardians of the Church of England's Interest, that is, old Cousins, old Hinchman, and Sheldon, three of the Devil's Brokers. These two Villains Hill and Riggs, both Parsons, they pretend to discover a Fanatic Plot, as they called it, against the King's, Yours, and old Monk's and Turncoat Brown's Lives, and this Plot was sworn against several Honest Men, for which some lost their Lives; the one got a preferment to a Living, and the other was preferred to eat Salt Beef and Pork and Pease at Sea, and sometimes he acted as a Chaplain in a Ship, with great Promises of being preferred, but God cut him off, whilst Hill slept in a Pocky Skin. Now, Sir, to lay open to you and the whole World the truth of this matter, I pray observe, that this Hill and this Riggs were in your Pay, to be Spies upon the Conversations of several Honest men, as Butler and Seely was afterwards in your Brothers for the same purpose; Riggs and Hill gets into the Company of several Dissenters, and in their hearing did talk at a strange rate against the Government, and what a secret Cabal there was meeting in London for the change of the same; and how that the King your Brother and yourself were for introducing Popery and Slavery. But to prevent your Attempts of that sort, the said Riggs and Hill told them, That Arms and Ammunition were provided, and that a number of honest men were left to rise, and defend the true Religion, Laws, and Liberties of the Kingdom; and that Deal Castle and Windsor Castle were to be surprised. This sort of Talk they had with some few honest men, who in the Integrity of their Hearts confessed, that they heard Hill and Riggs talk at this rate. Nay, these Devils could not deny, but that they did use this sort of talk, and intimated that they had a Licence so to do. Notwithstanding these poor Creatures denied that ever they had any hand in any such Conspiracy, nor indeed was any thing proved, but what Hill and Riggs swore they had talked to them, yet they were condemned and basely murdered, and their Families ruined by your procurement, and Hill and Riggs escaped with Impunity, tho' not without Infamy. Your Jesuits would have courted them both to the Church of Rome; but they appearing to be such Rogues, they were afraid they would be a Disgrace to them, who from their rising up in the World had themselves been a Scandal and Disgrace to the Creation of God.  
5. You having some Success in this, your Conspirators would not be idle, but drew in some warm Men into another Conspiracy in the North. The then Sheriff of the County of York, and a great man whose Name I will omit, because he did in part afterwards make England some amends for that piece of Villainy, you know, at that time, to please the Court, he was reconciled to the Church of Rome, and no doubt, whilst so, he was a fit Tool to carry on so wicked a Design, which was to discourse of the Oppression the Nation lay under through the Duties of Excise, etc. and the disturbance that the Lawyers had made in the Kingdom; That your Brother and you were bringing in of Popery and Slavery, at which these poor Creatures were inflamed; and being promised the supply of Money, and by the High Sheriff the Assistance of Posse Comitatus, they were drawn in to engage: But alas, it was but a Trappan, they were taken and executed upon the Evidence of some of them that were engaged with them; but how you rewarded that Person of Quality afterwards it is wellenough known. This was another of your Projects, as the Person of Quality you employed hath told to several Friends with great Grief, some of whom are alive to this day.  
But not to forget one passage, let me tell you, that you and your Conspirators made at the Trial of Mr. Alured two Witnesses of one Man; first he appeared in a strange disguise, with one Eye, and gave his Testimony under one Name, and then withdrew, and appeared in his common Dress, and gave his testimony by his own Name, and so Alured was murdered by the Conspirators. This can be proved by good testimony.  
6. I will give you a short Truth of the Fire of London, how that Eight Men were executed for having a design to fire the City of London on the third of September 1666. And great care was taken to lay it upon the Fifth-Monarchy-Men, and the old Officers of the Army that served under the Parliament, but in truth it was contrived by yourself and your wicked Popish Party, and by you and them carried on to destroy that great Protestant City, that with more ease you and your Accomplices might introduce Popery and Slavery among us; for London was the Bulwark of the Protestant Religion and English Liberties, and therefore she must be made a Burnt-Offering to yourself and Hellish Popish Crew.  
7. Another Instance of your Conspirators shamming their Plots upon poor innocent Protestants, and that is the Case of the Lord Claypool, and by this cast an Odium upon the whole body of Protestant Dissenters: For in the Month of August, just about the time that your Conspirators were to execute their wicked Design to destroy the King, than you deal with Secretary Coventry, to clap up that poor innocent Gentleman, for designing to seize the King as he went to Newmarket; and you had two Witnesses ready at hand to have sworn that Design against him the said Claypool, who was by the Secretary's Warrant arrested for High Treason: But he the said Claypool knowing nothing of the matter, demanded to know his Accusers; that was (according to that Villain's usual way) denied him, and he frowned upon as if he had been the greatest Knave in England next to Coventry himself. Claypool was as stout as that Knave of a Secretary was proud and insolent; and as for Claypool, he would scarce answer any Question, so away he was sent to the Tower a close Prisoner. This startled every one except the Conspirators and myself, who was privy to the whole business, by the repeated Orders Coleman received from, Sir, yourself, for his Prosecution, that when the Blow was given upon the King, it might be charged upon the fanatics: And to that end Sing and Throgmorton, two virulent Papists, and Butler and Seely, two Popish Spies of your Brother's and yours, both pretended fanatics, the last, I think, is a Cornish man, and was a Major in the late Protector's Army; so that you and all your Popish Conspirators intended as one Man to revenge the Death of the King on the Dissenting Party, concluding that the Vermin of the Church of England would strike in with the Popish Party, since they hated a Dissenter worse than a Papist, tho' differing from them only in a few scoundrel Ceremonies not worthy to wipe a Porter's Tail withal: Therefore, as a Prologue to that cursed Design, you could not think of a man fit than this Lord Claypool, he being Son-in-Law to that Lord Protector Cromwell; but you and your Villains were disappointed for a time from destroying the King, for when the true Plot was discovered, your devilish Witnesses against the Protestant Party disappeared. And so much for Claypool.  
8. Another Instance of your implacable Hatred to the Protestants, and of your designing to shame a Plot upon them, was your old and very good Friend Mr. Thomas Blood, whom you and your Brother set upon myself, to bring me into a Conspiracy with Richard late Lord Protector, and him the said Blood, to dethrone your Brother and yourself; which, Sir, was a great mistake, for your Crimes were so plain and notorious, that an honest man would have thought the Laws of the Land and public Justice would have reached you both without such irregular Methods as these were; but I discovered the Letter, and the Trappan escaped for a while, and then God cut him off with Infamy and Disgrace.  
9 I must entreat your patience to remember another Instance, and that is the particular Case of Mr. Thomas Dangerfield, who was maintained by you and your Conspirators with Twelve pounds per week, to invent a Plot against the Protestants, the better to colour or hid your own. What Papers you and the rest of your Conspirators contrived to be put upon the Duke of Buckingham! The Gentleman of his Horse was Mansfield, and he was prepared to be a second Witness against the said Duke, as Dangerfield was suborned to be the first, so that you might have the Blood of that great man, as being one in a Conspiracy to destroy the King your Brother. But Dangerfield had not been so mindful of his Lesson as he ought, and fixeth himself upon one Mansel, who had been a Retainer to the Earl of Essex, who at that time was carried away with the dissimulation of the Popishly-affected Party, but instead of leaving them in Mansfield's Chamber, left them in Mansel's Chamber. In these Papers there was a List of Noblemen and Gentlemen that were to be sworn against, as being in a Conspiracy against the Life of the King your Brother, and yourself, and Church of England: And, to make the World believe that these Papers were not forged, this Dangerfield repairs to Secretary Coventry, your old League-breaker, and informs the Secretary (who was privy to the whole Concern) of a dangerous Plot against the Government, and that there were dangerous Papers in the Chamber of Coll. Mansel, that would make the same out: but the fellow, tho' he had been a Rogue all his days, as God would have it, scrupled the Oath; tho' if he had said in Mansfield's Chamber, he should have had a Warrant without an Oath; but mentioning the Name of Mansel, the Secretary was startled, because that Mansel was a Favourite of the Earl of Essex, against whom this Conspiracy was not at first to appear, therefore Coventry would do nothing without an Oath in relation to Mansel, because of the Earl of Essex, who was then actually a Privy Councillor; therefore Dangerfield was resolved to have the papers brought to light, and therefore gets an Officer or Officers of the Customhouse, to search Mansel's Chamber for prohibited Goods, and then these papers were seized: And Mansel hearing of what was done when he came to his Lodging, and that papers of dangerous consequence was found in his Chamber, behind his Beds-head, where he had never laid any, he immediately repairs to the Council, and complains of his usage before Dangerfield had told his Story.  
Well then, what becomes of this Affair, so foolishly miscarrying in its first birth? I must observe to you, that Dangerfield is called in question; and tho' he had many Friends in the Council, and many that knew the Design well enough, yet the Blunder that Dangerfield made was so great, and his Story hung so ill together, that the Conspirators that were at the Board began to be confounded, and were much dejected that their Tool had succeeded no better; for, besides all his self-contradictions, shrewd proofs were brought against him: Yet notwithstanding the aforesaid blunder, and his being so confronted with Major Richardson and others, Dangerfield was as bold as his Folly was great, and stood in it, that the Papers taken in Mansel's Lodgings were not put there by him, till at last the proof of the Customhouse Officer that searched, and Dangerfield's own words, the Cheat and the Roguery was most manifest; so that the Council, tho' many of them your Conspirators and his intimate Friends, were of necessity obliged to commit him to Newgate, who being there, was still upheld by that Whore Cellier, and the rest of your Conspirators, who had redeemed him out of Newgate for this very end and purpose, and had forbade him to discover; but some Letters being discovered, and he being out of all hopes, made his application to the then Lord Mayor to take his discovery; which was done, and upon that Discovery it plainly appeared who set him on work to frame such a piece of Villainy. You were so nettled at the Discovery, that instead of the Lord Mayor's having Thanks returned him for his Service to the King and the Nation, that he met with a Check at Court for meddling in that which concerned him not. But by this Trick the Earl of Essex's Eyes were opened, and he fairly left you and the Council, abhorring such Villainies as never was to be paralleled in future, nor heard of in past Ages.  
Your Sham-Plot thus miscarrying, and the Book found in the Meal-Tub, showing who they were that was to be sworn out of their Lives falsely, appearing, you know, Sir, that you were, with your Accomplices, at a stand; for, Sir, you know that this Villainy, if it had been placed with Mansfield, the Duke of Buckingham's Servant, who was to have been a second Witness with Dangerfield, and both these to have been corroborated by Blood, Butler, and Seely, you would have cut off, by a Form of Justice, all such persons as had stood in opposition to your wicked Designs and Practices; so that a new Parliament should have been opened with the noise of a Presbyterian Plot, therefore you know the Parliament was prorogued for a longer time, and yourself forced to part with a small Spell to get this thing done, and the French King pressed for a bigger Seam, which was happily prevented by the Duke of Buckingham.  
10. I must beg your Pardon if I put you in mind of another piece of Roguery your restless Conspirators undertook; For a new Parliament being to meet at Oxford, in the year 1680/1, they were resolved to welcome that Parliament with a Protestant Plot in good earnest, to the end with more ease you might bring your cursed Designs to pass. In order to this, it was agreed by your Crew, that Papers containing Treasonable Matters should be got to be written, and lodged in the Houses of private men, and shuffled into Gentleman's Pockets at Oxford, and before the meeting of the Parliament they should be seized with such Papers about them; and one Fitz-Harris, who was to be their Tool, was well acquainted with one Everard, that was a Villain much of the said Fitz-Harris's stature or standard; for it was a hard matter to know which was the greatest of the two. This Everard had been countenanced by the Earl of Shaftsbury, and therefore the said Everard was judged the most fit to join with him in the Roguery: And Everard had agreed with this Fitz-Harris to be seized with these Papers about him, when they had dispersed as many of them as would do the business; but those that employed these Rascals in this affair were such, that it would ●ill an Englishman with Confusion to name them. Fitz-Harris had his Instructions from your Brother and Portsmouth, and when Access could not be had to them, than they received them from Nell Wall, a notorious Whore, that from a poor Wench that washed down the Stairs, was made her Mistress' Woman, and privy to the whole Intrigue.  
The Writing was drawn up, and much approved by the King your Brother and the Duchess, and their Approbation signified to this Fitz-Harris by this Whore Nell Wall, and the same told to this Everard by Fitz-Harris; but no Money considerable appearing, unless it were one Thirty pound, Everard discovers this Intrigue to one Smith, commonly called Narrative Smith, and Sir William Waller. They are planted in a secret Room, where they might not only hear, but see the Transactions between Everard and this Fitz-Harris; so that Fitz-Harris was apprehended and committed upon Everard's Testimony, and Tried and Condemned upon the Testmony of Smith, and Waller, and Everard, and fairly Hanged, that he might not tell Tales. So Shaftsbury and several others escaped that one time from being made a Sacrifice to your Will and Pleasure. The Story, Sir, is too long to be fully repeated, but when any of your Cursed Crew shall Answer this, I shall tell the whole Story at length; but this shall suffice for this Particular.  
11. Be pleased to remember how many Irish men were suborned to swear against the Life of the said Earl of Shaftsbury, and how diligent your Conspirators were to suborn others that were of the same stamp for Roguery and Villainy; but God, by the Industry and Care of his Friends, delivered him; and what these Villains swore against him was so inconsistent with either the Principles or declared Judgement of that Noble Lord, and the Particulars of their Testimony so contradictory one to the other, that the Grand Jury would not return a billa for a upon the Testimony of these Rogues, tho' the Court used all the indirect methods with that Jury to have the Bill found.  
12. Sir, I must deal plainly with you and your Tribe, that my Heart is ready to bleed when I must name to you the Murder of the Earl of Essex, whose Throat you procured to be cut that very Morning, that a Way might be made for the Horrible Murder of the Lord Russel, who was by your means basely murdered by a Form of Law; and the great Colonel Sidney, what Juries of Common Rogues and Villains were packed upon them by the contrivance of murdering Rich and North, your two pretended Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, Fellows that valued not the Blood of a Protestant, but rejoiced that they had made you and your Conspirators drunk with their Blood!  
I must not forget poor Stephen College, who was basely murdered at Oxford by a Sett of wicked Judges, and a Packed Jury, at Oxford, whose Blood cries to Heaven for Vengeance against you and your Cutthroat Party.  
We have a Cloud of Instances against you and your Party of your suborning Witnesses against Mr. Colt, Mr. Arnold, Sir Samuel Barnadiston, Mr. Covet, Mr. Culliford, Mr. Braddon, Mr. Johnson, Sir Thomas Pilkington, and Mr. Hampden, myself and others; what a long and tedious Imprisonment we all suffered through the Testimony of your suborned and perjured Witnesses. But this may suffice for this second Particular, how you and your Conspirators, from the very time of your being restored to your Native Country, which was in the year 1660, to the year 1685, that you took the Crown.  
III. A third Project that you and your Popish Crew had on foot was, to ruin our Trade. It was not enough that you fired our Cities, and abused the Professors of the Protestant Religion, by the many Murders that were by you and your Party committed, by the help of your Mercenary Judges and Hackney Jurymen, but you also laboured hearty to disturb the Trade of the Nation, that you might with more ease enslave it, and bring in Popery upon us. I will but give you only one or two Instances; Many might be given, to your Shame, and the Shame of your Party, if there was any such thing remaining with you.  
1. The first Instance I shall give you is the countenancing the French King to take so many of our Merchant's Ships by his Pirates and Rovers in our Seas; and several Letters were written by your Secretary Mr. Coleman, to Sir Ellys Leyton, wherein several Merchantmen, whose Owners and Merchants had been obnoxious to you or your Party, by opposing Popery and Slavery; he was by your especial Order to see their Ships and Goods condemned, to the utter undoing of several Families. And your Servant Coleman, when any thing of a Tradesman was mentioned, he used to say, Damn them, they are a sort of fanatics that have no Kindness for my Master, or our Religion, and it will be never well till we make them poor, than they will be brought to obey. Nay, Sir, this was your Language too, or else you would never have been so much of the Opinion of the French King, your most Christian Brother.  
2. A second Instance is taken from the Letters that were written to the Rector of St. Omers, Richard Ashby, from Thomas White and John Keines, and others of the Society in London, in which Letters from them and others were enclosed Letters to Thomas Stapletoa, than Procurator at Brussels, to persuade the Father Confessor of Duke de Villa Hermosa, then Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, to inform him the said Duke, That the King your Brother did not intent to assist the King of Spain, but would stand a looker on till he was ruined by the French King. Which Letter being not sealed, I saw it; and that in case the Father Confessor to the said Governor should not be ready to comply with the said Stapleton, that Messengers should be forthwith sent to Father Swiman at Madrid, to inform the King of Spain of the said Concern, and to make the same relation of the business to the Popish Archbishop of Tuam, of the Kingdom of Ireland, who was then at the Court at Madrid, that he the said Swiman and the said Titular Archbishop, might jointly give an account of the Motion made or to be made to the said Father Confessor of Duke de Villa Hermosa, and also to advise the Spanish King to seize the Estates of the English Merchants in their several Factories in his Dominions, for that they had endeavoured to transport their Estates, and did transport them to England, and all, or most part, in the Coin of Spain, to the great Prejudice of the Kingdom of Spain. And for the confirmation thereof, they procured Letters from one Fonseca, sometimes an Agent in London, to attest the same, this Fonseca willingly complying with your Conspirators, and sent his Letter to St. Omer's, that the Fathers there might give their Approbation to the said Letter, in order to be sent to the Court of Spain; which Letter was long and large, Attestations therein made against the Merchants of the several Factories concerning the Matter of Fact before mentioned, and other Letters were dispatched to Daniel Armstrong at valladolid, and John Cross then at Madrid, in which they were ordered to confirm this Attestation made or to be made by the Fathers in England, and of the English Seminary at St. Omer's, and of the said Stapleton, together with that of the said Fonseca, the abovenamed Spanish Agent, who then lived at Bruges in Flanders. Therefore,  
1. In this Villainous Contrivance to disturb the Nation in the Spanish Trade, your Servant Coleman was very active in your Name, and on your behalf, and engaged that your Letter to Villa Hermosa should be procured.  
2. It is well known that your Brother and yourself were so engaged with the French King that it was all one to you what became of the King of Spain's Concerns in Flanders; but you were both grieved to see the English Nation enriched with the Trade it had with Spain; for, during the time of the Riches and Plenty of England, it would be very difficult for you and your Conspirators to bring in Popery and Slavery upon us.  
3. What Agents you make use of to carry on this Wicked Design to ruin Trade! Even Fonseca, that hated the English Nation, and much envied her Greatness, and that she might be in a condition to be brought under the French Yoke, you tamper with him, that tho' a Spaniard by Nation, yet he was wholly in the French Interest.  
3. A third Instance that I shall remember you of, by which you intended to ruin our Trade, and that was in the adulterating, debasing and clipping the Coin of this Kingdom. It may be said by you and your Partisans, That it is very hard you should be charged with this vile Act; but, Sir, it can be proved, that the Merchants, Goldsmiths, Brokers, Bankers, and the other Traders that the Jesuits dealt with, all was by your Advice and Direction, and that your Servant Coleman had in your Name promised them the management of the Mint: So that your Conspirators were to be the Judges of good and bad Money, and were to manage the same to the best advantage for your Cause, and several Materials for Coining was provided by Smith your Agent, and lodged at Mr. Longhorn's Chambers in the Temple. And this, Sir, I must observe to you for public Good, that there hath been few or none that ever hath been executed but hath been of your Religion or Interest. That our Money hath been abused is notorious. And all this you did in order to impoverish the Kingdom, and destroy its Trade.  
4. A fourth Instance of you and your Traitors to disturb the Trade of the Kingdom, was the Fire of London. I have treated of that already. As it was the Habitation for several Thousands of good Protestants, that stood in opposition to Popery and Slavery; and as by the destroying this City you endeavoured to weaken the Protestant Interest, so now give me leave to tell you, it was with this design, to ruin the Trade of the Nation; for you know, that London was the Metropolis and Fountain of Trade, and when she was destroyed you could not but conclude, that the Trade must be disturbed (with which the other parts of the Kingdom were made happy) through the great devastation that the Fire, that was carried on by your Wicked Instruments, had made.  
iv A fourth Project that you had to accomplish your Wicked Designs, was the Attempt of maintaining of a standing Army, contrary to the Laws and Liberties of England in the times of Peace, and laboured that point much with the King your Brother, to lay down the legal Force of this Kingdom (viz. the Militia) as useless to the Government; and therefore you and your Party advised him to lay them down, and to have Forces in every County under Pay, and they were to be your Conservators of the Peace. And, Sir, had the Revenue of the Crown been able to have born the Charge, you yourself projected a standing Army, to keep the People in due Obedience. Now, what that due Obedience was, I shall not need to explain to you, for it was a standing Army alamode de France; nay, they were to have the Power of the Civil Watch in the Night, which you said would excuse many ancient useless Men from that Service. And for the accomplishment of your wicked Enterprise, you advised, that the greater part of the Army should consist of French and Irish, and that the Officers of this Army should consist of as many Roman Catholics as could well be gotten to serve in that Army, and you had several of that sort of  that you kept in half-pay, in readiness whenever your Brother should have agreed to your Advice. It was not for want of Good will, but for want of Money, that your Design did not then take.  
5. A fifth Project that you had on foot to enslave the Nation, and that was, the advising and contriving with your damnable Conspirators the seizure of the Charters, Franchises, and Liberties of the Cities, Towns, and ancient Corporations of the Kingdom. It was, Sir, yourself and your Conspirators that invaded the Privileges, and seized on the Charters of most of the Towns that had a Right to be represented by their Burgesses in Parliament, and by over awing some of them, you procured Surrenders of them to be made to the King your Brother, by which the Magistrates delivered up all their Rights and Privileges, to be disposed of at his pleasure, and the pleasure of yourself and Conspirators. Upon this you procured new Magistrates to be placed in those Places as would carry on your wicked designs and purposes of advancing Popery and Slavery.  
6. It was your Advice, together with your Conspirators, that put the late King your Brother to turn out of the Commission of the Peace and the Lieutenancy of the Counties, all such who had been zealous for the defence of the Protestant Religion and Liberty, and had appeared vigorously against Popery and Arbitrary Power, as persons disaffected to the Government both in Church and State, and represented them as fanatics, and Favourers of such; by which means you got in Men of Villainous Morals, and such hearty joined in with your Conspirators, to ruin the Protestant Interest, and to overthrow the Laws and Liberties of England. This was done in the year 1679.  
7. Notwithstanding some of your Conspirators represented you as a person whose Judgement was for Liberty of Conscience, yet because the Protestant Dissenters appeared earnestly in the asserting the Laws and Liberties of England, and gave Countenance to the Discovery of the Popish Plot to, King Charles your Brother, who was in it in every part and particular thereof, excepting that of his own Murder; you and your Conspirators stirred up that King to raise a terrible Persecution against those men, by which means you were the ruin of some Thousands of Families, who by the severity of the said Persecution were reduced almost to Beggary, or to live upon the Charity of Friends. Some were forced to fly the Nation, and yet were more loyal under their Pressures and Provocations than your Cutthroat Papists were under their then Caresses and Favours received from your Brother and yourself. Nay, a reverend Minister of the Gospel of Christ, who had been very instrumental in your Restauration, yea, and ventured his Life for your Brother's Restauration, in the year 1650, you suffered to perish in Newgate, as a Reward for so great a piece of Service to your Brother and yourself and Family; and for no other reason, but because he could not comply with some Rascally Ceremonies that our Ecclesiastical Vermin had borrowed from the Church of Rome, to Adorn our Protestant Worship, and because he would not take the Oxford Oath, laid upon the Nation to enslave it.  
8. Another Project you had for the ruining the Interest of the Protestant Religion, and the Interest of England, was the Advancing of Men that were Enemies to the Protestant Interest into the greatest Places of Trust. As, What a Sett of Villains had you made Judges of the Land, by which means you brought all the Matters of Civil Justice into great Uncertainties, by reason of the Tenor of their Commissions, and the Ignorance of the Rogues you employed! Therefore how miserable was the Nation, who were obliged to Answer to such Judges that were forced to comply in all things with the Directions that were given by you and your Wicked Cutthroats, or else to be turned out at yours and their Pleasure?  
If we look further, you had, in your Brother's time, the disposing of all Military Employments; And how you did show your Hatred to the Protestant Religion and the English Interest! You did in his time raise a great many Persons to the greatest Military Trusts both by Sea and Land, Strangers as well as Natives; so that by these measures your Conspirators became Masters of the Affairs of the Government of the Nation, and of the course of Justice; and you had all the Church Vermin engaged with you to subject the whole Kingdom to a despotic Arbitrary power; and all these joined together to execute your wicked Designs, to enslave and debauch the People of the Land.  
9 To complete the Work, that nothing might stand in your way of Establishing your Popish Religion, you murdered your Brother, who was uncertain in his Engagements in the Conspiracy; for, when he found it was not safe for him to appear in promoting Popery, he soon left you. Or if a Sum of Money could be gotten from a Parliament, he commonly blessed the Nation with a Proclamation or two against Popish Priests, Jesuits, and Popish Recusants, or pass a Bill or so to the prejudice of the Popish Party; as he did in 1673, when the Test-Bill passed; as also another in 1678. This obliged you and your Conspirators to hasten his destruction, which you had long contrived. You found a fit Tool, and as fit a Dose to do the Work; in it you had your desired Ends, and so you mounted the Throne. Which brings me to the Second Point, What you did in order to the Ruin of the Protestant Religion and the Government after your accession to the Crown.  
II. Your Tyranny was very cruel, but short, yet full of strange and surprising Circumstances: It was highly astonishing to see a Popish Prince ascending the Throne, to rule a Protestant Nation, and defend a Protestant Church; but, Sir, you had no such Designs in your Head, for you showed what you would do with our Laws, when you could engage your Conspirators to dispense with part of the Oaths that you should have taken. It is manifest and notorious, that when you were upon the coming to the Crown you was received by all the People of England, Scotland, and Ireland as King, without the least opposition, for our Ecclesiastical Vermin had made your way clear by their Doctrine of Passive Obedience and Nonresistance, and the Divine Right of Succession, and the possibility of preserving the Glory and Grandeur of their Church of England by a Popish Prince, and that there was more danger from fanatics than from Papists, and suchlike scoundrel Notions.  
You cannot but remember, that King Charles your Brother, having received the deadly Dose your Conspirators had prepared for him, on February the 6th, 1684/5, he went to his Place; that very day, Sir, you were proclaimed King, to the sorrow of all that wished well to England, and its Religion, Liberties and Laws: you then appeared at the Council-Table as King, and by all your Conspirators you was owned and saluted as such, to whom you were pleased to make a sort of a Speech, in which you were pleased to declare yourself to this effect.  
THat Since it hath pleased Almighty God to place you in that station, and that you were now to succeed so Good and Gracious a King, as well as so Kind a Brother, you thought it fit to declare, That you would follow his Example, and more especially in that of his great Clemency and Tenderness to all his People: That you had been reported to have been a man for Arbitrary Power, tho' that had not been the only Story that had been made of you: That you would make it your Endeavour to preserve Government both in Church and State, as it was by Law established: That you knew the Principles of the Church of England were for Monarchy, and that the Members of it had shown themselves good and loyal Subjects, and therefore you would take care to defend and support it: That you knew the Laws of England were sufficient to make the King as great a Monarch as you could wish; and therefore, as you would never departed from the Just Rights and Prerogatives of the Crown, so you would never invade any Man's Property: And that you had ventured your Life very often in the defence of the Nation: And that you would go as far as any Man in preserving it in all its Just Rights and Liberties.  
This, Sir, is the sum and substance of what you were pleased to say at the Council board; and one would have sworn that you would have taken up the Trade of being Speech wright-general to the whole Band of your Conspirators. I am confident your old Friends the Jesuits, that had been hanged but a little before, could not have outdone you, though it had been to have saved their Lives. Well, it was a Speech, and how true you were to this Speech you shall judge, and your Conspirators too, if you will but consider.  
1. You said, You would not invade any man's Right and Property, and that you would preserve the Nation in its Just Rights and Liberties. And so you did, for you, the next day after your accession to the Crown, published a Proclamation for the continuing the payment of the Custom and Excise, which were expired by the death of the King your Brother for several weeks after. Did not this show you to be a man for Arbitrary Power, to invade the Properties of a great part of the Subjects of England by your Proclamation; what Value you had for the Rights of the Nation, for whom you had ventured your Life in a Coiled Cable; and what Regard you had to its Laws, that at your first step in your pretended Government you bring in a Proclamation equivalent to those Laws that expired as aforesaid, by which the Excise and Customs in the time of the Reign of your kind and loving Brother had been settled and paid.  
2. You said, That you would follow the Example of your Brother, in his Clemency and Tenderness to the People of England. What your Brother's Clemency and Tenderness to the people of England was, I am yet to learn. What was his Clemency to his old Cavaliers, that had served both his Father and him in the Wars, to the ruin of themselves and Families, spending their Substance in both their Services, and not so much as looked upon when you were restored? After that Sir John Webster, a Merchant, had lent him 150000 l. Sterling, did not he, after much Importunity, reward the said Sir John with the refusal of a Land-waiter's Place, and graciously suffered the poor man to starve, as a Reward of his Loyalty? Was not his Clemency such, that within the compass of a very few years all his whole Interest was melted down into a small Regiment of Pimps, Whores, and Bawds, on whom he lavishly conferred great Honours, and on them he profusely spent the Treasure of the Nation.  
Remember, Sir, how his Clemency was extended to those Ministers that brought him home, and to that Party of Men that restored him to his Crown and Dignity. Mr. Jenkins is a notable Instance of his Clemency, who ventured his Life for his Restoration, in that Cause that Mr. Love lost his. What a Tenderness he had for Mr. Jenkins▪ was seen in his murdering him in Prison, notwithstanding all the humble application made to your tender Brother, for his release, in order to preserve his Life.  
His Clemency to Sir Henry Vane was admirable, for rather than Vane should not be sent to Heaven, he broke through an Act of Parliament, lest the Martyr should find delay in his passage thither. What can you say of his Clemency to Great Essex, and Noble Russel, whom he basely and barbarously murdered? I think that Sir Thomas Armstrong is another Instance of his Clemency. And so you were as good as your word, in following the Example of his Clemency and Tenderness to the People of England.  
For upon your entering into the Regal State, you let England have a taste of your Clemency. I must begin with my own Case; I sufficiently tasted of your Grace and Favour after that with the hazard of my Life; I had discovered a Damnable Conspiracy, carried on by the Popish Party, for the destruction of the King your Brother and the Protestant Religion, and the Government of the Nation; how you used me let all the World judge, notwithstanding the Credit the Parliament had given me; as you may rememember in the Vote of March 15. 1679.  
Resolved, Nemine Contradicente, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament assembled, That they do declare that they are fully satisfied, by the Proofs they have heard, that there now is, and for divers years last passed hath been, an Horrid and Treasonable Plot and Conspiracy, continued and carried on by those of the Popish Religion, for the murdering of His Majesty's Sacred Person, and for subverting the Protestant Religion, and the Ancient Established Government of this Kingdom.  
Notwithstanding all your Clemency and Tenderness to the English Nation, produce such a Vote for the Justifying your Reputation in the Nation, and for aught I know, you may persuade yourself that the Nation may be inclined to receive you into favour again, and admit your tender Government of them once more.  
But to return to the Point. Notwithstanding the Power of Truth and the Credit of this Vote, with what implacable Malice did you and your Banditti pursue me? How often did you attempt to take away my Life by the Testimony of False Witnesses? With what Importunity did you prevail upon the King your Brother to withdraw that Protection and Subsistance that the said King allowed me at the request of several Parliaments, so that I might starve for want of Bread? Nay, to express your Clemency and Tenderness, how warmly did you prosecute me in an Action of Scandalum Magnatum, for speaking this Notorious Truth of you, That you were reconciled to the Church of Rome, and that it was High Treason to be so reconciled? And what a noble Verdict a packed Jury of your Conspirators, upon the prosecution, brought in against me, of One hundred thousand Pound Damages? And thereupon you generously Charged me in Execution in the Kings-Bench Prison.  
And was you afraid that I was Able to have paid the Debt and Charges, and as Willing as Able? Well, to prevent it, you resolved that I should not want your Clemency and Tenderness; you therefore, to justify those Virtues to be inherent in you, you prevailed with King Charles the Second to give you and your Conspirators Leave to prefer two several Indictments of two pretended Perjuries in my Evidence concerning the Popish Plot, but your Villains would not let the King your Brother live to see those Indictments tried, therefore they were brought to trial in your tender Reign. What sort of Witnesses did you produce against me, but those very men that had been in no less than three Trials proved and judged to be False Witnesses, the Religion they professed no ways admitting them to be Credible; and therefore, as they were not believed when they gave their Testimony without an Oath, so they were not to be believed when they were upon their Oaths; for you know, tender Sir, they were of a Religion that could dispense with Oaths, tho' false, for the sake of your Catholic Cause.  
These, Sir, were your Witnesses; and you had two Juries of Men that had as large a Faith to believe as the Rogues had Consciences to swear, and so I must aver Juries and Witnesses to be alike, for he is as criminal, and is as much damned, that believes a Lie, as he is that makes one and swears it too; for the Rogues your mercenary wicked Judges, and the Villains that were Witnesses, and your packed Hellborn Jurymen, were all in (as it were) a Confederacy, to be revenged on me for the discovery of the Popish Plot, and to cast a Reproach upon the Wisdom and Honour of four successive Parliaments, and upon the public Justice of the Nation.  
Well, Sir, I was convicted, notwithstanding the Witnesses I brought in, who were browbeaten, abused by that Villain Jefferies, who had neither Law nor Sense, nor Manners, but had the Impudence of Ten Carted Whores; therefore nothing now remained for me but Judgement, which was your own appointing, with the Advice of your twelve Villains that were of the Lambskin Order, and others of your Conspirators, as a Mark of your Clemency and Tenderness towards me. The Sentence was as barbarous and inhuman as it was unjust; for I was to pay to you Two thousand Marks, to be divested of my Canonical Habit, and brought into Westminster-Hall with a Paper upon my Head with this Inscription; Titus Dates, convicted upon full Evidence of two Horrid Perjuries; to stand in and upon the Pillory for two several days; on Wednesday to be Whipped from Aldgate to Newgate, and on the Friday following from Newgate to Tyburn; and to stand in and upon the Pillory five times every year of my Life, and to remain a Prisoner during Life.  
This Sentence sounded ill in the Ears of most Men, and filled many with Horror and Amazement, when they considered the great Clemency and Tenderness that you did in your Speech but a little before mention to the Council, and therefore some persons of known worth and quality made application to you to mitigate the Sentence, but were refused with the gracious Saying, That I should go through it if I had breath in my body. And then, judging that your Italian Comrade might have this Clemency and Tenderness of yours under her Lock and Key, application was made to her Ladyship, but they found that she was resolved upon my Destruction; they returned home, holding up their Eyes and Hands to Heaven with a Lord have Mercy upon us. Truly, Sir, it was their  to me, but it was their Inadvertency to make any Application to you or your Italian Pugg; for it was the Example of your Brother's Clemency and Tenderness that you were resolved to follow.  
Since it was so, not only I, but all thinking men, did then judge that your unparallelled Sentence thus pronounced was to murder me; and therefore to justify the inherent Clemency and Tenderness that you had for a poor English Protestant, the said Sentence was executed with all the Circumstances of Barbarity, for I suffered some thousands of Stripes, by which I was put to unspeakable Tortures, and lay ten weeks under the Surgeons hands. But, Sir, your Malice and Malicious Clemency and Barbarous Tenderness did not cease here; but because I, through the great Mercy of Almighty God supporting me, and the extraordinary Care and Skill of a Judicious Chirurgeon, outlived your Cruelty; for such were your tender Mercies to me, you sent some of your Cutthroat Crew, whilst I was weak in my Bed, to pull off those Plasters applied to cure my Back, and in your most gracious Name they threatened me with all Courtesy and Humanity to destroy me.  
Surely, Sir, a Man would have thought that by this time you had given Testimony enough of your Tenderness and Clemency, but I found to my Cost that I was to taste a little more of your Grace and Mercy; for by your own Command I was loaded with Irons of excessive weight, for the space of one whole year without any intermission, and of your Princely Compassion they were not suffered to be taken off even when my Legs were swollen with the Gout. Nay, that I might appear to partake of the utmost of your Mercy, I was by your order shut up in the Hole or Dungeon of the Prison, whereby I became impaired of my Limbs, and contracted Convulsion Fits, to the hazard of my Life. But when you had filled up the measure of your Sins, and the Nation came to its self, you were by the just Judgement of God driven out of the Kingdom, and a Parliament freely chosen did sit, observe the Judgement they made of your Grace and Clemency and Tenderness; in order to which read the Vote of the House of Commons June 11. 1689. which was this; Resolved, That the Prosecution of Titus Oates, upon two Indictments of Perjury, in the Court of King's Bench, was a Design to stifle the Popish Plot; and that the Verdicts given thereupon were corrupt; and that the Judgements given thereupon were cruel and illegal. Do you get such another Vote to justify your Clemency and Tenderness, we will keep a Day for you, tho' through the Blessing of God we may never see your Face again; but if we should, give me leave to tell you, that the old Window of the Banqueting House stands in the same place where it did you know when. But lest you or any of your cursed Crew should say, That altho' I tasted not of your Grace, and Clemency, and Tenderness, yet still your Clemency did appear to others that had offended you, this makes me hasten to some other Instances wherein the World may judge whether or no your Tender Mercies were not Cruelty in the highest degree.  
2. Give me leave therefore to instance to you of the Usage of the Duke of Monmouth, and those Men that were with him in the West, who did rise to have delivered the Nation from your Designs of Popery and Slavery, which you had for so many years with your Cutthroats carried on with such Success. That Noble Duke was your kind and loving Brother's Son, and your own Nephew, and one that for many years together had been very obsequious to you, and was, tho' ignorantly, in the Conspiracy with you to ruin the Nation, and ventured his Life in that wicked War against the Dutch, to oblige you and his Father; but God had no sooner opened his Eyes, to make a true Judgement of your wicked purposes, but you sought his Ruin, and took all Opportunities to be revenged upon him and his Party, which, you know, once was very considerable. And when God delivered him into your hand, you were pleased upon Tower-hill to murder him. This I say because that he being a Peer of the Realm, notwithstanding his pretended Attainder, he ought to have had the liberty of an attainded Peer, that is, to have been heard at the Bar of the House of Lords, and to have showed Cause why he should not be executed according to the Tenure of that Act by which he stood attainded. But you, I conceive, was resolved to have his Blood, and therefore you would not compliment him with that piece of Justice which is due to every man that is found guilty of any capital Offence: So that he being denied of this piece of Justice, I do affirm, that he by your Clemency and Tenderness was basely betrayed and murdered.  
Well, did the business of the West end so? No, for remember how many of them by your Villainous Kirk were murdered and hanged up in cool Blood, without any manner of proceeding according to the form of Law and Justice; and this being taken notice of by your own Crew, that had heard of your pretended Clemency and Tenderness, as a thing that would not sound well in the Nation; therefore the remainder were confined, and your Villain Jefferies and his murdering Brethren were sent down to try these poor unfortunate wretches, from many of whom a Confession was extorted upon the Promise of Pardon, and then they were condemned and murdered, they being innocent of what they had confessed against themselves; others that had been in actual Arms hundreds of them were hanged in the principal Towns, and their Quarters hanged up in the Highways, as lasting Monuments of your Grace and Compassion.  
And you being glutted with Blood, you then thought of other Punishments for some other of those Offenders; many Men and Women were ordered to be whipped publicly in the Market-Towns, others had their Estates seized, and a great number were sold into America, to serve all days of their Lives; so that there was nothing but the Voice of lamentation and weeping to be heard. In a word, your Grace, Clemency and Tenderness was such, that several of the Western Counties were made so many Fields of Blood and Butchery: Nay, Sir, those who escaped your Mercy by virtue of your Proclamation, were forced to retire to the Woods and desolate places, their nearest and dearest Relations not daring so much as to harbour or relieve them, so that several starved to death, or perished with cold for want of things necessary for the preservation of Human Nature: Some fled to the Dutch for shelter, and were not only kindly received, but as civility entertained, till you began to have some Shame in you, and pardoned some, in hopes that they would be of use to you; and others came over with the Prince of Orange, who, by the Just Judgement of God upon you and your Adherents, banished you the Kingdom, and the Lords and Commons of England deposed you as useless to God and Man.  
But, Sir, this is notorious, that you never entertained the least Remorse of Conscience for the murder of these men in the West, for those you pardoned paid a Price sufficient for their Pardons; or if you gave them Pardon freely, it was to prevent their setting up their Trades in other Countries. And Jefferies your Tool, that you ought to have hanged, you let him go off with no other Punishment than to be made Lord High Chancellor of England, who also did enrich himself with the Sum of 15000 l. extorted from one person who wanted a Pardon, for nothing else but the not delivering his Country, which he might have done for half the Mony. I am more sorry that Jefferies got the Money, than for that Gentleman's losing that Sum. Truly, Sir, I was in hopes that the Time of that Villain Jefferies had been come, in which he should not only have paid his Debt to Nature, but to his Faults too; but he is gone to his Place, and thereby he hath saved the Hangman a Labour; but had he lived, he would in my opinion have been made an Example for all his Villainies that he had committed, both as a corrupt Judge and a traitorous Chancellor.  
3. You were pleased in the years 1687 & 1688, to publish a Declaration for Liberty of Conscience, and professed in both the said Declarations, That it was always your Judgement that no man's Conscience should be restrained in Matters of Religion. Now, Sir, if that were true, why then did you persecute the Protestant Dissenters for their Conscience, from Feb. 6. 1684, till the latter end of the year 1686? And if it were not your Judgement, why then did you proclaim Liberty of Conscience as your Judgement? But, Sir, to deal truly in the point, you had a Popish Fabric to erect, and you wanted Liberty of Conscience to be the Scaffold; and when you had done your business of settling Popery, you would have laid Liberty of Conscience aside, as your Brethren abroad of the Popish Religion have always done. And this was the Clemency your Brother was pleased to show to Dissenters, and afterwards he and you could with great Tenderness suffer them to perish in Prison; and you yourself, when you were in the Chair, persecuted them, to the ruin of some Thousands of Families; you surfeited yourself and Party with the murder and ruin of so many Men, and yet you pretend to Clemency and Tenderness. To conclude this particular, your Brother and you made two Declarations for Liberty of Conscience, for no other intent but to cheat the People of England into Slavery and Popery, to the end that you might damn the Body and Soul of the Nation at once. From such Clemency and Tenderness I trust God hath delivered this Nation, and will preserve her under the present Government, all your pretences to the contrary notwithstanding.  
4. What shall I say of those worthy persons that you kept in Jail for the pretended Damages of 100000 l. and others of 10000 l. and others for one Fine or another? What shall I say of the Murder of the Lady Lisle, and Alderman Cornish, Mr. Ayliff, and Mr. Nelthrope, and poor Disney? These were Monuments of your Clemency and Tenderness.  
3. You promised in your Speech to the Council, That you would maintain the Church of England as it was established by Law. Nay, I think, if you had not wrong done you, you swore it too at your Coronation. And, Sir, (if you please) call to mind how you kept your Promise and Oath in relation to the Church of England and the Protestant Interest; nay, you gave a reason for your Promise, it being the only Reason that you ever gave in your Life, I will put you in mind of it, Because, said you, Her Members had showed themselves Loyal Subjects, and that the Principles of the Church of England had been for Monarchy. Therefore,  
1. How did you maintain the Church of England as by Law established? Were there not Laws in force for the preservation of the Church of England, that had been enacted in the Reigns of several Princes that were your Predecessors, amongst which Laws, as a security of the Church of England against Popery, That all persons whatsoever, that were advanced to any Ecclesiastical Dignity, or to bear Office in either University, as likewise all Civil and Military Officers, should declare they were not Papists, but of the Protestant Religion, and that by taking the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, and the Test; yet you and your Conspirators annulled all those Laws that were made to secure the Protestant Religion against Popery. Was this to defend the Church of England and to maintain Her Laws? I leave it to all men to judge. But you and your villainous Commissioners thought yourselves so wise, as to reconcile Contradictions, and therefore you were resolved to try your Skill upon the Church and the Nurseries of Learning; which proved fatal to you and your Party by the Just Vengeance of Almighty God.  
2. Did you not, against express Law, and against the Promise of your maintaining the Church of England, set up an Ecclesiastical Commission, and empower the Persons named in that illegal Commission to take cognizance, and to give arbitrary directions in matters Ecclesiastical, in which Commission there was one who professed the Popish Religion, and others that were Abettors of Popery and Popish Superstition; therefore to what deplorable condition was the Church of England reduced, that a Commissioner for the Church of England's Affairs should publicly abjure the Protestant Religion, by which means he was not only very unfit, but also uncapable of holding any public Employment! And did not the Banditti give you such proof of their submission to your Popish Directions you gave them, that they had continued in their Places to this day, had not God of his Infinite Mercy delivered us from them and yourself? For they were men of an agreeable disposition to have furthered your designs of Popery, notwithstanding all your Promises to maintain the Church of England, for they took care that none should be preferred that had any zeal for the Protestant Religion; for, if you will be serious in considering who they were that you preferred to the Dignities in the Church, and upon what terms, you must own, that they were men of such Morals and Principles, as rendered them a very scandal to that villainous Design that you and your Conspirators were carrying on against the Church of England.  
3. I pray, Sir, was the suspension of the Bishop of London another demonstration of your Purpose and Resolution to maintain the Church of England? Let any of your traitorous Crew stand forth and answer for you; Was not that Prelate suspended for refusing to obey an Arbitrary Order sent to him by your Banditti Commissioners for the suspending of Dr. Sharp, now Archbishop of York, for preaching against Popery according to his Office and Calling, without so much as citing the said Dr. Sharp before him to make his defence, or observing any common forms of Process commonly used in such cases: The Bishop complied with your Suspension, and what damage it was to him he can tell better than I; but it did work for our Good, and hastened our Deliverance, but it showed that you had but little regard to your Oath and Promise to maintain the Church of England.  
4. Another Specimen you gave us of your pious Resolution of maintaining the Ch. of England as by Law established, was the dealing with Magdalen College in Oxford. In the first place you turned out the Precedent, who was legally chosen by the Fellows of the College, who, if I mistake not, are sworn to choose one from among themselves to bear that Office; than you turned out all the Fellows for refusing to choose one of your recommendation, without so much as citing them to appear before any Court that could take legal cognizance in that affair, or obtaining any Sentence against them by a competent Judge; and the only reason you gave for the turning them out, was, because they had refused a person that was a Papist, who was not only uncapable by the Laws of the Land, but also by the Statutes of that College, of bearing the Office of a Precedent or Fellow of that Community. And having expelled both Precedent and Fellows, you put the said College into the hands of Papists, that you might the better maintain the Rights and Liberties of the Ch. of England as by Law established. But I hope it may be a warning to that Community, and to all others of that University, how they advance the Prerogative of the Crown so high, and nourish those two pestilent Doctrines of Passive Obedience and Nonresistance, and the Divine Right of Succession, les● those Doctrines do expose them to a greater Danger than the last.  
5. Another demonstration that was given by you of your steadfast Purposes of standing by and maintaining of the Ch. of England, was your proceeding against the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge, 1687. You had a great Favour for one Francis a Benedictine Monk, a Rogue that was fit for any Villainy that you could put him upon to act; him you sent to Cambridge to corrupt the Youth there, and no doubt but for his time he did the business for which you sent him. You planted him in Sidney College, where you had placed one Basset a Papist in that House as Master, but your Monk had an Apartment, wherein he performed the Office of a Priest according to the Ch. of Rome; but being a Fellow that had taken no Degrees in any University either at home or abroad, you were resolved that he should be a Master of Arts in the University of Cambridge; and in order to this you sent a Letter to the said Vicechancellor, to admit the said Father Francis to be a Master of Arts without taking the Oaths; which the Vicechancellor refused, as contrary to the Law of the Land and the Statutes of the University: Upon this you caused the Vicechancellor and the Delegates of the University to be summoned before your Commissioners of Ecclesiastical Affairs, where that Villain Jefferies, contrary to all Law or Reason, pronounced Sentence, that the Vicechancellor being guilty of great Disobedience to the King's Commands, and other Crimes and Contempts, should be deprived of the Office of Vicechancellor, and suspended of his headship of Magdalen College in the said University of Cambridge. Thus, Sir, you were pleased to maintain the Ch. of England, by suffering the Learning and Gravity of that University to be trampled upon, and by letting in a parcel of silly, impudent, and illiterate Popish Priests and Friars, who were to join with you in supporting the Protestant Religion, as it was then by Law established. Unless your Commissioners of Ecclesiastical Affairs judged that to destroy the two Universities as to Learning, and to break in upon their Laws made to preserve their Communities, would be a means to preserve the Church of England, I cannot but wonder at those extravagant Proceed in the last years of your Tyranny against them, since they had so highly espoused your Cause when you were Duke of York, against the Sense of the whole Nation.  
6. Another Reason you give us to believe that you did design to stand by and support and maintain the Ch. of England, was your proceeding and causing to be summoned before your Ecclesiastical Commissioners all the Chancellors and Archdeacon's of England, and requiring them to certify the Names of those Clergymen who had read the Declaration for Liberty of Conscience, as well as the Names of those who had refused the same, without considering that the reading of it was not enjoined the Clergy by the Bishops, who are their Ordinaries: So that this was another way you intended (even by these extrajudicial Proceed in your Court of Commissioners Ecclesiastical) to maintain the Liberties of the Ch. of England. This was one great cause why several Persons of Quality both in Church and State refused to be concerned in this Commission, for they at last clearly saw, that this damnable Commission tended to nothing less than the total Subversion of the Protestant Religion, for you used it to no other end and purpose than to oppress such persons as were eminent for Learning and Virtue, that should at any time or season preach against Popery & Superstition. And it was God's great Mercy to the Protestant Interest that they did at last see, for sure I am that in the latter part of your Brother's time, and in the beginning of your time, they were given up to such a secure state, and judicial blindness, that the Protestant Religion was in greater danger of being suppressed than ever it was since the Reformation, notwithstanding your Promise of maintaining and preserving it.  
7. Another Indication of your Care for the maintenance of the Ch. of England was the breaking through those Laws which forbidden the erecting Churches and Chapels for the exercise of the Popish Religion, and also against Monasteries and Convents, and more particularly against the Order of the Jesuits; for you did, contrary to your Oath and Promise made to support the Ch. of England, give out arbitrary and illegal Orders to erect Monasteries; and in contempt of the Law you set up several Colleges of Jesuits to corrupt the Youth of the Nation. Nay, Sir, that you might not leave yourself without Witness of your steadfast Resolution of maintaining, supporting and defending the Ch. of England, you raised up a Jesuit that was in the Popish Plot, in which the death of the King your kind and loving Brother was plotted and contrived, and the subversion of the Government both in Church and State, to be a Privy Councillor and a Minister of State: By all which you did evidently show, that you were restrained by no Laws, and therefore the Ch. of England must perish, you being so well seconded in your Popish Progress by your most excellent Commissioners of Ecclesiastical Affairs. But to conclude this Paragraph, how those Villains that acted in that Commission of yours can look Mankind in the Face, after they have done so many things against all Law, Honour and Conscience, I do not understand: The truth is, those that are yet alive have with the Whore in the Proverbs wiped their Mouths, and say, They have done no wickedness; and, without all doubt, if they might be trusted, would with as great earnestness appear against your Cause and Interest, as they did wickedly in your time espouse it; but they would be such a Reproach to an honest Government, as would render the best and most honest 'Cause suspicious, if engaged in it.  
iv I come now to consider a 4th Passage in your Speech to the Council, wherein you were pleased to say, That you had been reported to have been a man for Arbitrary Power, but you did assure them that you would preserve the Government in Church and State, as by Law established; And That you knew that the Laws of England were sufficient to make the King as great a Monarch as he could wish. How you preserved the Government of the Church, is plain enough; nothing indeed is more plain than this, that you intended its Destruction and utter Subversion, and that nothing less would serve your turn, notwithstanding its Principles were for Monarchy, and its Members had showed themselves Loyal Subjects. How fared it then with the State? Surely the Civil Government was preserved, since the Laws of England were sufficient to make the King as great a Monarch as he could wish: In truth, Sir, there was but a lamentable account to be given to your more than Glorious Successor of your management of Affairs in the Civil Government, all things were out of order at his accession to the Crown, which you may have forgotten; therefore, Sir, be pleased to remember, in the first place, your Villains of your Council, and of your Ecclesiastical Commission: As they were in a Conspiracy against the Ch. of England, to turn our Religion into downright Popery, so they were in a Conspiracy against the State, to turn the well established Government of this Land into downright Slavery, and this not secretly, as if those Rascals were not ashamed of what they did, for they had that matchless Impudence to act in an open and undisguised manner; and to carry on your villainous purposes, you and your Accomplices set up the Dispensing Power, by virtue of which you might suspend and dispense with the execution of the Laws at your pleasure: and in order to give this devilish Maxim of yours and your Conspirators countenance and credit, you so managed that matter, that you obtained an Opinion from the Judges, most of which were mercenary Rogues, who declared their opinion, That this Dispensing Power was in the Kings of England; as if it were in the power of these Villains to offer up the Laws and Liberties of the whole Nation to yourself, to be disposed of by you arbitrarily at your pleasure, and expressly contrary to those Laws that were enacted for the liberty of the Subject.  
In order to obtain this Judgement, your Conspirators did before hand examine secretly the Sentiments of the Judges, and procured such of them as could not in Conscience concur in so villainous an opinion or sentence to be turned out, and others that had neither Law nor Conscience were substituted in their rooms, so that by changing of hands they found out 12 matchless Rogues, from whom you obtained that wicked Judgement which, if my Memory fail me not, was laid down in these 5 particulars. 1. That the Kings of England are Sovereign Princes. 2. That the Laws of England are the King's Laws. 3. That it is an inseparable Prerogative of the K. of Engl. to dispense with Penal Laws upon necessity and urgent occasions. 4. That the K. is the sole Judge of that necessity. 5. That this is not in Trust given to the K. but 'tis the ancient Remains of the Crown, which ne'er was nor can be taken from him. Give me leave, Sir, to examine these Particulars, and let the world see how you were abused, and how you abused the Government by the Opinions of these 12 mercenary Rogues.  
1. That the Kings of England were Sovereign Princes. What then? Must you by a Dispensing Power do what you list? were you not subject to those Laws which you were sworn to keep? And if you had not fled, might you not have been called to an account? Might not the People, from whom you derived your Authority, have had any Power over you? And was it not dangerous both to Church and State to have a Popish Prince so mighty, that no Protestant House of Peers or Commons dare control him? Truly, Sir, I own that the Kings of England are sovereign Princes, yet the Nation by their Representatives did ne'er allow the Kings of England to do what 12 mercenary Judges should deliver as their Opinions; for, Sir, it was ne'er intended when you assumed the Government, that your Will and Pleasure should stand for a Law, for the Laws that support the Grandeur of the Crown limited your Will to Reason, and tied your Commands to the Word of God, the Laws of the Realm, and the Weal of the People. And since, Sir, you regarded not these things, but followed the Sentiments of your corrupt Judges, your Will was unlawful, and Commands unjust.  
The Kings of England always have been, and still are Sovereign Princes, but what makes them so? Is it not the Law of the Land? And doth not the Law set a boundary to their Government as well as to the People's Obedience? Is there not a mutual Contract between King and People? Now, when any K. shall by a Suspending or Dispensing Power dissolve this Contract, and break in upon our Laws, and overturn the Government, the People cease to be his Subjects, and he to be their King. It is your own case, Sir, by your Dispensing Power you did not only pretend to be above Law, but also that you were not bound by Law; tho' by your Oath you were as much bound to observe the Law as a King, as your People were bound to observe the Laws as your Subjects. But the People of England seeing that it was in vain to expect any Justice or Righteousness from you, (for means of reformation was propounded, but was denied to be complied withal) several noble Lords saw themselves slighted, their Counsels rejected, and the Protestant Religion upon its last Legs, they therefore did implore the help of the Prince of Orange, now our Gracious King; he comes over, seizeth your Treasure, your fortified places, Navy, and Naval Stores, and with one Consent of the People of England was made our Sove - L●rd and King, and hath his health very well without the help and aid of a Dispensing Power; God send him a long and prosperous Reign.  
2. The Laws of England are the King's Laws; if your Dispensing Vermin did mean by the Laws being your Laws, that is, that you were entrusted with the Conservation and the Execution of them, than we agree with the Rogues; but how doth this Trust reposed in the King, for the time being, entitle him to Suspend and Dispense with these Laws: but if by the Laws being yours they understood that they were your Property, either to Execute or not Execute, either to keep or break at your pleasure: I pray Sir, to what end were they made, and to what end were you Sworn, to keep and maintain these Laws, why was there the trouble of an Oath to keep the Law? But Sir, here they laid down a notorious falsehood, for the Laws of England are the Laws made by King and People as the Rule of the Government of the King on the one hand, and of the Obedience of the People on the other.  
3. That it is an inseparable Prerogative of the King of England to Dispense with Penal Laws upon necessity and urgent Occasions, this was laid down as good Law. But Sir, I pray consider, were not all the Laws of England Enacted by the King and the People of England, met in Parliament, for the security of the Government and of the Subject; how then could these Villains give you a Power of annulling these Laws at your Will and Pleasure, since you could not suspend or dispense with them, but by the same Authority by which they were made? It is true, the King of England, for the time being, may pardon a Punishment that a Transgressor hath incurred, and to which he is condemned, as in cases of Felony and Treason, yet it cannot be inferred from hence, with any colour of reason, that you or any other King could entirely suspend the Execution of those Laws relating to Felony or Treason, unless, Sir, your villainous Judges could have proved by any other Authority, than barely their Opinions that you were clothed with a Dispotick and Arbitrary Power, and that the Lives and Liberties, Honours and Estates of the People of England, did depend wholly upon your good Will and Pleasure, and were entirely subject to you, which must infallibly follow on your having a Power to suspend the Execution of the Laws, and to dispense with them.  
It may be Sir, some of your Dispenser's may say, That you were not well informed when you took the Coronation-Oath to maintain the Laws of the Land, and that you had prejudiced yourself greatly by yielding to the Oath, and that you had weakened your Authority too much in submitting yourself to the observation of those Laws.  
These things were much talked of by some of your Bully Conspirators, when they little dreamt of your taking the Air at St. Germains: Nay, some of the Devils Brokers roared this out of their Pulpits by the direction of Old Hodge their guide. But, Sir, I pray, inform me how it could be that you should not be well informed, when you yielded to take the Oath at your Coronation to observe, and keep the Laws of the Land? It is impossible that you should be ignorant of that which all the World knew, and all your Predecessors before you; as it was almost impossible that you should not be acquainted with the Oath that you were to take, and the Laws you were to preserve by that Oath. So this, know that you were bound to those Laws immediately upon taking the Oath; and I wonder much that you should be a stranger to the Coronation Oath, and to the Laws by which you were to defend your Government that had been twenty four Years a looker on in the Reign of your Brother. Therefore this Plea is as frivolous, as the Opinion of your never to be forgiven Judges was Impudent and against Law. But this is one of the madest Thoughts that ever you, or your villainous Judges could be guilty of, that it was a blemish to the Sovereign Power of the Kings of England to submit to the Laws. I pray, Sir, What blemish would it have been to your Sovereign Power to have submitted to the Laws of your Country, which your Predecessors were contented to acknowledge and observe? You derived your Authority to yourself by virtue of the Laws? Why then was the Observation of the Laws such a prejudice to you and your Sovereign Power? But we saw the Laws broken, and you forsworn, and your Subjects deposed you. In this, I am sure, you have found a greater blemish and prejudice, than the observation of the Laws would have been.  
But to be short, you may plead for yourself and your Judges, That were under a necessity and an urgent occasion. Well, What was that necessity? What were those urgent occasions that could put you upon forswearing yourself, and bringing yourself under the guilt of Perjury. In truth, Sir, your necessity you lay under, was the subversion of the Protestant Religion, and bringing in Popery, and the subversion of the Civil Government, and bringing in Tyranny and Slavery. Is not Perjury a most grievous Offence, but much more grievous when it is voluntarily committed? And then a King committeh Perjury willingly when he doth any thing willingly against the Oath he hath taken, not by force but by freewill, not unadvisedly but with great consideration, not to his hurt but to his advantage, not to perform a thing that was impossible or dishonest, but to bind himself to a condition that is honest and possible too. Now when a King breaketh such an Oath, there can be no colour or pretence of necessity, or urgent occasions to excuse his Perjury.  
4. That the King of England is sole Judge of that necessity. I never took you so much behind hand in Sense and Reason, but that you might plainly see that this is but a bantre of these Rogues, for they neither stated the necessity and the urgent occasions you had to forswear yourself, and never inquired whether any necessity, or any urgent occasions could excuse you from lying under the guilt of Perjury. Then they came off with an impudent lie, and say the King is sole Judge of that necessity. He is sole Judge of nothing but what he is entitled to by the Law; where the Law makes him a sole Judge there I do, and own myself bound to obey him as such. But once more, Sir, Where was this necessity of which you were to be sole Judge? When did it spring? Out of what part of the World? I believe, if you could have convinced the Nation of this necessity, and these urgent occasions, they would not so readily concurred to your going to St. Germains, were your Popish Friends oppressed. And did the necessity arise from thence? If it did, Why did you not tell the Parliament of this Oppression? Were they in want of Places at Court, and Employments under you, which they could not hold? Truly a great many Protestants went without them, notwithstanding their being qualified. Oh! but the Priests of the Church of Rome were in danger of the Law. I never could yet see that day. If they would be quiet, and the Religion of the Church of Rome was your Religion: Well, if it was, Had you not better to have refused the Crown rather than to have taken it with such Encumbrances and Clogs, as should expose you to such necessities and urgent occasions of Perjuring yourself, and Damning your Soul, and Ruining of three Kingdoms? It was well you were the sole Judge of the necessity; for if an honest English Parliament had sat in the time of your necessity and urgent occasions, they would have made these Rogues have swung for their villainous Advice.  
5. That this is not in Trust given to the King, but the Ancient Remains of the Crown, which never was, nor can be taken from him; you, nor no King in England, ever had any thing but what you received in Trust from the People of England in Parliament assembled, therefore this was the greatest of Impudence that these Twelve ignorant Devils could be guilty of, for what Authority, Power, or Riches, have the Kings of England, but what they received from the People: and it is plain the Power and Authority that you received was for the benefit of the People, and not for the ruin and destruction of the Laws you consented to; you were entrusted with the Conservation of them, not to Suspend, or Dispense with them at your will and pleasure.  
But what King of England was there, since the pretended Conqest, that was not Sworn to keep the Laws, and defend the Rights and Liberties of the Church and People of England? and who Administered this Oath to them? but one or more, in the behalf of themselves and all the People of England. Your Brother, though bad enough, took the Government as a trust reposed in him by his good People of England, what part was it then that was not a Trust? they trusted him with vast sums of money, they trusted you but with a very little. I pray Sir, would your Scoundril Conspirators but tell me what parts were the Remains of the Crown, and how they came so to be; if they cannot it is all Cheat and Nonsense. By your management (notwithstanding all that might have been said to the contrary, even in your Reign, without the danger of being hanged,) you obtained from your Judges this wicked Opinion. I suppose you were not Idle, but was resolved to proceed according to this Judgement of theirs; for you presently invaded the Liberties both of Church and State. I have given you some instances of your Invasion upon the Rights of the People of England, in relation to Matters of the Church. Now let us proceed to see how you carried yourself in reference to the Civil Rights and Liberties of the People of England, which brings me to a second Instance of your invading our Civil Rights.  
2. As your Brother did begin, and made a very great Progress in, so you went on to invade Privileges, and to seize the Charters of the Towns that had a right to be represented in Parliament; and by your Tools procured Surrenders of them to be made to you, especially where they were poor, and not able to defend them. And a Gentleman that valued himself upon his Oath that he had made to a Corporation, whereof he was a Magistrate, and therefore refused to deliver the same; you rewarded him with a two or three years' imprisonment, and had not God interposed, it had been to the ruin of himself, his Wife and Children. By these Surrenders, Sir, you caused all the Magistrates to give up their Rights and Privileges, to be disposed of at your pleasure, and the pleasure of your Villains the Conspirators; and by this means you placed in several of these Towns Popish Magistrates, notwithstanding their incapacity, or such as were Popishly affected, and willing to concur with you in all your evil Designs and Purposes, assuring yourself, that when necessity, or your urgent Occasions should force you to call a Parliament, you might have such a Parliament returned as should at once set up Popery and Arbitrary Power. Nay, Sir, our danger in your time, and in the time of your loving and kind Brother, did most (and doth still) arise from those Beggarly and Paltry Borroughs that either are by Charter or Prescription enabled to send Members to Parliament.  
3. That you might not fail in the Counties of obtaining your wicked ends, you gave Orders to Examine all Lords Lieutenants, Deputy Lieutenants, Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace, and all other that were in any Public Employments, if they would Concur with you in the Repealing the Test and Penal Laws; and those whose Consciences would not permit them to comply with your wicked Designs and Purposes were turned out, and others who you found would be more compliant to you in your intentions, in defeating the End and Execution of those Laws which had been made with so much Care and Caution, to preserve not only the Protestant Religion, but also our Civil Rights and Liberties; and into many of those places you put in Papists, and other persons of Arbitrary Principles; notwithstanding the Law had incapacitated the former, and the other for want of Reputation and Interest could do their Country but little Service; unless, like Devils, they could do mischief by serving your Designs, and the Purposes of your Conspirators: so that this Nation was in a deplorable Condition, and must have perished had not God raised up the Prince of Orange, now our King, to come over and deliver us out of your Hands.  
4. As your Brother in his time hated the People's Petitioning him for the redress of their Grievances, and had a Set of Men ready to Abhor and Detest such Popular Petitions, though it was the Subjects Right to Petition the King for the redress of Grievances, under which they groaned in his Reign. So you was pleased to show your averseness to Petitioning; witness your proceeding against the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the other Bishops, who offered a most humble Petition to you in terms full of Respect, and exceeded not the number limited by Law, in which they set forth their Reasons for which they could not obey a certain Order; which you, by the Advice of your Popish Villains, sent them to appoint their Clergy to Read in their churches, the Declaration for Liberty of Conscience, they were sent to Prison; and afterwards brought to a Trial, as if they had been guilty of some enormous Crime, they were not only obliged to defend themselves under this Persecution; but also to appear before four Villains, one Professed Papist, and the other three had not taken the Test, and by Consequence were Men whose Interest and Inclination too led them to Condemn them. And the Judges that gave their Opinion in favour of those Prelates were turned out; thus you may see a fourth Instance you have given us of your invading our Civil Rights.  
But, Sir, while I speak to you of these things, give me leave to plead with you, What King was there that ever reigned that was too great to be petitioned by the meanest of his Subjects? It cannot be pretended that any Kings how great soever their Power hath been, and how Arbitrary and Dispotick they have been in the exercise of this Power, have ever reckoned it a Crime for their Subjects to come with all submission and respect, in a due number, not exceeding the limits of the Law, to represent Reasons why they could not execute such, or such an Order. Deal freely with the World, send to your Dispensing Rogues, and ask them whether it were one of the remains of the Crown that impowered you to wrest out of the Hands of the Subject this undoubted Right of Petitioning the Prince for theredress of Grieveances?  
5. How did you treat a Peer of this Realm? Was he not used by you, and your villanious Conspirators as a Criminal, only because he said, That the Subjects were not bound to obey the Orders of a Popish Justice of the Peace? Tho it was evident that such being by Law rendered uncapable of all such Trusts: No regard was due to any of their Orders. This being the security which the People of England had, and still have by the Law, for their Lives, Liberties, Honours and Estates, that they are not subjected to the Arbitrary Proceed of Papists, that were contrary to Law put into any Employment Civil or Military. This was another instance of the invasion you made upon us, in respect of our Civil Rights and Liberties, and manifested yourself to be a Man for Arbitrary Government in subjecting our Persons and Estates to the Arbitrary Proceed of Popish Magistrates and Officers under you.  
6. You apprehending that the great Remedy of your Grievances, and Security of our Religion was a Free Parliament; and lest you might lie under a necessity of calling one, you and your Accomplices did endeavour to make it impossible, or at least very difficult to be obtained; for you could not but apprehend that a Lawful Parliament being once Assembled, would call you and your Villains to an account for all your open Violations of the Law, and for your Plots and Conspiracies against the Protestant Religion, and the Lives and Liberties of the People of England, you endeavoured, under the specious pretence of Liberty of Conscience, first to sow Divisions between the Protestants of the Church of England, and Protestant Dissenters; the Design being laid to engage all Protestants that are equally concerned to preserve themselves from Popish Oppression into mutual quarrelings. So that by these some Advantages might be taken by you to bring about your Villainous Designs and Purposes, and that both in the Election of Members of Parliament, and afterwards in the Parliament itself; for you could not but see, that if all Protestants did enter into a mutual good understanding one with another, and concur together in the preserving our Civil Rights and Liberties, that it would have been possible for you and your Banditti to accomplish your wicked Ends. What could we expect from you, when you struck at the Foundation of all our Civil Rights and Liberties, in the hindering the Nation of the Choice of a Free and Lawful Parliament? For did you not require all Persons, in the several Counties of England, that either were in any Employment, or were in any considerable Esteem, to declare before hand that they would concur in the repeal of the Test and the Penal Laws, and that they would give their Voices in the Elections to Parliament, only for such as would concur in it? such as would not thus pre-engage themselves were turned out of all Employments, and others who entered into these Engagements were put into their Places; many of which are Papists, and contrary to the Charters and Privileges of those Burroughs, that have a right to send Burgesses to Parliament. You ordered such Regulations to be made as you thought fit and necessary for the assuring yourself, and your villainous Conspirators, of all the Members that were to be chosen by those Corporations; and by this means you gave yourself, and Tribe, hope to avoid the being called to an account for your Villainies: though it was then, and is still apparent that all Acts made by Popish Magistrates are Null and Void of themselves; so that no Parliament could have been lawful, for which Elections and Returns had been made by your Popish Sheriffs, and Mayors of Towns; and therefore, as long as the Authority and Magistracy was in such Hands, it was impossible for us to have had a Lawful and a Free Parliament.  
You might have known that the Constitution of the English Government and Custom, time out of mind. All Elections of Parliament Men ought to be made with an entire Liberty, without any sort of force, or the requiring the Electors to choose such persons as should be named to them; and the persons thus freely Elected aught to give their Opinions freely upon all Matters that are brought before them, they having the good of the Nation before their Eyes, and following in all things the dictates of their Consciences. Therefore you having usurped an illegal Authority, and resolving upon the utmost Violations of our Laws, you would not give us the least hopes of having our Grievances redressed by a Free Parliament legally called and chosen.  
It is true, you would have called one in which all Elections should have been carried by Fraud and Force, and might have been composed of such persons of whom you and your Traitorous Crew would have been well assured, in which all things would have been carried on by their Direction and Interest, without any regard to the Good and Welfare of this Nation, which I prove to you and your Villainous Crew, both at home and abroad. For did you not try the Members of the packed Parliament, that sat down in the Year 1685, to gain them to consent to the repeal of the Test and Penal Laws? And did you not dissolve that Parliament when you found that you could neither by Promises, nor by Threaten prevail with these very Members to comply with your wicked Designs; and those who would not comply were branded, as if they were Disturbers of the public Peace? For you may remember, that though the Prince and Princess of Orange did endeavour to signify in terms full of Respects and Duty to yourself, the just and deep regret all your wicked and ungodly Proceed had given them; and in compliance to your desires they had signified their Thoughts concerning your Repealing the Penal Laws and Test, which though they did it in such a manner that they had just Ground of hope, that they had proposed an Expedient by which the Peace of England, Scotland and Ireland, and a happy Agreement among the Subjects of all Persuasions might have been certainly settled. You and your Hellborn Crew put such Villainous Constructions upon their honest and sincere Intentions, as that you were not ashamed to condemn them both as persons that designed to disturb the Quiet and Happiness of the Kingdom. But, Sir, the people of England always Testified a most singular Affection and Esteem for the Prince and Princess of Orange, as persons zealously Affected with, and concerned for the Advancement of the Protestant Religion and Interest; and therefore many of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and many Gentlemen, and other persons of Note, laid our miserable Case before them, and beged their Aid and Assistance. The Prince of Orange upon due consideration of our deplorable State, to which we were brought by you and your wicked Accomplices, found that in point of that Duty he owed to God, and in return of the great Value the people of England had for him, that he could no way excuse himself from espousing our Cause or Quarrel in a Matter of such high Consequence, and from Contributing to the utmost of his Power, for the maintaining both of our Religion, and our Laws, and our Liberties, and to secure us in the perpetual Enjoyment of all our Rights. Therefore he came over with a Force sufficient, which through the Blessing of the Great God, was sufficient to suppress you and your villainous Conspirators.  
You know, Sir, that as you and your Conspirators were not only full of Cruelty, and Guilty of the greatest Inhumanities' and Barbarities'. So you and they were full of lies and deceit; for upon the coming over of this Great Prince, you were sensible of the Greatness of your Gild, and had no great Confidence in your own Forces, which induced you to offer to the City of London some seeming Relief from their great Oppression, you hoping thereby to beguile us of a firm Establishment, and full Security of our Laws, Liberties, and Religion; and finding that the Kingdoms Eyes were fully opened, than you and your Hellborn Crew gave out, with as much Malice as Falseness, that the Prince of Orange intended to Conquer and Enslave the Nation. No, Sir, the Design of that mighty Deliverer was the security of our enjoying our Religion, Laws and Liberties, and that there might be no danger of the Kingdoms relapsing into the like Miseries for the time to come.  
Well, Sir, you remember that the Prince arrives and you fled before him. He no sooner comes but he was bid welcome by all True Protestants. You run away. A Convention was called, and he, to our great Joy, was chosen our King. A Parliament sits down, and his Majesty joined with them in making such Laws, as have secured us and our All; he Fights our Battles; he Loves our Nation; and we Love our King, and we shall not refuse any thing that may be for his Honour, Greatness, and Content. You are deposed as useless in the sight of God, and driven from amongst Protestants to graze at St. Germains, where you may take your ease till the French King shall be as weary of your Company, as we were of your Wicked and Tyrannical Government. You have made many attempts to be restored; sometimes you Threaten us, at other times you would Flatter us to a second Entertainment; but that is but a foolish thought of your Counsellors at St. Germains, which brings me to the last point of my Memorial, which is to show you,  
3. The Unreasonableness of your attempting of your Return hither, on which particulars I hope you have leisure enough to reflect, and to advise about with your worthy Ministry you have attending your Person there; but lest they should not have Honour and Honesty enough to deal plainly with you, I will lay down Six undeniable Arguments, why it is morally impossible that you should be ever readmitted to reign over us. 1. Because we cannot bind you by the most Solemn Oaths. 2. Because we are Protestants. 3. Because we are Englishmen. And, 4. Because we are Freemen. 5. Because we have a King of our own Religion and Judgement, to whom we have sworn Allegiance, who goeth out and in before us, and fights our Battles for us. 6. Because of your Attempt upon the Person of our King, in employing your Traitorous Assassins' to murder him.  
1. Because we cannot bind you by the most Solemn Oaths; we saw our Laws over-turned, our Liberties seized, our Religion corrupted and subverted, and you Forsworn: The Laws of Nature taught us to provide for the defence of our All which was at Stake. And can any Man think it hard that the Kingdom laid you aside? And we laying you aside for the Breach of your Contract and Oath, made to the People of England; Can you expect that we should in the least be guilty of so base a Compliance, as to submit ourselves to the Government of a Man, that by his Abominable Perjury dissolved his own Government? You have time now to consider that Perjury in a King is a most Grievous Offence against God and his Own Crown and Dignity, but much more Grievous when it is volantarily committed: And when a Prince committeth Perjury willingly, when he doth any thing willingly against his Coronation-Oath, taken not by Force, but by , not unadvisedly, but with great Consideration, not to his Hurt, but to his Advantage, not to perform a Thing Dishonest or Impossible, but that which is both Possible and Honest: For when a Prince (not being forced thereunto by just Fear or irrisistible Necessity) breaketh such an Oath as there can be no colour to excuse his Perjury, it arguing him and convincing him of Fraud and Deceit, and gave occasion to all thinking Men that you had no manner of regard to your Coronation-Oath; so it puts you under an absolute Incapacity of being Restored, since the both Houses of Parliament, upon the breach you made of your Contract, have thought fit to lay you aside, as a Person useless and dangerous to the public Weal of the Three Kingdoms. Your Pretences therefore to the Imperial Crown of this Realm are very foolish and frivolous, for by the Laws of all Nations, you having been guilty of the most notorious Perjury, you are therefore Infamous; and the Laws of your own Synagogue say that no Infamous Person is fit for the Execution of an Office of Honour and Dignity; a perjured Man is always repelled from bearing witness in any Cause whatsoever, because that being Convicted to have Forsworn himself in one Cause, it is not only a Presumption, but a sufficient Proof that he will Depose falsely in another: And this is so true, that although he hath amended his Life yet he cannot be admitted for a Witness be it either in a Civil or a Criminal Cause. So, Sir, you having once Forsworn yourself in subverting our Religion, Laws and Liberties, by the advice of a parcel of Men that feared not God, nor reverenced Men: How do you think that we can ever trust you again? For if the Nation should be brought under such dismal and deplorable Circumstances, (which God avert) as once more to submit to your Administration of the Government; it would not only be a strong presumptive Conclusion, but Proof that admits of no Objection that you would run again into the same Enormities, if not worse; for I fear, and so do all True Protestants, that by your Crew that you have with you, you are possessed with strange and very vile Opinions: And these are such as have not only in times past, but are still entertained by you, and your villainous Conspirators both at home and abroad, about the Coronation Oath which you took when you entered upon the Administration of the Government of this Realm. And they are these Four, 1. That Subjects cannot receive an Oath of their Prince without the Authority of some Judge; and that a Promise made before no competent Judge can bind any Man, much less a Prince; and they have affirmed that this was your Case. I would have you remember, Sir, that he that administered you the Oath was a lawful and competent Judge, because that Law and the Custom of the Realm had made him so; and therefore to him you Swore, and in Swearing to him you Swore to the whole Nation that you would defend their Laws and Liberties. In a word, this Coronation Oath you took was a lawful Oath, and not only so but it was lawfully taken, as well because general Custom hath the force and strength of a Law; for the persons present do stand, and are taken by general Custom to have Power to give and receive that Oath. But a bold Assertor of your Cause was pleased once to tell me that there was no Parliament in being when you took this Oath; What then? When you took the Coronation Oath there were persons (who upon your taking the Oath) that did take the Oath of Fealty and Homage to you in the behalf of themselves, and all the Nobility, and Commons of England; and this Oath must avail them though absent, as though they were present; and if they were to be bound by the one though absent, then certainly you were bound by yours though they were not present.  
2. These wicked Conspirators of yours have Asserted, That Princes being above the Law are not bound to observe Oaths and Contracts, which have their full force and strength from the Law; and that Princes may alter and change their own Laws at their Pleasure. This Doctrine was carefully propogated by your trusty Roger and his inferior Clergy by your Direction, in order to bring about that wicked Design of yours of Subverting of the well established Government of this Realm, and introducing French Slavery. But, Sir, this you must now know that the Princes of England are not above the Law, and therefore cannot alter them at their Pleasure without the manifest breach of their Coronation Oath. I confess, they may by their Judges interpret the Law in an Interval of Parliament, and in time of Parliaments: The Parliament are the best interpreters of the Law, and not only so but the Kings of England by and with the advice and consent of Parliament, and by the Authority of the same, may Repeal and Abrogate Laws as they shall think fit. But what you did was against Laws in force, to the manifest breach of your Oath, and you rendered yourself odious to God, and dispensed with those Laws that were for the preservation of Persons, Honours, Estates, and Religion of the People of England; and by this means you dissolved the Government, and for which Cause you were hated of the People; and at last the Kingdom departed from you; you provoked that God that made you a Man, and that People that made you a King.  
But, Sir, your trusty Guide Hodge, with his inferior Clergy, deceived you much, and those who believed this Doctrine, when they taught that your Oaths made to, and contract made with the People of England, had their full force and strength from the Law of the Land; for they had their strength and force from the Law of Nature which binds Kings, Princes, Lords, Priests, and all Men whatever. Therefore, Sir, did you not against the very Laws of Nature break your Contract with the People of England, and the Oath you made to them? Doth not the Law of Nature oblige all Princes to keep their Contracts even with their Enemies? How much more ought you to have kept your Contract with your Friends and People? How could you expect to wear the Name of an honest Man, since that the Laws of Honesty charge Princes to keep their Oaths and Contracts? There is nothing becomes them better, nothing commendeth them more, and nothing that Men require so much at their hands.  
In the last place, Prince's Oaths to, and Contracts with their Subjects and Allies, are as good as Laws, they have the same force as Laws, they have the same strength and virtue against their Successors which they have against themselves; nay, let me tell you, that they are of greater strength than Princes Laws; for Laws may be Repealed, but Contracts can never be Revoked; and why so? The Reason is plain, That Laws may alter according to the necessity of Affairs, but Contracts and Oaths can never be Revoked, they admit of no Change, no Alteration; if once perfected they can neither receive Addition, Substraction, Diminution, or Enlargement, they must not be wrested but taken according to the true meaning of King and People. But, Sir, you may say, Why may not Princes break their Oaths, and dissolve their Contracts made with their Subjects at their Coronation? To this I give you this Answer.  
Before you had Sworn to maintain our Laws, Liberties and Religion, you were free; and before you made a Covenant with us, you were at your liberty: But when you had Sworn, and when you had perfected your Contract, then of necessity you were bound to keep and perform them; and you could not have added to, or detracted from any thing in such a manner perfected, without the consent of the people with whom you made this Contract; for we were to have been benefited by this Oath and Contract of yours, and not deceived again. If Princes may break their Oaths and Contracts made to, and with their Subjects, How can we deal with such a King? How can we tell when we obey? We must be then at great uncertainties, and so by consequenue we cannot be safe. Furthermore, Did it not lie at your door to have preserved yourself from Scandal and Fraud? Of which you took no care; therefore you made no Conscience of of your Oaths and Contracts. Again, Sir, we must suppose you to be a reasonable Creature; and if so, we must also conclude you aught to have submitted to Reason, that you might have, at least have had the reputation of a Man, and not be signalised with the Character of a filthy Monstrous Beast. Hence it is that Tyrants, in sacred Writ, are called Beasts, because they will not submit to, nor be governed by the Rules of right Reason. In the last place, Sir, other Men may in their Oaths and Contracts have an Eye to their Profit, but you ought to have had an Eye to your Honour, and to have had an especial regard thereof. Now what can be more Dishonourable in a King, than to break his Word, falsify his Faith, and violate his Contract? And was not your Word, Faith and Contract confirmed by a solemn Oath?  
3. There was a third Doctrine that was much promoted by your Conspirators, that although Kings should be strictly bound to stand to their Contracts and their Oaths; yet if they were induced to make a Contract, and to take an Oath in things wherein they were not well informed, or if the Contract and Oath do contain things too much derogating, or diminishing their Jurisdiction or Authority Royal, or if they have made a Promise that may be prejudicial to their Greatness, they may then lawfully break their Contract, Faith and Oath.  
This Doctrine was very industriously spread about by your Party, especially by your Jesuits and your Jesuited Papists, and Passive Obedience Men. But certainly, Sir, your Conspirators represented your understanding to be but of Irish Standard, and to be of the same Scantling with their Honesty. Give me leave to ask you this one fair Question, Was you not well informed what you were to do, and what you did promise to do when you took the Coronation Oath to defend the Protestant Religion, and preserve and maintain the Laws of the Realm, and by them to govern this great People you took the Charge of? Can any Man think, Sir, that you should be the only Man that was Ignorant of that which all the Nation knew, and what your Grandfather, Father and Brother had done before you? Where, Sir, was the Dishonour or Blemish that might fall upon you, if you had kept your Oath, and made the Laws of the Land the Rule of your Government? If you had been a good King, you would have delighted to have been bound by the Laws of the Land, and have rejoiced the Hearts of the People of England; and than you would not have at this time have been obliged to France for your Subsistance.  
But, Sir, God in his just Judgement gave you up to believe these lies, and therefore you violated those Laws by which you were Sworn to govern, to gratify your Popish Hellborn Crew; they have got you to themselves. We have a King that thinks it no Blemish to his Regal Authority, to maintain and keep our Laws, he judges it no Dishonour to preserve the Liberties of his People, and their Honours and Estates: You have the reward of your Unrighteousness, I wish you much Joy of it.  
4. Some of the Doctors and Casuists of your Synagogue of Rome say, that Princes who may dispense with others may give a sufficient Dispensation to themselves, and so revoke their Contracts and break their Oaths; for that they have Might, and Power, and Authority; there is no Law, no Judge that can compel them to keep their Oaths, and observe their Contracts.  
It is manifest that you did take upon you to dispense with others, and to give yourself a Dispensation too; and we own that we were not then in a Condition to call you to an Account; but you were Admonished very often by the best and greatest of your Subjects, to reform all that was amiss: But after all this Admonition, you did remain incorrigible; then what could we do but make your Actions, Cruelties and Tyrannies, and Perjury known to the World. And we implored the Aid and Help not of the French King, but William Prince of Orange, who came and suppressed you as an incorrigible Oppressor and Tyrant. And your Party appearing bare-faced to murder our King, and invade the Kingdom with a Foreign Force, in order to enslave us, will be treated as Villains and Common Rogues, and receive the just recompense of Reward for all their Treasonable Conspiracies against our King, and the well established Government of the Kingdom, and the Protestant Religion.  
To conclude this point, How detestable and odious hath your Perjury made you, it hath excluded you from that great Honour to which you arrived, and it hath removed you from your native Country; in a word it hath clothed you with so much infamy, that it is impossible for you to attain that Honour, Power and Authority, and Majesty you have lost? And therefore it is highly unreasonable for you, or your Conspirators ever to attempt your Restauration.  
2. As your Perjur is an argument why it is not only impossible for you to be restored, and folly for you to attempt it, so in the second place we are Protestants; And what can a Popish Apostate do at the head of a Protestant Interest? The Popish Queen Mary she no sooner obtained the Crown, by a Protestant Interest, but she destroyed that very Interest by which she was advanced to the Throne. This we well remember, Sir; and we need not burn our Fingers again the third time. Suppose, Sir, that we should have so little sense as to try you once more, and should succeed; What Monsters must we appear to the World, a Body of Protestants with a Popish Head? This doth much astonish me, that our little Prick-eared Priests of the Church of England have so much admired your Cause, and pleaded it with such earnestness; when as they cannot but conclude that you must of necessity deal by the Church of England, as you would with an impudent Harlot. Your Brother was careless in the maintenance of our Religion, because he was a Papist, though a lose one: And can we otherwise conclude but you who have at all times, and in all places wherever you have come, shown yourself a bigoted Papist, will not only discountenance the Protestant Religion, but destroy it with all that Zeal that is consistent with the Principles of a perverse Member of the Romish Synagogue. You in the time of your short Tyranny made a sad Havoc with the Protestant Religion; and can we expect better usuage from you, seeing you having Seven Devils more within you raging against the Protestant Interest than you had before you left us.  
What I say to you in this particular, I speak not without Witness, for it is most certain that you have, and do to this very day entertain a very great averseness to any Man that bears the name of a Protestant. Therefore since by your late behaviour, to those whose Principles have led them to espouse your Interest, and have followed you into France, if they have any Sense of their English Liberties, and of the Protestant Religion, will abhor the thoughts of your return hither: For if you appear so violent against our Religion now you are under so great an estate of Sufferings; What will your declared Hatred be against Protestants here in England, if we should admit you to reign over us? For if you can presume to that degree of Malice, as to deny your Protestant Tools your Grace and Favour at St. Germains; What can we that are Protestants expect from you whenever you shall return? Do you think that any of us should be so stupid to expect fair Quarter from you, since your very Religion lays you under the necessity of Converting us with a Faggot, and bringing us to your Obedience with the dint of a Dagger? Nay, Sir, your Passive Obedience Curs far not much better, though they saved you from your being prosecuted for your being deeply interested in the Popish Plot, and from being excluded from the Succession to the Imperial Crown of this Realm, and also from being beaten out of the Kingdom by the late Duke of MONMOUTH. What reason than have we not to believe that you will not only in general invade the Protestant Religion, but also once again attempt the depressing the Church of England? In your short Reign you sent Seven Bishops to the Tower; but if ever you should return I will not excuse the whole Twenty Six from being more hardly used. Upon which consideration I will appeal then, Sir, to your Judgement, or the Judgement of your Friends here, or those with you at St. Germains, whether or no it is impossible for you to gain so great a Point as to be received again as a King? And whether it would not be the greatest Folly or Madness in you, or any of your Party to attempt it? For have you any that are with you, that are Protestants, upon a Principle of Conscience, How have you used and treated them (and if they have no better usage from you since they follow you in their Afflictions, and are contented to share with you in your Hardships) as not to enjoy the Liberty of serving God according to their Dictates of their own Conscience? How must it far with them if you should arrive to that State and Condition, in which you should stand in no need of them? And if so, What can we expect from you that have hated your Person, and do hunt down your Cause and Interest out of the Nation? Therefore the Duty that we own to Almighty God, and the Affection and Zeal we have for the Protestant Religion, will oblige us to pursue you as a Murderer, and an Assassin of the People of England, and a Traitor to the Nation; and those who shall be found fight under your Banner will be used as Banditti and Robbers, and Protestants that shall not have the benefit of Repentance.  
3. Consider we are English Men; and that very Consideration might satisfy any Man that will but consult his Reason of the impossibility of your being restored to your pretended Right, and of the folly of your many attempt, in order thereunto. Had your Interest been an English interest, than your Conspirators might have had some colour for their attempt of this Nature; but your Interest is a French Interst, and therefore your Interest that you have espoused is incompatible, or inconsistent with your being restored. Here are two Points that must be considered. 1. That your Interest is a French Interest. 2. That a French Interest is not consistent with your Endeavours after a Restoration; and both these Points fairly proved will justify the refusal of the Kingdom of England's admitting you to act, and execute the Office of a King here again amongst us.  
1. Your Interest is not an English but a French Interest; for as you followed your loving and kind Brother in most of his Virtues, so you pursued the same Interest that he pursued: For was not the Interest of your Brother, and the Interest of the French King and yours inseparably united? Knowing (saith your Quondam Secretary) the Interest of our King, and in a more particular manner of my immediate Master the Duke, and his Most Christian Majesty, to be so inseparably united; that it was impossible to divide them without destroying them all. Again his Majesty [the French King] was pleased to give Order to signify to his R. H. my Master, that his Majesty was fully satisfied of his R. H's good Intentions towards him, and that he esteemed both their Interests but as one and the same, and that my Lord Arlington and the Parliament were both looked upon as very unuseful to their Interests. And again Father Ferier begged his R. H. to propose to his Most Christian Majesty what he thought necessary for his own Concern, and the advantage of Religion; and his Majesty would certainly do all that he could to advance both, or either of them.— I communicated it to his R. H. to which his R. H. commanded me to answer, as I did the 29th of the same Month. That his R. H. was very sensible of his Most Christian Majesty's Friendship, and that he would labour to cultivate it with all the good Offices he was capable of doing his Most Christian Majesty. That he was fully convinced that their Interests were both one. That my Lord Arlington and the Parliament were not only unuseful, but dangerous both to England and France, and therefore it was necessary they should do all they could to dissolve it.— I did communicate this Design of mine to Monsieur Ravigney, who agreed with me that it would be the greatest Advantage to his Master, to have the Duke's Power and Credit so far Advanced.— Again, If we can advance the Duke's Interest one step forward, we shall put him out of the reach of Chance for ever.— Then would Catholics be at rest, and his Most Christian Majesty's Interest secured with us in England, beyond all apprehensions whatsoever.— Our prevailing in these things would give the greatest blow to the Protestant Religion here, that ever it received from his Birth.— If the Duke should once get above them (after all the Tricks they have played with him) they are not sure he will totally forget the usage he hath had at their Hands: For my part (saith he) I can scarce believe myself awake, or the thing real, when I think on a Prince in such an Age, as we live in, to be converted to such a degree of Zeal and Piety, as not to regard any thing in the World in comparison of Christ.  
These are the Discoveries of your Old Servant Mr. Coleman; but to rivet the Matter, I pray, consider what Discoveries you were pleased to make of the Union of your Interest with that of the French King, which, Sir, will put the Matter out of dispute. Give me leave to put you in mind of your Letter you wrote to the French King's Confessor, wherein you were pleased to own that the Interests of the French King and yours were so clearly linked together, that those that opposed the one should be looked on as Enemies to the other; and that the French King had told you that he was of the Opinion, that neither the Lord Arlington, nor the Parliament were in his Interest, nor yours.  
2. As it is as clear as the Day that your Interest is not an English but a French Interest; so now I must tell you in the second place, that your Interest being a French Interest, it will render your return impossible, and the attempt in order to it very foolish and irrational. You know that the English Nation is never safe, unless a check be put upon the growing Greatness of France.  
Therefore do but observe the Address of the House of Commons, March 10. 1676, they put the King your Brother in mind of the great Danger that the Nation was exposed to, by reason of the growth of the French King's Power and Greatness. Now any Man that is in the Interest of the French King, his Interest is no ways reconcileable to the Interest of England. 1. As to its Peace. 2. As to its Trade. And the Consequence of both these are the Riches of the Nation, which must be consumed by a Prince that is of an Interest different from that of the People, 'tis true the present War with France hath proved very chargeable to the Nation; but here is our Happiness that we have a King that advanceth the Interest of our Trade, his People and He go Hand in Hand, Their Interests are the same with His, and His the same with Theirs; which to me is an Argument, that when it shall have pleased God, by His Arms, to reduce the French King to Reason, that then no Nation under the Heavens can or will be more happy than the English Nation: But if a Prince shall, instead of pursuing the Interest of his People, pursue their Destruction, by setting up and advancing the Interest of a Foreign Power, his Government cannot stand. This, Sir, was that which lost you your Crown, And can you then expect by that Interest to regain the Crown of England, by which you strangely lost it? Therefore, to conclude this Head, let not your Conspirators think that it is either probable or possible that ever the People of England will ever be brought into a French Interest, or ever admit you to resume the Throne and Government, since that you purely lost it for the sake of that Interest.  
Your Scoundrel Abettors here at Home, are such a sort of Animals that the Reformed Nations Abroad are at a stand, and cannot tell what to make of them, their Carriages of late Years have been so unaccountable; and since it hath pleased God to put it into the Hearts of most of the Princes of Europe, though of the Romish Communion, hearty to embrace the late Revolution in England, as the last Effort for the Common Liberty of Europe, and have entered into the strictest Alliance with our King (though of a different Religion) to support it; it looks like a Dream to meet with Men that call themselves English Protestant's embarked in your Interest, in opposition to the Interest of their Native Country.  
A little Priest of the Church of England, in a Sermon of his on the Day your Father made his Exit, was pleased to threaten us with an endless War that would be entailed on the Nation; he is a mighty Votary for your Cause and Interest, notwithstanding his Oath to King William to the contrary. But, Sir, a thousand such Fellows can never reconcile your Interest with that of England, nor would your Restoration put an end to his supposed War; for it is not reasonable to imagine that so many Noblemen and Gentlemen who have associated, and by their Association have engaged to support the Interest and Cause of our King, will tamely submit to your Restoration: Or that King William will ever abandon his Throne, or that its possible that the Common Cause of Europe will ever be suffered to sink in such a manner as to comply with the Pride and Ambition of yourself, or of him whose Cause you have espoused, and whose Interest is the very same with yours: When you were upon the Throne your Aim was to destroy the Interest of England, but we have been too many for you, and the Throne is filled up with one that will maintain and support our Interest, notwithstanding the vain Efforts of your Crew both at Home and Abroad to the contrary. And therefore that Loggerhead of a Cathedral Priest hath not made one single Convert to your Cause and Interest, by the Noise he made of disputed Titles and endless Wars. I will observe this to you that the Rascal hath more Preferment than Learning or Honesty, but what can we expect of an Apostate?  
4. We are Freemen, and therefore we can never be supposed ever to admit you, who have always been a Person of Arbitrary Principles, to govern this Nation. You cannot but remember that the English Nation hath a very great Security for its Liberties; and that is the Government itself, with a good King at the head thereof, and that is our present Happiness; for our King Rules not upon the same Terms as your Brother of France doth; for he by Force Usurps that share which his People ought to have in the Government, and for several Ages passed hath been in possession of an Arbitrary Power, (which yet no prescription can make Legal) and he exerciseth it over the Persons and Estates of his People in a most Tyrannical manner: And this your loving and kind Brother and you aimed at, Witness your Dispensing Power that you took upon you when you ascended the Throne. But our King hath so ordered it, that his Subjects shall retain their Proportion in the Legislature; the very meanest Commoner of England is represented in Parliament, and is a Party to those Laws by which our King is Sworn to govern himself and his People. 'Tis true you Swore, but you made no Conscience of your Oath, nor did you in the least boggle at the Violation of our Laws; you hated that way of Government which you had solemnly promised to maintain and defend, Witness the Names you used to give the Parliament of England. Now according to the Laws of the Realm no Money is raised but by common Consent: But you were pleased to raise Money upon the People by your Proclamation. The very Day after you had promised to invade no Man's Property: Now no Man is for Life, Limb, Goods, or Liberty, at the Sovereign's Direction; but how soon it would have been had not a period been put to your Tyranny? For your Sycophant Parasites were very zealous to have delivered up those Privileges in to your Hands, judging it would not be well with England till you were as Absolute as the Monster of France, by which we might easily understand your Intentions. For, Sir, who knows not that the inclination of a Prince is best known either by those that are about him, and most Favour with him, or by the current of his own Actions? Those who were nearest to you, and most your Favourites, were your Irish and French Courtiers, and your Popish Priests and Prelates, who these Men stood affected to. Your Discretionary Dispotick Power can never be forgotten: No Man but may remember, that in their common Discourse were for advancing your Will and Pleasure over your Subjects to be equal with that of the King of France is over his. This was but a Copy which those Villains had industriously taken from your own Words and Actions. In Scotland you did publicly set up for that Power, and openly declared you would be obeyed without reserve.  
The attempt you and your Conspirators made in the time of the Lord Chancellor Hyde upon our Liberties, is never to be forgotten; a Bill was prepared to enable the King your Brother in the time of any interval of Parliament, to raise what Money he pleased upon an extraordinary occasion, as the Dutch War was pretended to be. This had taken its much desired effect, had not that Lord Chancellor been awakened by an intimate Friend of his, who, understanding what was doing in the House of Commons, came to him and shown him what the Consequences were which such an unheard thing would produce; and he using one Argument above all the rest, in telling him he came to his Honour and Greatness by the Gown, and not by the Sword; and if that Bill passed, he advised him to consider what his Gown, or all the Lawyer's Gowns in England were worth, which that Lord Chancellor, though one of the Actors with you to enslave the Nation, being a Man of Sense, had that Honour as to think it no Dishonour to retreat from that Devilish Invention, which he to comply with your Ambition and Pride had set on foot to destroy us at once: So that Bill, though once read in the House for enabling the King, your Brother, to raise Money at pleasure, was by the Providence of God, and the Prudence of that Noble Penitent Lord droped so far, as that it dwindled into a Bill of 75000 l. not exceeding a Month's Tax. No doubt but you had procured this Bill to be dressed in the French Mode for emergent Occasions; yet had it passed in the same manner as you and your Accomplices designed, there would not have wanted emergent Occasions, and extraordinary Services to have given Colour for keeping that Power on foot until Dooms Day in the Afternoon.  
The French King, whose Example you followed in this particular, got his Power by such a villainous Stratagem; but he hath not been at leisure yet to call his Parliament to dispute that Point. I question not but that your loving Brother and you would have found other Matters of moment, to have diverted you from that way of raising Money; so England must have taken leave of Parliaments for ever, and we must have submitted all we had to your French Discretion. But through the Blessing of Heaven, and the Care of our Legislators, we are delivered not only from your Government and your intended French way of Governing; for we continue to have the same Right (modestly understood) in our Propriety that our Prince hath in his Royalty, and in all Cases where the King himself is concerned we have our just Remedy, as against any private Person in the Nation, in the Courts of Westminster-hall, or in the High Court of Parliament; for his Prerogative is not like that you would have usurped, but what the Law hath only determined. His great Seal, which is the legitimate Stamp of his Royal Will and Pleasure, yet it is no longer currant than upon the Trial it is found to be according to Law and Justice. The King cannot commit any Man by his own particular Warrant, he cannot be himself a Witness in any Cause whatever, though your Brother would have been one against me. The Balance of public Justice being so delicate, that not the Head only but even the Breath of the King would turn the Scale; nothing is left to the Win of the King, but every thing is subject to his legal Authority; by which means it follows, that as he can do no Wrong, nor can he receive Wrong. But you by your Dispensing Power put yourself in a state of Wronging the Nation, and destroying yourself and Government; but had you kept to the Measures of an English King, you might have remained to this Day to have been the only intelligent Ruler over a rational People, your Person had been Sacred and Inviolable, and whatever Excess had been committed in your Reigh, would not have been imputed to you as being free from the Necessity and Temptations: Your Ministers would have been only accountable for all, and must have Answered it at their Perils. You had a vast Revenue, and if any emergency of Affair should have appeared, you had at your Call a number of Men to have advised with, a supply would have been readily granted. You were the Fountain of Honour, the disposer of many profitable Places both in Church and State; but this would not serve your turn, for you would not be abridged the Power of injuring the People of England, but against all Law invaded our Rights, and designed nothing so much as enslaving us and our Posterity for ever: And we that have tasted so much of the sweetness of Liberty, and on the other hand have smarted under your short, but cruel Tyranny will never be entangled again with the French Popish Yoke of Bondage, but stand in defence of the King we have chosen, and the Liberty we have recovered as long as we have a Being in this World. Therefore consider with yourself the impossibility of your return, to that Government you abused, to the Administration of those Laws you violated, to a Nation that you made a Field of Blood; and if you had remained, for aught I know, England might have been a Howling Wilderness. In fine, than I am sure if you should make any attempt to return it will be in vain, and appear very ridiculous.  
5. We have Sworn Allegiance to King William, who is of the same Religion and Interest with us, who delivered us out of your Hands and the Hands of your villainous Conspirators, and hath fixed us upon those Foundations, against which France, Rome, nor Hell shall prevail; he hath secured us, our Liberties, Laws and Religion; he hath brought himself and Government to that Perfection, notwithstanding the vexatious War which lies hard upon us, that he is capable of doing good to all Mankind, and he hath totally disabled himself from doing hurt to any; he wants not the French King's Purse, nor his Friendship; he wants not his Interest, for his Interest is his People's, and his People's his, by which they are so united, that the attempts of your Scoundrel Crew for your Restoration will be in vain; the Hearts of the Nation are set against you, and for your perfidious dealing both in Church and State the People of England will trust you no more.  
Sir, We have Sworn Allegiance to this King we chose in your stead, and we are bound to stand by him; our choice of him was from a Principle of Love to God and the Protestant Religion which he hath asserted. You kept not your Faith with us, and therefore our Allegiance ceased to you, your Actions have been very plain and open, and so pernicious that it was a Wonder of Wonders, tha● we and our Religion have been delivered from Blood and Oppression: And Sir I would let you know that we are not afraid of you and your Adherents, for I believe the Protestant Religion and Protestant King will stand notwithstanding al● your Attempts; and if you had brought your French Dragooning Apostles o●er to us, yet we would and should have maintained our Ground, and destroyed ●●em and you. We value not your little Twopenny Stuff that you have left behind you to plead your Cause: your impertinent, ignorant Non-juring Clergymen can never preach us out of love to that Loyalty that we own to K. William; ●e have scarce a Williamite Cobbler but can baffle them all. These things considered, How can you ever expect any thing less than that Judgement the Psalmist ●rays for to be inflicted upon his Enemies? Hath not God already set a wicked Tyrant over you? Have you not been Judged by the Lords and Commons of England, and Condemned? Was not your Reign short? And hath not another taken your Office? In time, Sir, the Judgement may be completed upon you. There is of your Issue that have had no Hand in our Miseries, and for this Cause our Eyes are set upon them for good, and we shall pray for their long Life: But as for you, that God would clothe you with Shame and Confusion of Face; and that he would upon the Head of our Protestant King let the Crown long flourish: And I do not question but God will hear the Prayers of his Faithful Subjects, and will by his means bring the Nation to such a Settlement that our Allegiance will be firm to him and his Successors, notwithstanding all those villainous Attempts that you and that Monster of Mankind your Brother of France, by his and your Traitorous Accomplices, have made to deprive us of so great a Blessing. Which brings me to a Sixth Consideration.  
6. The last Reason I shall give you, why it will be impossible for you to return to the Administration of the English Government, and that all Attempts of that nature will be in vain, because of your late barbarous and villainous Attempt you by your Conspirators have made upon the Person of our King, and your purpose of backing that intended Murder by an unnatural Invasion; you had some that pitied you, but now our Hearts are shut up against you, and are hardened against all your Cursed Adherents: For now your Plot is discovered, and it is a Plot and a Villainous One, nothing can be plainer; no Man of Common Understanding but must see your Conspiracy to bring in Popery and Slavery, and to destroy the Protestant Religion and the Liberties of England. We know, Sir, the Doctrine of your Popish and Non-juring Priests too well, and your wicked Practices; and we are now assured that you will not stick at any thing that may bring your wicked Designs about. You must excuse me if I am plain with you, I would not asperse you with hard Words if they were not very true, I should not have been so Hot if you had not been concerned in the late wicked Design of murdering our King, but if you had succeeded it would have been no more than you did to your Loving and Kind Brother; but all this as well as the other is owing to you and your Popish Traitorous Crew, who have debauched men's Understandings, overturned all Morals, and destroyed all Divinity. What shall I say of you and your villainour Party? What is your Charity such as to destroy Kings? And where was the Humility of insulting over the Nation? The Mystery of Iniquity is revealed, and you are disappointed: The Nation sees that you are no Changeling as to y●●r Vices, and you will find that Englishmen are no Changelings: Therefore it w●ll be in vain to make any more attempts to be Restored again for the future.  
To conclude this Memorial, Sir, give me leave to tell you that I have thus f●● laid open the Conspiracy against our Religion and Government, and indeed it wa● more than time it should be discovered, for I think here hath been nothing asserte● but what hath been and can be made out; we see how the French have been courted by you and your Party; with what Ease have they been assisted, and wit● what Difficulty the Dutch, both in your Brothers and your Reign: We see your Brother and you abandon the Prince of Orange, now our King, in compliance with his and the Nations Enemies. How can any Man think upon the French Depredations and Cruelties exercised at Sea upon the Subjects of England without Regret? Call to mind your notorious Treacheries in that Affair: Remember the constant Irregularities and Injustice from term to term of those who should have administered Justice between King and People: Remember the search you made throughout the whole Kingdom to find Men of Arbitrary Principles, that would bow the Knee to Baal in order to their being promoted to all public Commissions and Employments, and disgracing and displacing all those that durst, in so universal a Depravation, be honest and faithful in their Trust and Offices. We saw to our great Grief the Defection of considerable Persons, both Male and Female, to the Popish Religion, as if they entered by Couples, Clean and Unclean, into the Ark of that Cursed Synagogue, not more in order to their Salvation than for their Temporal Advantage and Safety. Sir, the State of Ireland managed by your Brother and you would require a Volume to represent it; and in your Time we could not but observe that all your Affairs and Councils in the Nation tended to a Popish Revolution. And by the Foresight and Civility of the Man of Sin, there was an English Cardinal prepared, like Cardinal Pool, to give us Absolution, Benediction, and to receive us to the Obedience of the See of Rome. It is true your Conspiracy had taken effect had you not met with many Disappointments; but the last Disappointment was the overturn of all your Designs at once, which was occasioned by the Arrival of the Prince of Orange: Gild made you to flee. The Sense the Nation had of your wicked Intentions, against our Laws and Liberties, caused the People of England to make choice of our Deliverer to reign over us: He is anointed our King, and as God hath set a Crown of pure Gold upon his Head, so we question not but the same God will satisfy him with long Life and Happiness, and that he will give him the Spirit of Wisdom, Knowledge, Zeal and Faithfulness, to do what in him lies to the bringing on the New Heavens and the New Earth wherein Righteousness and Peace shall dwell, by repairing the Breaches and decayed Places that you have made and caused amongst us. And from hence, Sir, remember that though Hand join in Hand, yet the Wicked shall not go unpunished; they are Gods own Words, who hath also declared with the greatest Solemnity, that there shall be no Peace to the Wicked, Isa. 57.21. You have leisure to consider of these things; and so Farewell.   
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