To the Honourable The Knights, Citizens and Burgesses, in PARLIAMENT Assembled; The Deplorable Case and Humble Petition of Dr. TITUS OATES.  
SHOWETHS,  
THAT your Petitioner in the Year 1678, discovered a horrid Popish Conspiracy, for the Destruction of King Charles the Second, and his present Majesty, and the Protestant Religion within these Kingdoms; and proved it so fully, that several Parliaments and Courts of Justice, before whom he gave his Testimony, declared their belief of it by public Votes and the Condemnation of several of the Conspirators. THAT upon this Account the Popish Party pursued your Petitioner with an implacable Malice, attempting several times to take away his Life; and being defeated in that Attempt, they first procured the said King Charles the Second to withdraw that Protection and Subsistance that the said King had allowed him at the Request of several Parliaments, which was 40 l. per Month; and then instigated his Royal Highness the Duke of York to prosecute your Petitioner in an Action of Scandalum Magnatum, for speaking this Notorious Truth, (viz.) That he the said D. of York was Reconciled to the Church of Rome, and that it is High-Treason to be so Reconciled; wherein a Verdict and Judgement for 100000 l. Damages were obtained against your Petitioner, and your Petitioner committed to the King's Bench Prison.  
AFTER this the Popish Party obtained leave from King Charles the 2d, to prefer two several Indictments against your Petitioner for two pretended Perjuries, in his Evidence concerning the said Conspiracy; which they brought on to a Trial in the Reign of King James the Second: and your Petitioner upon the Testimony of these very Witnesses who had Confronted him in three former Trials, and were disbelieved, (through the partial Behaviour of the Chief Justice Jefferies, in brow-beating your Petitioner's Witnesses and misleading the Juries) was Convicted of the said pretended Perjuries, and received this Inhuman and unparallelled Sentence, viz. To pay 2000 Marks to the King, to be divested of his Canonical Habit; to be brought into Westminster-Hall with a Paper upon his Head, with this Inscription, Titus' Oats Convicted upon full Evidence of two horrid Perjuries; to stand in and upon the Pillory two several Days for the space of an hour; to be Whipped by the Common-Hangman from Aldgate to Newgate on Wednesday, and Friday following from Newgate to Tyburn; to stand in and upon the Pillory five times every Year of his Life, and to remain a Prisoner during Life.  
THIS Sentence (as your Petitioner believes) was to murder him, and was executed accordingly with all the Circumstances of Barbarity, he having suffered some thousands of Stripes, whereby he was put to unspakeable Tortures, and lay ten Weeks under the Surgeon's Hands: neither did their Malice and Cruelty cease here, but because your Petitioner (through the Mercy of God supporting him, and the extraordinary Skill of a Judicious Chirurgeon) outlived that barbarous Usage, some of them got into his Chamber whilst he was weak in his Bed, and attempted to pull of the Plasters applied to cure his Back, and threatened to destroy him.  
THAT nothing within their Power and Malice might be wanting to complete your Petitioner's Misery, they procured him to be loaded with Irons of excessive Weight for one whole Year without any Intermission, even when his Legs were swollen with the Gout, and to be shut up in the Hole or Dungeon of the said Prison, whereby he became impaired of his Limbs, and contracted Convulsion-Fits to the Hazard of his Life. All which Illegal Proceed and Barbarous Inhumanities', were not only intended against your Petitioner as a Revenge upon him, but likewise to cast a Reproach upon the Wisdom and Honour of four successive Parliaments, who had given him Credit, and upon the public Justice of the Nation.  
DURING the Time that this Prosecution was upon your Petitioner, several Noblemen and Gentlemen, Citizens and others contributed 4000 l. per Annum for his Support and Maintenance, which your Petitioner enjoyed till his present Majesty King, William, at the request of both Houses of Parliament, restored to him your Petitioner, the foresaid Pension of 40 l. per Mensom, after having been deprived thereof nine Years, to his loss above 5000 l.  
THAT your Petitioner enjoyed the said Allowance of 40 l. per Month, from September 1689. till Lady-day in the Year 1692. after which time your Petitioner had not his Pension paid him, to the undoing of your poor Petitioner, his Friends withdrawing their Bounty from him, when his Majesty restored your Petitioner to his said Pension, they judging him to be provided for during his Life: so that your Petitioner is ruined, he having in the time of his Sufferings, and since his allowance of 40 l. per Month was taken away, contracted Debts, for which he hath been sued by his Creditors, and hath been Arrested and his, Goods taken in Execution; and must have perished had not the Lords of the Treasury relieved your Petitioner with the Sum of 350 l. with which Sum your poor Petitioner did pay his Creditors in part, but will be sued for the Remainder of his Debts which amounts to 500 l. and his poor Wife and Family must perish, and your Petitioner starve at last in a Prison, unless this Honourable House do take your poor Petitioner's deplorable Case into their tender Consideration, his said Pension of 40 l. per Month being his whole and only Subsistance, he having no Estate to live upon.  
THE Premises considered, your Petitioner throws himself at the Feet of this Honourable House, and pray your Honours to take his deplorable Case into your tender Consideration; so that your Petitioner may receive the Arrears of his Pension to discharge his Debts, and that he may be restored to his Pension of 40 l. per Month, that he and his distressed Family may not starve for Want of Bread.  
And your Petitioner shall ever pray, etc.