The Plot Revived: OR A MEMORIAL OF THE LATE AND PRESENT POPISH PLOTS, Published to refresh the Memories of all undepraved Englishmen, and thereby prevent the Ruin of this Nation, by disbelieving, or forgetting of them. First, THe Burning of the City of London, in the Year 1666; by which the Papists (by Plunder in the time of the Fire) got 13000 l. declaro, which they brought into their Treasury, for carrying on of their Satanical Designs; the Truth of which is proved by that most worthy and deserving person Dr. Titus Oates, to whom, and to Sir William Waller, next under God, and our King, we own our Deliverance. Secondly, The Burning of Southwark, by which the Papists got, in the same way as before, 3000 l. to bring into their Treasury; as is also proved by Dr. Oates; whose Evidence stands authentic and un-impeached, maugre the Attempts of the wicked Church of Rome, and their Adherents, for the invalidating of it. Thirdly, The Burning of St. Katherine's by the Papists, is proved by that Faithful Servant to his King and Country, Capt. Bedloe; and all these are perpetrated by them, as previous, and in order to their Grand and Hellish Conspiracy. Fourthly, The Murder of the King, the Introducing of Popery, and Arbitrary Government; and consequently the Massacring of (at least) the Chief and Heads of the Protestants; without which, they could not promise to themselves the effecting of their Design: And the Truth of this hath been sufficiently made out at the several Trials of the several persons that have been Executed for the same; and with so much Demonstration of the Truth hereof to his Majesty, that he hath, First, Owned his Belief of it, by several Proclamations; giving the Plot the true Epithets of Hellish and Damnable; and Secondly, By his appointing throughout the Land a Day of Humiliation in Fasting and Praying, upon the Occasion of the Discovery hereof; all which may well lay an Obligation of Duty upon all good Subjects, not to question the Truth of his Proclamations, which are also seconded by the Judgement of two several Parliaments, who after Hearing of Witnesses, Voted their full satisfaction of the Truth of these Infernal Popish Plots; And however Parliaments may be mistaken in other things, those that know the Method of Parliamentary Proceed, must hold it almost morally impossible for them, to fail in Matter of Fact, because being composed of persons of several Humours, Affections and Judgements, a Vote for Matter of Fact cannot pass, until every one hath received a clear Answer and Satisfaction unto his Objections. And I never heard that there was so much as one Negative to the Truth of this not to be paralleled grand Plot; and therefore upon the whole, the Verity of it ought not to be doubted, or called in question. And now, The Ways which have been used by the Papists, to stifle the Credit of these Discoveries, and to bring the Truth of them into Question, are fit to be remembered; being as followeth. First, By Barbarously Murdering of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey, because, he having taken the Examinations concerning the Plot, which they knew he carried about with him, they might seize them (as they did) and so as they presumed, put a Disbelief upon the Plot; but God in his Mercy preserving the chief Witness (who they intended to have sent after Sir Edmond.) hath turned the Murder of this Gentleman upon their own heads, in a Disadvantage to themselves. Secondly, By endeavouring to bring Mr. Prance to deny the Truth of what he had confessed upon Oath, concerning the Murder of the said Sir Edmond. Thirdly, By employing one Reading a Barrister at Law, to suborn Capt. Bedlo, to deny the Truth of what he had upon Oath confessed; of which subornation of Perjury, the said Reading was found guilty in the Court of Kings-Bench, and for his Crime therein, Condemned in the penalty of 1000 l. to lie in prison a year; and after that, until he pays his Fine, and to stand in the pillory (as he hath done) before Westminster-Hall; and at his Trial, it appeared that the Lords in the Tower, committed for the Grand Plot, did employ him, promising both him and Capt. Bedlo great Rewards; but his Years of Imprisonment being now expired, or near upon, his Fine, as is hoped by his Relations, will be remitted, and he set at liberty; which I mention to the end to Caution all men to take heed of him, and let his vile and vexatious Carriage to the Countrypeople in the Northern Level be a Warning to them. Fourthly, By Suborning, Knox, Lane, and Osburn, to Invalidate the Testimony of Dr. Oates, by Indicting him of most Inormous Crimes, for which the two first (the third being run away) were found Guilty, in the Court of King's Bench of Subornation of Perjury, Condemned in several Fines, to lie a Year in Prison after that, until they pay their Fines, and Lane, to stand in the Pillory. Knox was Servant to the Lord Latimore, and Dunblain, or to one of them, both Sons to Thomas Osburn Earl of Danby, etc. Fifthly, By Employing Mr. Taisbrough, (than Servant to a Person of Quality) and one Mrs. Price, to Suborn Mr. Dugdale, to Recant and Deny the Evidence he had given upon Oath against the Lords Stafford, and Aston, for Conspiring the death of his Majesty, with promises of great reward for so doing, of which Subornation of Perjury, they are found Guilty in the Court of King's Bench, and are this Term to receive their Sentence, which is hoped, will be adequeate to the odiousness of their Crimes, for if this trade of Subornation be suffered to go on, no man can be safe, Innocency being no defence. Sixthly, By Employing Mr. Dangerfield and Mrs. Cellier, to kill my Lord Shaftsbury, and make the Meal Tub Plot, with designs most Wickedly, and Unjustly, to Father it upon the Protestants, to the end, to render them (though Innocent) as Vile and Detestable as themselves, who cannot be parallelled by any on this side Hell, except the by some of their own Church, for which the Countess of Powis, Mrs. Cellier, and Mr. Gadbury, were all Committed to several Prisons for High-Treason: and this Plot appears to have been hatched in the Tower, and cariyed on by the Lords there, according to (their chief Agent in the business) Mr. Dangerfields' Narrative, for the Impeached Lords, having liberty to come to one another and to have whom they please come to them, they do little beside Contriving one Plot after another. Seventhly, the attempting the Murder of Mr: Mowbray, a chief Witness against Sr. Thomas Cascoin, and the rest of the Consult in the North, for Killing of the King (though the Parties are not discovered) may reasonably be reckoned to proceed from the same Fountain as the rest. Eightly, The Witness brought from St. Omers, who by the Confession of some of themselves, were (in giving their Evidence) to follow the Directions they should receive here, from the Papists who scent for them, and lodged them in the forementioned Mrs. Celliers House, had all of them the ill luck to be detected in Court of great Forgery, at the Trial of their Friends, the Priests and Jesuits. Ninthly, The endeavours of Mr. Jennisons Friends to bring him to deny what he hath discovered Concerning the Popish Plot, appears by the several Letters Writ to him by his Brother the Jesuit, and others, which are recited in Mr. Jennisons Narrative. Tenthly, Their present Conspiracy for Massacring, and (to enrich themselves) Plundering the City of London, is the Master Piece of their Father the Devil; but yet wherein they Glory most God is above them, and though they will not see, he will make them see, and be ashamed of their Malice and Hatred against his People. Their drawing in a few Ignorant, Debauched Apprentices to colour their Mischievous Devices, show more the Malice and Hatred of their Hearts, than strength of their Brains, for though there may be some lewd Fellows amongst them, there cannot be enough to do their abominable drudgery, they being in the general of sober education, and as we at least haters of their damnable Intentions, and their Policy in giving their present Contrivance the name of the Apprentices Plot, is easily seen through hope, For. First, They do it, to keep the odium of it off themselves, and according to their usual Practice, to thrust it upon the Protestants; as had the Gunpowder-Plot taken effect, they were in those days, provided of St. Omer-like Witnesses, to have proved that they did it in their own defence, to prevent a Massacre of them, which was intended by the Protestants: as also the Papists at this day are so Impudent, that I have heard some of them affirm, that the Massacre in Ireland, was a Massacre of them by the Protestants, and not of the Protestants by the Papists, and surely never any Heathens, or Infidels, made Lies their Refuge like to the Papists. Secondly, knowing that Popery cannot be brought into England, where the light of the Gospel shines so clear, without Arbitrary Government, and that cannot be introduced without ruining of the City, they call the Plot after the Name of the Apprentices, to this end, that when they have destroyed the King, they may make the Government of the City, not being able to keep the Citizens in peace, a pretence for taking away the Charter of it, and thence to rule it for the future by a Governor, with a Garrison, after their own will and pleasure, which would be a more effectual way for destroying of London, than the burning of it; for the loss by Fire, may be recovered by Trade, but the loss of Trade, by the loss of Liberty is irreparable, and this Plot, like the rest, appears by examination, to have been forged in the Tower, and carried on by the Lords that are Prisoners init. Eleventhly, The Papists late, most inhuman, brutish, and worse than Beastly usage of Mr. Arnold, in the many wounds they most cruelly and maliciously gave him, beside Butcherlike cutting of his Throat with a Knife, after they had by men employed to that purpose, knocked him down in a by Lane, at 10 a Clock at Night, to prevent his Information the next Day against them, is another demonstration of their murderous and bloody Princiciples; and the miraculous escape and recovery of this Gentleman, aught to be reckoned with the rest of the merciful Providences of God towards us, and as an earnest of his special protection, and that he who hath delivered us, will still deliver us, as also a warning to us, to have a watchful Eye upon the Papists, whose Mercies are Cruelties. The Burning of the Temple, the several Fires in London, the design Three or Four years ago for burning the Market Towns in Hartfordshire; Durance endeavouring subornation of perjury against Sr. Rob. Payton, I omit it, as not being so Authentically proved as the rest, though under violent presumption, that they all derive their Original from one and the same Fountain, the whistling insignificant Castlemain, and the rest of the Papists. And now upon the whole it may be observed; First, that these several subornations of Perjury, with the other contrivances plotted against the Blood, Life, and Estates of the Innocents', in Fathering High Treason upon them, are clear demonstrations of guilt in the Papists, as to all these Plots, for that it cannot reasonably be supposed that faultless persons, especially of their quality, would interest themselves in such wicked, odious, and disgraceful designs, as the worst and meanest of mortal Men would abhor. Secondly, That the assaulting the fidelity of the King's Evidence with temptations of great rewards (which they rejected) is a full proof; First, of the integrity of the Evidence. Secondly, that the Papists know nothing to invalid their Testimony by; otherwise, they would not have had recourse to the dishonourable way of Bribery. And thirdly, That the Reproaches the Papists endeavour to cast upon them, are not to be believed, proceeding from malicious and implacable Enemies, destitute of all Honour or Honesty, whose slanderous practices are but according to the Doctrine of their Church towards any that oppose them. Thirdly, That the Papists Industry in endeavouring unjustly to Father one Plot after another upon the Protestants, wherein they have still been detected, is a sufficient Testimony of the Innocency and Loyalty of the Protestants, and of the Sordid, Devilish and Inhuman Designs of the Papists. And Fourthly, If after His Majesty's Proclamations, declaring the Damnableness of the Popish Plots, His appointing upon the occasion of them, a Day of Fasting and Praying, and two several Parliaments agreeing with the King in Voting the same, any shall dare to Question the Truth of them, they ought, and may with great reason, be judged private, if they are not public professed Papists, or men void of Common Sense and Reason. FINIS.