A GREAT CONSPIRACY OF THE PAPISTS, Against the worthy Members of both Houses of PARLIAMENT.  
And also against the City of London, and generally the whole Kingdom.  
Discovered by divers wicked and bloody Letters, which by God's providence came to light, and was read in the House of COMMONS the 10. and 11. of January, 1641.  
With the Names of those Honourable and Worthy Members in PARLIAMENT.  
Whose lives they conspire against, and seek to take away.  
London, Printed for john Thomas, 1641.   

A Letter directed to Mr. Bridgman, the fourth of jan. and a Letter enclosed in it, to one Master Anderton, were this day read, and ordered to be entered.  
To the Worshipful, and my much honoured friend Orlando Bridgeman Esquire, and a Burgess of the Parliament, at his Chamber, at the Inner Temple, these present.  
SIR,  
WE are your friends, These are to advise you to look to yourself, and to advise others of my Lord of strafford's friends to take heed, lest they be involved in the common Calamity, our advice is, to be gone, to pretend business till the great Hubbub be passed, Withdraw, lest you suffer among the Puritans, We entreat you to send away this enclosed Letter to Mr. Anderton enclosed, ●o some trusty friend, that it may be carried safely without suspicion, for it concerns the Common safety▪ So desire your friends in Coven Garden, jan. 4.  
To the Worshipful, and my much honoured friend Mr. Anderton, These present.  
SIR,  
ALthough many designs have been defeated, yet that of Ireland holds well. And now our last Plot works as hopefully as that of Jreland, we must bear with something in the Man, his will is strong enough, as long as he is fed with hopes, the Woman is true to us, and real, Her Council about her is very good: I doubt not but to send you by the next very joyful news, for the present, our rich Enemies, Pym, Hampden, Strode, Hollis, and Hasterigg, are blemished, challenged for no less than Treason: before I writ next, we doubt not but to have them in the Tower or their heads from their shoulders.  
The Solicitor, and Fines, and Earl we must serve with the same sauce: and in the House of the Lords, Mandevill is touched, but Essex, Warwick, ●ay, Brook, and Paget, must follow, or else we shall not be quiet. Faulkland and Culpepper, are friends to our side, at leastwise they will do us no hurt. The Protestants and Puritans are so divided, that we need not fear them; the Protestants in a greater part, will join with us, or ●●and Neuters, while the Puritan is suppressed, if we can bring them under; the Protestant will either fall in with us generally, or else, if they do not, they are so indifferent, that either by fair, or foul means we shall be able to command them.  
The mischievous Londoners, and Apprentices, may do us some hurt for present, but we need not much fear them, they do nothing orderly but tumultuously: Therefore we doubt not but to have them under command after one brunt, for our Party is strong in the City, especially Holborn, the new Buildings, and Westminster, we are afraid of nothing, but the Scots appearing again, but we have made a party there, at the King's last being there, which will hold their hands behind them, while we Act our Parts at home; Let us acquit ourselves like men, for our Religion & Country, now or never, The King's heart is Protestant, but our friends can persuade Him, and make him believe any thing, he hates the Puritan party, and is made Irreconcilable to that side; so that the Sun, the Moon, and Stars, are for us: there are no less than twenty thousand Ministers in England, the greater half will in their places, be our friends to avenge the Bishop's dishonour, Let our friends be encouraged, the work is more than half done.  
Your Servant! R. E.   

Another Letter sent to a Papist of London.  
THe Grand Committee of the Parliament sitting at Grocer's Hall London, about the weighty affair of the State of the Kingdom; There was notice brought unto them of a Letter directed out of Jreland to a great personage of this City a Papist, which Letter by accident coming into the hands of a woman, and the housekeeper of this Papist, upon great suspicion of some evil Accidents that might thereby happen, caused the said Letter to be opened, whereby by the great Providence of God, the secrets thereof was disclosed. The contents thereof was to this effect.  
Worthy Sir,  
OUt of the care of your welfare, I make bold to advertise you for your good, that you would be pleased speedily to convey yourself and Family out of the City, & that you repair as fare Northward as conveniently you may, for there is a terrible and sudden blow expected to be given shortly against the City of London, for though I am of opinion the King's Majesty be a good Protestant in his heart, yet Jam persuaded that by the persuasions of the Queen's Majesty, and the advice of the Catholic Lords and other Gentlemen, the wished design may take full effect. The truth of which premises was delivered to the Court of Aldermen and Common Council of the City of London, from the Committee.   

The Copy of a Letter sent by Mr. Hearne, one of the last convicted and condemned Jesuits, unto one Mr. Napper a Catholic, and now an Inhabitant in Hollowell in Oxford, jan. 7. 1641.  
WORTHY SIR,  
LEt not our present danger deter or affright you from the constancy in your profession, let the goodness and Justice of your cause encourage you, and prevail over the present danger, we think it but our duty to suffer for the Law and dignity of our Religion, & it is our credit that we are thought worthy to be subjects of this present persecution, The benefit I could not perform to the Church of Rome in my life-time, I shall be glad to finish with the Seal of my blood, I am provided for the present hazard, and expect nothing but present destruction, let not your Prayers be wanting for our eternal welfare, interceded for us, that we may obtain the merited reward of our labours, be you constant in the faith, and not dismay with the present troubles of the times, for you shall shortly see an issue o● all these things, and we hope shortly that the distractions and distempers of the King and Parliament, with the fears and insurrections of the City of London, and generally over all the Kingdom will work for our good, and bring ● Period to the cruel Tyrannies which the Heretics of this Kingdom inflict upon us, and the Sun which now seems set, will arise again, that we shall see glorious days, your constancy and perseverance cannot want its reward, I must be short, and take my leave, for I have much to do, Farewell.  
From the Prison at Newgate, Jan. 5. 1641. Your constant friend and wellwisher. J. Hearne.  
FINIS.