GREAT NEWS FROM THE North of England; BEING A DETECTION OF A LATE Plot. (or Conspiracy:) Against the Present Government.  LICENCED, And Entered according to Order. 
HIS Most Sacred Majesty, King William, ever since His Accession to the Imperial Crown of these Realms (rightly considering, that Mercy is one of the most splendidst Gems, that truly adorns a Crown) has extended his Clemency even to the greatest of Offenders; Amongst a number of other Instances, particularly to the Officers and Soldiers of the Lord Dunbarton's Regiment, after every Soul of them had forfeited their Lives, by their Notorious Defect or rather Rebellion, near the Isle of Ely; And his Majesties so often recommending to the Last Parliament, and his taking Care to have presented to the Present, a Bill of Indemnity, that, if possible, He would oblige the most Obdurate of his Subjects, to Acts of Loyalty and Obedience; yet, notwithstanding all this Princely Condescension, it's too too plain and evident, that there are many Roman Catholics, and other Jacobites, so notoriously disaffected to our present happy Constitution, that they are not to be allowed, or drawn by the Chords of Mercy and Clemency; which is plainly demonstrated from their late detected secret Cabals, and Treasonable Conspiracies in the North of England, to disturb the Government in His Majesty's Absence; but let them have a care, lest it should befall them, what the Lord Chief Justice Scroggs told Coleman, ne Catalus qui dem relinquendus; for Orders are already gone down to have several taken into Custody.  
Likewise, their almost daily Paper Plots, or Treasonable Pamphlets, which by their Factors they secretly disperse, to endeavour, if possible, to poison the Minds of many of His Majesty's well-meaning Liege People; for the prevention, an some Measure, of the said design of theirs, I reccommend the Reader to the following Admonitions.  
How much Europe in general, and this Kingdom in particular, has suffered by the Bloody Zeal of Furious and Cruel Papists, is known to every man of common Understanding amongst Us; Therefore it behoves Us, of this Nation, to consider our Danger and former Sufferings, and grow so Wise, as not to run the same Hazard again, as we were lately like to be brought into, in the Days of James the TWO; or trust they will prove more kind, than they have been heretofore; We may assure ourselves, if Experience has not taught us to use all means to avoid their Cruelty, it has now taught them, how more effectually to work our Destruction. All the Repentance that ever I heard they have shown, is, only that they did not more throughly Root out their Adversaries, when they had the Power in their own Hands; and that is all we must look for, if ever God, for our Sins, should suffer Abdicated King James to prevail again. For, whatever fair or specious Pretences may be alleged against our present happy Constitution and Settlement, by the Jacobites, and other more Slyer Enemies. King James' General Liberty of Conscience was but the Guilded Bait to delude us; 'Twas really our Religion, our Estates, Liberties, Lives and Fortunes, which that Prince, and his Popish Crew thirsted after; For if ever they should prevail, the Liberty they promise us, would end in Slavery, the Wealth in Beggary, and the Happiness in Confusion. The Horror of Queen MARY's Days, the several Bloody Plots and Conspiracics in Queen Elizabeth's, and King James the First, the Massacre in France, and the Rebellion and Horrid Massacre in Ireland, 1641. are not yet blotted out of our Minds; and the late and Inhuman bloody Practices of King James, and his bloody French and Irish Crew, since his Landing There, we have daily Instances of almost before our Eyes; neither have we forgot the lamentable Miseries and Destructions of our late Civil Wars, which were chief fomented and stirred up by them.  
If therefore the Preservation of our Holy Reformed Religion, our Estates, Lives and Fortunes, the Benefit of our Posterity, the true Peace of the Kingdom, the preventing of Popery, Athesm, and Confusion, and the common Rules of Justice, be any Motives to work upon Us, I hope, it will be the Endeavours, and constant Care of all true Englishmen, to keep out Tyranny and Popery, and hearty maintain the Religion and Government, which is now established amongst Us.   

LONDON: Printed for W. Sturt, in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1690.