A New plot discovered, practised by an assembly of Papists, upon Sunday being the 25. day of July, for the deliverance of William Waller, alias Walker, alias Ward, alias Slater, a Jesuit, which was hanged, drawn, and quartered, upon Monday the 26 of July, revealed by John Hodgskins a Porter, by a Letter, 1641.  
Printed, Anno 1641.   

IT is unknown to very few in England, what plots by Papists have been hatched, but by the assistance of our great God, never have taken effect, but have been broken in the egg, and the setters of them utterly destroyed: to make repetition of them at this present, I shall not need; Campian that eminent Saint now canonised amongst the popish crew, whose learning, the best learned men of England have admired, and had it been employed to a right use, would have been registered amongst the works of those scholars which have been esteemed of greatest account, but it was too manifest approved that the employment of it was to blind ignorant men, that the devil with the more ease might have led them to his kingdom; but what was Campians reward, the Gallows? for he was condemned for a traitor, and was hanged, drawn, and quartered, in the most happy reign of Queen Elizabeth, of blessed memory. O what a damned plot was there invented also, in the reign of the most wise second Solomon, King James; the powder plot I mean, which was intended for the destruction of King, State, and communality, in the time of sitting at Parliament; but God, England's sole Defender, revealed it, and the Conspirators caught in their own net, Faux going to give the fatal blow was apprehended, and he with the rest of his hellish company paid that which their treachery did deserve. What the Papists intents have been in these our times, may be judged, by their late presumption and pride, which was feared to be maintained by some of the clergy, which should rather have been piercing swords to wound them, then chief actors in spurring them on: for when Shepherds go astray themselves, how shall the flock live in safety? how shall the sheep feed upon the wholesome plains, when the shepherd leads them into unknown Wildernesses? but this sore also, by God's assistance, and the Parliaments wisdom, of late hath been indifferent well cured; but yet still do some scabbed sheep remain amongst the pure flocks, two of them lately were separated from amongst them, those Jesuits, I mean, which were lately apprehended, who for the ambition they had to be canonised Martyrs, after their exile, notwithstanding the King's command, presumptuously returned back again, to follow their old practice, in which they had spent so much study, seducing the King's liege people: one of them is already executed, the other now lies in Newgate: but the plot which was intended to rescue that old Priest William Waler, is the theme which I am to treat on, which thus begins.  
Upon Saturday, being the four and twentieth of July, was this Priest condemned, which being divulged amongst his fellow Recusants, upon Sunday they a great number gathered together to the sum of threescore, near Cursitors Ally in Chancery Lane, a place, where the now dead Priest lodged, to find out some way to deliver him out of the hands of his enemies, the bloody heretics; they long did hold counsel, one said he would go as to visit him in Newgate, and change apparel with him, and so let him escape, and take his punishment himself, for he said it was piety to redeem a Priest, though with the loss of his own life, they all condescended to his proposition, and after mass being sung, and a company of papistical prayers said over him, they bid him go and be resolute, not fearing the malice of heretics, which could never be able to do him any harm, in so much as he was innocent of those crimes which the Priest was condemned for, and by so dying he should be quitted of purgatory, and go presently to Heaven, and enjoy the presence of the blessed Virgin Mary, which words being said, they gathered money amongst themselves and gave it unto him, charging him to be charitable to his brother prisoners; having received the money, away goes this fellow whose name was Ward, one of Waller's by-names, by which sometimes he was called: this Ward being come nigh Newgate, he began to question with himself, why he should run resolutely unto death before he had deserved it, the Priest said he is fourscore years of age, and I scarce forty, long he cannot live, as for my part I may do Rome much service yet: poor I was, which my brethren have remedied, by furnishing me with this money, they bid me be charitable to my fellow prisoners, so I will, when I go to prison, in the meanwhile, Charity begins first at home: thus meditating with himself, he goes to a friend's house and writes a Letter to his brethren what thoughts came unto him, and sure he was that they were sent from above, for an angel he said stood by him, and bade him fly speedily to Rome, and make the brethren acquainted with the martyrdom of their brother Waller, who in time should sufficiently revenge his death; the Letter being writ, he met with one John Hodgskins 2 Porter, whom he knew very well, and gave him six pence to carry the Letter to such a place, the Porter told him he would; away went the Papist, and away went the Porter, the porter had not gone far but he forgot the place, no superscription being wrote, for fear of the discovery of their meeting, upon the Letter. And the porter being greedy to get somewhat of him to whom the letter was to be delivered, very cunningly broke up the Letter, to seek for his name if it were there, which to find he read the whole letter, which being done he closed it up again, and makes directly towards the place of their meeting, thinking to reveal them all, or else receive a good reward for the concealment of them. But when he came to the place his hopes were frustrated, for they were all gone before he came, their walking place was empty, wherefore he went home and to a gentleman showed the letter, from whose mouth upon Tuesday being the 27 of July, I had the relation, which I thought fit gentle reader to commit to the press, that all might know with what policy the devil deludes such simple men, by crossing their expectations. It was a very likely matter, was it not? that any one should, being a stranger, have admittance to the presence of a traitor having scarce a day to live; and then was it not an honestly for Ward to write to them that an angel had commanded him to fly to Rome,  
His Letter consisted of that which all their Religion doth, falsehood, for were I but intended to write more than a pamphlet, I would declare such damned fictions which are holden as a truth amongst them, would strike the Reader in astonishment, which to do at this time I shall not, Farewell.  
FINIS.