A True Narrative of the Horrid Hellish Popish-Plot.
To the Tune of PACKINGTON'S POUND, The First Part.
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The Contents of the FIRST PART.
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How Sir Godfrey is Kill'd, his Body they hide,
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Which brought out in Chair, a Horse-back do's ride:
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How Jesuits disguis'd, our Houses do Fire;
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How subtly they Plot, and Kings Death Conspire;
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Of divers Great Lords drawn in, to their Bane;
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An Army of Irish, and Pilgrims from Spain.
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I.
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GOod People I pray you give ear unto me,
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A Story so strange you have never been told,
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How the Jesuit, Devil, and POPE did agree,
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Our STATE to destroy, and Religion so old.
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To murder our KING,
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A most Horrible Thing!
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But first of Sir Godfrey his Death I must sing;
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For how e're they disguise it, we clearly can see,
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Who Murder'd that Knight no good Christian could be.
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The truth of my Story if any man doubt,
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W' have Witnesses ready to Swear it all out.
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II.
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AT Somerset-house there is plain to be seen,
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A Gate which will lead you into the Back-Court,
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This (1) Place for the Murder most fitting did seem,
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For thither much People does freely resort:
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His Body they toss'd,
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From Pillar to Post,
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And shifted (2) so often, 't had like t' have been lost;
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To watch with (3) Dark Lanthorn the Jesuits did go,
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But never mistrusted our Honest (4) Bedloe.
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The Truth of my Story, etc.
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III.
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LEast such close Contrivements at length might take Air,
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When as his dead Body corrupted did grow,
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They carried him out in (5) Invisible Chair,
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And set him a (6) Horseback to ride at So-Hoe.
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His own (7) Sword to the Hilt,
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To add to their Guilt,
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They thrust through his Body, but no Bloud was (8) spilt;
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T' have it thought he was kill'd by a Thief, they did mean,
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So they left (9) all his Money, and made his (10) Shooes clean.
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The truth of my Story, etc.
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IV.
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TO shew now th' excess of Jesuitical Rage,
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They this Loyal City to ruine would bring,
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'Cause you Citizens are so Religious and sage,
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And ever much noted for true to your King;
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T' your Houses they go,
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With (11) Fire and with Tow,
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Then (12) pilfer your Goods, and 'tis well you scape so;
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Y' have seen how they once set the Town (13) all in flame;
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And divers times since have attempted the same.
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The truth of my Story, etc.
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V.
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BY (14) Bedlos Narration is shewn you most clear,
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How Jesuits disguis'd into Houses will creep;
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In a Porter or Carmans (15) Frock they'l appear;
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Nay they will not disdain to cry Chimney-sweep;
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Or sell you Small-Cole,
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Then drop in some hole
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A Fire Ball, or thrust it up by a long Pole;
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But I now must relate a more Tragical thing,
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How these Villains conspir'd to murder our King,
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The truth of my Story, etc.
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VI.
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AT the (16) White-horse in April there was a Consult,
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Where Jesuits a (17) Covenant wickedly frame;
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The (18) Death of our Sovereign was the Result,
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To th' which at least (19) Forty all signed their name,
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They wou'd not do that,
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I' th' place where they sat,
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Trusty Oates must (21) convey it, from this man to that;
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To make sure work, by (21) Poyson the Deed must be done
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And Stab'd with a (22) Dagger, and (23) Shot with a Gun.
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The truth of my Story, etc.
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VII.
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FOr fear at St. Omers, their Oates might be miss'd,
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Th' agreed with a Devil t' appear in his place.
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In a Body of Air, believe't if you list,
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Which squeek'd just like Oats, and mov'd with the same grace;
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cou'd Lie, it cou'd Cant,
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Turn eyes like a Saint,
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And of our great Doctor no feature did want.
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Thus Forty might Swear they (24) saw Oates ev'ry day,
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But true Oates was here, and the Devil saw they.
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The truth of my Story, etc.
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VIII.
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FRom Father Oliva (26) Commissions did come,
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To raise a great Army much Treasure is spent;
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Th' Old Man was resolved to take Post from Rome,
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To ride at the Head of them was his intent;
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Lord (27) Bellas was fit,
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Who can deny it,
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To Command in his place, When's Gout wou'd permit;
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Lord (28) Stafford was fittest to trust with their Pay,
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Old (29) Ratcliff to range them in Battel Array.
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The Truth of my Story if any man doubt,
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W' have Witnesses ready to Swear it all out,
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IX.
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TH' High-Treasurers place the Lord (30) Powis did please,
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Men of desp'rate Fortune oft venture too far;
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Lord (31) Peters wou'd hazard Estate, and his Ease,
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And Life for the Pope too, in this Holy War;
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Lord Ar'ndel of Old,
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So Warlike and bold,
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Made choice of a (32) Chancellors Gown we are told.
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All these did Conspire with the Lord Castlemaine,
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Whose Plot was to catch his old Dutchess again.
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The truth of my Story if any man doubt,
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W' have Witnesses ready to Swear it all out.
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X.
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GReat store of wild (33) Irish both civil and wise,
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Designed to joyn with the (34) Pilgrims of Spain,
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Thirty (35) Thousand being ready there all in good guise,
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Had vow'd a long Pilgrimage over the Main.
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To arm well this Host,
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When 'tWhen't came on our Cost,
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(36) Black Bills forty thousand, are sent by the Post,
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This (37) Army lay privately on the Sea Shore;
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And no man e're heard of them since nor before.
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The truth of my Story if any man doubt,
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W' have Witnesses ready to Swear it all out.
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My Witnesses I bring, and produce the Record,
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D' ye think th' are Perjur'd? 'Tis false and absur'd,
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Wou'd th' Godly hang Papists for Interest or Pique?
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Wou'd a Doctor Swear false for Ten Pound a Week?
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(1)Hills Tryal, pag. 16.
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(2) viz. 4 Times, p. 18. 16.
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(3) See the same Try. p. 18.
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(4) The same, pag. 31.
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(5) The same, pag. 69.
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(6) The same Tryal, p. 20
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(7) The same, pag. 35.
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(8) Ibid. (9) Ibid.
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(10) See the Coroners Inquest.
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(11) See Dt. Oates's Narrative
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page 22.
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(12) Ibid.
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(13) See the Piller near Lon-
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don Bridge.
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(14) Read Bedloes Narrative.
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(15) See Dr. Oatess Narrat.
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page 68.
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(16) See Irelands Tryal,
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page 19.
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(17) Ibid. (18) Ibid.
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(19) The same Tryal, pag. 26
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(20) The same, page 20.
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(21) See Dr. Oatess Narrat.
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page 21.
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(22) The same, Narrat. p. 47.
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(23) See Pickerings Tryal,
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page 23.
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(24) See St. Omers Certificate
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(25) See Jesuits Tryal, p. 47,
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(26) See Dr. Oatess Narra-
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tive, p. 58.
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(27) Ibid. (28) Ibid.
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(29) Ibid. (30) Ibid.
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(31) Ibid. (32) Ibid
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(33) See Lords, Journal and
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Langhorns Tryal, page 20.
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(34) Ibid
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(35) See Lords Journal, p. 54.
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(36) See Colemans Tryal, p. 23.
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(37) See Lords Journal and
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Langhorns Tryal, as above.
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Some Notes on the Picture to
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prevent Popish Cavils.
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A. Read Greens Tryal, page 16
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and 17.
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B. This is the famous Spright with
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the Chamber-pot, which did as cer-
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tainly appear to the Popish Ladies,
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when they danc'd about the Body, as
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'tis certain, it did afterwards appear
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to some True Protestant Ladies in the
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same place.
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C. Hem, was the watch-word
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to Berry to open the Gate. See his
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Tryal, page 19.
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D. and E. We may well suppose, the
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Devil help'd them when they pass'd
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invisible so close by the Centry: and
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we may be more assured, they could
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not without some Diabolical Art
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make him (after so many days being
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dead) bend his Legs to sit in the
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Chair, and then to stretch them out
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stiff again, as he was found on Prim-
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rose-Hill.
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F. The Jesuits most ingenious
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Game of Trap, which to understand
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you must read Bedloes Narrative of
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the Fires, p. 16. and 17. Read it
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throughout: 'Twill shew you plainly,
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how the Papists burnt London; or
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if you desire to be confirm'd in so nece-
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ssary a belief by an undeniable Autho-
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rity, read the new Inscription on the
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Monument, and that on the house in
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Pudding-Lane, which were purposely
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design'd to convince all the World
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of this Truth, and safely to convey
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it to Posterity.
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G. See Langhorns Memoires, and
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L. C.J. Answer to Bedloes Articles.
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H. The Dr. does not tell us, where
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these forty thousand Bills were made;
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but our reason tells us, that 'twas ve-
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ry necessary they should be hamme-
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red as privately as possible (for fear
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of Discovery) and therefore Bilboe
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and Salamanca, may pass far more
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probable than London or any Town in
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England.
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