A True Narrative of the Horrid Hellish Popish-Plot.
To the Tune of PACKINGTONS POUND. The Second Part.
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The Contents of the Second PART.
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Of Arms under-ground for Horse and for Foot;
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The KING almost Kill'd, but Gun wiill not shoot,
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For which Pick'ring is whipt. All of them swear
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To be true to the PLOT; yet Oats, not for Fear
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Nor Revenge, (though turn'd away, and well bang'd)
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Discovers them all; The Jesuits are Hang'd.
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I.
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THe PLOT being thus subtly contriv'd as you hear,
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To God knows how many this (1) Secret th'impart,
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Some famous for Cheats, yet their Faith they don't fear;
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To tye a Knave fast they had found a new Art.
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They (2) swore on a Book,
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And (3) Sacrament took;
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But you'l find, if into their grave Authors you look,
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Forswearings no Sin, (as (4) Recorder well notes)
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Nor Treason, Rebellion, nor Cutting of Throats.
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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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STill blinded with Zeal, and inveigl'd by Hope,
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Store of Arms they provide for Fight and Defence,
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Three Lords must command, as Vice-Roys of the Pope,
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And all over England they raise (5) Peter-pence.
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Their Letters they send
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By (6) Bedlow their Friend,
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Or else by the (7) Post, to shew what the intend.
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Some hundreds (8) Oats saw, which the Jesuits did write,
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'Tis a wonder not One of them e're [c]ame to light.
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The Truth of my Story, etc.
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POunds Two hundred thousand to (9) Ireland they sent;
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Fifteen thousand to (10) Wakeman for Potions and Pills;
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Forty thousand in Fire-works we guess that they spent;
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And, Item, Ten thousand to pay for Black-Bills;
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Fifteen hundred more
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(11) Grove should have they swore;
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Four Gentlemen Ruffians deserved (12) Fourscore:
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Pious Pickering they knew was of Masses more fond,
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And for (13) Thirty thousand they gave him a Bond.
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The truth of my Story, etc.
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IV.
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THese two, to Kill the King by fair promises won,
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Had watch'd now some (14) years in St. James's Park;
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And Pick'ring, who never yet (15) shot off a Gun,
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Was about to take aim, for he had a fair Mark:
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Just going to begin't,
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He (16) missed his Flint,
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And looking in Pa[n], there was (17) no Powder in't;
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For which he their Pardon does humbly beseech,
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Yet had (18) thirty good lashes upon his bare Breech.
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The truth of my Story, etc.
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V.
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BUt a sa[d]der mischance to their PLOT did befall,
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For O[ats], their main Engine, fail'd when it came to't;
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No marvai[l] indeed if he cuzen'd 'em all,
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Who turn'l him a (19) begging, and (20) beat him to boot:
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He wheeling about,
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Th' whole Party did rout,
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And from [l]urking holes did so ferret 'em out;
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Till running himself blind, he none of them (21) knew,
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And fainting at (22) Council, he cou'd not swear true.
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The truth of my Story, etc.
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VI.
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TO co[m]fort our Doctor, brave Bealoes brought in,
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A m[o]re Credible Witness was not above ground;
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He vows [a]nd protests, though a Rogue he had been,
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He wou'd now not swear false for Five hundred p[o]und:
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And why shou'd we fear
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They falsly wou'd swear,
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To damn t[h]eir own (23) Souls, and to lose by it here.
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Poor Oat, who before had no Peny in Purse,
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Discov'ri[n]g the PLOT, was Seven hundred pound (24) worse
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The truth of my Story, etc.
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VII.
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TWo [w]itnesses more were let loose from the Jayl,
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Tho[u]gh (25) One 'tis confest did run back from his word;
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(In danger of Life a good man may be frail)
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And th' (26) Other they slander for Cheating his Lord.
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T' every one of these men
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The Jesuits brought (27) Ten,
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To dispro[v]e 'em in Time and in Place; but what then?
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One Circumstance lately was sworn most clear
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By a (28) Man who in hopes has Five hundred a year.
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T[h]e truth of my Story, etc.
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VIII.
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ANd then we are told, We must always suppose,
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To murder the King a Great PLOT there has been;
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And who to contrive it so likely as those
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Who Murder and Treason do hold for no Sin.
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Things being thus plain,
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To plead was in vain;
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The Ju[r]y (instructed again and again)
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Did find them all Guilty, and to shew 'twas well done,
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The People gave a Shout for Victory won.
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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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TIs strange how these Jesuits, so subtle and wise,
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Shou'd all by the Pope be so basely trepan'd,
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To Hang with much comfort when he shall advise,
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And go to the Devil too at his command.
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He may give them leave,
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To Lye and Dece[i]ve;
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But what when the Rope do's of Life them bereave?
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Can his Holiness, think you, dispense with that pain,
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Or by his Indulgences raise them 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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Yet (like Madmen) of Life a Contempt they express,
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And of their own happiness careless appear.
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For Life and for Money not one would confess;
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Th' had rather be Damn'd, than be Rich and live here.
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But surely they rav'd,
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When God they out-brav'd,
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And thought to renounce him the way to be sav'd;
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With Lyes in their mouths go to Heaven in a string;
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So prosper all Traytors, and GOD save the KING.
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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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Concordat cum Recordo. Cl. Par.
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FINIS.
See th Authors I quote; there's Witnesses plenty,
Approv'd by a --- Nemine Contradicente.
Yet Juries (for tender Conscience so famous)
To save a True-Protestant, write Ignoramus.
I do imagine some will say
there never was such another
strange Ballad, with marginal
Notes and Quotations. But I
answer, there never was such
another Plot, and I am affraid,
that if I did not cite very good
Authors, and bring Witnesses
of untainted Reputation, the
next Generation might be so
far deluded by Popish Shams,
as not to believe it.
Authors Quoted.
(1) As it appears in the several
Tryals.
(2) Irelands Tryal, p. 23.
(3) Hills Tryal, p. 32,
(4) See his Speech in Irelands
Tryal, p, 81.
(5) The same Tryal, p. 30.
(6) Jesuits Tryal, p. 33.
(7) The same, p. 29.
(8) Oatss Narrat. all along.
(9) See Colemans Try. p. 23.
(10) The same, page 40.
(11) The same again, p. 21.
(12) The same, p. 24.
(13) The same again, p. 21.
(14) Irelands Tryal, p. 24.
(15) The same, p. 25.
(16) The same again, p. 24.
(17) See Jesuits Tryal, p. 33.
(18) Irelands Tryal, p. 24.
(19) Wakeman's Tryal, p. 73.
(20) Jesuits Tryal, p. 91.
(21) Wakemans Tryal, p. 30.
& 55. As also Colemans
Tryal, p. 30.
(22) The same again.
(23) Wakeman's Tryal, p. 40.
(24) Thus Oats and Bedloe af-
firm in Langhorns Tryal.
(25) Mr. Dugdale.
(26) Jesuits Tryal all along.
(27) viz. To prove that Ire-
land was not in Town Aug.
19. See Wakemans Tryal,
p. 22.
(28) Mr. Jenison.
Some Notes on the Picture to
prevent Popish Cavils.
I. Be not scandaliz'd at a word
or two of Latine; 'Tis only to shew
the folly of the Papists, who pray in
an unknown Tongue.
K. This is not meant of any Oath
against the Papists, but of their wic-
ked Oath of Secrecy; which though
the Doctor often took, yet we may
charitably believe he never did in-
tend to keep it; since he positively
assures us he did but counterfeit: He
only seemed to be a Papist, but was
all the while a True-Protestant in his
Heart. See L. Staf. Tryal p. 123.
L. Arms for 5 or 600 Men were
hid in his Parlour; yet by Art Ma-
gick were invisible to the Gentlemen
of the Country, who often dined
with him in the same Room. See his
Tryal.
M. Sir H. Ts. Vault was search'd
for Arms, and Coffins opened; but
all the Arms they had hidden there
were turn'd to Bones.
N. Sir R. Ts. Sink was searched
for Arms and Gunpowder; yet no[t]
so much as one Black-Bill could ever
be found there, nor in any other
place.
O. See Wakemans Tryal, p. 7[3].
P. Grove, that he might be sure
to give an Incurable Wound, did
traiterously and maliciously champ
a Silver Bullet with his poysonous
Teeth. See his Tryal, p. 24, & 81.
Q. Either another man in such a
Coat, or else (as some believe) the
Devil in his likeness, went often to
Court, and occasion'd this unlucky
mistake, which was the cause of
his being beaten. See the Jesuits
Tryal p. 16, 17.
Many may perhaps wonder, that
the crafty Jesuits would suffer him
to be in such a miserable beggerly
Condition; and much more, that
they would beat and abuse one, whom
they had trusted with Secrets of so
high a nature. But we can easily an-
swer this, and an hundred other
seeming Improbabilities, only by say-
ing, They were infatuated.
R. See Colemans Tryal, p. 30.
S. Wakemans Try. p. 55, & 82,
T. Langhorns Memoirs, p. 6.
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