A True Narrative of the Horrid Hellish Popish-Plot.
To the Tune of PACKINGTON'S 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 came to light.
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The Truth of my Story, etc.
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III.
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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 Pan, 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 sadder mischance to their PLOT did befall,
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For Oats, their main Engine, fail'd when it came to't;
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No marvail indeed if he cuzen'd 'em all,
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Who turn'd 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 lurking 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 comfort our Doctor, brave Bedloes brought in,
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A more Credible Witness was not above ground;
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He vows and protests, though a Rogue he had been,
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He wou'd now not swear false for Five hundred pound:
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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 their own (23) Souls, and to lose by it here.
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Poor Oats, who before had no Peny in Purse,
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Discov'ring 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 Witnesses more were let loose from the Jayl,
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Though (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 disprove '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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The 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 Jury (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 Deceive;
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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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See th Authors I quote; there's Witnesses plenty,
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Approv'd by a--- Nemine Contradicente.
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Yet Juries (for tender Conscience so famous)
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To save a True-Protestant, write Ignoramus.
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I do imagine some will say
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there never was such another
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strange Ballad, with marginal
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Notes and Quotations. But I
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answer, there never was such
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another Plot, and I am affraid,
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that if I did not cite very good
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Authors, and bring Witnesses
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of untainted Reputation, the
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next Generation might be so
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far deluded by Popish Shams,
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as not to believe it.
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Authors Quoted.
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(1) As it appears in the several
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Tryals
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(2) Ireland's Tryal, p. 23.
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(3) Hill's Tryal, p. 32,
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(4) See his Speech in Irelands
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Tryal, p, 81.
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(5) The same Tryal, p. 30.
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(6) Jesuits Tryal, p. 33.
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(7) The same, p. 29.
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(8) Oatss Narrat. all along.
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(9) See Colemans Try. p. 23.
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(10) The same, page 40.
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(11) The same again, p. 21.
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(12) The same, p. 24.
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(13) The same again, p. 21.
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(14) Irelands Tryal, p. 24.
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(15) The same, p. 25.
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(16) The same again, p. 24..
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(17) See Jesuits Tryal, p. 33.
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(18) Irelands Tryal, p. 24.
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(19) Wakemans Tryal, p. 73.
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(20) Jesuits Tryal, p. 91.
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(21) Wakemans Tryal, p. 30,
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& 55. As also Colemans
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Tryal, p. 30.
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(22) The same again.
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(23) Wakemans Tryal, p. 40.
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(24) Thus Oats and Bedloe af-
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firm in Langhorns Tryal.
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(25) Mr. Prance.
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(25) Mr. Dugdale.
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(26) Jesuits Tryal all along.
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(27) viz. To prove that Ire-
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land was not in Town Aug.
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19. See Wakemans Tryal,
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p. 22.
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(28) Mr. Jenison.
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Some Notes on the Picture to
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prevent Popish Cavils.
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I. Be not scandaliz'd at a word
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or two of Latine; 'Tis only to shew
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the folly of the Papists, who pray in
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an unknown Tongue.
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K. This is not meant of any Oath
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against the Papists, but of their wic-
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ked Oath of Secrecy; which though
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the Doctor often took, yet we may
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charitably believe he never did in-
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tend to keep it; since he positively
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assures us he did but counterfeit: He
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only seemed to be a Papist, but was
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all the while a True-Protestant in his
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Heart. See L. Staf. Tryal p. 123.
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L. Arms for 5 or 600 Men were
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hid in his Parlour; yet by Art Ma-
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gick were invisible to the Gentlemen
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of the Country, who often dined
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with him in the same Room. See his
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Tryal.
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M. Sir H.Ts. Vault was search'd
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for Arms, and Coffins opened; but
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all the Arms they had hidden there
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were turn'd to Bones.
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N. Sir R.Ts. Sink was searched
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for Arms and Gunpowder; yet not
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so much as one Black-Bill could ever
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be found there, nor in any other
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place.
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O. See Wakemans Tryal, p. 73.
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P. Grove, that he might be sure
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to give an Incurable Wound, did
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traiterously and maliciously champ
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a Silver Bullet with his poysonous
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Teeth. See his Tryal, p. 24, & 81.
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Q. Either another man in such a
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Coat, or else (as some believe) the
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Devil in his likeness, went often to
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Court, and occasion'd this unlucky
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mistake, which was the cause of
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his being beaten. See the Jesuits
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Tryal p. 16, 17.
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Many may perhaps wonder, that
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the crafty Jesuits would suffer him
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to be in such a miserable beggerly
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Condition; and much more, that
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they would beat and abuse one, whom
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they had trusted with Secrets of so
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high a nature. But we can easily an-
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swer this, and an hundred other
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seeming Improbabilites, only by say-
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ing, They were infatuated.
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R. See Coleman[']s Tryal, p[.] 30.
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S. Wakemans Try. p. 55, & 82,
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T. Langhorns Memoirs, p. 6.
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