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The Contents of the FIRST PART. How Sir Godfrey is Killd, his Body they hide, Which brought out in Chair, a Horse-back dos ride: How Jesuits disguisd, our Houses do Fire; How subtly they Plot, and Kings Death Conspire; Of divers Great Lords drawn in, to their Bane; An Army of Irish, and Pilgrims from Spain. I. GOod People I pray you give ear unto me, A Story so strange you have never been told, How the Jesuit, Devil, and POPE did agree, Our STATE to destroy, and Religion so old. To murder our KING, A most Horrible Thing! But first of Sir Godfrey his Death I must sing; For how ere they disguise it, we clearly can see, Who Murderd that Knight no good Christian could be. The truth of my Story if any man doubt, W have Witnesses ready to Swear it all out. II. AT Somerset-house there is plain to be seen, A Gate which will lead you into the Back-Court, This (1) Place for the Murder most fitting did seem, For thither much People does freely resort: His Body they tossd; From Pillar to Post, And shifted (2) so often, t had like t have been lost; To watch with (3) Dark Lanthorn the Jesuits did go, But never mistrusted our Honest (4) Bedloe. The Truth of my Story, etc. III. LEast such close Contrivements at length might take Air, When as his dead Body corrupted did grow, They carried him out in (5) Invisible Chair, And set him a (6) Horseback to ride at So-Hoe. His own (7) Sword to the Hilt, To add to their Guilt, They thrust through his Body, but no Bloud was (8) spilt; T have it thought he was killd by a Thief, they did mean, So they left (9) all his Money, and made his (10) Shooes clean. The truth of my Story, etc.
IV. TO shew now th excess of Jesuitical Rage, They this Loyal City to ruine would bring, Cause you Citizens are so Religious and sage, And ever much noted for true to your King; T your Houses they go, With (11) Fire and with Tow, Then (12) pilfer your Goods, and tis well you scape so; Y have seen how they once set the Town (13) all in flame; And divers times since have attempted the same. The truth of my Story, etc. V. BY (14) Bedlos Narration is shewn you most clear, How Jesuits disguisd into Houses will creep; In a Porter or Carmans (15) Frock theyl appear, Nay they will not disdain to cry Chimney-sweep; Or sell you Small-Cole, Then drop in some hole A Fire Ball, or thrust it up by a long Pole; But I now must relate a more Tragical thing, How these Villains conspird to murder our King, The truth of my Story, etc. VI. AT the (16) White-horse in April there was a Consult, Where Jesuits a (17) Covenant wickedly frame; The (18) Death of our Sovereign was the Result, To th which at least (19) Forty all signed their name, They woud not do that, I th place where they sat, Trusty Oates must (21) convey it, from this man to that; To make sure work, by (21) Poyson the Deed must be done And Stabd with a (22) Dagger, and (23) Shot with a Gun. The truth of my Story, etc. VII. FOr fear at St. Omers, their Oates might be missd, Th agreed with a Devil t appear in his place. In a Body of Air, believet if you list, Which squeekd just like Oats, and movd with the same grace; T coud Lie, it coud Cant, Turn eyes like a Saint. And of our great Doctor no feature did want. Thus Forty might Swear they (24) saw Oates evry day, But true Oates was here, and the Devil saw they. The truth of my Story, etc.
VIII. FRom Father Oliva (26) Commissions did come, To raise a great Army much Treasure is spent: Th Old Man was resolved to take Post from Rome, To ride at the Head of them was his intent; Lord (27) Bellas was fit, Who can deny it, To Command in his place, Whens Gout woud permit; Lord (28) Stafford was fittest to trust with their Pay, Old (29) Ratcliff to range them in Battel Array. The Truth of my Story if any man doubt, W have Witnesses ready to Swear it all out. IX. TH High-Treasurers place the Lord (30) Powis did please, Men of desprate Fortune oft venture too far; Lord (31) Peters woud hazard Estate, and his Ease, And Life for the Pope too, in this Holy War; Lord Arndel of Old, So Warlike and bold, Made choice of a (32) Chanc[e]llors Gown we are told. All these did Conspire with the Lord Castlemaine, Whose Plot was to catch his old Dutchess again. The truth of my Story if any man doubt, W have Witnesses ready to Swear it all out. X. GReat store of wild (33) Irish both civil and wise, Designed to joyn with the (34) Pilgrims of Spain, Thirty (35) Thousand being ready there all in good guise, Had vowd a long Pilgrimage over the Main. To arm well this Host, Whent came on our Cost, (36) Black Bills forty thousand, are sent by the Post, This (37) Army lay privately on the Sea Shore; And no man ere heard of them since nor before. The truth of my Story if any man doubt, W have Witnesses ready to Swear it all out.
Authors Quoted. (1) Hills Tryal, pag. 16. (2) viz. 4 Times, p. 18.16. (3) See the same Try. p.18. (4) The same, pag. 31. (5) The same, pag. 69. (6) The same Tryal, p. 20. (7) The same, pag. 35. (8) Ibid. (9) Ibid. (10) See the Coroners Inquest. (11) See Dt. Oatess Narrative page 22. (12) Ibid. (13) See the Piller near Lon- don Bridge. (14) Read Bedloes Narrative. (15) See Dr. Oatess Narrat. page 68. (16) See Irelands Tryal, page 19. (17) Ibid. (18) Ibid. (19) The same Tryal, pag. 26 (20) The same, page 20. (21) See Dr. Oatess Narrat. page 21. (22) The same, Narrat. p. 47. (23) See Pickerings Tryal, page 23. (24) See St. Omers Certificate (25) See Jesuits Tryal, p. 47. (26) See Dr. Oatess Narra- tive, p. 58. (27) Ibid. (28) Ibid. (29) Ibid. (30) Ibid. (31) Ibid. (32) Ibid (33) See Lords Journal and Langhorns Tryal, page 20. (34) Ibid (35) See Lords Journal, p. 54. (36) See Colemans Tryal, p. 23. (37) See Lords Journal and Langhorns Tryal, as above.
Some Notes on the Picture to prevent Popish Cavils. A. Read Greens Tryal, page 16 and 17. B. This is the famous Spright with the Chamber-pot, which did as cer- tainly appear to the Popish Ladies, when they dancd about the Body, as tis certain, it did afterwards appear to some True Protestant Ladies in the same place. C. Hem, was the watch-word to Berry to open the Gate. See his Tryal, page 19. D. and E. We may well suppose, the Devil helpd them when they passd invisible so close by the Centry: and we may be more assured, they could not without some Diabolical Art make him (after so many days being dead) bend his Legs to sit in the Chair, and then to stretch them out stiff again, as he was found on Prim- rose-Hill. F. The Jesuits most ingenious Game of Trap, which to understand you must read Bedloes Narrative of the Fires, p. 16. and 17. Read it throughout: Twill shew you plainly, how the Papists burnt London; or if you desire to be confirmd in so nece- ssary a belief by an undeniable Autho- rity, read the new Inscription on the Monument, and that on the house in Pudding-Lane, which were purposely designd to convince all the World of this Truth, and safely to convey it to Posterity. G. See Langhorns Memoires, and L. C.J. Answer to Bedloes Articles. H. The Dr. does not tell us, where these forty thousand Bills were made; but our reason tells us, that twas ve- ry necessary they should be hamme- red as privately as possible (for fear of Discovery) and therefore Bilboe and Salamanca, may pass far more probable than London or any Town in England.
My Witnesses I bring, and produce the Record, D ye think th are Perjurd? Tis false and absurd, Woud th Godly hang Papists for Interest or Pique? Woud a Doctor Swear false for Ten Pound a Week? FINIS.