%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> A Narrative of the Popish-Plot, / Shewing the Cunning Contrivance thereof. / To the Tune of, Packington's Pound. / The Contents of the First Part. / How Sir Godfrey is kill'd, his Body they hide, / Which brought out in Chair, a Horseback does ride; / How Jesuits disguis'd our Houses do fire; / How subtly they Plot, and the King's death conspire; / Of divers great Lords drawn in, to their Bane, / An Irish Army, and Pilgrims from Spain. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer ?-? Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 03/08/2016 35141

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R35063 1 Packington's Pound Packington's Pound Packington's Pound GOod People, I pray you, give ear unto me, / A Story so strange you have never been told, THe Plot being thus subtly contriv'd, as you hear, / To God knows how many this * Secret th'impart; The truth of my Story if any man doubt, / W'have Witnesses ready to swear it all out. The [t]ruth of my Story, &c. Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 1 A Narrative of the Popish-Plot, / Shewing the Cunning Contrivance thereof. / To the Tune of, Packington's Pound. / The Contents of the First Part. / How Sir Godfrey is kill'd, his Body they hide, / Which brought out in Chair, a Horseback does ride; / How Jesuits disguis'd our Houses do fire; / How subtly they Plot, and the King's death conspire; / Of divers great Lords drawn in, to their Bane, / An Irish Army, and Pilgrims from Spain. A Narrative of the Popish-Plot, Shewing the Cunning Contrivance thereof. To the Tune of, Packington’s Pound. The Contents of the First Part. How Sir Godfrey is kill’d, his Body they hide, Which brought out in Chair, a Horseback does ride; How Jesuits disguis’d our Houses do fire; How subtly they Plot, and the King’s death conspire; Of divers great Lords drawn in, to their Bane, An Irish Army, and Pilgrims from Spain. A Narrative of the Popish Plot, Showing the Cunning Contrivance thereof. To the Tune of, Packington's Pound. The Contents of the First Part. How Sir Godfrey is killed, his Body they hide, Which brought out in Chair, a Horseback does ride; How Jesuits disguised our Houses do fire; How subtly they Plot, and the King's death conspire; Of divers great Lords drawn in, to their Bane, An Irish Army, and Pilgrims from Spain. ?-?

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The Contents of the First Part. How Sir Godfrey is kill'd, his Body they hide, Which brought out in Chair, a Horseback does ride; How Jesuits disguis'd our Houses do fire; How subtly they Plot, and the King's death conspire; Of divers great Lords drawn in, to their Bane, An Irish Army, 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 howe'r they disguis't, we plainly can see, Who murder'd that Knight, no good Christian cou'd 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 * place for the Murder most fitting did seem, For thither much People do freely resort: His Body they toss'd From Pillar to Post, And shifted * so often, t' had like t' have been lost; To watch with dark-Lanthorns the Jesuits did go, But no ways distrusted our honest * Bedlow. The truth of my Story, etc. *Vid. Hills Tryal, p. 16. *Viz. 4 times p. 18, 19. *Vid. p. 18. *Vid. p. 31. III. LEst such close Contrivements at length might take air, When as his dead Body corrupted did grow, They quickly did find an * invisible Chair, And set him on * Horse-back to ride at So-hoe: His * own Sword to th' Hilt, To add to their Guilt, They thrust through his Body, but * no Blood was spilt; T' have it thought he was kill'd by a Thief they did mean, So they left * all's Money, and * made his Shoes clean. The truth of my Story, etc. *The-Senti- nels saw none, p. 69. *Vid. p. 20. Vid. p. 35 *Ibid. *Ibid. *Vid. Coro- ner's Inquest 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 as true to your King: T' your Houses they go With * Fire and with Tow, Then * pilfer your Goods, and 'tis well you 'scape so; Y' have seen how they once set the Town all in flame; Yet 'tis their best Refuge, if we believe Fame. The truth of my Story, etc. *Vid. Dr. Oatess Nar. p. 22. * Ibid. V. BY * Bedlows Narration is shewn you most clear, How Jesuits disguis'd into Houses will creep; In a Porters or * Carmans Frock they appear, Nay, 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 conspir'd to murder our King. The truth of my Story, etc. *Vid [?]
VI. AT th' * White-horse in April was their main Consult, Where a * Writing these Plotters wickedly frame; The * Death of our Sovereign was the result, To which at least * Forty all signed their name: They would not do that In the place where they sat, Trusty Oates must * convey't from this man to that; To make sure work, by * Poyson the Deed must be done, And by a * long Dagger, and * shot from a Gun. The truth of my Story, etc. *Vid. Irelands Tryal, p. 19. *Ibid. *Ibid. *Vid. p. x6. *Vid. p. 20. *Vid. Oatess Nar. p. 21. *Vid. p. 47. *Vid. Picke- rings Tryal p. 23, etc. VII. FOr fear at St. Omers their Oates might might be miss'd, They agreed with a Devil t' appear in his place, In a Body of Air, (believ't if you list) Which lookt just like Oats, and mov'd with the same grace; cou'd Plot, it cou'd Cant, Turn eyes like a Saint, And of our great Doctor no feature did want: Thus * hundreds might swear they * saw Oates ev'ry day, But true Oates was here, and the Devil say they. The truth of my Story, etc. *Vid. St. O- mers Certi- ficate. *Vid. Jesuits Try. p. 47, etc. VIII. FRom Father Oliva * Commissions did come, To raise a great Army much Treasure is spent; The Old Man did once think to take Post from Rome, For to ride at the head of them was his intent; But * Bellas was fit (Who can deny it?) To command in his place, when his Gout wou'd permit; Lord * Stafford was proper'st to trust with their Pay Old * Ratcliff to range them in Battel-Array. The truth of my Story, etc. *Vid. Oatess Nar. p. 58. *Ibid. *Ibid. *Ibid. IX. TH' High-Treasurers place the Lord * Powis did please, (Men of desp'rate Fortunes oft venture too far;) Lord * Peters would hazard Estate, and his Ease, And Life for the Pope too, in this holy War; Lord Ar'ndel, of old So war-like and bold, Made choice of a * Chancellors Gown we are told; All these did conspire with the Lord Castlemain, Who now his good Dutchess will * ne'r catch again. The truth of my Story, etc. *Ibid. *Ibid. *Ibid. *Dr, Oates saw my Lords Divorce, as he swore be- fore the K. & Councel. X. GReat store of wild * Irish, both civil and wise, Designed to joyn with the Pilgrims of Spain, Many * thousands being ready all in good guise, Had vow'd a long Pilgrimage over the Main: To arm well this Host When it came on our Coast, * Black Bills forty thousand are sent by the Post, This * Army lay privately on the Sea-shore, And no man e'r heard of 'em since or before. The truth of my Story, etc. *Vid. Lords Journal, as also Lang- horns Tryal p. 20. *Ibid. *Ibid. *Vid. Colcm. Tryal, p. 23. *Vid. Journ. and Tryal, ut supra. The
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The Contents of the Second Part. Of Arms under-ground for Horse and for Foot, The King almost kill'd, but Gun will not shoot, For which Pic'ring is whip'd. All of them swear To be true to the Plot; yet Oates, not for Fear, But Revenge, being turn'd away, and well bang'd, Discovers them all; the Jesuits are hang'd.
I. THe Plot being thus subtly contriv'd, as you hear, To God knows how many this * Secret th' impart; Some famous for Cheats, yet their Faith they don't fear, To tie a Knave fast they had found a new Art: They * swore on a Book, And * Sacrament took; But you'll find, if into their grave Authors you look, To forswear's no sin (as th' * Recorder well notes) Nor Treason, Rebellion, nor cutting of Throats. The iruth of my Story, etc. *As appears in the seve- ral Tryals. *Vid. Ire- lands Try- al, p. 23. *Vid. Hills Tryal, p. 32. *Vid. his Speech in Irelands Try. p. 81. II. STill blinded by Zeal, and inveigl'd by Hope, Store of Arms they provide for Fight and Defence; The Lords must command as Vice-Roys of the Pope, And all over England they raise * Peter-pence: Their Letters they send By * Bedlow their Friend, Or else by the * Post, to shew what they intend; Some hundreds * Oates saw, which the Jesuits did write, 'Tis a wonder not one of them e'r came to light. The truth of my Story, etc. *Vid. p. 30. *Vid. Jesuits Try. p. 33. *Vid. p. 29. *Vid. Dr. Oatess Nar. all along III. POunds two hundred thousand they to * Ireland sent, Fifteen thousand to * Wakeman for Potions and Pills, Forty thousand in Fire-works we guess that they spent, And at least ten thousand for the 'foresaid Black-Bills; Fifteen hundred more * Grove shou'd have, they swore, Four Gentleman-Ruffians deserv'd * Fourscore; Pious Pickering they knew was of Masses more fond, And for * thirty thousand they gave him a Bond. The truth of my Story, etc. *Vid. Colem. Try. p. 23. *Vid. p. 40. *Vid, p. 21. *Vid. p. 24. *Vid. p. 21. IV. THese two, to kill the King by promises won, Had now watch'd for * some years in St. James's Park, And Pickering (who never yet * shot off a Gun) Was about to take aim, for he had a fair mark: Just going to begin't, He * missed his Flint, And look in Pan there was no * Powder in't; For which he their Pardon does humbly beseech, Yet had * thirty good lashes upon his bare Breech. The truth of my Story, etc. *Vid. Ire- lands Tryal, p. 24. *Vid. p. 25. *Vid. p. 24. *Vid. Jesuits Tryal, p. 33. *Vid. Ire- lands Tryal p. 24. V. BUt a sadder mischance to the Plot did befall, For Oates their main Engine fail'd, when it came to't; No marvel indeed if he cozen'd them all, Who turn'd him a * begging, and * beat him to boot. He wheeling about, The whole Party did rout, And from lurking holes did ferret them out, Till running himself blind, he * none of them knew, And fainting at * Councel, he could not swear true. The truth of my Story, etc. *Vid. Wake- mans Tryal, p. 73. *Vid. Jesuits Tryal, p. 91. *Wak. p. 30, 55. Colem. p. 30. *Ibid,
VI. TO strengthen our Doctor, brave Bedlows brought in, A more credible Witness was not above-ground; He vows and protests, what'er he had been, He wou'd not swear false now for five hundred pound: And why should we fear They falsly would swear, To damn their own * Souls, and to lose by it here; For Oates, who before had no peny in Purse, Discov'ring the Plot, was * seven hundred pound worse. The truth of my Story, etc. *Vid. Wake- mans Tryal. p. 40. *Thus Dr. Oates & Mr. Bedlo affirm in Langhorns Tryal. VII. TWo Witnesses more were let loose from the Jayl, Though * One, 'tis confest, did run back from his word; (In danger of life a good man may be frail) And th' * Other they slander for cheating his Lord: T' each one of these men The Jesuits brought * Ten, To disprove 'em in time and in place; but what then? One Circumstance lately was sworn most clear, By a * Man who in hopes has four hundred year. The truth of my Story, etc. *Mr. Prance. *M. Dugdale. *Vsd. Jesuits Tryal all along. *Viz. That Ireland was in Town, Aug. 19. Wak. Tryal, p. 22. *M. Jenison. VIII. BEsides 'twas oft urg'd, We must always suppose, To murder the King a great Plot there has been; And who to contrive it so likely as those Who Murders and Treasons do hold for no sin? Things being thus plain, To plead was in vain, The Jury instructed again and again, Did find them all Guilty, and to shew 'twas well done, The People gave a Shout for Victory won. The truth of my Story, etc. IX. TIs strange how these Jesuits, so subtle and wise, Should all by the Pope be so basely trepann'd, To hang with much comfort when he shall advise, And go the Devil too at his command. He may give them leave To lye and deceive; But what when the Rope does of Life them bereave? Can his Holiness, think you, dispense with that pain, Or by his Indulgences raise them again? The truth of my Story, etc. X. YEt, like Mad-men, of Life a Contempt they express, And of their own happiness careless appear; For Life and for Money not one wou'd confess, They'd rather be Damn'd, than be Rich and live here. But surely they rav'd, When God they out-brav'd, And thought to renounce him the way to be sav'd, And with Lies in their mouths go to Heav'n in a string: So prosper all Traytors, and God save the King. The truth of my Story, etc.
Concordat cum Recordo Cl. Par. Printed for the Information of all Anti-Plotters, MDCLXXXI.