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I. BEcauſe the 25th. Car. 2d. when an Act was made to throw Popiſh Recuſants out of all Offices and Places of Truſt. The Duke of York did lay down ſeveral great Offices and Places (as Lord High Admiral of England, Generaliſſimo of all his Majeſties ForII. 30th. Car. 2d. When an Act was made to diſable Papiſts from ſitProviſo inſerted in that Act, That it ſhould not extend to the Duke of York: On purpoſe to ſave his Right of ſitting in the Lords Houſe; though he refuſeth to take thoſe Oathes which the Proteſtant Peers ought to do.III. That his Majeſty in his Speech March, 6. the 31. year of his Reign, doth give for a Reaſon to the Parliament, why he ſent his Brother out of England; becauſe he would leave no man room to ſay, that he had not removed all cauſe which might influence him to Popiſh Counſels.IV. That there have been divers Letters read in both Houſes of ParRome; and alſo from other Popiſh Biſhops and Agents of the Pope, in other Forreign parts, which do apparently ſhew the great correſpondencys between the D. of Y. and the Pope. And how the Pope could not chooſe but weep for joy, at the reading of ſome of the Dukes Letters, and what great ſatisfaction it was to the Pope to hear the D. was advanced to the Cath. Religion. That the Pope has granted Breev's to the D. ſent him Beads, ample Indulgences, with much more to this purpoſe.V. That the whole Houſe of Commons hath declared him to be a Papiſt in their Votes, Sunday, April 6th. 1679. Reſolved, nemine contradicente, That the Duke of York's being a Papiſt, and the hopes of his coming ſuch to the Crown, has given the greateſt countenance and incouragement to the preſent Conſpiracy and Deſignes of the Papiſts againſt the King and Proteſtant Religion.— What this Conſpiracy and Deſign is, will appear by a Declaration of both Houſes of Parliament, March 25. 79. Reſolved, Nemine contradicente, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in Parliament Aſſembled; That then do declare, That they are fully ſatisfied, by the proofs they have heard, there now is, and for divers years laſt paſt hath been a horrid and Treaſonable Plot and Conſpiracy, contrived and carried on by thoſe of the Popiſh Religion, for the furthering of his Majeſties ſacred Perſon, and for the ſubverting the Proteſtant Religion, and the antient well eſtabliſhed Government of this Realm.
VI. That beſides all this Proof, and much more to this purpoſe, it is moſt notorious and evident he hath for many years abſented himſelf from Proteſtant Chnrches during Religious Worſhip.
Theſe are the Reaſons why we believe the Duke of York to be a Papiſt.
The Jury was ſent for up by the Court of Kings Bench, whilſt they were on this Inditement, and Diſmiſt, ſo that nothing was further done upon it, ſaving that the Jury received the Preſentment. And by the Diſmiſſion of the Jury, a very great number of Inditements were Diſcharged. A thing ſcarcely to be parallel'd, and of very ill conſequence not only to many private Perſons, but chiefly to the Publick.