IT has been much admir'd at by the most sober and considering part of the Nation, that those who came in these three years past to discover a cursed Design against his Sacred Majesties Life and Government, should be most intimate with Persons discontented, and notoriously dissassected with his. Majesties Government both in Church and State; Nay, should be supported and mantain'd, if not Instructed and Catechiz'd by them in all their measures and Proceedings. And indeed 'tis very strange, that no Informer yet appear'd to discover the Plot either in England or Ire­land, but first he made his Address to the E. of S— before he apply'd himself to [...]ing or Councel: For 'tis plain, neither his Lordships Loyalty, (which always seem'd Retrograde, but when he Govern'd all; nor his Religion, which in all the Revo­lutions of his time, he measur'd still by his Interest,) could invite these Informers to Him, more than to other Peers of the Realm. But now People begin to find out the Mystery, and are pretty well satisfyed, that his Lordship did not promote the Discovery of the Popish Plot out of any extraordinary Zeal he had for the good ei­ther of the King or Kingdom, but was resolv'd to make a good hand of this Hellish Conspiracy, to advance another of his own: But our little VVeathercock of State made a Pit, and dig'd it, and is fallen into the Ditch which he made. Those very Witnesses, whom he so much extoll'd for the Saviours of both Kingdoms, and en­deavour'd to perswade to Swear against her Sacred Majesty, and his Royal Highness, have of late positively sworn Treason, or rather a heap of Treasons against himself; the sum whereof is as follows.

• I. That he has imagined to compass and procure the Death of the King, and the Sub­version of the Government, and of the known Laws of the Land, by reducing this antient Monarchy into a Republick.
• II. That he used great endeavours to possess the People that His Majesty is a Papist, and designs to introduce Popery and Arbitrary Power; and to that end has promoted several Seditious and Treasonable Libels against His Majesties Person and Government, purposely to bring His Majesty into an odium and Contempt with his loving Subjects.
• III. That He endeavour'd to Levy War against the King both in England & Ireland, and bring Blood-shed and Confusion upon His Majesties good People, under pretence of prosecuting the Popish Plot, and preserving the Protestant Religion, the Liberty and Property of the Subject, as He and his Confederates have done in the late Rebellion.
• IV. That He endeavour'd to render the Church of England as Ridiculous as Popery, and Defam'd all His Majesties Officers both by Land and Sea; and all others, who out of a due sense of Loyalty adhere to the Crown, stiling them Tories, Tantivies, Masque­raders, &c. purposely to frighten them from their Duty, and wean them from their So­vereign, to adhere to Him and His Faction.
• V. That He countenanced, harbour'd, and hired Persons to swear against the Queen, and His Royal Highness.
• VI. That He procur'd several sums of Money to be Raised and Collected to carry on these most abominable Designs.

This Charge is made out against his Lordship by 15. Persons of as good Credi [...] and Reputation as any of those his Lordship so much extolled and admired while they swore as he would have them; Four are Irish, the rest English; and all known Protestants of the Church of England; And several of them were lately esteem'd by his Lordship very fit Persons to swear against the Queen and His Royal Highness Yet perhaps they must not be thought of sufficient Credit now against such a true Protestant, who was as Zealous to suppress Popery in 79. as he was to promote it in 72. and Polypus-like in all the Changes and Revolutions of the Government always appear'd of the same Religion with the Faction or Party he espoused.

'Tis well known, that whosoever swears for the Presbyterians, (though hired for that purpose,) must be cryed up for a Saint, and a Saviour of the Nation: But if ever he is touched with any Remorse of Conscience, and thereupon discove [...] the Villanous Practices of that Party, He is immediately Metamorphos'd into the greatest of Villains, and worst of Perjurers. And 'tis very observable, that among the Brethren there is a Common Purse made, and a Swearing Office erected, where all Persons that have Conscience large enough to swallow any Oaths, and swea [...] what their Benefactors please, are frankly entertained and liberally Rewarded.

But above all, 'tis worth the enquiring after, what Motives can induce the Godly Congregations to be so free of their Purse to the Irish Evidence, who are known Papists, Priests and Fryars? For the Conspiracy in Ireland (as they tell Us,) was To bring in the French, and cut the Throats of all the Protestants in that Kingdom VVhat Reason then have the Fanaticks of England to be so liberal to the Discove­rers of that PLOT, when the very Parties concern'd, (the Protestants of Ireland never gave them a Farthing? Is it possible the English Fanaticks, can be more con­cern'd for the safety of the Irish Protestants, than They Themselves? Or that the Pootestants of that Kingdom could be so stupid, as not to consider these Discovere [...] that sav'd their Throats from a General Massacre, if they believ'd there was a [...] such Design in Agitation? As for my part, let the world believe what they plea [...] I am certain, the Brethren do not part with their Money for nothing; and I a [...] affraid there lies a Snake in the Grass, as I hope will shortly be found out.

In the interim our great Patriot is sent to the Tower, and kept close Prisoner [...] the foresaid Crimes; And 'tis said, that last Saturday morning, when the Serjeant [...] Arms went to Apprehend him, and desired his Lordship to eat something before [...] appeared before the King and Council, the Earl replied, He had no stomach to e [...] unless he could get a roasted Irish-man; which others hearing, they answered, No [...] was fitter for his Lordships Table, than his own Creature and Precursor Mr. Fit [...] Harris; and had his Lordship come but the day before, he might have overtake him at Tyburn. But if his Lordships Appetite still continues, he may perhaps e're lon [...] have his belly full of his dear Pupil Mr. Hetherington.