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THo in this unparallel'd age ſome might think nothing could ſeem too ſtrange;
Yet the Papiſts Impudence, in a Proteſtant Country, is certainly to be adN. T.
the Jeſuits Tool, and common Hackney for conveying their Venom into the minds of
the unthinking and unwary People, that by the noiſe of PLOTS and Deſigns amongſt
Proteſtants, they might ſuppreſs the proſecution of that Undeniable one of their own.
This Impudent News-monger in his Lying Intelligence Numb. 162. out of Zeal forſooth,
to propagate the Reformed Religon, by ridiculing the True Profeſſors thereof, muſt
needs make the world believe, by his Falſe and Impertinent Quaeres, That Proteſtants emPapists, or the very
Fryars, Priests and Jeſuits; though Malice it ſelf cannot inſtance one Proteſtant in
England Guilty of any ſuch Crimes; or that will not freely renounce all Dangerous
and Diſloyal Principles inconſiſtent with the Government. But becauſe I intend ſhortly
to publiſh a particular Confutation of theſe Idle Quaeres; I will in the mean time only
deſire Loyal N. T's ſpeedy Anſwer to the following Interrogatories.
I. Whether it be not Arraigning the Juſtice of the Nation, and the Wiſdom of Three Succeſſive
Parliaments, to ſay, That the Popiſh Plot in England was but a Contrivance of
the Presbyterians, when ſo many Jeſuits and known Traytors have been Executed upon that
account, and Coleman's Letters were ſo full to confirm the Testimonies of Dr. Oates, Capt.
Bedlow, &c?
II. Whether the Commitment and Perſecution of the Earl of Shafts. was not a Contrivance
of the Papiſts, managed by their Agents and Hirelings, in order to frighten others from pro
III. Whether the Aſſociation produced at the Proceedings againſt that Noble Peer, was
not framed by a Popiſh Polititian, and foisted in among other Papers, by thoſe that pretend to
have found it in his Lordſhip's Cloſet, the better to gain credit to the Incredible Depoſitions of
their Pupils?
IV. Whether it be not great Inſolence in any Man in England to proſecute Diſſenting
Proteſtants upon Penal Laws made againſt Papiſts; eſpecially ſince the Repreſentative boof the Nation have reſolv'd in Parliament, That to put thoſe Laws in Execution againſt
Proteſtants, is at this time a Grievance to the Subject, and a great encouragement to
Popery?
V. Whether there be any relying on the Fidelity or Interest of the Addreſſors, and Aſſociation-Abhorrors?
And whether they are more Loyal now, than when they petitioned for a Parliament?
Or, can it be thought, if time will ſerve, but they may again turn Petitioners?
VI. Whether Warcup, Fitz-Gerald, Marriot and Graham, the Great Managers of the
late Sham-Plots, have not been more zealous for the Gentleman in the North, than for the
KING; And as active to ſtifle Evidences of the Popiſh Plot, as to create New Ones to fix
a Proteſtant Conſpiracy?
VII. Whether theſe Managers have won or loſt by their new Imployment? And whether
they are not ſupported by ſome of the firſt Magnitude about Court (as is ſpecified in the 1ſt. 2d.
and 3d. parts of No Proteſtant-plot) in order to advance the Intereſt of the Duke of York,
and put an end to the Popiſh Plot?
VIII. Whether Warcup and Fitz Gerald, (who have often declared, that the Popiſh Plot
in Ireland was Voted in Parliament upon falſe and groundleſs ſurmiſes) do not ſtudy to ſtifle
the Popiſh Plot, and aſperſe the Wiſdom of the Parliament?
IX. Whether Fitz-Gerald (that had the Impudence to ſay, that Stafford and Plunket died
Innocent, and that the Papiſts of Ireland ought not to be Tryed in England) be not as much a
Papiſt as he is an Iriſh-man, and deſerves rather a cloſe Confinement, till he is called to an acParliament, than to have the liberty of trotting the Iriſh-Boggs, or be fed at Court
for God knows what?
X, Whether the Interest of the Gentleman in the North, or the ability and policy of Wor. Hal:
Clar. H—d, S—r, or J. will be able to protect their Mercenary Hirelings, or juſtifie
their own Proceedings ſince the Diſſolution of the laſt Parliament, when called to an accoun
Now, Loyal Nat. ſolve theſe Anxious Quaeres, Et eris mihi Apolline major.