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CHAP. III.
The Pretended Popish Conspiracy, was a New Plot made of an Old One; and Dr. Tong (not Otes) was the Founder and Contriver of it.
IT Fell-out that some short Time after the Broaching of the Pretended Popish Plot, One Boulter, a Bookseller, brought me Tong's Royal Martyr, for a License. I could not Pass it, and the Bookseller went Mumbling away with a kind of Menace betwixt his Teeth, for the Refusal. Upon This, I went and told Tong at Whitehall, that I could not give it an Imprimatur, and so Pointed him out, (over and above Certain Scandalous Re∣flexions, and Historical Mistakes) to some Unlucky Hints in the Preface, that, People, I said, would be apt to take Offence at.
You tell the World, said I, that you have with Great Care Drawn-up the History of the Old Popish Plot, (meaning the Bus'ness of Andreas ab Habernfeld) and that shewing it to Dr. Otes, who very much Approv'd of the Draught, You did as Good as tell him, [Titus, it were worth the while to know if This Plot does not go on still: Wherefore do you go, and put your self among the Jesuites, and see whether it does or No.] You say further, that Dr Otes