Dr. Oates's narrative of the Popish plot, vindicated in an answer to a scurrilous and treasonable libel, call'd, A vindication of the English Catholicks, from the pretended conspiracy against the life and government of His Sacred Majesty, &c. / by J.P., gent.
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- Dr. Oates's narrative of the Popish plot, vindicated in an answer to a scurrilous and treasonable libel, call'd, A vindication of the English Catholicks, from the pretended conspiracy against the life and government of His Sacred Majesty, &c. / by J.P., gent.
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- Phillips, John, 1631-1706.
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- Warner, John, 1628-1692. -- Vindication of the Inglish Catholicks from the pretended conspiracy against the life et government of His Sacred Maiesty.
- Popish Plot, 1678.
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"Dr. Oates's narrative of the Popish plot, vindicated in an answer to a scurrilous and treasonable libel, call'd, A vindication of the English Catholicks, from the pretended conspiracy against the life and government of His Sacred Majesty, &c. / by J.P., gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54760.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2025.
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To the Most Renowned and Most Noble SENATE OF EUROPE, THE Lords and Commons OF ENGLAND ASSEMBL'D IN PARLAMENT.
Most Illustrious and Right Honourable,
A Certain Pamphlet has lately appear'd in the World without any Name, which has daringly presum'd to call that Pretended, which you have adjudg'd and voted Real, I mean the Popish Plot. And indeed it has been one of the chief designs of the Papists ever since the first discovery, one of their most laborious endeavours, as well by Writing as by slanderous reports, to vilifie and render insignificant that Evidence, which you have both approv'd and justifi'd; though not before you found it fairly fix'd up∣on
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the Basis of important Truth. However, that they might not triumph in the conquests of their Pens, as in the success of their busie Councils, I undertook this brief Essay to stop the career of the first, leaving the greater work to a more mighty Power.
I have not from hence taken any occasion in the least to wander among other differences among us, but kept to the subject; firmly believing the Infallibility of your Counsels after such a serious Debate, and that it was impossible that your Prudence should be impos'd upon by one single person, to weigh and determin as you did. And I thought it would be more for the honour of a National concern to dedicate this small Offering to your tribunal, then guiltily to put my self forth into the World like the Popish Vindicator in dis∣guise. Which is the best Apology I can make, for the pre∣sumption of this Publick, but most humble Address of
Your Devoted and Most Obedient Servant, I. Phillips.