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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,* 1.1 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,* 1.2 (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