State tracts, being a farther collection of several choice treaties relating to the government from the year 1660 to 1689 : now published in a body, to shew the necessity, and clear the legality of the late revolution, and our present happy settlement, under the auspicious reign of their majesties, King William and Queen Mary.

The Lord L. Speech.

My Lords,

MAny have been the Designs of the Papists to subvert this poor Nation from the Protestant Religion to that of the See of Rome, and that by all the un∣dermining Policies possibly could be invented, during the Recess of Par∣liament even to the casting the Odium of their most Damnable Designs on the Innocency of his Majesties most Loyal Subjects. We have already had a taste of their Plottings in Ireland, and find how many unaccountable Irish Papists dally arrive, which we have now under Consideration. My Lord Dunbarton, a great Romanist, has Petitioned for his stay here, alledging several Reasons therein, which in my Opini∣on make all for his speedy Departure; for I can never think his Majesty and this King∣dom sufficiently secure, till we are rid of those Irish Cattel, and all others besides; for I durst be bold to say, that whatsoever they may pretend, there is not one of them but have a destructive Tenet, only they want Power, not Will to put it in force.

I would not have so much as a Popish Man nor a Popish Woman to remain here, nor so much as a Popish Dog, or a Popish Bitch, no not so much as a Popish Cat that should pur or mew about the King. We are in a Labyrinth of Evils, and must carefully en∣deavour to get out of them; and the greatest danger of all amongst us are, our conni∣ving Protestants, who notwithstanding the many Evidences of the Plot, have been in∣dustrious to revile the Kings Witnesses; and such an one is R— L'E— who now disappears, being one of the greatest Villains upon the Earth, a Rogue beyond my Skill to delineate, has been the Bugbear to the Protestant Religion, and traduced the King and Kingdoms Evidences by his notorious scribling Writings, and hath endea∣voured as much as in him lay, to eclipse the Glory of the English Nation; he is a dan∣gerous rank Papist, proved by good and substantial Evidence, for which since he has walked under another disguise, he deserves of all Men to be hanged, and I believe I shall live to see that to be his State. He has scandalized several of the Nobility, and detract∣ed from the Rights of his Majesty's great Council the Parliament, and is now fled from Justice, by which he confesses the Charge against him, and that shows him to be guilty.

My humble Motion is, that this House Address to his Majesty, to put him out of the Commission of Peace, and all other Publick Employments for ever.