An exact abridgment of all the trials (not omitting any material passage therein) which have been published since the year 1678: relating to the popish, and pretended Protestant-plots in the reigns of King Charles the 2d, and King James the 2d.

TO THE READER.

AS in these ten or eleven Years last past have happened as wonderful Passa∣ges within this our Island, as ever History mention'd; so are the Records thereof surely very valuable to the considering part of Mankind. A Collection whereof thou art here presented with, in a Volume that will spare thee both in thy Purse and Time, without defrauding thee of the least drachm of any material Information.

Here thou hast the substance of Forty nine Trials, (consisting of near seven hundred Sheets of Paper: and which bought singly, as they were published, cost five Pounds or more, (and which now would

be difficult to collect at almost any price) carefully reduced, comparatively, to a small Bulk and Price, yet so as to pre∣serve a perfect remembrance of Things and Persons any way materially concerned therein.

As herein was designed nothing of Re∣flection, so must thou expect only an Ab∣straction: And for the Compleatness and Sufficiency of this, I submit to thy Censure, after thou hast read what fol∣lows. I say nothing of the usefulness thereof, because none can have so little Concern for the Knowledg and Remem∣brance of past Transactions, as not to be aware of it. If it be well done, I am sure it cannot be ill took.