A vindication of the English Catholiks from the pretended conspiracy against the life, and government of His Sacred Maiesty discovering the cheif lyes & contradictions contained in the narratiue of Titus Oates. The 2. edition with some additions: & an answer to two pamplets printed in defence of the narrative. Jtem a relation of some of Bedlows pranks in Spain, & Oate's letter concerning him.

APPENDIX Bedlow's trauels, and Plots.

WIth the leaue of the pretended Doctor, I will giue a short, yet tru Ac∣count of his Confederate Bedlow's journy through France & Spain, to ailay his Lying Ghost, which walkes about in a false Deposition giuen vp during his last sicknesse, as is reported.

He & his Brother acted by turns the Master & the man: & both con∣curred to impose on those, whom they cheated: so I shall speak of both.

Jn the summer 1677. he came to Gant; taking the name of My Lord Newport: & thence to the Holland Camp, at, or neer Bruges & cheated Capt. Floyde of an English horse. He went thence by Doway (where he spoke with Dr. Gage President of the English Colledge) to Cambray, taking the name of My Lord Cornwallis, & borrowed of Mr. Lionel Sheldon, twelue Pieces. Thence he went to Paris, where with the same name he borrowed (as was sayd) 100. pistols of Dr. Gough bought very rich Linnen, & bespoke a sute worth 80. pistols of Groin an Irish man, dwelling rue de Seine aux trois Poissons Faubourg S. Germain. Thence he past to Rouën, & borrowed twelue pistols of Mr. Price Confessor to the English Nuns there.

Thence he past into Spain, & at Bilbao taking the name of the Lord Gerard, found credit with Mr. Franklin for 300. Doblons. He past thence to Salamanca, where on the 29. August, he visited F. Hierome Lincol, Rector of the Irish Colled∣ge, told him he was going to Porto Porto to meet his train, & equipage: with which he expected a Blew Horse, which my Lord of Essex had giuen him, & he would present to the Duke of Florence. That he had some doubts about Reli∣gion: which none but his Holinesse should answer. He hired thence Mules for Porto Porto, & was aduanced on his way thither as far as Lamorra: where he was ouertaken by a Sergeant of the Chancery of Valladolid, at the request of Mr. Franklin, who hauing heard he was a Cheate, pursued him, to recouer his mony.

The two Brothers were thence conueyghed Prisoners to Valladolid, but being set free, they visited Mr. Oates in the English Colledge there: who left them in Chamber, whilst he went to get them a dinner, & they the meane while were not idle, for finding ten pieces of eyght in a Drawer, they tooke them away as appeares by a letter written by Oates to F. Suiman: which is to be seen at S. Omers: in which he laments the losse of his mony, & much more that of a

Book, which they stole from him at the same time. Thence they went by Santiago to Corunna (la Groin) where they imbarked for England.

Now I grant that Capt. Bedlow went Plotting thorough Flanders, France, Spain, for this whole Relation discouers it: but his Plotting was not against his Sacred Majesty's Person, or Gouernment but against the purses of honest men, whom he & his Brother endeauoured to cheate. In the Original Rela∣tion of his trauels in Spain, as also in Oates's Letter, seueral more pranks of his are specifyed, which will be made publicke by another pen. Hence it appeares, that, if he did at his Death depose the things, which are publisht, he dyed as he liued, Cheating, & Lying. Qualis Vita, finis ita. God Blesse all Christians from such a life, & such a Death.