Jayler, ſet Popery to the Bar.

Popery, hold up thy hand, here thou ſtandeſt In­dicted by the name of Popery, late of the City of Rome, in the Province of Babylon: not having the fear of God before thine Eyes, but being moved by the inſtigation of the Devil, didſt of thine own free will, voluntarily create. make, and deviſe ſeve­ral damnable Principles, and Diabolical Practices contrary to the Word of God, pernicious to mankind, and repugnant to human Society; and thou the ſaid Popery to further thy aforeſaid devices, the duty of thy Allegiance not weighing, didſt, as a falſe Traytor, againſt our Sacred and moſt Illuſtrious Prince, Coun­terfeit his broad Seal, and thereby with Force and Arms, didſt Seal up his Majeſties Laws, both Civil and Divine: and inſtead thereof didſt Command Obedience to thy Deviliſh Intentions; and the afore­mentioned Popery, thoroughly to accompliſh thy a­foreſaid deſigns, didſt with Force and Arms aforeſaid, Uſurpatiouſly endeavour to exalt thy ſelf, in the ſaid City of Rome, equal with God, Blaſphemouſly ſay­ing, thou couldeſt Pardon Sins, Damn, &c. And thou the ſaid Popery didſt with the Devil combine by his Aſſiſtance to allure, entice, and enforce Kings, Queens, and Princes to retain thy Damnable Religi­on, to the utter deſtruction of their faithful Subjects; and whereas many Royal hearted Chriſtians ejected, and oppoſed thy Erroneous Principles, thou the ſaid Popery didſt Savagely and Inhumanely Invade their Nations, Aſſaſſinate Kings, Murdered thouſands, Burned their Cities, Robbed their Houſes, againſt the Peace of our Soveraign Lord the King, his Crown and Dignity, and againſt the Laws and Statutes made, and provided in that Caſe. What ſayeſt thou for thy ſelf, Popery? Art thou Guiley of theſe Trea­ſons, Rebellions, Murthers, &c. whereof thou ſtand­est2 Indicted, or not Guilty?

Not Guilty.

Culprit, How wilt thou be Tryed?

By God, and my Country.

God ſend the a good deliverance.

Popery, theſe men that thou haſt here called and perſonally appear, are to paſs between our Soveraign Lord the King, and you, upon Try­al of your Life and Death; if therefore you will Challenge them, or any of them, your time is to ſpeak, as they come to the Book to be Sworn; and before they are Sworn. Cryer, call Holy Scriptures.

My Lord, I except againſt him; there is a ſufficient Gentleman ſtands by, pray let him be put in his place.

What is his Name?

Good-works.

You muſt not be your own chuſer, but that you may have as fair Tryal as can be, he ſhall be one.

No other being challenged, the Names of the Jury that, were ſworn, are as follows;

• Righteouſneſs,
• Evangeliſts,
• Sacraments,
• Good-works,
• Hope,
• Faith,
• Charity,
• Proteſtantiſm,
• Impartiality,
• Judgment,
• Fathers,
• Mercy.

Cryer, Count theſe. Righteouſneſs.

One, and ſo the reſt.

Twelve good men and true, ſtand together and hear your Evidence.

Cryer, make Proclamation.

O Yes, if any will give Evidence for our Soveraign Lord the King againſt Popery, Priſoner at the Bar, let him come forth, and he ſhall be heard; for the Priſoner ſtands at the Bar upon his deliverance.

You Gentlemen of the Jury look up­on the Priſoner at the Bar, and hear his Cauſe; he ſtands Indicted by the name of Popery, late of the City of Rome, in the Province of Babylon: up­on his Indictment he hath been Arraigned, and there unto hath pleaded Not Guilty, and for his Tryal hath put himſelf upon God, and his Coun­try; whoſe Country ye are; your Charge is to enquire whether he be Guilty, in the manner and form that he ſtands Indicted, or not Guilty?

May it pleaſe your Lordſhip, and you Gent. of the Jury, Popery ſtands here Indicted of Great and Hainous Crimes, yet not greater than hath been by him committed: it is not un­known to us that he is of the Race and Pro­geny of Cain, and his Murthers are greater than have been perpetrated by any ſince the Creation of the world; that he might the more plauſibly Commit his Villanies, he hath ſhaded himſelf under the ſerene Veil of Chriſtianity; what name ſo lovely as Jeſus, yet whoſe operations ſo odious as Jeſuits? he hath alſo ſtiled himſelf with Iſtud nomen Blaſphemiae, Univerſal; which he ſays he derived Succeſſively from Saint Peter, tho' it will puzzle his greateſt Doctors to prove that Peter was ever at Rome. Thus having ſtrength­ned himſelf in Iniquity, Uſurping over Kings, and Princes; bringing people and Nations into Thraldom, and Slavery; thought Nature had given him a perpetual writ of Eaſe, and made every part of the Chriſtian world feel his Ty­ranny. But as the Jews, who ſold Chriſt for thirty pieces of Silver, came at laſt themſelves to be ſold thirty for a penny; ſo ſhall he know that the Arm of Vengeance hath been long lift­ed up, that it may now fall down the heavier up­on him. To prove the Indictment, we might call many witneſſes, but we ſhall call only ſome principal ones; and firſt, Sir Naked Truth, who hath been greatly perſecuted by him.

Cryer, call Sir Naked Truth.

My Lord, here is the Gentleman, which was thruſt out from being one of the Jury, de­ſires to know whether he may give Evidence a­gainſt the Priſoner at the Bar?

Who? Holy Scriptures.

Yes, my Lord.

Holy Scriptures, what can'ſt thou ſay againſt the Priſoner at the Bar?

My Lord, Popery, now Priſoner at the Bar, hath broached many damnable Hereſies contrary to the word of God, and particularly that it is not a Rule of Faith, but as a Noſe of wax, to be turned which way the Church pleaſes whereas the word of God ſaith, that all Scripture is given by Divine inſpiration, yet he wickedly prefers his own Carnal Traditions before it, as alſo his Principles are directly againſt the Ten Commandments: Againſt the firſt, in making a God of the Bread in the Sacrament. Againſt the Second, in bowing down thereunto. Acainſt the Third, by profane Swearing by God, and the Saints. Againſt the Fourth, in preferring his Saints days, which are of his own Inſtitution, before the Sabbath, which is of Divine, Againſt the Fifth, in declaring that Children of his Re­ligion3 owe not Obedience to their Parents, which are not of the ſame. Againſt the Sixth, in maintaining the lawfulneſs of Robbing, Plun­dering and endeavouring to Ruin, by Firing Houſes; or otherwiſe, all thoſe that are not of his Opinion. Againſt the Seventh, in ſetting up, and allowing of common Stows, &c. Againſt the Eighth, in bloody and inhuman Muthering, and Maſſacring of Proteſtants, under the Names of Heriticks, and endeavouring to maintain the lawfulneſs thereof. Againſt the Ninth, in mak­ing Leagues with Princes for his own advantage, and then breaking them, ſaying, Oaths may not be kept with Hereticſts. Againſt the Tenth, in a greedy coveting of Gold, he pretending to give out Pardons to Commit all manner of vil­lanies whatever. Beſides my Lord, there is ſcarce one Commandment of the firſt Table free from his innovations, nevertheleſs he is not a­ſhamed to ſay that a man of his Religion may keep all the Commandments, contrary to the word of God, which ſaith, that there is not a juſt man that liveth and ſinneth not, and alſo, that if we ſay we have no ſin we deceive our Selves, &c.

Sir Naked Truth, what ſayeſt thou againſt the Priſoner at the Bar?

Sir N. T. My Lord in the year 110 Popery ſee­ming as an Univerſal Deluge to over-ſpread the whole Chriſtian World, I with Sir Conſtant Pa­tience lived privately at Lyons in France: enjoying the glorious Goſpel, with many others of our ho­neſt Friends, and Neighbours; but Popery the Priſoner at the Bar there found us Maſſacred and Tortured many of us for confeſſing the cauſe of Chriſt: put us to moſt Exquiſite Torments, and exerciſed Savage Cruelties upon us: from thence flying to Germany, paſſing through Flanders, we ſaw Popery preparing a fire to burn ſeveral of our Adherents, which clave to Chriſt: on of our Friends there ſuffering, I remember, before he went into the Fire, took two Stones in his hands, ſaying, when I ſhall eat theſe two Stones, our Religion ſhall ceaſe, not before. When we were come to Germany we found no reſt there, for Popery purſued us thither, and he going through Bohemiah murthered many of the Peers of that Realm. In Germany he commanded all to be kil­led, that were ſuſpected, ſaying, God knows who are his. From thence we fled into Spain, where we were taken by Popery's bloody Inquiſition, in this manner, a Meſſenger came to us, and told us, that the Lord Inquiſitors had ſomething to ſay to us, and therefore we muſt wait upon them: we being come, they enquired our names, and ſent us to Priſon: we having entered the firſt Gate, the Jaylor asked us, whether we had a Knife about us, and under pretence to ſearch for one, took from us all our Jewels and Mony, thereby left us nothing to help our ſelves; then were we caſt into a ſtinking Dungeon, where we continued Six Months, then being brought forth, Popery, Priſoner at the Bar, endeavoured by all means to extort from us a Confeſſion, which we not doing, he ſaid we ſhould be racked; be­ing brought to the Rack, Popery ſitting on a Scaf­fold by the Rack, in came our Tormentor, and we being ſtripp'd, had our hands bound with Cords; then they tyed us to the Pully, and fa­ſtening Weights to our Heels, they hoiſted us up by degrees; thus hanging in great Torture they bad us accuſe all we knew of our Religion, which we denying, they racked all our Bones out of Joynt, and then ſent us to Priſon again, and at laſt diſmiſſed us. From thence we fled into Eng­land, but here was the like; and ſo we fled again into France, where we lived quietly for ſome time, but at laſt Popery purſued us, and diſguiſed with a Vizard of Friendſhip invited us, with moſt of our Brethren, to a Marriage, but being come, he murthered in one Night above 20000. From thence we fled to Ireland, but Popery purſuing us thither, committed the moſt barbarous and exe­crable Murthers, Villanies, ſparing neither Man, Woman, or Child, ripping up Women with Child, raviſhing chaſt Matrons, drowning, putting to the Sword, &c. many thouſands of innocent Pro­teſtants; from thence we again fled into England, where we were ſoon purſued, and though here he ſet not upon us ſo openly as before, yet his will was to do us the moſt hurt: In the year 1666 he burned down the famous City of London, and hath not ceaſed to endeavour to perpetuate his bloody Villanies; only by many ſpeçial Provi­dences of God he hath been hindered; for we certainly hear he would here quite extirpate us to the utmoſt of his power: Nay I heard credi­bly, that he was reſolved not to leave one drop of Proteſtant Blood, and like his other Deviliſh Policy, could be glad to caſt theſe Treaſonable Conſpiracies on the innocent Proteſtants. My Lord, he is ſo dangerous, and ſo wickedly ſubtle, that we live in dayly hazard of our Lives, and when he may deſtroy us all, God only knows, if timely courſe be not taken.

Sir Conſtant Patience, what can you ſay againſt the Priſoner at the Bar?

My Lord, it would be too tedi­ous for me to rehearſe all that Sir N. Truth hath ſpoken, we were Companions together in all he hath declared, and I aver the truth of what he hath ſpoken.

Are there any more Witneſſes?

Yes, my Lord, Light of Nature.

Let him come up VVhat canſt thou ſay againſt the Priſoner at the Bar?

My Lord, Popery did really combine with the Devil to promote his Deſigns, and hath been guilty of great Conjurations; I have ſeen him in the VVoods in the ſhape of a Bore, he hath alſo been a cruel Murtherer; for I ſaw a Pond of his cleanſing, and thence ta•e•out 60 Childrens Skulls, and it is computed that in about 50 years time he hath maſſacred 15 millions of Proteſtants.

VVhat ſayſt thou Popery? Thou art now admitted to ſpeak for thy ſelf?

My Lord, the firſt witneſs, that is ſuborn­ed againſt me, is pretended Holy Scriptures, which if I go to diſprove, you will ſay that I ſpeak a­gainſt Gods VVord: Had I thought I ſhould have had a Juſt Tryal, I would have prepared my witneſſes, and made my defence. But how can I expect equity from thoſe in my adverſity, which were always barking at me in my proſperity?

You ſhall not be ſuffered to icandalize the Kings Court of Judicature.

Then my Lord proceeded, and ſpoke as follows,

You Gent. of the Jury, you hear the Priſoner is indicted for contriving Hereſie, con•rary to the VVord of God; and to gain Proſelytes there­unto, he hath been guilty of Treaſons, Murthers, and Blaſphemies; the firſt part of the Indictment hath been largely confirm'd by a Peer of this Realm, whoſe Name is Holy Scriptures. And the ſecond by two worthy Knights: Alſo we have had a fourth witneſs, which as the other hath fairly laid open his Villanies; and he for his defence hath only caſt foul Aſperſions upon the Juſtice of the Court, his ſins are great, and cry aloud for vengeance, and if Juſtice be not executed againſt him, we may fear leſt we be partakers with him of his plagues. The Evidence is ſo clear, I think you need not withdraw.

Gentlemen, are you agreed upon your Verdict?

Yes.

VVho ſhall ſpeak for you?

The Foreman.

Popery hold up thy hand: Gentlemen of the Jury, look upon the Priſoner at the Bar, how ſay ye, is he Guilty of the Treaſons, Mur­thers &c. whereof he ſtands Indicted, or not Guilty?

Guilty.

Of all?

Yea of all.

VVhat Goods or Chattels?

He is made Rich by the Kings of the Earth.

Cryer make Proclamation.

O yes: My Lord, the King's Chief Ju­ſtice, ſtrictly charges and commands all manner of Perſons to keep ſilence whilſt Sentence is pro­nouncing againſt the Priſoner at the Bar.

Popery, thou haſt delighted thy ſelf to make Bonefires of the Saints, and this thy Deviliſh Nature, if thou mighteſt live here for ever, thou wouldſt ſtill retain, and ſtill act thy abominable Villanies, thou hardeneſt thy heart, yea, and now wouldſt; if it lay in thy power, commit as bad on me, and every one of us, as thou haſt done heretofore againſt our dear Friends. There­fore the Sentence of the Court is; Thou ſhalt go back to the place from whence thou cameſt, and from thence ſhalt be ſlain, and caſt into the Pit of Topher, there to be tormented day and night, where the ſmoak of thy Torment ſhall aſcend up for ever, and ever, and all thy riches and pomp ſhall with thee be burnt with fire, and as thou haſt filled to Gods Saints, they ſhall fill unto thee double.