Papists oath of secrecy

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Papifts
Secrecy,1
At^miniftred to riso(e who Engage'in the prefettt 'Plot: Difcovered byMr. (B^ibeft
Bolton, finee his Converfion from the Komifh R eligion, (to whomWilliam %jtJhton,
, A Popilli Pricft had given it, id. Febr. 167*. at Harmbow-FMl in Yorkp/tre, -out'of whole Breviary be
- then Tranlcribed it. )
^ In the Name of tbe Fatber,- andsf the Son, and of the -HolyGhoH. Amen.
Robert Bolron, being in the Prefence of Almighty God, the Blefled Mary ever
Virgin, thebkfied.M/c£<*e/ the Arch-Angel, the Blefled St. fokn'Baptifl, the
Holy Apoftles St. Peter and St.PiJw/, and all the Saints in Heaven, and to yon
my Ghoftiy Father; Do declare, and in my Heart believe the Pope, Chrift’s
’Vicar General, to be the True, and only Head of CHRISTS CHURCH here
r on Earth, arid that by Vertue of the Keyes of Binding and Loofing, given his Holi-
nels by fmr SA VIO U R CHRIST, he hath Power to Dtpofe all Hereticdl
KINGS and' PRJNCES, and caufe them to be Killed. Therefore, to the utmoft
of my Power*! will defend this Dodrin, and riis Holinefles R ights,againft all llfurpers
whatever; efpecially againft the now pretended KING of England, in regard that he
hath Broke his Vows with his Holinefles Agents beyond Seas, and not performed his
-Promifes in bringing into England, the Holf Roma n-£ athchc\ R eligion.
I do Renounce, and Dilbwn any Allegiance as due to thefaid pretended KING of
England, or Obedience to any of his Inferiour Officers and Magiftrates; but do be¬
lieve the Protettant Dottrine to be Heretical and Damnable, and that all are Damn’d
which do not Fot lake the fame; and to the befl: of my power, will help his Holinefles
Agents here in England, to Extirpate and Root Out the laid Protettant Doffrine, and
to Defiroy the laid pretended KING of England, and all fuch of his Subjects, as will
: not Adhere to the Holy See of Rome, and the Religion there Profejfed.
I further do promife and declare, That I will keep Secret and Private, and not Di¬
vulge diredly or indiredlly, by Word, Writing, or Gircumftance, whatever lhall be
propofed, given in charge* or difeoveredtome, by You my Ghoftiy Father, or any
-Other Engaged in the promoting of this Picut and Holy Defigne; and that I will be
.AfHve, and not Defill from the Carrying of it on: And that no hopes of R emards,
Thr eats ot Punt foments, lhall make me Difcover the reft concerned in fo Pious a W ork;
And if Difcovered, Ihall never Confels any Acceflafies with my felf concerned in this
dDefigne.
AH which I do Swear by the Bleffed Trinity, and by the Blejfed Sacrament, which I
now purpofe to Receive, to perform, and on my part, to keep Inviolable: And do call
.all the Angels and Saints in Heaven, to Witnels my real Intention to keep This Oath.
In Teftimony whereof I do Receive this moft Holy and Blefled Sacrament of
rthe Euchartfl.
Jovis x6th. die Decembris, 1680.
iff
/^NRdered, That Mr. Robert Bolron have Liberty from TbisHonfe, toPrint and
KJ vm difaid OATH OF SECRECT and LET ANT.
William Goldsbrough, Ckr, Dom. Com,
Both wliich Oath of Secrecy, and Letany of Interceffion for England, with the manner of taking the fame’; as alfo a Copy from an Original Pa-
■» per found, and'Sublcribed by Two and Forty Jefuites, at a Confuft about the Plot, which was found in the Clofet of Edward Cottam a Jefuite, in the
‘Hoiije of Eichard Sherbourne or Stonyhurft, in the County of Lane after Ely;, together with other Informations touching the Plot, Carried on in the North', -and
rfomewhat in Relation to the Murther of Sir Edmund-Bury Godfrey, Prke Six-Pence. Likewife,
An Abftra6i oneveral Examinations taken upon Oath, in the County of Monmouth, and Hereford, by John Arnold, and John Scudamore Efquires, andRepor-
c ted to the Horife of Commons, by Sir fohn Trevor, Price Six-Pence.
The Informations of William Lewis Gentleman, Delivered at the Bar of the Houfe of Commons, Confirming the Popifti P/or, the Juftice of the Executions
ef Grove, Picturing, and the fefuites, Difcovering alfo the P^/ftr Defign of throwing the Guilt of the whole P/or, on His Maiefties Proteftant Subjects called
Presbyterians, Price Twelve-Pence.
The Tryal of fohn Giles, For a Barbarous arid Inhumane Attempt, to Aftalfinate and Murther, lf<>bn Arnold E% one of the J ufiaces of Peace, for the County
of Monmouth} and now a Member of the Honourable Houfe of Commons, Price Eighteen-Pence.
The Narrative of Signior Francifco de Faria, Interpreter, & Secretary of Languages, unto the late Portugal Ambaflador,Containing matters relating to the P/or
in general, and feveral particulars,^. The Evil Pradtilesof the faid Ambalfador, theDefign againft His Majefties Life, the Murther of Juftice Arnold, the
•Saving of Sir Geo^e Walkman, the Endeavoursto Save the lefuits, to Deftroy the Duke of Buckingham, and the Earl of Sbaftsbury, with other veryConfide-
rable Matters, Price Twelve-Pence.
The Informations of Hubert Bourse, and John Macnamara, of the Plot in Ireland, for the Delivering up of that Kingdom to the French King, and toEftahlilh
' therein the Popiih Religion, and to Maflacree the Protettants, Price of each Twelve-Pence.
atroatetcibeg>ew&p Randal Taylor, sirw 0tatftinersi#8n, 1680.