THE

PAPISTS'

BLOODY OATH OF SECRECY

AND

LITANY OF INTERCESSION

FOR

ENGLAND:

With the Manner of taking the Oath, upon their entring into any Grand Confpiracy against the Proteftants.

As it was taken in the Chapel belonging to Barnbow-Hall, the Refidence of Sir Thomas Gascoigne, from William Rushton, a Popish Priest.

BY ROBERT EOLRON, GENT.

Ordered,

JOVIS 16 DIE DECEMBRIS, 1690.

THAT Mr. Robert Bolron bave Liberty from this House, to print and publish the faid Oath of Secrecy and Litany.

W. Goldsbrough, Cler. D. C.

LONDON:

Printed in the Year 1680. Reprinted for S. SLOW, and Sold over-against St. Clement's Church in the Strand. 1745.

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Jovis 16 Die Decembris 1680.

A Petition of Mr. Robert Bolron, defiring Leave from This house, to print the PAPISTS' Oath of Secrecy, and Litany of Interceffion for England therein mentioned, was Read.

Ordered,

That Mr. Robert Bolron have Liberty from This Houfe to Print and Publish the said OATH OF SECRECY and LITANY.

William Goldfbrough,

Cler. Dom. Com.

The

THE

INFORMATION, &c.

AFTER the antient Piety, Zeal, and Strictness of Life, exemplary in the Primitive Chriftians, had, in a measure, put the Dominion of this World, and the Keys of the next, into the Hands of the Clergy; Care of gaining Souls became, in a few Centuries, obsoleted: The former illuftrious Times of Virtue vanished, and a gloomy Night of Ignorance foon overspread the Univerfe. The Clergy, the Authors of this Unhappiness, (finding their Religion and Greatnefs must be maintained by Power and Policy; and confcious to themfelves, that their Lives and Doctrine held no good Correfpondence with the Purity and Poverty of their Predeceffors,) took a Courfe (becaufe they had little left of their own) to trade with the Piety of the Ages past, and prop-up their own Ignorance and Sloth by that Means. To work they go; they make Gods of the deceafed Propagators of Chriftianity, and enfhrine their Rotten Bones, or thofe of others, in Cafes of Gold and Silver. The next Thing was, to perfuade or compel the People to adore them. In this Erecting a new Order of Demi-gods, they imitated the Pagans in their Wickedness, but not in their Virtue or Valour, and clapped the feftivals of thefe new Pa. Gods into the Calendar in Places of the old Holy-days of Saturn, Minerva,

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Minerva, and Bacchus, &c. This Project answered Expectation; they grew greater, but not better. The Miracles pretendedly wrought at thofe Shrines, and Multitude of Ceremonies, dazled the Vulgar, supported the Reputation, and supplied the Defect of the Clergy. The glorious Lives, Wonders, and Martyrdoms, of the Antients were made into Mantles to hide the Ignorance, Luft, and Avarice, of worthlefs Impoftors; and Laws every-where were made to reftrain Men from peeping into the Ark of the Church. And, to ftrip Princes privily of their Power, and to draw their Subjects to other Dependencies, numerous Orders and Societies are conjured-up, (as though the Laiety had not groaned enough under the Seculars,) to erect a kingdom in every Kingdom for the Pope, and to fupply him in every Corner with a Villain Spiritual, to ftab or poison what Potentates he pleases.

Things thus jogg'd-on till the Days of our Grandfathers; when in England the Pope and his Clergy were fccluded, and it was made Death for any Romifb Priest to enter the Realm. Yet, fince, they have not only come hither, but, by Help of Factors and Profelytes, have acquired great Estates in these Kingdoms, and are now endeavouring to deftroy us all, and introduce Popery.

This is as clear as Noon-day, by many Teftimonies, among which, this Oath following is a moft notorious Evidence, on which I fhall make fome Remarks.

THE

THE OATH OF SECRECY,

Given by William Rushton, to me Robert Bolron, the fecond of February 1676-7.

In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft. Amen.

I, ROBERT BOLRON, being in the Presence of Almighty God, the Blessed Mary ever Virgin, the Blessed Michael the Archangel, the Blessed St. John Baptift, the holy Apostles, St. Peter and St. Paul, and all the Saints in Heaven, and to you my Ghostly Father; do declare, and in my Heart believe, the Pope, Chrift's Vicar-General, to be the true, and only, Head of Chrift's Church here on earth; and that, by Virtue of the Keys of Binding and Loosing, given his Holiness by our Saviour Chrift, he hath Power to depose all heretical Kings and Princes, and cause them to be killed. Therefore, to the utmost of my Power, I will defend this Doctrinc, and his Holiness's Rights, against all Usurpers whatever; especially against the now pretended King of England, in regard that he hath broke his Vows with his Holiness's Agents

N. B.